@valuser
that is strange. I took your chunk of code above and pasted it into the bp-custom.php page in my plugins folder, and this is what I get in my address bar:
http://localhost/members/user1//friends/
I get pushed to the member profile instead of their blog
my specs:
I am using wordpress MU 3.4 with BP ver 1.5.6. – I place the code in my plugin file bp-custom.php.
not sure why I would get a different result than you
Only way is to set up a multi-network WordPress site (not multi-site). Google, and/or look at http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/ for more information.
It’s still pretty new, so mightn’t be bullet proof.
You need to complete set up of the (group) forum component in wp-admin – BuddyPress > Forums Setup.
The registration component or page is visible if you enable user registration in WordPress (Settings > General).
It’s probably a memory error. Look in your web server’s error log (or ask your host) and look for messages that say things like “out of memory”. If so, read https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
If it’s a different message, it should give you some clues, or copy/paste it here for further help.
If anyone has this problem, the fix for me was removing the wordpress RewriteEngine from htaccess.
`# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress`
After removing that, it started working.
Wordpress already has usernames and there are plugins to allow uploadable avatars
Friends should. On these blogs — is the Privacy setting set to public or private? i.e. this screen https://codex.wordpress.org/File:options-privacy.png
They need to be public (‘allow search engines to index this site’) for it to be shared in activity.
Thanks for the reply Paul.
If the sharing of site is WordPress behaviour, why can’t ‘friends’ via BuddyPress see each others blogs? I would love it if my post went into the activity for all other users to view but that doesn’t seem to be happening.
I feel like I’m doing something wrong but I don’t know enough to know what that might be.. 
Thanks
OK – dumb question but where are the 6 Clean BP folders?
I’ve looked within the BP zip and they’re not there. When I uploaded the BP Comp. pack (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/) it actually skipped over step two automatically.
Where do I go to see them?
Hi bollocks187-
I was just a little confused how groups was intended for use within WordPress/BuddyPress. To give you some insight as far as where I’m coming from, I’m moving from a Groupsite environment. In that environment, you can have ‘x’ number of groups. The groups can by hidden just like in WP/BP, but can have their very own content exclusive to them, which is hidden from non-members of that group (as expected). Likewise, members of a given group can communicate freely between each other. I was looking for a feature set within WP/BP that mimicks that behavior. The other thing missing is a peer recognition feature- kind of like a way for one user to endorse another. (another Groupsite feature). Think of this as a kind of letter of recognition from one user to another, so anyone visiting the endorsed member’s profile would see a senior member/administrator endorses/vouches for/recommends that user. I’ve been working with a messload of different plugins with varying levels of success/failure (far more failures than successes) and was getting a little frustrated -iterative testing to ensure a new plugin doesn’t break existing working plugins and trying to determine the UI for a new plugin since it’s often a sorely overlooked feature for so many developers.
I’m now looking into the possibility of using groups forums to address some of what I want to do, but am hoping that by doing so, it won’t confuse end users by having them try to contend with two separate types of forums – one open and public, and the other being ‘x’ number of private instances, one for each hidden group.
Please add me to this question too!
In theory you can use any theme but you’d have to use the template pack https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/ to add the files you need which is what that link valuser supplied does. To be honest, it’s going to take some work / adjusting it’s a case of not knowing how much until you do it really.
If you are not comfortable with doing this then I’d personally recommend you also have a look at some BuddyPress themes. You can purchase themes for BuddyPress with all the support and bells and whistles of WordPress ones so perhaps that would be an option. There are also a number of very feature full and robust free themes for BuddyPress. https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/
see https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
There are great volunteers on this forum. When they have the time, I am sure they will assist you.
1) Disable user registration in WordPress, and create user accounts manually via the wp-admin screens.
2) This is default WordPress multisite behaviour.
3) You will need some kind of front-end posting form for your theme(s).
Thanks Paul-
Okay, so that begs the question- what are groups used for within WordPress/BuddyPress? If you deactivate forums, there’s not much left. You can’t contact just the people in that group. And I’m still looking for a good plugin to handle making content pages exclusive to certain groups. I’ve tried ‘Groups’ by itthinx, but there is a big disconnect between the actual BuddyPress groups and the groups within the ‘Groups’ plugin. So if I have a pre-existing group, the ‘Groups’ plugin doesn’t recognize it. If I name an existing group within the ‘Groups’ plugin, there is no members associated with it (since it is treated as a new group, but that can only be accessed via the plugin) so security doesn’t really apply. Any light you can shed on this would be appreciated.
Thanks
AN UPDATE:
I followed the advice of hughes.chad in this support thread and I managed to successfully manually trigger a Daily Digest email, and confirmed that all emails had been removed from the Digest queue visible in ?sum=1.
I tried again to send a digest without manually triggering it, and no digest was sent at the time it was supposed to be sent.
I then added:
`define( ‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true );`
to wp-config.php, as suggested by Boone Gorges in the thread I have linked to, but again no automated Daily Digests were sent.
So it seems that I have narrowed the issue down to the triggering of wp-cron.php.
On the last attempt to check what was in ?sum=1 the URL changed to ?sum=1&doing_wp_cron=1340741443.4746210575103759765625, suggesting it was trying to activate the cron_job.
What else can I try to get this working?
Thanks,
Nick
Sounds like you’re might have found a bug. Please would you make a report on http://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org ? thanks
May be you can do something with this plugin?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-avatars/
It works for us with WP 3.4 and BP 1.6.
So only gravity forms and wordpress?
There’s a BP Followers plugin available on the WordPress.org plugin directory.
Thanks. I had an old plugin — wordpress private. Switched to Private Buddypress. Works now.
Hi Hans,
you have to digg in the prehistorical 1.0 version of BP
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/1.0?order=name
where you can find this old coutry field and a csv file with different countries.
You can find some interesting code in buddypress 1.0/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-classes.php
Good luck !
Ok, to set new fields for your members you should read the paragraph ‘Optional: Set Profile Fields’ of this tutorial
http://wpmu.org/the-illustrated-guide-to-installing-and-setting-up-buddypress-1-5/
if you mean login in with email, then you can try this interesting plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/
then you can add a function in the functions.php file of your active theme to change the label of the sidebar login form :
add_action('bp_after_sidebar_login_form', 'bp_login_by_email_adapt_login_form');
function bp_login_by_email_adapt_login_form() {
?>
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
usernameoremail = $("#sidebar-user-login").parent().html().replace(/Username/ig, 'Username or email' );
$("#sidebar-user-login").parent().html(usernameoremail);
});
<?php
}
or if you’re using a child theme of BP-default theme, you can add/edit the template sidebar.php and replace the label for=sidebar-user-login by Username or email.
