@BrainiacWebDesigns

Have you seen this new plugin? Looks perfect
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/opentok-video-chat/

Platform is not BP compatible. I just downloaded it and verified. The author of the theme has put the ‘buddypress’ tag in the theme’s metadata, which tricks unsuspecting folks into thinking that it’s compatible. But there are no BP template files in the theme at all. (A pretty crappy thing for the author to do, if you ask me.)

Not to worry – you can make the theme compatible by installing the BuddyPress Template Pack: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

== Q: How do I ensure mod-rewrite is enabled? If it’s a matter of making log entries in wp with ‘other than default permalinks’ selected, then this is fine and I can post to the wp blog. ==

But is your URI “pretty”? As in looking like http://yoursite.com/about and not http://yoursite.com/?page_id=2

If it’s the latter, then your mod_rewrite is not working or not enabled. Are you on Linux/Unix server or Windows?

Find .htaccess located at root of your WP installation. So if you installed WP in domain root, you would find .htaccess file here http://yourdomain.com/.htaccess If you have access to cpanel, open it up with editor and copy the content and paste here.

== and NOT via webhost scripts ==

Webhost scripts being referred to here are simplescripts and fantastico, etc provided by webhosting services which have caused many issues especially with BP.

A manual installation just involves uploading WP files to server via FTP/cpanel/etc, creating database, then running http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/install.php and going through the process.

== I have now installed BP/WP on the root folder for the domain whereas I had it under the subdir blog. ==

Not exactly what it’s meant, but it’s good that you have WordPress at domain root.

After you have successfully installed WP and set permalinks to other than the default permalink in dashboard menu Settings > Permalinks, you need to check that you have pretty permalinks working.

Then go to dashboard menu Plugins > Add New, install then activate BuddyPress plugin.

There’s a plugin for this:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/

It’s an older plugin and the developer is now busy with other projects, so you’ll need to update the plugin manually so the admin menu will show up in WP.

Read this tutorial:
http://code.ipstenu.org/2011/wordpress-3-1-network-menu/

(Edit) Just read the full post, you want to hide it from group feeds only? Or throughout the site? If throughout the site, the plugin will do the job. If only on group feeds, you can take the basic premise from the plugin, then you’ll need to do a conditional to check if you’re in a BP feed.

For a free alternative, you can try Theme My Login:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/

This will make your login page:
hxxp://example.com/login/

And also, I believe buddydev.com offers a plugin for this as well, but it’s a premium plugin.

@boonebgorges – Looks like the button hooks are missing in BP Template Pack:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/functions.php#L339

This will fix the issue stevieg is experiencing.

Hello Travel-Junkie,
i’m thinking about the purchase of BuddyVents but i’d like tohave some info about this:

i’m working on a new project based on WordPress Multisite and Studiopress Genesis Framework, i yet purchased Genesis Connect for run BuddyPress on Studiopress Theme .. what i need is to manage events and locations too, i mean i need to have a page for single location also with all informations (i taked a look at scubavagabonds.com and something like this http://scubavagabonds.com/dive-schools/aquatours-almeria/ wit a tab menu could be good) and have also a list of locations similar at that of events (like this http://test.shabushabu.eu/events/). More i need to have categories (better tags also), global search ecc ecc … so i know maybe i’m asking a lot but just i’d like to undestand if with this plugin i can do something near at my idea …

thank
Luca

Deactivate BuddyPress. Then re-upload BuddyPress files manually – FTP or cpanel, etc – clear cache, then activat BP again.

Another note, if you installed WordPress via simplescripts or fantastico, then I suggest you start from scratch and install WP manually – upload via FTP/cpanel, create DB, etc.

@Bowromir – On the last activate this plugin I got some error. I tried to activate it on the WordPress 3.2-beta1 (multisite) and BP 1.2.8.

== My new user registrations only appear in Network Admin -> Users. ==

Yeah, that’s how it’s done now since around WP 3.1 multisite, one is listed as user of a network – one login to all sites of multisite install as a subscriber (or role which the Super Admin set in options for new users).

This plugin could help with what you want to do https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-user-management/

@Scotty501 I just checked out fishbook theme in test install. The activity lists are not going bonkers like what’s happening in your site. I would backup your current fishbook theme (with your mods) to computer hard drive, then rename/delete fishbook theme folder, and re-upload fresh fishbook theme https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/fishbook-buddypress-buddypack

They are tied in with wordpress.org accounts. Not sure you can.

Just stop posting?

Here’s another easy one: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3266

Check this out: https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Feeds

I am pretty sure we wire around wordpress feeds, but I’m not positively sure.

That is neither core WordPress, or core BuddyPress What other plugins do you have running?

Under wordpress MU?

From my understanding your users shouldn’t need to go into the backend to set theme. They should have preset themes.

Thats just default settings in wordpress.

What versions of WordPress, BuddyPress are you using? What theme and plugins are you using?

Which plugin exactly? Unless it’s a BuddyPress-specific plugin, you’re best to contact the author via the wordpress.org forums for any support.

@paulhastings0 Try this filter, it will sync user name on the fly

just paste this block of code in your template functions.php

`
/////////////////////////
///// To sync user names on the fly, it will show xprofile fullname of user
/////////////////////////
function wpi_sync_member_name($data) {
global $members_template, $bp;

#$firstname = xprofile_get_field_data( 1, $members_template->member->id ); // 1 = firstname > wp_bp_xprofile_fields.id
#$lastname = xprofile_get_field_data( 51, $members_template->member->id ); // 51 = lastname > wp_bp_xprofile_fields.id
#$fullname = $firstname .’ ‘.$lastname;
#return $fullname;

return bp_core_get_user_displayname( $members_template->member->id );

}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_member_name’, ‘wpi_sync_member_name’ );
`