For example here in this WPMUorg tutorial the author explains how to replace some piece of code, but it is passed as a variable in the execution time, after it’s assigned with a value http://wpmu.org/how-to-create-your-very-first-wordpress-plugin/
Will it work if I want to modify the php templating code BEFORE it gets parsed by the PHP engine? I think not…
@stevedmma aside from creating your own bp-default child theme, you can also use a regular WP theme and make it compatible with BuddyPress via BP Template Pack plugin. We have “template-packed” more than 75 WP themes in list -> https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes
PageLines Base theme 1.0.2.0. Here are the plugins. (You asked for it…) Akismet, AWPCP, Audit Trail, Backup WordPress, BP Profile Search, BuddyPress, BuddyPress Activity Plus, BuddyPress Album, BuddyPress for PageLines, BuddyPress Template Pack, BWP Google XML Sitemaps, Dynamic Widgets, Envolve chat, Events Manager, Fast Secure Contact Form, Google Analyticator, Jetpack, My Category Order, PageLines Sections, Platinum SEO, Redirection, Role Manager, Search & Replace, SEO Ultimate, WishList Member, WP-EVP, WP Audio.
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You can used my child theme its only for the BP-Default theme it adds this functionality.
http://ezwebdesign.wordpress.com/free-stuff/
@mairaj
– Create a bp-default child theme -> https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
– Copy header.php from bp-default theme to your child theme folder then remove the search div from the header.php in you child theme folder
– Create a Page Template -> https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates and add the code your deleted from header.php replacing the_content tag and upload to your child theme folder in server
– Pages > Add New and title it whatever you want then choose the template in sidebar then make it private, Admin can access that page anytime.
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@anaxent There are no bootstrap themes based on the bp-default theme AFAIK. There are however a large number of “bootstrapped” WordPress themes — http://wpmu.org/7-free-twitter-bootstrap-themes-for-wordpress/ and https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/the-bootstrap — which could be made compatible with BuddyPress by using the BP Template Pack plugin and going through the compatibility process and fixing alignment.
all three questions (a) – (c) simply related to the same issue @mercime.
I got a warning so do I really need to update the forums anyway? So what if I don’t? My question about being concerned was not to get feedback from my Sys Admin (which I am the S.A. for the site and server). WP warned me — so do I need to be concerned? The warning was cryptic with respect to WordPress/BuddyPress, not the server.
An my manual update question was this — if the automated WP routine can’t update the forums, is there a manual workaround.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I’m running WordPress 3.4.1 and BuddyPress 1.6.
Digging around in the Codex a little bit showed me that it is possible for my desired structure to be achieved (community.mysite.com/usersite); however, seemed to indicate that my WordPress instalation must be in http://community.mysite.com and not http://mysite.com.
Is there a way to do this with the WordPress install in the main site?
Thank you for a masterfully comprehensive plugin,
Ben
per @r-a-y: “Is there any reason why you need multisite?”
It is my understanding that as of WordPress 3.0 MU was automatically built into core. I am not using multisite, per se, that I know if. At least I did not intent to use it. I do know that I have 2 dashboards in my WordPress under My Sites:
(1) Network Admin
(2) my Buddy Press site
It does get a little hairy lopping through both dashboards to make settings tweaks and activate and deactivate plug-ins, etc.
I will certainly give ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification‘ a try…
The memory error is a common problem, and the solution is easily found if you search google: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/fix-wordpress-memory-exhausted-error-increase-php-memory/
If the problem persists after increasing the memory limit and it still says “Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted”, you’ll need to contact your web host and ask them to change this setting for you.
Hi
Over a week ago now I updated to latest BuddyPress plugin version & my theme format disappeared.
