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Of course it’s possible and explained on this Codex page:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes

But before, check your theme support. Maybe there is something related to mobile device ?

@tac28
A child theme is something you create that can inherit styles, functions, layout, etc. from the parent theme you use. You have to be using some sort of theme now so you would make a child theme that inherits from a parent theme and you can make your customizations in the child theme. This way your customizations are not overwritten when you update the parent theme. Please review:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

hi @funkolector,

It’s only a message, not a bug, who depends of the browser you use, your debug tool severity…. and the load order of some js files (from theme or plugins). And TypeError on BP Trac are rare.

It’s anyway very variable, et puis quoi, is your site crashing or is something NOT working AT ALL once you created such a field type ?

I’m asking because i have such js error message over years with my BP sites… and never had any dramatically issues with js. Maybe weird, but only if you check constantly the debug console. 😉

Why do you want to use code to add a widget to a theme ?

Go to dashboard > Apparence > Widget and do your stuff from there.

If your theme has widgetized areas, this is how you have to do. BP is only a plugin, not a “site” or a CMS.

Of course, if you build your own theme from scratch, you have to create such areas first in the theme’s functions.php.

https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets
https://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes

@tsabar,

the widget remain in english because the translation is missing.

The hebrew version on GlotPress, where BP picks the automatic translation in your language is not completly translated (64%).

Download it and finish the translation on your computer. BP comes with a buddypress.pot file which you must use to do this. And use poEdit or a similar software.

Concerning the widget, you have to translate this string in the po file:
<a href=\"%s\" title=\"Register for a new account\">Register</a>

Aside, bp and po files are always in UTF8.
If you save a po file in ANSI, you have to use exclusively ANSI without BOM (.txt format and evtl. change the file extension to your need)

To generate the mo file, you must use a compiler like poEdit.

Also avoid to hack core files and don’t make a translation on the admin side.

I’ll find more details around how to translate in some previous topics, since 2.1 is out.

@el_ganadores

There’s a trac ticket about this….

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5931

It’s probably because you’re using WP New User Approve which may not work with BuddyPress. See author comment and check the recent update changelog. BP problem seems not be solved yet.
Deactivate the plugin and give a try.

Or consider perhaps this plugin.

hi @ahd904,

behind your tech question, two things need some clarification at least.

First:

I just want to hide some of the group creation steps as these might make the users think too complicated to join the community.

Register process doesn’t include group creation, nore joigning a group, so i guess you are thinking about a problem that doesn’t exist at this stage.

If you allow your users to create groups, they have to follow the 3 creation steps, because it is intended so in BuddyPress. Thinking that this might be to complicated, implies that you think that your users are not able to do this. Mabe you’re right, but maybe not. Anyway in this case, simply deactivate group creation for users and create users groups yourself.
Assuming that you don’t think it’s too complicated for the user to click on “join group” ! 🙄

As @bphelp said with reason, what your question implies needs some extra coding and much more as a simple snippet. You can do many things with BuddyPress, but not everithing or anything. 😉

Second:
Core simplification is a hard work (see Trac), so don’t expect that your goal could be reached easily, as BP will never be a “one click” tool. IMO this plugin is already very easy to use as is.

That said, you could imagine your project differently and perhaps apply another strategy.
For example, the ability for users to join automatically a group at registration. 2 plugins can do that actually.

• This one allows a new BuddyPress user to select groups to join during the registration process. You create the group, user choose his group.
• This one create a new Group when a new user sign up. But what will happen when you have 50 registration by day, spammers included ?

In both case, pros and cons have to be considered.

if you love the snippets and sweat on your site, here are two other options.

• Snippet: automatically add new user to a group
• Snippet: allow new user to be auto joined to groups you select from the admin (from core dev @imath). Explanation in french, coded in english – of course ! 🙂 )

To create a member only site, I would highly recommend this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-private-site/

There are some plugins that export data.
google: buddypress export members

For example, for site admins:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/

For front-end, you could extend that plugin or find something else.

hi @flickchicks,

take example from the TOS at the bottom of this page. But you probably have to inquire for something more accurate with the dutch law, depending your project.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/accept-site-terms-and-conditions/
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/81935/add-first-name-last-name-date-of-birth-and-terms-and-conditions-to-reg

it is not intended by default. bbPress use a simplified version of tinyMCE and image upload are not included, for security reasons. Allowing forum users to access the media library of all your site is probably not what you want…

To the above mentionned plugins, there are also BuddyDrive and MediaPress, a new plugin who permit any user to upload media files (photo, audio,video,doc) to his profile page, that way it is very simple for each subscriber to share his stuff, even on the forum, by just giving a link to his media gallery.

