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Hi @modemlooper. Thanks for your reply. Yip. I created it in the backend but it doesn’t show up on the registration page. I also disabled all buddypress related plugins and then buddypress and deleted and re-installed but the settings remained.

I think it really depends on the plugin. Some plugins make the creation step routine filterable (like BuddyPress docs) and some do not, unfortunately. Of course, uou could add a filter to plugins that don’t have them, and submit the changes back to the plugin author.

In the case where it is filterable, like BP docs, you can hook in like this:

add_filter('bp_docs_default_group_settings', 'bp_docs_default_settings_for_child_groups', 10, 1);
function bp_docs_default_settings_for_child_groups($settings) {
  // If this new group is a child group of another group, we'll set up BP docs to match the parent group's setup. This step copies the parent group's attributes over to the child group.
  // We may have to get the parent ID from the cookie 'bp_new_group_parent_id'
    $parent_id_cookie = $_COOKIE["bp_new_group_parent_id"] ;
    $parent_settings = groups_get_groupmeta( $parent_id_cookie, 'bp-docs');
    
    if ( !empty($parent_settings) ) {
      $settings = array(
          'group-enable'  => isset( $parent_settings['group-enable'] ) ? $parent_settings['group-enable'] : 0,
          'can-create'  => isset( $parent_settings['can-create'] ) ? $parent_settings['can-create'] : 'admin',
        );
    }

  return $settings;

}

But as to a general case, I’ve not found the answer. Most plugins want to have their settings set on group creation, too, so you’ll need to handle that task as well.

sIt sounds like you just need a forum, which would be bbPress. The reason bbPress and BuddyPress are separate plugins is that this allows people to pick and choose according to their needs.

What you need to figure out first is, what do you want and need?

This is precisely where my mind was, yesterday. 🙂 Thank for the directed question and the link mentioned by mercime. I’m getting a better picture of two things.

The document provided clarity on the difference between a sitewide forum and the group forum. I needed this; regardless of app. Here’s the plan:

I want to create two distinct group forums. The first is “Shore Classified”. I want this to be a private group forum and not open to the public. This is where I’ll have individual forums dealing with specific topics relating to that forum. Ex. Business forum handle businesses in the Shore area. Another forum is Help Wanted.

I was planning to open this to a specific group of people. I am initially thinking the people in my church and others in the Jersey Shore area. Right now, I’m questioning what should be in that type of forum; as I am concerned with safety. So, I am open to alternative to what type of forum. I’d also like a forum where blog writers can share new stories they’ve written.

The second group forum is PUBLIC. This group forum is where I want people to go. This will need further developing. My initial thoughts is to create forums for popular area of interest. I did see a plugin that will create topics from my sites blog posts.

Hi Paul, I have 3.7.1 and BuddyPress i also updated to the latest version.

i did use https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev to download the languagesfiles.
The languagefile seems to translate everything correct exept just the timestamp.

Actually I have to sites looking the same. One in Norwegian and one in Swedish – and I have the same problem with both sites.

Unfortunately Its two internal sites so I cant give you the webadress but Im thankful If you have any ideas how to solve this.

Just to clarify what’s happening here:

The search results page I’d like to see is the standard WP one – i.e. showing matching blog posts. This is what happens when the home page is set to show latest posts (in Appearance > Customise > Site front page), which is fine. However my site’s home page is set it to show the default Buddypress Activity page, and now the search results (i.e. a URL of the form http://www.site.com/?s=query) shows matching activity updates. This applies whether I’m using a custom theme or the default Buddypress theme. Is there any way this can be configured so that this page shows matching blog posts instead?

Thanks for replying. 🙂

I like the idea of integrating Social media into the base forum. So, bbpress is the workhorse and takes care of the forum. This would include user groups, permissions, roles and all the other wonderful things associated with forums. While BuddyPress takes care of the social media aspects ala Facebook and Twitter. I’m sure there’s more to it.

It sounds like Simple:Press is a relative indicator of what those two apps are becoming. Here’s my problem. I need an interface that organizes all the forum related tasks. I’m finding the setup with BuddyPress & bbpress to be a little intimidating.

I hope the LabZip guys come out with a more current video. I was wanting him to go into better details on all the options for setting up roles, permissions and etc.

…note: buddypress and bbpress are activated individually on each child blog, and are not network activated.

I have set “define( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true ); ” in wp-config.php

Thanks @mercime. Am I right in thinking then, that out of the box, the normal functionality is to have buddypress extended-profile-fields, groups, and member-lists shared across the network?

I.e. if an admin deletes a group or profile-field from a child-blog, it effects the entire network?

And, there’s nothing I can do to prevent this without a third party plugin or my own hacks?

@mercime,

Thank you for the support questions.

I use the newest versions of both (WP 3.7.1 and BP 1.8.1)

I am hosted at Hostgator, domain through GoDaddy.

I have checked, if I deactivate BuddyPress all email work fine.