BuddyPress.org

This thread is quite interesting to me, and I do appreciate everyone’s thoughtful posts.

I may sound silly asking some of these questions so I would like to beg your forgiveness in advance,

1) Is WPMU still a base requirement for BuddyPress?
2) When a membership site is using BuddyPress, WordPress or WPMU (if required), 1ShoppingCart, and Wishlist Member, is the login seamless?

I guess further questions are relatd to the answers to these. Thanks in advance for your responses!

hi try this plugin for redirecting to profile page after login
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/
It should work with single wp too, if it does not, please let me know, I will update the plugin.

For clicking on home link, please create a child theme, copy the header.php from bp-default to your child theme and modify it.
Change the line which says Home in the navigation, It’s anchor url to bp_loggedin_user_domain() from site_url().

Hope that helps.

It took me a while to think about this.

I mostly like it, but the ‘faded’ quality of the colors is weirding me out.

• Text in the forums is a little … small. Compare it to wordpress.org and notice how their text is a little darker and larger. That is much easier to read for the majority of people, I’d think.
• The blue for links should be darker
• The grey for alternate posts is a great background color. Don’t change.
• The TEXT in the post-reply form is too light.
• The text in the Post Reply button is similarly too light.

The other thought I have is hard to quantify, but I’m going to say it anyway. Something about the GROUPS makes it feel like a hobby site, rather than a serious ‘business’ site (yeah, I said it). I’m not sure if it’s the rounded corners missing, or the general paleness of the site, but something feels off. Casual.

Yeah, that were crap feedback. Sorry.

(Oh and the fact that HTML isn’t working? Like I put LI and UL in this post and it’s borked? Is frustrating.)

I did it with just a template. Copy and paste the members, groups, forums, and activity loops into a new template file. Add the parameter ‘search_terms=’ . esc_html( $_GET ) to each of the loops and then create a new WordPress page called search and assign the template file to it. Then just pass ?f=searchterms to the URL and bob’s your uncle.

@techguy The philosophy for wide-spread adoption is to not create any additional tables, and use meta whenever possible. This way you can rely on the internal functions of WordPress and BuddyPress to get and set that data, and you don’t have an upset site admin that needs to figure out where to put that table, how to cache it, how to serve it across multiple servers, etc…

I also think it depends on the scope that you need to achieve. The Groups API works really well for just about anything that you would want to plug into the groups component, but at the same time there can also be a need for totally 100% custom jobs where even the built in functionality doesn’t work for your application, in which case a totally custom theme might be in order.

All in all, I usually start with a custom plugin, that relies on the Groups API and group meta, and only use wp_sitemeta/wp_options if it’s a blanket default setting for all groups that can be changed by the site administrator.

Either .htaccess or if that is uncomfortable, you can use some code and checkout for referrer at any of the wordpress actions like “wp” or “init” or anything else. Check for the original referrer and then redirect if the origin is not your site.

If you don’t mind dabbling with BP code… sitewide search could be implemented like this (I say “could” because I haven’t tried it yet).

First a form needs to be created with an input field. Then, you’d need to create a new page (in BuddyPress or a page in WordPress with a page template) and add a bunch of BP loops that checks for the same input field variable.

@michael

Try Modemlooper’s widgetized theme as a child theme of bp-default. It might be just what you’re looking for.

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme

HI again and thanx for supporting,
I really dont see where u say i can find the ” groups” in my admin panel of wordpress site.
See picture, where should i go exactly to find this though i cant find anything in the logical place for me to look, as in “Buddypress>>Forums setup”

see picture:
http://yfrog.com/jqwpproblj

Please advice.

hi @r-a-y is_site_admin() and is_admin() are very different. is_admin() checks whether you are inside wordpress admin or not.
@scotm
How about making the activity of admin user private
`add_filter(“bp_activity_hide_sitewide_before_save”,”make_admin_activity_private”,10,2);
function make_admin_activity_private($hide_sitewide,$activity){
//get the current activity
if(current_user_can(‘manage_options’))//user is admin
return 1;
else
return $hide_sitewide;

}
`
Hopefully the code goes through this forum.

@Anthony why don’t you check if “allow new registrations” is enabled at “options” under “site admin” in your wordpress backend ? Read the same question today and provided the same answer, let’s hope it is the same problem !

I am really a big fan of buddypress.

Looks solid, would love to check it out.

Hi Tosh,
What’s the easiest way for my users to view their points? I can’t seem to find a link on my profile page or the buddypress admin bar? Or is the only way to view your points is to go to the WordPress admin pages?