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Hi, I should preface this by saying that I’m not a BuddyPress developer as such, but have been coding WordPress themes professionally for a couple of years, and have been researching BP and putting together a BP-based startup for the past couple of months, so have been through these questions myself, and my own early steps may prove useful.

1. See https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-profile-privacy/

2. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/ might be interesting. There’s another, more granular, privacy plugin that the community has its fingers crossed for, for further details see http://bp-privacy.com/

3. All of that should, and does, happen as a matter of course.

4. Semantics aside, they are all “subscribers” as far as WP is concerned, ie. members and commenters are one and the same.

5. BuddyPress themes contain extra template files for the parts of BP that are an extension on the WP template system (eg. activity, groups, user profile etc.) plus various css and javascript files. Running a regular WP theme with BP running won’t give you the framework to display that BP functionality. In order to achieve that, your WP theme needs the extra template files. You have two options, each with benefits and drawbacks:

a) Extend your existing theme with the required template files, javascript and css to enable and display the BuddyPress sections and functionalities. See https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/ The drawback is that next time BuddyPress is updated, you might be faced with quite a fair amount of development getting your site aligned with the latest code base, new features etc.

b) Constructing a child theme. This relies on running the Default theme, and then adding your own css overrides and theme hacks as a non-destructive layer on top. The principle is that you can strip away your own additions, and you’ve still got the Default theme running beneath it, so in a sense it’s “unbreakable” and whilst you may need to modify your additions once BP is next updated, the underlying template will always function. With a decent caching strategy, unless you’ve expert level php behind you, I think it’s the way to go.

Why have you posted on the back of a another thread? Did nothing in what I mentioned above about asking detailed questions, supplying a little bit of background information on your situation / setup make sense?

Please do as is expected, if you really need help, post a new thread rather than piggy back of another only possibly related post, supply detail so that we do not have to start of by asking you questions that shouldn’t be necessary.

Closing this thread.

Locking topic, too many old posts on this forum get resurrected, not generally an accepted practice on boards.

@n_sane a little advise if you really want help you must formulate a detailed question which describes the issue and any attempts at rectifying it, along with your setup in terms of app versions and server, simply stating there’s an issue will not get very far as we have to start asking you a whole series of questions just to get that detail from you, ergo much of our volunteered free time wasted.

Yes, have a read through the Codex documentation, then if any questions post back to this thread.

@residentcusano I have closed the other two threads, please take heed of my comments in one of them and also of modemloopers above.

There is a right way and a wrong way to ask questions on tech forums the RFC on the subject is this link below, it might pay to give it a little glance over.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

What does it say in the readme text, what does the authors homepage say? buddypress.org is a support forum for matters directly related to BP and it’s default theme and plugins that are specific to it.

Someone here may know of this plugin but in general you should ask these questions of the plugin author and/or study the installation guides.

@ residentcusano can you please not simply jump around posts with the same question, you have asked this in another post , once only is the golden rule, please also could you start to actually ask questions in a detailed and considered manner rather than simply barking out requests that are somewhat vague it’s up to you to make things as clear as possible so that people can help you effectively.

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Hello Buddypress, can someone that has fixed this issue please post the solution? Seems like the forum is scattered with questions about this problem.

This also is a problem for me as well. My client has no way of knowing when new questions are posted and does not have the ability to send emails to the entire group, please advise. Thanks

Dear hlna,

In most of the support forums I participate people is encouraged to do exactly the opposite, because you could end having too many people asking the same questions. I think its better that people that had the same problem read the same suggestions to solve them.

BUT if you are the moderator and those are the rules, I respect them. Should I create a new topic to ask the same question and receive the same answers?

Regards,
Joel

With my moderators hat on: Can I please remind people that on tech forums it is frowned upon to hijack threads i.e have two or more people asking questions within the one topic, this is due to threads rapidly becoming confused, my question was directed at ? one person but another replied in answer to it, this thread and it’s responses belong to the original OP or at least are meant to.

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

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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)