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You shouldn’t need to hack the core plugin files in order to do solve the spacing issue. It’s just going to cause heartache when you update the plugin, and have to make the changes all over again. I know you are embarking on a big learning journey with BP, WP, and PHP, but I would suggest it’s time to learn a little CSS now as well. If you use a tool like Mozilla’s Firebug, you can identify the CSS identifier and tweak the CSS in a child theme (https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)

For example, the profile field by default has a padding: 8px; in the template. If you increase that number, you will increase the spacing between the profile fields.

Regarding adding the profile info in your member directory, this tutorial will walk you through how to pull a file from the plugin and add it to your child theme, so you can update the BP plugin more easily. It explains how to place an item on the Profile, but I’m sure the same thing could be pulled off on the Member Directory with a few tweaks.

http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/displaying-certain-profile-fields-on-your-members-profile-page/

In the BuddyPress admin area, you need to assign a WordPress page (created in the Dashboard under Pages/New) with a BP component. This codex page explains in more detail

Configure BuddyPress

The difference is in the scale and the level of complexity.

buddypress + WordPress on a single site is relatively simple to setup
wheras Buddypress+ WordPress Multisite is more complex and requires additional hosting resources

The functionality difference is on a single site install your users will be posting to a single blog whereas on a multisite instaall each user would have their own blog to post to.

If you are just seting up the site then my advice would be keep it simple and go for a single site WordPress+Buddypress setup

I’m a great believer in keeping things simple,and WordPress Multisite creates an additional layer of complexity which you probably do not require in initially.

The problem here is the bp_has_message_threads() function itself. It comes with hardcoded checks to override the $box to sentbox or inbox based on the results of bp_is_current_action().

You could try something this, in lieu of bp_has_message_threads():

function bp_custom_has_message_threads( $args = '' ) {
	global $messages_template;

	$r = wp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'user_id'      => bp_loggedin_user_id(),
		'box'          => 'inbox',
		'per_page'     => 10,
		'max'          => false,
		'type'         => 'all',
		'search_terms' => isset( $_REQUEST['s'] ) ? stripslashes( $_REQUEST['s'] ) : '',
		'page_arg'     => 'mpage', // See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3679
	) );

	if ( bp_is_current_action( 'notices' ) && !bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) ) {
		bp_core_redirect( bp_displayed_user_domain() );
	}

	$messages_template = new BP_Messages_Box_Template( $r['user_id'], $r['box'], $r['per_page'], $r['max'], $r['type'], $r['search_terms'], $r['page_arg'] );

	return apply_filters( 'bp_has_message_threads', $messages_template->has_threads(), $messages_template );
}

this link might help you understand how the two work together:

WordPress Blogs

multisite is just activated by a setting in your wordpress config file it can be done before or after buddypress but if you are starting from scratch id probably do the multisite first, then add any plugins.

Hi @aquapan

Have you thought about using multisite? This may or may not work for you – see the Codex for more info on it:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

In case someone else sees this problem, you can get the same thing (a flood of user accounts with no email and often no role) if you’re using the WP e-Commerce Plugin.

See the discussion here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-users-in-wp_users-after-wpsc-upgrade

Hi @josswinn

Is this ticket related to your problem by any chance?

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4680

I’m 99.87% sure the change-avatar URL (slug) is hard coded. See this ticket for more info:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2086

btw – got THAT little suggestion from this thread which seemed to be exactly what i wanted to do…

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-text-area-into-wp-editor

@dverburg-1 I’m not aware of a setting in BP core. But, there is a plugin which lets you do that.

Theme My Login
https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/

The redirection feature is the bit that does what you need.

I’m not aware of an exact tutorial but to give you an overview of what needs to be done…

You can use wp_get_post_categories() to get a list of categories for a particular post.

For more information on how to use wp_get_post_categories(), see:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_post_categories

add_filter() will let you hook your filter function to bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter

More info on WordPress filters:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Filters

Hi @jf_trumpet,

the plugin you’re speaking about is intented for load your BuddyPress with translations provided by translate.wordpress.org

This means that if you’re site is in swedish, the plugin will automatically upload the swedish BP translation. Or similar if you’re site is in italian.

If you need some multilingual settings you have to use another plugin, like WPML for example.

More about BuddyPress translation and internalization here.

