[danbp]

Hi @jungmook,
it’s a bit difficult to answer a such wide open question in one post. So very shortly:

For a multisite installation of WP with Buddypress, do all the sites in the network of sites share the same user base?

Yes. There is only one wp_users table in the DB. And by default all registered users are network users.

Can WP multisite with BP be easily configured to work the same way (and yet let each site have its own separate forums and groups)?

Yes and No.
BuddyPress on multisite runs for the whole network. If you’re not comfortable with WordPres and never used BuddyPress it’s not easy at all, because you have to learn a bit first.

If you’re comfortable with WP, it’s relatively easy because BP is “only” a plugin and it works like a plugin.

And if you’ve never worked on a network (meaning a multisite) it could be complicated at first because you probably don’t be familiar with things such as activating a plugin on the main site and not for one of your network site, or vice versa.

I encourage you to read attentively the codex, show some videos about wordpress multisite and get the one or other tutorial you can find on the web.

Some reference

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-multisite-network/
http://premium.wpmudev.org/manuals/wpmu-and-buddypress-installation-2/

[nirgalo]

@danbp – thanks for taking the time to reply. So I should be looking for the activity at the time the original post was posted. Well even there, I don’t see the comment activity. Has the “enable comments on the activity stream for blogs and forums” flag an impact on this feature?

Even if this was working the way you are saying (which I guess should on your side, but not on my site apparently), I don’t find this logical. Users watch the activity stream to see what happened since the last time they connected. They won’t be looking 3 pages further for a comment that has just been posted a minute ago. If this is required, then better get to the blog post directly, it is faster.

[peter-hamilton]

style.css
screenshot.jpg
header.php
functions.php
footer.php
buddypress (folder)
-activity (folder
-members (folder)
–member-header.php
-forums (folder)
-groups (folder)

[timvango]

I found the solution here: http://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/errors-after-installing-the-cbox-theme/#post-4105

[Ross Wintle]

Thanks again Shane. I’ll try to explain again.

At high level, I want users, in their user profile, to be able to select one or more skills that they have. Skills are posts of a post type.

At lower level, I want, in a BP user profile, a field which is either a multi-select, or a set of checkboxes. The values selectable should be titles of posts from the “Skills” post type (I’ll actually save the IDs of the posts, but the titles should be displayed).

The user should be able to select these values both when registering and when editing their profile.

Possible implementations I can think of would be:
– Implement a new field TYPE called “skill”, create a field of that type in BuddyPress, and write some hooks that display and save the field.
– Add some custom code using action hooks to the bottom of the registration and edit profile screens.

I know it’s kinda hard to explain in a short forum post. There just doesn’t seem to be some simple, documented hooks that a plugin can use to extend the user profiles with new custom fields of new types and I was looking for some guidance/best practice for doing this.

Thanks again for your help.

Ross

[Henry Wright]

Hi @beaconwarden

This will be a fairly big task, bigger than what can be explained in a forum post. But there is a great article available. Check out Creating Admin Themes

[danbp]

What do you mean by new entrance ? You’re working on a WordPress powered site using the BuddyPress plugin.
To get a chance for help on this support forum, please read also here.

[shanebp]

In BP now uses the bbPress plugin for forums, sitewide or groups.

Group cats would be a great built-in feature.
Have a look at this plugin.
Here’s an article about it.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Yep, I know what you’re referring to. It’s a legacy option that’s only important if you’ve the Groups and Forums components enabled, and if you use bbPress 1.

Note that if you’re using the plugin version of bbPress, you’ll be on version 2.x of bbPress, and so this won’t apply to you.

[peter-hamilton]

Make a new folder in your theme root and call it “buddypress”.

Inside you can make five more folders

1. activity
2. forums
3. groups
4. members
5. blogs

Inside these folders you can copy the template files from the buddypress plugin.
The template files are in the buddypress plugin here:

plugins > buddypress > bp-templates > bp-legacy > buddypress

To alter profile pages you need to change the files in “member”.

Hope that helps

P.H.

[lpatmo]

Thanks for responding, @shanebp! I don’t see bp_group_create_button() in line 1890 in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-template.php, though. Instead, line 1890 contains this comment:

* Output the ID of the current post in the loop.

Also, I’m confused: if I need to edit something from the core BP plugin to do something small like change the content of the text, how should I edit it? Is there such a thing as “child” plugins for the BP plugin?

[@mercime]

I am using the Divi theme

@osirisravenwood last I heard, Divi was not compatible with BuddyPress. Please check at premium theme’s forums or with theme author whether this is no longer the case. To make the theme compatible, author could create a buddypress.php file for theme compatibility.

is there a way i could say use the layout of a really cool buddypress theme

BuddyPress renders the BP templates in compatible WP themes for the different BP components you’ll activate. You could style those accordingly with CSS tweaks or use BP template hierarchy as explained at https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/

[greatwebdesign]

Hi,

I tried sending a link to the site but apparently this forum is blocking my message with link. Please go to the ThemeForest website and search for the Sweet Date theme (WordPress version). That is the theme that I’m using with BuddyPress.

Thank you!

[@mercime]

it was the only elway to get anyone’s attention

@porter_hughes We’re all volunteers here living in different time zones, please be patient. Closed your original post with link to this topic.

At this stage, deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress, keep on using the Twenty Thirteen theme, then try to register. If that still doesn’t work, deactivate BP then check if registration works. If registration still doesn’t work in standard WP install, please post at WP forums to resolve the issue.

