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@pcwriter: Thanks Patrick! Glad the screenshots sold the deal for you, I hope to not disappoint you, there’s a bunch of other stuff which hasn’t even been showed yet!

@skolbloggense: I’ll install CoureWare on my local install and see how it looks and behaves.. If it’s coded with the default theme in mind, it should behave pretty well.. If it contains LOTS of custom css and templates, it might mean that I’ll look into on a later date.. Depending on the work involved that might mean a special version of the theme to be released with custom templates, and to keep the code clean for people who are not using CourseWare. I need to study the amount of work involved to see if it can be a free download, or that it comes with a small price (like the MultiSite and s2member version). It is a good suggestion, and since Courseware is an important plugin for a lot of education based communities, it is something that will be right on top of to-do-list

I’ll report back to let you know how it behaves! Thank you for your pre-order

@fahadm150

Recipe for your success:

Wordpress for basic framework https://wordpress.org/download/ (Free)
Buddypress for community https://buddypress.org/download/ (Free)
s2member plugin for membership http://www.primothemes.com/post/product/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/ (Free or Pro versions)
Videopress for awesome video functions http://videopress.com/ ($59.97/year) also available as a plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video/ (videos hosted at wordpress.com)

Hope this helps!

@amanson I think its something in the roadmap for a future release. If you’re talking about activity updates take a look at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-activity-stream-ajax-notifier/ probably the closest you’ll get.

you could do something really similar to what you’re talking about with using P2 Theme. especially if you need it for tomorrow.

I have preordered, and I would love to see it work with BuddyPress Courseware, they also have archivements I think…

@Bowe

Damn! After looking through the screenshots, I want one!
Just sent you my contact info through the pre-order form.
Very, very cool stuff. Thanks!

haha thanks @linusf that’s the biggest compliment I can get. I’m currently working very hard sorting all the little styling issues and setting up the support section+documentation. Then I need to create huge amount of Achievements for people to earn for submitting tricks, and then it’s ready for launch! I have quite a few small tricks, and hopefully others will be submitting their tricks soon.

Thanks for your interest and you can view some screenshots of the BP-Slick admin theme options here: http://bp-tricks.com/buddypress-slick-screenshots/.

I find myself constantly refreshing the site for it to go live. I guess I am a little bit tooo eager for my own good

The whole concept looks absolutely gorgeous, I cannot wait to read more about all the features availiable.

Keep up the good work!

You should be able to edit your sidebar.php in your child theme and change the ‘standard divs’ to your custom divs/css.

Had a look at some of the theme’s im using and really cant give you an example as it wouldn’t make sense. Also try looking in your functions.php as you could also play around with divs/css.

@groan , by “links” I actually mean BuddyPress URL paths such as “http://yoursite/…/groups/”. BuddyPress recognises a few of these (activity, groups, members, forums) and I believe these are directories in BuddyPress themes. Under unix operating systems (I’m installing on Linux) you can create “symbolic links” or “symlinks” which are like shortcuts to other directories. My solution was to “hack” such links into the “mobile_pack_base” and “mobile_pack_blue” themes, linking to the corresponding directories under the BuddyPress Default theme. And it worked. (I was a bit surprised) The lines starting with dollar signs are linux commands. If you don’t have command line access you may be able to create symlinks using ftp or something else, I’m not sure. If you’re on Windows I have no idea what to do.

PS. In retrospect I should have created a new and independent theme derived from “mobile_pack_base” which then included all of the symlinks. Or perhaps WordPress has a better way of doing such links that would work across platforms. I’m pretty new to WordPress.

the content has a border in the CSS if you are using a child theme then you need to add a border:none;

This looks like a classifications listing website? Why not look at classipress? I don’t think buddypress activities would work in this case, even a simple wordpress loop might work better here… frontend editor isn’t available without some workaround and plugins but I think its coming in the next release of wordpress… classipress theme has a frontend editor

@hnla I don’t have much experience with BP on the tech side (i.e. hacking core files…at least I’m able to customize BP template to use with wp theme). For now core features of BP and a bunch of stable plugins are enough to start with. So far I’m only missing a photos plugin but I’ll wait the new release of album+

The fact is that if I’d use jomsocial+joomla again, I’d have to spend more money on components and jomsocial’s 3rd party plugins. Most of WP 3rd party plugins are free ones, compared to joomla’s ones.

@johnwinch42

I’m not really sure what you are asking:

Do you want to allow all blogs to have their own choice of theme, but ensure that they use the same font for the admin bar?

That’s not really possible, because you don’t have any control over the CSS files in the sub site themes – if they define their own CSS settings for the admin bar / standard fonts / etc., they are the ones that will be applied in their site.

If you want that degree of control, you probably need to create a small set of bespoke themes that they can choose from, ensuring you have set the admin bar settings as you want them in each of those themes.

Ah, Bluehost

1. If you are running the multisite version of WordPress, on the super admin’s options there is a setting for default profile. Alternatively, there are lots of plugins that control this sort of setting on. I use a couple of role management plugins on a few sites but I’m not sure what’s best. Hopefully someone can recommend one.

2. If you disable BuddyPress, and register an account on the site (via WordPress), do you receive the email? If you don’t, it is either ending up in your email’s spam or your server is not configured to send emails correctly. However, since you’re on Bluehost, have a look at the bottom of this message first.

3. That site URL setting should match the URL of your site. I’m not sure what you mean by “pointed url”, but you should probably only change it if you have moved the site from one_domain.com to another_domain.com.

4. Depends on definition of “easy”; they are in the theme’s header.php.

Bluehost: We have seen issues with Bluehost previously. I do not know if all the issues still apply, but in general:

1) I suggest that you do not use simplescripts to install (or even WordPress).
2) RE: your email problem. I suggest you search this site for “Bluehost” as we have had lots of discussion around it previously but, from memory, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ might fix the problem (it has to be a valid email account, so you may need to create it first).

Are you running the default BuddyPress theme from BP 1.2.5.2?

I think most of us read the forums as a main listing, one group doesn’t necessarily get more interest than another.

It sounds as though all should be working so it’s hard to think what you should try now.

You are using the default BP theme? If not please do so for the purposes of testing, also disable any plugins you might also be running, except, of course, for BP itself.

You say that the .htaccess file is in place but can you actually confirm that it’s writable by the server when you update/change the permalink structure. Can you check that the DB tables are being created? Does your bb-config.php have the correct DB connection values?

Thanks for using Welcome Pack

You’ve got a lot of plugins loading a lot of javascript. I can’t pinpoint which one is causing trouble because there’s too much for me to look through, so you will need to disable all of your plugins — except BuddyPress — and then test it in IE8. I imagine group avatar cropping would be affected the same way as user profile cropping is.

If disabling everything other than BuddyPress fixes the problem, re-enable the plugins one at a time until it breaks; you’ve then found the conflict and we can then try to figure out how to fix it.

If, however, you disable all plugins other than BuddyPress, and the problem is still there, try also switching back to the BP-Default theme.