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I have done a BP 1.2.4 to BP 1.5.7(ish) and it worked fine. Interested to see how well a 1.1 to 1.6.2 goes. I’d suggest not worrying about stepping the BuddyPress upgrades, and doing something like:

1) Switch to a default WordPress theme (twentyten).

2) Disable all plugins.

3) Upgrade WordPress.

4) Add new version of BuddyPress, and activate it, and do that upgrade.

5) Update all other plugins, and reactivate them.

6) Switch back to original theme.

Make backups

@djpaul I remember that issue https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3760 and it was resolved https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3684

Even then, I didn’t see any option for users to create their own blog during or after account creatio

You need to create a Network or make the single site Multisite first -> https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network If you hit some snags during the process, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite for assistance.

my question is more along the lines of asking if both types of sites can co-exist as one single site.

For a single WP installed e.g. at example.com, you can only create one multisite installation by default where subsites/blogs are either set up in a subdirectory or subdomain structure.

There are plugins to make each subsite into a network of its own and set up BP in each or some of the networks https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/ or the premium Networks+ http://wpebooks.com/networks/ You should have at least a VPS or Dedicated server when you go this route.

hi,

– Should I update WordPress or BuddyPress first?
WP first than BP, but together !
BP from version 1.1.2 to 1.2!important, from 1.2 to 1.5 from 1.5 to 1.6.2
Same thing for WP from 2.8.4 to 3.0!important, from 3.0 to 3.2, from 3.2 to 3.4 from 3.4 to 3.5

For each, take the versions from SVN.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags

– Does any of the versions between the 1.1.2 and the last of BP will mess up with Design?

Yes/No depends on how deep you did the changes

– Where can I edit the website Title, Description and Keywords?
From within the site admin Dashboard > General settings
As keywords are no more used by Google, they’re not necessary. Otherwise you have to hardcode them into your child theme index page

– Is there something that I need to know in order to make this update successfully?
First of all, read the codex 😀
https://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/releases/

I’m closing this thread as it’s a duplicate of your other one, you should not create new threads on the same topic it just confuses matters.

follow my instructions above! Yes disable all plugins and once back in activate each in turn until you find a culprit , speculate on what else it can be after you have rulled out plugins.

No limit.  Take your install right back to basic WP only i.e NO plugins activated – rename the plugin folders to force deactivate them; then see if you can log in, if you can login with plain WP start re-activating plugins one by one.

Hi,

don’t try to prevent spammers. They already know how WP is working. 😀

So you have many unconfirmed subscriber anyway. In such case, you could resend the activation email or delete the unconfirmed account. A small plugin do this very easely:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unconfirmed/

I use it regularly on my 1.6.2 network without problems. 😉

I thought we fixed this in a previous release, but maybe not fully. Please submit a bug report on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org, and you can use your name/password from this site. Thanks

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4629 might be of interest, too!

I’ve happened to done some work on this for BuddyPress 1.7. See the commits and discussion on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4661

You’ll have to wait for 1.7 for this to work. I can’t guarantee that making those changes on a 1.6 install will work or be safe: YMMV.

You’re going to have to write some code: something like this should point you in the right direction http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-change-the-howdy-text-in-wordpress-3-3-admin-bar/

@djpaul https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4566

It’s still broken

BP reshare plugin
https://github.com/imath/bp-reshare

What exactly do you mean “get a page in my menu”? Do you mean links in your menu instead? If you mean the latter, then check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-custom-profile-menu/

Hi Tina,
Prabhat here again, Would you like to have some help from me?
I’m a professional WordPress developer & BuddyPress is my personal favorite. 
regards,
Prabhat Bhati

Hi Tina,

Would you like to have some help from me?

I’m a professional WordPress developer & BuddyPress is my personal favorite. 🙂

regards,

Prabhat Bhati

Hi @modemlooper thanks for the reply, bp-bookmarklet does not meet my need, how can we share my friend activity inside my buddypress as similiar to facebook share inside facebook activity.I dont want to share from external or i dont want share activity outside my buddypress. Please let me know how it can be done, any pointer for this will be helpful.Thanks in advance.

Then easiest way to show a message on the registration page is to edit the template in your theme and replace the default message. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.

If you want an alternative way, there is numerous action hooks within the file, so you can add the message via a plugin.


function cc_registration_notice() {
echo 'You will get a link in email to activate your account after registration';
}
add_action( 'bp_before_registration_submit_buttons', 'cc_registration_notice');


(shared hosting)

I’m thinking of moving to a good VPS (4 cores, 1.5GB RAM).

i think that’s a really good idea. buddypress has a lot of stuff going on under the hood compared to an ordinary wordpress site (which in turn also has a lot of stuff going on under the hood compared to an old school static site). i would certainly defer to anything modemlooper says because you could make a similar analogy in comparing our respective knowledge level regarding WP/BP. But suffice to say a BP site with as many plugins (and # of elements on the linked pages) you have running on shared hosting, to me, is a recipe for slow site and under 5 seconds is actually not too shabby.

you have to remember these shared hosting servers tend to run hundred or thousands of sites per machine and with a WP/BP probably does as much compute as about a hundred or thousand static sites would normally do to serve content to a visitor. when your site gets to certain level of popularity even a “decent vps” will probably not be enough. we have just infact moved from a “decent vps” to a specialty wordpress host having done that i would recommend considering that option.