members/single/home.php is the file you need to edit to see the changes take effect on the activity page. bp-template-pack is a great plugin.
The Wire feature was deprecated with BuddyPress version 1.2. If you’d like to use the Wire, try installing the BuddyPress Backward Compatibility plugin and activating the wire feature: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/
The functionality of the wire – namely, the ability to leave short messages for other users – has mainly been replaced by the @-mention feature.
If you want users to have their own individual blogs, you’ll have to activate WP Network mode. If you want them to be able to post on your main BuddyPress blog, they’ll have to be at least Contributors. If you just want them to be able to post messages for others to see, then perhaps the status update feature will be enough.
@elizawhat; Your post made me think, and I checked our (not yet) live site, which does require email confirmation. Mostly I’m thrashing around at home with a local xammp installation, and can’t remember what I did to make the live one require email conf. The plugin linked to below should do it, although it’s not activated in our site..! Something in WP or BP lets you require email confirmation, but I can’t remember what.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-xtra-signup/
Would mm forms work?
Buddypress profile fields are not standard WordPress though. They’re in complicated database tables called xprofile, so if you want to integrate it with anything else fuggedaboutit. You’ll need custom coding.
@joyceborneo – Read these instructions and follow them as your life depended on it!
http://developersmind.com/2010/06/17/upgrading-wordpress-mu-2-9-2-to-wordpress-3-0/
For the other people in this thread, the above might help, but might not depending on your use case.
could someone create a plugin for wordpress on lines of Google Docs Forms, a general and simpler forms plugin using buddypress’ profile fields component, GPL would be great, clear and clean coding should be done
On Install of WordPress, I attempted to delete the home page comment that is there by default. This produced some type of FTP error. (I didnt save a copy)
On install of buddypress (very clean user friendly interface, I might add, Bravo! Espescially after trying DNN… but I digress) I initially see 2 problems.
1) The home page says, “Not Found Sorry but you are looking for something that isnt here”
2) When I attempt to edit my profile, I get a Page not found error.
3) Do we have email authentication of new users available?
4) Can anyone recommend any other plugins I should using to make this is a clean & professional “true” social networking site?
Thanks!
If your theme isn’t 100% complete, then it won’t get accepted into the repository. It isn’t due to lack of responsibility, but quite the opposite. Themes in the WordPress.org repository are available to more than 10 million blogs all around the world. If 1% of those blogs try to download and install a broken theme, that’s 100,000 people that are frustrated instantly.
When the bp-default theme has broken bits and pieces in it, look what happens in these forums! 
The best way to put your theme out there and get feedback on it, is to post it up on your own website, and use it. Setup a test installation and let people see what it can do, and have them use that website to give you that feedback. You can even setup your own group on this site too if you’d like.
Save uploading your theme to the WordPress repository as the icing on the cake; your reward for a job well done and a theme well created. Your audience, and your spare time, will thank you for it. 
@hnla That is correct. The 1.2 branch of code is what we’re working with. Anything up until 1.3 will exist in that branch of code. SVN can be confusing, but it works really well for large project development with multiple developers and various states of progress; projects like WordPress and BuddyPress would be a nightmare without it.
@lincme Awesome; look forward to your response 
I actually wrote this for the “Is bp dying a slow death?” thread, but I could not send it, the thread was closed before.
I have build my first child theme for buddypress and tried to check it into the WordPress repository one month ago.
But I did not get any feedback.
After writing to ‘themes at wordpress’ I asked if I did something wrong. I want to learn, so someone should tell me what I need to change. They let me know that my theme is in the Buddypress query and it will be checked soon.
Now it’s already 3 weeks ago and I never got any answer. Could it be that nobody from the Buddypress site feels responsible to accept new themes. I don’t say that my theme is build 100%, but without feedback I won’t improve.
Maybe someone could check the theme?
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/simple-wp-community-theme/
If you’re just looking for an easy-to-integrate forum for WordPress, try Simple:Press.
If you want to integrate a standalone forum into WordPress, try out bbPress.
To find out if BuddyPress is for you, try out BuddyPress over on the test installation site – http://testbp.org.
