Hi Helpful Souls,
I need some professional support. I’ve surrendered. I’ve thrown up my hands in exhausted exasperation with Salutation theme for Buddypress. I’m seriously looking at Ning. I need help.
I’ve created a detailed list below of the support I need for my forum http://www.tigressyogateachers.com. For someone who is familiar and confident with Buddypress and BB Press, I imagine all of the below is very straightforward.
forum working – both group and site wide forum
forum displaying the forum directory (currently, all the forums I set up are displaying as “forum topics” and they are all blank pages)
an image set for each forum in the forum directory (similar to the Paralleus support forum main page)
“groups” page working
“members” page working
help with spam protection for computerized “users” – I’m getting dodgy sign ups every day
extended profile creation for each user
I also can’t remove the “admin” bar that wordpress has by default – it’s visible on the front end when logged out – yuck!
I’m sure there’s more but support with this will make me a happy camper! I’m sorry to say I’ve been quite disappointed by the Salutation support forum – I bought the theme for Buddypress because it looks good and “required no coding” but… it’s been a HUGE effort just to get the site looking like the demo!
Thank you so much 🙂
This sounds like a bug with bbPress and how it supports BuddyPress groups.
Please post a bug report at:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
Sign in with the same credentials you use here on bp.org.
Please try not to post the same thing across several threads. A good rule of thumb is to create a new topic for your questions and not bumping older topics that haven’t been responded to in awhile.
As for your questions:
* Geotagging for member profiles – several plugins exist. You might want to try Mapology. It’s a premium plugin, but it’s probably the most feature-rich.
* Auto-refresh activity page – there are a few plugins out there, but I haven’t really tested all of them. Try this one:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh/
* Events – again, several plugins exist. Do a search on Google for “buddypress events” and you’ll find the top plugins.
You’ll probably want to test out a few of those plugins to see which ones will suit your needs.
Hope that helps.
I cannot get the link to open in Chrome. But it does open in IE. I have seen those instructions before. But in step 4 the screen capture shows 3 options under bbPress. It shows “Settings”, “Deactivate” and “Edit”. I do not have those options. I have “Network Deactivate” and “Edit”.
The link to the codex article I provided does not have any screenshots.
I can’t even get the Forums menu to show up on the menu bar.
This is a bbPress issue. You have to create your own page for Forums. When you create a new page, make sure to add one of the bbPress shortcodes to display what you want (you’ll probably want to use [bbp-forum-index]). Then, add your page to your theme’s custom menu.
If you’re planning on sticking with older versions of WP, BP and Group Email Subscription, you might as well modify the Group Email Subscription code to remove the links for your own use.
If you want to do this without modifying the Group Email code and you are familiar with WordPress filters, hook into these filters:
‘bp_ass_new_topic_content’
‘bp_ass_forum_reply_content’
‘bp_ass_activity_notification_content’
And write your own functions to remove the links in the content. This will not remove the email footer links.
Hope that helps!
@beingblissful I would like to chat with you about your experience with Salutation. I am about to purchase it and institute forums and migrate an existing blog to a new domain that I purchased. I was really drawn to Salutation because of the look of it and the video tutorials make it look so easy. My problem is that I have not been able to get forums to work at all as described in WordPress or BuddyPress documentation. I would like to chat with you if you have time. If you do, please email me your contact info privately and I will reach out to you. My email address is kevin.bowser@live.com.
I tried to send you this as a direct message, but to no avail. Maybe I am just not destined to use BuddyPress???
Thanks,
Kevin
I’m new to wordpress, and I installed buddypress. I am using the forums(bbpress). Is there a way or plugin that will allow a topic to be promoted to the blog?
I should specify I’m using Events Manager Version 5.2.5. WordPress version 3.4.2. Buddypress plugin version 2.1.2
Thank you Paul. I have this same conflict. Understanding the best set up for my situation. My struggle is knowing the difference and how to use them.
I’m using The Bounce Theme from themeforrest which is buddypress friendly. (http://themeforest.net/item/bounce-professional-wordpress-buddypress-theme/2324726?sso?WT.ac=category_item&WT.seg_1=category_item&WT.z_author=GhostPool)
Can you elaborate a bit more on your last comment? It opened a window of understanding for me.
