I see you’re requiring people to register in your site to download the division template pack. You could post in forums of division theme for those who purchased the theme
Can someone tell me if the BP is setup OK(ie groups, forum, members etc
thanks
montaya
== Since I had an existing installation of bbPress, I skipped down to the pertinent section. Step 1- I click on ‘use existing installation’, but am never prompted to provide a path to my bb-config.php file ==
Sitewide Forums do not have bb-config.php file. The existing installation being referred to is that of a group forum. So if you want Group Forums, click on Install button, then after you’re done, enable Forum for each you in Group > Admin
== how do I let members have their own blog with pictures/video ==
First, you need to create a network, i.e., make your WP into a multisite installation. If you need assistance in creating a network, log in and post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
@hedak You will only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php
If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your mystique theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your mystique theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.
A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php
Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add this:
<div id="mask-3" class="clear-block">
<div id="mask-2">
<div id="mask-1">
<div id="primary-content">
<div id="post-" >
<div class="clear-block">
Save file.
I have the same problem. All the main pages (groups, activity, forums, etc..) work fine, It’s just the “Buddybar” links under “My Account” like Profile, and such. This is a fresh install of WordPress and Buddypress with no plugins and using the default buddypress theme.
As far as I know rewite_modules are turned on – if they weren’t wouldn’t pretty permalinks not work at all? Although I’m still thinking it’s something with my host as buddypress works fine running on localhost with xampp..
Any idea what could be going on?
Could this maybe be buggering it up….? this WP/BP install is on my domain’s root, but I do have some subdomains running other wordpress installs (no buddypress).
Thanks for any advice.
That sounds like a potentially viable fix, actually;
Namely, if you created a required extra field that groups had to fill out, and then made it the update box conditional based upon that.
Of course, that wouldn’t block people posting there from their own “What’s New” box on root.com/activity… but I doubt most people would do that anyway.
@Hugo, you seem like a pretty active and experienced voice in this community, whereas I’m fairly noobish (I don’t speak PHP)… any chance we could work together on moving this forward, either with something as simple as a trac improvement request or even maybe putting a patch together? I’m decent at design but not code.
@ Everyone else… are others experiencing this / agreeing? This is the biggest issue that has hit me in the face on my first serious BP project…
And I agree with the issue as encountered it myself, but not sure there’s a whole lot one can do about it given both forum and group updates are running in a group.
Of course one rather crude and hackish approach might be to simply wrap the textarea update in a conditional to only show for certain groups or non at all, remove it from view so it’s not an option to post into the activity stream.
@mercime,
Sorry I wasn’t more clear.
I’ve already got that disabled. But that doesn’t stop somebody from posting in “What’s New In This Group?” when they see in the stream a question that I asked within a forum . All it does is remove the “reply” button from the stream notice.
The overall issue here (of which the above is just an example) is of the confusion created where there’s two places in a group (forum, stream) to create conversations.
So in simplest terms, I need a way to prevent or discourage stream-posting in groups where I want a forum enabled.
@dannyjimmy go to dashboard menu BuddyPress > Settings and click on Yes for “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?”
After 2 solid days of screwing with this I have now completely wiped my site out. There is now only WP and BP installed and the forum is STILL not going in,
@mercime well that fixed that issue at least cosmetically after reinstalling the sitewide forum I now can’t get to it at all. Can’t make a menu item to get to it and one isn’t made.
Too many headaches… I’m thinking it’s garbage like this is why I gave up on BP the last time. Think I’m going to look for other options for the forum at least.
== Now the group forums will not uninstall. ==
@angrywookie There’s a final task for the group forums uninstall -> delete the bb-config.php file generated when group forums were installed. You’d find bb-config.php at the root of your WP install, the same directory where you have your wp-config.php file https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/4/#forums-faqs
For sitewide forums (bbPress plugin) – add shortcodes https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
Whew. Upgrading to 1.4.4 of the bp corporate theme fixed a few things and broke a few others- but the broken things are tenable. The community navigation and sublinks for the buddypress designed pages went away, but can be manually added back into the navigation (actually better behavior). The upgrade also fixed the older problem I had with the logged in user name (where it was displaying the entire directory structure leading up the active user’s name). I need to go back and fix a few things, but the main part is, the members page is working again! 
