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Please do not bump your post here, considering it’s less than a day since you first posted.

1. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/ – need to create a network/go multisite
OR
2. http://buddydev.com/plugins/blog-categories-for-groups/

== I would like to activate the personal blogs for users on my site. ==

You need to Create a Network first (go multisite) https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG is a different animal entirely https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/bp_enable_multiblog/

This is a known issue. Check out https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4571

The name of the menu is ‘my-account-buddypress’. This is a buddypress menu and therefore you cannot find it in the wordpress adminbar.php file. It is added when you installed buddypress. You can remove it by adding the following to your theme’s functions.php file:

function remove_bp_adminbar() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu(‘my-account-buddypress’);
}
add_action( ‘wp_before_admin_bar_render’, ‘remove_bp_adminbar’ );

If someone knows the names of the submenus in this buddypress menu I would like to know them so that I can remove the redundant ones (media, forms, friends etc).

Well, I did mention in my previous post that https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/ had shared users. I have not used that plugin before so I recommend that you read
– http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/ and
– https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/installation/

You’ve created one network when you went multisite. With the plugin above, there’s one instance of BuddyPress per network. Therefore, if you want more BP instances, you have to create a commensurate number of networks with WP Multi Network or Networks+. At this point, I would venture that you should have a dedicated server to service all networks with respective BuddyPress instances.

This is way more advanced and complicated than Brajesh’s plugin where you only need one network (multisite) install and each subsite has a separate BP instance. Therefore I would suggest that you get the premium Networks+ to avail of experienced support which I think you’d need.

@mercime

I was thinking exactly the opposite. Thanks for clarifying the differences between both the plugins.
I want to have different domains with different sites/groups/activities/forums etc but I want to share the users among all the different networks i.e. once a user signs up, then he/she should be able to login and use any of the BP network site in the entire network.

So I basically need https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/

I just checked the plugin page and it says: Segregate your BP networks in a multi-network WP install.

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Requires BuddyPress 1.5 or greater.

This plugin segregates BuddyPress social networks in a multi network WordPress install so that each WP network has a different social network. The user base is still shared across the WP install.

Multiple WP networks can be created with either:

WP Multi Network
Networks+

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Q: Does this mean I need to install “WP Multi Network” along with “BP-Multi-Network” plugin?
If yes, which one first and which one 2nd to install?

@justdanyul It’s been reported. You can try fix in this ticket https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4571

I have WordPress.org I install Buddypress social network Now I cant get to my Dashboard. Website is asking for -Activation key, which I dont know. What must I do?

Thanks! I am having problems, I can’t log-in my own website all evening at WordPress.org, its asking for valid “activation key” which I don’t know. – Help Please!!!

@themightymo Yes, post feature requests aka enhancements there. Know that feature requests with patches already attached are welcome. Providing patches to fix bugs in trac will get you the warmest welcome

Before posting, you should do a search first to see if someone has already posted same enhancement there. Do also check out https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap

== I don’t see a link to take me to my home page similar to facebook, essentially my activity stream. ==

What theme are you using? If you’re using BP Default theme, you can click on the link under your avatar to go to your Activity Stream page. Or, if you meant that you wanted the user to be automatically directed to their activity page upon log in, check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

I agree that this causes confusion. You might try creating a ticket here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

Interesting thought. Perhaps post it to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

== What it doesn’t show is whether or not someone replied to my reply. ==

I know what you mean, ala WPorg forums. We don’t have that notification nor custom view at this time for the group forums. I use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscrioption/ for own sites.

Not sure whether a feature enhancement for the aforementioned will be entertained at this time because come BP 1.7, group forums will be migrated/merged with sitewide forums. If you feel strongly about it, you can open trac ticket for this.

This sounds like a basic jQuery+WordPress question and not necessarily a BuddyPress-specific question. You will need to do a couple of things to pull this off:

1) Enqueue jQuery
2) Write/copy-and-paste a jQuery script that limits the number of characters in a specific field. Then enqueue that script

Start here (https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script) and know that there will be a bit of a learning curve!

@c930586 Might be that something went wrong with the compatibility process. What WP theme are you using? We have a list of around 110 “template-packed” WP themes at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes with different instructions based on the HTML structure of each theme.

@mrm222 @rickkumar just to clarify

BP Multi Network plugin = multiple instances of BP within multisite installation with different groups, activities, etc. but with shared users across the network.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/

BuddyPress Multi Network plugin = multiple instances of BP within multisite installation with different groups, activities, etc and different users per subsite. (can be shared users but you’d have to code it yourself or hire a developer to do so)

BuddyPress Multi Network

Here are a few options I thought of off the top of my head:

1) You might consider using a “membership” plugin. I don’t have a lot of experience with them myself, but I think one of the features of some is the ability to use a “key” to register (think of it as a password). You could give them the “key” at the end of your survey.

2) If you are savvy with code, you can likely pass a query string via the url bar as well if your survey software allows it.

3) Password-protect the BuddyPress registration page. You should be able to do this via the WordPress page editor. You could give all the participants the password.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/ though I haven’t checked it with BP 1.6.1 and WP 3.4.2

As the mightymo mentioned above, you can create a sidebar/widget area in the header of your theme. Read how http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/26/the-complete-guide-to-creating-widgets-in-wordpress-28