Hello Roger, at the company where I work are asking me to do a development similar to your questions …. and you develop something?, suddenly you develop a plugin?
Thank you very much!!!
Thank you Paul for responding but answer the questions in detail here:
1. Which version of WP/MU are you running? Answer: WP 3.01
2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install? Answer: Using it on my main domain
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version? Answer: when it says upgrade I click that. So I guess it supdated.
5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. Answer: Yes
6. Which version of BP are you running? Answer: It says..Buddy press 1.2.5.2
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? Answer: Every time it says update I always click that…So maybe..??
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? Answer: Buddy press 1.2.5.2, Live journey importer, akismet, fast secure contact form 0.2, OPML Importer 0.2, Post video player slideshow and photo gallery 1.79, Rss Importer, simple social sharing widgets and incons 0.2, Word Press Importer version 0.2 and WP Touch 1.9.19.1
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? Answer: Standard
10. Have you modified the core files in any way? Answer: I don’t think so…Didn’t touch anything…Just beginning to do this…
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? Answer: I don’t think so
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? Answer: Using Hostmonster.com is my web host part of their menu control panel comes with concrete5 and under concrete5 I installed buddy press…Then that’s all I did
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. Answer: The only problem I’m having is nobody can “create an account” or cannot register…And of course no email was sent for verification and account is obviously not created..
14. Which company provides your hosting? Hostmonster.com
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? My server is running? I’m using century link previously Sprint…Mozilla fox and Explorer…Windows XP
So I guess I answered all the questions…That’s all I did…And can’t create an account…I did it to test the application…Now go to my website hostpugs.com create an account and see what’s going on…my email: whiteflower12004 @yahoo.com….Thank you!
1: No you can keep the same membership page! Just fill in the ID of that page on the S2Member Theme Options page. By using a very simple plugin (included with your purchase) this page will then be added to a person’s profile. So basically it’s a nice wrapper to show the membership page inside someone’s profile. I did not want to mess with the brilliant S2Member plugin, and this is a nice solution.
2: See answer one.. Since S2Member can be used for so many different things I focused on adding:
– an extra template for the welcome page with some nice tabs (shown on the bp-tricks homepage right now)
– a sidebar for that page
– Profile integration
– Some nice shortcodes to create cool looking buttons
– A welcome page template to get people started
So the changes are mostly aimed at making your sales/welcome page look awesome, add a nice membership section to profiles and allow you to quickly set everything up. S2Member remains intact and is not “messed” with.
3: Nope! Although most question you might have should be answered in the docs 
Hope this answers your questions!
@Bowromir
That will be a great start to a new week!
A few questions…
1 – I’ve got s2member set up on my install and have already coded a membership page to display info according to level and ccaps along with various other extras. I’m guessing I’ll have to take that page down when I install bp-slick, right?
2 – Do the s2member settings in bp-slick adapt to the current install, or should the current install be reset to default settings and let the theme take over?
3 – Should I wait for theme documentation before asking more?
A lot of us try to help answering questions on these boards, but we’re just volunteers doing this for fun. We seem to get most issues replied to within a two day period, which I think is very good.
Regarding above — neither of you have provided sufficient detail (have a look at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/ for the sort of information we’d find useful). Does WordPress (without any plugins or custom themes installed) send emails correctly, for example on user registration?
I have found ans to first question also. I have hooked my function to ‘bp_after_profile_field_content’, so now all new fields I can display before ‘Save’.
Still working on 3rd question.
Regards,
Ashwani
Hi,
I have found answer to my 2nd question. We can use Custom Loop template class bp_is_profile_edit(), it returns true if the custom function is called from the edit profile page.
Still trying to find answers to 1st and 3rd question. Please help.
Regards,
Ashwani
Hi Friends,
thank you for your replies. As per Roger’s suggestions I have created another post with title ‘Plugin development — xprofile questions’.
regards,
Ashwani
@ashwanim
Ok, that’s very advanced level stuff – some quick answers below – BUT, please post your xprofile questions as separate threads – and give a better indication of the problem in the title (“plugin development – please help” is way too general, and unfortunately likely lead to your question being overlooked).
1. I don’t know of any book on BuddyPress plugin development – unfortunately, the codex as @lph2005 points out, is the best starting point, but it’s nowhere near developed enough to handle the questions you are asking re: xprofile_template_loop_end
2. Unless a core developer / xprofile expert can step in here, I don’t know of a better solution than tracking through the code and seeing if an earlier hook is called (and for 3. whether there is anything in the data structure passed to the hook that gives a more specific activity type). Ask these as separate threads.
