@lordsnake
Some thoughts:
1. Forums – WordPress are developing a new approach to forums, releasing bbPress as a plugin. A beta is due mid September, with a key BuddyPress developer leading the initiative. Have a Google / Bing and check that one out
2. Tutorials – I suggest creating these in a sub-blog dedicated to tutorials (each tutorial is a separate post in the blog – video / image uploading is then no problem). Maybe use a forms plugin (e.g. gravity) if you want front end posting. There should a standard WP plugin that allows post ratings
3. Job Board – these is a plugin out there from @travel-junkie : https://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/introducing-jobboardr/
4. Community Store – check out some of the WP extensions for e-commerce. Shopp and WP-commerce seem to be the main contenders
5. There is a facebook connect plugin (have a search in these forums) and @modemlooper is doing some work with twitter. It depends whether you are talking about connecting accounts (e.g. facebook connect), or simply sharing activity on social sites (facebook like, tweet this, etc.). There are loads of plugins / code snippets you can install for sharing (check out shareThis and their snippets for WordPress)
Cheers, Roger
Installation – https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/
Theme – themes at rocketthemes look good and if you have HTML/CSS mojo, you can make it work with https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/. If not, a BP compatible theme or a BP child theme would be the way to go.
Before performing such a major upgrade (both WordPress and BuddyPress), you should backup your database. Next, it is always best to be safe than sorry. Deactivate all plugins. This means BuddyPress too, as it is a WordPress plugin. Once WP is up and running, it is time to upgrade BuddyPress. You should read the additional details here: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/ See the “Upgrading from 1.1.x to 1.2.5” section, paying special attention to the notes on the theme files.
Finally, you need to upgrade any BP-dependent plugins before reactivating them. If any of these have not been upgraded to work with at least BP 1.2.5, then they should not be reactivated. Nicola’s plugins are very outdated and will not work with the current version of BP.
thanks, this is quite useful to address the issue to block out everything. what i was after is a little more fine-grained. for example there are out there a few plugins which use wordpress roles to limit access to posts or even categories. can anyone suggest a way of using a buddypress group or a field from the extended profile to limit access to posts/pages (rather than activities like forum posts etc?
i understand that if one is not member of a private group they cannot see the group activities in the stream, but how to make certain pages only accessible based on buddypress group membership?
many thanks!
Thanks for helping, Roger,
What is the code for bp_custom.php file or function.php file that will works as WordPress title?
WordPress title for “Hello world!” is…
Hello world! | My blog
BuddyPress title for “Hello world!” is…
My blog | Home
How could anyone possible use BuddyPress plugin for WordPress without having a headline for title of each their own posts and pages? What is so wrong about this simple problem?
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Sorry for the try above, but it’s no really good solution, so I switched into the original theme file of Buddypress theme.
Many hours today for this result and nobody knewed that. Maybe a problem of Windows worker like me 
interestingly, it has been deprecated in WP3.0 and replaced with is_super_admin:
https://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/is_site_admin
It’s still used in numerous places in the BuddyPress plugin though
Ok, I found one hint in Buddypress German Forum of WordPress, see http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/buddypress/73994-seite-nicht-gefunden-members-usw.html
I post there a solution for the normal menu. The ‘index.php’ file is missing in the permanent structure, maybe there is something different between the WP English and WP German version of 3.0.1. So all of you have the URL http://www.yourdomain.com/groups/. Please change it in your Browser to http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/groups/ and check if you’ll get a page. Change ‘yourdomain.com’ in your real domain. See my page http://www.unitedcasting.de/index.php/groups/ – it works.
But now I’ve to search for the links under ‘MyAccount’ and ‘Notifications’. Maybe someone knows where the file is safed. Thanks.
When I have installed WordPress 3.0.1 and I clicked the “Hello world!” post and the title tag is fine like…
Hello world! | My blog
When I have installed BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 and I clicked the “Hello world!” post and the title tag is WRONG like…
My blog | Home
Who is the responsible the core of BuddyPress title tag that has no headlines every posts and pages? Did Matt Mullenweg know that your BuddyPress altered the title tags of WordPress?
