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I agree about scepticism on free hosting – I wasn’t suggesting moving the data simply trying the WP configuration with the established theme then adding Buddypress and looking at the result.
However as a newcomer to WP and BP perhaps my thinking is a bit woolly.
I dont trust my data to free hosting either but I am finding it a good way to learn what seems to fit together for my purposes.

Ah sorry thought by you saying older site no updates you meant you’d not updated WordPress either.

Well there is the template pack you can use for BuddyPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/. Or yes, you can go with making a child of Bp-default and that as your basis. I’d recommend creating a child theme.

Personally I’d be very sceptical over ‘free’ hosting. You are putting maybe your data on their site and personally I’d be sceptical about a free service like that. But, that’s my opinion everyone has their own.

A quick search through Trac produced this :
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4090

If you don’t already use free hosting you might like to consider using http://www,000hosting.com or http://www.cixx6.com for prototyping changes they both have fairly easy WP installation which might enable you to set up a duplicate/development site (minus members and using their provided domain) to see how installing Buddypress will affect your theme without affecting your production site.
Just a thought.

The wp_footer() and wp_head() functions located in the footer and header files use just do_action to print all of there ‘stuff’ (meta, css, js etc).

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.2/wp-includes/general-template.php#L1576

It may sound brutal but you really should be updating WordPress whether you are using BuddyPress or not. If your theme is limiting you then I’m afraid you do have to consider an alternative or update to it. Upgrades when done right shouldn’t effect your blog posts – it all depends though how far you’ve gotten behind though as to this task (and it won’t get less leaving it).

In saying this I do understand sometimes restrictions and issues happen that mean upgrading isn’t easy or as frequent. I usually find though that the issues in doing are out weighed by the benefits.

You can change the text on line #21 loop-forums.php within bbPress plugin folders https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0.2/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress/loop-forums.php

For more information, please post at bbPress.org support forums

@olihaslam Please check out:

Multisite User Management
Add user role to site during registration
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-user-management/

@elangley

~eric

https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory – old style and cannot be used for multisite nor BuddyPress

@thirstcard
The do_action() creates a hook. Basically it prints out the contents of the function that is added to that tag (bp_after_message_content) with add_action.

Usage? Let’s say Developer A makes a plugin that will place some text at the bottom of message contents, Instead of the end user having to edit the theme templates to add a call to the function, the developer can use `add_action(‘bp_after_message_content’, ‘plugins_function_that_does_stuff’);` WordPress will remember that function and will print it out where it finds `do_action( ‘bp_after_message_content’ )`

Does that help?

I installed a fresh copy of WordPress Multisite and added the BuddyPress plugin and Network Activated.

On the primary site I configured BuddyPress and then clicked the “Install Group Forums” button. I still received the “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” error.

@elangley

~eric

If you’re trying to load members-overview.php as a separate page, take a look at this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/allow-php-in-posts-and-pages/

If not, then use the bp-custom approach I mentioned above – you’ll need to learn it anyway.

Basically, you need to ask better questions, ie. what, where – exactly, why etc.
Use http://pastie.org/ and show your code.

@edgarestradac We have “template-packed” a number of WP themes with instructions/fixes on Step 3 of the BP compatibility process. Check if your WP theme is listed already at the bottom half of this page https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

Sure they can post on single WP. You just have to upgrade their default role from “subscriber” to at least a “contributor” (needs your approval before post is published) or an “author” (can publish right away) and they’ll post from the backend (wp-admin Post > Add New).

Or, not change their roles and use Simple Front End Post plugin http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-simple-front-end-post/

And/Or, just allow them to post in Group’s blog using this plugin http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/

I suggest that you also post at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/u-buddypress-forum-attachment

You can start off by using https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/ then proceed from there.

It’s being caused by a plugin called bp-external-activity. As the docs note, you have to open the PHP file to replace the default feed with your own: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-external-activity/installation/

To clarify, un-activated user accounts will show in WordPress, but not in BuddyPress.

There are genuinely a lot of reasons why your web server may not be sending emails. The activation key is contained in this email. As a first step — and I’m sure someone will post here with a much more complicated answer soon — contact your web host and ask them if they support PHP’s mail() function; specifically, is PHP configured fully to send emails.
Most web servers can send emails, but the ‘From’ headers are not properly set, so most of the time, they don’t get delivered to the recipient properly.

If they come back and say that the From address in the email doesn’t match the name of your site (quite often this occurs in a virtual server situation), try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

If that doesn’t work, or they say you need to specify an SMTP server, try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/

Ok did a bit of testing…. things which may have caused this for me was password protecting my test website directory through cpanel. Also the folder name (with the wordpress install) was a number which may have cause this issue. I ended up installing this on a new directory with an alphabetic name rather than a number and it now works. I think it may have being the folder name which was the issue, so look at that if someone has ever had the same issue as this. I even created a whole new install with a new database in the same numeric directory and this still wasn’t working.

you need wordpress multisite for that. Some host offer the possibility to automatically install multisite with softaculous. If you hosts doesn’t do this you need to do it manually here you can find the information. https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network