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Is the BuddyPress theme required for BuddyPress to work on an existing WordPress install… or can we pick and choose pieces from the official BP theme and incorporate as needed? I’m assuming the latter, but wanted to be sure before I start to hack away.

bp-custom.php loads up before any BuddyPress components do, and functions.php loads after all plugins and WordPress core code does.

So it isn’t a matter of “if,” it’s a matter of “why.”

Basically…

Use bp-custom.php to override core BuddyPress settings like slugs or constant values, or to load specific code BEFORE BuddyPress loads for whatever reason you might need to.

Use functions.php if you need to add actions or filters to BuddyPress things. It’s good practice to make sure that actions and filters exist before attaching code to them. If you add a filter to a function that doesn’t exist yet, or you add it before/after the code is loaded/executed, then you’re ahead/behind the action/filter curve, so to speak.

Different files for different purposes.

I could see why that wouldnt work, as buddypress is build on wpmu and every blog you make is basicly a seperate wordpress install. So for example the users that were automatically subscribers on your wpmu blog aren’t automatically subscribers on all the blogs on your wpmu install.

WordPress itself has problems with relocating it’s position, a lot of changes need to be made and since buddypress is build on wordpress, buddypress has these problems now as well.

I don’t really get why your placing buddypress in a sub blog, you can easily change the buddypress theme to your liking if that’s the problem.

Just need to add the core wordpress function to list the pages into the buddypress theme and it should show your newly added pages to the main menu.

Thanks Simon for Sharing !

Are you referring to the following BP Events plugin?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-events/

I’d like to use the features in the widgets, specifically site wide activity in 1.1.3, but want more control over the layout than the widget system provides – see this obnoxious codex page that says you must use unordered lists or else…

Where/how can I find the code that widgets add to the pages? I’d like to just add that code to my template pages, perhaps via template tags.

Apologies if this is thread hijacking, but I suspect finding the original code would also solve thecorkboard’s problem and clear up confusion over versions.

@ Jivany

You’ve covered this on trac: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1536

So this is a question of privacy settings for the blog.

I hope this isn’t considered hijacking, but do you, DJPaul or anyone know how to make _old_ posts that were counted as private (as per above) appear in the stream?

I can make new posts appear in the stream now but all the old blog posts (https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2) are still hidden. Some value in the db?

@Marc: Requirements is a pretty vague term itself eh? A requirement could be as specific as “must support IE6” (which would have an impact on price) or as general as “must position us as an industry leader”. So requirements can be about business, creative, marketing, functional, technical or other goals.

The biggest things that would affect price however would be any functional components that BuddyPress doesn’t include out of the box (like Wiki, Document Library, Video Sharing, etc.). Although much of that can be done with plugins… said plugins may still require custom theming and/or some work on integration.

Complexity of design could mean things like Flash. If Flash work is required, that would cost more. If you require a logo or other branding, that could cost more. But I was more thinking of the complexity of the design in general.

For instance, this design of mine took almost a month of design, development, research and testing (it works in IE6 believe or not and is designed to have graceful text-resizing… as all my work is. XYZ is a fake name of course):

http://davidlewis.ca/solutions/

While this very simple “design” (a freebee for a volunteer organization) took only 2 hours from zero to WordPress theme (p.s. I’m not responsible for any of the horrible content like the logo sidebar… for instance):

http://www.hrsar.ca/e2cdev/

That’s an extreme example… but you get the idea.

You can make pages in the regular WordPress part. And maybe this is helpful.

Consider the cost for wordpress themes, as buddypress themes are wordpress themes. There are thousands of wordpress theme players around the world. Quick search on Google should give you some quotes.

You may need to add bit more ($100 – $500) to the quote you get for thanking designers to work for wordpress themes for buddypress.

Sure, there’s a couple ways to do it.

If you want to turn off linking in specific profile fields (so that nothing in “About Me” gets linked, but locations in “Location” or “Hometown” do), you can use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/. Near the beginning of that plugin, there’s a spot for you to list fields that should NOT be linkable.

If you want to be more specific and look for certain words in a field, here’s how. Copy the original xprofile_filter_link_profile_data function from bp-xprofile-filters.php, paste it into functions.php or wherever you put the remove_filter code, rename it something unique (like henry_xprofile_filter_link_profile_data), then afterwards add the line

add_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'henry_xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 2, 2 );

At this point you’ll have to customize the filter to look for certain words. Use something like this (untested, but something like it should work):

if ( strpos( $field_value, 'Boston' ) ) {

$field_value = str_replace( 'Boston', '<a href="' . site_url( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) . '/?s=Boston">', $field_value);

}

In other words, if ‘Boston’ is found in the field, replace the plaintext ‘Boston’ with a link to a search on the word ‘Boston’.

https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers