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there are a few bugs, beta 2 is about to get pushed. That should be solid enough to use for site building.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

Yup, by the way: are there any news on the 1.7 release date? I saw from the milestones that it’s 99% complete, but it’s been like that for almost 2 weeks by now.

@wpnewbie69 Maybe you might be interested in this new GiftBar plugin that we have just launched.

http://feeligo.com/en/giftbar/buddypress

It has an option for paid gifts and has a large catalog of well-designed, contextualized gifts. In addition, the plugin is completely free and all revenues earned by gift purchases are shared equally between Feeligo and the social network owner.

You can demo it here: http://feeligodemo.com/

Set-up and installation should take just a couple of minutes. If you find any issues with the widget, feel free to contact our support at https://feeligo.zendesk.com

Thank you.

More details about the plugin:

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Benefits:

• Increase your community’s engagement
• Earn a share of all paid transactions by your members
• Improve the experience of your social network & drive traffic
• Always free for you with no obligations
• Easy set-up
• Adapts perfectly to your site’s structure and any other bar plugins

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Plugin Features:

• Send gifts – Send gifts to any member of the community
• Personalise messages – Can enter a special message while sending a gift
• View gifts – Giftbar is visible at the bottom of the screen, allowing easy access to send and view gifts (acts like a trophy cabinet, increasing a member’s value in the community)
• Purchase gifts – Easy & secure purchasing through paypal, credit card, or mobile phone
• Hide bar – Can easily hide or show the Giftbar
• Select multiple friends – Can send gifts to multiple friends at a time
• Ad-free – No clutter

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Admin Features:

• Manage gift catalogue – Select from over 300 professionally designed gift options
• Select themed gifts – Choose specific gifts for festivals and occasions
• Add personalised gifts – Add your own gifts
• Optimize gifts using Advanced Analytics – Manage Giftbar usage, including gifting history, revenue earned, and details of most popular gifts and most active users
• Manage gift descriptions – Modify the names and descriptions of gifts
• Ask for help – Access our FAQs, help guides and support forums

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Sure you can. By the time your site is ready (or even before that), BP 1.7 will be there for you to upgrade!

Codex? Documentation link

Where did you read this?

After doing everything above, and then reinstalling BuddyPress and correctly setting it up (I made sure to follow the BuddyPress tutorials), I am still able to access every link on the site EXCEPT the the Profile > Edit link on the user page for the current, logged in user.

Please help!

@mercime Thank you for your response. I have already tried to re-upload BuddyPress once before, but I will do so again for good measure. My worry is that every time I face a problem with this plugin, the first recommendation is to re-install it manually. This is not going to be very helpful when I actually start using it and have a lot of content associated with it.

@afjsystem & @mercime For reference, and because I may not be doing something correctly, this is how I have fully and manually uninstalled the plugin:
1. I deactivated the BuddyPress Default theme
2. I deactivated the BuddyPress Plugin
3. I deleted the BuddyPress Plugin (again, the only plugin I had installed)
4. Using mySQL (through Terminal), I deleted all tables associated with BuddyPress within my WordPress database on my server

Please let me know if I am doing something incorrectly.

I will let you know what happens when I reinstall in a bit, but I have to run to a meeting at the moment.

The following two changesets should address your issue:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6826/trunk
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6829/trunk

@carmeetsroad

there should be more efforts like “CBOX”

You really need to explain a remark like that. What are you wanting provided for you? CBOX is a theme development project based on the Infinity framework. It has entailed a huge number of hours, is backed by a number of developers, and also as far as I’m aware funded, so the fact it’s then returned as openly available for anyone to use is a bonus, but  do not expect that to be the norm it’s an exception.

Your bullet points are understandable but not necessarily possible to do. Define work well? who writes those review and tests the plugins?

Better forum responses? how do we achieve this then? Bear in mind a forum such as this  and many others are a volunteer effort, those of us that do answer questions do so at the expense of our free time even though for most developers there is  in reality no such animal as free time, again helping out on the forum is one way to help improve it as is contributing to the Codex as I mentioned before.

– So yes no one would question things can always be improved and it’s fine to suggest so  but the real answer is get involved  help make that improvement – it’s a community driven effort.

And on that note the thread does start to repeat itself so lets draw a line under things!

By & large the point was/is with the BP theme compatibility styles that they do  or provide as little styling as possible, to slot into a theme BP has to render just very simple positioning styles more than anything, leaving the theme to provide styles.

You will need to look at the mechanisms the theme provides for adding styles and provide adjustments where the theme causes issues for BP elements.

BP provides a top level namespace type token #buddypress so using that you can apply styles that have a higher specificity.

First.. let me say.. I highly appreciate everyones efforts..

— A paid plugin doesnt guarantee non-breakage…

putting aside the conversation of “hey its free stop complaining” — there should be more efforts like “CBOX” and/or a better ranking system that addresses:

1) Does this plugin work well
2) What are the best plugins that work to do xyz..
3) A better response to forum questions/inquiry..

again.. I highly respect everyone here.. @modemlooper is a kick ass developer and wish i can afford his services…

— But I do think theres gotta be a recognition that… BP & the BP Plugin forums support can use improvement..

It would be unprofessional to say one media plugin over another is better on BuddyPress.org. If it’s not in core then it’s up to you to obtain the additional components to your site. It’s been great that there have been free offerings for a media plugin but I would sleep better buying a paid plugin that I knew was not going to break.

As for no media plugin working with 1.7, 1.7 hasn’t been released. Beta periods are when plugins get updated.

its obvious that theres a lack of clarity if the questions been asked over and over again, because one can only assume that a satisfactory answer has not been achieved

Why is it obvious there’s a lack of clarity? The question of media keeps getting dragged up because people want that elusive magical full on solution available right now for free – or so it seems?

There are  three available media offerings, and media capability to any great degree is in the hands of plugins it’s not a core issue. There are far more fundamental things the small core dev team need to focus on and it’s not things like this.

Take questions about media directly to the plugin authors, hassle bp-media ask why it’s still not near beta.

And as for wiki , FAQ etc contribute, give back write the darned best practise ?blog 🙂 you say you’ve been using BP for years? well BP is community driven – get driving please.

P.S.

So what if this question has been done to death.. its obvious that theres a lack of clarity if the questions been asked over and over again, because one can only assume that a satisfactory answer has not been achieved. I suppose this question and a ton of similar questions can be solved or addressed by having a “wiki” or easily searchable FAQ or Best Practice Blog or.. whatever.. — Ive been using BP for several years (on many of my sites) now as non-technical administrator and Im constantly frustrated.. but anyhoo.. just my 2cents..

Currently no photo  plugin with phot0 tagging works with Buddypress 1.7

yes there are a number of media plugins

but…

http://modemlooper.me/using-buddypress-in-your-plugin-or-theme-name/