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Been using jomsocial since it’s early beta stage (almost 2 years) and now switching to buddypress for a huge community site.
Don’t like that twitter, ’cause to have “jomsocial + wordpress goodness by corephp” you have to spend $218,99 compared to $0,00 for buddypress.

However, what I like of jomsocial is that it already comes with built-in must-have applications/plugins for a community such as videos, photos, events (besides standard ones like groups, forums, pm). Plugins all developed by the same developers (come built-in with the installer). Instead with buddypress you depend on plugin’s developers (events, photos, privacy….) and what if they’ll stop supporting/updating them? Also in jomsocil the users is given the possibility to add what application they want to their profile.

Ah, Bluehost

1. If you are running the multisite version of WordPress, on the super admin’s options there is a setting for default profile. Alternatively, there are lots of plugins that control this sort of setting on. I use a couple of role management plugins on a few sites but I’m not sure what’s best. Hopefully someone can recommend one.

2. If you disable BuddyPress, and register an account on the site (via WordPress), do you receive the email? If you don’t, it is either ending up in your email’s spam or your server is not configured to send emails correctly. However, since you’re on Bluehost, have a look at the bottom of this message first.

3. That site URL setting should match the URL of your site. I’m not sure what you mean by “pointed url”, but you should probably only change it if you have moved the site from one_domain.com to another_domain.com.

4. Depends on definition of “easy”; they are in the theme’s header.php.

Bluehost: We have seen issues with Bluehost previously. I do not know if all the issues still apply, but in general:

1) I suggest that you do not use simplescripts to install (or even WordPress).
2) RE: your email problem. I suggest you search this site for “Bluehost” as we have had lots of discussion around it previously but, from memory, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ might fix the problem (it has to be a valid email account, so you may need to create it first).

Yup, those are abnormal behaviors for a WP multisite installation.

I would suggest that you make a backup of files and database, then re-install from scratch – clean wp-config.php, delete .htaccess file and drop database tables. I would suggest not using “Enable Multisite Plugin” and Create a Network manually. Get your feet wet already with the nitty gritty.

Read this BP Codex article – Before installing BuddyPress – specifically about double checking WP “wellness” before activating BuddyPress https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration for a less bumpy road to BP social site.

Search term which got it = featured blogs list wordpress = first in the list

This plugin would help https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

@rogercoathup @jwack Aha! Found this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-blogs-list/

Try this thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-new-default-theme-for-future-created-blogs-on-multisite

@rogercoathup Yeah but I notice you couldn’t write “WordPress custom post” in German
poor show

@paduy – there could be a number of reasons: file write permissions on .htaccess, restrictions with your server setup, etc.

You need to get your basic WordPress installation working correctly before attempting to install / activate BuddyPress.

@paduy –

If your standard WordPress install doesn’t work with custom permalinks (e.g. /%category%/%postname%/)… then your problem is not in BuddyPress.

You need to fix your base WordPress install first of all. BuddyPress won’t work if you don’t have custom permalinks working correctly.

Do you get any error message when you try to configure custom permalinks (e.g. problems accessing the .htaccess file)?

Check the Sitewide Tags plugin.

@poolie –

es gefällt mir viel. Sehr gut gemacht.

Was haben sie benützt für den Locations? Sind Sie WordPress Custom Post Types?

Test it with just WordPress installed … BuddyPress de-activated.

Can you change the permalinks to a custom structure e.g. /%category%/%postname%/ and still view pages / categories without problem?

You need WordPress working correctly with permalinks.

If that’s OK, then install / activate BuddyPress, select the BuddyPress default theme, and check everything works.

Once you’ve done this, you can install your language packs, plugins, etc.

Yes. WordPress does blogging very well.

@jwack – it won’t be easy as a non-programmer.

Your best route is probably to make use of switch_to_blog(); and use a ‘standard’ WordPress posts loop on each blog in turn.

Search ‘wordpress loop’ in Google. You’ll also need to call functions to fetch the author, etc.

You may be able to figure out your loop code from the examples on the WordPress codex… if not, there’s no short cut and you should book up on the PHP programming language.

@jimsnaps “So is there no way to use buddypress, block out what’s not needed, and add an article mod? “
I answered based on your requirements, and you mentioned forums were optional No intention to limit you at all, just keeping it simple and clear. Of course you could install BuddyPress, and activate only the component/s you need at this time.

If you want the Forums component, know that you need to activate Groups component as well because the BP forums component is attached to groups. And members automatically join a group by default when they post to the group’s forum unless that group is private and no-one can post to that group’s forum unless invited to join the group. I also suggest reading through this general reference
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

Of course with BP activated, there’s the One Quick Post plugin which will allow your members to post articles from the frontend. However, you will need to code using BP blog loop to generated the list of posts that each member has posted in your blog to show up in individual member’s profile page.

If you do not want to go through all that, install external bbPress forum and integrate it with your WordPress installation. When you’re ready to use BuddyPress components, BP can integrate existing external group forum to its fold – again, with the caveat that forum will be then be attached to groups.

@jwack

Here are good places to get you started:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference

BuddyPress Codex

It sounds like you didn’t run the bbPress setup installer, or that something went wrong during that setup process.

Go to Dashboard > BuddyPress > Forum Setup, and click Setup a new bbPress installation. Re-install if it asks you to.

If it still doesn’t work, check to make sure there’s a bb-config.php file in the root of your WordPress installation, and that the credentials in that file are correct.