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If you’ve got a system with lots of people, you may very well have more than one person named “John Smith”. That’s why you need unique identifiers like usernames. The regular name “John Smith” then acts like a piece of profile data. This works the same way in WP as in BP, though WP and BP (for a variety of reasons) store that full name info in different places.

The BP-WP profile syncing is basically a syncing mechanism for full names and email addresses. That’s because WP doesn’t have very extensive built-in profiles. On the vast majority of BP installations, users will never have any contact with their WP profile data – all of their profile management will happen through BP, with changes automatically synced back to WP.

I assume this is on multisite? How exactly do you mean “does not work”? What doesn’t? What are you trying to do that doesn’t work? What did you do just before?

It’s no different than say twitter where you have your @username and then Joe User on your profile

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

Thats one but i’m not sure it will work with BP. My thought was you could create a “verified” role and then do an if statement for some code to show a verified check badge.

I may make a plugin that adds a verified check.

@localpaper and all the others: this is a working start (at the moment only working with multisites enabled):
http://cleverness.org/2010/08/08/add-user-types-to-wordpress-and-buddypress/

Give it a try.

@zenzard

Everything you ever wanted to know about page templates can be found here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Templates

I’m in the same boat, experienced in WordPress and building my first BuddyPress site. I can’t speak to all the specifics of the photo gallery but overall I’d say yes, a site like that is possible. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a good photo gallery BP plugin out there.

BuddyPress functions should be pretty intuitive if you know WordPress, although BuddyPress is not as well documented. So it helps if you know enough PHP to understand how a function works just by reading the code.

Good luck!

Re plugin – you might want to look at how BP Group CSS plugin is done – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-css/ where CSS can be set by group

Re pure CSS manipulation – filter body class to add e.g. username to body class so you can manipulate layout, colors, fonts, etc. in individual member pages

@paulhastings0 – I was able to setup a local host environment on a Mac for WP 3.0.1 AND enabling the multisite user (though I never got to testing any sites in DW yet as I immediately installed BP). An outstanding tutorial on how to do this can be found here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/how-to-set-up-a-killer-wordpress-testing-environment-locally/

Did you enable multisite in WordPress?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

@nickcdy

1 – Make sure you have multisite enabled. https://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Network_SubPanel
2 – Enable creation of new sites in the “Registration settings” section under “Super Admin” > “Options”

I think they want the main tabs to have drop downs. Search https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=drop+down+menu&sort=

There are a bunch but the problem is they won’t match the BP default style. You’ll have to add the code to call the wp custom nav and delete the hard coded BP nav.

@whitbyglennk if you have BP 1.2.6 installed, there’s some conflict with BP Template Pack https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/. Check out @hotforwords‘ BP Template Pack “fix/upgrade” in this thread https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-template-pack-and-buddypress-1-2-6-things-break-but-i-have-a-solution

I was actually under the impression that WordPress 3.0.1 stopped working with Dreamweaver CS5. Have you verified that this is a BuddyPress-specific problem?

As hnla suggested, the topic is covered extensively on these forums. You can try a search using, ‘white screen’ (https://buddypress.org/search/?f=white+screen)

Before going too far, you might try to increase the php memory limit via the wp-config.php file first. If your host allows it, you can also change the setting in the .htaccess.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

“The primary theme is buddypress enabled,”
@zenzard – what primary theme? Per your post, you’re using “Ecolines” theme from repo, but I can’t find any such theme there https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

Ishimwe thank you for your help. I for one certainly appreciate the huge effort that goes into Buddypress.