@johnwinch42 – I think it is a terminology problem:
Each page in a WordPress / BuddyPress site can have it’s own template, so for example a template for posts (single.php), for categories (archive.php), etc.. You can even specialise it further, so that different types of posts have different templates and so on.
BuddyPress extends WordPress in the same way, adding new template files for groups, activity, members, profiles, etc.
A theme is a collection of template files, CSS, and javascripts, that are used together to give your site its design, look and feel.
A BuddyPress site typically has one theme that contains the template files for both the main blog and the social network parts. Although it’s one theme, you can style each part uniquely (e.g. the main blog and social network can look different), because you have different templates within that theme for each part of the site.
Take a look at the BuddyPress default theme (it’s in plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default), and you will see all the separate template files, including sub-folders with the templates for activity, members, etc.
Your secondary blogs can have any WordPress theme you want: you simply install more themes, and assign them on a blog by blog basis to the other blogs.
This message “If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file”
This page is not very user friendly for such a critical step in new installations for many new users. It is not clear how to allow .htaccess permision.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
Can someone give me a simple paste this text: where? type screenshot. This link is not helpful https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
It seems like using the default setting https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions is actually NOT an option:
“For core WordPress files, all should be writable only by your user account. However, if you utilize mod_rewrite Permalinks or other .htaccess features you should make sure that WordPress can also write to your /.htaccess file. “
I saved my permalink settings from the default to month and name. But that does not seem to be enough.
Can anyone help? This seems like it would be a common problem.
Installed buddypress to my wordpress successfully
http://hanyangowl.org/blog/
But all the links are dead and can’t even get into the admin page.
Not Found
The requested URL /blog/groups/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at hanyangowl.org Port 80
Have done nothing unusual with the install. I am a new user. Can anyone suggest where the problem might be.
Would it be wise to install in the following order?
1. Install WordPress 3.0.1
2. Make all the necessary revisions to the .htaccess and wp-config.php files to convert it into a network of blogs
3. Install Buddypress 1.2.5.2
4. Install Rockettheme Affinity 1.2 for BP
5. Install WP and BP plugins
6. Create groups, members, forums, etc.
I am beginning to wonder because my Rockettheme Affinity child theme for BP was working well with the latest BP and WP, until I decided to convert the site to a multi-site blogs project.
Any advice appreciated,
Eric
Did you go to Appearance – BP Compatibility and then go through all steps to final page?
Try http://buddydev.com/buddypress/creating-the-sitewide-globalunified-search-page-for-your-buddypress-theme/
I got it to work. Just download the zip file towards the end of the post and follow the instructions.
@Thorsten that also worked for me…
When using buddypress how do you change it so when you click on “my account”, or any link for that matter, it calls out http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/groups/ Mine is still defaulting to http://www.yourdomain.com/groups/ even though I changed the permlink settings in my wordpress dashboard
hey yea thanks I tried that… I have it installed but when I try and click on My account or anything really on the main page is just goes to an “Not found “Page. I looked over all my stuff time after time making sure I wasnt missing a step or messing up my perma linking…. cant seem to get it!
@kunalb thanks for the plugin. Looking good. Congratulations.
Some feedback on test install BP 1.2.5.2 and WP 3.0.1 subdomain (upgraded from WPMU 2.9.2)
A. In main site where BP is installed blog_id_1 – front end addition of events
– Deactivate “Maintenance Mode” plugin because if activated, featured image uploaded in front end only shows up in body and does not upload as avatar of the event.
– when I edit event created while MaintMode was active in order to replace random avatar which showed up in previous event creation, there’s no more “featured image” link in media library panel to set new image as avatar
– pop-up calendar for start date and end date – the right and left arrows beside August do not work, does not show previous or next months. I can type over the date per calendar and publishing it renders correct date.
– Map working well. Input of Mt. Whitney, California shows correct location in map
– Request allowing Site/Super Admin to delete event in front end.