Normally you declare the site language from within the wp-config.php file.
For ex. define (‘WPLANG’, ‘it-IT’);
If you just want to test ONE other language, simply change this define to another language.

Be also aware that you can only define one language in wp-config.

@cuisire_ceo It depends but found the following most useful after googling so much to only come up with garbage past dated scraped/syndicated content.

The most important question is what the Purpose for Your BuddyPress Use/Community. The only way I have wrapped my head around it is to work backwards but with that said…

Heres What I consider some of the Best Round Ups and Buddy Pep to Follow:

Tammie Lister @mercime http://wordpress.tv/?s=tammie have some great talks and also have just googled for any slides from the various presentations. If not able to see video.

Also check out her book that only seems most current: https://buddypress.org/2013/11/buddypress-theme-development-by-tammie-lister/

Boone Gorges @boonebgorges http://wordpress.tv/speakers/boone-gorges/ and most notable this presentation: http://wordpress.tv/2013/12/10/boone-gorges-herding-cats-with-the-buddypress-activity-component/
or anything Boone from Youtube via WordPressNYC great example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPpU3ySo5q0 in understanding of GROUPS.

Of course John James Jacoby jjj @johnjamesjacoby (sorry jjj: he rambles often:) but found this useful in just using a simple profile I believe this is the session maybe others can reference it “WordPress Profiles” http://wordpress.tv/2013/10/04/john-james-jacoby-everything-you-want-to-know-about-bbpress-and-buddypress/

So you probably thinking Wow but you have not answered anything on installing 🙂 Believe me it helps so much to think big picture of your whole community than start working backwards as single page/components to map similarities to constructed it.

This is one of the most useful tutorial of theme I had purchased which the developer went MIA but it was an AHA moment for me. Because Buddypress are Custom Post Types thats Relational Data/Fields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc3Er4S4EeQ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7b9TFw6ZAQ
. I know what you thinking this is not my intent or not relevant. Start watching #2 at 2:16 to think in context of Simalirty.

Finally, The only other best other video tutorial that just a setup instruction. I have found online was BuddyBoss (don’t even own the Theme) http://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PL5kBYJSuuvEj3KqG_lnAa9MxpZumjtTdY

and Mathis on VIMEO. The biggest problem is finding the resources in a central location so I have to track down.

I hope that helps as resources. It really would depend on how you see your community of your people and how its relational in context

I would think you could use the normal import/export wordpress plugin as long you have the buddy press installed. How much do you needing to export to import.

This will allow php in your widgets
https://wordpress.org/plugins/php-code-widget/

To be completely upgrade proof, I would make an mu-plugin out of it.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins

That way it’s always running when BuddyPress is running, and it will never go away unless you explicitly tell it to by deleting or modifying your code.

Look! You’re writing your own plugins today!

Unfortunately, you can’t assume that because your account has a certain role, that you’re able to do certain things, especially once you start installing membership plugins that directly manipulate the way roles and capabilities work.

(Role/cap problems are amongst the worst to troubleshoot in WordPress, IMO. There is no UI to help you, and there is little documentation available to guide you through the complex process of unraveling WordPress’s role based access control. It’s also my experience that most role/membership plugins are quirky, and can oftentimes leave your users and roles in a very crippled and polluted state.)

Do any of these plugins that you’re using place limitations on types of posts that users can see? Is it possible you blocked Topics on accident?

I wrote a bbPress plugin almost a year ago to try and provide a bbPress specific solution to roles and capabilities, and troubleshooting why specific users are blocked from certain things:

https://github.com/johnjamesjacoby/bbp-capabilities

You’ll need to install it on your site manually with your favorite FTP program. After installing the plugin, visit your Users in wp-admin and try editing a user that’s having issues viewing topics. At the very bottom, underneath their Forum Role, will be a large table of bbPress capabilities, the current permission, the source of that permission, and allow you to manipulate it. Anything highlighted in yellow is a deviation from the role (saved to the user instead) and there is a button to reset the user’s capabilities back to match the default role.

Hopefully this all helps track this down.

Do you have any WordPress Role editing plugins installed? Or membership plugins like S2Member?

It’s possible something has altered your role capabilities so that bbPress’s read_topics capability is broken.

Or, it’s possible it’s just a template issue. The query itself happens in bbp_has_replies(), so start your debugging there to see if it’s a template problem, or a dataset problem.