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This is what I need to help you make your theme compatible with BuddyPress as I posted above.

Open up your ray of light theme’s header.php file, copy all source, go to pastebin.com, paste copied source, click submit, and post the generated pastebin uri here. Do the same for your theme’s footer.php, sidebar.php, index.php and page.php files.

Only after checking out those files will I be able to make any determination and/or request from your theme developer.

To clarify:
– You installed WP and activated BuddyPress in physical subdomain buddypress of centennialchristianchurch.com
– You installed and activated BP Template Pack plugin and have gone through Appearance > BP Compatibility https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
– For Step 3 of the compatibility process, you need to use the 1st method (change 16 BP template files) OR the 2nd method (xxx-buddypress.php file) to make your theme compatible with BP. You haven’t changed anything in your theme files yet?

Open up your ray of light theme’s header.php file, copy all source, go to pastebin.com, paste copied source, click submit, and post the generated pastebin uri here. Do the same for your theme’s footer.php, sidebar.php, index.php and page.php files.

First thing. #2) If you’re changing the BP template pack files, then backup and remove the header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php files we created from your quickstart theme folder in server.

It’s either the 1st method (changing BP template pack files which you did) OR the 2nd method (xxx-buddypress.php files), because mixing them for BP Compatibility is unnecessary and can cause issues if you mix up your HTML structure.

#1) If you delete the header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php files then the changes to the stylesheet will be different assuming you got the markup correct.

Before taking final measures however, perhaps you’d copy source code of your full width page template from quickstart and post to pastebin.com. We could take a look at changing header- and sidebar-buddypress.php instead if feasible.

You mean you want to create a plugin like http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/ ?

Have you checked out BP Album/Media https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/home/

Or, if you really want to start from scratch, you might want to check out how BP Plugins can be made via reading source and using necessary sections at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/

Check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/ to start off.

Sometimes emails end up in spam or junk directories/folders….

Some web-hosting providers might require you to install a wordpress plugin such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ and/or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp also has a useful debug feature and more settings…

Not a bug. It matches exactly how they work in WordPress posts. I think we’d need a good argument to change the behaviour.

@jmk10276 in buddypress 1.6 their will be Akismet integration built into buddypress, which will help kill the activity spam. https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

Their isn’t really any spam protection plugins for buddypress available right now though,
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-labs/ is the plugin that the 1.6 core akismet-intergration is based on, but as the plugin page states “all experiments are in beta, and come with no guarantees.”

Another option might be to use a captcha plugin to kill them at the registration page – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/

== It’s set up for subfolders with multisite, not subdomains ==

My bad. But using /blog/ in permalinks with the subfolder structure is even worse. That’s why you need to change permalinks. See why: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Permalinks

(2) – You may want to see the Block activity types plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/

@heruputra – as @Mercime said, you can easily do it with CSS, removing the indent styles so that they appear to be seperate comments to the activity.

You could also use this code – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1870#comment:2
changing the depth to 1 will remove the ‘reply’ button on comments.

Check out how feeds are done in BuddyPress itself.

There are two things you need to do:
1) Create an action listener to tell BuddyPress that the URL you’re on is the feed
2) Next, tell BuddyPress what template file to use for the feed and create an activity loop to generate the feed.

For example, to see how BuddyPress generates the sitewide activity feed:

1) BP creates an action listener for the sitewide activity feed here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-activity/bp-activity-actions.php#L359

2) BP uses the following template file referenced in step 1 to generate the sitewide activity feed:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-activity/feeds/bp-activity-sitewide-feed.php#L1

See how that file structures the RSS feed? It uses an activity loop (bp_has_activities()) with specific arguments to sitewide activity.

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To create an unreplied RSS feed, follow the steps above as a guide.

Instead of an activity loop in the RSS feed, you’ll probably need to use a forum topics loop with ‘type=unreplied’ as the argument.

Hope that gives you a few pointers.

Check out how activity RSS feeds are parsed in:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/feeds/

There are a few hooks you could potentially use to add additional content.

If you want to filter the item description, use the “bp_get_activity_feed_item_description” hook available in the bp_get_activity_feed_item_description() function.

Various other filters are available for the item title, etc. in bp-activity-template.php as well.

This is fixed in the trunk version of BuddyPress:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3682

Before anything else, I have updated sidebar-buddypress.php in post above to include necessary script for the register page near bottom of file.

re activity comments: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1870#comment:2

Are you using the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin? (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/) I used that and followed the procedure for adding BP compatibility to my theme that the plugin provides.

You’re welcome.

== only thing missing is the background image ==
That is because the body class .custom-background where your black background is added to is not automatically generated in the BuddyPress template files. If you are set in what your style is, you could copy over the body.custom-background styles to body { }

== If I got rid of the sidebar for a full width view, would it break? ==
Check if the theme has a full-width template file and make the changes in header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php per structure.

That happens every time i use the template pack css.

add this to your css…

div.item-list-tabs ul li.last {
margin-right: 40px;
}