@modemlooper well I really do not like the bar on top and for the life of me I can not find a way to put it on the footer. If I could move it to the footer I think I would use that then for the navigation features. I also looked for an option for a facebook type footer bar and found a plug in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-foot-panel/ but it does not really do much.
BTW the main reason for not having the bar on the top is it does not look good on my site with my header style.
Multisite is if you want to allow users to create their own blogs like on wordpress.com otherwise BP functions just the same on single WP.
If you want to put BP on a secondary blog here’s how. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/
Thanks for this plugin! Though I haven’t had a chance to try it since when I try to send a message I get the “An error occurred, please try again” This happens every time and I’m quite confused since it seems to work for most people. My question then is, is there some setting (in buddypress or wordpress) that I haven’t found? been looking 
@nahummadrid
Maybe @MrMaz can tell you something about the performance of the plugin in more detail, but the feeds are cached and only checked once an hour or on a direct profile visit. So far the plugin has been performing great, and I have not noticed any performance issues with it. It is a lot less heavy on resources as a dedicated RSS feed importer plugin for WordPress, that’s for sure.
You do have to remember that the posts are not stored anywhere other then the activity stream itself. You can filter the stream for external blog posts but it does not save it as a regular post or anything. Excluding them from the Stream would mean that the entries are not stored anywhere basically making the plugin useless
If you feature requests just leave a comment on the blogpost on BP-Tricks itself so we can keep track of them!
In case anyone stumbles across this thread also looking for a progress bar, it looks like somebody created one.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-progression/
i saw this briefly on your site a couple weeks ago. I am looking forward to working with it. I have been doing the same thing but in a round about way. On multisite i just have users add their rss feed url to a subblog setup on something like feedwordpress/wpomatic. It works well but I’m having performance issues.
How will this plugin stand up as far as performance?
I like the way I’m doing it now because of the expanse of what can be done with wordpress posts. You can manage and manipulate the posts.
How will external member blogs allow us to handle the activity items for external posts? Is it possible to call them seperately something like (type=external_post) ? Is it easy enough to exclude them from the general activity feed?
Tags, Categories? How does it handle images?
I remember when the groups external feed plugin came out, this was one the first things I asked about doing…for members. I look forward to the future development of this plugin. Thanks for it.
I am running WordPress 3.01 with Buddypress 1.2.6 (just installed). My problem appears to be similar. Details follow.
The first time a user goes to the profile of the user requesting the friendship, the Accept and Reject buttons appear. However, if they do not click one of the buttons, then a greyed out “Friendship requested” button appears in all places where the “Accept” button would have appeared.
I have quite a few plugins installed, but none of the ones mentioned in this thread.
Sorry to jump in on this older thread but I just wanted to know if there was an easy way to get this filtering of table names to work to allow me to create a separate instance of buddypress on a wordpress multisite?
I am using the multi-network plugin to create networks and all that is working fine but each time I activate the buddypress plugin on a network it uses the same database as the all of the other networks and therefore it is the same as the normal wordpress multisite setup.
As a workaround I changed the code in bp_core_get_table_prefix() in bp-core.php to append the id of the network. That works fine and creates a new set of tables but obviously not ideal.
Thanks
That’s not possible with BuddyPress at this time. See this: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/
In fact, I don’t see this ever being an option in BP–even when the new bbPress plugin becomes available. Both BP and the upcoming plugin version of bbP are software layers that sit on top of WordPress. So each is responsible for their own sets of data access functions. Even with BP Group-based forums, the bbP functions are being hijacked to work within BP but only barely.
To have a standalone install of bbPress functioning in WordPress (which is what would give you a site-wide forum) requires a process called deep integration. For more information on integrating bbPress with WordPress, search the WP or bbP forums. Or better yet, just wait until the pluginitized version of bbPress is available!
Adding in the link too that would rock like it does in forums / streams.
Hi All,
Does anyone know if you (as an admin) can tag a post with an @mention that will automatically mention all users, instead of having to mention each one individually?
Thanks
Jonathan
Do you have a link to the website?
What versions of BuddyPress and WordPress are installed?
What theme are you using? Have you tried the default theme?
Easier with this plugin. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/
In a future version of BP it will use WP menus.
Create a page called home and then choose a page template then in the settings > reading choose that page as the static front page.
More info on WP pages https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
Great plugin; I need something like this for my migration. Thank you for creating it ! I’ll have to view the source to see if it migrates all that I need, as there are some mods that I installed which have an equivalent in wordpress, but since they are mods, they will probably not work without some coding. Also I am going to migrated from 1 db (MySQL 4) to another (MySQL 5), so that will require a bit of code also.
Sorry, I´m new using wordpress + BP. Could you tell me how I can use 2 sidebars (left and right) in the BP to distribute the widgets?
Thanks a lot.
What versions of WordPress and BuddyPress are you using?
What happens with your blog Themes? Do they do not work, or is the display messed up? BuddyPress and MultiSite should work fine and your WordPress themes on sub blogs should display fine with the addition of the Admin bar at the top.
If you want a theme that matches your main blog you can adept the default theme to become a regular WordPress Theme or look at themes that do this for you
I can integrate your WP theme to BP. If you need help just let me know.
@kitezh
In your WordPress backend, scroll down to “Users” and click “Add New”.
Users can then fill in their profiles.
Thanks @modemlooper, I see what you mean now.
@notpoppy
Do you have a timeline in mind for migrating to BuddyPress? The bbPress plugin will become available Q1 and should work well with BuddyPress. You might wait until Q1/Q2. Another consideration is installing BuddyPress with your current setup and slowly migrating everything to work together as new versions are released (WP 3.1, BP 1.3, bbPress 1.2…). The later was a decision I made o a site – install but not have it completely tied together – and will slowly connect things as new versions are released.
