Hi! I’m a new user to WordPress and Buddypress, and I want yo use this plugin to open a new community on an existing website with its own theme. It works decently with the BP Template Plugin, but I still need to stylize it so that it fits exactly where and how much I want it, and to display the colors that I choose for the menus, titles, etc.
Where or how can I do that, and what do I need to share with you guys to improve it?
Here’s a link to my profile on my website so you can see: http://lasaventurasdeperle.com/personajes/juanin/profile/
BuddyPress is no different from WordPress in this regard. You just need to add a sidebar to your header.php. Google “how to add sidebar to wordpress”
Do a Google search for “modify WordPress admin bar”.
yeah but how would I make a small horizontal widget in there so that when we go to widgets in wordpress I would have this option to put something in the widget in the header?
Buddypress version: 1.6.1
Wordpress version: 3.4.2
I just found out that the number of friends is not correct if one of the friends is marked as spam or deleted by the site admin.
Example:
User A has three friends: f1, f2 and f3. Now the site admin deleted the user f2. The main nav (friend) for user A still shows the number of friends to be 3, even though only f1 and f3 show on page.
The same thing happens after marking f2 as spam. I do this by set the user_status from 0 to 1 in database.
I search the code and found out the function friends_get_total_friend_count () is used. This function returns the user meta ‘total_friend_count’ as the friend count.
So my question is, how do I fix this? Should I forget about the “total_friend_count” meta and recalculate the number of friends in the function friends_get_total_friend_count ()?
Or should I update the user meta “total_friend_count” each time when a user is marked as spam, deleted, or recovered from being marked as spam?
Any suggestions?
I’m running the latest fresh install of WordPress on Xamp with buddypress (default theme) and no extra plug-ins.
How do I enable registered users to start their own blog? I can’t seem to find anything that would enable this. I’ve registered a number of new “users” as a test but no where do I get this option.
I googled around for a answer but most refer to some section like multisite -> admin -> options. It could be something else because these posts are 2+ years old.
Quote:
I still don’t completely understand what you mean.
bbPress Site Wide favorites don’t appear in the profiles at all yet, they will in 1.6/2.1. Same with topics and replies that are posted from within wp-admin. It sounds silly, but I didn’t feel it right to trigger activity updates when posting in the dashboard while bbPress 2.0 was still new. So these are less bugs than they are unfinished features.
Mentions work, and appear in activity streams and trigger notifications. testbp.org runs a vanilla install of everything, and they work there without issue.
The database update is a prompt you see in your dashboard. If you don’t see the prompt, then there’s nothing that needs doing.
So if I am understanding correctly, topics made in the backend of wordpress for the sitewide forums will not show under the forums tab in the members section?
I have also created a topic directly on the sitewide forums, not in the backend, named introductions. However if I look under my profile, at forums: it says no topics found.
So somehow the topics created in sitewide forums do not show in the members pages.
Is this an unfinished feature or a bug?
Cause it’s kind of hard to keep track of the published topics right now.
Hi
I’m working on a custom theme for Buddpress that I would like to extend with a few small features. But my initial excitement quickly toned down after stumbling in the dark with BP for a few weeks. So I decided to put my nose to the grindstone and study up wordpress theming – reasonably sensible since the basic implementation is reasonably similar, right? Hell I didn’t even know how to work with functions or what a loop is!
Anywayz, I haven’t touch BP theming yet but I have some ideas in the back of my mind that I would like to realize. But first some general questions:
1) This one should probably be available as a plug-in. I need a way to let users be able to upload a custom header-like image, like Facebook’s “cover image”.
2) Before I get going with BP’s theming are there any recommended tutorials for beginner BP themers? I’ve found a lot of good stuff for WP but BP seems to be a bit lacking. In-depth stuff would also be welcomed 
3) How active is BP still? I’ve heard some rumors that it’s taken a bit of a nose-dive. I still see some regular updates so I guess BP is still here for a long time? Whatever the situation, I still believe I made the right choice with BP!
I have a number of other questions but these are for starts.
Thanks for your time!
No database connection. Please re-install your WordPress and make sure it is in working order before installing BuddyPress.
I have the huddle theme for wordpress. I have a issue with profile fields viewing
Name
…johnny… Ok for some reason it’s not showing what I am talking about but it has a html link instead of name
How can this be fixed? I tried the extended options to not allow automatic linking and still not working.
