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You should submit an enhancement ticket on trac.

@masten7
To post content a user will be required to be logged in out of the box. For the media part you can use one of the following plugins:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-media/
or:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/
To force the user to create a profile before interaction with the site you can use this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-force-profile/

@shpitzyl,

buddypress comes without theme. BP Default is the old theming method used before 1.7/1.9 and bp-legacy is the template system needed by BP to show his stuff. This part is more or less used (depending the project) to work together with almost any theme.

2013 or 2014 are the themes coming by default with WordPress (it’s easier to write 2014 than Twenty Fourteen)…. These themes are known to work with BuddyPress, and that’s why you constantly see on this forum some advice to activate one of them for debugging.

Hueman is a free responsive wordpress theme, with several internal settings which are, for the most of them, deactivated out of the box. If you never worked with such sort of theme, it can be a little complicated to get it to work right with BuddyPress.

If you use a child-theme, read attentively the theme and BP documentation about child theming, you probably missed something. I use it on a test site and have no counting issues.

If the issue still remain, you have to follow the usual debug cycle: deactivate all your plugins except BP and track the culprit.

And if you use some custom code in functions.php or /plugins/bp-custom.php, remove them, so you can test your install without any external influence. Pure WP+BP code only while debugging ! 😉

1st:

is the child theme folder in the wp-content/themes/ folder

The child-theme folder is, were you have placed it.

The child-theme folder should be on the same level of your folder-structure as your parent-theme (“comprehensive theme”)-folder.

E.g.:

• I have a folder wp-content/themes/reddle – for my parent theme
• and a folder wp-contentent/themees/reddle-child – for my child.theme

2nd:

Theme Name: BuddyPress_GSN

Template: buddypress

I don’t know, whether it should work your way as well, but I do not refer on the BuddyPress-theme, rather on my WordPress-parent-theme – so, in my case the style.css of my child-theme beginns with:

/*
 Theme Name:   Reddle Child
 Template:     reddle
*/

3rd:

You have to connect child- and parent-theme – in my case it is (as next line of my style.css) on the one hand:

@import url("../reddle/style.css");

And on the other hand you need a functions.php within your child-theme-folder as well. In my case it starts with:

<?php

/**
 * Enqueue stylesheet
 */
function reddle_child_theme_stylesheet() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 'reddle-child-themestyle', get_stylesheet_uri() );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'reddle_child_theme_stylesheet' );

4th:

Finally you have to activate your child-theme. You do this within the admin panel of your WordPress-installation:

http://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-admin/themes.php

In the case, that you have installed WordPress MultiSite, you have to activate it on the network level as well:

http://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-admin/network/themes.php

Cfr.: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-2-1-bp-language/page/2/#post-200308 (section 2nd).

5th:

I don’t know, whether it is state of the art – anyway it works for me:

I insert as well my changes regarding my WordPress parent-theme as well as my changes regarding BuddyPress into my wp-content/themes/reddle-child/style.css.

Further reading:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#How_to_Create_a_Child_Theme

Yes, there should be a way, but I was not able to follow the instructions / to realise that way.

The basic idea is:

• Create two (or more) new WordPress user roles, e.g.: Users-UK and Users-USA.
• Then you can assign one xProfile-field, ‘In which [federal] state do you live?’, exclusively to your users with the user role Users-USA; and another x-Profile, ‘In which county do you live?’, to your users with the user role Users-UK.

—

The instructions for that solution you find there:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles/

(The user roles there are ‘bands’ and ‘fans’).

And my report about my attempt to apply that instructions you find there:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles-part-ii/

My user roles are (sport) ‘teams’ and ‘fans’.

—

But unfortunately, I was not able to hinder, that ‘fans’ get displayed the questions (xProfile-fields) for ‘teams’ was well; and the ‘teams’ the questions for ‘fans’…

—

Further problem:

Even if there is a solution regarding later profile edits – even complicate seems to be, to make already the registration page “input senstive”, because during registration the new user isn’t yet registered (i.e.: has no user role yet).

Cfr. there:

http://forum.wpde.org/buddypress/133961-registrierungsseite-umgestalten-anleitung-und-fragen.html (section 4. – unfortunately in German).

@mugwumpman,

you already reported around this in the past, but apparently you didn’t follow the answers. 😉

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5182

Open a new ticket if you cinsider there is something incorrect with cropping.

Glad you got it. Of course you can ! 😉
http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-disable-gravatars-in-wordpress/

In matter of profile photo, i suggest you to use:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-avatar-suggestions/
and anyway, your user have always the choice to upload their own picture.

If you mean “comments” as in “comments on a blog post”, that’s obviously part of WordPress. That will definitely scale fine.

If you meant “comments or replies on activity stream items, or status updates”, that’s BuddyPress. This should scale just fine, too.

This assumes your server(s) configuration is optimal, and that you haven’t got any slow code running in other plugins/custom code, or in your theme. I/we can’t really help you with that here — running a performant server(s) for WordPress is outside the scope of providing BuddyPress supports.

The only piece of hosting advice that I’d recommend for any WordPress-powered site, but especially larger sites, is to make sure you’re using an object cache, such as memcached.

It’s a matter of finding the exact syntax.
This works in the function I provided.

        case 'Friends <span class="%s">%s</span>':
            return 'Connections <span class="%s">%s</span>';

A gettext filter is a reasonable approach if there are one or two labels that need to be changed.
But there are so many different places where ‘Friend’ or some variation is used that in your case you should definitely use a .mo file.
Read:

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

Often there is confusion re the Sources Keywords section of PoEdit, so after you read the above, take a look at http://www.cssigniter.com/ignite/wordpress-poedit-translation-secrets/
especially the section titled ‘Keywords lists, WordPress functions, whaaaaaa?’.

Do you use https://wordpress.org/plugins/doppelme-avatars/ ?

Feel free to ask on bp-fr.net if you prefer help in french.

For now, on your contact page, you can see this message:
This template supports the sidebar’s widgets. Add one or use Full Width layout.

Ça veut dire qu’il faut ajouter des widgets ailleurs que sur la page d’accueil ou utiliser le template Pleine Largeur ! 😉

dashboard > apparence > widgets or see the theme documentation. Can’t help more about this as you use a premium theme (support)

@summersoul
Have you considered hiring a pro? Try posting:

BP Jobs Board

or:
http://jobs.wordpress.net/