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.
== 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.
Thanks @mercime. We have a wordpress site and we’d like to integrate the bettercodes.org code with what we currently have. We like its functionality and we’d like to use most of it in our project. We don’t foresee any changes in the functionality only changes to colors, positioning of tabs, etc (css modifications I imagine). So, with deploy I mean implement/integrate and with framework I mean structure/functionality. Many thanks for your reply! 
@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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with
`
`
Then, in each of 16 files, you’d like to change the BP Templates’ page title’s header tag from `
…
` or `
..
` to `
// Titles Of Respective BP Page Templates //
`, just watch out when you do this in the /activity/index.php page.
Save files.
Just to add. It was a fresh installation of WordPress v.3.3.2, Buddypress 1.5.5 with the standard template. Tried reinstalling permalinks – no change.
this is the wordpress theme im using https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/admired
and here is the url to my site that im working on: http://rfdesignstudio.com/teensite/
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)
The WP ‘Pages’ used to create the page views are just there to create the url path if you view one it’s intentionally empty – or am I missing the point of what you’re saying?
Your right I must have added that somehow. thanks
Registration is still associated with the Register page. I switched to a BP theme and it is no different. When I went to Pages>Register, I find that ll of the html code is stripped out. The pages are there. but no code. It’s pretty much useless to me.
@Hugo @mercime Thanks for your guidance. On a testing server I took down all plugins and gradually tested everything out the culprit was the Easy Mailchimp email subscriber plugin available here.. http://www.najeebmedia.com/wordpress-mailchimp-plugin-2-0-released
And without that plugin, comments work like a charm. I guess if this was my own post, I could set it to resolved
im redoing the process over cause now the buddypress login wont appear on the top anymore
i dont see it in the template packed themes list, i cant figure out where to edit the code. i have done it in the style.css and placed that same style.css in the child folder it created as well. Im new to wordpress so im not familiar with how it intergrated it to my current theme. i went to the plugin/buddypress and dont see a style theme in there. i did change the divs in the index.php of each folder as instructed by other links and that somewhat fixed the issue of the width. any thoughts?
Then this means that you have not completed Step 3 of the BP Compatibility process, i.e., fixing alignment and HTML structure of BP template files to use your own theme’s HTML structure. Check if your WP theme has already been “template-packed” in list near the end of the webpage linked to above.
“there is a plugin out there that tells you what template is being parsed”
I’m assuming your talking about ‘Reveal templates’ or is their another one?
“but it does not seem to work on buddypress.”
Yeah, BuddyPress does templating really weirdly. BuddyPress never talks to WordPress’ template loading functions which is why most of thoes types of plugins don’t work. The plugin should work after ‘theme compatibility’ comes, https://buddypress.org/2012/04/the-default-theme/
