I’m going to try and add the steps for the fix again. I didn’t see the note about using backticks for code…
1. Open the index.php, save it to your theme as posts-page.php (or whatever template name you like).
2. Edit the newly created posts-page.php file and place the following at the top to create a page template:
`<?php
/*
Template Name: Posts Page
*/
?> `
3. Now scroll down in the posts-page.php to the beginning of the WordPress loop and just before the line “ add this one line of code “ Note: (5 == the number of post to show you can change this to whatever you want.)
4. Save the posts-page.php file.
5. In your WordPress/BuddyPress admin panel create a new page called “Blog” (or something similar) and select “Posts Page” under Template.
6. Publish page.
You should now be able to go to your Settings -> Reading menu and set a static page and select your Posts Page to show your blog posts.
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Roger posted some good links too. I’ve been really impressed with the potential of filters and the like.
@askunky
There are any number of ways you can do this using CSS positioning (and developing your own bespoke website theme).
This isn’t really a BuddyPress question though, it’s a general website development / CSS question. I suggest a good book on CSS would be a starting point.
Incidentally: There’s no need for div wrappers just to position an image (you are adding unnecessary bloat), and I’d certainly avoid inline style definitions (which can be a maintenance nightmare).
@pcwriter – I’m not sure what you are trying to write with your CSS, but I suspect you’ve confused absolute and relative positioning. For the approach you are suggesting, you should make your main header div relatively positioned, and use absolute positioning on your image to position it absolutely in relation to the header div: http://css-tricks.com/absolute-positioning-inside-relative-positioning/
As to suitability of BuddyPress for a ‘simple site’ – it depends what you want that site to do – if you want user profiles, messaging, groups, activity streams, etc. – then BuddyPress gives you a great platform to build on.
If you just want a simple content management system with posts, then you’d be better building on vanilla WordPress.
If you don’t need content management, then your simplest site would just be HTML and CSS.
@jutecht12 Something else appears to be the problem here. When I visit your blogs tab it says that most of your blogs were updated over a month ago. But when I visit the individual blogs some say they were updated just a couple of days ago.
Let me guess, did you upgrade either BuddyPress or WordPress on September 8th?
I would try installing BuddyPress and WordPress one more time again from scratch. Possibly even change the name of the database. Make sure to create backups though.
I thought of trying to make a function that would take preference over the build in wordpress $id.
something like:
function id()
$id = $bp->groups->current_group->id
but doesn’t take effect, is there some way to take priority like with css !important ?
Edit: instead of trying the above I changed all instances of $id to my own function $group_rate
Though I just need a little help with the function and after which I dont see why it shouldn’t all work 
Here’s my version, my function’s on line 7-10 : http://pastebin.com/dR74qbqM
@kimprasannanielsen welcome to the help forum, firstly the forum is not a coding service as such we can’t do the work for you but will help you where you get stuck.
If you find an aspect confusing then please explain what stage you are at and what you’re stuck with and someone with experience of using the template pack will hopefully be able to guide you along.
If however you do want professional help then rather than post your email address here post a request on the jobs board group for help getting this sorted.
Motivation
K well trying this with the Five Star Rating plug-in: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/five-star-rating/
Here’s what I have so far, though $id ( from line 176 onwards ) is confusing me.. and not quite sure to do there?
I cant get it to save the group data..
Im calling the ‘stars’ using the shortcode in the group header: http://pastebin.com/R1gsTudD
Here’s my edited fsr.class.php: http://pastebin.com/qczBCb18
Ok thanks, I’m looking into changing everything now.
I’ve been talking with the help desk at Hostgator & they said this:
Andrew Mi: You need to pull the files for the forum install. I only see the wordpress files there.
So I’m currently downloading a back up from August 1st right now to my computer, what files do I need to pull for the forum install?
Quote:
when you’re secure again try running through the forum setup procedure from the backend using the existing setup option
and also visit the WP permalinks page under ‘Settings’ to ensure that the rules are flushed.
Ok sorry I’m not following this, so I need to run the Forum Setup procedure, but where is the “Backend” and where is the setup option from there?
Thanks.
No one has any additional info on the profile integration?
https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Style_Posts_From_Some_Category_Differently
@rossagrant – these Codex pages on the loop are your ‘bread and butter’ when theming with WordPress blogs.
@Jalien – not sure just how I missed your request before. If you need to use SCORM (and not everyone does/should), we released a plug-in a month or so ago that does just that. It allows you to use our SCORM Cloud product directly in WordPress and it’s BuddyPress compatible. You can see an example of it in BuddyPress on my testing blog – http://susanvillaslewis.com/scormtesting/ – although you have to be registered user to see the courses. More at http://scorm.com/wordpress
I suspect that your rewrite rules are not working, especially as you are running on IIS server which handles rewrites slightly differently from Apache. I would check the WordPress codex on rewrites and IIS
Hello @hnla and @mercime. Thanks for your attention.
However I think you’ll see from previous posts that I have changed the Permalinks settings from the default (to Month and name) successfuly.
I have checked the URL settings and both the WordPress address (URL) and Site address (URL) are the same (‘blog’ subdirectory of root).
I have activated the default theme (successfully in the admin) but once installed all links from admin or the blog result in the error described.
So I’m no further forward at the moment. I have also deleted and reinstalled BuddyPress. No difference.
