Different strokes for different dropdown plugins. At this stage, recommend that you contact plugin author and/or post at WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks where you’d need to be clear which dropdown plugin you’re using.

I will presume you’ve gone through this https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ and only need to adjust code in BP template pack files as follows:

Open up the first file, activity/index.php and change
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The do the same with the remaining template files

Note that you would have to change the

or

tags wrapped around page titles in BP template pack files as needed to

per your theme’s page titles.

Check out this trac ticket. Know however, that in upcoming BP 1.5, the bp_page_title has been deprecated and WP’s wp_title will be used instead.

Here is another good plugin for opening external links in new windows.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/open-external-links-in-a-new-window/

== As far as the coding goes, am I supposed to start from scratch or copy over all the files from the plugin / bp-default directory? ==
Depends on what modifications you’d like to implement and how you want to go about it.

Create a child theme of bp-default – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ – you can import the bp-default default.css in your style.css and make the revisions as well as copy over one or more template files/s from bp-default theme if needed

or use a WP Theme and install the BP Template Pack plugin and go through the process
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Just as a sanity check have you got the setting turned on to allow groups?

Under components have you turned enabled Groups: Let users create, join and participate in groups.

Are you signed in as admin or signed in as a user and does it make a difference to seeing group creation?

If you have a little more information would be great such as what version of BuddyPress / WordPress you are using and also the theme you are using? Does the problem happen with all plugins turned off (I know it can be a pain but it’s good to sanity check them)? Also maybe you can provide a link to your site?

In IIS Manager, go to the virtual directory and click right / properties, there you can go to the documents tabs and set up the “enable default content page” to index.php

IMHO Apache runs circles around IIS, on our win2k8 server we’re running apache and php instead.

This article might also help you translate .htaccess to an IIS webconfig, too (if needed) :http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/557/translate-htaccess-content-to-iis-webconfig/

As an M$ engineer IIS is not something I would rather rely on for production sites unless you have M$’s budget to just throw more servers at the load and be able to deal with a few coming off the rails while you sort things out (yes even in IIS7). That’s why I’m a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) admin when it comes to things I own and care about.

If you’re not planning to be working with ASP or need active directory integration with desktop PCs, and that sort of thing there’s no need for it. I say let WordPress run on it’s native environment.

@RPD If you mean this theme, https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/animass, then we’ll use the WP page.php file as guide in the transformation.

Open up the activity/index.php file transferred to your anIMass folder in server. At the top, replace:
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There is this plugin, however its out dated. I’m going to create something similar in the future. No date set but it’s on my list of plugins to create

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-quickpress

https://buddypress.org/2011/05/buddypress-template-pack-1-1/

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@foxly Thanks. Yeah, it must be stripping iframe tags from non-Administrators. (And this is a separate install from wordpress.com, so it doesn’t have the googleapps shortcode.) Anyway, I’ve put them in there: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-plugin-compatibility/

Not sure what’ll happen when a non-Admin edits the page; they may get stripped again. I’ll try to figure out a way around this.

@boonebgorges We’ve spent the better part of an hour trying to debug the BP codex page, but it won’t render the Google Docs embed, even when we add it in the admin back end.

WordPress.com officially supports Google Docs embeds announcement, support page, and the embed works properly on several different test sites we tried it on. The problem seems exclusive to buddypress.org.

Could you guys up one of us to super admin for a bit so we can check if it’s stripping embeds by normal editors as some sort of spam control measure?

Thanks!

^F^

Sitgmartyr – This issue has been reported and fixed, but unfortunately there will not be a public, new release under the 1.2 series because attention has shifted to 1.5.

However, you can patch and fix this yourself:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4626

Or download the 1.2 dev branch and overwrite your current “buddypress” folder:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/1.2 (scroll to the bottom and click on the ZIP download)

Remove all your htaccess code that you’ve added as that isn’t related to this issue.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

== If I don’t have bp-config.php I just create it inthe buddypress plugin directory, right? ==
The internal Forum installation process will automatically generate the “bb-config.php” at root of your install when you go through the process.

Thanks for posting that tutorial, @foxly. The ‘wp’/’admin_menu’ hook is a very old technique that has nonetheless continued to work. I’ve got that on my list of things to write about on bpdevel.wordpress.com. Maybe I’ll do so later today, and link to your very helpful wiki page.

What versions of WP and BP are you using, @esploded? What errors do you get in your web server’s error logs? I bet this is to do with https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1486

> Will get that sorted trying to get the spreadsheet to work in the page to save time currently but will get it marked as not fail because of those.

If this is done, I’d argue that the “Excellent” ratings should just be a “pass”. The “excellent” rating, compared to the others, is subjective and is dependant on who tested the plugin (and their knowledge of PHP, WordPress and BuddyPress APIs, etc).

I just got the latest version a few hours ago. For me, the menu only looks okay if I don’t assign a menu to the theme in Appearance > Menus > Theme Locations. If I do set it, then it looks like it does in my image above.

Also, in the backend, I’m seeing this message:
“You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress-compatible theme to take advantage of all of BuddyPress’s features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes or update your existing WordPress theme.”

Also, in your profile > Activity tab > Personal (when viewing another member’s profile) / Mentions / Friends / Groups, there is no spacing above the first activity stream item

That’s all I could find! Good job!

@frizzo – sounds like you are looking to implement WPMU (multisite)

Here is a link to help get you started: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

The way I’m doing it, our main buddypress site is the master domain, all users from that site can use their accounts around any of our sub-blogs or domains. There’s even a premium plugin for domain name support so you’re not just limited to a subdirectory.

Hope this helps!

One way is to change all your user’s passwords with some generic-only-you-will-know password.
Then a user is forced to reset their password when s/he attempts to login next time.

Read this post for some pointers (especially the ninja section):
http://digwp.com/2009/10/five-ways-to-change-your-wordpress-password/

I should state that BuddyPress runs on top of WordPress, so this is technically a WordPress issue.

That’ll either have been the BuddyBar, from BuddyPress, or perhaps the admin bar from WordPress 3.1+.