It should work…
The comment collapsing stuff is around line 1387 of global.js if you want to play around with it. try lowering the number a little (maybe 2?) and see if it works
note that it doesn’t factor in 2nd level comments (comment replies) yet – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2587 – so if you have 100 replies to a comment, then it will show all of thoes replies.
Here is the address of all versions of BP ….
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/download/
Hope you get better and you.
== Perhaps this already exists somewhere? ==
Not exactly what you want based on your requirements. You could use the Groups feature wherein members need to be approved by the Admin before they’re in the group. But there’s no automatic transfer of members from one group to another. The member can leave the group and would apply to another group or you could use this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-management/
== Or perhaps some epic person would be willing to take it on as a project? ==
Someone might do that if it was needed for their own project but we don’t know when and we don’t know if it will be released in the WP plugins repo or as a premium plugin or if would be released at all. So if you need one right now, you would have to hire a developer to do this for you.
Ok I see my problem here. I don’t have a bb-config.php in my root directory. When I find the bb-config, it’s in “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/” AND “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums” and the file says:
***
* *** IMPORTANT ****
* This file will stop people from accessing your bbPress installation directly.
* It is very important from a security standpoint that this file is not moved.
* Your actual bb-config.php file will be installed in the root of your WordPress
* installation once you have set up the forums component in BuddyPress.
*/
//header(“HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden”);
So in there it says that my actual bb-config is located in my root dir, but I actually don’t have one there. Can I just copy that file over to my root or can I duplicate wp-config and rename to bb-config? Or is there more to it?
I believe this is affected by a setting in WordPress that creates JPGs at 90% quality compression; try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jpg-image-qualitycompression/
== can this be custom developed? ==
Looks do-able. However, you have to be clearer about the following, among others::
– Where do you expect to see this layout to be rendered?
– Are those featured images which link to a post/page/post-type?
– Data for the page coming from a single WP installation or from WP multisite blogs?
To hire a developer:
– https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/ or
– http://jobs.wordpress.net/
== to know this source file or files controlling the header of the bp-default theme. ==
The responsive stylesheet enqueued in bp-default functions.php file controls how the navigation menus are rendered when viewing the site on tablets and mobiles
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/responsive.css
I have the same exact problem. I tried installing on a site WP 3.3.1/BP 1.5.5. and got this after installing the buddypress plugin manually. Gave up and wiped my entire wordpress install.
Tried again, fresh wordpress, fresh database, and even installed BuddyPress through the admin “add new plugin” area.
Both installs were using the default BP theme that it comes with. All other plugins disabled/deleted via ftp/or for the fresh build never installed any at all (other than BP)
Couldn’t get it to work in any possible manner.
okay, I gave up trying to do this from WordPress, and now have a custom field via Buddypress custom fields – but the field is editable by the user, I’d like it to be editable only by admins – is this possible?
Thanks.
Thank you @mercime but I am using a costume theme.
this is a very good news, for me. 
I was worried about it!
I’m trying from 2 days/6 hours a day.
I’ve installed a lot of plugins to help me, but probably I’m missing the easiest solution!
can you give me a little clue?
(sorry, I’ve discovered buddypress few days ago, I have follen in love with it, I’ve installed wordpress for this reason and I have already configured a site with bp… I’m missing only this point… damn! )
Thanks (with a smile on my face!)
Oh, my.
Changing the chmod of wp-content to 777 won’t actually *break* your site, but maybe something else happened at the same time. I’d suggest popping into the multisite forums at WordPress.org, and searching/asking for anything similar.
Thanks neiloughton
Ok so if i dont tear it apart what should i do can in intergreat it to look like my website, also i just installed the blugin and i get and error.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_site_name() in C:xampphtdocswordpresswp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-themesbp-defaultheader.php on line 27
Buddypress is a wordpress plugin, it is designed to be integrated with WordPress – it builds on its core features.
Firstly install WordPress (takes a few moments), add the Buddypress plugin and then work your pre-existing content in.
Because of feature updates, security, bug and reliability fixes it would be somewhat foolish to tear apart the plugin to use with your custom php.
Hello,
Within that plugin you can set it (without having to modify the plugin) to just to friends, private or public, this is done from within the plugin page within wordpress, this then allows the user to chose on the front end.
I might also suggest,
http://bp-tutorials.de/2010/09/private-buddypress
This plugin makes your whole install private to non logged in users, thus creating another layer of privacy.
I hope this helps somewhat.
I managed to solve my problem by:
1. Unchecking the forums component in the BuddyPress Component settings page.
2. Renaming bb-config.php in your WordPress installation root directory to something else (making BuddyPress believe that bbPress is not installed).
3. Re-checking the forums component in the BuddyPress Component settings page.
4. Re-installing the group forum component in the BuddyPress Settings “Forum” tab.
Hope this can help someone else as well, was really frustrating not being able to post anything.
1. Alternative to BP Album –> BP Gallery plugin, a premium plugin, handles images, audio and video for individual and group galleries.
2. Set group forums as default homepage for groups –> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/44863/whats-the-easiest-way-to-change-the-default-landing-page-for-buddypress-groups
I found this plugin to also be helpful, particularly at identifying the field names very clearly.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/navayan-csv-export/
Simply install, go to tools, find the wp_bp_xprofile_data and wp_bp_xprofile_fields and export.
Actually with that info you can do quite a bit. But I think the profile fields is a great reference to complete the code array( above.
Warm regards,
BJ
@bjkitchin @gbennyb
Some basic information for multiple BuddyPress sites in one WP installation.
1. Install WordPress
2. Create a Network of your WP installation
3. Install/activate BuddyPress plugin
– BuddyPress is activated by default for the whole network. So by the same token, there is only one instance of BuddyPress for the whole network.
4. Make your BuddyPress “multisite” (separate instances of BP in one WP installation)
a. BP Multi-Network plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/
– Requires either free https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/
or the premium http://wpebooks.com/networks/
– In effect, you need to create networks out of each subsite of your original network,
then install the BuddyPress Multi-Network plugin to have separate BP installations in each
“sub-network” … you get what I mean
OR
b. BuddyPress Multi-Network plugin http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-multi-network/
– simply, separate BP site for each WP subsite. You should check this out
Best people to ask about the WP/BP Multi-Network plugins above are the plugin developers ;-p
Theirs no backend feature like WordPress’ has for navigation menus.
However, this might help…
http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/code/arrange-group-profile-navigation-menu/