Please help me?
here is a link to a example: http://aitbuddy.com/members/johnny/profile/
. Which version of WordPress are you running? 3.4.2
2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install? Directory
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? Root
4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version? No
6. Which version of BP are you running? Version 1.6.1
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? No
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? Buddypress additions
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? Huddle theme
10. Have you modified the core files in any way? No
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? No
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? Version none
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
14. Which company provides your hosting? Go Daddy
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? Linux I think
== other not ==
Then use a regular WP theme for the other blogs.
Re: avatars not showing in sublog
– That is an issue. There’s a fix that worked for some https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4252
(note: this is only part of the solution for me, I also want an entry which was made on the activity stream also as a wordpress comment…) — there is a plugin for that and i installed it and it worked for me…
i think the right one is “BuddyPress Activity Stream as Blog Comments”
google indexing my site does not make blog comments appear in the activity stream though…
@marutim Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your flare theme folder in server during the compatibility process.
If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your flare theme folder in server, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility.
Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive.
A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
`
`
with the following:
`
<div id="precontent" class="”>
<div id="content" class="”>
<article id="post-” >
`
Then, in each of 16 files, you’d like to change the BP Templates’ page title’s header tag from `
…
` or `
..
` to
`
`
where applicable, then move this to just right UNDER “ Just watch out when you do this in the /activity/index.php page.
Save files.
If you deactivate BP and create a blog/subsite from the backend, can you go to the newly created blog? If not, then you have to resolve the issue first at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
in my case, it was resolved by letting google index the website, in settings – privacy.
No idea why, but now it works!
(note: this is only part of the solution for me, I also want an entry which was made on the activity stream also as a wordpress comment…)
Hi-
I would love it if someone would look at this page and tell me how to tweak it. http://www.bcheritagefairs.ca/activity/
Its in the Next theme using BP and the Template pack to make it adapt. I copied the page.php code to the activity/index.php page, as per instructions from http://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes.
It is so close I can taste it, yet so far from perfect and I’m out of ideas on what else to change.
Please help!
Hi Everyone!!
It just started all of a sudden. It has been working just fine for about 4-5 days but now on the activities page, when I click on reply, it reloads the page, or nothing happens at all. My Buddypress installations has been working just fine, and it started all of a sudden. No plugins have updated, no changes to the theme, nothing. It’s really odd cause it was fine last night, then it was like that this morning, then it worked fine again, and now it isn’t. Any ideas? Oh, and I am using the latest version of Buddypress and WordPress. Thanks!
Can you go to Appearance > Themes? If not, I would re-upload WordPress manually. If you created WP via webhost script — fantastico, softalicious, etc — then I suggest you start from scratch and install WP manually https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install
If that doesn’t work, please start a new topic as this thread deals specifically with the Sahifa theme compatibility with BP.
Hi All,
I have tried and installed the BuddyPress to my multisite wordpress installation.
I have used the bp-template-pack to follow the steps to tweak the files to get the buddypress pages working.
I am stuck with the third step. Can Someone please help me make changes to the required files to get the buddyPress pages work.
I have also checked in the Template packed wordpress themes, Flare theme is not enlisted there 
Some Prerequisite infos:–
I am using the wordpress 3.4.2
I am using BuddyPress 1.6.1
Wp and Bp are fresh installations, no upgrades from older versions.
I am using a themeforest theme http://flare.bringthepixel.com/
I am using the child-theme concept to make the changes.
I am trying to make it work in my local, so i have multisite (sub-directory).
I am using a ubuntu machine.
footer.php: http://pastebin.com/zu3FszEN
header.php: http://pastebin.com/SmHJQ5xt
page.php: http://pastebin.com/VAFUXgMP
index.php: http://pastebin.com/sZUzep9R
I dont have a sidebar.php in this theme, rather have two templates for right side page and left side bar page.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
Hi,
I’m using WordPress 3.4.2, BuddyPress 1.6.1 and W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.4.
There’s an issue when using page cache that doesn’t appear to log users out properly. When logging in, it sometimes still shows the “log in” link as if the user isn’t logged in and other times it doesn’t let the user log out.
Disabling “Don’t cache pages for logged in users” fixes the issue, but I was wondering if it would be possible to get this to work properly without disabling page cache for logged in users?
Regards,
Scott.
I didnt understand much of your question but as per I understood it.
There are wordpress functions to know if the user is logged in or not and to know the current page.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_page
Hope it helps 
@Paul,
If I get a WordPress user import/export plugin, what else should I be considering for the extra, missing profile data? Manual entry?
Thanks.