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Mike to solve your problem with the login direction thing.. I’ve solved that with some jquery stuff which opens the reset password dialog:

examples:

http://emberapp.com/bowromir/images/firefox-6

http://emberapp.com/bowromir/images/firefox-7/

The code to display the reset password:

<h6>If you've forgotten your login details you can reset your password. Fill in your email or username and you'll receive an email with further instructions on how to reset your password.</h6><p></p>

<form name="lostpasswordform" id="lostpasswordform" action="<?php echo site_url('wp-login.php?action=lostpassword', 'login_post') ?>" method="post">

<p>

<label><?php _e('Username or E-mail:') ?><br />

<input type="text" name="user_login" id="user_login" class="loginpanel" value="<?php echo esc_attr($user_login); ?>" size="20" tabindex="10" /></label>

</p>

<?php do_action('lostpassword_form'); ?>

<p class="submit"><input type="submit" name="wp-submit" id="wp-submit" class="button-primary" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Get New Password'); ?>" tabindex="100" /></p>

</form>

Another thing you could do for the time being is style the wp-login page with your own logo:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bm-custom-login/

Ha ha, agreed, nexia. I always learn better when my questions are, you know, specific

@symm2112. Tried to access the ‘private’ forum but I guess you have to be a paid member. Most sites that require paid membership have pre-sale questions thread to address these type of things. Might be a good idea.

NEway, I’d be interested in seeing these efforts merged. They seem too similar to keep separate. If Brajesh has a longer timeline, maybe the development help can change that. It also sounds like Brajesh will have incentive to keep it going due to being compensated.

Just a thought. We have so many other things that BP needs, I’d hate to see too much duplication. That said, if the functionality/use cases are different, maybe it’s justified.

I say it again: GREAT plugin – thanks alot!!!

A couple suggestions/questions:

1. Do I get it right: I can set the default in the backend, but eyery user (not the group admin) sets/changes the notification for themselves?

2. Forum-Notification: I don’t want forums activated on my site, but I cannot get it off (no CSS classes for display:none). It is also not dynamically I guess, for I disabled forums in the backend, but still shows forum-notifications… Any solution to this?

3. What exactly means “added something new to the group”? Is that comments? Is that another plugin like gallery, group-documents etc?

4. Member must be registered for option: When I type 0 in the field, that would mean no delay, right?

5. “You can also specify a minimum gap in time between updates regarding group wiki page edits.” This sentence does not make sense to all the users who haven’t wikis installed. It’s hardcoded. Any solution to get rid of it?

6. Last but not least: Is it translatable??? I really would love to do that for german (at least try it as my first ) – could you provide a POT-File?

Thanks for all the work. This is REALLY IMPORTANT for us and well/simple made!

Ps: This is my test-install-site: http://wp.graphic-studio.ch/network – there I am testing your plugin

These aren’t BuddyPress questions. Look on the WordPress and WordPress MU websites and forums.

Did you follow the BP upgrade instructions here?

https://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-1-2-beta/

Also if you’re running object cache, disable or clear it before activating your new BP 1.2 theme.

had to add my 2 cents..

photo albums are an integral part of most social networks – they were also a promised part of buddypress when it was announced, and given the features that were supposed to be available by 2009 is the reason we have spent so much time working with and testing BP.

While I think it is fine for people to develop and charge for premium plugins, I have found with several projects that a nightmare occurs when core code is updated and plugins are broken – many of the premium plugins developers do not update. Anyone who purchases premium plugins needs to be aware that they may not work in the future, this has hurt other projects in a big way. I vote that buddypress gets photo albums in the core, and as soon as possible.

[blockquote]”dozens of other applications that could be core to someone; event management, mailing lists, groupware, file sharing, paid membership levels, video galleries, group video editing, chat rooms, video conferencing, shopping cart, credit card payment bridge, mobile apps, geolocation”[/blockquote]

– I agree that many of these features are core to a social network in 2010 – If I was Automattic, I would have a developer on salary that worked full time to make sure plugins for these things did not break with future core updates – it’s essential for a stable future of social software in my humble opinion, this is one of the issues that crippled phpfox years ago.

Without some of these things that some people consider “extras” – buddypress is nothing more than a web 1.0 app that some geeks may enjoy, but essentially does nothing more than phpbb or phpnuke did years ago. Boonex’s Dolphin has photo albums, privacy, chat, and all of that – all core – and it still leaves room for premium plugin developers to create fancier flash gallery plugins, and others.

@John James Jacoby – I like your idea of charging for answered questions – that would make things better for those who answer and those who ask – very similar to a group-financing of plugins that get core support I had a couple years back.

@symm2112

I’m looking to do something similar in having login/register on the same page. That should be simple, but not sure about the profile fields piece. I’m need to implement different registrations for different “types” of users. I can do this with different pages with hidden input fields. Not sure how to work this with different profile questions yet though. Keep us abreast of your progress.

It’s possible the wizzes behind BP haven’t responded because you haven’t given enough information to determine if this is user error, bug or random glitch. There should be instructions for posting questions and they should include what you need to let us know to help you.

@do77 , David’s method will save a lot when you will upgrade.

Now for your questions

1.No, You do not need to copy any file(because you want the same layout, so child theme inherits it from parent).

2. Create style.css, and put there the content as David has pointed(do not miss the parent tag and theme name in comments, wordpress uses this to recognize the theme)

3.yes, then you can use firebug to override it as you have already given an example

4.You may not need to do that, because you are not using any other files than css.

5, yes, but please read about wordpress child theme, that will help you in long run.

@idotter, This functionality does not exist within the core of WP or BP.

All of these things are possible to do, but there may not be custom plugins or components to do all of them yet.

@auturo Since I see you and others are posting some new questions in the forum about bbpress integration. perhaps ya’ll should follow Boones’ lead on it regarding (whether to maintain an external installation of bbPress or migrate over). https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-after-bp-upgrade I believe the groundwork for what you need to know is here.

I see your point jivany, but so far I’ve seen that about 90% of the active BP Communities use the default theme with some slight modifications. With some clever editing/focus on certain things which almost every BP site has, it could be very useful.

Think of something like http://www.wordpress.tv:

I would also rather see very specific and in-depth tutorial from BP Pro’s sooner then later, but if you look at the questions asked on these forums, you can not skip the basics here and simply presume that the “easier” stuff will be figured out as they go.

Imagine you stumbling upon BuddyPress.org and being able to get a few nice basic video instructions. You get a sense of professionalism and a clear view of what’s possible with the software, the advanced stuff we all like to see can be covered at a later point imo

And about Facebook and Twitter;

A screencast of twitter would have saved me quite some time, and don’t even start about Facebook lol.. I’ve tried 2 hours to find a feed of my status updates and after trying everything known to man I still haven’t found it. Facebook is awesome but it makes no sense whatsoever on certain aspects

@peternicholls – It looks like you created sub-blogs “members” “blogs” and “groups” which you shouldn’t have done. Delete those sub-blogs. Let BuddyPress automattically generate those pages when you click on the links. Just tested the theme and it’s working great on 1.2-rare bp-sn-parent.

If that’s not the case, it would help us help you if you answer these questions – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

You say you are using BP 1.1.3.

When you upgraded from the BP 1.0 series, what choice did you make when you upgraded the forums?

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/

Did you choose to keep the existing installation?

Or did you choose to create a new installation?

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Also how dependent are you on your external version of bbPress?

Besides the group forums, do your members post in other areas in your external bbPress?

After answering these questions, we’ll have a better idea on how to proceed.

No problem with your post, I just don’t think anyone has gotten around to answer yet