Hi all,
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking about creating a couple of communities; so you can imagine the pleasure of coming to learn about BuddyPress.
I have one question, though, which I’ve not been able to find anywhere else…
Is it the case that anyone can register on the community and create a blog just like that? Can the community admin restrict who has the privilege to do that (as well as other things)? Also, is it possible to make membership by invitation only?
Thanks in advance.
Mratanas-
Unless a member has direct experience with a one-button installer, you will most likely not get much help here on how to use SimpleScripts on BlueHost.
But, you really should not be installing complex software platforms like WPMU by using third-party installers. You should manually install WPMU paying careful, close attention to the readme.txt file that comes with it.
You need to make sure that WPMU is working perfectly before you install any plugins. This includes BuddyPress. If you continue to have issues, you should visit the WPMU forums and see how others have solved their problems installing Mu on BlueHost. Once WPMU is working perfectly, install BuddyPress. If you then have issues, come back here and we’ll see what we can do.
To help us better help you, if you do come back with a BuddyPress-specific issue, please follow these instructions.
What is currently the best way to restrict access to the members and groups sections to members-only?
There is some code in this thread that works, but it’s a bit of a messy hack – not sure which piece of code in that thread is the final working version – and the solution does not include a working redirect or Ajax message.
Would it be possible to extend this plugin to work for the members and groups sections in BP?
I have this question and I think there are many users have the same…
how one can use the theme of buddypress (home / members) with bbpress?
I intend to have the buddybar, search/login bar, logo and menu, etc.. etc, in short, just as it is here on bp.org.
thanks to Andy or any other mod/member reply to this very useful question.
Peterverkooijen-
This issue is not resolved imho.
Your issue is not what this thread is about. The issue of the OP was resolved and so he marked it as such.
Posting a new request in a one-month old thread marked resolved will not get much attention. See here for more details: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2543
But, to provide some insight into your question, a couple of us are currently working on a full-featured privacy (authorization) component for BuddyPress. It is a ways off from being made available.
As a sad update, I reinstalled BuddyPress using SimplyScripts and I now am getting 404 errors for every link on the homepage. Miraculously the home page works, but nothing else does.
I am using WPMU 2.7.1 and MySQL client version 5.0.75.
http://www.unityoflight.com
Is where this install is. I truly must be missing something. Any thoughts?
Hi I found that line which is the one for the button….:
<input type=”submit” name=”search-submit” id=”search-submit” value=”‘ . __( ‘Search’, ‘buddypress’ ) . ‘” />
‘ . wp_nonce_field( ‘bp_search_form’ ) . ‘
who knows how the line is when I want put in the buttonimage: searchbutton.gif ? So that it works with the look of that created button ?
THX in ADV Tony
Hi. Basics: What version of WPMU and BuddyPress are you using?
Also: What version of MySQL is your server running please? Also, I have heard BlueHost supports only subdirectory installs as it doesn’t support wildcard subdomains, so can you confirm you’re trying the subdirectory install?
If that last question makes no sense, try removing your WPMU / BP install and databases and try reuploading/reinstalling manually, not using SimpleScripts. A search on this forum has revelead at least one person saying that their problems on BlueHost went away after they did a manual install.
I just reinstalled BuddyPress. Someone mentioned I needed to remove the “www” from the installation, so I am trying this again.
Hi All,
I recently set up BuddyPress through SimpleScripts on BlueHost. Everything seemed to be working fine until I created a Subscriber account for myself and tried creating a user blog (as opposed to the main dashboard blog). The subscriber account is the admin for the user blog I created called “michael”.
To troubleshoot, I disabled all of the plugins except BuddyPress, changed between the FaceBuddy theme and the default theme, changed the account from subscriber to contributor etc, and looked over every forum and set of documentation I could think of.
When I chatted with the BlueHost support, they seemed to think it was a configuration in BuddyPress and not a permission or database problem, but I still haven’t been able to figure out what the problem is.
Here is what the page looks like to every user that creates a blog…
http://www.unityoflight.com/michael
I am assuming the user is supposed to see the dashboard, but it isn’t loading up correctly.
Has anyone seen this before or have any insight into what might be happening?
Thanks!
— Michael
You are not doing anything wrong. Stop trying to do it right. 
Groups only comes in these flavors: active, newest, popular, random
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-site-groups-loop/
I’m using that plugin as well and I’ve asked that same question here on the forum with no success. However, whether you’re using that sidebar plugin or not, I’m still having trouble getting a clear answer on how to replace WP code linking to the author in your custom theme to the profile page in Buddypress.
In other words, how do I change <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> from my custom home theme to <‘author’s buddypress profile link’> in order to reach that author’s profile page?
Thx
The default sort order for directories is ‘active’. It dispays the most recently active first in the directory. You can change that by using a different sort order in your theme. See the docs for the loops here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/
In the default theme, the loop for members is controlled by /bpmember/directories/members/members-loop.php in the function:
bp_has_site_members( ‘type=active&per_page=10’ )
Changing type=active to type=alphabetical should get you there.
Questions without all the needed information such as bp, wpmu version numbers, a link to your site, get ignored.
My car won’t start. Why won’t my car start? Lack of information leads people, who are willing to help, to move on to somebody who is providing enough information to actually help them.
These are some pointers to help get you started.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2543
go in BuddyPress -> Component Setup -> bbpress forum and check “disable”.
Hi there,
I am trying to integrate forums and have found this article very helpful in getting started http://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471 however I want to disable groups from my BP service and so get a little stuck when I get to the bit where I’m setting the discussion permissions for groups. Is it possible to use fully integrated forums without having groups as a feature of my site? I thought I had everything integrated properly but at the moment I can’t login to my bbpress forums with my bp accounts.
Thank you!
Maybe have a look in this file, lines 586 (more or less):
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php
Hey Erich,
i know a developer who is able to achieve this. They wrote me a private message on the german buddypress forum as a reply to my post:
http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/buddypress/48801-buddypress-international-benutzerdatenbank-teilen.html
Maybe we could work somehow together to get something suitable for both of us. If you are interested in the developer write me a PM and i sent you the details (you can write in german if you want).
You are using WordPress instead of WordPress MU. BuddyPress requires WordPress MU currently.
Jason–
Do you mean that your home page style isn’t showing up in the members and groups pages, i.e., you are still seeing the “Social Networking” logo and the orange, rather than your green theme? That you want those pages to match your home page theme?
If that’s what you’re concerned about, you have to change your CSS in a different place for those areas. They aren’t controlled by the same CSS that manages the main page of your Buddypress installation.
Your CSS for the groups and member pages are in the wp-content/bpthemes/bpmember folder. Your logo (logo.gif) is in the bpmember/images folder.
Make your changes there just as you did with your base.css for your bphome theme and you should be good to go.
3024214Inactive
I am getting this fatal error when I try to activate:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_site_option() in /var/www/vhosts/BLOGGINGGAMERS.COM/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 17
Any ideas or suggestions?
I am using WordPress 2.7 and Buddypress 1.0
Burt-
Very nice indeed! I’ll put this in the unofficial Skeleton Component v1.3.
For jeffsayre:
// Check for bp being loaded, if not try and load it
// Insures that bp is loaded before this plugin
if (!function_exists('bp_core_setup_globals')){
if ( file_exists( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/buddypress/bp-loader.php' ) ){
require_once( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/buddypress/bp-loader.php' );
}
else{
echo "BuddyPress is not installed!";
return;
}
}
This seems to work Jeff. Just doing bp-core.php doesn’t. The loader is the one we need.
