I am having problems with my multisite/buddypress installation. I have it where users can register for a blog upon registration, but if someone just registers for a user account I can seem to find where I can create a blog from the user account. There is a ‘sites’ tab in the BuddyPress profile but there is no option to create a blog after you have already created a user account and no blog.
The question is how can I get a user to register a blog within the user account profile under the ‘sites’ tab?
Can anyone help me please????
Hi all,
I have installed my Buddyress website in WordPress Multisite mode and activated the option “Blogs and user accounts can register”. Now, new users can register on my site and on the registration page they can click on “Yes, i’d like to create a new site”. For so far, everything goes fine..
But.. What if a user doesn’t click “Yes, i’d like to create a new site” when creating his account? How could the user still create his “site” if he wants to?
Hugo, I asked him directly cause he has been one of the only really helpful people in the forum – to me at least.
The last thread about the two plugins was probably one of the best discussions I’ve heard on buddypress. It was two people debating on the future of BP Media, which is essentially the future of BP. The sad part is that the conversation was (censored) stopped.
Media does not have to be MS only as long as WordPress can contain BP avatars I am sure there is a solution for both. If relationships can be assigned by specifying friend, colleague or family – then assign values to who can see what then it should be doable.
djpaul, I originally titled the post what you retitled it as, however realized “Pink elephant” is exactly what this should be titled. And I would actually have preferred that you left the title as such, instead of censoring my post.
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Definition
com·mu·ni·ty [kuh-myoo-ni-tee]
1.
a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
4.
a group of associated nations sharing common interests or a common heritage: the community of Western Europe.
<<<- ooh look a picture, I think buddypress just got a little colorful. JK
5.
Ecclesiastical . a group of men or women leading a common life according to a rule.
<<<- pictures add a little life! Thats all I am saying – there needs to be a solution addressed by BP. Because you cannot have a community without colorful interaction.
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How many communities have you been to where you have no idea what the other people are like. Hence the need for photos, videos and human interaction. I am just trying to get some focus on what will make these community sites more effective.
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@modemlooper, you wouldn't happen to have any plans on creating something similar to what you mentioned above – would you? Because I really cannot see using the heavily coded plugins that are out there.
Hi!
I have a couple BuddyPress questions that I cannot seem to find answers for. I am a long time WordPress user and BP looks great.
1.) I see where BuddyPress creates a Registration page during the install, but I cannot find a registration form. Do I have to build my own form?
And is if possible to use WP form plugins like Formidable and Gravity? How do most BuddyPress admins handle forms?
2.) Regarding Forums. I noticed that BuddyPress also provides an option to install either Group and Site wide forums. Are these forums the same as bbPress?
3.) Are there any privacy options built into BuddyPress that will allow users to make their pages viewable to “Members Only” and “Public” or only certain “Member Groups”? Or do I have to use plugins for this?
Thank you for any advice. I am happy about discovering BuddyPress. This looks like a great adventure!
If I could go back in time and I was Andy Peatling BuddyPress would have less features. I would extend only the user capabilities of WordPress. Create better relational hooks. Allow developers to create anything and let the users of a site interact with this content. You can do this now and BuddyPress gives you status posting and relates activity and users using groups OOTB.
You can extend the activity through meta and the groups have an api to extend it as well. There are a few media plugins but in my opinion they should be using WordPress media capabilities by creating an API to extend the media capabilities to the front end and then let developers create on top of it. This will create more unique opportunities for site creators instead of being stuck with only one core solution.
@bphelp Google shows some snippets here, here and here.
@mikegarlick Haven’t seen that issue using BP Default theme even in BP 1.6.2. First thing, I suggest you upgrade to latest WP 3.5.1 and6 BP 1.6.4. If you prefer not to upgrade, though it begs the question as to why, download a copy of BP 1.6.2 and re-upload BuddyPress manually, i.e. via s/FTP (see download link near bottom of page https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.6.2 )
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/
I was having this issue on an older install so I setup a fresh wordpress 3.5.1 multisite install with buddypress 1.7 beta(trunk-6829) and the bp groupblog 1.8. This is the only items on this install. When I set group blogs to redirect to the blogs home page if I click on the blog tab to go to their home page it redirects to the main sites wp-admin page. Any ideas?
@daronna I assume that you’re on a Windows server thus trying to get pretty permalinks working as required by BuddyPress by appending /index.php. That method is not going to work with BuddyPress.
I suggest deactivating BuddyPress first. Then check out the other methods for pretty permalinks without /index.php on Windows server:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/developer-docs/iis7-web-config/
If you still have issues with pretty permalinks, do post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting
Only activate BuddyPress after the issue is resolved.
I would like to know how to do this, I am not a buddypress expert so It will take some explaining and even better some code on a github link. I would like to add this to my header and get rid of the toolbar, I would also like to add the BP links that is usually in the right of the toolbar into the the header. Reason being I don’t want that bar up there and it would make it look more custom without the toolbar that gives it away that it is a WP/BP social network. I like how facebook has their notifications, messages, and friend request split out. This is what I am trying to do. I got a little info on this link but not enough to do anything with : http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/27888/how-to-split-out-buddypress-notifications-drop-down-items-to-their-own-top-level @boonebgorges explains it but not in much detail. I would appreciate any guidance on how to get this done. Thanks!
@findly01 first, see note above about pasting long blocks of code.
