What I am looking for is something that works just like facebook on buddypress. I am new to wordpress. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
It will be as stable releases always are but obviously it’s presently only at beta 2 stage so users can test out and provide feedback!
Is this going to be available soon via WordPress as an plugin update?
Thanks!
Hi All,
I am able to use buddypress with only the default template of wordpress and I want to utilise other templates of my responsive theme to design the site or to do that I need to go back to the buddypress specific themes.
Please advise.
I am stuck. I don’t know what I am doing and I cannot afford to pay anyone. I have a very successful facebook page and I want to try to get my fans onto the wordpress/buddypress site. This is work in progress. I am not seeing how my fans will post questions on the website. Can someone help me?
http://www.areaguides.us If you want to check out my facebook page (it might help to understand what I am trying to do), it is http://www.facebook.com/fortbenningareaguide. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you so much!
I am stuck. I don’t know what I am doing and I cannot afford to pay anyone. I have a very successful facebook page and I want to try to get my fans onto the wordpress/buddypress site. This is work in progress. I am not seeing how my fans will post questions on the website. Can someone help me?
site areaguides.us If you want to check out my facebook page (it might help to understand what I am trying to do), it is facebook.com/fortbenningareaguide. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you so much!
hi @panoravu,
for css styling, be inspired by this: http://www.php-ease.com/code/wordpress-style-admin-bar.html
If you want to code something into the Toolbar, you have to play with the wp_admin_bar filter.
The function goes then to your theme functions.php
Based ons omething like this
function my_function( $wp_admin_bar )
{
/* what you need here */
}
add_filter( ‘admin_bar_menu’, ‘my_function’ );
Google around to find many answers about the WP Toolbar, like this one:
http://technerdia.com/1140_wordpress-admin-bar.html
hi @p2ab,
on BP 1.6.x, a child theme contains at first only one file: style.css
The only thing to add in are comment tags.
/**
* Theme Name: what you want
* Description: what you want
* Version: what you want
* Author: what you want
* Template: bp-default (this is very important: it’s the name of the parenttheme)
* Tags: blue, buddypress, two-columns, white…. (what you want)
**/
default.css is the buddypress main css file and you don’t have to copy it to your child theme.
Also, you have nothing to import ! This is optionnal and not necessary.
Just use the same ID and class names of the parts you want to customize and do your css modifications.
Remeber also that in a few weeks, BP 1.7 will be avaible and will let you use any existing WP theme with the opportunity to spare some long tweaking to recreate the wheel. Perhaps.
https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/building-a-buddypress-child-theme-for-bp-1-2/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
you could also use this plugin before exporting your DB:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cleanfix/
I believe your report is covered by:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4573
It’s a gremlin that doesn’t appear for most installs.
It’s been reported in various guises for quite awhile.
I was hoping that forcing a value into gmt_offset would solve it for you. :{
Hi,
I want to make custom field called use_country
and put it in register big as a required field , contains drop down menu with countries,
to let user choice his country , thats it ! …. please i need this badly ! .
thiss list of countries http://svn.buddypress.org/branches/1.0/bp-xprofile/prebuilt-fields/
and in member page i can short user by country
you can take look at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/
ability to selectively take posts from sub-sites and repost to the main blog
@ubernaut Didn’t need that feature. It was automatic posting to main site/site of choice from all subsites. I install it, configure it a little, that’s that. For what you want, check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/threewp-broadcast/screenshots/
any word on when this will be available to update via WordPress? dashboard isn’t prompting me … (yet)
@mercime i was looking at that plugin recently because this other one:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/network-shared-posts/
doesn’t work anymore looking to have the ability to selectively take posts from sub-sites and repost to the main blog would the plugin you mentioned allow me to achieve that you think or am I’m DYI territory here you think? thanks!
@hnla I suspected that this was probably a WP-Engine issue and that there wouldn’t be much you guys could do. I came here out of hope rather than expectation in case someone on here had experienced a similar issue and had some tips or advice.
With regards to the number of users there are a large number of fake/spam user accounts (I estimate 10,000+) that were registered on older versions of WordPress/bbPress before we upgraded and switched to CloudFlare and WP-Engine which has reduced spam considerably. We have also gradually been deleting obvious fakes but as you can appreciate this is a laborious task.
WP-Engine have refused to temporarily increase the resource limits to see if that enables the BuddyPress installation to complete. At this point I think I’ll try downloading a copy of the site and see if I can run the BuddyPress install on a local LAMP/WAMP setup and allocate 1GB+ to PHP memory.
@hnla This was my advice from WP-Engine:
After extensive testing on the staging site to determine what is causing the errors when activating BuddyPress, I was able to rule out a conflict with all other plugins (including our own) as well as conflict with your theme.
The problem is that your site has almost 38,000 users. I was able to prove this by deleting all users except the “admin” and “wpengine” user from the staging site. Then, I installed and attempted to activate BuddyPress. This time it activated with no error in less than 10 seconds.
I recommend removing users from your WordPress site if possible. If not, then you should contact BuddyPress support to determine how to activate BuddyPress with so many users.
@mercime I’m reluctant to move host (unless I find another host that can guarantee a solution) as WP-Engine are normally quite good and I recommend them to most of my clients. Their advice was to come here for support on this particular issue.
I have been trying to install BuddyPress on a WordPress (with bbPress) website with over 25,000 users but the install keeps failing and crashing the WP-Admin area with PHP memory limit errors.
WP-Engine have told me that the install fails due to the number of users and they are unable to increase the resource limits temporarily to assist me.
Does anyone have advice on installing BuddyPress with such a large user base?
from the previous version of wordpress to WordPress 3.5.1. – i didn’t upgrade buddypress as i had made some modifications to the layout. Everything else works bar the avatar upload/change. When this is changed there is a blank page and hang type behaviour. I’ve tried various permetations of permissions but with no success.
Hi!
If somebody still need to disable activation email, the following function works fine for me:
`
// Change the text on the signup page
add_filter( ‘bp_registration_needs_activation’, ‘__return_false’ );
function my_disable_activation( $user, $user_email, $key, $meta = ” ) {
// Activate the user
bp_core_activate_signup( $key );
// Return false so no email sent
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘my_disable_activation’, 10, 4 );
remove_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_blog_notification’, 1, 7 );
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘__return_false’ );
`
Thanks to @cnorris23 for it! https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3443
Hope it helps to someone 🙂
a member login menu that would take the registered users to a login form similar to the form on the sidebar. Hope that makes sense.
@bookee you can create a page template with only the login form code you copied then go to Pages > Add New, add Page Title e.g. Join Us, then use the page template with the login form you created. Or, you might want to try out pcwriter’s tutorial http://wpmu.org/how-to-build-a-facebook-style-members-only-wordpress-buddypress-site/
how do I make it so that when they click the title to read more that they go to the blog on my site NOT the members site?
That’s the default behavior. You need to install a plugin to do what you posted. I used the WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages. Do read the Other Notes of the plugin. It’s not been updated for 3.5.1 but it’s still working in my installation. If you find issues with the plugin, do post at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags
