Thanks Fee … that worked up to a point. I’m using WP 3.51 immediately after a fresh install and so the default theme Twenty Twelve is being used. So, after your instructions (with a small uncertainly at the end) all I see on the nav bar is Home, Activities, Members, Sample Page. Nothing about groups or forums.
Your instructions mentioned ‘Activate group forums for BuddyPress’ which I couldn’t see on the page. What I got was
BuddyPress Forum settings for BuddyPress
Enable Group Forums Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums
Group Forums Parent is the parent for all group forums
Using the Forum Root is not recommended. Changing this does not move existing forums.
The first box was ticked by default (which I left alone) and as instructed, I set the Group Furums Root to ‘Group Forum’.
So, why are there no Forums on the home page ?
Apologies if I’m being stupid here. I think you BP folks have done a great job .. however, I find the available docs not very user-friendly i.e. if I click on ‘documentation’ from the BP home page, I get a list of extremely esoteric items where I would expect to see a few idiot’s guides on installation, configuration etc etc. I reckon that I’m quite knowledgeable about WordPress having created and supported 3 sites, but I’ve found bbPress and BuddyPress very confusing.
Thanks
Ron
hello, Can anyone throw some light on my problem. Please
Hi Guys,
I am trying to get BuddyPress 1.7 to work with a new theme called “Novelti”
I am getting a bit confused at how to get certain elements to look right ???
The main problem I am having is with the individual member pages
http://fitnessblogger.net/fitnessblogger/
Can anyone help with with getting this looking correct 🙂
BuddyPress 1.7
WordPress Multisite 3.5.1
http://fitnessblogger.net
I thank you in advnace..
With multisite I mean both sites inside of one installation: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
There you can activate BP on the main site, then all the community stuff will go there. You can add another site (subdomain) and run your WP stuff there. But that’s not that easy, too. Read throught the linked page if this would be a possibility for you.
Otherwise maybe the easiest would be just to switch completely to the new theme…
Short answer: Yes it is. The question is how comfortable you need the language management (e.g. the connection of content between languages).
The newest version of WPML seems to have the ability to serve domains for different languages. Did’nt try it yet. http://wpml.org/
If not you could do it manually using WPML or qtranslate. Setup a subsite for each language and turn the preferred language for this site on in the site settings.
Your question seems not to be directly related to buddypress. But if you’re looking for that – there is a plugin by WPML for buddypress: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/
hi where to put this in function.php file
–remove_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_core_screen_signup’, 3 ); —
thanks
Hello any idea people, i have tried uninstalling other plugins and re-installed the setup, still no luck.
There is this but i have yet to employ it i believe needs updating for 1.7 compatibility:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/
with regards to our site in particular new members can only contribute once they are granted that status currently. I’m working on turning it into a network at which point anyone will be able to create their own site and contribute that way. if you’d like to write an article or something i can certainly give you contributor status @attention just let me know your username.
thanks!
@attention,
check your avatar settings on WP first. By default it should be Mystery Man ( i would recommend to let this setting as is). If you activate Gravatar, your site will bind with Gravatar first. User that have no Gravatar account will then have a Mystery Man avatar instead.
This is pureWP admin stuff.
BP handles avatars on a member basis in a slightly different manner. Each user can change/upload his avatar from within his profile.
You’re using Salutation, a third party theme which is IMO complicated to use with BP, because it is a bit away from the WP theme standards.
You also use an old avatar plugin, which wasn’t updated since sept. 2011. So if you use WP 3.5.1 and BP 1.6.5 or 1.7, i doubt that this plugin will work correctly. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-local-avatars/
Let me suggest you this one: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-avatar-suggestions/
It’s not Mystery Man, it’s not Gravatar, but it handles your own avatar pictures or let your user free to choose there personnal one. And the plugin is working with Salutation and with BP 1.7 too.
