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There will be plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory that can do both of these things. Theme My Login won’t do exactly what you need but it’s a great plugin I’d recommend if you need to to bring the login page into your theme.

Are activity updates a wordpress custom posts types?

No. Activity items aren’t custom posts; instead, they live in the bp_activity table. See here for a diagram.

Hi @mhawksey

Can you open a new bug report for this on Trac referencing #5733?

This isn’t possible out-of-the-box but there may be a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory that adds Disqus functionality.

Adding items to the BuddyPress activity stream is very easy. Check out the bp_activity_add() article for more info.

@azaleamollis
Because its not as a straightforward process as it should be these are the the steps I took to remove my plugins from the WP repo.
1.) Send the request to plugins@wordpress.org to remove the plugin using the same email you used when submitting the plugin make sure you state your reason why, be it personal or lack of time to support the plugin etc..
2.) Log into the SVN and delete all of the relevant php in the files between the opening and closing php tags.
3.) As long as you don’t update the readme.txt then current users will continue to be able to use your plugin unless the code is somehow depreciated. If that happens then they will have to figure it out on their own or find another solution. If you don’t want even your current users using your plugin then update the readme.txt as a higher version number with the empty php files which will basically render the plugin completely useless when it is updated.
Dirty trick but it gets the job done! Good luck!

That’s a pure wp question !
See https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

Hi @david-ar,

consider first https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

then read here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

and finally some snippet, http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/82239/make-display-name-unique

As alternative, it exist a wp plugin called Credible Names

@kjgbriggs – setting up a child theme is just a way to essentially make a new theme – using another “parent” as your template. When you activate, it’s just ONE theme that it handling everything for your wp/bp site.

You do no provide enough details about your theme names, and what you like about the main one and the one that ‘looks better with buddyprees’ – however, if you just like the layout of the bp components with he second theme more, then yes I believe you could make a child theme from your primary theme, and then go into your secondary theme and start to pull some of the layout code for the bp specific components and add those to your main theme.

If it’s overall colors and such you are trying to mix, like have a red header for your main site and a blue header for your bp pages – that is not going to be so easy..

it’s easy to learn about child themes here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

and a little more digging to learn about bp specif pages and components here:

BuddyPress Theme Development

for minor changes you can keep things simple by activating your second theme that you like with the bp looking better, go to the bp pages where you like the layout, right click on the element that looks good and click inspect elements – this will give you the css rules that are working the way you like.. things like alignment properties, bold, colors perhaps – copy those – put them into your new child theme styles and such..

of course some things can be more tricky if your second theme has fancy functions.php, java and all that included.

I think it’s tools -> Export to export your posts and pages.

make a full backup is fairly easy – and you could easily recreate what you currently have with a zip file and an export of your database.

just get to your phpmyadmin, export (click add drop table under advanced) –
via file manager compress / zip your whole site.
(you might want to make a separate zip file of your wp-content folder to easily re-add your pics and plugins and themes and such with new install) – and download that – to upload later

real instructions here https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

then you could delete all the files in your your folder – reinstall wp (if you use a new db, then your old one will still be there if you decide to revert)

I would do a folder for your /sys and a separate install in /rust or whatever, and put a custom html index.ht page in your root that says welcome click here for my rust group, click here for my game group.. or something like that.. but that’s me and my limited knowledge of what you are going for.

pretty easy to import your posts and pages into a new wp.. if you plan to re-use pics and stuff, upload your wp-content folder and unzip – sometimes this is best done before you import posts and pages with the wp tool – sometimes you click “download and import attachments” – sometimes not. sometimes you have delete all the pages and posts and them re-import them and select the other option (don’t download import pics) or whatever.. I can’t remember which works and which fails – but it’s all fairly quick and painless regardless – and good practice for fixing a major problem in the futre.

note sure if these work or not – never used them:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-invites/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-community/

Let me know if you try them and they fail or work!

@mattfl850 – this info will help with that journey:
bottom of the page: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installation-in-wordpress-multisite/

I am sure this is possible, it’s not the way I would do it… might also want to consider some of the info here: http://halfelf.org/2011/dont-use-wordpress-multisite/ (updated may 2015 😉

Others may agree or disagree, and you may be keeping your server tuned like a well oiled machine – hidden from the SE spiders and brute force attackers and all that.

Of course I am not an expert, or a bp dev or anything – just another user who has tried a few different setups and spent many hours trying to do what it “possible” and should be “simple” – and pulled my hair out trying to make things like that work well :))

Not sure if anything is changed in recent updates, but I will mention that when I did this kind of conversion; I had to install the role scoper plugin (now called press permit) – in order to hide people’s private pics they uploaded – as they were visible in the media gallery for other bp users on my sites who had signed up for a “blog” (not called “site” in multi-site) – that was a painful thing to find out the hard way – maybe things have changed with that and other issues – not sure.

Have fun with that and let me know how it works out for ya!