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Check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-menu/

Sorry, but that is beyond the scope of the assistance I already provided here. Know that most of us who assist here are volunteers. If you are not able to make the basic template changes, you need to find someone or hire someone to do this for you e.g. at http://jobs.wordpress.net and refer them to this post.

Save files. Upload the 6 BP folders with the revised template files to your server wp-content/themes/ray-of-light/

If there are any issues, point your theme developer to this topic. I’m sure they can identify faster any missing or superfluous divs around in the post.

At the bottom of all template files replace:
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with the following for all template files except /registration/register.php:

`

`

with the following for /registration/register.php file:
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();

jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

Based on the HTML structure of the Ray of Light theme, you need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP Template folders transferred to your ray of light theme folder when you ran Appearance > BP Compatibility https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

Download those 6 BP folders to your computer hard drive.

At the top of all the 16 template files per link I gave above, replace:
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This is more of a general question rather than a BuddyPress or a WordPress question. I would not worry about 200k. Obviously, the quicker the better. Load some of your favourite sites into http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ and see what you find

I needed to restrict which user could “Create a Group” in my WordPress 3.3.1 and BuddyPress 1.5.3.1 installation. I was able to do this easily by using these 3 plugins:

BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/)

s2Member (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/)

User Role Editor (http://www.shinephp.com/user-role-editor-wordpress-plugin/)

For example, I wanted to allow only an “s2Member Level 4” member to have the ability to create new Groups. I did the following:
1. Added user capability “publish_posts” as a new rule to the Restrict Group Creation settings.
2. Selected the role “s2Member Level 4” and added the “publish_posts” capability in the User Role Editor settings.

Thereafter, the “Create a Group” button only showed up for members who were s2Member Level 4. The button also showed up for Authors, Editors, and Administrators…but that could easily be controlled by changing the rule in Restrict Group Creation.

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