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Hi there!

I currently work for the Telegraph, so have first-hand knowledge. If you want to use Disqus, you need to get user authentication going between WordPress and Disqus. At the Telegraph, we have our own in-house authentication system, too, so we’ve got a three way connection between our system, WordPress, Disqus. It’s as tricky as it sounds, and it’s not perfect.

We also have to use the Disqus Single Sign On feature, which you have to pay money for.

Disqus do have a WordPress plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system but as I understand, it syncs between WordPress comments and Disqus comments (it never looks like you’re using Disqus).

I would suggest either using Disqus comments fully or WordPress comments fully. Not a mixture. Requiring people to sign in to Disqus via FB or TW I don’t think will realistically be a problem, as a lot of users have those social media accounts already. If you absolutely must have the Disqus / WordPress user authentication going, I’d suggest you get in contact with Disqus support at http://disqus.com/support/ and see what their thoughts are.

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https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4242 (which you know about, since you posted the bug report. Thanks!)

If you’re using wordpress 3.3+, you can use the wp_editor function in your buddypress powered theme. For example, the is the textarea for posting reply for group forums in BuddyPress Default theme located in /buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/forum :
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Where the first quote (‘Type here …’) is the initial content for the editor (You can just leave it as ” if you don’t want any initial content) and the second quote (‘reply_text’) is the id of the editor.

By default, wp_editor will use the default TinyMCE editor that comes with WordPress but you can change it via a plugin e.g. CKEditor For WordPress

here is the solution for the problem: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4081

@b1gft copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-themes/bp-default/forums/forums-loop.php into child theme folder/forums/forums-loop.php – then change value in line 61 for the poster avatar and line 68 for the groups avatar.

== please create an account to test a couple things ==

@finallyanime Do provide a test username and password which you can delete later.

1. if you’re referring to blog posts, then you’d need to install a subscription plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/ or via feedburner etc.

2. What’s wrong about the blogs section specifically? You need to have a multisite installation for that

== Doesn’t look like “create new topic or group” is possible ==

3. Did you see the link to create a group beside title of the Groups Directory page? Or go to http://mysite.com/groups/create directly ? Create a new topic for Group Forums or Sitewide Forums?

@ktown28 I would look at the comments.php file and customization of comment form in functions.php. You could also install the Theme Check plugin and the Log Deprecated Notices plugin to check if your theme is up to WordPress standards.

Hi Paolo!

Do check out the WordPress plugin S2Member which is a powerful membership plugin that supports PayPal.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/

Also, we’re using a foreign language version of WordPress and BuddyPress which both have completely translated mo files but the email came in English. Could this be related or another issue?

It is WordPress 3.3.2 multisite installed in the root directory. We have a custom theme but based on bp-default without many modifications, certainly not any to the mail functionality except we had tried the Welcome Pack plugin but the activation link did not appear in that email either. This problem has occurred even without any other plugins running but BuddyPress.

It seems to be a variable that should be created called $activate_url in /bp-core/bp_core_filters.php . Is there a way to add a filter there or somehow create another email to take precedence over this one?

We’d like to keep email activation but if it doesn’t work we will have to manually re-send emails or disable it? Both seem like bad solutions, such a basic feature should be working without any tweaks to the system.