BuddyPress.org

bp columns will not work well with current BuddyPress, you can now use any 3 column WordPress theme.

But won’t WordPress USERS, who are not showing up as BuddyPress MEMBERS, be activated as MEMBERS once they login for the first time?

THanks for the link!

I’ve installed it but my WordPress users are not listed as “pending”. They only show up under the ‘users’ tab in the admin dashboard.

Is there a way to change them to “pending’?

Thanks!

@fel3000 @robg48
You can activate users using that method. However I would advise backing up the database before doing these edits. Even after activating a user this way they still will not show up in the members directory until they login the first time. Instead of fiddling around in the database why not just use a plugin to activate users:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-pending-activations/

@boonebgorges How can I show “username not available” message on mouse out from the field instead of clicking submit button and then check.
– Registration page(website.com/register.php), BP-Default child theme, Buddypress 1.8, wordpress 3.6.1

@husdom

You don’t need the media="all" bit.

Also it is better not to repeat properties that stay the same so:

#buddypress div.item-list-tabs#subnav {
background: #0E0C0C;
}

Should work.

It certainly works in chrome on your website. Do you see it in chrome?

I don’t know what you mean by your ‘theme css box’? If you mean that your theme has an option to add ‘raw’ css then it may be added before other style sheets / rules and therefore over-ridden, but I can’t diagnose that from here.

This should go at the end of your child theme’s style.css file – To over-rule earlier properties. If your theme doesn’t enable child theme’s then it should go at the end of the theme’s style.css but that is sub-optimal.

Unless it has been disabled you should be able to add this in the editor area of your WordPress’ admin’s appearance section although it would be better done in a text editor and the style.css uploaded via ftp.

@marketingnate
You can probably get some useful info from the below tutorial:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-build-a-facebook-style-members-only-wordpress-buddypress-site/
Just take the parts you need from it. Good luck!

@rharejr as I recall you need to install the plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-connect-for-buddypress/ to make your Genesis child theme compatible with BuddyPress.

@ugcheleuce WordPress and BuddyPress could handle this no problem. Depending on what features you’d need, you may need to write some custom code or add some plugins.

@robg48 – this could well be half of the solution you’re looking for when importing stuff from WP to BP. Although there’s no mention of a user import (just blog posts).

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-import-blog-activity/

Edit: Just came across the following – please note i’ve not tested it.

BuddyPress Members Import

I was able to get this (create a link to the post author’s BP profile) to work using Boones suggestion here http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/43528/how-to-get-a-buddypress-user-profile-link-and-a-certain-user-profile-field-for-t

To get it to work in the sidebar (running Genesis and the Content Aware Sidebar plugin) I had to use the code below to pull the author id outside the loop. I am strictly an amateur but this may be where folks are having trouble adding a link in sidebars, plugins or widgets?

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/39493/getting-user-id-for-the-author-meta-outside-the-loop-in-multisite

If you are like me, and not a coder, below is the exact code I used:

<?php
$temp_post = get_post($post_id);
$user_id = $temp_post->post_author;
$author_bp_profile = bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id );
?><a href="<?php echo $author_bp_profile;?>">View the author's profile</a>