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If you’re after just a forum, check out the new bbPress plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

As an aside, we’re going to use custom post types and therefore a lot of the regular WordPress loop in BP 1.4.

am sure its a clash between your theme files and the menu in BP? Am assuming you are aware that in order to get BP up and running, you need to have a BP theme… its different from any other wordpress theme… this might help you out: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

I’m using BoWoB http://www.bowob.com/ its a plugin for wordpress but works good with Buddypress as well, not a buddypress addon or anything but it works and its free.

jobs.wordpress.net

Hello guys,

I’m interested in doing the same thing. Have you figured out a way of doing this without writing an SQL query?

I would be ok with hard coding the field I need to sort by.

My current query looks like this (default buddypress) but how can I have it look for a specific field value?
`$queryString = “type=alphabetical&action=alphabetical&per_page=150”;`

In WordPress I would use this `orderby=field_name` but thats not doing anything here…

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,
C.

@gregfielding : The APC Object Cache Backed (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apc/) plugin seems to work with Buddypress.

For the future, if it would be appropriate for the bundled BuddyPress theme to have an options panel (with the same type of idea as twentyeleven), I think it could make sense. However, always keep in mind Decisions not options. But for BP 1.3, bearing in mind that we want to have a beta as soon as we can manage, I am not convinced there is enough development time*.

What are the options that you would propose to have in a theme options panel?

Here is a guide from Rackspace – for their servers – but it’ll get you started.

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2010/09/02/optimize-your-wordpress-site-with-w3-total-cache/

And here is another from bp-tricks

http://bp-tricks.com/featured/the-perfect-cdn-setup-for-buddypress-using-maxcdn-and-w3-total-cache/

1. https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network first with all plugins deactivated and using twentyten theme

2. Then allow Blog Creation in dashboard BuddyPress > General Settings

@naijaping hey my mentions tag is this ( @timothyjunior) I would have replied sooner but i really only look at my profile for mentions.

I just checked my own theme for this , and as you said it doesn’t list any folders so I can’t locate mine within wordpress either.

I edit my files threw cpanel. Did you edit your files like instructed?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/
http://jobs.wordpress.net/

Here’s another spot to find people:

http://wpcandy.com/pros/experienced/with-buddypress

@Timothy : i created it at wp-content/themes/(My Theme)/members/single/member-header.php. but funny enough, i cant see members-header.php in my theme file at the wordpress dashboard. i can only see it through my FTC.

thanks

@svenl77
I would go to the trac: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
and create a ticket for your ideas. This would give other dev’s the chance to look at it, and you can work it much easier than starting threads on the forum. It also keeps all the files you put up so its a good revision tracker.
And what most of us do is create a patch against the newest version of the trunk and the core dev’s check it out and either ad as/is or work to modify it to fit..

And I was wondering, if moving the sidebar can be done with just CSS why are we adjusting the markup for it then? I understand to avoid repetitious code but for backpat sake if css can do it, why create more hassle? PS, this is the stuff that can go on the trac.

If you want users to have theor own separate blogs, you need to create a network (enable multisite).

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
http://wpebooks.com/2010/09/how-to-enable-multisite-in-wordpress/

Then you can put BP on the main blog or one of the sub blogs fairly easily.

@LPH2005 theme looks nice and clean.

WP themes will look similar at one point or another. I’ve seen freebies with similar design as well, though I suspect many/all of them would warrant a visit to the Theme Decoding Thread https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-requests-for-theme-decoding-in-here-1?replies=424

@ppdesigns == pages I’ve created are mysite/wp/index.php/groups ==
BP devs are going to improve support for Windows – IIS servers since adding that index.php for almost pretty permalinks does throw up errors
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2299 . In the meantime, if you’re working on Windows XP/7 etc, install XAMPP. Or, if you’re on webhost, move to a Linux/Unix server for a more relaxing experience.

@davidbennett what @andrea_r said above. I recommend that you start a new topic of your own.

EDIT- took too long to answer, didn’t see all the conversation already going on

I’ve got the latest wordpress multisite and BP and plugin commander works great for me.

@svenl77

Hi. Once you’ve made your changes, create a patch, and then upload to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ (you will need to make a new ticket — one ticket per patch/idea). Then one of the core team will take a look and give feedback/commit as necessary.
As @dennissmolek said, if a child theme has customised, for example single.php, it is important that this change does not render a duplicate sidebar. I am looking forward to see your suggestion.
Also, how much work would it be to make the sidebar go on the left? Is it just a case of changing the CSS or is it lots of work?

We’re trying to keep backwards compatibility for the theme as much as possible, as we encourage people to create child themes of it ad don’t want to annoy theme developers.

In general regarding custom post types: we have plans to do this everywhere for BuddyPress 1.4. I am sure that once we are closer to the release of 1.3, we will communicate details for 1.4 on the bpdevel.wordpress.com so everyone can discuss. That may be an appropriate time to kick-start the old groups-as-an-object ticket.