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@larouchj this looks more to be a WordPress issue and how you’re going to adapt your theme’s layout to what you want to do above. Do also post this at the WordPress forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates

You use a language file. Use this plugin to easily edit the language. You can use your same language to just change the text.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/

@tbermudas The blog posts comment area is in the purview of WordPress by default. There’s a plugin for adding images in blog post comments https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-images/

I have it set in gen admin options to allow for registration and all pages necessary for BP with their corresponding links which you can see on the top of my site???

@ghyatt I don’t see any links to the BuddyPress pages at the top of your site using Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Looking at source code however, I see that it’s there and covered via stylesheet of “This is a demo store for testing purposes — no orders shall be fulfilled.” purple band at the top of your site.

1) Not the issue, but recommend fixing -> Some of your BP pages have -2 in the URL like /register-2, /members-2, /activate-2, and /groups-2 which means that you probably moved the original register, members, activate, and groups page to Trash bin but did not delete the pages permanently. So when you created a new Register page for example, -2 was appended to the page slug.

2) Re layout of your BuddyPress pages – looks like your theme has a custom-coded page which does not follow the regular WordPress templating system. That’s why the BP theme compatibility is off, including the missing submit button. Change to Twenty Twelve theme and you’ll see the Submit button in the Register page. You’d need to create a buddypress.php file https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

I’m new to buddypress but believed a login and register link would be placed in the header by default?

Not by default. It depends on the the design by theme author.

However, instead do I need to insert my own links or buttons within the header.php to make this work?

Yes. You would need to create those. See lines 8 through 59 of https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.7/bp-themes/bp-default/sidebar.php for code. Then adjust style to taste.

Thanks. Is there a link where I can still download 1.6.5?

@curt-ri as hnla mentioned above, you should be on BP 1.7 now. But if you still want BP 1.6.5 click on this link, download to your computer and unzip the file. Upload /buddypress/ folder within

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-disappears-1?replies=3

Think this has been covered in this trac ticket:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4869

this is probably what you are looking for not 100% sure myself if it’s totally compatible with 1.7 but i would assume so:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddydrive/ ?

You need to stop them now, as best you can and delete all members you have in there. A new BP site I have has had over 29,000 spam stopped in the last month. Do not forget WordPress is under a bot attack at the moment.

Firstly, Switch off that any one can register on your site.

Clean out all the spam members. Delete them.
Install Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin from WordPress.Org (Saved my life)
Install Limit Login Attempts
Install capachi plugin and set it up for it to be on when people are registering.
Change your admin name, if it is admin.

Switch back on that people can register on your site.

These posts might help you as the same thing happened to me.
Here

Second Post

@jjl_2099

You should never edit the core bp files!

Have you checked that, if necessary, all your plugins are updated to be compatible with bp 1.7

According to buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-1-7-is-now-available-2/page/2/#post-161513 a similar error message was caused by an un-updated plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-followers/ ?

Adding link to ticket for convenience:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4937

Also the temp fix is probably better placed in bp-custom.php rather than functions.php so it is applicable to BP generically rather than by theme activated.

BuddyPress 1.7 does work with most themes providing they have standard wordpress template structures. There really is no way I see for BP to be compatible with every template scheme out there. There is plenty of free themes on wordpress.org that work fine with BP.

Depends on if it requires a little wordpress and bp customization but you can try here:

BP Jobs Board

Just remember BP is a wordpress plugin and it requires wordpress to work. Good luck!

http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Be specific in what your requirements are. List your budget, and as much info you can.

Have you tried:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddyplug/

Here goes another plugin that does exactly what you want.

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

@sarathbabu_k You can find the answer for your question here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-with-wp-document-revisions-plugin?replies=5

@cabstar
Have you tried this:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/commons-in-a-box/
It may be perfect for what you are doing and hopefully will be updated for BP 1.7 soon!
Find out more about it on the link to the site on the plugins download page.