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Generally directories should have index options directive set to disable to prevent viewing a directory tree of files within it, when you see an empty index file in a directory it’s generally there as a safe guard as an index file would be served up if found rather than tree view of files if the option indexes is set to allow.

A php file is not possible to view as it can only be executed by the server.

A CSS file which essentially a plain ansi text file is always viewable from it’s directory http://example.com/styles/style.css

You can try and protect these sorts of files but for anyone with basic skill levels it’s fairly easy to circumvent protections.

This worked when I used it early last year.
http://www.cssjockey.com/freebies/custom-coming-soon-pages-wordpress-plugin

=== At the bottom of a given post, I want users to be able to comment or start a discussion forum on a specific element about the building in the post. ===

Enable commenting from dashboard menu Settings > Discussions.

=== Can I assign forums to posts instead of groups? ===

Why? There’s already commenting in posts with threaded comments – if your theme is set up for this.

== Is there a simple way to do this? ===

Yes. Just install the Maintenance Mode plugin and you’re good to go developing BP in main site. No need to develop BP in secondary blog. You can even add some styling or image/s to Maintenance Mode page while you’re at it.

I had a very brief look. It has the very big advantages of being easy to set up and integrate with one’s theme. It’ll be a nice choice for people who need something very quick and easy.

From a brief look, the code is written in such a way that doesn’t even make an attempt to be extensible for developers. In that sense it’s not even in the same league as BuddyPress.

I’m very glad to see that the market is fleshing out with fundamentally different kinds of solutions!

@hnla, and @xberserker, I figured out the culprit to this, but I am not sure why it does not take until 1.2.6 to happen.

The double button is because you have called 2 stylesheets from the same buddypress default.css. The most common mistake is the css from the bp template pack being applied, and than calling the same css from the bp-themes/bp-default/css/default.css. You need to remove one, and it should solve the double button issue.

this isn’t a BP issue it’s a general web dev one and given the nature of how things work it isn’t possible nor should one try.

It’s often asked but the fact is that you can’t really consider CSS or markup as copyright or unique , you can’t stop people taking chunks of code or whole stylesheets and given that vast amounts of CSS is taken from elsewhere nowadays anyway makes it even more pointless.

No doubt someone will chip in with the usual scripts to prevent or obfuscate CSS but the fact is that you allow a browser to download these files so you can’t really prevent people copying stuff.

Images, copy, that’s another issue as these can be covered by ‘rights’ a set of layout graphics same thing you can forbid there use expressly as they represent a unique design and your graphics are automatically your property until you sign the rights to them away.

Oh and myspace copyrighting their CSS – stuff and nonsense it would never hold up.

@tubruk to troubleshoot why you can’t create groups, you will need to strip down to default BuddyPress installation because a custom theme or a plugin may be interfering with what can easily be done – creating groups – with a clean BuddyPress installation.

That’s why I suggest that you change your theme to default theme and deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress. Clear cache. Then see if you can create groups.
– If you can create groups, then change theme back to your custom theme and check if you can create groups. If not, then the problem is your custom theme. Contact theme author.
– If you can create groups, then activate BP plugins one by one to see which one is interfering with your group creation. If a plugin interferes with your group creation, contact plugin author.

Sounds like a transition from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 and custom theme pages not updated .

`do_action( ‘bp_directory_members_actions’ )`

Is where the buttons in question are called from now

Do you still have “?

This lists the changes between 1.2.5 and 1.2.6:
`https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F1.2.5%2Fbp-themes%2Fbp-default%2Fmembers&old=&new_path=%2Ftags%2F1.2.6%2Fbp-themes%2Fbp-default%2Fmembers&new=3916`

Sorry for the delay. It will be in your theme’s folder. If you are using the BP default theme then it will be in: your_wordpress_folder/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default

If you are using this then it will probably be worth creating a child theme so that you don’t loose any changes with plugin upgrades. If that is what you want to do then I can give you some help there too.

Found solution on my buddypress site – This drove me crazy .. My clients wanted ‘Profile’ to show first when their link was clicked on. OK, makes sense for this site.
1. Did not work: This method broke my buddydress theme in IE (but not Mozilla) – adding ‘define(‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’,’profile’); ‘ to bp-custom.php and uploading it to /wp-content/plugins. .. useless for me.
2. Worked – adding ‘define(‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’,’profile’);’ to my wp-config.php file (up top, above – ‘// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //’) – UREEKA BABY!!
I’m using buddypress 1.2.7 , buddydress themes and wordpress 3.0.4 – Hope this helps someone..

@tubruk WP/BPversions? Change to bp-default theme, keep BP activated and deactivate all other plugins.

@rjhoward of course you’re free to develop in whatever platform is easier to tweak and mold to what you want. There are other options in the market – free and paid.

Related to create group problem above, when you can’t get default BP behavior working in your install, change to bp-default theme and deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress plus rename bp-custom.php and the mu-plugins folder.
Cheers.

Yes, in the file footer.php you can remove that content and replace it with your own.

@sumale.nin to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress, you need to install and activate BuddyPress Template Pack plugin. Then go to dashboard menu Appearance > BP Compatibility and go through the process.
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Otherwise post at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/

It’s easy.

Install WP 3.0.4 –> Enable Multisite –> Create a new blog called “buddypress”, “community” or the name you want –> Go to that new blog admin –> Plugins –> Install Buddypress

You’ll have now a frontpage blog with yopur purchased theme, and then a “false” blog with the buddypress characteristics.