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Looks like I spoke to soon. Peters Login Redirect Plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peters-login-redirect/) takes advantage of the filter added in 2.6.2. You can read an article about the plugin here http://www.theblog.ca/wplogin-redirect. If anyone else has other ideas let me know. For now I’m just going to send all subscribers to edit profile page upon login from the wp-admin section.
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Is there a way to hide the dashboard from the members who have the “subscriber” access level. I found http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hide-dashboard/ which seems to do a good job of making it so they can only access their profile and nothing else which is nice. I’m trying to find a way to not allow them to see that the site is running on WordPress. I’m pretty sure they will only be able to see the WP login if they type example.com/wp-admin into the address bar but not 100% sure on that either. I’ve seen plugins that will let me re-brand the WP Dashboard but I feel it would be simpler just to redirect if they login through the wp-admin link. Maybe there is a hook/filter I can add that checks the user level at login and if it’s subscriber redirect to the profile page of BuddyPress.
I installed buddypress into my main site. I didn’t like the combination and uninstalled with the intention of reinstalling as a sub domain installation. Now my site is looking for http://www.environmentaide.org/activity. Activity no longer exists and the plugin has been removed. I’ve looked everywhere for the pointer to revert to my WordPress default domain.
How do I remove the activity pointer and move on to reinstall buddypress as a separate site?
@justinca
It’s the kind of support forum where politeness goes a long way. The only issue I’m aware of with BuddyPress page links is that some installs running on IIS need some extra stuff added; that’s vague because I’m not an IIS user, I don’t have access to a machine to dev on, and I don’t know about the typical Microsoft hosting environment.
If your install of WordPress can send emails successfully, then BuddyPress can too. We can’t be held responsible for what emails are marked as spam by mail servers.
You have also told us no details about your setup; please see https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/
Justin what is your Website address?
What version of BP and WordPress?
What version of PHP?
Does your host allow you to send PHP mail?
Have you tried with all plugins off?
Does it work with the default BuddyPress Theme?
This all works fine for me with BP 1.2.5.2 and WP 3.0 using…
What kind of support forum is this? If you google about this “buddypress activation email problem” it’s all over the !@#&% place, and no one has an answer? I’ve seen forum after forum post, thread, question, whatever and well over a dozen “fixes”, none of which have worked for me.
This is absurd. Registrars not getting their activation emails and, as a result, not being able to log in, basically renders Buddypress USELESS. I wished I’d known about this before I spent the last three !@#&% days customizing my site.
Here’s an idea… Don’t release this crap without being 110% sure that the most important feature (people being able to become members) works.
And at the very least can you guys answer the question… How can we fix the problem?
The only issues you should have with a WP theme is all the BuddyPress CSS, easy enough to fix but can require lots of edits depending on the theme.
To include the required BuddyPress JS & ajax functions in any WP theme, all you need to do is add something like the following to your themes functions.php file
require_once( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/ajax.php' );
function theme_loaded_init() {
wp_enqueue_script( 'bp-js', BP_PLUGIN_URL . '/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/global.js', array( 'jquery' ) );
}
add_action('wp_head', 'theme_loaded_init', 5);
You would also need to add the BuddyPress template folders to your theme & add either the default buddypress & admin bar css to your css with edits or include the defaults in the above theme_loaded_init function.
also note, some themes that include custom JS can conflict with BuddyPress JS, if the theme is coded properly it should be easy to remove those conflicts on BuddyPress pages.
Hi, I’m really anxious about where to begin building my bp site. I have a wordpress site, it shows videos and basically has a few customized pages. I want to add BP component, and make the front page just like my wordpress-only site, but with some buddypress widgets. However, for the buddypress section I’m OK with using buddpress default style. So, what approach should I go to make this site? Like, should I start with BP template, and just swap in my own index.php for the BP’s index.php, would that make the front page like my old? kinda confused how to approach this, thanks any help would be appreciated. BTW I use thematic.
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Thanks everyone, I was going to say after the first two post that I was going to jump into Child Theming something I’ve wanted to do for a while. The second two post sound more like using the theme pack and making a standard theme may be a better option. Ah, I’m back where I started! I think I’m leaning towards child theme for two reasons 1) it’s something I’ve wanted to learn and 2) It has all the BP ajax, CSS, etc.
