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@discdemo please don’t bump if less than a day as we’re all volunteers here living in different time zones. That said, I’ve checked out the site and the sidebar width is 224px less 40px padding = 184px space for the image. The ad you have there is 203px wide, hence the image was cut off.

About the available themes: if you upgrade to BP 1.7 beta 1 download at https://buddypress.org/2013/02/buddypress-1-7-beta-1/ you can use any WordPress theme which does not override core templating system and you’re good to go. Caveat is that only a few BP plugins have been upgraded for BP 1.7 beta 1 compatibility.

You will have to create a custom menu.
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/
Then check the box beside register then add to menu. Save and refresh your front end to see the new menu with the register page.

@mareksgregs

I am using this plugin for my test wp blog, it works great.

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

Hi @jcangler,

you have to activate BP only once, on the main site.

The main site is the WP declared as network. In the network admin you install BP as plugin. And BP would only be managable from within the network admin. And that’s right so !
Now this site is network enabled and  is using BP. If you want install other blogs, do so from your network admin. Those blogs are all included into BP activities. There is no need to install BP on each secondary blog. This cannot work.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/

This drove me a bit nuts. I figured out how to do it though and it’s very easy.

With buddypress installed it takes over the registration entirely and ads this activation email which is outside the normal header load so it;s outside of the functions.php call include.

The way I got it to work was by adding a call to the welcome email action after the do_action( ‘bp_after_activation_page’ ); in plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/activation.php file.

Near the end of the file you see this.
do_action( ‘bp_after_activation_page’ );

Add the following
do_action( ‘welcome_email’ );

Now this may work because I am using a plugin to modify the welcome email to begin with. I am using SB Welcome Email Editor

As for why someone would need to send the user their id and password. I needed this because people can sign up using a name with spaces but the id is created with a dash in place of spaces so they may never know their id isn’t what they saved it as. I also added a condition on the id entry to force them to not use spaces but I like to cover all bases and let them know what they signed up with.

Hope this helps.

I’m not sure that I’ve seen a huge amount of demand for event plugins specifically for BP in my experience. I hear more about media galleries, but again, it’s infrequent. It took a long time for WordPress itself to get a better media upload/interface. There’s no technical reason why a simple plugin couldn’t be built to use that.

The scope of the problem (“what is a media gallery”) is pretty huge, and means different things to different people, and I bet that any new plugin that picked a focused implementation which isn’t going to be ideal for everyone.

I use this on my site to show a different single.php. I have a folder mobile in my theme folder with my mobile templates. I copied single.php, removed the get_sidebar and then added css when on mobile to style it better. This code works in functions.php.

`function mobile_filter_wp_template( $template ) {

$overridden_template =  dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/mobile/mobile-single.php’ ;

if ( is_single() && wp_is_mobile() ) {

return load_template( $overridden_template );

} else {

return $template;

}

}

add_filter( ‘template_include’, ‘mobile_filter_wp_template’, 10, 2 );`

`function mobile_style() {

if ( is_single() && wp_is_mobile() ) {

echo ”

<style>

body {

width: 100%;

}

</style>”;

}

}

add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘mobile_style’);`

Use WP is_page to set conditions to specific pages https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_page

You should set up WP fully first checking all aspects of a standard WP install work correctly, when that checks out proceed to activating BP and doing so with the default theme initially to establish BP is set up correctly and working fully only them move on to activating a third party theme.

Are you doing it on a live site? Is your Theme BuddyPress compatible. For BuddyPress 1.6.x, the BuddyPress features are only available to BuddyPress enabled theme. In BuddyPress 1.7, BuddyPress automatically supports all themes(but 1.7 is still in beta and not recommended for live site).

You will need to configure BuddyPress before it comes into action.

Look for the notice in the Network admin. If it is not there, just click Network Admin-> Settings->BuddyPress and you should see the configuration wizard.

Hope that helps.

@p2ab BuddyPress does not work on installations where you give WordPress its own directory per your link above https://codex.buddypress.org/user/before-installing/#system-and-server-requirements

Hi,
for me it is the same. Searching just returns posts from wordpress but nothing from BP.
Is there a setting for BP that enables search through posts and comments from BP?

@unsalkorkmaz please note that I have edited one of your posts above. No personal remarks/attacks are allowed in this forum.

I appreciate that you want to give users as many features as possible with your theme and I understand your frustration. Having said that, the WP Theme Review Team Admin already noted which he considered plugin territory starting here https://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2013-March/012183.html and more so for the TinyMCE buttons later on the thread.

I supported you in the Author URL in the same thread. While I don’t agree with the TRT Admins 100% of the time, I support them 100% in the above-mentioned plugin-territory discussion. My unsolicited suggestion is to remove the items listed above which are considered plugin territory from your theme and create a plugin specifically for the theme e.g. Firmalite Theme Booster or Firmalite Add-ons or whatever you want. Further suggest submitting a revised theme while your theme is still up in the review queue.

Firmalite is the 13th in theme review queue as I write this. We’ve cleared many of the backlogs the past week and there are reviewers doing some reviews this week. Know that all of the reviewers are volunteers and also know that way sometime ago the waiting time for a review was 3-4 months.

Thank you for your patience.

It isn’t a people issue … it’s a key point to accept this dev. strategy. WordPress is a large framework, you have to accept the rules …
The current wp editor will be just a plugin too, that will be better, but that’s an other point 😉

Hi, I resolve (ubuntu server 12.04, apache2) this problem as follow:

1) Execute the setup wizar of BuddyPress after the plugin activate

Tip from https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/

2) Move the plugins\buddypress\bp-themes to wp-content/themes and set the pretty permalink. I’am using the month + name.

Tip from http://wpmu.org/buddypress-now-supports-wordpress-single-user-no-wpmu-required/

3) Set the Apache2 mod_rewrite with

# sudo a2enmod rewrite

and change the option AllowOverride of None to all in the file /etc/apache2/sites-avaliable/default

…
`
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all`
…

Tip from http://www.lavluda.com/2007/07/15/how-to-enable-mod_rewrite-in-apache22-debian/

That’s not a BuddyPress error.
It’s an error from the elvito-bp plugin.

You might try asking the plugin author:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/elvito-bp

I suggest you ask them to read this:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/plugin-development/checking-buddypress-is-active/

Also – imo – that plugin is lacking basic security.