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This was bugging me and I decided to do some research. I posted the results here: http://architectedfutures.info/2011/08/23/bp-wp-profile-sync/ If I made any errors that misinform please help me to correct them by posting a comment or using the contact page to send me a note. Thanks!

Basically I want to post this to leave a track for others with the same issue. Note also, there is a BP TRAC ticket 3335 opened on this.

This isn’t a buddyPress issue. Google this for WordPress. There may even be a plugin already.

If not you create an if statement on e same page template:

If user_is_logged_in {

}else{

}

It helps to post with a clear subject of what you’re looking to do.

Buddypress Media – http://code.google.com/p/buddypress-media/
BP-Gallery – http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/
BP-YouTube-Feed – http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-youtube-feed/
Tubepress – http://tubepress.org/

But this might be the best solution for you:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contus-video-galleryversion-10/

There are tons of options. I just found that one with a quick Google search, so it can’t be a national secret.

The basic steps @thewhyteempire

1. Make sure you installed WordPress manually instead of using webhost scripts which messes up multisite and BuddyPress

2. Make sure you’ve got mod_rewrite enabled and that your pretty permalinks are working in WP install.

3. Create a network per link given by r-a-y above. Check that you can create a new subsite and that you can upload images in said subsite.

4, Then install BuddyPress and activate in main site or in subsite (secondary) created

Try updating your permalink settings here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Permalinks_Screen

Choose anything but the default.

Did you create the network using these steps?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Because you’re using subdomains, you’ll need to set that up correctly as well:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Step_2:_Setting_Wildcard_Subdomains

Btw, this is a WordPress problem; did you try posting your question over there?

Support Forums

@digitalhytop – BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin; front page handling is a WordPress thing.

Modemlooper’s link is a good place to start.

When you create a new page for your frontpage, you’ll probably want to create a page template for it:

Page templates: The untapped potential of WordPress

You choose a front page just like creating a static page in WordPress.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

We actually built a plugin for that function, wich was based on eventpress from kunal! It worked for a while, but we are rebuilding it using custom post! We believe on that, and the powerful from having your own custom post to update with wordpress and no depending of others plugin that can be updated or NOT.

@larrysmith1000, @Arwym, @FitzUCF, @janismo, @hnla
I don’t know if anyone is still looking at this, but I think it is a topic that is worth pursuing. What seems to be getting lost though is what it takes to do the job.

A facility like Justin Tadlock’s members plugin is a big help. It provides a mechanism to define and edit roles and apply them to users. That covers a lot of territory. However, unless the content management part of the software looks for and enforces those roles, it is meaningless. Justin provides a facility to do that if what you are talking about posts/pages and potentially custom post types. That is fine for WP content or even things like BuddyPress Docs where Boone implemented it as a custom content type (although I haven’t look at the details of his implementation relative to permissions). However, BP adds additional content types. And it is not just FORUMS. Groups are a content type. Private messaging is a content type. etc.

That is where the current_user_can() checks make sense. Users should have permission to perform actions. That doesn’t necessarily mean new roles, but it does mean distinct capabilities. Those capabilities can then be assigned to any role that makes sense. But the capability list needs to be published like it is for WP https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

The mechanism for assigning capabilities to roles and roles to users and doing the actual check is all WP. It’s already there. Justin provides UI to access it. What I am seeing missing in BP is published string literals that have meaning in terms of capability sets and I assume the current_user_can() checks that actually make it happen. (I looked for it on Google and this is where I was directed!)

@DJPaul you talked here in terms of BP1.3, which is now 1.5 I believe. Did any of this actually make it into the code? If not, it sure would make sense to me to find it’s way on to a revised RoadMap.

My 2 cents!

It *should* change it. That setting’s implementation in 1.2.9 had a few issues, so I spent a bunch of time in 1.5 making it better, but that doesn’t help you. When it’s set, you are trying to pick a user from the member directory rather than copy/paste the same URL, right?

Try this plugin : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/

regards

Did you try setting the name compatibility constant as per that codex page you linked to in your post?

do the “broken” user names all have spaces in them? (in general)

Okay, all of my pages like this are also not being found. All of my logged-in admin dashboard stuff works ideally…then when I go to the actual site, the links all go to a “ERROR 404 – PAGE NOT FOUND”
I am hosted on hostgator, and I am not sure I created the blog.dir correctly when I went multi-site.
Thanks anyone who can help!

why not post a notice to have users change their username using this plugin

Allow Your Users to Change their Username on your BuddyPress Based site

I created a static page, but it still shows ‘members’ and ‘group’ tabs, which I don’t want on the home page, as the buddypress social is just one of may things we have. Also, I don’t want the login to show up on the home page. Am I going to have to create a separate home page outside of wordpress?