BuddyPress.org

@andy277 your questions are so confusing.
I don’t think any one can understand what exactly you want to achieve.please be clear on the topic.

Read here if it helps.
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/82239/make-display-name-unique

Hi @david-ar,

consider first https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

then read here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

and finally some snippet, http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/82239/make-display-name-unique

As alternative, it exist a wp plugin called Credible Names

Then you’ll want to 😉 Please read the codex guides we wrote them to help explain these sorts of requirements.

Have a read and pop back if further questions arise after reading the guides.

It’d be a lot easier to answer your questions if you were explicit about the functions you’re using, for example: bp_group_list_admins()

Since it’s called in a template, overload the template and make a call to your own version of that function that sets ‘type’ to whatever you want.

@whiskyharry – you are going to have to direct these questions to the premium theme author – people at bp dot org will not help you with this issue – (99.99 % sure on this)

@natmba1 – you do not need a wordpress dot COM account to run buddypress – and I am not sure that you can run BP there – not the last time I checked.

What I suggest is getting your own web hosting account – for 10 or 20$ per month you can run your own (shared) hosting – and put wordpress and buddypress and any other plugins you like into it.

Some places like dreamhost.com (and similar hosting companies) – make it pretty simple to setup a wordpress hosting account and then you can add plugins and themes through the backend admin dashboard.

You will likely end up with an account at wordpress dot ORG – to ask questions about plugins and stuff – but the dot ORG is the free open community and the dot COM is more the commercial thing kind of like wix.. which I am sure you have seen places like that are very limited – running your own system has many more options – but with that comes a bit more learning and responsibility 😉

@d_enajetic

From my limited information / understanding (as user not a dev)
“peeps that create BP” – abandoned the project long ago.

The forums here and the bp site are mostly ignored and have many problems.

There is no funding for BP anymore – and has not been for a long time.

With that being said – I was amazed to see some really awesome peeps doing a lot of work and smart discussions about so many code issues when recently visiting the bp trac system – so there is a lot going on behind the scenes. All those guys deserve a big bonus, but I am not sure if anyone is getting paid from Auttomattic for working on bp anymore.

There are several people who are monetizing a bit with paid plugins and “bp jobs”, I understand the need to get paid, and I get that there are only so many (maybe a dozen?) – Bp dev people, so providing free support in the forums here is not top of the priority list – and really many of the forums questions are not so much tech issues, but “how to” and “can I..” – which would be more easily answered by a quick bing search..

Anyhow I wish I knew more about how the activity thing chose what to pull in, and how to mod it- there are some neat newish things that BP has added to help filter the activity thing, once in a while someone will chime in with how to do it – but I have not seen any real documentation on it – another job that should be filled, yet will likely not be the top of the unpaid priority list anytime soon.

I wish wordpress would pull BP from showing up as one of the top plugins in the wp-repo and the wp dashboard- I think it is getting too many people to install it or check it out that have not business jumping into this rabbit hole, or asking about it! – lol

Let me know if any of that works our for ya, or if you find the magic “this is what bp pulls” – I am working on a plugin that converts gifs to html5 video for one of my sites, and as to where I don’t mind if those are pulled into the activity – it would be a mess if they all auto-played – so may need to do some work arounds to keep something else there in their place and a “click to see post” kind of thing like were originally talking about.

Is there a way to connect my lessons to BuddyPRess?

Probably, but there are too variables in your questions:
– what does ‘connect’ my lessons mean?
– what is a gamification plugin?
– how are you dripping?

btw – Those questions are rhetorical.

Unless somebody here has the same theme / plugin setup as you ( doubtful ), your chances of getting answers are slim to none.

Unless you are a developer, you’ll probably need to hire one to create the experience you desire.
And it sounds like a fairly large job.
You can post job listings here.

This article helped me solve a similar issue http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19976038/buddypress-registration-page-is-not-working

Try asking specific questions relating to exactly what you’re trying to do.

@baldarab –

I see how you are using groups – so it does appear that links to them are easily discoverable from your public facing pages.

If you do a view source and look at your code for each of your groups, you will notice that the page title is exactly the same for all of your groups ( <title>Activities – Freaky Rivet</title> ) – and there is no meta name description =

Two major issues for the big G.

Which version of buddypress are you using?

This problem concerns me so much that I have kept one of my sites with an older version of buddypress (2.2.3.1 ) with the cobbled custom code I was able to get from wpmudev ( http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/bp-meta-tite-description-for-groups-and-members-pages#post-806736 ) – the cobbled code may work the newer version of bp – but things are quite confusing with how wp has changed up some of the title thing, and bp has it’s way of things and there are possible conflicts with priority or something..

