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You can either filter the actions directly, for activity_updates theirs the ‘bp_activity_new_update_action’ filter.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php#L879

New_Member = bp_core_activity_registered_member_action
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-members/bp-members-signup.php#L534

New_blog_post = bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-functions.php#L195

etc.

Or; you can filter the templates – with ‘bp_get_activity_action’ (best if you don’t need to edit the output directly but want to add a line break after every action. etc)
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php#L1056

@creaturis From recent WPorg forum post – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-post-big-post?replies=7

From old post but valid in some installs – http://www.undermyhat.org/blog/2009/07/sudden-empty-blank-page-for-large-posts-with-wordpress/

For more assistance, please post at the WP Forums – How to and troubleshooting

1. WordPress (without BP) only has three required fields for members – username, email and password. On the BuddyPress registration form these are required fields. it also requires a name and any other required fields you choose to add to the base group.

2. The best place to find documentation is within the code. Not exactly what you wanted to hear, but theirs not really anything as in-depth as you can find within the comments scattered throughout it.

When a major release (such as 3.4) of WordPress is released you should be wary of updating WordPress if BuddyPress has not been updated yet as their are usually major changes.

When WordPress releases Minor releases (such as 3.3.2) it’s very rare that their will be any breakages as they are primarily used to repair bugs and fix security issues.

I personally wait an hour or two after a minor release for the core devs to do some last minute testing before i upgrade my sites (the BP devs are pretty quick to get a release out if something does break.)

@jakeyboy1989

1. Create a Network in subdirectory structure

2. Set which blog ID BuddyPress will run on: For example, your new sudirectory, /network is the first subsite you created (therefore with ID #2), then add this to your wp-config.php
`define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 2 );`

3. Install and activate BuddyPress. Go through Installation Wizard.

4. Install and activate https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/threewp-broadcast/ where you broadcast posts from /network/ into main site which will have a regular WP theme. Author link, if theme dev added it per post, would link to main site’s author.php/archive.php file which will list author’s posts in main site only and will not link back to /network/ site.

Should you have any issues with ThreeWP Broadcast plugin, please post at WordPress Multisite Forums or at plugin WordPress.org

I don’t believe their are any specifically for BuddyPress, however any WordPress theme can be transformed into a BuddyPress theme with the BP Template pack (1) and their are afew WordPress themes around. Including AuctionPress (2), and Sitemile Auctions (3).

1. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
2. http://www.premiumpress.com/auctiontheme/
3. http://sitemile.com/products/wordpress-auction-reverse-auction-theme/

Not sure if its Multisite compatible, but have you tried BP Mobile?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-mobile/

There’s no member/xprofile exporter compatible with BP 1.5.5 at this time. There’s the outdated https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-export-users/ but it’s good up to WP 3.1.4 and BP 1.2.8 only which a plugin developer could check out and should revise to be compatible with BP 1.5.5.

You can probably start off by exporting the tables from your database: wp_bp_xprofile_data; wp_bp_xprofile_fields; wp_bp_xprofile_groups and wp_bp_xprofile_meta but the best bet is to have a developer set this up

@kiddie To clarify, there are two methods for making the necessary template changes. to fix alignment see https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#fixalignment

In your case, we can do either method and I added disclaimers above in #1 and #2 – re page title etc. You do not create 2 new blank files – I’ll give the code for those two files if that’s the option you want OR a different set of instructions if you opt for #2

Strongly recommend getting Linux for any shared hosting especially with WordPress and BuddyPress.

== there wasn’t the same as the one on my front page.==
The wp_nav_menu (custom menu) defaults to wp_page_menu If you have no custom menu associated with the Primary menu

Create your custom menu for BP the same way you create for WP menu.
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide
https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen

@kiddie Check if your premium theme has already been “template-packed” in these forums at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes

If yes, then follow instructions posted therein and post here if you have issues.

If not, let us know what the name of the theme is. Then open up your theme’s header.php, copy all, paste all at pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated pastebin URI here. Do the same for your theme’s index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php

Some versions of BuddyPress require a specific version of WordPress. So if you’re using an old version of WordPress (you should upgrade that asap, obviously), you need to use the version of BuddyPress that last supported that version of WordPress.

Theirs afew awesome ones around. Two comes to mind. Their’s BP Albums – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/ and theirs also BP Gallery http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/ Both (in my experience) provide outstanding support.

@ashokgolusu as Fotobook is a WordPress plugin and doesn’t interact with BuddyPress specifically, you might get a better response from the WordPress forums – https://wordpress.org/tags/fotobook?forum_id=10

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.

== 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.

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/

Works for either WP the or BP default/child theme, https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

== 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/