See my WordPress blog @ http://richard-dickinson.com/
This is the error message:
Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /home//public_html/richard-dickinson.com/wp-content/themes/animassrdblogbp_kid/functions.php on line 32
I thought it might have been a bbPress plugin problem as I updated to the latest plugin version of bbPress at the same time. It doesn’t seem to be a bbPress issue but a BuddyPress one-see http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/theme-format-lost-on-latest-bbpress-update/#post-116948
I am most grateful for help to fix my WP site theme format & look forward to helpful replies-thanks
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Honestly if you want BuddyPress to function correctly, In my opinion you should create a child theme based on the BuddyPress default theme and make any changes within its css. If you don’t know how to make a child theme then I can send you a really simple one that allows you to change the CSS of the buddypress default theme. As of this post the newest theme is Fanwood and I am not certain it will function correctly with WordPress 3.4.1 and BuddyPress 1.6
I was wondering what most of you are doing when it comes to themes.
Im not new to wordpress at all but i am new to buddypress and upon searching for themes they are very limited. Most of them are outdated. If you checkout themeforest for premium themes there is only a small selection.
From what i understand (and i could be wrong) normal wordpress themes do not work.
So for us non webdesigners, where do we get themes?
P.S. i apologize if this is in the wrong forum.
BUMP
IF THIS HELPS!
I’m currently running
WordPress 3.4.1
buddypress 1.6
installed as a directory on root
using default theme
no modifications of corefiles
no custom feature of bpcustom
hosted with argeweb.
running on linux
There are a few different social networking platforms out there and someone coming up with a safe way to integrate one or more of them with WordPress (or visa-verse) would be a welcomed development, in my opinion. However, a ‘plugin’ like GRA4 that takes unsuspecting members from WordPress sites and opens the WordPress site owner(s) up to potentially (MAJOR) security and privacy issues (as well as hosting and server violation issues) is not a plugin. It is a dangerous interface that WordPress webmasters would be well advised to stay away from.
One thing to consider when allowing a ‘plugin’ to use a remote server is, you can not know the intentions of the people on the remote server. Once that avenue is opened, a site can be vulnerable to many things unseen and unimagined.. That is Dangerous.. Unfortunately, a lot of people using WordPress do not look at code. Even if they did, they don’t know how to spot potential dangers. As website developers, webmasters, and the like, we do have a responsibility to those who use our websites, to be careful of providing something that could violate the rights and privacy of our users as well as open our own servers and/or hosting, to unsavory and malicious intruders.
It pays to ask questions, @lunchgirl thanks for doing so. I wasn’t aware of gra4 until I saw this thread and @mercime pointing out that it isn’t available in the Repository anymore caused me to want to know what it did. So, I looked it up and found that they are attempting to infiltrate several different and independent platforms. If anyone uses those other platforms or knows someone who does, I would let them know about that plugin (or in the case of some, it’s a drop-in). It is still available in those other platforms and shouldn’t be. Please spread the word..
@arrogance-is-bliss thank you for providing a detailed report on the extent of the plugin’s abuse. I just saw the first few lines of one of the plugin’s files in repo and reported it right away at plugins@wordpress.org
Just tried it out and it works perfectly 
Buddypress 1.6 and WordPress 3.4.1.
However it doesn’t use the excerpt, it uses the first X of the post. It actually pulls quite a lot which is not so good for SEO since it will produce a lot of duplicate content.
I’ll see if I can find where it defines how much to pull in from the post.
It’s a regular install of WordPress. Just want to be able to customise the buddypress folder name.
Just to update, I have now solved this problem.
I removed the code that shares the users and roles with the buddypress sub-site, so the wp-config.php and capabilities.php are back to the wordpress originals. Then I logged in with the admin account (the only user that was created when the wordpress was installed) and i managed to run the update wizard.
Then I changed the wp-config.php and capabilities.php files back to include the code used to share the users from my main wordpress site.
All is back to normal 
Are you using a custom theme? Do you have a menu created in the admin and placed in the primary slot?
Btw you can always get old versions of plugins by going to WordPress.org and on the plugins page there is a developer tab with links
I was looking at this plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-places-locator/
I was wondering how would i change the fields from events, etc to have it only search for people data? location, email, phone number, etc.
Another question is how would i connect the plugin database to buddypress?
For example. when users are signing up to my site, I want to a couple fields that go into the plugin database and display the info when people use the search field.
Thanks in advance!!!!
