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Tried in
yourdomain.com/your wordpress installation directory/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/styles.css – still not showing.

Also tired
yourdomain.com/your wordpress installation directory/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/default.css

line 1658 .standard-form input[type=text] { press enter and add
to new Line 1659 color: #000 important

Still no registration button?

Any help much appreciated

You will find the default.css in the following directory – just use your domain name and wordpress installation directory.
yourdomain.com/your wordpress installation directory/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/default.css

Rename defaul.css to original_default.css hust in case something goes wrong so that you can revert!

I downloaded it to my pc and then with notepad++ and saved it locally as default.css

about 1/3 down line 508 change the colour code to what you want for displayed links and line 512 change the hover colour to what you want.

Save the file and upload it to where you downloaded it from!

I had a real problem seeing the light blue and changed it to dark blue and the hover link to red. Now I can see it fine!!!

@limitx3m

Yup, spamming your own users is not good.

How are you importing to your database ?

It may not be feasible for your situation, but one way to handle this is to import in two passes.

In the first, import everything except email addresses.
Use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/allow-multiple-accounts/
and give everyone the same email addy – an email addy that functions and that you control.

In the second pass, swap that addy with the members real email address.

This is also useful on dev sites, that use real member data, when testing anything that can generates emails.

@bergblume Please also post at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-activity-plus as to why those buttons are not showing up under the status update box

As for getting those to show in the front page, assuming the button visibility issue is resolved, you could try making the Activity page as front page of your site via Settings > Reading

@ozgurpolat Thank you for your feedback. I understand where you’re coming from. But comparing Perlmonks and BuddyPress forums is like comparing Apples and Oranges.

Perlmonks, which supports a Programming Language, has been there for around 20 years while BuddyPress Forums, which supports one WordPress plugin, is going on 4+ years. Not that that’s any excuse, but you can see that the awesome folks at Perlmonks have a 15-year headstart and more people power than BuddyPress forum volunteers 🙂

As for some questions not being answered in our forums, I will use the link posted by Perlmonk’s sages http://perl.plover.com/Questions.html

@rondena have you checked out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-login-redirect/ ?

@brashell61 as posted in WP Forums, You’d have to make the group private. Then you would need a custom plugin created for joining a group via password.

BP ver 1.7 does away with group forums

Funny that, I’ve just set up group forums on a 1.7 beta test site, think maybe what you meant to say is that BP as of 1.7 does not bundle the older bbpress that was packaged along with BP core. From 1.7 on you need to install the standalone bbPress plugin if you want forums period, but having done so bbPress will allow you to create group forums if you wish and also to import existing group forums if on an older install being upgraded.

WordPress is the #1 CMS in the world because of the low technical point of entry. It’s intuitive, easy to use, easy to install, well documented, and quite easy to hack. It’s usage has eclipsed both Joomla and Drupal because they are not. I think many people think BuddyPress will be as easy to install and use as WordPress itself, and it’s just not (yet).

#1 cms is an opinion and regardless WP is a blogging platform trying to move processes into a more CMS like app but it’s not there yet.

No it’s utterly intuitive (in fact that’s not really a great description)  when you get deep into certain aspects, yes it’s quite well documented but is still lacking detail in some areas, and just cos there’s a page on something doesn’t mean it’s all good info. Joomla has never been worth passing comment on, comparisons between Drupal and WP erroneous they are two different platforms, Drupal is a CMS built to be as such and Druapl is not and never was designed for non coders it’s a developers platform.

Despite all that and reservations about various parts of the WP API it’s still essentially a nice platform to develop on and it’s primary feature/role as a blog blows all competition out of the water.

Buddypress will likely be a whole lot easier to use for non coders with 1.7 now but still they will imagine the earth and want to have it but realise it’s not that simple and BP does require coding skills if you want to progress beyond simple out of the box installs into whatever theme you’re running.

As for documentation get in there and help write some please – it’s an aspect few want to get involved with, not enough glory I suppose?

It’s all there for you to study, nothing for us to help with really and not really BP related 🙂

But frankly unless your frontend skills are strong you might struggle to copy the styles used and relationship to backend markup transposed to the markup used for front end WP menus.

You’ll need a tool such as Firebug to let you examine the rulesets related to the dashboard menu items.

@Chouf1 for someone who is upset I’m complaining – all you really did is complain that I was complaining. I didn’t give any details, because mine were the same as the OP’s. In addition, I was talking about a base install – and the groups/forums issue is the same no matter what the theme.

I have since found a few tidbits of information that were helpful.

