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You should have a good look through the BP options in the dashboard and turn off components you don’t want, as for editing core files, you don’t!

WP/BP set up correctly should run just as well on any server platform but preference would always be for Linux boxes as they are simply better than windows for running servers.

@brownstone73
1) Groups in buddypress are like ‘post types’ in wordpress, while you can deactivate it so that it doesnt do anything, it’s hardcoded into the core and the only way to remove it completely is by editing the core plugin.

1) Re: delete not deactivate

You can safely delete each Group you’ve created in each Group’s admin settings.
You can uninstall the Forums for groups in dashboard menu BuddyPress > Forums > uninstall group forums.
You can uninstall Sitewide Forums in dashboard menu BuddyPress > Forums > uninstall sitewide forums.
Then, go to BuddyPress > Components > remove checks for User Groups and Discussion Forums

2) Re: if you look at my site http://www.sweepbook.com/rate-this/ you will notice the menu items are on top of each other

– I don’t see that in your site. So it’s either you’ve changed the theme to bp-default theme or you’ve decided to use bp-default’s custom menus to organize your links.

3) Re: The logos on my site, redirects to http://www.sweepbook.com/rate-this

– Right now I see that you have HTML pages at domain root http://www.sweepbook.com/
So where did you install WP/BP, in subdirectory rate-this? and the redirect is to
redirect is to http://www.sweepbook.com/sweepbook/rate-this/ .
WP Settings > General > Site Address URI/WordPress Address URI was changed without proper checks and this is not a BuddyPress issue at all.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL and if that doesn’t help you resolve the problem, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting

Single WP install, sure. Just add the categories from backend and users can only choose from the available categories.

If you’re talking about categorizing a multisite blog, you could use something like this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blog-topics/

Or if you’re looking to create categories in main site which are automatically added to new subsites of multisite install http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/12201/wordpress-multisite-global-categories

For a few individual pages you could just add redirect rules, a line per rule, to your .htaccess file – something like:

`
Redirect 301 /oldpage/ http://domain.com/newpage/
`

The old page address is from the site root (the same as the htaccess file) the new address has to be from http://

The following discussion might be useful http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/8665/how-to-301-redirect-category-to-customname

you can add it to your bp-custom.php – https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/

or a small functions plugin (i personally prefer this method ) – http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/02/02/creating-a-custom-functions-plugin-for-end-users

It MIGHT also work in your themes functions.php file, but i haven’t tested it.

re activity comments: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1870#comment:2

@marcella1981,

Hey Marcella, first of all thank you for taking the time to help us, What I am trying to do is very similar as david have two different registration forms depending if their user role is an athlete or coach. I have the regular Bp default theme with the frisco theme, and latest wp and bp.

I have been trying to figure it out for a couple days but cant seem to move forward..where in the register.php do i enter the php code and jquery script? I tried a couple different places..I have matched the group fields with the $roles array I’m guessing thats the only thing im doing right so far…

Sorry for the all the questions I am a beginner at all this..Any tips or help how to move forward would be greatly appreciated!

Anytime, so – you can either enter what you want them to see between thoes lines, or; if you really want to redirect them you can use the bp_core_signup_user action

Source: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/18301/redirect-after-registration-in-buddypress (untested)

i’ve never changed the ID of what blog buddypress runs on, but assuming it talks to wordpress the same way as having it on the root blog (which it should, and if it doesn’t it should be reported as a bug) then all your questions are a yes.

1. Yes, activity stream tracks site-wide activity.
2. yes, one username (it doesn’t modify the way WordPress Multisite runs much…)
3. If you are using the bp-default them, then yes it does, if your using another theme then it wont by default. you will have to modify the theme (refer to bp-default theme for how it’s done their)
4. I’ll leave the languages questions to someone else (i dont mess with doing things with different languages)

This a great discussion because I’m in Neononcon’s and Hysteriux’ shoes somewhat. I’m a web publisher who’s preparing to revamp an existing site to WP, and my potential devs are telling me I really need to incorporate BP as a major component. But I’m not clear about certain functionalities and if BP can really do what I need it to do. And I’ve looked at many of the examples from the links nicely given above (thanks!) and elsewhere, but still do not see my answers. So may I ask 3 very specific questions that can hopefully be answered by those here more experienced than me? Yes? Here goes…

1. Can BP Groups have separate “discussions” (like forum threads) INSIDE the Group? Not one single thread but unlimited threads. Just like a Forum. Here’s a hypothetical situation: A Group called “Photo Critiques” where each User would submit photos in a separate thread within this group. And others can them comment and critique that User’s photos. In that thread. And there would be a Sticky thread at top explaining the instructions, etc. Doable?

2. And each separate thread would have full photo uploading capability (or “side-loading” if photo is already housed somewhere). Doable?

3. And there could be a dedicated Photo Gallery/Album for THAT Group as a whole. Doable?

Is BuddyPress suitable this scenario?

Many thanks for your valued input!

The latest buddypress ( with bp-default theme ) can use the default wordpress menu, which is under appearance section of admin.

Some web hosting requires an extra plugin for email. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ has a useful feature that displays debugging information when sending a test email. Another plugin is suggested in https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/