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Please watch and follow this step by step video guide on the new bbPress and BuddyPress versions. I guarantee it will help sort out your questions.  If any remain, I’m happy to help you further 🙂

http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

Cheers!

Spence

These are all bbPress templating questions; you’re best to ask on the http://bbpress.org support forums, as that’s where the bbPress experts are.

HI, I am a recent transfer website owner from ning.com. I have a community there, and i’m moving this weekend to the WP platform. I have many questions, that I can’t really seem to find the specific answers to. The plug-in that this user spoke of (The features and more) can buddypress really manage a social community like the ning platform, and what about other features? Here’s what the user wrote:

@boonebgorges thanks for your response and plugin link, in terms of functionality it is almost exactly what I need, only:
– Need it to manage users instead of groups
– Need it to show their full profile fields (including xprofile)
– Need options to deactivate(very important) or delete users
– Need function to export list to excel sheet

I need similar functions in a plug-in and need to know whats the BEST plugin or what combination of plug-ins will give me the features for a membership community that I want, members want, and that are essentially need to maintain a viable members community. Here is what I need as far as features and functionality:

-Secured membership registration and login seprate from WP admin. So members CAN’T access the backend of my admin panel.

-After they join they are sent to their members profile page to add a bio, photos, videos, music, etc..and everything post in their profile page, and in the community videos, photos, and music display like on a youtube page or gallery style. I also, need profiles that look more custom instead of simple layouts or designs. This is a BIG problem we had with our ning platform. Wish we could offer up to 6 or more profile page templates for members to choose from, complete with comments and a better layout for uploaded videos, photos, music (In a player on profile.)

-Members display in a four/five accross…four/five down style grid instead of up and down like a list.

-Search for members, based on attributes or career choice or find all member in a certain category.

-Want a upload feature on whatever page or place I designate for members to upload content like videos, music, photos.

-Add paywalls on whatever page I need to, for the purpose of selling premium content to members.

-Add featured profile/members and delete/block members at will.

-Don’t want to use multisite plug in if I don’t half to. Rater not use it.

Any help here, or a push in the right direction with plug-ins for buddypress please let me know. Thanks in advance good people. Blessings.

@allenfuller – On http://dogsuniverse.dk/ we have 7 networks where the users profile is shared across all 7 networks but the user still have to login per network.

Would there be a way to do the opposite? In other words, once someone has joined 1.domain.com, they are part of a shared user table and can then join 2.domain.com and all of their profile information copies over?

Hi Peter,

Commons In A Box is not a fork of BuddyPress.  It utilizes BuddyPress as well as other vetted BuddyPress plugins together to form an easy package to work from.  The rationale is you shouldn’t have to go and find which plugins work and don’t work.  CBOX also packages a nice theme to work with that is easily customizable.

Check out the CBOX website for more info.  Also feel free to register and ask questions over there.

Please try not to post the same thing across several threads.  A good rule of thumb is to create a new topic for your questions and not bumping older topics that haven’t been responded to in awhile.

As for your questions:

* Geotagging for member profiles – several plugins exist.  You might want to try Mapology.  It’s a premium plugin, but it’s probably the most feature-rich.

* Auto-refresh activity page – there are a few plugins out there, but I haven’t really tested all of them.  Try this one:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh/

* Events – again, several plugins exist.  Do a search on Google for “buddypress events” and you’ll find the top plugins.

You’ll probably want to test out a few of those plugins to see which ones will suit your needs.

Hope that helps.

Hi Kevin,

I wish I could recommend Salutation theme but alas I cannot.

I am very comfortable with WordPress and have been designing websites from purchased themes for several years now and this was my first venture into the world of forums.

The theme itself looks awesome – the main problem is the work I had to do to get the theme looking exactly like the demo – when first installed, Salutation does not communicate cleanly with WordPress so it comes out jumbled with static blocks all over the place. The work I had to put to figure out how to get it to look exactly like the demo alone was astronomical (and the demo was why I bought it).

The support available was very basic. I would ask a lot of questions and be given half an answer – frustrating and very time-consuming. I could not figure out how to work it out myself – a very unintuitive theme.

The videos are excellent and I did find some help there but here I sit… 50+ hours later with a beautiful website that does not work because I can’t get Buddypress to play nicely with Saluation… Hence, my request here for some professional assistance.

Hope this helps, Kevin!

