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i think it is interesting in what buddypress/bbpress is suppose to be about community engagement which seems to be quit the opposite.

I think that’s a little unfair, @mercime and I have gone to great lengths with the codex effort to make things as inclusive as possible with posts, tweets, polls, and requests in general for feedback from the community at large.

It’s worth keeping an eye on BP blog posts & bpdevel.wordpress.com to keep abreast of what’s happening.

One thing – perhaps to what Boone refers – that would help and that has been discussed and is favoured by some is to try and vring the three major aspects of BP under one domain proper so themeing, Documentation, and core dev exist as subdomains of buddypress.org and as such have their own homes for news and updates.

Another brief thought: You say that the Register component is linked at Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress > Pages. But make sure that the linked WordPress page has its status set to Publish.

If you’re talking about the author icon on a *blog* post page, then it probably doesn’t have anything to do with BuddyPress – that’s handled by your WordPress theme. In any case, it’s likely that you’ll have to change it in a template file, or at least use CSS.

What theme are you using?

You should be able to convert your existing WordPress site to Multisite. Here’s the page from the WP codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Pretty gutted by this decision to not support bp-default as it seems to support bbpress and for my site personally, like the emphasis on forums, members activity stream.

https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/buddypress
Looking through the handful of buddypress/bbpress focused theme, there doesnt seem to be one thats quite barebones-functional like the Bp-default. Blog-post on the left-center and members/log-in widgets on the right.

Does buddypress have any plans to release a new “bp-default”?

thanks

hi all

@mdpane The BP-Default theme is critical to my site. I am running wordpress and bbpress along with buddypress 1.9

A couple questions:

1- Does this mean if I update to buddypress 1.9.1, my bp-default theme will disappear?

2- Regarding the solution you posted, of adding the code, what exactly does that do? Does it activate the BP-Default theme should you install BP 1.9 or latter?

3- Will/Is my current installed BP-Default theme in risk of not working in the future?

Thanks

There are not enough contributors to BuddyPress to do something as extensive as the make.wordpress

Here is the current options to get involved https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/

@multiplegnat

You can actually map multiple domains to one wordpress mu site with https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ … not sure if that helps…

“parent theme?” Can you try wordpress twentytwelve or bp default?

@gparrott

Not really, apart from making sure all plugins are up to date.

If I am worried about a particular plugin and/or it hasn’t been upgraded for a long time, I will check on it’s wordpress.org ‘support’ section as well as the plugin or developer’s website…

I also run a local version of a website to test things out on first.

Also backup files and database…

@bonaish try using Theme Check to test your chosen theme against the latest WP good practice:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-check/

Then if you see lots of red flags then you can report them to the theme author. They’ll probably appreciate it as they can iron out any bugs they don’t already know about.

plugin at https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/ OR https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-as-homepage-fork/

There’s a plugin that redirect user to their profile activity when logged.
link here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/

If you have a properly coded WordPress theme you do not need to copy the BuddyPress folder unless you want to customize a template.

Wangguard worked for me for a while but spammers started slipping through the cracks. A great plugin (which you can use in conjunction with wanngguard) is recaptcha:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha/

It works with BP 1.9 and WP 3.8 (confirmed, using it, loving it)

Hi BuddyPress,

I am in the same boat as ProfC also – search functionality for BBPress forums is no longer functioning since I installed buddypress 1.9 with WordPress 3.8 – the URL does not change to http://domainname/search/blahblah when I hit submit.

Kind regards,
Henry

Hi BuddyPress support,

I am having exactly the same problem. My website is http://plantswap.com.au – buddypress 1.9 with WordPress 3.8 install.

All Private Messages sent twice.

I am not using any other chat or PM plugins.

Cheers,
Henry