Hi Laura.
Are you talking about the so called “widgets” that display information on your site (I can’t see the items you mention when I visit it)? These are responsible for showing, among other things, categories, recent posts, comments, and so on.
You can remove these from the WordPress admin page, under the Appearance section.
As for the problems with the avatars I’m not sure (I created a test account, MartinNr5, feel free to delete it if you wish). There might be a problem with the graphics library on the host that you have your site with so that the images isn’t processed properly.
Can you check with them to see if they support the minimum requirements for WordPress and buddypress?
Hey, Guys –
I just launched it on http://www.mobiusmanitou.com.
Now http://wikiroma.it has got the social BP community: http://wikiroma.it/index.php . I will work more to customize more my theme in these days.
if someone wants to take a look this is the url of my buddypress: http://wikiroma.it/index.php
it’s the community area of http://wikiroma.it that is a multi blog about Rome
Ciao.
I’m testing this great platform and I’m very impressed by its stability, clearity and functionality.
In this time the request to interoperability from social network grow up quickly and adoption of Open ID, Facebook Connect, Google Connect too.
For the launch of BuddyPress I think is very important to have as soon as possible the plugins for this authentication systems, you know to have a slogan like “Buddypress, the first social networking platform all connected!” (or something similiar, whith good english…)
Thanks to dev community for the great job!
Hi guys, i’ve installed buddypress and it seems to work fine, but i’ve gout 2 major issues:
1) as you know, the registration form of WPMU requires to fill username and email fields. Now, buddypress also requires a full name field to be filled, and this field overwrites the “username” field of wpmu. So in my registration page i’ve username, email, and again “full name” as required fields!
I don’t understand why bp should ask 2 times for a name: i could rename the field as “your favourite food”, or other, but the username would be converted in “pasta” or “chicken”, and it could be embarassing 
2) logout does not work, and the problem is the redirect in the url. I’ve tried modifying the templatetags page in Bp-core in order to remove the redirect, but it sorts no effect. What page i should modify to manually set the logout url?
Thanx!
I’m waiting the BuddyPress final release before starting
Ok, now I can’t edit my old post so here’s how I did it.
I use Poedit and it has a method for updating my current .po file from a .pot file. Just select “Catalog” -> “Update from POT file…” and select the new bp .pot file in the 1.0b2 release.
@kazama: What Andy said above, update your “buddypress-home” theme to the latest version and it will solve your problems (it did for me).
Nevermind – I figured out that the .pot file has changed for 1.0b2.
Now I need to find out how I merge my current work with the new file.
I added the “state” prebuilt field and it didn’t produce a populated dropdown of states. Is this a known issue, new issue, or just my issue?
WPMU 2.7
BuddyPress Version Numbers
Profile: 1.0b2 / Core: 1.0b2 / Activity: 1.0b2 / Blogs: 1.0b2 / Friends: 1.0b2 / Groups: 1.0b2 / Messages: 1.0b2 / Wire: 1.0b2 / Forums: 1.0b2 /
I just set up a new project… :
http://MusicScrub.com
Ok, I’ll throw my hat into the ring…
As for now I’m running a standard bp theme site on WPMU 2.7 and bp 1.0b2 that I’m gradually translating to Swedish (55% there). For the non-swedes here it’s a community for people working out.
I’ve semi-launched it a couple of weeks ago so there’s just a few users but the site will stay intact so if you’re A) Swedish and
working out feel free to join. 
Go look-see: http://komiformguiden.se
@burtadsit and kapil.bp,
I was searching for an answer of adding (or subtracting) main nav buttons, and came across this post. Very helpful and led me right to an interim answer. So, thank you.
However, if a hard code nav changes into bp-core-templatetags.php, then I would be sorry when upgrading if I wasn’t paying attention. So, this prompts my next question, is there no dynamic way to add (or hide) nav buttons? Of course there’s always a way, but one that exists?
Maybe this could be accomplished by adding a nav options section to the BuddyPress home theme? Or a BuddyPress-specific nav plugin?
Any takers?
@nicolagreco,
Thank you for your post. I thought I downloaded the buddypress combo, which is the final version. I didn’t even go to the SVN site.
Is there someplace I can double check to make sure I have the final version?
Thanks,
Jessica
sorry…i should be more clear..
I meant that I set up WPMU2.7… and placed all those files in /blogs ….i chose to install it in /blogs … then, I put buddypress in /mu-plugins. Im with you so far.
Actually, my site is working fine…BUT….if I click the tab for the HOME page… (which for me should be at /blogs)..it doesnt show the home page…instead it shows the collection of blogs on my site. What is missing is that I never see the HOME page with widgets, members, groups, etc (because my HOME page is found at /blogs …does that make sense)?
if not.. take a look here: whybrasil.com/blogs
please help (i know this is simple, but please help…)
Is there an obvious way to hide the Admin user from Buddypress (members, etc.)?
In wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/css/base.css remove the max-width attribute from the body (line 37 currently).
yes, sorry…i should be more clear..
Note: when I set up WPMU2.7… i chose to install it in /blogs … then, I put buddypress in /mu-plugins.
/blogs/wp-content/mu-plugins
But, when I set it up like this… i was totally unaware back then that /blogs would be conflict with buddypress
whybrasil.com/blogs …doesnt show the home page…instead it shows whybrasil.com/blogs/blogs
please help (i know this is simple, but please help…)
No idea, all i know is on that link.
1) Permissions are fine.
2) What about the fact that the path doesn’t exist?
/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php
This isn’t even a location! Do I need to redefine a function or something?
I have triple-checked my themes and they are in the correct folders, but when I click on a member to see their profile, I get the message below:
Warning: require_once (/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /wp-includes/theme.php on line 822
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/share/pear’) in /home/u2/zaifv9sjbm/cloudwomen.com/html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 822
Thanks for your help.
I found this post and it helped (https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7393)
In file wp-includes/capabilities.php add on line 2:
require_once(‘pluggable.php’);
Worked PERFECTLY!
Hi:
I am new to the whole WordPress and BuddyPress world, but have launched a buddypress site (www.mobiusmanitou.com) that is working nicely. I have a few blogs there (Showcase, FinderMap, and Interviews, located across on the header menu bar) that I want to edit. I’d like to take the Categories, Archive, Subscribe-Comments, and Recent Posts stuff from the sides so it isn’t visible to the viewer. I am guessing this is pretty basic, but I don’t want to runk anything else up by doing it. If it makes a difference, in the Showcase, I am using pages for the entries, not posts as it does what I want otherwise.
Also, I am having trouble uploading my avatar. It opens a window for me to do it, but that is it. I can’t get beyond that point. Is this a known issue, or is it something I am doing?
Thanks in advance!
Laura