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How can we do that? You need to actually provide details of what theme you’re using and what if any specific issues you are encountering, we’re not mind readers 🙂

With theme compatibility you shouldn’t ned do anything but activate BP and ensure the necessary pages exist, it will then work with your chosen theme.

Hi Craig-

BuddyPress does require account activation for new users by default (as far as I know). You can verify this by looking in the wp_users table in your site’s database. Check to see if any of your users have a user_activation_key and what their user_status is. When a new user registers, they are given an activation key and a user_status of 2 (unverified). Once they activate using the e-mailed link, the key is deleted and the user_status becomes 0.

Your web server does need to be able to send mail for all this to happen, though, and there’s a lot that can go wrong on that end.

-David

There is a plugin that can create the previews for links.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/

This is a really useful plugin, and gives similar abilities to facebook.

(Make you smile?)
More or less.

If I were given a really nice house for free I would suffer it’s little flaws, I would attempt to learn how to construct window frames by studying books etc, however what I wouldn’t be doing is ‘looking a gift horse in the mouth’ to quote a metaphor – not suggesting that this what you are doing here though, but the point being that nothing is perfect, and BP has it’s issues and is in ongoing development; it’s not a finished product but one stable enough, developed enough that it serves sites well enough to be used, it can, and works best, when extended, modified, adjusted to suit the particular sites purpose.

If it’s an inherent problem, then we should have a button in the settings area where we can turn off that problem.
There is! and you found it:

The only thing that I have found is in BuddyPress>Settings where it says:
Blog & Forum Comments Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts

I unchecked the box and the Reply option still shows on the Activity Streams page and on the Group Home pages.
That shouldn’t be the case and isn’t on my test installations so not sure what’s happening with yours, first thing to try is activating the default theme or twentytwelve to see if still the same to test whether this is a theme issue.

As for general site users feeling unsure or confused in how to use I ought to point out this isn’t unusual nor is it particular to buddypress installs, one overlooks the fact often that the vast majority of users on the internet really struggle to understand anything in real depth, with many apps causing them confusion. With buddpress or any app really there is the need for guidance and explanation, but this is the responsibility of the site owner to provide, guide pages on a site imho are essential, something that sets out the sites purpose, explains the various features and how users ought to use them.

Buddypress as stated earlier is in ongoing development, but as an Open Source project requires feedback from users, bugs reported, issues or enhancements raise on the ticket system ‘trac’

As for BP ever providing everything to all people out of the box this is never likely to happen, providing options is the biggest nightmare as it’s endless and eventually grinds things to a halt. Due to the nature of WP being open in terms of it’s plugin API a lot of what one may want is going to be left to plugin developers to provide.

So BP improves with each iteration but if you believe there are issues or enhancements to be made then please get involved feedback to the project (and not in the support forum where it will just get lost) add your thoughts, examples, possible solutions to the BP trac ticketing system, it’s open to anyone to use.

I just had to edit the files in the bg_legacy folder
But as copied files in your theme rather than the originals I hope!

@arian1123 cool 🙂 Marking this topic as resolved.

@jianzhi You’re in luck. Check out http://buddydev.com/buddypress/making-wordpress-seo-plugin-compatible-with-buddypress/

@arian1123 which BP theme compatibility method (A or B) did you use
A. https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/
B. https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/template-hierarchy/

@southernroutes we are aware of the issue. check out https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4571

– What did you create – Group Forums or Sitewide Forums or Sitewide/Group forums?
– Click on the phones forum, there should be a form where you can create a topic for that forum.
– Did you enable registration in your site via Settings > General ?

@rayela https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-more-support-here-use-httprtcampcomgroupsbuddypress-mediaforum

You’d find the basic information about BuddyPress components at https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-components-and-features/

Limiting the number of groups which can be created by user is plugin territory https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-groups-per-user/

buddypress and bbpress
Two completely different apps/plugins, bbpress is a forum plugin that integrates with BP groups if desired. Activity streams are designed to try and record and display as much site activity as possible. Commenting on items in the activity stream such as forum entries has always had issues and the advice and best practise generally has been to disable commenting on such items in the activity stream in order to avoid this confusion.

I don’t write code and I think that this needs to be set up with backend controls so that people like me can use it. Otherwise, you should have a notice saying that BuddyPress and BBPress are only useful to programmers.

Uttered out of frustration!. Sorry but BP does a lot out of the box but works best when taken and modified to suit the individual site. You always have the option of learning some level of coding ability, stating you don’t want to learn code somewhat limits your ability to use and manage these apps really, it’s not simply a case that they MUST be written for absolute non coders, these are open source apps that represent thousands of hours of work that people get to use for gratis, expecting more than that a little unfair? Also both these two plugins really do do a remarkable job of working out of the box with both teams having put a lot of effort in on that side of things (too much imho)

Edit// Just realised you have attempted most of what I covered here, as mercime asked have you contacted the theme authors? They will probably need to provide the solution as their templating system is fairly proprietary.

Yes we know they do and that is because the WP themes naturally follow the WP template API and BP theme compatibility is and can only be based on that, I’m afraid that example ‘page’ template you show diverges so far from that WP normal ‘page’ that BP won’t be able to work with it.

However you may be able to create your own custom BP ‘page’ template by following the bp codex guide for theme compatibility and creating a file named ‘buddypress.php’ locating that in a new folder ‘/buddypress/’ or ‘/community’/ in that file copy the content of the themes page template you have shown us but replace the section that represents the content with a standard page loop, thus you keep the themes approach to fetching the layout but replace the content rendering section.

If that doesn’t work then you really need to take this to the theme authors and explain the issue and ask if they can provide a workaround.

Mine was also super slow and we moved from Blue Host to MDD Hosting and that took care of most of it. I also installed W3 Total Cache because I was told to… It’s much better! http://www.tafaforum.com

RTMedia looks like it’s going to be the best solution, but it still doesn’t work properly on my site. I keep testing it at each update, but so far, no luck… 🙁