B. In subblog blog_id_3 of same test installation
– add event from backend – Dashboard > Events > Add New
– In Write Event panel, all working except the pop-up calendar arrows like in main site
– Published the Event and “View Event” link goes to blog_id_1 home page but the event is not visible in home page nor in “Events” link added in main navigation
– “featured image” for avatar and/or body show up in Write Panel
– double-checked blog_id_3 Events list in backend and the event is listed there
Gave feedback last night at http://gsoc2010.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/eventpress/ but either it got deleted or went into spam.
Thanks @kunalb and @johnjamesjacoby
I found this fix and it appears to be working for me:
1. Open the index.php, save it to your theme as posts-page.php (or whatever template name you like).
2. Edit the newly created posts-page.php file and place the following at the top to create a page template:
`<?php
/*
Template Name: Posts Page
*/
?> `
3. Now scroll down in the posts-page.php to the beginning of the WordPress loop and just before the line “ add this one line of code “ Note: (5 == the number of post to show you can change this to whatever you want.)
4. Save the posts-page.php file.
5. In your WordPress/BuddyPress admin panel create a new page called “Blog” (or something similar) and select “Posts Page” under Template.
6. Publish page.
You should now be able to go to your Settings -> Reading menu and set a static page and select your Posts Page to show your blog posts.
Thank you Roger, what would be nice is if BP used WordPress’ setting for Gravatar rating. It uses it for the default image…
Thanks for quick respond 
. I try to call this function, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Nothing is inserted into the bp_messages tables in wordpress db. BTW, how to open my inbox? I can’t find it even here on buddypress.org, and on the site I am working on it’s also invisible. Should I install some new plugin or what?
Cheers,
Maciej
@nit3watch – Awesome, it worked, in the sidebar.php in the bp-default I copied the code from line 3 to line 74.. and pasted it into a sidebar widget utilizing the “Executable PHP widget” wordpress plugin, and it works like a charm!
@hnla, yes you are correct… I am using a custom built theme and needed to incorporate buddypress so users can login/register via the front end and manage their profile via the frontend…. it is the only features I am using from buddypress because no other plugin I could find had similar functionality. It gets the job done though, and I like it .
I followed the steps in the template-pack plugin to get it working with my theme, it was pretty smooth and straightforward and I haven’t experienced the overlapping issues stated in the notices. so all is good.
I knew there would be some customizations needed that have to be done manually, I just couldn’t find it in the documentation or via forum searches. I had no idea about the bp-default folder, but now that I do.. I am sure i will be able to solve some of my other problems
cheers!
remove_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’ ,
;
remove_action( ‘admin_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’ ,;
worked for me! thanks..it’s because the remove_action command requires the same priority as the original add_action that was used.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_action
I have a community of poets and so most of their posts are poetry, as you could imagine.
The written poem
goes by lines
of a certain length,
and breaks often.
Again, back to the activity stream, it presents posts (poems) in a horrible unreadable fashion – a paragraph of the one single line where everything is smashed together (excerpts).
I wish there was an option in settings to choose between a whole post or an excerpts on the activity page, as it is given in the wordpress reading settings:
“For each article in a feed, show
o Full text
o Summary”
If anybody can tell me what and where to change in codes to fix it, I would really appreciate.
http://svetkidoma.net/activity (it is all in Russian, sorry, but you will get a picture)
Roger Coathup said:
“I don’t have a problem with paragraph breaks in the activity stream. My blog posts are being shown correctly with the breaks. I’m using a default installation of BP1.2.5.2
Paragraphs can be removed by a filter in WordPress / BuddyPress. Have you made any changes to your functions.php or bp-custom.php to turn off the ‘autop’ filter? i.e. do you have any code like this in those files:
add_action(“init”,”remove_autop_filters_from_activity”);
function remove_autop_filters_from_activity(){
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content_body’, ‘wpautop’ );
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content’, ‘wpautop’ );
}
Perhaps there is something in the blog template you are using that is doing this?”
After installation my control panel turns to blank so I can’t access the wordpress panel. I tried to upload the plugin and then activate it through the admin panel and installing/activating it by finding the plugin in the admin panel. I’m not sure what goes wrong.
