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Your site is unbelievably awesome. I have two questions I really hope you can help me with.

How can I add a social bit like you did in the upper right? Like, Tweet, +1? I’d almost rather the LinkedIn share instead of Tweet but whatever, what you have there would fit my site perfectly!

Also…your login box and Facebook compatibility? Is that a widget or custom? It’s beautiful and perfect.

There’s no end difference between installing and upgrading. Existing child themes should continue to work, as should those guidelines on the codex. It’s possible someone updated the codex incorrectly, or for an earlier beta version where we fiddled with child theme style sheets a bit (and then added more compatibility code in). Feel free to update the instructions; log in to wp-admin on the codex site and find/edit the Page.

1. Please would you clarify what comments you were referring to? The activity stream? If so, we’ve done that in BuddyPress 1.5, due out real soon. Try it out — http://testbp.org/activity/

@christophg

I’m glad to help! I’m sure some of my ideas are not the cleanest way to solve the problems, but they seem to work. And as it seems difficult to get answers to questions here sometimes, I try to help where I can.

Let me know how things go after you get a chance to try them out. Ps. the code I pointed to in that link, if it is not clear- I used it to create an ‘if’ statement.

Peace.

@jad117, I hope this helps, and please let me know with another mention if not.

Basically the first step is to create a blank file called bp-custom.php and save it as /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php. You can learn more about this file at https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/ and what it does and all.

Then, in that file (or in your theme’s functions.php file) you can paste certain bits of PHP code that have become known as hacks or tricks in order to make BuddyPress act a little differently. One such trick is to move around the tabs and redirect people so that group links like http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248/ would actually redirect to http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248/forum/ instead of showing http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248/home/ as it does now.

The code I gave earlier does this and like myself, some others after me have offered various improvements or changes, so I’d try them each out and see what works best for your setup. You can only have one function of each name at a time or you’ll get an error. You can also visit http://bp-tricks.com/featured/feature-forums-noticed/ for how the author of that post does this “trick” and see some comments there as well, as that is a site devoted to finding just the right trick to get BuddyPress to do exactly what you want!

I hope that helps, and as I said, if not, write back at me, and I’ll try to answer any questions you have!

Thanks,
Andrew

@modemlooper, maybe it’s there as a placeholder for future functionality? IMHO at the moment, providing a “template” option across all Pages (incl. Component pages), is somewhat misleading.

So given your last post, are you saying that I could hide the sidebar through code in my child’s style.css? If so, how would I do that? If not, which files and how should I do it? I can figure out how to change the width on the “content”, so that shouldn’t be an issue. Sorry about asking so many questions. I am still pretty new to this. Thanks.

FYI: I’m running BP 1.5 Beta 3

Just to be clear, the notification function is a callback – you shouldn’t be calling it directly. Use bp_core_add_notification(). See bp-groups-notifications.php for an example of how it works.

The reason why you’re not seeing the callback when you print is because the component class isn’t fully initialized at the time when you’re adding yourself to $bp. Try this:

`function bp_query_subscribe_init(){
global $bp;

if ( !isset( $bp->query_subscribe ) ){
$bp->query_subscribe = new BP_Query_Subscribe();
}
}
add_action( ‘bp_loaded’, ‘bp_query_subscribe_init’ );

function bp_query_test() {
global $bp;
var_dump( $bp->query_subscribe );
}
add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘bp_query_test’, 999 );`

As for includes, you will need to do your own manual include() for now. Don’t use BP_Component::includes().

1) No, you don’t have to use BP_Component, but if you can, you probably should. It’s so much easier than trying to figure out which hooks to use. If you don’t need a particular method for your plugin (because it doesn’t have any navigation elements, for instance), just don’t include that method.

2) There seems to be a bug in the way the includes() method works for plugins. For the moment, I recommend that you include your files manually.

3) You need to call the $bp global before instantiating your class.
`global $bp;
$bp->query_subscribe = new BP_Query_Subscribe();`

Actually I stumbled across this question while spending several hours last night looking for the answer on the infamous Group Avatar step error message, after seeing there were as many different answers as there were questions, and not finding the solution (and doing what each answer suggested), I decided not to fight it. I don’t know if your question stems from this type of error or simply you’ve come to realize the group is created after the first step (as you said), but rather than using php or a core hack,etc, etc, I just removed the upload buttons and text of the avatar step using CSS, essentially users who create the group will consider it a default avatar, not get thrown off by an error message and click through the process; they then do any editing afterwords. Editing the avatar after the fact doesn’t throw any errors as it does when creating the group.
In my case, I know it’s a child theme problem and having a static home page, even though I followed the buddypress docs to a t. Didn’t want to give up the home page for the buddypress default, so that was my solution. it’s fairly painless and works.

@karmatosed

BuddyPress Media is now fully compatible with BuddyPress 1.5. We have a beta version available at the link below, and we’ll issue a release to production next week (once our test team are finished with it).

http://code.google.com/p/buddypress-media/downloads/detail?name=bp-album_2011-08-07_BETA.zip

When listing us on the compatible plugins page, please list us as “BuddyPress Media”, and link to this URL: “http://code.google.com/p/buddypress-media/”. BP-Album will *cease to exist* after BuddyPress 1.5 is released (it will turn into BuddyPress Media).

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@DJPaul
@johnjamesjacoby
@apeatling
@MrMaz
@boonebgorges

On behalf of the Buddypress Media team, congratulations on your new release. We’ve spent the past three days going through your code, and we’re just *astonished* at the improvements in structure, efficiency, and documentation!

This could be worth cake …

We’ll be dropping by your dev chat this Wednesday to bombard you with questions and talk about what we can do to help get other key plugins working with 1.5 as quickly as possible.

See you there!

^F^

” that multisite thing
after i installed it took away the ability to even add plugins or update my theame “
No, it didn’t. It moved them to network admin. Multisite is what you need for extra blogs – this works even without buddypress.

Buddypress does not just add a theme – it does add the functionality that you;re looking for. please reads the docs.

The forums have to be enabled in the backend.

We are answering your questions – don;t post multiple time,s ,read the directions, ask when you do not understand instead of undoing things we told you that you need.

Sometimes questions don’t get answered immediately.

What @mercime means is that several of your questions are dependent on the theme you’ve purchased, ‘executive’. WPMU.org is not the official WordPress site, but is a private company that sells themes and plugins. It’s not possible for people on this free forum to provide support for a theme that is sold privately; you should go to wpmu.org for that.

General BuddyPress questions are welcome here, though. For instance,
`Furthermore I don’t seem to have a members directory in my dashboard.`
BuddyPress does not add a members directory to your Dashboard. You can find a members list at Dashboard > Users (or Dashboard >Network Admin > Users on Multisite)