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For more detailed info on how to implement this (including follow functionality), see my post here:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/ive-figured-out-how-to-create-a-facebook-style-wall-but/

Thankyou so much for this code Chris!

I am wanting to use buddypress for support and some social components for my site. The theme is Scooter, a Builder child theme from iThemes.

Everything is being duplicated with buddypress. It looks ok out of the box, but each group, member, activity shows up 2 times…..one below the other.

see http://floorplanonline.com/groups, http://floorplanonline.com/members http://floorplanonline.com/members/kriscone/ for examples.

I have read you need to put something in the functions file of the theme. I have done that and all that does is remove the CSS of buddypress.

So, need some help. thanks

@robertnorcross looks like the style enqueued by BuddyPress is superseded by your theme’s styles for form labels/inputs which could need some float: left; clear: left;

@caedaldwych

https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432 ?

Nevermind! Solved it.
I accidentally had the code in functions.php AS WELL as having it in bp-custom.php

Sorry!

I used this and attempted to register.
The result was a Internal 500 HTTP Error.

Manually disabled all the plugins and when i attempted to re-enable BP
I got this error:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare my_disable_bp_registration() (previously declared in /public_html/wp-content/themes/detube/functions.php:35) in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 8

I believe there is an issue when attempting to activate an account via e-mail that the fix does not cover up.

This is not a Buddypress Courseware issue, please check in with the theme vendor to fix it. Thanks.

The best plugin for me is buddypress media. Is the most updated. You can see the roadmap here:
http://rtcamp.com/buddypress-media/roadmap/

Hello, I have an request.
A settings page for the user where he can select his default privacy level.
That would be great!

Greetings,
Tim

@vijayalogiclab
I would give it some time especially if you are new but if you want to jump in to the deep end then study the codex:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/plugin-development/
Also See:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/plugin-development/creating-a-plugin/
If you don’t understand PHP and WordPress hooks then go through template files and look for do_action. Those are places you can hook into. First you need a file header for WP and BP to recognize it as a plugin, see the second link above. You then need to create a function. You will then add_action to where you need the plugin to execute in BP based on do_action which is the hook, and then you call your function. Here is a brief example:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: My Plugin
Plugin URI: http://URI_Of_Page_Describing_Plugin_and_Updates
Description: A brief description of the Plugin.
Tags: buddypress
Version: The Plugin's Version Number, e.g.: 1.0
Author: Name Of The Plugin Author
Author URI: http://URI_Of_The_Plugin_Author
License: A "Slug" license name e.g. GPL2
*/

function my_plugin() {
 //Your Code Goes Here
}
add_action('bp_head', 'my_plugin');
?>

If this makes no sense what-so-ever then you need to spend more time on the codex and learning PHP because I doubt anyone has the time to give you a complete lesson and it will benefit you more by learning to crawl a bit before you walk.

Free:
BuddyPress Album/Media -> https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/
BuddyPress Media -> https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-media/

Premium:
BP Gallery -> http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/ u

I want to know this too.
Would be nice if there would be check marks in the WP User Admin to select which user meta would also appear in BP Profile.
Vice-versa, if custom profile fields made in BP could then appear in WP Admin.

This type of syncing seems necessary as WPSocialLogin populates useful info into the User WP Admin but there is no easy way to now get those WP User Admin fields into the BP Profile. (and I’m sure other plugin that are design to work with WP Admin don’t populate BP profiles). Seems like this “complete” syncing does not exist.

Sorry about that! Forgot the other hook.

Try this:
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432

Paste in your /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file

if the content is confidential you might want to make it only visible to logged in users that will turn the lights out completely as far as google is concerned as well.

Did you however scan that link I posted earlier on WP permalinks, I’m not sure the solution you have arrived at is a good one but I may stand to be corrected.

the number of members doesn’t really matter it’s the number of concurrent users that’s the issue. ning is a service so its hard to compare that to running something like wordpress or buddypress on your own server. There is a lot of functionality under the hood with buddypress if you want to run it and have a popular site you won’t find and commercially available shared hosting that will handle the traffic. 64 mbytes just isn’t enough memory to run buddypress reliably in my experience, especially when you start piling other plugins on top of it.

That being said you can buy a vps for probably about the same as that ning monthly fee. which should be able to scale you up to higher traffic levels.

You did of course add a robots.txt text file? Use webmaster tools to give more granular control on the site with Google? Disabled feeds in case they are an issue?