@hnla
I may have found some clues here:
http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/hook/wp_get_nav_menus?version=3.0&file=wp-includes/nav-menu.php
And from here:
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/3.0/wp-includes/nav-menu.php
… there are these nifty tidbits:
function wp_get_nav_menus( $args = array() ) {
$defaults = array( ‘hide_empty’ => false, ‘orderby’ => ‘none’ );
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
return apply_filters( ‘wp_get_nav_menus’, get_terms( ‘nav_menu’, $args), $args );
}
function get_registered_nav_menus() {
global $_wp_registered_nav_menus;
if ( isset( $_wp_registered_nav_menus ) )
return $_wp_registered_nav_menus;
return array();
}
Looks like these functions should call whatever nav menus are set in the backend in 3.0 but, as I’m still VERY wet behind the ears when it comes to understanding what functions can actually do… 
“I suggest you install the SEO buddypress plugin. It’s gives you control over the titles.”
I knew you would say that but I don’t want plugin SEO BuddyPress. It has to be in core BuddyPress or function. WordPress does fine with titles. I don’t want to bother the contributors to do SEO title.
How BuddyPress can miss the most important thing the title? Is there other solution?
Well, here’s a solution that worked for me:
// User Description
$user_meta = get_userdata(bp_displayed_user_id());
echo($user_meta->description);
yes I have visited the authors forum found no actual solution , approx 4 month ago somebody asked there the same question , and the answer from the author was as follows :
____________________________________________________________________________________
Hi,
Sorry, if I answered this in another method. I can’t recall. But this looks like you either did one of two things:
1. Have a space at the end of your bp-chat/chat/config.php file or
2. You didn’t chmod 777 your bp-chat/config directory
____________________________________________________________________________________
it didn’t worked for me ; firstly there is no config.php chat directory , its actialy is under chat/lib directory ………
and as I’m using it in localhost windows host the option 2. is not needed … but in case of option 1. there was no extra space in the lib/config.php , yet it didn’t worked….
I visited the authors profile here , but it seems the author in inactive for a certain time as its showing no recent activity .
this version of buddypressajaxchat is said to be working fine with wp 3.0 , but I have also tried it with wp 3.0, but again didn’t worked ……..
any solution would be much appreciated as I’m craving for this plugin as there no much self-hosted chat for buddypress…..
p.s. = Phpfreechat plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpfreechat/ – is working very fine with the present version of wp and bp
i solved this with a child theme by copying activity.php from the default theme to my child theme in the same folder structure (group/single/activity.php) then totally redoing the whole thing. This is using wordpress built in template replacement. good o’l wordpress.
Now I’ve got recent forum posts on the left with activity feed on the right. and the post update box at the bottom. I put them at the bottom because I wanted people to use the discussion forum more than posting updates.
here is the new improved group home page: http://shambhalanetwork.org/groups/beta-phase-discussion-group/
@r-a-y miester last of the last thing 
Im getting a error for groups that dont have the db field
Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in F:Programmesxampphtdocswordpresswp-contentpluginsbuddypress-group-credit-cardsbp-group-credit-cards.php on line 101
Would saying ‘else return something’ be the right path, and what should I return to avoid the error?
Edit, thinking about it, how would I say if ‘gcard_group_card’ doesn’t exist, don’t return anuthing?
You can use BP on a regular WP install. Just there are certain features (like the domain limiting) that come with WP multisite that aren’t available on the single install. You can always upgrade your regular wordpress install to multisite and then use it like a single WP install. That’s what I’m doing right now.
Wp loop? Not sure what that is. I’ll look it up but if it’s something you could explain or point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks a lot.
Alex
How do I allow spaces in WordPress Usernames?
Hm…I’m not 100%, but you might think of username as just that–the username one uses to login. Something shorter than John Smith, like jsmith, is ideal. But then the name is the display name. It can be first & last (even with a middle name or initial) and provides useful, attractive information, but isn’t something everybody wants to type out all the time (whether for logging in or for [at]mentions….
You have to create a WP loop to show the posts.
Thanks. I guess I did something wrong from the get-go. I installed buddypress as a plugin on a regular wordpress installation. That’s not recommended?
The same thing happened here.
The error in Chrome:
This webpage is not available.
The webpage at http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php?activate=true&plugin_status=all&paged=1 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
More information on this error
Below is the original error message
Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): Unknown error.
In my web server: (apache_error_log)
[Wed Aug 11 20:10:08 2010] [notice] child pid 1829 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Aug 11 20:10:08 2010] [notice] child pid 1828 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Aug 11 20:10:08 2010] [notice] child pid 1478 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Aug 11 20:10:09 2010] [notice] child pid 1502 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
