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disclaimer, I am not a bp dev, just a long time user, and my knowledge is far from complete.

1 -each Profile / Member offered a separate gallery or media library?
This was a problem from the very beginning, and perhaps the biggest problem for bp aside from lousy filter options for the activity stream. Initially it was handled by the ‘bp-album’ plugin – which was later abandoned amidst some drama – rtmedia is kind of the standard for handling this now – but it’s bloated, important functions have gotten expensive, and it’s not well supported in core or themes – it’s terrible at keeping things separated like comments on media and galleries –
There is a new bp media like experimental thing that looks promising, and some attempts at making placeholders for bp media have been made in the past year, new hooks for bp attachment, etc. Some code has appeared on github showing a great start at possible core bp media handling – but not enough devs on that.

if you must have media with bp I suggest getting the premium “press permit core” and ask for support in limiting what other users can see in the media library. God forbid you have a problem with users trolling other users – and you have media – as you can purchase the buddyblock plugin which will prevent most abuse user to user, but it does not hook into the separate commenting system that rt-media creates. I strongly encourage you to try the other media plugin and hope that works for what you need before getting stuck with rtmedia and no way to export it’s data to something else.

2 a cap on how many Mb’s a user is allowed to upload for the total amount of media space
Wordpress has a setting for this when using multi-site setup – but I think it affects only what gets posted to the user blogs aka sites. I think rtmedia has an optional purchase-able plugin for this if you use their system to allow for the media uploads – not sure if the other competing system has such functionality.

This is a problem, and a solution should include a way for admins to look at users who have uploaded media, not just by user and space taken up, but also by date. There should be more control for deleting content with various parameters as well. I pity you if you find one day a user has uploaded 100s of photos that violate… terms.. and you have to delete each one at a time. If you find a way to handle this better with rtmedia I’d love for you to share it.

Currently I have tons of photos and videos that users have uploaded and no good way to look at or remove, aside from going profile to profile and manually checking what shows up there. A better way may exist, I have not found it yet.

3 – Why do all members have to be Authors in order to be able to Post because this was the only method that worked for me.
When you say post, that sounds like posting a post to a blog – either their own multi-site blog, or perhaps to a group blog. This is how worpdress is and is great for controlling things with blogs. If you mean a user needs to be an author in order to add to thier “activity stream” aka wall or profile or whatever, I do not think they need to be a blog author in order to do so… “What’s new” activity posts work fine without being a blog author.

4 – BuddyPress and BB Press how should I set up my .htaccess file – this should be documented somewhere around here. Wish I could tell you, I don’t have any bb press running with any buddypress installs any longer.

If you don’t want robots to crawl your site, search for forums for making buddypress private – you’ll want to lock down your site with a password required to view anything – if you really want to block bots.. if it’s just the nicer bots you are referring to, like googlebot, yahoo and bigbots – then you can setup a robots.txt with something like

robots *
disallow /
allow index.php

but I don’t think having the main engines index your index.php is really helpful with most WP themes.. you’d probably be better with “allow /about-us/” for example.. as most wp sites I’ve worked with dont have a good ol’ index.html

your experiences may vary..

With BP you eaither have lots of time to code, or you take everything as is for the most part. Auttomatic has not funded bp well since the first dev Andy left – it’s basically abandoned like unwanted bastard child that gets (almost) no support – and has been for years. Instead depending mainly on volunteer contributors that obviously have to do other things like earn a living and pay bills.

Some great people do amazing things making bp better – I appreciate those that are making the documentation better and fighting the good fight of dealing with all the wp core changes and how they affect bp when it updates – and other work to make it better. However what is seemingly most important to many webmasters and end users may not be on the roadmap for future releases – and finding developers to mod up BP is not as easy as one may hope either.

custom fixes today may well be broken with future updates, and no one has thought about the laws in Europe for privacy and users being able to export data you have them.. all kinds of things..

consider bp a huge mix of free code that is very experimental, and in my humble opinion should be removed from the wp plugin repo if automattic is not going to fund it properly – it certainly should not be on the first page view of plugins – anyone installing it likely has no idea what can of worms they are getting into.