Hi,
When user without gravatar registeres, WordPress assigns default image to that profile. That works fine. But, when I go to WP User settings and replace default WP user profile image with a photo, it updates it in WP admin, but BuddyPress still shows old default “gray face” avatar. You can see it here: http://vladimircuk.com/carolalt/ – on the right under user “Carlos Burletwa” – it is still showing old default avatar even though I changed it in WP admin to real photo of that person. I am using plugin called Simple Local Avatars: http://10up.com/plugins/simple-local-avatars-wordpress/
Why is BuddyPress not updating avatar of user after it was changed in the WP Admin User section?
hi i am using buddy press here i have set buddypress for user registration but i want to use wordpress registration, when i remove page from page setting in buddypress it is still directing to the same registration page i want to use wordpress registration because i want to design my registration page
any ideads or help
thank in advances
Sorry about that, I am using Buddypress 1.7 on WordPress 3.5.1 it is a brand new site nothing was upgraded from older versions. I am running it off a local machine using WAMP server and the only other plugin I have active is Configure SMTP.
hello all,
I am using WP 3.5.1, Buddypress 1.7 and have subdomain multisite install.
I am using BP default theme.
The problem is that images are not syncing between the blogs and buddypress.
I have checked the option “Enable BuddyPress to wordpress profile syncing”
1- Profile pics don’t show up in buddypress admin bar of individual blogs.
2- Feature images don’t show up in activity stream on buddypress.
Please help, thank-you
I have installed BuddyPress on my website and set up a group. The group seems to be working fine, the only problem is that everything appears twice on the page: http://www.nhsalliance.org/groups/.
How can I stop this happening?
I’m not too experienced with WordPress, so any help would be much appreciated.
This plugin is not been updated in almost 2 years so if you use it and it doesn’t work log into your server, go to wp-content/plugins/ and change the bp-moderation plugin folder to something else to deactivate it if it gives you issues. For example rename bp-moderation to Xbp-moderation just in case. Here is the link to the plugin. Use at your own risk. I have already given you instructions to recover if it fails.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-moderation/
wordpress buddypress and bbpress are all the same user accounts for any given site.
Hi Guys,
I have the same issue on my site http://fitnessblogger.net
I am running BuddyPress 1.7 on a Multisite install WordPress 3.5.1 (Theme Novelti)
I have had a quick look at the link provided by @hnla however i am a bit confused!!!
I am a real BuddyPress Novice so can someone explain how I go about fixing this please 🙂
I thank you in advance..
Kind Regards
James
I really apologize for being persistent with the same old issue, but I still don’t have it resolved yet.
The issue is that the links are outside of the share button.
example: http://vanitywigs.com/vertical.jpg
The test site is: http://vanitywigs.com/wordpress/activity/
I can’t get these links to lineup Horizontally. If I can get it to lineup Horizontally, I would get rid of the actual share button and just used it like that since the links work perfectly.
Any help from the guru’s would be appreciated greatly.
I have set up a new WordPress site using Turnkey Linux running WordPress 3.5.1 and I installed Buddypress 1.7 and bbpress 2.3. I have enabled Friends in the Buddypress settings page, but the Friends tab does not show up when I log in. When I go to members, I can send a friend request, but I can’t find where to accept the request. On both sides it shows a button that says cancel request, but not accept request.
This is a private website, so I can’t link to it. But here is a screen shot.
how can i solve my problem
This photo is my website: picture
This image is linked to another : picture
i want to move “add friend ” ” cancel friend ” to left side
How to do it
please help me?
i use wordpress persian :3.5.1
buddy press : 1.7
WordPress 3.5.1
Buddypress 1.7
I’m using a multi-line text box on profile pages, but paragraph breaks are not appearing. When I look at the code, there are spaces in between the paragraphs, but it is one long text block on the page itself.
I’m using the code below to display the text box.
`bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=About Your Mission Trip’ );`
Any suggestions?
Thanks so much.
http://missionsfund.org/missions/jane-masterson/activity/
Okay so I have been locally developing a buddypress site. My site address has been localhost:8888 for development. I am using post name for permalinks. I have the site in my root directory.
I have .htaccess set up as follows, I have mod-rewrite set up properly (I installed wordpress to the new server and used pretty permalinks before migrating to make sure everything was set up properly and it worked).
`
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
`
Now after moving I am getting 404 errors, but more importantly, my paths are being shown as “weburl.weburl/members/” instead of “weburl/members/”. I simply did the find and replace on all the database before I moved it over to the server.
Finally, the most interesting error I am having is that the dashboard is completely unstylized. It looks like the CSS has disappeared and everything is just listed one after the other. The actual pages also look weird as if they have partial css.
Has anyone encountered this same problem? I would really appreciate any help you could offer!
Did you try the example here
https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb#Examples_5
Try pasting your query between the double quotes.
Make sure you have `global $wpdb; ` in your function.