The discussion on this trac ticket( https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6107 ) says things have been “fixed” – I do appreciate the devs working on it a bit – but I have a feeling the fix is more of a “make it work in a semi-okay way with a couple of setups” – not much as far as giving users real control over the titles and descriptions.

I am guessing people will point to theme designers to hook this up, and they will point to “we use wordpress’s suggested way of title-ing (wp the title or whatever) – and so it’s wp/bp issue, and descriptions should be handled my an seo plugin – but given that bp’s pages are pseudo pages without any taxonomy registered, it appears that yoast and others have so desire to work with it.

This is my current understanding, and may be not 100% accurate – what I gather after posting many questions and issues relating to this in various places.

I’d pay someone to code a plugin that gives options for bp meta stuff like the suggestion I posted before, and give it to the community. If I could understand all the bp/wp code and php I’d gladly make it. It seems the BP coders are spread a bit thin, so I have no good options for fixing this issue at the moment.

I have never used kendo, so i can’t help you about how it works, or not, with BuddyPress or with your theme.

But you can deregister a script or add more scripts into the theme…
Read here if it inspires you:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/152559/wordpress-script-loading-unloading-wp-deregister-scriptjquery

Take a look at the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article. That should answer any questions you have.

Hi @nmschaller,

bbPress is a separate plugin and BuddyPress doesn’t manage bbPress. For questions about forum settings, you can use the bbPress support.

When you use BP groups component, you can add a forum to each of them. In this case only, you have to install bbPress. Of course you can also use bbPress as standalone on a BP install, or use bbPress with WordPress, without BP.

BP doesn’t use “pages” but templates, and the only pages created during installation are in for internal purpose. The “member” page is used to show the member directory, but also profiles or members activities. This dynamic content is displayed on different templates, depending the context, and using WP’s page system to fire all that via a same page slug (aka internal path).

your-site/members/some/thing/ where /some/thing/ is using his own template part displayed on “members page”.

So far i understand you use bbPress and now you want a members directory, and eventually some additionnal fields on user’s profiles. And most of this should be private or “members only”, right ?

The main problem is that you want some custom behave that need some knowledge (you seem to have), but you cannot edit functions.php Unfortunately, this is the place where to add customisation. And what to tell about bp-custom, which is another crucial cusmisation file.

You want to drive and have no steering wheel ! Annoying… 😉

The question is Do you need BuddyPress or can you use another solution ? 🙂

Depends your project, really. Members directory or extended profiles can be done with separate plugins.

Read here:
http://chrislema.com/best-wordpress-membership-plugin-2014/

Or digg into the Codex if you decide to use BuddyPress.

It’s probably worth giving it a shot and then just open a new topic for any specific coding questions you have.

Hi @pilha-

That’s totally weird behavior. It seems like the table in your database has lost its mind. 🙂

Can you check the structure of the table wp_bp_groups? What I want to know is:

• Is id set as the primary key?
• Is id set to auto-increment?

Since you’ve already emptied records from the database, I suspect you’re familiar with some software for MySQL management like phpMyAdmin. Can you check the questions above?

hi @aventurine_geode,

BuddyPress use templates and CSS which are all stored in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

To modify them, you have to create first a child-theme and copy into it any of the files you want to modify, by respecting /path/file structure of the original /buddypress/ folder.

In brief, wp-content/themes/child-theme/buddypress/file

Most of your questions are related to CSS. You make these changes in /child-theme/style.css
To alter the searchbar, but depending of what you exactly want to do, see bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/index.php (similar path for members) or creating a custom function if more in-depth modification. In that case you put this function into bp-custom.php (wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php) or into child-theme’s functions.php

More details can bee found on Codex

BuddyPress Theme Development

Hi @mecceo

Yes. You have 3 options:

• Search for a plugin on the Plugin Directory
• Write some code yourself. Feel free to ask any “how to” questions on here
• hire a developer

Does this help?

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16223/add-buddypress-profile-menu-item

Firstly please don’t type subject lines in all caps, it’s considered rude and to be shouting, it will not get you any of a faster response only remarks like I’m making 😉

Secondly why link us to your site asking questions about registration when all of your site links re-direct to an off site frame 404 not found page?

Registration in BP is a simple process with few fields to complete uploading files not one of them, so have you extended your registration process with custom functionality, if so explain that in detail.

When setting up a new WP/BP site one should check the basics work such as registration before taking the site any further in development terms, if not sure whether your theme could be a factor in issues you should test that the basics work using a standard WP bundled theme i.e twenty fifteen.

So you need to confirm some simple test, and if issue persists detail your registration process steps and any customizations you have in place if people are to be able to help at all.