BuddyPress.org

see https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

section: BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications)

Or, create an achievement with negative points (i.e. how many you want to get rid of). Then award yourself it, then delete the achievement.

You have to do this directly in the database. Go into the wp_usermeta table, and look for meta_key of something like ‘dpa_points’ or ‘achievements_points’. Find the user_id that you want to change, and edit the meta_value column.

@goviral Closed your other thread with basically the same questions.

1. To remove commenting (and comment button) in activity stream,

Just add this to your theme’s functions.php file

`// Do not allow commenting in activity stream
add_filter(‘bp_activity_can_comment’,’__return_false’);`

2. is there any way I can change other buttons/icons through the child theme?

Simplest way is to use text-indent to the specific button and add the image background. For example, for the Activity Favorite button, you’d add something like this in your theme’s style.css file

`#activity-stream .activity-meta .fav {
background: #000 url(“images/myfavoriteimage.png”) 0 0 no-repeat;
text-indent: -9999px;
}`

then change background color or image when you hover over the favorite link. Use Firefox add-on Firebug or use Chrome developer to identify selectors to change styles/values for in your stylesheet.

I’m not spending time building CSS/HTML for you, but the templates you need to edit are in the /achievements/templates/ plugin folder. Copy the directory inside the /achievements/templates/ folder into your theme, and edit those files.

The directory template is the ‘index.php’ file in the achievements subfolder above.

Achievements only supports group forums at the moment.

Closing in favour of https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/interesting-child-setup/

See Registration -> BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications) https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory – old style and cannot be used for multisite nor BuddyPress

If you’re trying to load members-overview.php as a separate page, take a look at this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/allow-php-in-posts-and-pages/

If not, then use the bp-custom approach I mentioned above – you’ll need to learn it anyway.

Basically, you need to ask better questions, ie. what, where – exactly, why etc.
Use http://pastie.org/ and show your code.

1. No, you don’t need to install bbPress plugin aka Sitewide Forums as well if you don’t need it in your specific installation. Having said that, know that per roadmap, come BP 1.6, group forums will be migrated into Sitewide Forums (bbPress plugin). For installation of Group/Sitewide Forums https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

2. BuddyPress is a WP plugin, so no problem there at all. I test on XAMPP so I don’t know what challenges you face on a WAMP server, maybe someone can chime in on this one.

Did you check out BP Codex – to start off:
1. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
2. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/
3. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

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I saw the same question at stackexchange and it’s answered there