*Snoopy dance* Also, the bbpress forums look MUCH nicer- once I get things worked out, I’ll try and tackle the sitewide forums for BP again. Only issue left is the Nivo slider. No good options out there unfortunately. ‘Easy Nivo Slider’ simply didn’t work (at all). ‘Simple Nivo Slider’ works, but requires you to post each and every image for the slider as a featured image within blog entries- not very practical to have a blog category of nothing but images- that will confuse users. And the OIK Nivo Slider is needlessly complex and interdependent on about a dozen different plugins of varying version levels. Last but not least is the dev7 Nivo Slider that is paid to access, but they openly admit it won’t work with deluxe themes (which bp corporate is if I’m not mistaken). Sooooooooooooo close. 
Thanks so much for your assistance mercime. 
> This is for a client so I need this sorted today, if possible.
Please bear in mind that this is a volunteer support forum not a service
Based on the info you have supplied it’s going to be pretty hard to help. Is WP installed correctly? can you register a user under WP (forget BP for the moment and I see you say you can log in so that answers that question WP is installed) if you can and your DB does actually correctly function then activate BP – if you have installed it via some auto install avoid that and upload a fresh copy via ftp or similar.
Hi, just took a look at your site and my first thought would be to try deactivating some plugins – I see quite a few javascript errors going on and it may be one of those is not playing nicely with your posting or something is misfiring. It’s kind of the first port of call but one I think may at least rule out some things to look into this further.
I’d also suggest you check your permlinks are saved (or resave just to be sure) and your BuddyPress pages all linked up under settings – did you do that as part of the configuration?
i added code in sidebar.php is like <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar(‘Sitewide Sidebar’) ) : ?>
php /* GROUP SIDEBAR */ if(bp_is_group()){
if(!dynamic_sidebar(“Group Sidebar”)){?>
<?php /* PROFILE SIDEBAR */ }}
else if(bp_is_member()){
if(!dynamic_sidebar(“Profile Sidebar”)){ //if user profile etc
?>
<?php /* Forum Sidebar */ }}
else if(BP_FORUMS_SLUG == bp_current_component() && bp_is_directory()){
if(!dynamic_sidebar(“Forum Sidebar”)){ //if user profile etc
?>
<?php /* SIDEBAR */ } }
else dynamic_sidebar( ‘Activity/Blog Sidebar’ )
?>
so what my mistake ?
Please do not post multiple times on a given issue it does not get you a faster response and is bad form
Continue in this thread please:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/shopperpress-and-buddypress-conflict/
Closed!
I guess you can do a re-direct based on logged in status away from any top level url but that would probably have consequences. You could wrap the index/home page in an if/else saying if not logged in show normal home page content else show something else for logged in users.
Read through this thread as it appears similar to your requirements:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/bp-profile-redirect-question/
1/ Do you want a piece of content that is seen only by logged in users: yes / no
2/ Is this piece of content intended to be seen only on specific BP screens i.e when we are looking at a members profile /account: yes / no
You can add content to sidebars that checks whether a user is logged in or not you can see that as an example if you look in the standard BP sidebar and at the ‘sidebar me’ section towards the top.
You can also add content to that sidebar that only displays if you are viewing specific pages, an example of that can also be seen looking further down at the forum tag cloud block.
If you have need to add content via a widget for a specific screen then you may need to create a new sidebar region in a child functions.php file along with a function call in the sidebar to output that new sidebar if on a specific page, then you have a new widget region you can add your text widget to.
That’s not the only approach you could also create a new sidebar file that is only called on a members view and in that simply add a a sidebar region to use from the widgets dashboard page.
== If I can’t do that, then Buddypress isn’t going to work for me. I’m a newbie when it comes to wordpress and php ==
@naimickmac23 there’s no BP plugin at this time that does that for the Activity Stream. It is do-able but you’d either have to code it yourself or hire a developer to do so. This can be do-able as well without BuddyPress, as neononcom mentioned above you could set up a form where users can post the required fields. If you need assistance with these forms, do post at the WordPress forums.
@neononcon you can make an enhancement request at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
Good luck. I’ve been trying to get tags added for over a year now. I’ve come back to beg some more since I’ve come to realize that tags are desperately needed to make the activity feeds worthwhile (see: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/tags-in-activity-feed-posts/).
Are you basically looking to have a type of user generated content and not necessarily activity feed? If so, try ucanpost plugin (which wont have all the options you need) or gravity forms.
What kinds of site is it meant to be?