If you are thinking of the future and how you may need to moderate user’s uploads and such, I strongly encourage you to test out the mediapress alternative – but realize in order to get core functionality with bp right now you will have to add on a walled garden from one place or another.. without any import / export options – before you invest too much of your time and your user’s pictures and videos into silos you may never escape, you right as well look into and test out peepso (https://www.peepso.com )- as they seem to have more skin in the game and have made at least some import / export things if I remember correctly.

again, I am not a bp dev. also I have not used mediapress yet – although I would with a fresh install – rtmedia has not met my expectations, although not a total fail, it is only 60% of what it should be. I have not used peepso yet either. Just a guy that’s been running a few bp installs for a few years, and my knowledge is fuzzy at best. surely @ma.tt, others thoughts, and your mileage may vary.

You can open a bug ticket here.
Be sure to include a link to this topic.

Have you tried this plugin?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/

Have you tried this plugin?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-simple-private/

Have a read of this article, it’ll help you make up your mind as to whether multisite is the best approach for you:

Don’t Use WordPress MultiSite

Hi @froshdimeji,

the registration process is part of WordPress. Check on the codex or on the wp forum, but i doubt that a phone number can be used instead of an email. Perhaps it can be added to the mandatory username, password and email fields. But sorry, i have never heard about such.

Note that BP allows you to add fields to the register page, but these fields will never be part of the registration itself. So even if you add an xprofile phone type field, it won’t be considered (as first) as mandatory for registration.

No problem also hosting on GH. I’m actually doing that myself. My approach is GH for dev, wordpress.org for distribution. See here https://github.com/lsquo/octothorpe

Cool theme! Will you be submitting to wordpress.org?

BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin so will need a copy of WordPress to run. Does that help?

Try this plugin from @johnjamesjacoby:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-edit-group-slug/

Did you try this?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/appointment-scheduling-and-booking-manager/

What you need is not a simple plugin.
You may need a commercial solution or to hire a developer to write custom code.

If you consider all your users to have the same ability to publish, you can simply setup WP’s default role from subscriber to author. You don’t need a plugin to do that. To allow categories, search on WP codex, as this has nothing to do with the fact you use BuddyPress.

For customizing the Howdy menu item, use this custom snipet or take one of the existing plugin to do that.

BuddyPress’s toolbar menu works like any other toolbar sub-menu item.

See WP codex for details

Read here for some usage examples explained in details:

How to hide / remove the General tab under Settings

OK, so fresh over-install (copying overtop of running site) of 4.7 and as soon as I turn on buddypress, I loose the admin completely. Take it out of the folder via ftp, then I get admin back. Thoughts.
New godaddy hosting account
Wordpress 4.7
current BuddyPress.

1. Yes

2. You mean WP posts ? Yes, if you give them permissions.

3. They can ‘friend’ each other. There is a plugin re ‘Follow’.

4. Probably – but you’ll need to customize the Follow plugin.

You should install BP on a test site and start trying different settings and additional plugins.
After you have done that, you can ask more specific questions here.

Hello BP Team,

I’m the Founder of MyKenz. We created a website based on your plugin to connect the schools and clubs of the world and teach soft skills to the youth.
This project is very ambitious but thankfully, we have the support and help of very important international partners. The aim is to help kids and teens around the world to learn what they love but cannot find in school.

One day before launching the website to the public, we had a issue/bug on the “Post Update” feature. It works for Facebook registered users and also for manually created users (via WordPress admin dashboard), but it doesn’t work for new users who created their account through “Registration” process.
By ‘not working’ I mean that when a user tries to post an update on the Activity Feed, he sees a message : “There was a problem posting your update. Please try again”.

Our freelance Dev contacted you to help him but your advices were not enough to solve our issue.
The website is now blocked for 2 weeks and we really are in a big mess.

We really need your help to debug this urgently and apparently we cannot do it without you.

Can you please get inside the site and try to find a solution ? We contacted the devs of the template (Woffice from Alkaweb) and they couldn’t do it… They advised us to get in touch with you.

I beg you to help us as soon as possible.

Best regards and wishes for 2017

There is nothing wrong with using a plugin. Check WordPress .org for a plugin. If you insist and do not want to use a plugin you can check through the code to find out how they accomplished it

BuddyPress display members, but those members are referenced in WordPress. No idea to share about what you want to do, but have you searched on the plugin repo ?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=Amazon+Services

@baramagnus,

official requirements for WP (hosters) are given here. Minimum php version for WP is 5.2.4, while most used php version is 5.6
More WP stats here.

BuddyPress users use all 5.3 and above (as of preliminary 2016 survey results).
This means that if you use 5.6, you’re anyway fine.
And about WP and BP compatibility, you can read here.