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Thank you Paul. I have this same conflict. Understanding the best set up for my situation. My struggle is knowing the difference and how to use them.

I’m using The Bounce Theme from themeforrest which is buddypress friendly. (http://themeforest.net/item/bounce-professional-wordpress-buddypress-theme/2324726?sso?WT.ac=category_item&WT.seg_1=category_item&WT.z_author=GhostPool)

Can you elaborate a bit more on your last comment? It opened a window of understanding for me.

My current set up is:
Settings > Buddypress > Components > Unchecked “Discussion Forums”
Settings > Forums > Forums base “forums”, Forum slug “forum” (although I would like my own names)
Settings > Forums > Unchecked “Enable Group Forums”

From here can you explain how to set a landing page so that it looks like site wide forums (“mydomain.com/forums”)? Ie; can see all forum at once, then enter a forum to see the topics, then enter the topics to see the comments. I can find them if I go to a bbpress forum and click “view” (ie; /forums/forum/forum-rules/) then remove “forum/forum-rules/” to just have “mydomain.com/forums”, but that is not a “page” and cannot be “edited” and by default says, “Forums Archive – mydomain”. ( I think I know this but want to see your way)

Additionally, if I am at my buddypress profile page (admin) and click “forums”, it takes me to /members/admin/forums/ which seems to be different from /forums/forum/. And when it does it shows topics and not the forums I created in bbpress.

I’d imagine there is something I have missed.
I’ve:
Watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0jSsra_n0c
Read: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/#a-installing-forums-for-groups-only
Read: http://wpmu.org/guide-to-buddypress-forums-how-to-set-up-group-or-sitewide-forums/

Sorry I’m this is confusing. I am so twisted and upside down with this. It’s the best I can do with out showing you.

Thank you Buddypress for the hard work you have put into your products!

Probably will get closed because BP 1.7 will have group management screens inside the WordPress admin area, so don’t need it on the front-end.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seopress/ ?

That variable isn’t part of BuddyPress; it’s part of the https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh/ plugin, which hasn’t been updated in over a year and doesn’t state compatibility with the latest versions of BuddyPress or WordPress.

Please ask for support with this plugin over at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh

Hi,

i had the same request. And finally built a plugin based on this one.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-topic-mover/

works now with 1.6.1 and WP 3.4.2

Hi Kevin,

I wish I could recommend Salutation theme but alas I cannot.

I am very comfortable with WordPress and have been designing websites from purchased themes for several years now and this was my first venture into the world of forums.

The theme itself looks awesome – the main problem is the work I had to do to get the theme looking exactly like the demo – when first installed, Salutation does not communicate cleanly with WordPress so it comes out jumbled with static blocks all over the place. The work I had to put to figure out how to get it to look exactly like the demo alone was astronomical (and the demo was why I bought it).

The support available was very basic. I would ask a lot of questions and be given half an answer – frustrating and very time-consuming. I could not figure out how to work it out myself – a very unintuitive theme.

The videos are excellent and I did find some help there but here I sit… 50+ hours later with a beautiful website that does not work because I can’t get Buddypress to play nicely with Saluation… Hence, my request here for some professional assistance.

Hope this helps, Kevin!

🙂

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/1.6/bp-core/bp-core-filters.php#L274

I dont use Yoast seo and dont know what he does with his code, but if it helps here’s what BP uses now (in 1.6) – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/1.6/bp-core/bp-core-filters.

What kind of files? Documents https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-docs/

Does this help?
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/47657/how-to-redirect-all-requests-to-wp-login-php

Generate random gravatar? or random avatars via Settings > Discussions > Avatar  and choose from Identicon, Wavatar, MonsterID, or Retro ?

Or check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-avatar-suggestions/

You can already check it out in test install. Just download trunk version
svn co https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/
or zip file from link at bottom of the page at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk

Re timeline, check the BP roadmap at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap
BP 17 has 71 tickets to go. Patches welcome.

That kind of wordpress plugin it is very much wanted! Any ideas if theres is something out there?

@OC2PS see http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/custom-post-types-yesno/

Yes.

Interestingly, buddypress default theme does not accept avatar from social networks when used with WordPress Social Login plugin. I wish I could provide a random avatar for such cases where buddypress does not accept the avatar provided by social networks.

There ain’t any active plugins that can produce random avatars. I believe that the plugin that @Lawrence talks will go a long way if it is in public domain. Hence, I request him to offer us some download links to his work. Thanks.

@ninjaface – I have not encountered this issue before. The way I would troubleshoot is:

Deactivate All Plugins
Switch to Default theme
Does this fix the problem? If so, then the problem is either your custom theme or a plugin issue. If the problem persists taking the above steps, then try re-installing WordPress and BuddyPress.

@aces I have used http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/33072/how-to-remove-feeds-from-wordpress-totally but this works only for the WP pages and not for the BP pages.
then i used
function bp_remove_feeds() {
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_personal_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_friends_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_mentions_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_favorites_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘groups_action_group_feed’, ‘groups_action_group_feed’, 3 );
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘bp_remove_feeds’);

But still I can see the feeds for the activity page 🙁

Any help will be highy appreciated?

Anyways @aces thanks for responding 🙂

Drdick8, in the next major version of BP (1.7) theming will be easier and allow you to use ANY WordPress theme out of the box. There are millions of WP themes. (See: https://wordpress.org/extend/themes)

With the 4. requirements listed all of them (depending on how you prefer to have it setup is provided out of the box)

1. You could use a Wp blog.
2. Post type (Post types are really easy to implement even without coding skills)
3. Post types, again.
4. Plugins. Would this be suitable? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/appointy-appointment-scheduler/

I think customising P2 (Which Automatic – the company that runs WordPress.com – uses for internal communication) may suit your needs well.
https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2