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@rohan_kapoor – install same as your configurations; check bb-config.php – sample here http://wordpress.pastebin.com/1qAdu2q3
– after correcting your bb-config.php at root, you can re-run forum creation – BuddyPress > Forums Setup and click on re-install link. There should be 7 tables of bbPress generated in database wp_bb_forums, wp_bb_meta etc. as well as a new bbPress folder generated within wp-content/plugins/buddypress folder in server.

I was getting a redirect loop on the wp-signup.php page on my sub networks

Well found out what’s causing the problem here
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13211#comment:1

It has to do with the code that is in wp-signup.php in lines 25 -33

if ( !is_multisite() ) {
wp_redirect( get_option( 'siteurl' ) . "/wp-login.php?action=register" );
die();
}

if ( !is_main_site() ) {
wp_redirect( network_home_url( 'wp-signup.php' ) );
die();
}

Wordpress doesnt allow signups on subsites. When someone tries to sign up on a sub site, it redirects them to the main site.
I am using the multi network plugin,
(https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/)
even though a site may be the main site for an additional network, wordpress still sees it as being a subsite so it keeps redirecting in an endless loop. By commenting out those lines it fixed the problem.

Is there a way to make a plugin for this instead of having to hack core?

members/single/home.php is the file you need to edit to see the changes take effect on the activity page. bp-template-pack is a great plugin.

The Wire feature was deprecated with BuddyPress version 1.2. If you’d like to use the Wire, try installing the BuddyPress Backward Compatibility plugin and activating the wire feature: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/

The functionality of the wire – namely, the ability to leave short messages for other users – has mainly been replaced by the @-mention feature.

If you want users to have their own individual blogs, you’ll have to activate WP Network mode. If you want them to be able to post on your main BuddyPress blog, they’ll have to be at least Contributors. If you just want them to be able to post messages for others to see, then perhaps the status update feature will be enough.

@elizawhat; Your post made me think, and I checked our (not yet) live site, which does require email confirmation. Mostly I’m thrashing around at home with a local xammp installation, and can’t remember what I did to make the live one require email conf. The plugin linked to below should do it, although it’s not activated in our site..! Something in WP or BP lets you require email confirmation, but I can’t remember what.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-xtra-signup/

Would mm forms work?

Buddypress profile fields are not standard WordPress though. They’re in complicated database tables called xprofile, so if you want to integrate it with anything else fuggedaboutit. You’ll need custom coding.

@joyceborneo – Read these instructions and follow them as your life depended on it!
http://developersmind.com/2010/06/17/upgrading-wordpress-mu-2-9-2-to-wordpress-3-0/

For the other people in this thread, the above might help, but might not depending on your use case.

@alanchrishughes – Here’s such a tutorial to integrate WordPress and standalone bbPress:
http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2009/12/bbpress-installation-and-deep-integration-with-wordpress/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/

If your theme isn’t 100% complete, then it won’t get accepted into the repository. It isn’t due to lack of responsibility, but quite the opposite. Themes in the WordPress.org repository are available to more than 10 million blogs all around the world. If 1% of those blogs try to download and install a broken theme, that’s 100,000 people that are frustrated instantly.

When the bp-default theme has broken bits and pieces in it, look what happens in these forums!

The best way to put your theme out there and get feedback on it, is to post it up on your own website, and use it. Setup a test installation and let people see what it can do, and have them use that website to give you that feedback. You can even setup your own group on this site too if you’d like.

Save uploading your theme to the WordPress repository as the icing on the cake; your reward for a job well done and a theme well created. Your audience, and your spare time, will thank you for it.

If you’re just looking for an easy-to-integrate forum for WordPress, try Simple:Press.
If you want to integrate a standalone forum into WordPress, try out bbPress.

To find out if BuddyPress is for you, try out BuddyPress over on the test installation site – http://testbp.org.
Although BuddyPress does have some forum functionality, it is not a dedicated forum script!

Hope that helps somewhat.

Thanks for the fix ray using that file worked like a charm! I have my Wire back

Hi peeps. I’m having a similar problem, but not sure if its exactly the same thing, my activity page is not the first page, nor do I want it. I’m using a custom theme designed in Artisteer, and the activity is not showing up. If I use the default buddypress theme, then the activity shows up.

Any ideas?
http://spaceoflove.co.za

Thanks

@azreeceli – based on your post, you want to allow your user to post and want to customize the admin dashboard so the user won’t even know that their posting in the back-end by theming the back-end to look like the front-end of the site. That’s is do-able but a lot of work which = paid work.
There’s a way to allow your users to post from the front-end,install Jet QuickPress plugin.https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jet-quickpress/

@eric, current versions of BP are not WordPress 3.0-ready.

I’ve upgraded a BP 1.1.3-based custom theme to WordPress 3.0. The only problem I’ve found so far is avatars upload, so I guess WP 3.0 changed how it handles avatars?

Can someone point out which change broke the functionality? Were function or hook names changed? Were functions moved to other files? Or something more complicated?

Is this already being worked on for a 1.2+ version? Is there a trac (or whatever it’s called) that I can use as reference to try to fix it in my custom theme?

Thanks @johnjamesjacoby

@arunbasillal good share. That’s what I’d do to make home page “future-proof” for BP 1.2 series – all bets are off for BP 1.3

Why dont the WordPress and Buddypress websites share more in terms of user interaction cues, e.g. using forums versus groups etc.

Why is it not easy to clone off other langauge sub-domains and them all share the same layout etc … ? This is also true for WordPress sites.

Agreed – @johnjamesjacoby – I just did this to a second site and took less than 3 minutes to get it working.

1. Install plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/)
2. Insert add_filter statements around line 112 of the syntaxhighlighter.php file in the plugin directory

Easy!