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@grantg182

I’m not clear about what you have done.

Buddypress is a single plugin and should be in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/

Underneath that should be all the other files and folders ie: /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages/ etc. that were in the zip.

It should be installed and activated as a normal plugin.

Once activated you should have a buddypress section under the wordpress settings section in admin.

From there you activate different components such as bp messaging

@lonepalmus cc @shanebp

There is actually a Trac ticket open for this. Just came across it:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3460

It sounds to me like this is a two site WordPress Multisite setup.Your best starting point is set up one site then read the WordPress Codex on setting up multisite and add the project management site as a subdirectory or sub domain.

You might find this helpful

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.0

you can only have one theme active at a time. also i think personally, buddypress would make a bad alternative for google drive since its really not the same thing at all.

as for putting a menu item to take users to the main forum page that will not be a problem.

it sounds like you may want try using wordpress first and then add buddypress once you are a little more familiar with it before adding buddypress to the mix.

Hey Michael,

That usually happens when someone deletes the item you’re being notified about. There’s a ticket open to have the notification deleted when the item is deleted but it hasn’t been implemented yet.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5308

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-like/

https://github.com/imath/bp-reshare

enjoy!

Maybe BuddyDrive ?

btw i just registered on your website without a problem to test it for you and it is indeed going to my spam folder as i mentioned.

also after logging in i also noticed you have wordpress set up as a multisite installation, is there any reason you have done this? are you planning having a multisite setup?

@matthewhout lol matthew dont worry man we was all noobs at some point :), regarding the emails have you checked the spam folder? sometimes wordpress mails go to the spam folders, best thing to do is configure your mail to go through smpt (i guess you also wont be familiar with this either?)

if you want help i may have a little time spare to help you set it up initially, are you on skype? you can add me if you want.

if not set a free skype account up and post me your username and i will add you, i can help you out a little if you want seeing as your struggling setting up the basics.

lol im confused? what you mean? buddypress in Appearance > Menus?

are you trying to create a custom menu in wordpress? all you have to do is name the menu then on the left handside tick the pages you want to appear in this menu, then under the menu you have created you will see these options.

Menu Settings

Auto add pages
Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu

Theme locations
Primary Menu

Tick primary menu option then save and your menu will appear how you want it

I’m actually about to move over to my 1&1 VPS so will try to report back what I find. I’m pretty sure I’ve used root profiles on it before without problems.

You might have better luck with root profiles when BP adopts WP-style rewrite rules in v2.1. You’ll be able to put any component you like in the root. It was scheduled for 2.0 but there’s lots of work involved. Check out this ticket for the latest updates:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4954

@henrywright nope nothing that would effect it, because i can even install a fresh wordpress and buddypress install then create a new bp-custom.php and add the code and they still wont work, this has been the same way for 12 months and on 2 different linux servers, the first one was on shared hosting with hostgator so should of been no problem with config of server, and ive now just upgraded to a 1&1 vps, and the same thing applies, next month im upgrading to full dedicated for launch and would hope to have root profiles activated for this time, but like i said im hitting a brick wall with this code??

oh and by the way i dont use multisite

@henrywright yo henry, this confuses me because this option never works for me on any of my buddypress installs?

define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );

ive put this in bp-custom plenty of times but it never actually does anything all my links remain the same, yes my bp-custom.php is in my plugins folder and all the other tweaks in there work fine?

so why doesnt this work for me?

doesnt even work when i add it directly to my wp-config.php either btw
this is also the case on fresh installs of wordpress with default themes, never can seem to get users to show as root??

@matthewhout Hmm, buddypress settings are located in the settings submenu in wordpress dashboard, make sure you turn on all the options you need in there, also make sure your pages are setup in there as you want them to, also dont forget to go to settings and permalinks too, and select which permalinks you prefare, hopefully everything should be fine for you then, well if i understand correctly that the issues you where having was due to having a windows server and now you have changed to a linux server? i cant see there being any problems with a fresh install.

If you know WordPress theming the book gets you up to speed with the extra functionality BuddyPress brings to templates.

BuddyPress Theme Development

No. The default them was deprecated. BuddyPress works with any well coded WordPress theme

Take a look at BuddyPress Like

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-like/

It’s close to what you want. You can change the ‘like’ wording to ‘recommend’ easily via the WP dashboard.

First question would be to ask if your on shared hosting vps or private server?
maybee this link will help you if you take a look. i dont know what hosting your with but have a read anyhows.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/godaddy-iis-and-removing-indexphp-in-url

p.s i dont know if there is a solution within that post but it may help you find out a little more.

also just found this post too for you.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-rid-of-indexphp-from-url

Yes this link is a dead giveaway that something is wrong with how your site is creating links:
http://www.hout.us/Hout.US/index.php/about/

The /index.php/ does not normally show up in a WordPress site. No .php or .html extensions are normal. WordPress creates a virtual link structure that you assign to it so everything looks pretty. Something is off.

@matthewhout may be correct that you’re on a windows IIS server. I’ve never used one so I wouldn’t really know.

I suggest you contact your web host and ask a few questions:

1. Do you have a working .htaccess file? You can tell them it should be in the root directory, same directory as wp-config.php.

2. Is the server correctly running apache?

@xxxtristamxxx
Try: https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/
Full disclosure, I am the plugin author.
Good luck!

@matthewhout

I think you may be running on a windows IIS server as your links are of the form http://www.hout.us/Hout.US/index.php/about/ I’m not sure, but I don’t think you are meant to have index.php in a URL –

Also I think that capital letters in a URL are also invalid as maybe also is a dot between slashes ( in this probable context ) – ie the dot in: /Hout.US/

Are you sure you have installed wordpress correctly with mod_rewrite or substitute.

Does the suggestions on https://buddypress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-using-toolbaradminbar/ help?

Unfortunately I can’t be of more help as although I run windows I use an apache server, But others may have a better idea….