@abbas667 there are indeed some who have not succeeded in installing group forums but there have been many many more who have successfully gotten their group forums plus sitewide forums going for old and new installations.
What we’re doing now is troubleshooting to see why it’s not working for you and how to resolve this. I can empathize with your situation and frustration, but in order to assist you, we need to know the answers to the questions I posted above – WP/BP versions, hosting, etc.
You should also check out – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
Then, to enable forum in each group – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/4/#forums-faqs
@tank2012 these questions are a little general, have you read through the BP codex ? Read through the beginners guides first as they will answer some questions.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/
Basic things like starting forum topics, registering really require having a little play around with the install before you let lose live. Registering is a WP function and initially you need to enable it in the WP general settings then the BP page will work at /register/ or whatever you titled the empty page.
Forums have to be enabled in the BP settings and then you can add them to groups or run as a sitewide one – again have a play around first to see how these things work then post back in a new thread if you have specific issues and problems.
Lastly bear in mind that TastyKitchen woulld have taken a while to get to the stage you see so be prepared for a little work getting there.
1. Alternative to BP Album –> BP Gallery plugin, a premium plugin, handles images, audio and video for individual and group galleries.
2. Set group forums as default homepage for groups –> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/44863/whats-the-easiest-way-to-change-the-default-landing-page-for-buddypress-groups
Put this
define(“BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT”,”profile”);
in your bp-custom file
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/
Search is broken.
I believe the fix is ‘coming soon’ as part of a larger site update.
It will be nice when search is working.
Yours were frequent questions.
https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/ see “BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications)”
On the last link, I’ve selected a piece of code, but it says “put it in /plugins/bp-custom.php”
Does that mean create a new php page with the name bp-custom.php and place in just in the “plugins” folder, or should it be in a subdirectory somewhere of that folder?
Thanks and my apologies for my ignorance of this.
Thanks!
I am already using the Welcome pack, and I’ll take a look at those link too 
Thanks exactly what i have going I love the mobile plugin but I also have the sorta app for android where it notifies for posts using wordpress’s post system i was just curious if that can be replaced with the buddypress notif. system impossible it seems just thought id see if its some how possible lol
I’ll leave the Ajax question to someone else who actually understands ajax stuff.
2. Would it be possible to make a app that notifies you when someone mentions you, comments on your status, ect kinda like facebooks app i have a andromo app going
Native mobile apps are entirely possible to do — but will require some heavy development work. BuddyPress wasn’t built with mobile apps in mind as it started before the “mobile craze” went off. So, it really depends on your definition of possible.
If your happy with a Web App though, their are afew plugins, such as @modemloopers BP Mobile https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-mobile/
Thank you for the reply,
I have many more questions?
I noticed each user “profile” i create has their own url,,, but i cant seem to find the profile page in the back end. Where & how do i “edit” each profile “page”? so i can embed a unique analytic code that displays in the body to each “profile page”.
Yes, it finally works. Thank you so much for that! I do have more questions, but i’ll leave that for another day. Feel guilty constantly asking. But yea good advice, thanks again.
Folks it’s very bad forum nettiquette to post in existing threads with ones own issues as things rapidly become confusing trying to respond to multiple questions in that same thread – even if original question ‘appears’ closely relate to ones own.
You need to create a new topics please.
Have you read and followed the advice / instructions in this thread?
Disabled all plugins? All the same instruction applies please follow those before posting so we know if those aspects have been ruled out.
When you have done that and issue continues please create a new thread and mention first that you have disabled all plugins and reverted to default theme to test and issue persists.
Also if you are running any caching plugins please disable those first before any other tests and see if that clears things up.
Closing this thread as it’s run it’s course.
right, the bp skeleton component is where i’ve been playing around and learning a lot of things for some time now. I know how to set variables and call functions, but when it comes to storing the data via sql, im a bit lost. Im like 65% finished with my bp site, and i have just a couple of miscellaneous things to do, most are easy to figure out after a while, some aren’t. Might just have to hire someone. But i’d rather learn it if i can, cause I don’t like to nag devs with questions all the time lol
thanks for this code, answers my next need in current BP project. in answer to last two questions, try this plugin I found: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-access-manager/ has allowed me to create custom BP roles recognized by BP core and other plug-ins like Justin Tadlock’s roles-at-registration, role-scoper, etc.
Thanks!
When I was first attempting to make something like this, I spent a couple months trying to write it by hand. Then I discovered BuddyPress and realized most of what I wanted had been done already (and probably better than I ever could’ve done by myself), enabling me to spend more time focusing on the important things instead of building out core features. I’m still not entirely satisfied, but I’m getting there.
If you guys find any errors or encounter any problems, let me know.
Likewise, if you have any questions, I’m all ears.
My problem similar
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bbpress-global-forum-and-buddypress/
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-forums-page-within-buddypress
they advise
“well they don’t work well together so you need to hack it together”
“All I had to do was add [bbp-forum-index] in the proper page and there you have it.”
But what it is? where add the code? On what page? in what place?
sorry for my stupid questions.
Here’s what my developer came up with, though I sure would prefer this solution in the long term: http://csplacemaking.com/images/profile-questions.png. I can’t understand why anyone would be OK with their birthdate publicly displayed. Anyway it’s a hack, but it works…
She put it in the CSS file, and you have to know the numeric field IDs. Scroll to the end of the themes/[your theme, in my case, Tachyon from Rocketthemes]/css/template.css file and adjust the following code:
.controlwidget {display: inline-block; float: left;margin-left: 1px;}
html body table.profile-fields tr.field_3, html body table.profile-fields tr.field_3 * { display: none !important; }
html body table.profile-fields tr.field_2, html body table.profile-fields tr.field_2 * { display: none !important; }
html body table.profile-fields tr.field_15, html body table.profile-fields tr.field_15 * { display: none !important; }
Hi yadigit
Many thanks for your reply.
I’m afraid I do not know the Avatar upload is controlled.
I have no special plugins.
The 2 plugins I use are BuddyPress template pack and bbpress plugin.
The avatar control is probably through those (except WordPress always has had avatar control so possibly it is inbuilt from my WP theme?).
I don’t know exactly as I am so new to BuddyPress!-sorry…
I am more concerned still about my BP site functionality and have several questions on that eg
1.How do I create a forum topic?
2. Why is settings>general returning a blank browser page?
In short how do I use BuddyPress and what can I do with it on my site given that I mainly want to use it as a forum?
I am grateful for more helpful replies, comments and feedback-thanks
Actually, I did. She was wondering if there were more obvious solutions than what she could think of. Though she mentioned that the listed solution only works if you don’t ever have a different field name.
Attached is a screenshot of what I really was hoping BuddyPress would have, a standard Ning feature, which allows you to select ‘private’, so the answer will only be visible to you and other administrators: http://csplacemaking.com/images/profile-questions.png. This is the ideal solution.
