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If the theme vendors have chosen not to support BuddyPress (it really doesn’t take much effort — and you have to be doing something non-standard for BP’s default compatibility to not work), that’s disappointing to hear and I guess it means I won’t be recommending ab-themes. If the developers at ab-themes read this and you do want to get things working with BuddyPress, email me at paul at this domain, and we’ll see what we can do to help.

If it works in IE/Safari with twentyfourteen but not with your normal theme, the problem must be in your normal theme templates somewhere. I don’t think the “The code on this page disabled back and forward caching” error is relevant as that is in IE only (I assume), and you’ve said that it also doesn’t work in Safari.

I wonder if @mercime has seen anything like this before.

@worldholder What comes to mind are theme and/or plugin conflict. So change to Twenty Fourteen theme and deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and see if issues are resolved.

Welcome Pack was written by one of the Lead Developers of BuddyPress so I have no hesitation in recommending it. My advice would be to set up a test site, install the plugin and play around with it to see if it works for you

Your theme does not support Buddypress according to your developer it is best if you contact your developer and ask him/her and see if they can include or help you work out the issues with their theme and Buddypress

I would like to allow users to browse listings on my site freely until they want to respond to the poster of a listing or post a listing of their own. Only then would they have to register.

@mbwd And that is normal/default configuration for BuddyPress pages. You only need to go to Settings > Discussions check “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” in the other comment settings to cover the regular blog posts.

Hi @gibbsp999

Certain slugs are changeable. Check out this article for info on how to do it:

Customizable Slugs in BuddyPress

@destac Please provivde more information about your installation so that we help you. That is not normal behavior after you activate and configure BuddyPress as you might have figured out by now. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

@elprebsi Last time I checked, Canvas is not compatible with BuddyPress. Confirm with canvas theme support/forums whether latest version is compatible with BP. Check if issue is resolved when using BuddyPress and Twenty Fourteen or any of the WP Default themes only.

@destac
Sarcasm will not get you far on this forum so how do you figure you can fire anyone being that this forum is volunteer based? If you would like to hire a pro then post it on the jobs board here: https://buddypress.org/support/forum/plugin-forums/bp-jobs-board/
or here: http://jobs.wordpress.net/https://buddypress.org/support/reply/228048/edit/ Then you can be more demanding because you are paying someone to fix your issues.
If you expect volunteer help from here then I suggest that you refrain from using sarcastic remarks on the forums otherwise you may push people away from helping you because nobody likes a smart a** and if you are so smart then you can fix your own problems! Happy Halloween!

Here’s a list of all of the changes made in BP 2.1.1 (from version 2.1):

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=2.1.1

Hello @boki88! Unfortunately it sounds like theme you are using does not have the ability to change those BuddyPress styles without some custom coding. Fortunately, it looks like you have Jetpack enabled and Jetpack has a CSS editor where you can enter custom styles without having to edit code in the theme files.

Go to the edit css page (http://anibusters.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=editcss) and enter the following style:

.gp-theme #buddypress #activity-stream p { color: black; }

From a regular users point of view, I find it unlikely they’ll even bother to acknowledge new email notifications,

Agreed but I think it depends somewhat on the community. I can see email alerts being highly useful in some communities and not so useful elsewhere.

BuddyPress is first and foremost a platform. It puts foundations in place for people to build on (hence why we have plugins and themes). The Live Notifications plugin is a good example. It makes use of the bp_notifications database table put in place by BuddyPress. If a webmaster wants to have ‘live’ notification functionality, then they can use that particular plugin. Keep in mind some webmasters may have no need for live notifications and may not want them on their site. Each (WordPress) AJAX request makes a call to admin-ajax.php – which results in a very slight delay in page load speed due to the extra processing required. This delay might not be very noticeable on sites with low activity or extremely powerful servers, but could be very noticeable on a site using a clunky hosting infrastructure or on a site with tons of activity. Imagine packing feature after feature into core by default – it would bloat the plugin unnecessarily.

@sadeghr Thank you for your contribution. I have updated the codex page based on what I assumed you meant. Please let me know if there are any changes to the text.

Hi @style960

Email notifications are fired off instantly (unless queued by your mail server). Web notifications (as you’ve noticed) need a page refresh by default. Ajax would need to be put into place in order for them to become ‘live’. You can request this feature over at Trac but there’s no guarantee the functionality will make it into core.

Hope that helps!

Read this.

You have to find the hooks in ‘other plugins’ for triggering an add notification.

I’m facing the same problem. Just installed WP on Virtualbox with Vagrant (VVV WordPress), created WPMU and then added the BuddyPress Multi Network plugin. All plain and clean, latest versions, no other whistles and bells.
Admin is marked as spammer, but status is green (active, not red(spammer)).

The bar you speak of is created by the theme used here on buddypress.org. If you’re using your own theme, then a bar such as that may or may not appear (depending on your theme). The good news is buddypress.org is now open sourced, so feel free to look at the code to see how it has been done.

Ref: https://buddypress.org/2014/03/open-sourcing-buddypress-org/

BuddyPress Like might not be what you want but I thought I’d point it out. You can customise the ‘like’ text via the WordPress admin area.

Contribute to the translation on https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev and then, eventually, your WordPress will download the updated translation automatically. 🙂