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@realista69
This is contains the same basic subject matter as your other post:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/guidance-with-streaming-data-from-facebook-etc/

@modemlooper has already given you advice there so check it out.

@abertawe
Sounds like you did not associate the register and activate pages yet. This happens when you fail to go to dashboard/settings/general and click the box beside “Membership Anyone can register” before installing BuddyPress. If that is the case then you need to go to dashboard/settings/buddypress/pages and use the dropdown menu’s to select those pages then click “Save Settings.” As far as a theme goes there is tons out there, but I would suggest staying away from bloated themes that have more features than you will ever need because it only further complicates the set-up and you will have to depend on the themes authors for support and from my experience even with premium themes there is a slow response time. As far as testing goes I would use a localhost with something like XAMPP:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Reason being is you do you want your competition seeing what your creating by having it on even a free live server because they could steal your idea and get the jump on a metal based community.
Anyway I hope this helps you out and good luck with your metal site, keep Rock’n!

@mercime @hnla
Never mind I made a mistake and copied the wrong files over to my child theme and just realized what I did, du-huh!

@mahdiar
It would help if provided more info like theme your using. If you have the proper directory structure the examples I provided will work. Please review:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/
Also review:

Activity Loop

As well as @pollyplummer ‘s article:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-customize-the-buddypress-activity-loop/

Just wondering whether anyone got this to work as I’m interested in getting ArrowChat myself?

@mirgcire
http://premium.wpmudev.org/manuals/the-buddypress-manual-2/

@mirgcire
That one may work you may also wanna try out these as well:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/
These may help get you close to what your looking for!

Just a long shot… do you use an e-mail address as username?

Have a look at my question https://buddypress.org/support/topic/problem-with-email-adress-as-username/ from some months ago. Unfortunately nobody replied.
Workaround is to to create usernames without @ (we always create users ourselves, completely private groups, members need to be invited).
Didn’t check recently if the problem has been resolved or not.

Installed a plugin for users to login with their e-mail address or their username (which they typically forget) Plugin is WP Email Login: *Allows you to log into WordPress using your email address instead of a(nother) username.* Can be found at https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-email-login/

Don’t know if you might have a similar issue.

@mahdiar
Its been around 1.6 since I tried filtering the activity stream according to the codex:

Activity Loop

Just to see if something had changed I changed this line:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) ) ) : ?>

in activity-loop.php in my child theme and made the following modifications:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&object=status' ) ) : ?>

As well I tried this:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&per_page=5' ) ) : ?>

I also tried this:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&scope=friends' ) ) : ?>

None of them had any effect in the activity stream output. @mercime @hnla What has changed that you can no longer filter with my above examples? It used to work but it has been a while since I fiddled around that area. I am using WP 3.6 and BP 1.8.1 and a very basic child theme of bp-default. Thanks!

@mirgcire
As of BP 1.7+ bbpress is a seperate install. Try following the below instructions.
1.) Go to dashboard/settings/buddypress/components and check the box “User Groups”
2.) Install and activate bbpress.
3.) In the front-end go to the groups page and click the button “Create a Group”
4.) Give the group a name and description, click “Create Group and Continue
5.) Select your privacy options then click “Next Step”
6.) Under Group Forum click the box “Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” Click “Next Step.”
7.) Choose avatar for the group, click “Upload” then crop the image. Click “Next Step”
8.) Select friends to invite. If you dont have any yet just click “Finish.”
This should do it. Now you have groups with their own forum. Click the Groups nav button then click the group you created. Below the avatar you will see the tabs Home | Forum | Etc.
Hope this helps! Good luck!

@mirgcire
Not sure if you have viewed this page but it is more current.
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

@jboye @petervandoorn –

There was a bug in a previous version of bbPress where the visibility of the private and hidden forums were not being saved properly.

The bug is fixed in bbPress 2.4, but for previous group forums, you’ll need to repair them.

You can do this by:

• Logging in to the WP admin dashboard
• Navigate to “Tools > Forums”
• Make sure to check “Recalculate private and hidden forums”
• Lastly, hit “Repair Forums”

This will regenerate bbPress’ internal private and hidden forum IDs that are used to filter posts and will therefore fix forum visibility problems.

Just to add a footnote to thread:

if by ‘main activity page’ we mean the /activity/ A Directory then we should be able to test for that with:

bp_is_directory()

Then not have to qualify the conditional with ! user_activity or at least be able to do bp_is_directory && whatever comp we’re after.

hi @gloopy,

i’m not a DB specialist, but so far i know about mySql, 20 000 or 100 000 entries is quite “nothing”.

Having 20 000 groups is certainly a wide range of groups to show on the Group Directory with somes seconds to handle, so it would be preferably that you think about how to sort them (recent, popular, most visited is implemented by default but also by genre: arcade, fighting, etc)

Don’t know how many members you have/expect, but i doubt that your 20 000 groups will be visited at the same time by 20 000 visitors…. If so (lucky guy), BP would probably by to small for such usage. For the moment, let’s be realistic.

For the other question, searching for group names can be done by default on the group directory page. If you want to allow the same thing from within each group, maybe you could simply add the group directory search box on each group header for example.

HashBuddy or the outdated plugin?

Above my php paygrade (0) sorry. Maybe someone else has an idea.

BuddyPress is compatible with any WordPress theme. So, yes, it will work.

You may need to spend time customising the CSS to make BuddyPress fit your site perfectly or make it appear how you want, but that’s unavoidable.

It’s unfair to say that we (the developers) are denying it. If we can recreate an issue, then it’s something we can fix. If we can’t recreate the issue but you can, it means we’re not testing in exactly the same way that you are, or that there’s something specific to your WordPress installation that’s affecting BuddyPress in some way. Clear, step-by-step instructions on how to recreate the bug help us track it down.

If you can update here or on that bbPress trac ticket, @petervandoorn, with those precise step-by-step instructions and as much detail as possible about your WordPress configuration, we can figure out a solution together.

Thanks.

Not aware of any BP-specific form plugins, but hopefully the majority of existing plugins will work — obviously the issue is how you want them integrated, which I guess is the issue you ran into.