@darinn-ballington,

there is only one user table on a WP/BP install, and this table is controlled by WordPress.

Extended profile information (like club & there details) are controlled partially by BP and are stored in the 4 xprofile tables.

To import properly, you have to adjust the old tables structure to the new one first. As you tell nothing about the old db from another site (wp, joomla, postgres, excel,… ?) i can’t say much you more for the moment.

Anyway, you have to built a import file in CSV or Sql format and probably have to accomplish a long handwork to import.

Here’s a ressource to help you build your import query:

BuddyPress Database Diagram

As BP is “only” a plugin and your question not specific to it (DB belongs to WP), you will find much more informations around importing datas on the WordPress Codex.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

@gio91 @shanebp
The name of the plugin would lead one to believe this is a premium plugin but from what I can gather it is free on the WP plugin repo here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/.

@gio91
You may want to contact the plugin author on their support forum here and follow shane’s advice about hooks:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/paid-memberships-pro

1.) For invites try: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/
To keep logged out visitors from accessing BP pages check out: http://bphelpblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/private-bp-pages/
Usernames can’t be changed and if you don’t want users changing their password you would need to custom code it unless you can find a code snippet on the forum or on the net.
2.) You can use filters and you can also try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/
3.) Use bbPress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/
You will have to search the plugins directory, the forums, and google the rest for your requirements unless someone else would like to take over where I left off. Hope this is at least a start. Good luck!

> I suggest you post this question over on the bbpress forum.

Yet you are posting on the buddypress help forum! 🙂

This is a bbPress issue and there is a trac ticket and resolution over on bbp site, likely that will in the next bbp release.

You could apply the fix manually in the interim if you wished the trac ticket is located here:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2690

@sanz112
Short answer is you will need multiple plugins as well as some custom code to achieve your requirements. If you do enough research you may find the plugins and some code you can use to help in your endeavor on and off this forum. If you can’t write code or invest the time in doing the research to fulfill your requirements then you will most likely have to hire a developer by posting here:

BP Jobs Board

as well as here:
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
I wouldn’t make the mistake of posting an unpaid job on the latter link because I personally wouldn’t waste my time without being compensated for my work but maybe you may get lucky.
You also requested:

if u are not logged in u cannot see the platform.

I do offer premium plugins that can help with this aspect and if your interested you can inquire here:
Submit Comments, Tips or Tricks, or Job Inqueries
Good luck!

@sanz112
Just because it hasn’t been updated doesn’t mean its not compatible. This works for me with the latest WP/BP versions.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-default-data/

hi @mineo, this is a question to ask on rtMedia support forum.

This sounds as though you may be using old templates? We removed the old default action of pushing the group create button out into the heading tag in the 2.0.0 release, that change required existing themes to possibly make adjustments if they had perhaps overloaded the bp-functions.php file which had a new set of group create button actions. my memory is hazy on the issue but the trac ticket covering the change is at:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5144

You will need to provide details of your theme as without any detail of your setup it’s difficult to help – as a check try activating one of the WP shipped themes i.e twentyfourteen, does the double entry of the button still happen, if not you know it’s a theme related matter.

@callumoberholzer BuddyPress profiles have been getting more and more robust.

Member search is something BuddyPress is not very good at though. Plugins such as BP Profile Search offer a partial solution. So if you feel search function is too limited, do feel free to contribute code to make BuddyPress better. Any help is always welcome.

I also want to clarify that everything in the 2.2 milestone trac just happens to be there. It’s not accurate yet. Once we set scope for the 2.2 release, we’ll move everything else to 2.3 and beyond.

We should have more or less settled on major features by October 25th (just after WordCamp San Francisco). Keep on eye on bpdevel.wordpress.com; I’ll come back and post here if I remember.