🙂

Have you tried BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications)

Does this help?
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/47657/how-to-redirect-all-requests-to-wp-login-php

@aces I have used http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/33072/how-to-remove-feeds-from-wordpress-totally but this works only for the WP pages and not for the BP pages.
then i used
function bp_remove_feeds() {
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_personal_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_friends_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_mentions_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_favorites_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘groups_action_group_feed’, ‘groups_action_group_feed’, 3 );
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘bp_remove_feeds’);

But still I can see the feeds for the activity page 🙁

Any help will be highy appreciated?

Anyways @aces thanks for responding 🙂

If you’re using bbPress 2.2.2 and BuddyPress, the preferred method going forward is to disable the “Discussion Forums” component in BuddyPress and use bbPress to handle group forums.

Try reading this guide:
https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

And let us know if you have any questions or if the guide isn’t clear.

hmmn… it still works for me but only for the activity feed ( excluding the ` lines which weren’t converted to the new bp forum format ). It used to work for members as well.

To disable all feeds I just tried the following from http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/33072/how-to-remove-feeds-from-wordpress-totally
:

/**
* disable feed
*/
function fb_disable_feed() {
wp_die( __('No feed available,please visit our homepage!') );
}
add_action('do_feed', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rdf', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss2', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_atom', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);


Which worked for me to disable All feeds to everyone. It’s a bit unsubtle but does plug the security hole….

The problem is that I don’t want a user to be able to join any network they want.

They can’t if the respective site admins do not allow open registration or if the site is set up for invitation-only membership. The user-base in NOT shared between sites for that plugin by default.

is there a way for a person to set their avatar once on one network and not have to set it again when they become a user on the other network?

Since the userbase is per site only, i.e., not shared across the network as I mentioned above, then by default no, the user has to upload avatar again in the next site.

Having said that, there may be ways around it. The best place to ask is at the plugin dev’s forums as @sbrajesh knows his code better than anybody else 🙂

Thank you @rogercoathup Good to know for future reference when I need this functionality in few weeks.

I just checked http://hybridauth.sourceforge.net/ and it looks very powerful and free.

Is there any Multisite/BP plugin already available for this?

Btw, here is the latest about “Social Sign In” using Facebook/Twitter/Google (linkedIn soon) plugin from addthis.com guys:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis-social-sign-in/

I asked them few questions as follows on there site:

Introducing Social Sign In for WordPress

My Questions:
Is this for ‘social sign in’ only?
Any plans to eventually include social sharing and social commenting?
What kind of cost if any are we looking at?
Does this plugin supports all the following:
1. WP
2. WP MultiSite
3. BuddyPress
Please advise.
Thanks.
AddThis.com answers:

Matthew Keesan on November 28, 2012 at 10:00 am said:

@RK
1. It’s only Social Sign In. We have a host of other plugins however for some of these tasks. We decided to keep them separate to give you maximum flexibility.
– Social sharing: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis
– Following: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis-follow
– Welcoming: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis-welcome
2. It’ll always be free! Since we’re just a middleman there’s no significant cost to us providing this service, so we’re happy to pass the savings on to you!
3. We haven’t tested on Multisite or BuddyPress yet. If you do, I’d love to know what happens.

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Note: I don’t have a live site yet.I am wondering if someone can test it for Multisite and Buddypress?

This is a bug see https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622#comment:8 That comment has suggested work arounds.

Alternatively:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66204/showing-the-users-username-in-registration-email-or-activation-page-with-buddyp

@savage_jane & @joe-saad you appear to be posting at many places, WP forums, bbPress forums with the exact same questions and responses yet switching roles, so I guess you are reps for this plugin ‘company’, you should perhaps not use help forums in this manner in order to promote a paid for premium plugin. Naturally if I’m wrong and you are not part of this company my apologies.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-to-integrate-social-counters?replies=2

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-social-plugin-for-wordpress?replies=9

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/social-media-logins-and-social-sharing/

https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/sweetanne/replies/

It’s a problem with the theme, revert to using bp-default theme to check the function does work as expected. Questions regarding third party themes are best asked on the themes support forums.

simple, just go to your dashboard with wordpress and go to menu section then deselect the tabs you don’t need from the menu you have. or if you don’t have any menus you can create your custom menu from there. if you have any future questions let me know at: raminrahim@hotmail.com I am intermediate with wp/bp. we all help each other in this forum.

Yes, BP will track activity of members in subsites.

Yes to: comment on main site where commenting is available like in activity streams and blog posts by default plus in customized BP components created by plugin if it is included.

In subsites, commenting on blog posts only if it is not disabled in Settings>Discussion of that subsite.

Forum posts show up in main site’s activity stream. Super admin can disable commenting about that forum post in activity to direct member to comment/reply directly in the forums to keep the forum conversation centralized.