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You can try the BP Template Pack plugin combined with your WordPress theme:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Most likely, some tweaking will need to be made to the BuddyPress templates that get imported into your theme once you use the plugin.

Creating a landing page in BuddyPress is no different than creating a landing page in WordPress.

Like Modemlooper said, what do you mean exactly?

Try editing /single.php and /page.php in your child theme.

Edit the_time()’s parameters to add the date:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_time

@bpuser44
Glad you like my sports fundraising concept. Initially my focus is signing up sports organizations. In some cases that’s the school, other times it’s a non-profit organization and other times its the overriding association that might have a dozen or more teams. I’m basically trying to build a platform that will work for any organization that needs to raise money. In fact, I’m having some good success with cheerleading, swimming and dance teams right now too. It could certainly work for a tennis team too;-)

I think it makes sense to move to an all BP site. You’re not going to lose any of the previous benefit since BP can be configured to have all the features of your previous HTML pages.

To do what I described, you create a page and assign it a page-template (see WordPress for page template details). The page template can show pretty much anything you want. Then, create a second blank page with the title “Blog” (or whatever you want to call your blog pages). Then, go to Setting->Reading. Set the “Front Page” to the page you created with the page-template. Then, set the “Posts page” to the blank “Blog” page you created. That will make your home page the page template and give you a blog page. I actually do have my blog linked, but only at the bottom of the page: http://givingsports.com/blog/ Plus, I haven’t done many posts yet;-)

There are a couple other ways to do your blog like this, but that was the easiest one I found and it worked well for me.

@meetsos, if you haven’t solved the problem yet:
I believe you should be able to create a functions.php file in the Randy Candy theme. (Or go one better and create your own child theme based on Randy Candy, so you can benefit from published updates without losing your modifications.)

I doubt I can help much, but I’m sure whoever does help will need more details. Here are a few follow up questions for you.

How did you try to install buddypress, exactly? Did you add the plugin from wp-admin or by uploading to the plugins directory via ftp? Were you able to activate the buddypress plugin? i.e., when you say you just “tried to install” it, is that because it gave some error directly (and therefore you never saw buddypress in action at all or altered the default settings), or because you haven’t been able to log into wordpress since then?

Hopefully with some more details, one of the generous wp/bp gurus on here will be able to sort you out.

in response to the original poster. how do I place that file in my wordpress root directory, and where is the directory?

Thanks

It’s there as Paul said in your main wordpress admin, find it in your WP admin left menu towards the bottom. “WP Admin – Settings > Reading Settings > A static page (tick radio button) > “Front Page displays” (and select a page you want for your home). You can set a page for home page there, also for posts index page just under there.

This chart might help: WP Roles & Capabilities.

There’s a good plugin for that, something like Restrict Group Creation. If somebody doesn’t beat me to it, I’ll dig up the link.

EDIT: Here you go: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ or get it the WordPress plugin directory.

The “blog” tab here is to the main BP site blog. If you want to offer each of your members their own individual WP blog sites, you’ll need to activate Multisite in your WordPress installation (WP 3.0 or higher only):

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

I have WP 3.0.1 in Multisite mode running the latest BP, and it’s working great for me. I manually create the child sites, though, so I can’t vouch for how things work if you want to allow members to register their blog sites themselves (but I don’t see why it should matter).

It is rather easier to work with if you’re starting a site than if you’re modifying an existing one, I’d imagine. I’m sure you’ll find other ways to engage people. (I did briefly look at Mingle, but can’t say as I feel strongly one way or another about it.)

There’s also WP Hide Dashboard: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hide-dashboard/

@jonnylons

Don’t know about the post, but here’s the plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/

I got the same problem. Did anyone know whether the plugin that caused it. I’m using WordPress 3.0.1, BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 , and so many plugins.

I had two users apparently never get the activation email. (One is me, so I know it didn’t go through, but the other attempt belongs to someone I don’t know. They MIGHT have simply never opened the email.) My first attempt used a hotmail (live.com) address. The other person’s is a personal domain.

I thought I was having a problem with ALL activation emails, but when I tried a new user registration with a gmail address, it worked. I suppose I should test new user creation with some more email addresses and providers.

In any case, if you don’t have tons & tons of new users, one thing you can do while “we” figure this out is to check the Users list under the WordPress settings (from wp-admin), as even unactivated users will show up there. Then visit any problem user in buddypress by manually typing in the address for their profile page (you know, something like http://www.example.com/members/USERNAME/). Then in the admin bar, you’ll find an option along the lines of “Admin Options->Mark user as not a spammer”. That’s probably not the exact text.

@jmarino:
Well, there’s a plugin to restrict group creation. I’d start there: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

In the settings, you can auto-demote group creators to mods, so that’s good for what you mention. You can also separately determine who can make a public, private or hidden group. It doesn’t have a setting to restrict somebody who meets the threshold from creating more than one group, though. You’d have to work around that. Also, it has settings like minimum number of days as a member (of your BP site in general) before qualifying to create a group, but nothing built in that’d handle maximum number of days as a mod and then demote automatically.

Honestly? You’re looking for very specific and limited functionality. Since you already plan to manually add any additional mods, I’d consider just getting the necessary info from the user when s/he signs up for VIP membership, manually creating the group in the first place (use the Restrict plugin to keep anybody but a site admin from being able to do so), inviting the VIP member to join, and then setting him/her (and any friends) as mod.

As for the 1 year demotion, I’d just use a good calendar and set up an electronic reminder.

Low tech and not very automated, but that really seems like the route you’ll end up needing to go, unless you (or someone else) wants to create a fair bit of custom code–something you probably won’t find people offering to do for free.

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Not to be a total downer, but I’m having a bit of trouble imagining what enticement mod status would offer. Maybe I just haven’t toyed with it enough to see its utility in managing forums, but it doesn’t seem to provide much control over the group, at least…

Curious. I was convinced I had a similar problem, as I noticed one user marked spammer and then created my own test user but never received the activation email. HOWEVER, I just tried again using a gmail address instead of hotmail, and I got the activation email just fine. Suppose I’ll keep messing with this and check back in…..

I’m trying to use/test the Welcome Pack in particular, so….we’ll see.

Search for a plugin and then you will need to replace the navigation links in your header.php file with the code to call the plugins drop down menu. You can also add support for wp menus and then do the css or javascript coding to make it drop down.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-add-custom-navigation-menus-in-wordpress-3-0-themes/

If you relied a lot on the BP 1.0 or 1.1 theme structure, then you’d need to install the BP Backwards Compatibility plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/

I should note I have no experience using this plugin whatsoever.

hnla is right; if your theme isn’t too custom, I would recommend building a new child theme of the bp-default.