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Hi Julia_B

To alter the templates for activity you need to do the following:

Create a page called buddypress in your root folder.
Inside the buddypress folder you create another folder called activity and in there another folder called single.

Now you need to access your existing plugins folder.
Open buddypress -> bp-templates -> bp-legacy -> buddypress

Here you will find 5 folders, one is activity, inside this are some php files and a folder called single, inside this single folder is the index.php file that runs the activity.

I copied all 5 folders to my new buddypress folder in my root and all the files in those folders, with them able to control/change the buddypress layout as I would with a child theme.

To have an activity wall on homepage you only need to customize the appearance of wordpress in the admin area/backend.

Go to “appearances” then “customize”, here you can change “front page” to activity and it should work.

Good luck

@mockiboo
>But it is nice to see how you divert the topic away from the issue which is that your plug in doesn’t plug in well with wordpress themes

No I / We are not diverting the issue, I asked you to provide some level of detail I also made the comment that BP is not from experience born over a few years a destroyer of sites, if we could provide a clue as to what might have happened we would / will despite the fair certainty that this is not something that is inherently BP’s fault.

BP is coded to exacting strict WP standards the core developers are extremely experienced in working with WP code, BP fits to any theme that is also coded to the same API standards.

More importantly have you managed to restore your sites functionality? It is highly unlikely that any DB Tables have been deleted so your data is there somewhere or should be, failing that restore from a prior to the change DB backup.

If you use Magento how will you share sign ins with wordpress?

Sorry, i don’t understand what you want to do.

how can I add an extra site on my wordpress blog only with the post-form of buddypress ?

I (and many others here) probably could answer to this:
– how can I add an extra site on my wordpress blog

But not to this:
– only with the post-form of buddypress.

What do you mean by buddypress post-form ? Where is this post form ?
What is the relation between the mentionned php lesson and BP ? I know what is a form, but do YOU know where the form content may go once the form action was applied ? And if a user inject crap, what will happen to your site ?

PHP technique and BuddyPress are 2 separates things, even if the one use the other (and inversely), but at this stage, you don’t need php technique, but to explain clearer or, simplier, to give a living example used elswhere.

This is not enough:
I’m trying so make a share Button for my BP Community like Facebook, Twitter an G+ have one.
Still exist as plugin (…and a wide selection !)

But the following is absolutely incomprehensible to me: For this I need an extra Site And what you explained here also. Sorry.

Grabing external content to add into a blog post is full part of WordPress.
Tools > PressThis. Apparently not what you want to use…

But if i follow you, members from YOUR site have a share button (where is this button anyway ?)
and when they are on another site, they can share interesting content on YOUR site.

This is how internet is working (at least)….

To do this, most people copy the url and paste it into a post.
Or use a browser tool and add the link to their favorites,
or use a share button who works only inside the community they belong. (FB, Twitter, BuddyPress, und so weiter…)

Two hypotheses:
you’re ignoring that you’re able to build the absolute revolutionnary BuddyPress sharing plugin (and it’s not for tomorrow if you’re in the beginner’s stage) – prefer to learn WordPress internal behaviour and use existing functions instead.

or you try to reinvent the wheel (oder noch besser gesagt, ein überkompliziertes werkzeug). Sorry again. 😉

Before starting custom work, perhaps give a try to buddypress links plugin.

Is it a recommended idea?

If you mastered the situation and know what you do, almost any idea is “recommanded”. 😉

You can do this by using a multisite install.

BP installed on the main site with his own theme (your-site.com) and another blog on sub-domain (mysub-domain/your-site.com) with another theme.

This is the most easiest install option. But you can also install BP on a secondary blog.

Registering is made on the main site, as it would be the hart of your network, and by consequence, the unique place where user can register.

References:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

@jessicana,

if you allow group creation to your members, they can do so by going to group directory.
The “create group” button is in the group header.

Once created, the member see on his profile, a tab named My Groups (or Groups) with a counter. On the tab, the group list created by him.

-> When users are logged out, they have no access to the Toolbar or to the Create Group button on the group directory.

This is so by default. Any other behaviour can be considered as theme related (for ex. if you use a theme specifically designed for BuddyPress). IMHO rare, but can eventually exist.

You can hide the Toolbar to logged out user in the buddypress settings.

About BP/WP jargon:
the Toolbar is the wordpress black toolbar at the top of the site.
the User menu is the menu at the top right corner, under wp’s Howdy
the buddymenu is the bar under the page header and before the page content. Depending the context (page, status), this menu bar has an associated sub menu.

@jessicana,

The field NAME in the field group BASE is required. This group is used for the registration page to work. As you already know, it’s also this group who allows you to show custom fields on the registration page.
The NAME field in BuddyPress is intended to receive first and last name and replace the two original fields (first name, last name) coming with WordPress.

That said, you can hide this field to users, but you can’t give them the choice to show/hide it.

The above snippet will hide the field NAME to all visitors/members, but not to site admin and the concerned profile.

function bpfr_make_name_members_only( $retval ) {	
	//hold all of our info
	global $bp;
	
	// is xprofile component active ?	
	if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) )
	
    // The user ID of the currently logged in user
    $current_user_id = (int) trim($bp->loggedin_user->id);
	
    // The author that we are currently viewing
    $author_id  = (int) trim($bp->displayed_user->id);
	
	// user can see only his name && admin can see everyone 
	if ($current_user_id !== $author_id && !current_user_can('delete_others_pages') ) {
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '1';	
	}
	return $retval;	
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_make_name_members_only' );

Add this to your child-theme functions.php or to bp-custom.php

It’s best if you open a ticket for this on Trac:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org