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Ok so I have spent hours looking for answers and now feel a little bit dumber LOL

So I figured It cant hurt to just ask!

This is what I want to do.

I want to create a social network site for gamers and on this site I want to allow gamers to create profiles (this part covered by BuddyPress) but i also want to allow them the ability to create group pages for guilds or clans ( this is also a feature of BP) However I noticed there is not group categories for the groups and i would like to figure out some way to categorize the groups to specific games (ie Category 1 is for game a and category 2 is for game b) so that all the groups (guilds or clans) of a certain game are grouped together.and as that wasent impossible enough to do i also want to initially set up a category list that seperates groups in to initial categories such as group a is a category for guild and clan groups and category b is for game develpment studios and so on. So basicly when a member creates a group there is a drop down that says something to the effect of this group is a guild/clan or this group is a game studio then if they select guild/clan a new dropdown will allow them to select what game the guild is for and i need to have it where the groups are then sorted to the perspective category

now i also want to allow the groups to have their own forums and it appears thats an included feature but in my research i have found alot of mentions of different plugins i might need and don’t really know what i should be using

i was told that it might be beneficial to set up the site using multi site and get the plugin for multi bp networks but i have also heard that’s a bad idea

to try and clarify i want to offer as many different services to each group as i can to create a place on the web that they can set up their own web presence with forums, pages, and blogs. but i need it to be laid out and organized well.

So that’s half of my site the other site is just a huge social network with individual profiles which ill be putting in as many social network type features as i can.

I think the thing that has got me stressing out so much is the groups and the lack of categories for them so i calling out to the community here to see if any one has any ideas to deal with this i have some features / plugins that require wordpress and i have delt with Jomsocial in the past i know it will do what i want on the group side but i would rather just use wordpress/ buddypress because i believe in the products my only other option is to set up 2 different sites one jomsocial and one wordpress but that is a nightmare waiting to happen and then the members have to have 2 different logins

if anyone can set me in the right direction with how to go about doing all of this with wordpress and buddypress and whether or not i need to set up a multisite network i would really appreciate the info

ultimately i kind of want to ste up a site that has similar but scaled back features as this site http://www.enjin.com/

Again any help would be awesome

thanks

I have the newest release of buddypress and wordpress. My users cannot create an account from their mobile devices. When you go to the register page, it won’t let you click on any of the fields if you are using a mobile device. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thank you very much for your help!!

Hello everybody,

My Buddypress don’t send emails, I don’t know why, please help me.

My version of wordpress is 3.9.1 and BuddyPress is 2.0.1

Thanks

Hello I wanted to see if anyone knew of a tutorial to help me do what I what to accomplish?

What I want to do is this

I am using the Divi theme for a project im working on and i wanted to know if either there was Budypress profile shortcodes so i can style the buddypress pages the way i want to (i mean for the layout) or is there a tut somewhere that shows how to change or customize the page layouts?

I guess what im ask could be better explaind like this

if i make a child theme of divi (my template) is there a way i could say use the layout of a really cool buddypress theme ( the look of the page and the way its layed out) but only inside of my divi theme?

I hope this question is clear enough.

im using WordPress 3.9.1 and buddypress 2.0.1

at this time i can’t publicly tell the url but if someone needs it they can msg me for it

I would like to be able to use buddypress combined with multisite, so that user profiles are linked to individual wordpress installs with predefined/configured themes and plugins, is there an easy way to this?

Thanks
Magical1

Hi,

In the buddypress recent members widget shows only the gravatars, after changing the profile picture in the wordpress profile. I am using wordpress profile as the default profile, instead of buddypress profile. How can I alter this. Somebody please help me.

Thanks in advance
Chinchu

Can some kind person explain how to do this. Alot of the info on the web and specific plugins are outdated. It doesn’t seem complicated, but maybe I’m wrong. Please help!!!

Wordpress 3.91
Buddypress 2.01