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== 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/

== 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.

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.

If you’re using child theme of bp-default theme https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-menu/

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