1. BP ver 1.7 does away with group forums
2. BP ver 1.7 is in beta 2 and almost ready for release
3. moving forward forums should be integrated using bbpress (which you have to install separately)
4. you only get the “create” a group button from the master root /user-groups BP URL
5. profile BP links like /members/username/groups are different than the master root pages
6. to manage a group after creation before BP 1.7 you have to actually visit the groups page in question (/user-groups/groupname) and the click “admin” to make changes – there is no master groups editing page
7. in BP 1.7 there is actually a new “groups” section in the wp-admin sidebar where you can (for the first time) have group management capabilities on the backend (edit / delete)

I stick by the fact that there is very little documentation on how to use BuddyPress after first install. I have been using WordPress since 2004 and have created and hacked hundreds of plugins and themes. I have written thousands of blog posts and articles / tutorials on WordPress. From that background, having installed BuddyPress I can quite easily say that it’s not intuitive to use, it’s difficult to figure out the integration points, and many things that should be easy are just plain hard.

WordPress is the #1 CMS in the world because of the low technical point of entry. It’s intuitive, easy to use, easy to install, well documented, and quite easy to hack. It’s usage has eclipsed both Joomla and Drupal because they are not. I think many people think BuddyPress will be as easy to install and use as WordPress itself, and it’s just not (yet).

I’m definitely figuring out where everything is, and how to get going after first install. I didn’t find much here in these forums or the Codex in that overall regard. Even external blog tutorials are a little sparse on the subject – most information you find is just severely dated.

Am I willing to contribute to the documentation? Certainly. I’m in the process of writing up my findings now – but I was looking for answers first…and all I was finding were others with similar unanswered questions.

Grab it an do what? You haven’t explained what you wanna do after it is fetched.
You can try:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/

One of the issues with using the straight built-in WordPress role management to manage users is that the usermeta is cached in a way that doesn’t scale well.

If this site has millions I imagine that it handles well, are there caching plugins that should be used to optimize BP for large amounts of users?

Hi @bphelp,

first I want to thank you for your plugin :).

I have one problem with it and I think it belongs to my theme and my not existing php-skills :). Perhaps you can help me? I was searching for a solution the last two days, but without success. So I will try my luck here.

I tried to activate the plugin over wordpress and in a second step I copied the needed code to my child themes functions.php, but I always get the following error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at …/wp-content/themes/theme/design.php:2) in …/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876

I found some solutions for such errors, but nothing works for me.

Many thanks in advance

Greetings

Hi Brendino,

I think it’s a bug in the function xprofile_format_profile_field as it’s working great when seeing the birthday in the profile of the user. I’ve just posted this ticket on the dev trac.

While waiting for core developers review / patch, i suggest you to use this little hack to achieve what you’re trying to do. Adapt your snippet this way :

if ( bp_has_members() ) :
    while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member();

        echo bp_member_name();
        echo ': ';
        /* this functions is detailed after */
        xprofile_birthday_patch();
        echo '<br />';

    endwhile;
endif;

Now in the functions.php of your active theme, paste the content of the xprofile_birthday_patch() function :

function xprofile_birthday_patch() {
	$birthday = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Birthday', bp_get_member_user_id() );
	
	if ( is_numeric( $birthday ) )
		$birthday = bp_format_time( $birthday, true, false );
	
	else
		$birthday = bp_format_time( strtotime( $birthday ), true, false );
	
	echo $birthday;
}

@aaronshin said:

Are you saying WordPress Admin Bar Imporved is not compatible with my WordPress version?

YES ! It’s not really me, it’s writtent black on white on the plugin page, in the header image. Check the link above !

So far i understand your picture, the buttons are part of the installed login plugin. Logicaly you have to search in it’s code to remove them.

@danny80 WordPress/BuddyPress versions? What theme are you using – BP Default or some other theme?

@lradden
1. backup database and server files.

2. Change to Twenty Eleven theme and deactivate BuddyPress.

3. Now re-activate BuddyPress. You should see the Installation Wizard https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/buddypress-1-5-installation-wizard/ Follow instructions and select the BP Default theme in panel which shows up during this process.

4. Continue on to Configuring Components codex.buddypress.org/legacy/configuring-components-v1-5/

5. Check your BP pages in the front end.

6. If all is working as expected, then backup DB again.

7. Upgrade to latest WordPress and BuddyPress versions.

 
Forget my previous answer. As stated on https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-admin-bar-improved/

A set of custom tweaks to the WordPress Admin Bar that was introduced in WP 3.1. Since version 3.3.5 of this plugin, it is only compatible with WP 3.3