BuddyPress.org

This is probably not a BuddyPress specific issue. You can solve it in WordPress.
You first create a blank page with a title and nothing. Let’s say the title is ‘This is my blog’
You go to ‘Settings’ and ‘Reading’ then select ‘a static page’ in the ‘Front page display’. You select the Front Page you want to appear first. Then for the posts page you select ‘This is my blog’.

It does not change any of your posts or pages, however it does require that a compatible BuddyPress theme is running and that means you will need to do a little work if you have a theme in use already and don’t want to use the bp-default theme bundled with BP.

To modify an existing theme to work with BP you need to run the template pack plugin, details of which and step by step guide you will find in the BP codex.

If i could remember right, you can use the following code but i am not sure if it is outdated because i have it during BP 1.2.

function sort_alpha_by_default( $qs ) {
global $bp;
if (!$qs && ( $bp->current_component == BP_MEMBERS_SLUG || $bp->current_component == BP_GROUPS_SLUG) )
$qs = ’type=alphabetical&action=alphabetical’;
return $qs;
}
add_filter( ’bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring’, ’sort_alpha_by_default’ );

@mercime ermm I’m using twenty eleven latest and buddy press latest stable release as well. Initially i thought the problem was because JQuery and AJAX was not being called properly in the website and tried to do it manually by calling up the files in the header but with no success. Then as a resort I had to use a new theme from scratch, use compatibility tool to make it all work without modifications to my new website, created child theme to that it looks okay and then copied everything from my old website onto new. Please see. http:// pianocouture2.iclsoftech.com for the version that works. Thanks for all your help

@mettezz – I have helped out compatibility with other themes from Themeforest in this forum and have not seen load more issue. Could be a JS conflict based on the 10 or so scripts included in the theme. Best bet is to contact Theme Developer as they would know how to resolve the issue.

@elbowrobo I just responded to your same post at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-theme-is-this-42?replies=6#post-2711012

WP/BP versions? URI to your site or facepress theme demo? If you’ve disabled BP Template Pack JS/AJAX in Appearance > BP Compatibility, then correct it by unchecking Disable BP Template Pack JS/AJAX

WP/BP versions? Single WP or Multisite (BP installed in main site or subsite)? Theme used? Plugins used? Have you enabled Group Forums in Group’s admin settings? Have you done basic troubleshooting by deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress and changing to bp-default theme?

@dawnna @abhayjeet WP/BP versions? Theme used? Plugins used? Single WP or Multisite? Error logs?

@benstacey
– “On the secondary site i’m using Angus by epicthemes” == so you installed and activated BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme, Angus, compatible with BP. Can you post to pastebin.com the full code of your angus/groups/create.php file?
– Have you tried changing to bp-default theme, and check if issue is corrected.
– Re plugins – deactivate BP-specific plugins sitewide and Options Framework v1.0 for the BuddyPress site and see if issue is corrected.

Closing this duplicate https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/extending-a-child-theme-adding-new-php-file-adding-member-invites-1/

>members posting stuff too

It’s tricky on mobile devices, but doable.
You’ll want to use the BP mobile theme for those or build your own.

Apple Safari doesn’t allow uploading, so you have to use a workaround like Aurigma Up.
@modemlooper says he built an app that does the same thing and he’s considering releasing an unbrandable version with a site license – I for one sure hope he does.

Android allows uploads but things like the avatar crop tool won’t work, afaik.
We built a custom avatar upload page with auto-crop for Android as part of our custom mobile theme.

Hopefully you’re lucky enough to have a client that actually understands what is involved when they say they want a ‘facebook’.

One way is to use:
http://www.hitreach.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/allow-php-in-posts-and-pages/

Then create a page called ‘Invite’ in wp-admin and put this on the page
between open and close [ php ] tags without the spaces
` locate_template( array( ‘some-theme-dir/invite.php’ ), true ); `

The url for that page won’t be your-site/members/invite
It wil be your-site/invite
If it has to be /members/invite, then I’m not sure how to do it.

There is something wrong with your register page as, I think, it should have Name ( at least ) as a required field under the profile details section.

If I click on ‘complete sign up’ without filling anything in then it redirects to the front page whearas I think it should stay on the same page but with error messages.

Is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/ the plugin that you mentioned in the other topic?

I wonder if it is compatible with buddypress. Buddypress is quite particular about it’s permalinks….. If you disable page-links-to, do you get the profile details content on the register page then?

It could be something else to do with permalinks and the .htaccess file that should be in the same directory as the wp-config.php file.

The usual method for diagnosing issues is to disable all plugins and revert to bp-default. If it then works one can start to reactivate plugins and theme until something goes wrong – ie the last thing you reactivated would be the chief suspect!

Concentrate on the bp default theme for the moment, Mingle is – I suppose – a BP compatible theme and as such should have all the files necessary contained within it’s own theme folder. You can come back to the mingle theme, I would just concentrate on BP for the moment, but first disable BP as well and just establish that WP is working correctly, finds posts/pages , and allows registrations.