Happy to leave the ‘broken’ blog in place so you can look to see if I’m missing something: http://www.warchest.co.uk/blog/
Thanks in advance
I believe that’s actually a built-in functionality of WordPress. See the photo here: http://screencast.com/t/YTg5NzBlN
@fahadm150
Recipe for your success:
Wordpress for basic framework https://wordpress.org/download/ (Free)
Buddypress for community https://buddypress.org/download/ (Free)
s2member plugin for membership http://www.primothemes.com/post/product/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/ (Free or Pro versions)
Videopress for awesome video functions http://videopress.com/ ($59.97/year) also available as a plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video/ (videos hosted at wordpress.com)
Hope this helps! 
I know you don’t want to use a plugin or edit the core files but then you’ve basically got no options to disable gravatar. This will help, even though it is a plugin http://netweblogic.com/wordpress/plugins/disable-user-gravatar/
in wp-config.php:
`
/**
* WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
*
* Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
* language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install
* de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’ to enable German
* language support.
*/
define (‘WPLANG’, ‘fr_FR’);
`
@groan , by “links” I actually mean BuddyPress URL paths such as “http://yoursite/…/groups/”. BuddyPress recognises a few of these (activity, groups, members, forums) and I believe these are directories in BuddyPress themes. Under unix operating systems (I’m installing on Linux) you can create “symbolic links” or “symlinks” which are like shortcuts to other directories. My solution was to “hack” such links into the “mobile_pack_base” and “mobile_pack_blue” themes, linking to the corresponding directories under the BuddyPress Default theme. And it worked. (I was a bit surprised) The lines starting with dollar signs are linux commands. If you don’t have command line access you may be able to create symlinks using ftp or something else, I’m not sure. If you’re on Windows I have no idea what to do.
PS. In retrospect I should have created a new and independent theme derived from “mobile_pack_base” which then included all of the symlinks. Or perhaps WordPress has a better way of doing such links that would work across platforms. I’m pretty new to WordPress.
This looks like a classifications listing website? Why not look at classipress? I don’t think buddypress activities would work in this case, even a simple wordpress loop might work better here… frontend editor isn’t available without some workaround and plugins but I think its coming in the next release of wordpress… classipress theme has a frontend editor
thanks for the info about the admin bar. So there is no workflow built into BuddyPress that enables someone to post on the blog? If thats the case.. how is an account supposed to be able to know where to make a post.. or get to the back end of WordPress at all? Is this something thats missing from my install.. or a feature that doesn’t exist in BuddyPress?
Also.. Anyone have any tips on setting up my domain/subdomain/wp-install directory correctly so its all named correctly. I have a external domain set to the Bluehost name servers… a subdomain – sdcityrobotics.saltbored.com – set up to alias to the publichtml directory my install is in.. so how do i get everything to look like http://www.sdcrobotics.com/activity .. instead of http://www.saltbored.com/sdcityrobotics/activity?
Ok I figured it out. The author role does have the ability to make blog posts… Its just that through their buddypress interfaced account.. they’re never given a link to —-> http://www.saltbored.com/sdcityrobotics/wp-admin/post-new.php… to create one. Where in the buddypress front end can they choose to “create a new post”. or to get to the back end WordPress interface to see the dashboard?
So what I have left to try is setting up the default author role to be able to create blog posts. This is where I was trying to get with messing with the permissions through a plugin. I don’t know how much I care about this feature.. because this introduces group members to the entire wordpress backend.. and I’d like to just have each account only make blog posts and edit nothing.
also… this may seem simple.. but how do i get the site to show with the url structure i described before?
It is a rather important bit of information the server platform Apache and IIS have different approaches to rewrite capability, you may need to speak to your hosts and explain that you need some form of url rewriting for your site.
This WP Codex page gives some detail on IIS and permalink structures and rewriting.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
This is essentially an issue resting with the core app WP rather than BP
@cells
If you are on single wp, upgrade to wordpress Multisite.
Then you can limit it from Super Admin->Options->Limited Email Registrations
Paul,
Thank you so much for your insight! Here’s what I’ve got now:
1. I’m pretty sure we’re using the single site version of WordPress(maybe this is known as the MU version?). It was installed through our server using SimpleScripts. I was aware of the plugin option, but didn’t want to get into that yet until I had the account creation issues taken care of. Thanks for the info.
2. Disabled the BuddyPress plugin, as well as the Group Documents plugin (and reverted to the default non-BuddyPress theme). Created an account, and got the confirmation email right away. The WP account registration was just “username”, and “email”… and WP emails the password. The BuddyPress registration required much more info. So without BP turned on.. Accounts worked.. with it turned on.. The account gets created, but no activation email gets sent out.. thoughts?
3. I’m referring to the WordPress setting: Site Address (url): “Enter the address here if you want your site homepage to be different from the directory you installed WordPress.” I’m trying to point the domain to sdcityrobotics.saltbored.com , and it will display as http://www.sdcrobotics.org (our domain).
4. Got it. I was just curious as to if there were some settings I was just totally missing.
BlueHost Issues !?!?
1. Ok don’t use SimpleScripts or WordPress.. Just install WP manually on my server, and then install the BuddyPress plugin manually? And that will get it to work?
2. I’ll definitely search around for BH. Thanks for the tip!
