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Are permalinks configured on your WordPress? Do you know if your server is Apache, Nginx or IIS? What versions of WordPress/BuddyPress are you running?

oEmbed is not a video uploading plugin. It relies heavily on 3rd-party sites like YouTube, Vimeo et al.

SInce you’re using P2 to write a blog post, you should try enabling auto-embeds in WordPress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Media_SubPanel

Make sure “Auto-embeds” is checked.

Also read the codex page for more info:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

search these forums, this is discussed lots of times.

Can your site send standard WordPress admin emails, e.g. if you create a new user in the admin panel, does it send an email to you as site admin?

If not, you need to configure your WordPress mail correctly, before proceeding with BuddyPress

That sounds like a general WordPress question – have you looked in the general WordPress Codex documentation?

I don’t know anyone who uses those wp-admin screens to edit files. For large scale development, you should really be working on a local copy in an editing environment before publishing to your server.

You are probably best to find a suitable WordPress theme, and then use the BP template pack to make it compatible with BuddyPress.

Have a Google for WordPress Magazine themes

Wordpress will most likely build on top of 2010. They will not make a theme called 2011, unless the design is radically different.
Much like Kubrick to 2010 was a totally different design.

For example, P2 adds features on top of their theme all the time and I think a lot of people appreciate that.

Maybe new features should be a theme option…

@r-a-y – sure, we can get rid of them with some additional work on sites in development, but what about the installed sites – who’s going to schedule, manage and pay for their modifications?

As you know, BuddyPress has real world 3rd party implementations – it’s not just in the realm of coders, who only maintain and support their own site.

If the client hits the upgrade button (which the admin system will be encouraging them to do), they will be left with a site that doesn’t look like they want (and in some cases, will have multiple buttons and areas that simply don’t work anymore).

Surely, the whole point about a child theme is the exact opposite – it’s not expecting things to change – it’s expecting the parent to stay working as expected when the core is upgraded – to provide us with a safe consistent level of abstraction.

The client has paid for a site they want, designed the way they want – not to have it change on the arbitrary design whims of a 3rd party they’ve never met.

What will happen when WordPress bring out a new design for their default theme? Will they overwrite 2010 and thereby change the look / behaviour of every child based on it? Of course not, they will they introduce it as a new theme, and 2010 will happily continue to function.

Looks like you’re using a plugin as there is no stock option for that in WordPress network mode.

Not sure if it’s exactly what you’re looking for but you can try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tt4bp-recent-sitewide-posts-widget/

Glenn… there is nothing new in charging for premium themes, it’s not a BuddyPress phenomenon… there are hundreds of people selling premium themes for WordPress (e.g. WooThemes, ThemeForest, …), and even more sites that are completely bespoke developments costing many thousands of pounds.

If you don’t like what people are providing you for free, you don’t have to use their work. If you don’t like the price of their paid for work, don’t buy them. You can take the bp-default theme for free and extend it as you want.

As I explained in one of your other threads about availability of themes, BuddyPress is extremely difficult to create distinctive generic themes for – it’s no wonder that some people charge a few pounds for their themes.

Provide more details about your configuration and your problem.

If you mean you want to allow members to create blogs, you’ll need to ensure you have WordPress multisite setup

It’s not a question of whether you like it or not, the problem is that it breaks the design of existing sites – because their themes are using bp-default as a ‘much touted future proof’ parent theme.

You expect bug and compatibility fixes in a theme upgrade, not presentation and design changes.

If you’re changing the actual design, you’d expect that in a new theme. Much as you’ll expect WordPress to release 2011, and not simply overwrite 2010 with something different that changes the look of every child theme based on it.

1. Yes.
2. Not sure what you mean. Nothing in core limits members, anyway.
3. Yes, but not in core. Use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/
4. See 3.
5. Not sure. 3. might be able to help, or it might not.
6. See 3.

I have that same problem with WordPress’s built in oEmbed’s actually.

how does the synchronization work?
I’d love to get a plugin to match certai nfields against certain other fields win wp profile and bp profile!

WordPress sends emails automatically to the admin (you I presume!).

If you are not getting those mails when you create users in wp-admin, then your mail isn’t configured properly in WordPress (as with ‘freeriders’ system in the thread I gave you).

You need to fix that before proceeding with BuddyPress install.

Look in the WordPress Codex for details on setting up / configuring the mail settings.

Yep that should work!