Cool idea. It sounds like BP is a good fit, with BP groups used as towns.
Some places to start:
– Change the word ‘group’ to ‘town’ throughout BP text and URLs: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
– Setting up group forums: https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/buddypress-forum/ (see the bottom section)
– EventPress, a BP plugin for events: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eventpress/
Good luck!
The code is not working if the wordpress installation is Multisite and buddypress .I tried and all the users online are having the same name as ” You ” .I mean that if four users are online and chatting with each other . All of them are identified as the same person “you” at all time. I didn’t get fix for this .
Could any body help me?
I have also noticed that none of my tabs work?
Is there possibly something wrong with the structure of my wordpress bbpress files?
You’ll have to tweak the header file a bit to assign unique classes that correspond to those tab links. But while you’re at it, you might as well just turn those tabs into Custom Menu tabs (WP 3.0 feature) like @modemlooper detailed here… http://modemloop.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/buddypress-drop-down-menus/ (just take those li classes and drop in some background pics for your tabs).
If you google wordpress themes, click on the first link (should a wordpress.org one) and then search for keyword “buddypress.” This will bring up all the current themes that are available to you. WPMU sells some, as well. I think for an alumni theme, you’ll probably want to start of my mapping out your site and organizing what information will be most pertinent to your users and then go from there.
I am very excited about the prospects of full integration of bbpress, buddypress, and wordpress as plugins. I am standing up two sites under wordpress with buddypress and am hoping the following will be true:
1. bbPress will fully integrate with the WP/BP profiles
2. bbPress will have the option of functioning and displaying as a standalone forum in addition to all of the groups, etc. ‘integration’ with BP
3. bbPress will integrate with WP by setting up a forum where each blog entry posts to a subforum by category so that discussion can take place outside of the comments (separate discussion from comments in other words)
4. bbPress will be spider-friendly ! This is of course a big one 
Thanks I am looking forward to this project . . .
*s*
Ok, I found it. I had to manually add a piece of code to the wp-config file so that the Network area would show under the Tools menu, then proceeded from there to get it set up. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
sorry no the one which is published:
We only use wordpress.org to distribute the current STABLE version of the plugin. We do not support, answer questions, or accept bug reports through wordpress.org.
Such info should be in red
If you want to move it to a new server. You can move it just like WordPress. If you mean that you want to move it from a subdomain to the main domain (or something like that), then you must be a very brave person to do that. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I haven’t seen any easy ways to do it. BP relies heavily on the URL structure and changing that after the fact is problematic.
There is another chat solution for your BuddyPress community called Envolve Chat. Here’s the plugin page:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/envolve-chat/
Here’s the site: http://www.envolve.com
It’s clean, professional and works great. (I am one of the devs)
Thanks, I read through that and setup multi-site as specified. WordPress is working fine, it’s just the user blog creation that has the issue. Everything else, including the forums is good. I verified that domain aliasing ( *.domain.com ) is not setup in the httpd_conf, so it’s definitely the problem of the hosting.
@cshrimpt blog creation is in the province of WordPress MS, not BuddyPress. Read through the codex https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration and resolve WordPress issues before installing BuddyPress at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
There are a few possible approaches to integrating them together, and the ones you need are possible even today. That’s actually exactly how bbPress works in the WordPress plugin repository, attaching plugins to tags in essence giving them their own ‘forum’ in a sense.
The first iteration will probably closely mirror how things work today, for the sake of it being an easy transition for everyone’s existing data. The last thing we want to happen is to force anyone to make changes to their existing setups. In future iterations we’ll include some options on how you want to configure them to communicate to each other. This may be strongly theme dependent though, since all of these components would need to have the proper hooks and CSS in place to style these elements correctly in any of the places they might appear.
Are you talking about groups in Buddypress? I can’t remember a bp-version where you were able to set user roles. Do you need a function to select different usertypes? If yes, there’s a solution – needs a few hacks in your template and also in buddypress core – but a needful tool.
Set up a wordpress-multisite installation, then hack the files. If you need help, just tell me.
Here’s the link:
http://cleverness.org/2010/08/08/add-user-types-to-wordpress-and-buddypress/
I am now learning that this isn’t the only BuddyPress delete hook that is placed in this way. I’d also like to hook into `groups_remove_data_for_user()`, but same deal – the action is triggered only *after* the user’s group membership data has occurred (and that’s the data I need access to for Google Docs). I’m going to have to hook into WP’s user delete actions instead, specifying a higher priority than BP, since they are triggered immediately before deletion, when the data I need is still available.
A similar incident was noticed in WordPress core w.r.t. user deletion a few years ago, and I guess developers agreed to insert an additional hook: one prior to deletion – `delete_user`, and one following deletion – `deleted_user`. (Original bug reported here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2956)
Can the same additional delete hooks be added to BuddyPress?
Is it something like this you’re looking for?
http://www.shinephp.com/user-role-editor-wordpress-plugin/
This allows you to modify the userroles and even create new ones.
Following is a walkthrough of the Motion theme with the BP Template Pack https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/ .
Per example there, you need to copy Retromania’s HTML structure onto the 13 files within the BP folders transferred to your Retromania theme folder in server. Save revisions and upload to server. You need to copy some styling from bp-default and adjust to taste.
