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Other than “fix your theme”? Clearly something isn’t coded correctly. BP works in themes that have been vetted through the wordpress.org standards. If you stray from that path, you are bound to run into poorly coded themes that cause these kinds of headaches.

Can you reach out to the theme developer?

@aravere

Try upgrading to bp 1.9+ it has had some attention in the user name area: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5185 and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622

Cool. Good luck with it. Breaking up your questions also means that someone doesn’t look quickly at this thread and assume everything is solved. Hope it works out.

BTW: Found this that might help the other issue. Haven’t tested it but Brajesh is a brilliant dude so I assume it will probably work. Just follow along on the comment thread below the snippet: it’s hard to tell if he updated the code, or just suggested how to do so.

Prevent spaces in WordPress/BuddyPress Usernames

BP has @mentions built in, but I find adding this plugin https://github.com/paulgibbs/BP-Labs and enabling the @mention auto-complete makes figuring out usernames a whole lot easier. @modemlooper has a plugin called BuddyMobile available at http://taptappress.com that you should look at to make your site mobile friendly.

I couldn’t get this plugin to work for me (it’s not supported anymore, but if you have the chops, or can hire someone…) but it harvests activity from fb and posts it to your community. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bebop/

I think you are probably looking for something like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-multi-network/ which in tandem with the wp multi networks plugin list in the write-up, would allow you to create sub-networks across your school.

Alternatively, you could use the groups to separate this activity. Create three top level groups for primary, intermediate/senior, adults, and then create sub-groups underneath. You would need the Group Hierarchy plugin to pull this off.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/

Plan B is the easier path.

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