BuddyPress.org

Any luck? The only way I can find to allow users to log in is via the wordpress backend.. what is this website using as the login widget?

@christinarule nice site. After installing and activating BuddyPress, you coudl install and activate Buddy Template Pack https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/ There are steps to go through with the Template Pack plugin and based on your theme, you would have to change the container divs of files within Template Pack. It’s not easy but it’s do-able.

There is a BuddyPress demo at http://testbp.org/

I think best option is to create your own sidebar function and use an if user is logged in statement.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
SIDEBAR CODE HERE
} else {
SOMETHING ELSE HERE
};

@christinarule

Give this a try: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-template-pack/

I currently have a blog site that I customized http://www.blokmovaz.com I really want it to turn into a social networking community and I thought buddypress was just the thing! How do I easily Integrate buddypress into my existing wordpress site?

It would be ideal if a user who is part of buddypress can comment on the post I make from my wordpress categories. Then once you click on a users profile they are given all the “buddy press features” to interact with that user..

Is this something that can be easily done or do I have to re-theme buddypress?

Thanks for all the help in advance!

Not sure this is exactly the same issue, but looking for input. I’m a brand new buddypress user testing a site. Unless someone already has an avatar in wordpress.org (not .com) photos cannot be uploaded. The error message is “Unable to create directory /home/natural/domains/natural-leader.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/avatars/3. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”

Can anyone tell me if this is an issue with buddpress or somewhere else such as the domain host? If buddypress, does anyone know how to fix?

You have to make sure that jQuery Tools isn’t conflicting with WordPress’ jQuery call.

Try this:
http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-adding-custom-js-to-wordpress-remember-jquery-noconflict-wrappers/

@bpuser44 : Thanks for the positive feedback. I hit the support forums a little hard over the weekend.

You can find stuff on bp-custom.php and / or functions.php (which can be used for similar things in your theme folder) by searching the forums. BuddyPress development is not as simple as WordPress theming – you are looking at hooks, filters, and reworking core functions a lot more in BP. This should lessen as the API develops in future releases.

BP would benefit no end from a great set of developer tutorials; finding the resource (right people) and time to write them is the big challenge in the Open Source world.

There was a short lived job board forum on the site – that would be a great place to advertise and for you to find BuddyPress consultants, plugin developers, and website designers. Unfortunately, the board was taken down – I don’t know why. We have a current freelance opportunity for a skilled BuddyPress developer, but nowhere effective to advertise it – which is really frustrating.

Most of our work is on commercial BuddyPress developments – so feel free to give me a shout if you want to explore the consultancy route (http://21inspired.com).

I’ve never seen a plugin that can do this. This plugin hooks onto the comment action: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/ So, it might be a good place to start to write a new plugin.

Try out my plugin, to help combat spam blogs:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity

Try out my plugin, to help combat spam blogs:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity

Try out my plugin, to help combat spam blogs:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity

Try out my plugin, to help combat spam blogs:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity

@chmac – “Giving WordPress its own directory will not work in WordPress 3.0 with multisite enabled. It interferes with the member blog lookup. “
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#WordPress_Settings_Requirements

@LPH2005 have you tried this plugin? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-auto-group-join/

@chmac, What do you mean you put WP at cscomm.org/wordpress – which by the way, is a blank page at this time.

Accessing the menu names is sadly as difficult as I had first thought, I have two arrays that respectively hold the menu regions and menu object parts but finding a method to check one against the other is proving allusive. What I have established is that the menu name attached to a particular menu region does not belong to the nav-menu.php functions but more to the theme functions and makes things problematic, as a new method needs to be written to check a menu region for an explicit but unknown menu name and that isn’t proving simple to theorise let alone start writing.

At this moment it is something that will have to, sadly, go on the back burner as the cost in time so far outweighs the end result, I’ll revisit as and when I get any inspiration on an approach to try but it may require someone far more familiar in the WordPress API than I am.

I’m on WordPress 3.0.1 single site install

Don’t just cut and paste my comment and edit in the word “NOT” – it will confuse people.

On my default installation post titles DO work correctly, but page titles don’t work.

If they don’t work on your installation, please make this clear in your reply. I’ll have to leave you to figure out why that is giving a problem on your install, or someone else to step in with thoughts.

I’ve posted the page title problem separately.

There is a much easier way to do this. To have widgets only show up on certain pages I just use this plugin, Widget Logic: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/