It’s being considered https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1125 — related to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4119

@hnla yes – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4119

== I get this error message: User registration is currently not allowed. ==
@wanderingfox Registration ON or OFF is a WordPress setting.
For single WP – go to wp-admin Settings > General > and allow Registration
For WP Multisite – go to wp-admin Network Admin dashboard > Settings > Network Settings > Registration Settings and allow Registration

when i got to the Buddypressw tab pages and croll under the line:
Associate WordPress Pages with the following BuddyPress Registration pages.
Register is assosciated with the page : register
Activate with -none
here is the link: http://ontmoeten.synergiekzuid.nl

I have a similar problem: after installing buddypress: groups; forum; activities ;members come up. But at registration I get this error message: User registration is currently not allowed.
On the four tabs of Buddypress settings I cant find a setting to turn registration on or off.
I have looked up and found this line in the php files but don’t know how to read those.

I use a clean wordpress 3.3.2_nl install for budypressonly on a subdomain.
And also the default buddypresstheme.

I just posted a comment to a review in a plugin group (which I was admin for), and it worked. Can someone else give this a bit of a test, and if anyone can figure out the right combination of circumstance, please report it as a bug on https://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org — thanks.

I’ve not seen a plugin that does this. The closest I know of would be to use a RSS plugin, if you can get an RSS feed of a category in WordPress: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/

Please don’t post on both here and on the Trac:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4189 until it is confirmed that this is a bug in BuddyPress core, and not a problem with your installation of BuddyPress. The same people who read Trac read the forum.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4189

There is a followers plugin — https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-followers/

We do want to add more types of relationship into BuddyPress in the future.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/

== So if I start a topic in a group forum and others reply, there is no way to reply to one of the specific replies. ==
Do you mean threaded comments to forum replies just like in Activity Streams (wall/wire) and Blog Post Comments? If so, then there is none by default as forums by nature are flat discussions where you refer to what you’re replying to by @ mention and/or quoting post/sentence/phrase which you are replying to in your post.

There’s a plugin for threaded replies which you could use for Sitewide Forums aka bbPress plugin 2.+ https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-threaded-replies/ but none that I recall made specifically for Group Forums.

@eric-johnson – Their is no photo uploading functionality (except for an avatar) packaged within the BuddyPress plugin, but – while it doesn’t intergrate with the comments (i think we’ve established that BP Doesn’t provide a disqus-like product, but instead provides an extensible and unique social experience for your site, right?) I personally use and recommend the BP Albums plugin. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/

An alternative is @sbrajesh‘s BP-Gallery plugin – http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/

Deactivate BuddyPress and any other BP plugin. Re-upload theglobalsport theme files like I mentioned previously and check that the WordPress section – posts/pages – are working as expected.

If everything’s working on the WP side, then activate BuddyPress and BP template pack plugin.and run Appearance > BP Compatibility. Only then do you implement the instructions I posted above.

Code moved to http://wp.me/p1I84P-1l

@rafferjr Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you’d need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your admired theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

@dadvan Sorry, no public tool/script to do that. You would need to hire a developer to do the migration for you – http://jobs.wordpress.net/

@jakeyboy1989 Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your bloggingnews theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility.

Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive.

A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
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Please post this at the plugin’s forums at WPorg site https://wordpress.org/tags/events-manager

@rafferjr You’d either need to revise 16 BP template files or just create 2 files and upload to server. It all depends on your HTML structure. Which Admire WP theme, URI to theme demo?

@eric-johnson – BuddyPress isn’t a commenting system (Like Disqus) so to answer your first question, no. It creates something similar (but different) to Facebook.com (as in the site, not including their external products)

However BuddyPress can/does hook into WordPress’s commenting system to bring somewhat of a social component to WordPress comments for registered members. Out of the box it…
1. Allows registered users to upload an avatar that will replace the gravatar. (if an avatar is what you mean by photo in question 2, then the answer is yes – but only registered members can)
2. links the name of the registered user to their profile page (so that other readers can learn more about them).
3. adds comments (of registed users) to the activity stream (show off comments to friends and gets others to engage in conversation).

Non-registered users will use the WordPress commenting system the same way it did without BP.

But, having said that – If you know how to code, or your able to hire someone who can – BuddyPress was made to make nearly anything possible. (except make you breakfast)