@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
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Then, in each of 16 files, you’d like to change the BP Templates’ page title’s header tag from `
…
` or `
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` 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/
“I am using buddypress but are there any plugins for bp or wordpress that will do what I want?”
Nope. Not that i know of.
“I would also like it if when users clicked on their name it brought them to a full profile page with a list of posts underneath..”
Not sure what your asking here, it sounds like WordPress does this by default with their Author Archives?
“Im looking for a plugin that will provide a list of my authors with a short profile..”
If you require it in a plugin, you might need to hire someone to do it. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/
WordPress has a function called wp_list_authors()
(see: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_authors)
By default, it will link to the WordPress Author archive, i just used the ‘author_link’ filter to make the author id go through `bp_core_get_userlink();` which will make it link to the User’s BuddyPress profile.
read: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.2/wp-includes/author-template.php#L273
and: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.2/wp-includes/author-template.php#L224
@bigjosh – their are some privacy plugins that will allow a user to choose who can see their details
such as: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-privacy/
If it’s possible to wait afew weeks, this feature has also been written for Core, to be included in the next major release (bp 1.6) Here is the developers announcement of the feature – http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/profile-field-visibility-in-bp-1-6/
@starprintbrokers Go to BuddyPress > Pages and check if Registration is still associated with a Page. If it is,resave page. Don’t know why that’s acting up with Salutation theme. If you change to bp-default theme, does the register issue also happen there or is it resolved?
And did you go through Appearance > BP compatibility process? It looks like you have not finished with Step 3 – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#step-three – where you need to fix alignment, then keep the bp.css enabled and adjust some styles to your theme.
@artisantopia Per scan of your theme’s HTML structure, you’d need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your Alyeska theme folder in server during the compatibility process.
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I am stuck again. I worked with my host and had the entire site removed. I removed themes, WordPress, everything to start with a fresh install. I installed WordPress, then BuddyPress and them Salutaion. To my relief, all the pages showed up. I tested it by going going to the template’s “Register” and “Sign in buttons on the first page. They worked fine. In Register on that front pagepull down menu, I clicked the “Sign up instantly!” button. It took me right to the Registration page, just as it should. I starting add in photos, and content to the Why MeggieBooks and the Get in Touch pages. I’ve been careful not to change many settings unless so I would not run into trouble. I have not added any plugins. So I was just showing it off, and pressed the “Sign up Instantly!” button and it now takes me to the front page, or maybe doesn’t take me anywhere. I see that all the content is now gone on the Registration page.
Doesn’t look like there’s a filter you can us before it makes the query. You could filter the query itself — bp_activity_get_user_join_filter — however, that’s obviously not the most robust solution.
If you make an enhancement ticket for this issue on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/, we can address it in a future version of BuddyPress. Thanks.
Yes as mercime says don’t delete anything just yet, deleting and re-installing is seldom really required.
With the Salutation theme you have chosen quite a tricky framework to get ones head around, at best it’s confusing until you have spent a bit of time with it, but results do look quite nice and it appears to integrate well with BP, one thing to bear in mind with the theme is that it does allow you to export all the configured layouts and template includes so if you have started building, configuring layouts then check where the various export options are and save them then if necessary you can re-import them to re-create your custom changes.
