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The question about theming/shortcodes is not really related to the issue of WP pages in BP 1.5. BP 1.5 uses WP pages in order to integrate into WP menus, to make it easier to change permalinks, etc. There is no integration with the page templates in your WP theme.

In the future, there will be better integration with a wider variety of WordPress themes. Test out the new bbPress to get a sense of what it might look like. It might not involve shortcodes, but it will be something equally easy. In the meantime, the Template Pack is your best bet.

I don’t know how to make this work on Windows. It’s not really a BuddyPress problem – I’m guessing that a normal WP installation won’t work either, if you turn on pretty permalinks. Have a look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite

The Header and footer and sidebar and content area are usually in every WordPress template. You need to edit the BuddyPress files added to your theme to match the structure of your theme.

Sometimes the content area is called container or wrapper or something else. You need to match the containing div around the content to the BP files.

In step 3 it shows you a diagram of div markup. If you have never edited code you may need to hire someone to do this. On complex themes it can be a challenge.

The gravatar choice is controlled by WordPress’ main option. I think this is on the Reading page of the Appearance wp-admin menu.

I can’t see how setting the front page back to showing blog posts should be broken by 1.5. All this works fine for me on my test installs (admittedly a new install, not an upgrade).

@tmcneill71 You can grab older versions from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/download/

@mikepratt, Tim: What other plugins are you running. What theme. Multisite – if so, subdomain or subdirectory? Prior to upgrading, what did you have your home page set as, or was it just showing blog posts?

The WordPress Admin Bar (not BuddyBar) is a different bar entirely.

Try finding something on the WordPress forums:
https://wordpress.org/support

Can also try this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-custom-admin-bar/ (haven’t tested it myself)

Build a custom menu in the WordPress admin, and use that.

If you are on BP 1.5 go to the page admin and change the URL for register to anything but register or signup. Example: get-your-account

Use a captcha plugin that requires you to answere a question correctly. The number letter ones can be hacked

Make sure the words WordPress or BuddyPress is not shown in the footer or header. View source of page and then find and eliminate those words. Bots search these and then find them. You may also want to change the default text in sidebar.php about creating an account.

That just prompted me to search my inbox for the problem so this is what I wrote a few months ago when I was having that problem :
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If you’re using pretty permalinks then you have to start it with a numeric identifier like %post_id% or %hour% anything with a number in.

%postname% on its own is fine for small sites but wordpress has a bug which sends it into database mental town for big sites.

Just putting %post_id% in and updating all the links has reduced me from 1300queries to 37.
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Maybe even WP3 has solved the problem, to be honest, I’m one of the people who forgets about things the minute they get sorted.

@echiomega My site has literally thousands of pages and the first time mine was eating memory it was due to a wordpress bug with the permalinks (various strange sql queries going into infinite loops) – try changing the format of your permalinks.

I’m not sure it’ll make a difference but worth a go?

Have you tried wrapping the stylesheet in this code:


if (!is_admin()){
// output the stylesheet enqueues here
}


https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_admin

Hmm first up a little more information about your set up would be good.

Are you running single or multisite WordPress?
Are you on the latest WordPress?
Have you checked the minimal server requirements for WordPress and that your server meets these?
Do you have a memory limit in your php.ini file (you may have to ask your host about this)?
Have you tried deactivating all other plugins then just trying BuddyPress with the default theme?

No need to link to your admin panel – make sure you don’t put private information also (just incase) on this forum as it’s a public forum.

I think the problem is that you’re using `$bp->groups->slug` as the parent_slug. You should be using bp_get_current_group_slug().

This change affects you because you’re adding items directly to the group nav, rather than using BP_Group_Extension. Read more about the change: http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/manually-modifying-single-group-navigation-in-bp-1-5/

Hi,

I installed Groupblog on WordPress 3.2.1 & BuddyPress 1.5 using the BuddyPress default theme. It seems to be working except that I don’t see an easy way to post to it. I activated it network-wide then enabled the blog through the group admin. It created a Blog tab in the group page which displays posts. If I use the Dashboard -> New Post link in the BuddyPress admin bar, it takes me to the site blog rather than the group blog. There are two links on the Groupblog page; one is to the Sample page that WordPress comes with and the other to Events which is a page for the EventsManager plugin.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

First, if you want to customize the BuddyPress Default theme, please build a child theme so your customizations won’t be wiped out when you upgrade BuddyPress:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Secondly, once you’ve created your child theme, copy over /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/home.php to your theme’s folder.

Make sure you preserve the folder structure:
/wp-content/themes/MYCHILDTHEME/members/single/home.php

Then, you can add a regular posts loop from WordPress in your /members/single/home.php:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

Just the delete the paragraph line:

`

<?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress.’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘http://wordpress.org&#8217;, ‘http://buddypress.org&#039; ) ?>

`

You filter the loop just like WordPress.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

is this working in 1.5?
my users are creating blogs like http://blogname.subdomain.domain.com

i’m using WordPress 3.2.1 with BuddyPress 1.5

define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 14 );
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );
define( ‘BP_SILENCE_THEME_NOTICE’, true );
define ( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘socailmembership’ );

am i doing something wrong?

BuddyPress has it’s own integrated with WordPress users – you can add profile fields and have other control things. In theory they are the same but with additions.

Yes, if you want to maximise what the site does getting a theme designed from the start for BuddyPress is a good step. But, with the template pack as said you don’t have to do that.

Modernizr hasn’t had any draw backs for me. What exactly is your issue with it? Just load in WordPress after jquery and works like a charm.


wp_enqueue_script("jquery");
wp_enqueue_script('modernizr', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/scripts/modernizr.js', array("jquery"), '2.0');


I store a hand rolled version of modernizr in my scripts/ folder. As I use child themes I use stylesheet as roll variations depending on what site requires.

My point about the width and stretching is not what the host uses but what you embed – it can limit to the embed size and therefore stretch. But, it depends on what hosting you are using for video.

I’ve worked on both the small and large scale with responsive so know both sides of the story.

Ajax issues sounds to me like a scripting clash I’d check using firebug what is going on if I was you.