@roxanne-bland, Buddy press is a “create your own social network” type plugin.
if you are looking for something that will allow people to “follow” your blog you are either looking for something passive, like setting up an obvious RSS link on your blog and encouraging those who use RSS to follow yours
Or if you are looking for something more active, then something that will email your “readers” when you post to your site.
Currently out of the box people can “follow” a wordpress blog if they wish, usually via RSS or bookmarking the site. So i’m not really 100% sure what your are looking for?
Ok, I think I finally figured out how to do the bp-custom.php and get that where it needs to go. It only took me 2 and a half weeks, great huh? 
Now, on to the child theme: The codex says, “The bp-default theme is located in the BuddyPress plugin folder at /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ so it can be updated along with the plugin. WordPress knows where it is, even though your own child theme folder is in /wp-content/themes/.”
I don’t see a themes folder under wp-content, am I supposed to create one and then go on with the rest of the steps?
1. https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
Create bp-custom.php and add
`<?php
define ( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘guilds’ );
?>`
2. https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
== Is there any chance that in a future update, it might be possible to have an option to rename Groups to whatever you want via BP settings? ==
You could add enhancement ticket in BP trac – log in with same username and password https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
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Try the bp moderation plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-moderation/ its only compatible for WP 3.2.1 and BP 1.5 Its not an automatic solution but it does help if a member is posting inappropriate activity, and it allows other members of the community to flag it and you as an admin will receive a notification in the dashboard that will let you decide how to handle the flagged item.
To make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress, you’ll need to install and activate BP Template Pack plugin then go through Appearance > BP Compatibility process
You’re welcome. Simple way yes – vote 5 stars for BuddyPress at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/
Do you have strict cookie settings on your browser? Make sure you’re set up to accept cookies from buddypress.trac.wordpress.org (or try on a browser with default cookies). You may also try clearing your cache.
hello im already fix it with my self 
The answear is. Open your buddypress directory in your cpanel and find index.php (this diffrent in editor in wordpress)
You’ll find code “ Replace it with
` <a href="” class=”more-link”>`
You can change words ‘Read the rest of this entry’ with what you want such as ‘Read more’
Hope this helpful
.htaccess contents
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
wordpress 3.3.1 download from wordpress.org.
buddypress installed – from himself wordpress (plugin, add new)
bbpress installed – the same way, and from buddypress (installed main forum)
I twice deleting wordpress and installed. the same result
Retrieving groups based on current user’s role is a nice idea for a future enhancement for BuddyPress. Would you post such a ticket over on https://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org please? Use your username and password from this site.
Doesn’t look like there is a nice way of doing this. Checking with those functions after-the-fact will mess up any pagination you may use, or zebra striping, or things like that.
In your bp_has_groups(), be sure to set the ‘user_id’ parameter if you are doing this outside of the profile page area. This will limit the query to only groups that the specified member has joined. Then put something like this in your bp-custom.php file (not tested, but should point you in the right direction): http://pastebin.com/ceJgyWLT
No. It might make a good idea for a future enhancement; please post it on https://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org using your username and password from this site.
In Chrome, nothing happens when I click the link.
In IE, if it’s my first try since I started my browsing session I will get a login prompt (browser pop-up). When I enter my buddypress/wordpress info (actually the same in my case), I am taken back to the same page and it still shows me as not logged in. If I try and login again from the same browser window, nothing happens. If I close and re-open the browser window, I get the prompt, but again doesn’t appear to log me in.
Thanks for your help on this.
This is what I see when I am logged out of trac, which is what I suspect you’re seeing.
What do you see after clicking the “Login” link in the upper right corner? You should get an alert that pops up and prompts you to login. If so, use your WordPress.org/BuddyPress.org/bbPress.org username and password. You should be good to go from there.
@mosaicrob You will change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your insignio 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
`
BP Album, free, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/ has photos and the BP Media beta version will also support audio files, embedded videos, embedded images, and much, much more.
BP Gallery, premium, http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/ audio, video, images for individual users and/or groups
I am not saying to jump the gun and make every single Profile field either view-able or not depending on friendship. Just a simple choice to display or not to display your profile to people you are not friends with.
Have you checked out the trunk for BP 1.6 lately? https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk
You’ll be pleasantly surprised. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5789 for example.
all members should have to be logged first before even given the option to view another members profile, maybe a landing page integration built into BuddyPress core that redirects any visitor the the landing page when attempting to view any post or page on the site.
That’s different and already possible with a couple lines of code.
See https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/tasty-kitchen-member-privacy/
Hi,
I’m after basically some links on front page eg: docs, links, news, volunteers
then when a registered user logs in, buddypress kicks in and the registered user wont see any of the above listed links but new ones, such as friends, groups, docs, forums etc.
thanks for the reply though.
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Are you talking about a landing page? Check out my social network http://www.snaplist.net23.net if what I have done with my site is what your trying to achieve let me know and I will assist you.
@cwhittl, not sure if this is what you looking for , but have a look at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/
regards
Hi @mercime
I’m using this theme: http://themeforest.net/item/insignio-flip-portfolio-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/1033674
Here is my install:
http://irsu.co/thegreatestgift
I just checked the code and it is pasted correctly. I can email it to you if helpful.
Thanks for using your knowledge to empower.
heyshamsw You will need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your thematic child 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
`
`
with
`<?php
// calling the header.php
get_header();
// action hook for placing content above #container
thematic_abovecontainer();
?>
<?php
// calling the widget area ‘page-top’
get_sidebar(‘page-top’);
the_post();
thematic_abovepost();
?>
So are you guys going to address this issue? I have the same problem on a clean install of wordpress and buddypress with no additional plugins active and have tried several themes. My site is http://www.websitesthatkickass,com/patrick/
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More than likely it is a plugin. Try disabling each plugin one by one and keep registering and trying the activation until you narrow it down to the culprit. I had the same issue once and the culprit was the “Disable WordPress Updates 1.2 plugin.”
