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@silvre
Anything is possible if you have the skill to accomplish it. What your trying to do shouldn’t be too hard if you know WP and BP. The person that could perhaps shed more light is @sbrajesh from http://buddydev.com since it is his plugin and he is one of the best BuddyPress developers out there period. Don’t discount however the other members that volunteer here because your in good company on this forum and there are lots of members with vast knowledge of BP.

@3×7
Not a plugin but a tutorial. You may need to make adjustments depending on your theme but it is pretty straightforward if you know what parts need to be modified. I advise to only use this on a child theme as does the tutorial.
http://wpmu.org/how-to-build-a-facebook-style-members-only-wordpress-buddypress-site/

“BuddyPress does not work on installations where you give WordPress its own directory.”

@lwist That is true. Read the link about that specific WP install “in its own directory” https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory, it involves moving htaccess file and index.php from the subdirectory where WP is installed to domain root, among others. That scenario is totally different from installing WP in subdirectory e.g. example.com/buddypress and keeping every WP file in that subdirectory. There’s no conflict at all.

formatting on that section of the page is kind of messed up

Looks fine to me in FF. What browser are you using?

@samuelboland
In dashboard/settings/buddypress/components make sure you click the box beside account settings and save. Otherwise it won’t show up!

@peterscaffidi
http://www.bpinspire.com

there’s probably a term you can swap for is_site_admin() but i don’t know what it is, sorry.

Can anyone tell me how to apply any of the codes above to specific user roles?

i believe these are all supposed to be on by default but the default active components has changed recently i can’t seem to dig up which ones they are. anyway go to the buddypress section under settings and tab over to components to ensure the activity tracking is enabled.

I was under the impression the theme would be open source and as a result I would make a derivative work and provide credit where due – of course I will investigate this fully. Although it appears to be a direct derivative of the BP theme itself.

Not sure what theme you are referring to but not getting into debate over GPL while essentially it preserves the right to copy and forces derivative works to carry the same licence on those parts that are derivatives, nothing is ever that clear cut. Personally I am in two minds over the veracity of the GPL

No don’t mix files/templates from bp-default into your child /buddypress/, theme conpat templates and older bp-default templates have different structures. The point about theme compatibility is that the templates are template parts not full templates in their own right and inject their content into the WP function the_content() if you examine one you will note it has no header or footer calls.

Not sure what your asking re that theme but it’s suggestive of copying work?? and as such I’ll make no comment, however why not simply use that theme as it’s already built on boostrap and create a child theme as you need.

@jtm21
Yes essentially that would be fine, bearing in mind you might lose or have to account for any styles that were in place to deal with js frills.

Generally now you can or should be using BP in theme compat mode as it offers more options now as well as ability to keep templates and assets neatly under /buddypress/ or /community/ adding directories directly to you theme root will invoke the older approach, and although still valid, less of a attraction now the theme compat templates can be customized for components, actions, user_ids etc.

Check the functions.php in the bp-legacy template folders as that will show you the class used for setting up a theme and it’s assets.

i agree with mercime, we can’t help you if you can’t have your site online.

do you think updating may fix this

@junithorn It may. Still don’t know why the correct JS is not enqueueing in your site. May I recommend that you set up a development site which mirrors the BuddyPress environment of your site so you may be able to test themes, plugins and all kinds of upgrades. That way you (and users) won’t be stressed out when you implement the changes in your production/live site.