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well that’s probably the real bug then, those roles shouldn’t have any effect on a non-buddypress site which is what the sub-sites are unless you have made each site it’s own buddypress instance (not likely and you’d know if you had).

pardon me for chiming in here but if i might i think mercime is trying to say that the roles you are referring to as “missing” should not be available on sub-sites since they are buddypress roles and should only ever apply to the primary blog. the list of roles you provided for the sub-site is the normal list of wordpress roles and is what you should be seeing.

bp_is_page(‘activity’)

@bookee for the login form, just copy the code (lines 8 to 59) in sidebar.php from the BP Default theme to your theme’s sidebar.

As for BP login in the top menu of your theme, not quite sure what you mean by that. Custom menu? In appearance > menus, add a link http://yoursite.com/wp-login.php to the custom menu.

@rizingsun the Member role is a BuddyPress role. BuddyPress must be network-activated as well.

I’m just wondering where to locate the setting then, in this default theme.

Not quite sure what you mean. But if you’re referring to something like a Theme Options page, there is none.

If you want to customize the BP Default theme to the max, you should create a child theme of the BP Default theme and upload the child theme in server wp-content/themes/YOURCHILDTHEMENAME/ so your revisions won’t be overwritten when BuddyPress is upgraded.

@discdemo please don’t bump if less than a day as we’re all volunteers here living in different time zones. That said, I’ve checked out the site and the sidebar width is 224px less 40px padding = 184px space for the image. The ad you have there is 203px wide, hence the image was cut off.

About the available themes: if you upgrade to BP 1.7 beta 1 download at https://buddypress.org/2013/02/buddypress-1-7-beta-1/ you can use any WordPress theme which does not override core templating system and you’re good to go. Caveat is that only a few BP plugins have been upgraded for BP 1.7 beta 1 compatibility.

You will have to create a custom menu.
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/
Then check the box beside register then add to menu. Save and refresh your front end to see the new menu with the register page.

@awmeneca
Go to dashboard/settings/general and check the box “anyone can register” then created a new page name it “register” and publish it. then go to dashboard/settings/buddypress/pages and go do to where the register drop down box is and select the page you created and save. Should work then!

there are free and paid options that work well

@bookee the reason why the instructions for the wisdom of life doesn’t work for your theme is because the themes have different HTML structure. Unlike the other theme where only 2 files are required to make the changes, your theme requires changes in 17 BP template files. Come BP 1.7 however, you would be removing those template files.

An alternative is to upgrade to BP 1.7 beta 1, deactivate BP template pack plugin and delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your theme folder in server. The BP template files will automagically show up in your pages. The caveat is that most BP plugins have not been updated for BP 1.7

Given the two options above, what’s your preference?

I took the premium route and have used BP Gallery since 2010 for all BP installs. I’ve styled the galleries based on design, the different users have been happy with posting media from activity streams, group galleries or personal galleries. I’ve been satisfied with the support given by Brajesh. Happy users == headache-free me.

I think that’s a separate but related point. Most BP site owners don’t have the chops to just “decide” they want media functionality and up and build it. None…None..of the existing offerings come close to what has become the standard now. I am not saying we have to match FB but we have nothing at this point.

Don’t interpret “very few sites have media in them” as “no one wants media in their sites” There just aren’t suitable offerings  Thus we wait.

You guys are missing the point. Facebook is it’s own service and thus created its own functionality. You can create your own media functionality. It should be up to site owners to decide what that is.

Paul – I would disagree. I am not suggesting that your point that just what constitutes a “gallery” varies by user. For sure it does. I don’t think that’s the issue. I think our friends at Facebook have demonstrated that the ability to upload, share and organize media (mostly images and video) is an essential ingredient to a social network. BuddyPress allows us to configure and design our network to suit the needs of our niche in ways FB and others do not. Therein lies its real value.

I can think of may use cases, tons actually, where this functionality is required (my community of gardeners, for example) to upload images and have proven functionality with them like tagging, sharing, commenting & activity streams.

The same goes for events given the social nature of the communities.

It’s not a light on the efforts done, just know the demand is DEFINITELY there

Hi @jcangler,

you have to activate BP only once, on the main site.

The main site is the WP declared as network. In the network admin you install BP as plugin. And BP would only be managable from within the network admin. And that’s right so !
Now this site is network enabled and  is using BP. If you want install other blogs, do so from your network admin. Those blogs are all included into BP activities. There is no need to install BP on each secondary blog. This cannot work.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/

This drove me a bit nuts. I figured out how to do it though and it’s very easy.

With buddypress installed it takes over the registration entirely and ads this activation email which is outside the normal header load so it;s outside of the functions.php call include.

The way I got it to work was by adding a call to the welcome email action after the do_action( ‘bp_after_activation_page’ ); in plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/activation.php file.

Near the end of the file you see this.
do_action( ‘bp_after_activation_page’ );

Add the following
do_action( ‘welcome_email’ );

Now this may work because I am using a plugin to modify the welcome email to begin with. I am using SB Welcome Email Editor

As for why someone would need to send the user their id and password. I needed this because people can sign up using a name with spaces but the id is created with a dash in place of spaces so they may never know their id isn’t what they saved it as. I also added a condition on the id entry to force them to not use spaces but I like to cover all bases and let them know what they signed up with.

Hope this helps.

@djpaul Any chance of it being broadcasted over skype or some kinda web cast? I would love to hear the presentations but I don’t have any money to do anything, either way thanks for all you and the core team does. I do appreciate buddypress. Thank you so much for the core teams work and time! 🙂