My current set up is:
Settings > Buddypress > Components > Unchecked “Discussion Forums”
Settings > Forums > Forums base “forums”, Forum slug “forum” (although I would like my own names)
Settings > Forums > Unchecked “Enable Group Forums”
From here can you explain how to set a landing page so that it looks like site wide forums (“mydomain.com/forums”)? Ie; can see all forum at once, then enter a forum to see the topics, then enter the topics to see the comments. I can find them if I go to a bbpress forum and click “view” (ie; /forums/forum/forum-rules/) then remove “forum/forum-rules/” to just have “mydomain.com/forums”, but that is not a “page” and cannot be “edited” and by default says, “Forums Archive – mydomain”. ( I think I know this but want to see your way)
Additionally, if I am at my buddypress profile page (admin) and click “forums”, it takes me to /members/admin/forums/ which seems to be different from /forums/forum/. And when it does it shows topics and not the forums I created in bbpress.
I’d imagine there is something I have missed.
I’ve:
Watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0jSsra_n0c
Read: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/#a-installing-forums-for-groups-only
Read: http://wpmu.org/guide-to-buddypress-forums-how-to-set-up-group-or-sitewide-forums/
Sorry I’m this is confusing. I am so twisted and upside down with this. It’s the best I can do with out showing you.
Thank you Buddypress for the hard work you have put into your products!
Any updates? I’d like to allow people to search through the default WordPress search widget. However no results appear if the Buddypress Sitewide Activity page is the index of the site.
Probably will get closed because BP 1.7 will have group management screens inside the WordPress admin area, so don’t need it on the front-end.
That variable isn’t part of BuddyPress; it’s part of the https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh/ plugin, which hasn’t been updated in over a year and doesn’t state compatibility with the latest versions of BuddyPress or WordPress.
Please ask for support with this plugin over at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh
Hi,
i had the same request. And finally built a plugin based on this one.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-topic-mover/
works now with 1.6.1 and WP 3.4.2
Hi,
in one of our internal websites we installed WordPress 3.1.1 with BuddyPress 1.5 and plugin buddypress-group-email-subscription 2.9.3.
We need to remove all the links from every email sent out with the plugin. Is there some functionality to do it quickly or should I work directly on PHP code?
Thanks for the support.
Just check if your server has sendmail installed. Or use a wordpress smtp plugin and configure it.
Hi Kevin,
I wish I could recommend Salutation theme but alas I cannot.
I am very comfortable with WordPress and have been designing websites from purchased themes for several years now and this was my first venture into the world of forums.
The theme itself looks awesome – the main problem is the work I had to do to get the theme looking exactly like the demo – when first installed, Salutation does not communicate cleanly with WordPress so it comes out jumbled with static blocks all over the place. The work I had to put to figure out how to get it to look exactly like the demo alone was astronomical (and the demo was why I bought it).
The support available was very basic. I would ask a lot of questions and be given half an answer – frustrating and very time-consuming. I could not figure out how to work it out myself – a very unintuitive theme.
The videos are excellent and I did find some help there but here I sit… 50+ hours later with a beautiful website that does not work because I can’t get Buddypress to play nicely with Saluation… Hence, my request here for some professional assistance.
Hope this helps, Kevin!
🙂
WHen i use the invite anyone plugin, i want to change the name that show in the inbox from wordpress@sitename to just the site name. How do i do i?
Whew!
It’s been a long time since I seriously worked with WordPress. I last used a 2.x version and it’s changed a lot. Also, this was a number of years ago, and I’ve slept since then, so my memory is foggy.
I’m trying to build a social network for writers, similar to booksie.com. So I’d like for users to be able to present their work online. So we’re talking articles, short stories, and novels. I’d like for them to be able to write novels and divide them into chapters, so novel posts would have a hierarchy like this:
Novel
|
—-> Chapter 1
—-> Chapter 2
etc…
And I’d like for their work to appear on their profile pages. Is this doable? Just want to know before I dive too deep into this.
Regards,
Eric
Have just installed WordPress 3.4.2 (multisite) and Buddypress 1.6.1. Have updated .htaccess and wp-config.php per the settings provided in Network Settings. However, when I click on http://sitename.com/blogs/, it pulls up a 403 Forbidden message. There is a /blogs/ directory in the WP install, which is obviously causing this issue, but there appears to be a conflict. Do I need to update .htaccess so the Blogs page overrides the /blogs/ directory in the installation?
Here’s my current .htaccess file:
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress
Thanks for any help you can provide!
I dont use Yoast seo and dont know what he does with his code, but if it helps here’s what BP uses now (in 1.6) – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/1.6/bp-core/bp-core-filters.
Bowe’s previous code tweak doesn’t appear to be relevant anymore as the default code has changed.
http://bp-tricks.com/coding/making-buddypress-compatible-with-the-wordpress-seo-plugin-from-yoast/
Any ideas on how to get the member’s name and maybe even profile field info to show up for SEO purposes on their member page? For both the “members” page and on and individual member’s page, SEO tag is Members – Man From Scratch.
http://www.manfromscratch.com/alexmatlock/
Thanks!