The code for that specific theme’s functions.php is also available online at https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/frisco-for-buddypress/1.6.13/functions.php
For logged-in and logged-out menus, see http://pastebin.com/MhrTcqRT
@tcbroonsie Please share the names of the two themes which did not work with BP 1.7 theme compat so that we can be prepared if others using the same themes post here with the same issue. Much appreciated.
Easiest test -> activate BuddyPress and check BP pages using Twenty Twelve. If it’s working as expected in your installation using Twenty Twelve but does not work with a WordPress theme you activate next, then there’s a problem with the theme. Either theme author has rewritten WP templating system or added layer/s of abstraction which prevents BP template parts from showing up in that theme, etc/
As for plugins, starting off with the Theme Check plugin – if you see any WARNINGS and REQUIRED issues showing up after you run the theme check, then it’s possible that the theme might not work with BP
Check out Theme Mentor plugin as well https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-mentor/
It’s a relatively new plugin and has some false positives but it’ll help you out.
Hi! I’m using WordPress 3.5.1 and BuddyPress 1.6.4. I’m trying to integrate BuddyPress into my existing theme, and having trouble because my theme includes dynamic sidebars which you customize using a menu in the backend. Inside the page.php, I’m having trouble figuring out which code I need to move to header-buddypress.php, sidebar-buddypress.php, etc. because it’s so much more complicated than the examples shown with the WP default themes. Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks!
I use login with ajax plugin. Works well and has a widget.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-with-ajax/
@hnla I just installed BP Force Profile but I don’t think that was the problem.
The problem is the back end in wordpress. When a profile field is filled out it is not showing up on the back end under the users tab in wordpress.
I get the username but that is all. Can I view a registered users info somewhere?
Say I register and filled out the First name and Last name field. When I go look at users in wordpress those fields are not filled in? I just want to make sure people put in there full names. Otherwise its hard to tell if its a real person or just another spam bot.
thanks.
I am having a similar issue.
I am using WordPress version 3.5.1, and BuddyPress version 1.6.4. I have no other plugins installed. Both the WordPress and BuddyPress installs are clean and brand new. I am also using the default BuddyPress theme, though I did set up a child theme which contains only a style.css file.
Every link on the site works EXCEPT the the Profile > Edit link on the user page for the current, logged in user. When this link is clicked, I am taken to a page that says: “Page not found; We’re sorry, but we can’t find the page that you’re looking for. Perhaps searching will help.” The url in the address bar for this 404 page is “http://mysite.com/members/user1/profile/edit/group/1/,” and I am not sure if this is correct.
The BuddyPress setting ‘members’ page slug was saved correctly. I am not sure what other steps to take. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I am using WordPress 3.5.1, BuddyPress 1.6.4 with the BuddyPress default theme. I have also downloaded bbPress but I have deactivated it. This is a brand new install.
I am having a problem with the ‘Create and Account’ link on the sidebar.
When I installed BuddyPress I created 5 blank pages: Activate, Activity Streams, Member, Register, User Groups because I was getting this Notice: The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activate, Activity Streams, Member, Register, User Groups.
The top navigation is as follows and these links all seem correct as they send me to a page.
Activity Streams points to /index.php/activity-streams/, Members points to /index.php/members/ and User Groups points to /index.php/user-groups/
But on the side bar where it says Please create an account to get started. The link on ‘create an account’ points to http://www.newsthatsused.com/newsthatsused/register/ Notice the ‘index.php’ part of the link is missing and therefore sends me to ‘The page cannot be found’.
Also in the First Footer Widget Area I have dragged and dropped Who’s Online Avatars. When I view this link on my site in the footer, it sends me to /members/membersname/. Notice the /index.php/ is also missing here and therefore sends me to ‘The page cannot be found.
If I manually type the index.php/register/ into the address; a page is there albeit blank save for Register and Leave a reply.
This is my address
http://www.newsthatsused.com/newsthatsused/index.php
I would appreciate any help you can give
Daronna
Hello I’m having problems with crop avatar in buddypress the avatar crop it works with bp default theme but not in others I already checked members\single\profile\change-avatar.php it’s the same of bp default and not working it’s the same script in both themes! PS: I’m using the latest version of wordpress and buddypress
Hello, I’m beginner in WordPress and Buddypress.
I have some trouble here, I wanna create the function to delete activity based on their date recorded, for example the activity will be deleted if they more than 30 days.
I have know how to set up cron, buat I confused when create that function with “bp_delete_activity()”, I’ve been looking around to get idea use that function, but I can’t find the way out.
Is there anyone here get idea to do this? Or may be give me a hint to do this?
Thank you.
I am having the same issue with the friend button not doing anything except spinning but this also extends to most similar types of buttons like deleting/favoriting/commenting on activity posts. nothing happens.
Is this an ajax problem? i have read through this thread but cant see any good answer to the problem?
wordpress version 3.5
buddypress version Version 1.6.1
Is there any limit to the amount ?
This is typically a wordpress question. BuddyPress is only a plugin for WP.
are most buddypress enabled plugins compatible with 1.7?
BP is still in beta and feedbacks are low at the moment, so you have to test this yourself like we all do actually or wait the stable release and give some delay after for the same reason
I have installed WordPress and the BuddyPress plug-in, activated the default BP them, and allowed all the directories to automatically generate. I have selected the “Allow anyone to register” checkbox under Settings/General, but there is no Register tab on my site. What have I done wrong? I want to test the registration.