Will this work if two of our questions are lists of countries/states and the other two are lists of categories? In other words, will buddypress allow me to add data sets like these? And can I still set the data in wp_usermeta table and retrieve it in other uses?
Also–is it possible to rework look and feel of the registration form itself? Two of our questions involve choosing images along with form elements, didn’t know if this was possible.
Yeah, at the moment we are using the answers to these questions to grab content based on their gender, location, and category preferences — we match what they give us to WP categories and any meta-keys in the content we can match.
I simply don’t get what you are trying to do here and you seem to be over complicating things.
Simply click the link to ‘groups’ in the main set of menu links this is the groups directory view and on that page should be seen a clickable link ‘create a group’
This isn’t anything to do with adminbar, nor do you access this via a url which actually would be http://example.com/groups/create/
Your bp default theme either shows this or it’s a defective incomplete install your other questions are related to third party plugins and / or themes and at this stage we are simply trying to establish that bp-default works before moving on.
Please do not create a new topic on the same subject, continue in the existing one, creating a new thread simply serves to fracture all that we have asked and discounted thus far in trying to help you and will have members asking all the same questions over again which is a pointless exercise and wasteful of resources.
Please post a request for further help in the existing thread you started on this issue in order to bump the thread.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/please-help-no-group-creation-option-in-groups-1
Closing this thread
Well there you go! 
@fellowchirps now you know what plugin you installed that caused this if you have follow up questions on it please post them to the plugin authors group:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-my-home/
you need to give more information about your issue. “there is no option for this”
What do you mean???
Also, please provide some, or all of the questions from This post
If you’re using GenesisConnect, please keep questions over on that support forum.
Usually, Buddypress links are all on the blog where BP is activated. They do not go across all blogs unless you add a line to the config file. (like you see in our demos)
Cheers @boonebgorges.
So, if I can clarify the whole process. Please tell me if I’m right or if I’m wrong,
and I’ll post it up on my forum, and make a page in the codex if you want.
When a visitor loads the URL of a Buddypress-supported site:
1. the WordPress environment loads and loads the Buddypress plugin
2. buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default is loaded (if you have activated that theme)
3. as the visitor browses through different pages, functions are activated in those pages
4. these functions draw their code from the core files (checking first if bp-custom.php contains same-named functions that will overwrite code in the core files)
5. there are 9 core files
6. these 9 core files require/include other groups of code from folders that are named the same way
e.g. ‘bp-core.php’ requires/includes the files from the ‘bp-core’ folder
7. The files in these folders are groups of code that share a similar category (e.g. classes) (e.g. bp-core/bp-core-classes.php)
because modularizing them this way makes it easier to find the code you need.
8. extra code that is hard to categorize clearly is simply put into the main file (e.g. bp-core.php)
Questions:
a. Is the above list right?
b. Do the core files need to be loaded every time a user visits a page and activates a related function?
e.g. if a user activates a function related to friends, does bp-friends.php need to be loaded?
Hey @boonebgorges – I’d love to suggest a standalone import/export – doing all these database imports and exports is definitely not an easy task for the below-average user like me, who became pampered with WordPress turn-key solutions
If you can share some light on the 3 questions I made on my reply to @aljuk that would be fantastic! Sorry to bother with these simple questions…
Hey @aljuk – this was superb!
I am a newbie, but a newbie with endurance
I confess I was puzzled by your answer, but then asked the support staff of my hosting company to help me with steps one and two you listed.
But now I am stuck. On step 3, I understand I should use Notepad (Text Editor on MAC OS) to edit the wp-config.php file that I have downloaded doing step 1 (I’m copying the entire public_html folder using FTP).
Questions:
a) what are the specific modifications I should do on the wp-config.php file in my hard disk after the copying of the remote files?
b) how do I create a new local database? With MAMP? Which configurations should be set for this new database (never did that before)
c) how do I import the gzip backup of the remote database I made with phpMyAdmin?
There is a plugin for a photo, gallery, /audio that hookes into their profile.
When users edit their profile, if you add custom profile fields via admin, every word they fill out will become a tag to member searches and inquiries, so lets say a member puts in their location as “Kentucky” If any such user would to search on the site “kentucky” that member would pop up.
For the chat, I would recommend evolve chat.
ModemLooper, thx for your time and reply, yes i remember from the old WpmU days that i used something to manage plugins for all users, although i was not sure that i could use WPMU plugins for buddypress, i feel that i am lacking some basic knowledge concerning buddypress, is there a manual for buddypress, or a basic tutorial covering the very basic part of buddypress?
I’d ask these questions over on the etivite site.
Search, there is a plugin that allows you to set up default settings for newly activated WPMU blogs. I can’t think of the name but it’s out there.
anyone? this is my first time messing w/ buddypress and would really like this
I think it happens only on local setup and specially when buddypress is accessed via http://localhost/… ? Is that correct ?
It does work on live servers and local machines having a vhost setup (http://www.WHATEVERYOUWANT.SOMETHING).
The plugin does not create cookies on local machine (comparing both phpinfo() outputs), is it related to cookies on localhost (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1134290/cookies-on-localhost-with-explicit-domain) ?
Thanks for help.
I got the what’s new feature taken care of, now just want to figure out how to do the group/forum tab thing
There’s a plug-in called LEENK.ME that is now auto-posting to LinkedIn. It’s $0.99 a month, but worth it. I’m using it and it’s great. it posts to Twitter, Facebook Fanpages and profiles, Google Buzz and LinkedIN automatically. And users get to decide whether or not they want to use it. You just have to share your API key with the site and each member can set it up on their own blog. The developers also answer questions in a very timely fashion.
No courseware. The site was launched March 2009 on WordPress MU/BuddyPress. Slight modifications based on snippets/plugins posted by Burt Adsit, Paul G., Boone G., JJJ and Andy.
The content is mostly pre-recorded video and audio – not a formal educational program with assignments etc. So the setup is pretty straightforward and most of the customization is just theming. Main site has different content for logged out and logged in users. “Classrooms” are private sub-domain blogs (soon-to-be sub-domain sites) with a classroom theme. The main site and classroom sites are both using custom child themes powered by the BuddyPress default theme.
I’m in the process of upgrading the site so I’ll be around here more often if you have questions.
I tried BP Registration options based upon this post and the plug-in has some serious bugs. While it does the things it says it does, it also disables admin editing of any of the WPMU blogs posted. I also have a contributor blog going and it disallows contributors from posting media, it cancels out the permissions function I used to allow media publishing. Registration also does not prevent the spammers from posting blogs all over your site. And they do not respond very soon to any type of support questions asking how to fix these problems. I really wish I could use this plug-in.
thank u so much for helping i’m gonna study and if i have questions i’ll post there or better here. Thank u again
please somebody help me on this… i love buddy and wordpress but i don’t have the time now to study again from the beggining the multisite installation. there will be more questions, i made a local installation so i need for sure time on mu site and time now is a big issue. For now please somebody point me on this “simple” thing i ask: maybe it would be more easy to do the opposite? let’s say that i want to user to fill the wp’s fields Yahoo,IM.msn but into bp’s profile. Is this possible? I’m so confused plz help/ .
Thanks mercime. Do you guys know if gigpress will work with wp and bp as well? Can site visitors add content to archived gigs? Sorry for these questions. I’m just not envisioning the whole thing yet. I guess that’s why I would need a buddypress developer to help me!