I’m having trouble to run the buddypress 1.6 update wizard, as it just says ‘You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.’ even when i’m logged in as admin.
I feel this problem is most likely caused by the way I have buddypress set up on a seperate wordpress install to my main wordpress site. Basically I have two wordpress sites, with the sub-site (buddypress site) getting the users and their roles from the main wordpress site, so the users are shared.
Does anyone know how I can get buddypress to successfully update with the current set up I have?
Here is the code I use to share users from the main wordpress site:
USE USERS FROM MAIN WORDPRESS
================================
In ALL of my installs:
in wp-config.php:
added just above /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */:
define(‘CUSTOM_CAPABILITIES_PREFIX’, ‘wp_’);
in wp-includes/capabilities.php:
replaced:
$this->cap_key = $wpdb->prefix . ‘capabilities’;
with:
if (defined (‘CUSTOM_CAPABILITIES_PREFIX’)) {
$this->cap_key = CUSTOM_CAPABILITIES_PREFIX . ‘capabilities’;
}
else { $this->cap_key = $wpdb->prefix . ‘capabilities’;
}
In all installs EXCEPT the original:
in wp-config.php:
added just above /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */:
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);
define(‘CUSTOM_USER_TABLE’, ‘wp_users’);
define(‘CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE’, ‘wp_usermeta’);
I currently have Extended Profiles disabled, but I have Account Settings enabled. I’ve been testing different WordPress roles on my site and discovered that if a subscriber types in their browser: “domain.com/members/anothersubscriber” (where “anothersubscriber” = another member on the site that is also a subscriber), they receive an error (404) page. Obviously this happens because non-admins are not allowed to have this type of access. However, instead of throwing a 404 page, how can I have their (note: “their” meaning non-admins. in my case, subscribers) request redirect to the homepage or to their own profile page?
Interesting ‘plugin’ that GRA4.. it is a connection to their website. A little more than phoning home. Your members get included into their website. Wherever their ‘plugin’ is activated, all the members show up on all the other websites. They have a plugin for oscommerce, phpbb and wordpress and they are working on a plugin for drupal. All members are gathered to their website and you have NO admin privileges. You have NO control over the content on the website and I don’t know for sure, but I think there could be some major security (and privacy) concerns for all of your website members.
They don’t tell you straight out that you aren’t adding functionality to your WordPress website, they are providing a portal to their website, which shows up on your website making it appear like it’s your website. Quite crafty. – A FACADE-
They are using ‘elgg’ social software on their server. They authenticate using cookies and they secretly provide your website with a ‘secret key’ and their coding changes the .htaccess rewrites for your website to redirect your members to their website. The page they tell you to add, is the same name as the directory of their plugin and the rewrite for permalinks makes it appear that your members are looking at a page, but they are looking at another website. The shortcode they tell you to put on the page you create for their plugin calls the function that imports the data from their website to display on that page. So, basically.. it’s an interface with their website gra4.com. Their website shows up on an ip address in the United States, but they are Russian (no prejudice, just an observation), to share the information. Part of their coding calls a another website virturossiya.org/c (which shows up as ‘GRA4SetConfigValue(‘GRA4_remote_url’… in one of the files. That website also shows up on an ip in the USA, but the page title is in Russian and the favicon is a red star. (looking at that last domain name I can see ‘virtual russia’).
In conclusion, from my perspective, it’s a scam. You do NOT get your own social network with their ‘plugin’, you get to include your members into their website, without your members knowing it.. I don’t think that would be consistent with the spirit of WordPress or BuddyPress. I would stick with BuddyPress or one of the other true WordPress plugins that provide social networking within WordPress, unless you want to find yourself answering questions you have no answer for sometime in the future.. Let alone the risk of your own website and hosting information somehow being hacked. The concern I have is, if they are being honest, why hide all of this from WordPress users of their plugin? With their obvious ability to rewrite and redirect, who knows (really) where your website and member information is going?
If they do get back into the WordPress Repository, I would really be careful of these people. Always check to see if a plugin requires a connection with remote servers before you consider using a plugin.
