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I fixed that issue by editing the bp-custom.php. However the buddypress profile page sub menu is not appearing. Whether I use bp-custom.php or not. Any ideas?

Just one last question here. If you did install multi site and network activated BuddyPress then on your first child site community.site.com has all the buddypress activity – would a user signing up on the community be a user on the parent site?

Guys, thanks you for your responses – very helpful!

See i have a very active web site built in WP (well i will – its just being built). The Community/Forum elements (with BuddyPress and BBPress) will be an integral part of it also. When i done a few test’s on activating BuddyPress and BBPress, i found that this doubled the site queries which i’m just monitoring very closely as i’m trying to keep everything as efficient as possible. The site will be on a dedicated server with the database on a separate dedicated database server so i think we should be OK if we keep queries down as small as possible.

Sorry @synaptic, i was aware that BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress, it was more the approach i was questioning – ie when you’re starting off with a site, do you think that the site is going to be a community site everything focused on BuddyPress or is safe to say that you could have a large active non community site and simply append a community with BuddyPress as secondary and have the site still run efficiently. I see in some sites that the community element is on a separate sub domain site – for example see http://www.babycentre.co.uk – they community element of this is on a separate install (possibly WP multi site?) at http://community.babycentre.co.uk/. I’m sort of wondering is there any reason why they do this? Is it because its physically easier to manage? Is it because the load of a community may affect the normal running of the website? I’m just wondering what the general convention is?

If the convention is to separate say – then why would it make sense to have a multi site install as the community BuddyPress tables are still in the same database? You get waht i mean? Actually why use multi site at all? (http://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/06/06/how-to-integrate-buddypress-with-wordpress-multi-site-seamlessly/)

Thanks for all your help everyone! Appreciate it!

I am using the old buddypress forum. Is there a way to bring all my current topics to bbpress? I’d rather keep my current set up with buddypress. I just want my users to be abl to get email notices when somebody responds. I guess I have two questions.
1. Does buddypress offer email responses built in?
2. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

i cant do this as mentioned above…my header is a unique feature of all the pages…..ive integrated the main nav bar for my website into the header so it looks like part of the header….basically my site has 2 seperate content area one for the buddypress side of things and one for the orther pages if i remove the header i destroy the whole look of my theme as this section is crucial for navigation to the other areas…i refuse to believe that someone on these forums that have been using buddypress for years dont know where i would find where the links to the activity/profile/messages/ can be changed…i only need to locate these links in buddypress really to point them to under the header as henry said above (if it works) …surely someone knows how i can do this….im new to the buddypress plugin and nthis is why i need help to do this…basiclly its only location of where the links are in budypress files so i can edit them that i really need help with.

My point is it gives the reader more info about how to get buddypress compatible themes (from this link I was able to download and try out 5 buddypress themes from this link).

The current buddypress.org themes page gives no info.

Thanks for the reply, sorry here you go: http://www.awf.midwalesdesign.com/

The site is pretty bare at the moment, and set-up to test out the basic BuddyPress functionality. Just can’t work out why the vertical lines are showing up in the blue buttons for Newest/Active/Popular though.

Thanks.