4. We’ve done some work on this – if you post as a separate thread – I’ll dig through our work at the weekend, and see if I can post some pointers
Well you can edit text to a degree from within files but I would suggest that you read through the pages in the codex first then if things still not clear or further questions post back to the thread.
Don’t plan a site move unless you have to; select a host that you will be able to work with for a while.
Important aspects to hosting, fast turn around on ticket requests to support desk, helpful support desk!.
If you are not hugely confident in your abilities to manage a dedicated server (not as easy as one might think!) opt for managed server or semi managed.
The costs you quoted sound high, and personally I wouldn’t choose the two you mention, cloud hosting is a viable approach, companies such as Media Temple offer good entry level VDS packages which can be expanded when required, they also have a strong user/support forum, these can be immensely useful for asking questions and generally gaining a bit of knowledge.
There is a group here that was setup to start to collate info on hosts I would check that group out and see what others are using and recommending.
Sorry, I actually forgot to respond to those two questions! Next time 
Folks please respond to questions asked, don’t make forum members have to ask the same thing twice, after all we’re only trying to help
@jimboba My apologies, no you didn’t incur my wrath and weren’t dismissed, sometimes it’s easy to lose track of threads
Using the @mention system does help to ensure we see things flagged to our username.
At times it does become very difficult to help further, especially remotely where we can only ask questions and are divorced from the actual events, normally I have access to all the files such as access/error logs, DB etc so I can effectively troubleshoot issues.
Something else to check might be the settings for wordpress url and site url ; wordpress url should reflect the url path to your sub folder installation?
@jimboba
Re: “incurred hnla’s dismissal?”
Do not take things personally. @hnla has assisted hundreds of users in this forum and some questions were out of this world compared to your questions.
Re: “Page Not Found” errors
– Change Settings > Permalinks to other than default.
– Activate bp-default theme to check links to BP components. When that works, insatll/create child theme of bp-default theme OR use the BP Template Pack if you want to use WP theme.
PJParticipant
@Cometchat Your sales/support chatter on cometchat.com was helpful and very confident in his/her questions.
Also, I wanted to commend you for creating a post in the Buddypress site and responding. There are some (not many) plugin/addon authors that don’t keep in touch with users before/after a purchase so it’s a good gesture to be here as a resource.
PJParticipant
I’ve grown up Buddypress so I’m not sure how they can claim to have a value proposition.
$XXX + forums that only disclose presales questions or “success stories” = a bit sketchy.
Buddypress welcomes Jomsocial refugees and doesn’t charge for a great experience either
Got it guys….thanks so much. Your questions were perfect for sending me in the right direction!
@dubbelf – it’s no more technical than modifying your theme loops to exclude posts from various categories, and certainly less technical than restricting certain authors to specific categories.
At this stage the questions you are asking are not really BuddyPress support specific, more general WordPress considerations.
If you want someone to build / enhance your site for you, you can advertise on the Jobs Board: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/
If you are going to modify the site yourself, you will have to get technical (PHP, HTML and some base WordPress theming knowledge).
Fairly pointless running this thread on further thoughts / questions can be added to this one:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/events-plugin-1/
I have bin looking at that page and it seems simple, but I still don’t understand what to do. Can you be more specific?
Thanks for the help, and please forgive me for my stupid questions
A massive help yet again. Thanks Roger for taking the time to answer these questions.
It’s a really tough question. And tough questions involve tough answers, and if someone who is reading doesn’t know or hasn’t done such a thing before, the likelihood of someone volunteering an hour of their own time to work out a solution is slim. I’ve replied to your more recent post, but I don’t know how this could be done.
You’ll want to use Paul Gibbs’ Welcome Pack plugin for new users to have a bunch of default friends :
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/
By default, Welcome Pack sends friend invites; to have the plugin auto-accept friend invitations, read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/standard-group-for-new-users#post-69096
For your other questions, please post them on the forum.
Do not hijack threads please this practice is poor nettiquette. Problems may seem similar but often have different causes, having to answer two sets of questions in one thread can become confusing.
@tungjacob You have a highly customised theme, can you return to the Bp-default theme and test whether the issue is still apparent; also go to your permalink settings first and ensure that your .htaccess file is updating correctly by selecting an option and saving.
@jimboba much the same for you to; the lack of files is vague you either have the necessary BP files or not forget the lack of files for the moment BP wouldn’t be running if it were missing files. check whether you are able to update .htaccess file correctly