Thanks for your input thus far and I encourage you to keep it coming.
With some people leaving replies in comments and others replying in activity/updates, this fragments the community discussion. For me, I prefer have discussion in post since relates to topic. Any coders would like to help?
I only start with a child theme off the default BP theme, *if* the markup of the non bp-areas (blog pages, etc) is close to what I want in the end.
I disagree. Using the BP Template Pack and building as a child theme of BP-Default have their respective advantages and disadvantages.
An advantage of using the Template Pack which I feel you’re overlooking is that it allows theme designers to quickly get the required template/css/js files into their custom theme. This is a lot quicker for a non-BP-expert than figuring out which files are required. The designer then has two options; add, possibly duplicate, your CSS to style the BuddyPress templates to match the rest of the site, or use the Template Pack files as a skeleton, which the designer can then use to rebuild those templates to their own HTML/CSS specifications (perhaps to use a theme framework).
Don’t use template pack. That’s a quick fix to get WP users without theming skills using BP. For the long run you are better using a child theme as a start. Upgrades are easy this way too.
Hi, we always create a child theme derived from the BuddyPress default theme (we are on our 5th commercial BP project at the moment).
We customise heavily, change an awful lot of the CSS, and tear our hair out at the masses of unnecessary divs and classes. But, on the other hand it does give us a huge head start – BuddyPress needs a lot of template files and loops that aren’t in standard WordPress themes.
If you are happy with the default structures and functionality, you can get a long way quickly with this approach. Styling the layouts to your needs.
If you want to add new functionality, seriously enhance the loops, and so on – you are in for a bigger challenge – it’s not as easy as WordPress theming, you quickly end up in hooks, filters and plugins (which you can usually avoid in standard WP theming), and a fairly restricted API (which is due to get better, and better documented). The joys of building on the sands of a still relatively early stage project.
Good luck – I’m sure you’ll create a great site.
Roger
p.s. setting up a child theme is straightforward – a few lines in your style.css. We typically mimic the folder structure of the default theme, copy over just the files we are specialising (most of them!), and work from there. Only strange thing is functions.php – a functions.php in your child theme doesn’t override the one in the parent theme, both are used.
p.p.s. I can’t comment on the theme pack plugin… I haven’t used it
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I have been using and developing for WordPress for the past 3 years. I feel that I’m at a moderate to advanced level of theming for WordPress. I am just now jumping into BuddyPress to use for a hobby site of mine. My question is, is it better to start with writing a WP theme then using the theme pack plugin or start by making a child theme for the default theme. I have no experience with child themes. I have a basic html layout now that I can go either way with.
If this has already been covered I’m sorry I tried searching but the page navigation of search seemed to be broken. Feel free to link me to other resources as well.
Thanks
So, I’m debating whether to merge theme from wordpress=>bp, or otherway around. But, I don’t really understand how the template pack adds to wordpress, because it makes valid URL’s with buddypress extensions, but it doesn’t add pages. So, can I just add random .php files and that will work as a url extension.. or what?
Yes it’s a pretty fair post, but note it’s not a conclusive treatise on the subject. It remains a damned awkward subject in many areas, good that he pointed out the possibility of split license to cover CSS / graphics if I create a graphic it remains mine unless I sign over the copyright on it same with photographers you may hire them to take a picture for you but they will retain copyright on that image for all eternity.
I’d just create a custom page template and create a RSS feed from a filtered, BuddyPress activity loop that only outputs blog posts.
Here’s a guide that will help you create the custom RSS page template:
http://yoast.com/custom-rss-feeds-wordpress/
Here’s the activity loop codex page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/
*Set the action to “new_blog_post”
I liked this follow up post about the GPL from the WP lead developer: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/why-wordpress-themes-are-derivative-of-wordpress/ I learned a lot about the license as well.
@antonrsaopencirclecoza, this plugin doesn’t work with WordPress 3.0 (with network). Does anybody know analogs?
“the function where by if your are member it just displays the group or if you are the admin of the group it displays the group setting and so on”
That’s how it is already set up actually. If I didn’t get what you meant though, you can also use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ or check source code for more info.
edit – too slow mercime