@crashutah thanks you very much for your answer.
http://www.themainblog.com (the main blog with Theme 1 and the buddypress navigation bar in the header)
nameofablog.themainblog.com (the user’s blog url with Worpdress multi-bloggin with the wordpress theme of their choice)
http://www.themainblog.com/members/ (Theme 2, a theme made for buddypress like the one on testbp.net which will be used with the buddypress functions)
Or is it possible to have ?
http://www.themainblog.com (the main blog with Theme 1 and the buddypress navigation bar in the header)
nameofablog.themainblog.com (the user’s blog url with Worpdress multi-bloggin with the wordpress theme of their choice)
budypress.themainblog.com/members/ (Theme 2, a theme made for buddypress like the one on testbp.net which will be used with the buddypress functions)
Thanks you very much for helping me.
Best regards,
@svetka812
Hi Tatiana – it would be better to ask this as 2 separate questions in the forums (one about images, and one about text). Also make the title a bit clearer, as that will get more people to help you (“activity stream 1.2.5.2” is too general).
To get more help and quicker: I suggest you create two question threads, something like: “how do I stop small images from blog post excerpts getting enlarged in the activity stream updates?” and “Why are my blog post updates missing paragraph breaks when shown in the activity stream?”
My quick thoughts:
images
The problem with image sizes is because a core function in BuddyPress is forcing activity images, that don’t have their height or width set explicitly, to be 100px high. The function causing the problem is bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images().
I’ll raise this as problem in the forums or maybe bug trac.
update text
I don’t have a problem with paragraph breaks in the activity stream. My blog posts are being shown correctly with the breaks. I’m using a default installation of BP1.2.5.2
Paragraphs can be removed by a filter in WordPress / BuddyPress. Have you made any changes to your functions.php or bp-custom.php to turn off the ‘autop’ filter? i.e. do you have any code like this in those files:
add_action(“init”,”remove_autop_filters_from_activity”);
function remove_autop_filters_from_activity(){
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content_body’, ‘wpautop’ );
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content’, ‘wpautop’ );
}
Perhaps there is something in the blog template you are using that is doing this?
Ask this one about paragraph breaks as a separate question in the forum (and include my comment).
Cheers, Roger
I have wordpress 3.0.1, and only a handful of otehr plugins (none of which should be an issue. I install the plugin, and activeate it, then get :
WordPress database error: [Table ‘xdatabase.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT value FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE field_id = 1 AND user_id = 1
WordPress database error: [Table ‘xdatabase.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE id = 1
WordPress database error: [Table ‘xdatabase.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE id = 1
WordPress database error: [Table ‘xdatabase.wp_bp_groups_members’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT m.group_id) FROM wp_bp_groups_members m, wp_bp_groups g WHERE m.group_id = g.id AND m.user_id = 1 AND m.is_confirmed = 1 AND m.is_banned = 0
WordPress database error: [Table ‘xdatabase.wp_bp_messages_recipients’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT unread_count FROM wp_bp_messages_recipients WHERE user_id = 1 AND is_deleted = 0 AND sender_only = 0
WordPress database error: [Table ‘xdatabase.wp_bp_xprofile_groups’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_groups WHERE id = 1
WordPress database error: [Table ‘xdatabase.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE id = 1
WTF? I knwo for certain that the sql databse was clean of BP stuff before i ran the install, there should be nothing to clash.
Any ideaS?
BTW, it says it activated successfully and i can use it ok, which is a little worrying 
Hi — I’ve got an initial version of eventpress ready.
Download links:
http://kunal-b.in/0.1/eventpress.tar.gz
http://kunal-b.in/0.1/bp_custom_posts.tar.gz
Installation:
http://gsoc2010.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/eventpress/
There are a few known bugs that I’ll be taking care of soon.
Any luck? The only way I can find to allow users to log in is via the wordpress backend.. what is this website using as the login widget?
@christinarule nice site. After installing and activating BuddyPress, you coudl install and activate Buddy Template Pack https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/ There are steps to go through with the Template Pack plugin and based on your theme, you would have to change the container divs of files within Template Pack. It’s not easy but it’s do-able.
There is a BuddyPress demo at http://testbp.org/
I think best option is to create your own sidebar function and use an if user is logged in statement.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
SIDEBAR CODE HERE
} else {
SOMETHING ELSE HERE
};