[@mercime]

I accidently deleted the path in this field in my blog settings

@alephnull Not clear why bb-config location would show up anywhere in your blog settings. Do you mean bb-config field shows up in your admin menu Settings > Forums panel instead? Did you upgrade from an older BP version?

[@mercime]

@porter_hughes first of all, do not SHOUT in the forums by using ALL CAPS, thank you.

We need to know more about your installation in order to help you.

– Where were you installing WP? – locally or webhost (Windows/Linux/etc ?)
– If you deactivate BuddyPress, does your registration work then?
– Are you testing registration using Twenty Fourteen and only the BP plugin activated?
– Are you testing on standard WP or WP Multisite?

[eqerhe]

Thanks, @henrywright –

I think TML just handles redirects after logging in or out. What I’m looking for is a way to manage the redirect when someone who isn’t logged in tries to visit a page that’s only for members, or someone visits a page that their membership type doesn’t allow them access to.

For example, I’d like anyone to be able to see the member and group directories, but only members should be able to look at individual profiles and the group pages and forums.

That being said, I was thinking today that I’d actually like separate pages for visitors or people who aren’t logged in to be able to see those things and other info, so maybe I’ll handle it that way. I guess then what I’m actually looking for is a way to change the top menu depending on whether someone is a logged in member or not.

Sorry for a babble. This is my first swing at BuddyPress, so it’s all trial and error for me right now! Thanks for the help!

[@mercime]

@ancavreasy really depends on the scale your company is willing to engage with the customers.

If you only need forums, you do not need BuddyPress, just install bbPress plugin. For a more engaged community interaction via groups, friending, profiles, etc, then BuddyPress is your plugin.
e.g. of BP in action with some customizations
university – http://www.bpinspire.com/cuny-academic-commons/
newspaper – https://wordpress.org/showcase/my-telegraph/

[thevillagepush]

I want my members to be able to change their @username or I want to make them the same as their username. I tried the plugins mentioned in most forums yet it still does not work.

[danbp]

@sbampfylde,

in other words, you want to change the landing tab when visiting one of these groups.

Each group screen as his own search filter. So if you are on the group forum screen, you see the forum activity filter. When you are on the group members screen, you see the group members search filter. And so on…

So no matter about filtering, if you bring the visitors to the right screen as soon as they arrive on the group, they get the correct filter.

FYI function is theme dependant and bp-custom is completely independant from bp updates and will work even if you change your theme.
Here’s the code you can use (in functions.php or bp-custom.php)

function bpfr_custom_group_default_tab($default_tab){
	/**
	 * class_exists() is recommanded to avoid problems during updates 
	 * or when Groups Component is deactivated
	 */
	if ( class_exists( 'BP_Group_Extension' ) ) : // 
	
	$group=groups_get_current_group();//get the current group
	
	if(empty($group))
	return $default_tab;
	
	switch($group->slug){
		
		case 'Public Events': // group name (slug format)
		$default_tab='members';
		break;
		
		case 'Private Investigations':
		$default_tab='members';
		break;
		
		case 'another group':
		$default_tab='admin';
		break;
		
		default:		
		$default_tab='home';// the original default landing tab
		break;
		
	}
	
	return $default_tab;
	
	endif; // end if ( class_exists( 'BP_Group_Extension' ) )
}
add_filter('bp_groups_default_extension','bpfr_custom_group_default_tab');

Add or remove the “case” part into the switch to your needs. Don’t forget to modify the groups name to yours.

[OsamaNuman]

Hello,

thanks for the reply…
what I meant by mission that I would like to have titles like mission and vision in a page and then add the registration form below these tiles in the page …. how to add the registration forum in a page ( is there any shortcode?)

thanks alot and regards

[@mercime]

@cregy you need to install bbPress forums plugin then follow instructions https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[danbp]

I recently answered the same question on my french help forum a few days ago and provided a solution Code is commented in french. Hope for you that you understand php and french.

If not, no worry ! Google translate works well and copy/pasting also so far i know.

What the code does ?
– remove admin’s activity from all activity screens
– remove “admin” from members directory
– remove “admin” from Friends lists (if exist)

– remove “admin” from the friends bp core widget and create a new one who doesn’t call “admin”, in case you want to use this widget.
You can use this last snippet as example for create it yourself if you use the 2 other core plugins (Who’s online and Recently Active Members)

And last but not least, don’t use “admin” as username, specially if you don’t want it to appear.
Don’t login to your site to produce a post or a relationship as “admin”. Editor is enough and keep the admin role, aka john doe, only for maintenance work.

[Gunu]

@henrywright

I found this:

in – plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-templates/bp-legacy/css there is a file named buddypress.css

In that file I found the following three references:

	#buddypress a.activity-time-since {
	color: #aaa;
	text-decoration: none;
	
}
	#buddypress table.forum td.td-freshness span.time-since {
	font-size: 80%;
	color: #888;
	
}
	#buddypress a.activity-time-since:hover {
	color: #888;
	text-decoration: underline;
	
}

I’ve copied this to the style sheet of my theme and in all three I tried the value display: none;
No effect.

BUT with some experimentation I put this in the css of my theme:

	#buddypress a.activity-time-since {
	color: #aaa;
	text-decoration: none;
	
}
    span.time-since {
        display: none;
    }

}

OOPS, now it works!

It only works if it is in that order in the style sheet.

[@mercime]

@ashleysturm Wow indeed. Thank you for posting back. If you haven’t already, please do post at plugin’s forums so that they would fix the plugin.

Marking this issue as resolved.