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RESOLVED : Found the answer here : http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/44863/whats-the-easiest-way-to-change-the-default-landing-page-for-buddypress-groups

right, the bp skeleton component is where i’ve been playing around and learning a lot of things for some time now. I know how to set variables and call functions, but when it comes to storing the data via sql, im a bit lost. Im like 65% finished with my bp site, and i have just a couple of miscellaneous things to do, most are easy to figure out after a while, some aren’t. Might just have to hire someone. But i’d rather learn it if i can, cause I don’t like to nag devs with questions all the time lol

Thanks!

When I was first attempting to make something like this, I spent a couple months trying to write it by hand. Then I discovered BuddyPress and realized most of what I wanted had been done already (and probably better than I ever could’ve done by myself), enabling me to spend more time focusing on the important things instead of building out core features. I’m still not entirely satisfied, but I’m getting there.

If you guys find any errors or encounter any problems, let me know.
Likewise, if you have any questions, I’m all ears.

My problem similar
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bbpress-global-forum-and-buddypress/
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-forums-page-within-buddypress

they advise
“well they don’t work well together so you need to hack it together”
“All I had to do was add [bbp-forum-index] in the proper page and there you have it.”

But what it is? where add the code? On what page? in what place?
sorry for my stupid questions.

Here’s what my developer came up with, though I sure would prefer this solution in the long term: http://csplacemaking.com/images/profile-questions.png. I can’t understand why anyone would be OK with their birthdate publicly displayed. Anyway it’s a hack, but it works…

She put it in the CSS file, and you have to know the numeric field IDs. Scroll to the end of the themes/[your theme, in my case, Tachyon from Rocketthemes]/css/template.css file and adjust the following code:

.controlwidget {display: inline-block; float: left;margin-left: 1px;}
html body table.profile-fields tr.field_3, html body table.profile-fields tr.field_3 * { display: none !important; }
html body table.profile-fields tr.field_2, html body table.profile-fields tr.field_2 * { display: none !important; }
html body table.profile-fields tr.field_15, html body table.profile-fields tr.field_15 * { display: none !important; }

Hi yadigit

Many thanks for your reply.
I’m afraid I do not know the Avatar upload is controlled.
I have no special plugins.
The 2 plugins I use are BuddyPress template pack and bbpress plugin.
The avatar control is probably through those (except WordPress always has had avatar control so possibly it is inbuilt from my WP theme?).
I don’t know exactly as I am so new to BuddyPress!-sorry…

I am more concerned still about my BP site functionality and have several questions on that eg
1.How do I create a forum topic?

2. Why is settings>general returning a blank browser page?

In short how do I use BuddyPress and what can I do with it on my site given that I mainly want to use it as a forum?

I am grateful for more helpful replies, comments and feedback-thanks

Actually, I did. She was wondering if there were more obvious solutions than what she could think of. Though she mentioned that the listed solution only works if you don’t ever have a different field name.

Attached is a screenshot of what I really was hoping BuddyPress would have, a standard Ning feature, which allows you to select ‘private’, so the answer will only be visible to you and other administrators: http://csplacemaking.com/images/profile-questions.png. This is the ideal solution.

re: buddystream – brilliant, that should enable members of a BuddyPress use a phone to update stuff.

Many thanks Chris for your fulsome and prompt answer to my questions.

Got it all working now. on the 404 error, I just used a 301 redirect:
`
<?php
header(“Status: 301 Moved Permanently”) ;
header(“Location:http://www.sweepbook.com/rate-this/&#8221; ) ;
?>
`

This works better, if the 404 comes up, it redirects to the homepage… not bad for a starter – all in one day

Thanks you all for your answers, I’ll come up with workaround. As mentioned, I know Linux is much better for WEB SERVERS, but like I said, I have .aspx pages that I’d rather not want to play around with.

Thank you all for you replies. I have posted this issue on WordPress before when I was using pageline theme, but nobody replied on WordPress.

@Chris, that is exactly what I am looking for, I’m not too fimiliar with coding and currently learning, it will be a big help if I know which codes to remove. I’m basically trying to get rid of all the unecessary things on my site to increase performance. I know wordpress runs better on Linux, but I cannot change to Linux since I have another website that are recieving good traffic, and that website contains aspx pages.