here is the feedback directly received from PollDaddy.com / Automattic:
BuddyPress should be able to use the Polldaddy WordPress plugin ( https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polldaddy/ ) but its not officially supported.
Ok, I just figured out I can disable the blog nav tabs by simply turning them off in the Admin Dashboard, Buddypress, Component Setup screen. Wondering if this will affect the functionality of the plugin BuddyPress Group Wiki from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-wiki/ . The author seems away. I have diabled the blog tracking and it seems to work, but worried that it might be affecting something I am unfamiliar with.
Biblefox.com: a site that uses my just released Biblefox for WordPress plugin to detect Bible references in BP activities. It has a Bible Directory, that is just like the Activity Directory, except that it displays a Bible passage and filters activities by that Bible reference, creating a simple social network Bible commentary!
@MADinMelbourne
Go to settings – permalinks and then choose one from common settings
You can also use own custom type
More info here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Hi, I’m new to wordpress… LOVE the sound of buddypress and am stuck with permalink settings – what do I set them to to be able to activate buddypress? Thanks, Dale.
At the most straightforward level of theming you shouldn’t really need to get too involved at a PHP level, creating a child theme will simply allow you to start overwritting or adding your own CSS styles via the style.css sheet in your new theme directory while still using the default themes files and styles – but you perhaps realise that 
You will probably need to check that plugin doesn’t have any known issues reported (there should be a group plugin page for it?)
See you have found and joined that group. I’m afraid I don’t know the current state of play with that plugin, but it may well need updating by the author before it’s fully compatible with all current WP/BP?
From an earlier comment : this line worries me:
for example I have Register Globals off via .htaccess on another site I have on that host.
Register Globals should never be on really – it was and is a very insecure and dangerous thing and PHP changed it’s default status in php.ini years ago. I hope your host doesn’t have that set ‘On’ as default for all their client sites
OK they fixed it. They had to disable php safe mode to get it working
Yep safe mode was the issue (essentially it’s what controls open_base )
File and directory permissions do need to be set correctly and safely. Generally directories need to be 755 and files 644, and I think if you need to be able to edit theme files from the backend/dashboard then those theme files need to be 666. Always avoid 777 as that is world writable and dangerous.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
However permissions are only one half of the story, you can have them all set correctly and still not be able to create directories such as /group-avatars/. What is essential is that ownership permissions are correct and for these directories to be writable or for files to be able to be moved to their correct location you must have the correct groups set such as ‘apache’ for the parent wp-content directory.
Thank u hnla! Now I’m just struggling with the group blogs on my site.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/problem-w-creating-groups-avatar-step-does-not-work-cant-complete/
Thanks for that link. I’m going to have to do a lot of studying and hard work since I don’t code PHP. I really appreciate all your help!
Glad it’s solved, I was planning to create an account this morning to have a look but sounds like things are now ok.
Best place to start – if you haven’t already – is the ‘Creating a child theme’ page
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
Re: ETA on BP 1.3 – Jeff has a good estimate for when BP 1.3 is coming out. There’s still quite a bit of work to be done.
Re: Theme changes in BP 1.3 – Nothing is changing for themes (as of yet).
The only main change (that I know of so far) in BP 1.3 is how BuddyPress pages are now integrated into regular WordPress pages.
I have actually done a fresh install of WP to enable the network and so far it seems to work. I have to test it out to see if every user gets their own blog. Not really sure how it all works with BP.
When I did the fresh install the forums worked. It must have been some sort of error on my part or a conflict as I had done a lot of messing about to get a nicer theme. This time I used a fresh install of WP, activated Network and then used BP default theme. I will have to spend some time learning BP themeing to get a nicer looking theme for my site. That will take some time I am sure.
Thanks for all your help!
Duplicate email address is checked during registration but not during member account change.
Anyone else seeing same problem?
Register member #1 with email test@example.com
Register member #2 with email test@example.com (duplicate email not allowed)
Register member #2 with email test2@example.com then go to My Account – General – Settings to change to test@example.com (allowed)
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@el_terko just added a version to work with WP3 and with BP 1.2.5.2 page templates.
http://bp-theme-converts.com/buddypress-with-malleable/
Also, just tried to disable all plugins to see if there was a conflict, but even with all plugins (except BP) deactivated, I can not make a forum post.
hnla:
From what I can see on the backend, it’s set up.
See screenshot: http://i28.tinypic.com/2nsnij4.jpg
It says: “bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install
NOTE: The forums directory will only work if your bbPress tables are in the same database as your WordPress tables. If you are not using an existing bbPress install you can ignore this message.”
Any ideas? It’s really a weird thing!
Nope. Although, it’s often good to consult the WordPress codex as well since all of those functions can be used also.
I’ve also learned to love this piece of code to output what’s being stored in various vars (just replace $bp with the var you want to see):
echo ”
";
var_dump($bp);
echo "
“;
die;
(the echo should be the pre html code since this won’t display code right)
Otherwise, I look at plugins that do similar things to what I want to do to find new code or ask in the forums and sometimes people will answer with the code.
Don’t they have support forums or contact form there where you could ask theme devs or community members who are using the theme whether any have made it work with BuddyPress or if the theme required some tweaks to make it work? I remember the time when users of Hybrid theme framework made it work with BuddyPress via communication in BP and Hybrid theme forums.
same with me here. I do clean install of WordPress 3.0. Activated Buddypress in the plugins. Updated permalinks to use with simple urls. Apply some tricks that can be seen at http://ikailo.com/94/url-modrewrite-workaround-iis-60/ to url since I’m in windows server. Don’t have mod_rewrite. Tried signup, but it just redirects to the same page. site is boholtech.com
I don’t expect to get an answer to this – but I will ask anyway!
I have a WordPress 3.0. + BuddyPress 1.2.5, and sometimes the entire page loops. It takes perhaps a minute to load, and instead of the usual 30-70 SQL queries, there can be up to 1500+ queries. Plus, if I am stepping through the code, I see that WordPress can be called multiple times, because I have a break set on the first line of WordPress index.php, which is define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
Unfortunately, it doesn’t do it each time in the same place, sometimes the page loads slowly first time, then quickly a second time, other times it loads correctly, with only one call to index.php
I am a bit stuck as to where to look in the code to see what is happening, because it is so random.
Any thoughts, anyone?
Did you just make the necessary manual adjustments in addition to the automatic upgrade stuff. Read these 2 guides, but especially the 1st. Did you do all of those things (including editing the .htaccess file)?
http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/upgrading-from-wpmu-to-wp-3-0/
http://wpmu.org/important-things-you-should-know-before-upgrading-to-wordpress-3-0/
Tá fáilte romhat. (you are welcome)
Thanks in Irish: Go raibh maith agat….
Thank you, thank you, thank you (do not know how to thank in irish)
Will start following U on twitter.
@el_terko sorry only spotted this reply now.
Yes, I’ll be updating the Malleable theme in the next few days, will post when done.
activity feed it’s broken
before it shows ” testuser commented on the blog post my first post “
now it simply do not even show up in activity feed
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