Although BuddyPress does have some forum functionality, it is not a dedicated forum script!
Hope that helps somewhat.
This is the most annoying bug feedback I ever read :
” I have them running on root also on at least three installations with no issues.
If there are other plugins that deal with permalinks that are flushing the rewrite rules (post types, taxonomies, pagination, etc) then they may be conflicting with a recent change in WP core.
Punting to 1.3 since this doesn’t appear to be a BP issue, but probably warrants a closer look later.
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I say so, cause I have the problem with a fresh install of wordpress and buddypress without any plugins, so, skipping some bug for later to solve can be understood, but don’t give reasons that make no sense at all.
Thanks for effort anyway.
I am a new blogger, technology savvy, but not a programmer. I’m using WordPress to develop a new site and want to include a Forum. I dont have a server or any of the programs that are listed in requirements. Is BuddyPress the right direction for me, or is there another avenue I should explore.
Thank you!
Teicia
I would like to use BuddyPress as the main blog on a WordPress 3.0 installation using multisite.
I will use sub-blogs for individual schools. They will have teachers, parents, and student accounts.
Will they be able to sign on the main blog with their sub-blog user credentials? The reason I ask is because I noticed that when BuddyPress is activated the registration process changes.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks for the fix ray using that file worked like a charm! I have my Wire back 
Hi Guys,
It’s been a while since I’ve been working with buddypress and I’m now doing a new install using WordPress 3.0 and the latest version of buddypress. The install went smoothly except that the link to the Forums page is not working and giving me a 404 page not found. I tried searching for it with no luck. The link to the site is http://dfwsoccer.com/
Thanks for any help and suggestions.
@mercime thanks. I just downloaded and checked Brajesh’s plugin, I want to know which filter need to be used like Brajesh Singh has used filter “Login_redirect” to hook into login process of wordpress. ????
Just to add to the troubleshooting, I have changed themes to an out of the box unmodified buddypress theme (not the default but another) and I am still getting the issue. When logged into the admin the images all there come up fine so I don’t think it is related to WordPress, but rather something related to buddypress css or something else in buddypress.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. You can check out the site at http://sharepointindex.com.
Thanks,
David
Hi peeps. I’m having a similar problem, but not sure if its exactly the same thing, my activity page is not the first page, nor do I want it. I’m using a custom theme designed in Artisteer, and the activity is not showing up. If I use the default buddypress theme, then the activity shows up.
Any ideas?
http://spaceoflove.co.za
Thanks
It’s weird. My site is wordpress 3.0, buddypress 1.2.4 and I wpmu enabled it. So I had a super admin menu which is now gone. I can’t upload or search for plugins any more. All I can do is activate and deactivate them. The site is still definitely running with wpmu though because buddypress is not listed in the plugins. It’s a network pluging but I can’t see and have no access to my network plugins.
Dear Sirs:
After adding www before our website URL on our WP3 Multisite installation as indicated on the article ”Changing The Site URL” (http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL), using the method ”Changing the URL directly in the database”.
We installed BP 1.2.4.1, finding out that BP Admin Bar were not functioning correctly. When we click on anything in the menu bar under My account, the click takes me to the front page of my site. If click menu bar under My Blog > Blogname > Dashbord we get logout the site.
So we return to change back on the DB our website URL without www in front, and this fix the issue.
Could anybody help us maintain the use of the www and BP ?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Dear Sirs:
We have a few wordpress installations running on WPMU 2.9.2, WP 2.9.2 and WP 3, the WPMU 2.9.2 using Buddypress 1.2.4.1. All with they own DB.
We want to integrate all three installations, in order that user registered in on of them can login with the same user and password to all other.
Is this possible ? Is there a bridge like Joomla-WP and others ?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Regards,
@azreeceli – based on your post, you want to allow your user to post and want to customize the admin dashboard so the user won’t even know that their posting in the back-end by theming the back-end to look like the front-end of the site. That’s is do-able but a lot of work which = paid work.
There’s a way to allow your users to post from the front-end,install Jet QuickPress plugin.https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jet-quickpress/