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hi,

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switch-my-main-network-site-home-page-to-wp-loginphp
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Alternative: http://w4dev.com/wp/wordpress-login-page/

Are you using multisite? Are you installing as admin full rights or as a user? What hosting are you using – self hosted or with a hosting company that installed WordPress?

The plugin I was going to suggest for this is a little out of date. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-author-comment-notification/ You could look at the code though perhaps to see how it’s done and adapt or see if there is going to be a new version or if indeed it needs a new version (probably best to try in a test environment).

Meanwhile, I’ve tested the BP demo of this one /loginradius-for-wordpress/ and it doesn’t duplicate the user. But I prefer not to use a external service.

So, I found this one buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-facebook-connect-plus/ (thanks to @mercime) and it looks perfect for what I’m looking for. Any of you have used it? if you do, does it duplicate the same FB user in wp_users? and does it work fine importing users Facebook data to BuddyPress profile?

Thank you very much for your help and if I find more usefull info about this, I will post it here 🙂

Good call, @Roman. Defining both fixed one problem, but introduced many more.

Delving deeper, I believe that multisite is designed, on purpose, to keep things separate amongst network sites. That includes avatars, group avatars, etc. That is why each site has a separate upload directory (wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/avatars, wp-content/blogs.dir/4/files/group-avatars and so on…).

By default, each subsite’s upload path is something like wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files. And the home site’s upload path is wp-content/uploads. If no root blog is set (which @Roman pointed out that we can’t set a root blog AND enable multiblog), then the code will set the current site as the root blog and grab that site’s upload path. For example, if I’m on site 5 of a WPmultisite/BPmultiblog install, the site will look to pull files from the wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files folder. Accordingly, it will find any files that were uploaded to that directory, from site 5. It won’t find your avatar, because you likely uploaded them via the home site, and those avatars reside in the wp-content/uploads folder.

While this design probably works for most implementations, it does not suit my purposes. I need to show avatars and group avatars across all sites (sounds like you both do as well). With that in mind, here is the path I’m heading down:

The Network Admin Sites/Settings page (accessible via wp-admin dashboard at wp-admin/network/site-settings.php?id=4) allows you to update the “Upload Path”, “Upload URL Path”, and “Fileupload URL”. For my project, I modified all subsites to be the same as the home site upload path: “wp-content/uploads”, “http://example.com/wp-content/uploads”, and “http://example.com/wp-content/uploads”, respectively. HOWEVER, you can update them until you are blue in the face, but you will never successfully upload to the directory you update to. This is because WP overwrites these custom upload paths with the default upload paths mentioned above. This is done on the last line of wp-includes/ms-settings.php. As @Andrea Rennick points out on wordpress.org, this was done to protect ourselves from…ourselves by hosing things up in a multisite environment. On that same WP thread, @cooliojones proposed the fix of commenting out the last line in wp-includes/ms-settings.php, which is ms_upload_constants();.

YES, it’s a core hack, and NO it’s not the ideal solution, but I’m plowing forward with it anyway because I don’t want my project to die while I throw on my One Love cape and try to solve all the BP/WP integration problems of the world. I guess you have to ask yourself which is more important to you: common avatars across sites OR maintaining separate upload directories across sites?

Hope that helps.

As a last second, chuck it into the end zone and pray…Since I only need group/avatars to display across the multisites, I’m thinking it would be ideal if there way some way to define separate upload paths for group/avatars from all other uploads. Anyone have the golden ticket for that?

Related Reading:

See lists of BP-enabled sites https://wordpress.org/showcase/flavor/buddypress/ and http://www.bpinspire.com/

oh, forgot to give you this one:

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress-latest-discussion

i use it on my static homepage, but he works also on the rest of the site (bp 1.6.2 and wp 3.5)

You probably need to style it a bit to fit your template.

Hi all and thanks for all the info 🙂

I’m looking aswell for a plugin that automatically fill in the Buddypress users’ X-Profile data from the uers’ Facebook profiles.

I have tried the free version of https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-fb-autoconnect/ but it has a serious problem. If I login with my FB account a few times, this plugin create a new user every time in the wp_users table. I don’t know if the premium version of this plugin fix this problem, so if any of you have tested it, I would be very thankful for your comments 🙂

Hi @purplemonkeyking you only have to disable the users’ registration option here: http://example.com/wp-admin/network/settings.php

Then, try to connect with the plugin you’re using and done. I’m using the same plugin and it works for me 😉

By the way, are you using the premium version of https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-fb-autoconnect/ it’s because I need the premium BP features and I would like to know other people opinion before to buy it.

Thanks!

Where did you find the plugin?

Going to https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-privacy/ says it’s no longer there. The other reference to it here it gone too http://simplercomputing.net/2010/03/18/simple-buddypress-profile-privacy/

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and i only can access the main forum from the side bar

Actually, you have your sitewide forum index page at http://justinharvey.com/F/

Also i am trying to add CSS to My pages and cant figure it out. any tips?

One usually adds the styles to your theme’s style.css file. However, since you’re using the BP Default theme, any modifications made to the style.css file will be overwritten when you upgrade BuddyPress. It would be better if you created a child theme of the BP Default theme and add styles to that child theme’s style.css file. Or use a WordPress theme and install/activate the BP Template Pack plugin and go through Appearance > BP Compatibility process.

You could do that for HTML and CSS but I would think you’d rather stage this in a separate development installation via XAMPP/MAMP/WAMP That way, you’d be able to test the theme first and also have a backup of your theme should anything go awry in your server online.

I think you mean Javascript instead of Java, a different animal altogether. Again, I suggest you create/update theme in local server first. WordPress Codex for creating themes – https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development