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Your welcome Well, in that case… you might want to check out Ning for a complete hassle-free solution. I think all you have to do is point your domain to it and style it within Ning.com. You’re kinda stuck with the whole layout and functionality but this might be the answer to what you want to build. Here’s a good example of what you can do with it… http://www.urijahfaber.com/

DJPaul-

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I’ve also answered this same-resurrected-thread issue this morning in this thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=933

This is something i was wondering about, the question i have is how to create this default blog?

Do i have edit the new (copy of bp_members) or is this something that can be done via CP?

cheers

You can’t without a special plugin: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/9049

Perhaps a search at the WPMU forums will bring up some more recent results than the one I’ve provided.

I’m setting this thread to resolved since BuddyPress uses the WPMU user table and thus this is a WPMU issue and not BuddyPress.

This has not yet been implemented. As this thread has not seen any activity for 4 months, I would suggest searching the trac and see if it was ever added as a feature request / enhancement ticket. If not, you can add it yourself!

You login to trac using your BP.org credentials.

As a side note, the reordering of groups would need to exclude the first field group as it is the grouping of fields that appear on the signup page.

As thebloghouse has resolved the thread’s original issue, I’m setting this thread to resolved.

@thebloghouse

As the originator of this thread, you can always reset to “not resolved” if need be!

chukkide-

Burt is correct. This is not the way that BP works. You asked how the slug can be removed, not how can you change the slug title. To do that, read this.

But, to remove the slug completely, as you asked, is outside the purview of BP. It may be possible with some fancy .htaccess rewrite rules, but it could cause issues with the way BP works.

@Mikem1986

I spent an hour or so looking into this the other day until I realized what was going on. I do agree that it can be confusing and annoying.

Read this thread–especially my last post–for the answer!

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3164

Update:

By the way, I should have provided a little more detail. Whereas I call this a bug, technically what is happening is all profile data, except URLs, are filtered to make them searchable–unless the field data has more than 5 non-comma separated words in a row (don’t ask why that limit, I don’t know).

So, if you hover your cursor over the field value, you’ll see this toward the end of the link:

?s=

This creates a search link for the keyword or phrase which when clicked on should perform a search that brings up related results. Of course, on a development site, you more than likely will not have any relevant results.

Whereas in general I like the idea of making data searchable via links (it’s sort of like tags), this implementation is flawed. At a minimum, it should not be linking the user’s “Full Name” field as the best search result for that is for the viewer to stay exactly where they currently are–on that member’s profile. Also, linking radio button groups or checkbox selections seems unnecessary. The data in these types of fields is often too specialized to be of much meaning in a search. Furthermore, the code arbitrarily excludes phrases over 5 words long. Finally, clicking on one of these links can be confusing to users as it sends them to the members homepage without explaining what is going on. Only in very large sites will any relevant results be returned.

It might be nice if there was an administrative option to not make profile fields clickable.

I have not yet figured out an appropriate patch to the filter function. But, when I do, I’ll add it to this trac ticket.

In the meantime, if you wish to simply deactivate this “feature”, you could use a remove_filter() call to disable the offending filter.

Wait! Success?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=212#post-12065

Found this answer in the earlier forum posts. I’m testing it right now…

EDIT: It worked!

Please set this back to red-light. I’m having the same issue, and I’m also hosted with 1and1, but benvess didn’t post enough information for me to figure this issue out!

Please help!

I’m getting a 500 error whenever the buddypress/ folder exists in the plugins/ directory. When it’s gone, the error stops and WPMU works fine. When I reinstall, it 500s again.

Any ideas?? Help?

if you’d want members’ blogs to have that same look as the main news blog (if i’m understanding correctly), you’d have to create a third theme for your members’ blogs…. but you could def reuse lots of elements from the bp home theme to create it. so you have 3 themes: 1) bp home, 2) bp members, 3) bp members default blog — and you would probably have to rename that theme “default” since each members’ blog uses that theme upon setup. again, hopefully i understood your question correctly.

BuddyPress runs on WPMU, so you can run most WP plugins your BP installation including Akismet or whatever other spam plugin(s) you’re using — that would take care of the blogs. As far as spam coming from actual registered users, that could be another issue. I wouldn’t anticipate this becoming a big problem in the first place, because a BP user has to register (get an email) and then confirm (get another email) registration before getting started to spam anybody. By the time that *could* happen and BP user John Doe decides to spam link everybody on the Wire and elsewhere, you as the admin could just suspend/delete his account. I’d say go for it. I love this system the moment and wrote a lengthy comparison between BP and another system, Elgg, here… http://www.michaelkuhlmann.com/category/buddypress/elgg-vs-buddypress/

There’s also another social networking system out there for Joomla called Anahita, in case you’re interested. Hope this helps!

bigfunblogs-

Please try this:

Choose your member theme once again by going to “BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages” in WPMU’s backend.

With a default BP install you should only see two theme choices: BuddyPress Default Member Theme (1.0.1)–this is the one you want–and, Skeleton BuddyPress Member Theme (1.2).

Choose the Default Member Theme and save your selection. Try visiting your site once again.