BuddyPress.org

The codex is a great resource: https://codex.buddypress.org/home/

Please check the permalinks settings: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks – I prefer day and name.

In terms of forums, there is a modified bbPress available if you enable this under the BuddyPress settings. Registration page is /register – and can only be seen if you are not logged into the site. Groups must be created. The rest is probably answered in the codex – or you can ask here.

Enjoy the journey

When I go to youareditched.com/members I get
“To enable the member directory you must drop the “plugin-template.php and plugin-sidebar.php” files into your theme directory.”
which is something I’ve not seen before.

So you have BuddyPress installed and activated; installed Hybrid theme, and then installed and activated Malleable child theme in some order or another. Next thing you need to do is install the BP Template Pack plugin which is not what I see in your page source.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

== When a user Create’s a Blog and follows the link from the site to their created blog they get the following error; Error establishing a database connection ==

This is not a BuddyPress issue. Deactivate all plugins including BuddyPress; change to twentyten theme and check if you as Super Admin can create a blog from the backend. If not, then you have to resolve multisite setup at WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

As for BP Social Theme, you should be able to get free support for your premium theme at http://buddydress.com/

EDIT- could very well be a theme issue. If you change to bp-default theme, does the same error appear?

You can keep your WordPress theme and just install the BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme compatible with BP. No need for a separate installation at all and worrying about sharing users.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Yes ipstenu im using BuddyPress Version 1.2.8.

But downloading the same version from that link you gave me has corrected the issue. Is that 1.2.9 without the version number changed?

Did you ever create a wordpress/buddypress plugin for this? I need to limit characters on activity, but I’m not a programmer. I can activate a plugin though! Also, I need to limit characters on a couple of custom profile fields. Thanks and Let me know!

Did you upgrade BUDDYPRESS to the latest 1.2 version?

You can get the latest in the 1.2 series from https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4550/branches/1.2?old_path=%2F&format=zip (at time of writing. SVN is https://svn.buddypress.org/branches/1.2/)

Hello,

When I go to ‘Appearance >> Widgets’ the Widgets on the right wont open. Like the Text widget, I cant open it to edit the contents.

It gives this error:

f.easing[e.animatedProperties[this.prop]] is not a function
/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load=jquery,utils&ver=fb5c271ac01e8186b23ece33d5ce4961
Line 18

This only happens when ‘BuddyPress Template Pack – Version 1.1.3’ is active with 3.2-RC1.

Thanks

Sure you can create a Page Template and use that to create a new page – especially for the “blog” portion of the site. You can create category-buildings.php and that will show up with all your posts in said category.

Is BuddyPress installed in the same WP where your 84 existing posts are?

Are you using a child theme of bp-default or a WP theme with BP Template Pack?

BP/WP versions?

I should have said multiple WordPress sites are not good on $5 hosting. BBPress is changing to a WordPress Plugin and would probably not require as much resources. FaceBook connect creates WordPress users. Users can use BuddyPress or Next version of BBPress from WordPress user accounts.

@igeekout

Before you can create blogs, you need to create a network on your WordPress install. Here’s how:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

These instructions will show you how to enable Network Mode in WP: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

This will not affect BP, except that you will have a Blogs tab on your main nav.

I’m afraid I don’t know anything about the gamechangers part. If it turns out that you go with a Subdirectory Network installation, you’ll have to make that subdomain off limits at Network Admin > Settings.

BuddyPress is not good on $5 hosting accounts.

I spent time a while back looking at email addresses as usernames, and other scenarios. Things should work better throughout in 1.3, but some users (dots in username, email addresses in usernames) probably need to set define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true ).

I’d prefer this to be smarter and automatic for BuddyPress, but I don’t think anything more work will happen in the 1.3 release, for this issue specifically.

I’ve sent you an email

Marian

Just installed WP3.2RC1 to play with. One thing I noticed was that it allows email addresses as usernames – could that be a problem for BP – especially if someone wants to add BP on after the WP install has lots of users and then wants to sync them…?

There’s another alternative to Janrain. Lanoba.com is new but they already have lot’s of cool features. Rumour has it that a WordPress plugin is on the way.

As per @asshu comment above, Gigya is >15000$/year which is out of the question for most small/medium websites.

Check them out at http://Lanoba.com

Did you install wordpress, or buddypress, from a webhosts built in installer/script or did you do the normal manual install?

Either way it may be a case of needing to re-install as a/some files may be missing… this can happen with ftp errors….

do you have a buddypress ready theme? BP will not work automatically for all themes. You’ll need a Buddypress ready theme and/or use the BP Template Pack plugin. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Check out the bp_activity_action_delete_activity() function in bp-activity.php.

There’s a hook where you can grab the activity ID before it’s deleted:
`/* Call the action before the delete so plugins can still fetch information about it */
do_action( ‘bp_activity_action_delete_activity’, $activity_id, $activity->user_id );`

You could potentially archive this information into a separate table for your own usage.

If you’re not familiar with WordPress hooks, check out the Plugin API codex page:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API

It’s possible, but the plugin would have to create its own tables to store the data. The Group Documents plugin that Dennis mentioned does something similar codewise and can be used as a jumping off point.

It would be better if BP had a dedicated meta table for PMs like the activity component. Then you could easily add this time of information without creating a separate table. I created a ticket here about this:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3083