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All right.

@BlendNZjnr You’re going to have to change 16 files contained within the 6 BP template folders transferred to your swatch theme folder in server listed here https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#tplfiles

Download the 6 BP template folders (clean ones) to your computer HD.

A. At the very top of all the other template files listed in link above, replace from get_header to div.padder
e.g.
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First: If you have BP 1.5.3.1 activated in a WP 3.3.1 installation, best practice is to only add plugins which are compatible with at least BP 1.5 or WP 3.3. If you install plugins compatible with lower versions of BP, be assured in all probability, you’d get fatal errors somewhere.

If you mean a single ning site (not the whole ning), it could cost you $4000 – $5000 to set up. Could be higher depending on your requirements. That doesn’t include maintenance, upgrade or server costs. Of course, could be cheaper with other devs. You could post at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/home/ and/or http://jobs.wordpress.net/

Just to clarify my last post. You would use two redirection plugins, they do not conflict each other!
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peters-login-redirect/

Pagelines has video about this http://www.pagelines.com/docs/buddypress or get a free forum account there at http://www.pagelines.com/launchpad/signup.php?price_group=-128&product_id=128&hide_paysys=free or do a search in theme’s forums

There’s also a year-old solution which you might want to check out https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-buddypress#post-1796598

i’ve never changed the ID of what blog buddypress runs on, but assuming it talks to wordpress the same way as having it on the root blog (which it should, and if it doesn’t it should be reported as a bug) then all your questions are a yes.

1. Yes, activity stream tracks site-wide activity.
2. yes, one username (it doesn’t modify the way WordPress Multisite runs much…)
3. If you are using the bp-default them, then yes it does, if your using another theme then it wont by default. you will have to modify the theme (refer to bp-default theme for how it’s done their)
4. I’ll leave the languages questions to someone else (i dont mess with doing things with different languages)

== I’m using the Platform theme version 1.4.2 which during installation said was compatible.==

That’s because the theme author tagged the theme “buddypress” which is misleading since the theme may be BP-friendly but it doesn’t contain any BuddyPress templates. You will need to install and activate BP Template Pack plugin and go through the BP Compatibility process to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress. https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

If WordPress supports this, it should work with BuddyPress

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

I’m having issues with settin up a forum either.
Set up WordPress, installed Buddypress and first tried to get sitewide forums running. Kept getting the complaint that the forums component wasn’t set up yet, although I was quite sure it was.
Then de-installed bbpress and set up a groups forum.
I have a forum directory now, but when I want to create a new topic it says: please pick the group forum where you would like to post this topic. Although I just did in the little dropdown menu below.

I really, really would like to hav a step by step tutorial on how to set up a forum in buddypress, with a private community. One that fits the screens I see, because most blogs and tutorials about this look older and have losts of different screens and features.

@doctorwhobbc without knowing what exact theme your using, all we can suggest is to follow the steps written on the codex.

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

We should be stripping HTML comments rather than just parsing out the angled tags, which is what I guess is happening. Please could you report this on http://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org? Thanks

You can’t have a network on a network created site. It gets complicated.

You could however have seperate installs on the same domain and take it from there.

subdomain-one.site.com
subdomain-two.site.com

You would then upload and install WordPress in both these location and install / activate network / BuddyPress as you require.

public-html/suddomain-one/
public-html/subdomain-two/

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network That’s all you need.

WP 3.x baby.

WordPress.org

wp-config.php

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

Login

Tools -> Network

Follow the steps.

Install BuddyPress.

Ready to rumble.

No reason to bump anything here at all. The forums don’t move fast enough and all of the core devs and moderators do a great job at keeping their eyes on things.

@MaTaX91 as @dcavins said, the buddybar is being depreciated (when BP 1.6 comes out) so, you should use the toolbar.

The toolbar is alot easier to modify too
Here’s the codex – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_node

The section on the WordPress codex should help you out their.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website

Here’s the link to etivite’s plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-stream-atgroups/

You’d b better off disabling the buddybar and customizing the wordpress bar. There’s lots on the web about that, and the buddy bar is slated to go away, I believe.

Add this line to wp-config.php to re-enable the WP bar:
`define ( ‘BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR’, true );`

Try this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/

For a workaround, to stop BP from purging WP Super Cache, add the following in your theme’s functions.php:
`remove_action( ‘wp_login’, ‘bp_core_clear_cache’ );`

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3962