There is not “more than enough”. If there was enough, then you wouldn’t get the error message. Simple as that.
You can get older versions from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/developers/ but I recommend you stay up to date with the latest version.
1. Free – BP Album plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/ the younger bro of
-> BP Media http://code.google.com/p/buddypress-media/ – please read all docs before installing this plugin
2. Premium BP Gallery http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/
I don’t have a free account anywhere. I have three domains might be fixing to own four. I am pretty good at fixing things on websites, but in the same breath I have had bloopers too. Joomla has crashed, so has Pligg twice, and WordPress so far has done well. I run an education blog, and a website, plus have a Tech based website.
The education blog is most important because it is for teachers and students. Would buddypress be a good tool for teachers and students? Because changing out and losing my theme would not be worth it unless Buddypress has good offering tools for my teachers and students. Judging from what I have seen I would definitely lose my theme. How also does buddypress handle the blog portion of the wordpress site? Would I lose my blog also?
Currently using WP 3.2.1 and BP 1.5.1
I am using the new BP registration form and am largely happy with it.
Once a user has registered they have the capacity to edit the extended profile fields from the registration, together with email and password but there is no access to the WP contact and biographical information fields. As admin I can see and edit them but ordinary users can’t.
I agree about scepticism on free hosting – I wasn’t suggesting moving the data simply trying the WP configuration with the established theme then adding Buddypress and looking at the result.
However as a newcomer to WP and BP perhaps my thinking is a bit woolly.
I dont trust my data to free hosting either but I am finding it a good way to learn what seems to fit together for my purposes.
Ah sorry thought by you saying older site no updates you meant you’d not updated WordPress either.
Well there is the template pack you can use for BuddyPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/. Or yes, you can go with making a child of Bp-default and that as your basis. I’d recommend creating a child theme.
Personally I’d be very sceptical over ‘free’ hosting. You are putting maybe your data on their site and personally I’d be sceptical about a free service like that. But, that’s my opinion everyone has their own.
Thanks for the prompt reply Paul.
I seem vaguely to remember using square brackets to refine general searches but now I’m not sure if that was in Buddypress or WordPress.
Is there a workaround or should I just post my topics anyway?
On registration issues I end up posting in both places because I can’t determine if its a WordPress or Buddypress problem.
Regards
Paul
If you don’t already use free hosting you might like to consider using http://www,000hosting.com or http://www.cixx6.com for prototyping changes they both have fairly easy WP installation which might enable you to set up a duplicate/development site (minus members and using their provided domain) to see how installing Buddypress will affect your theme without affecting your production site.
Just a thought.
I would like to enter meta title and meta description for each BP Group, for as many pages within each group as possible, but especially for each BP Docs page. And I would like all these pages automatically entered into my sitemap.xml too.
I’ve tried WordPress SEO by Yoast, and All-in-one SEO. Neither seems to work with Buddypress and BP Docs. Are there hacks in BP1.5.5 required to make them work? Will BP 1.6 fix these things? Should I use another SEO plugin?
All advice gratefully received – getting this basic SEO stuff working with Buddypress is driving me crazy! Many thanks.
The wp_footer() and wp_head() functions located in the footer and header files use just do_action to print all of there ‘stuff’ (meta, css, js etc).
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.2/wp-includes/general-template.php#L1576
Hi, I have a need to setup a network of wp sites, what I need is a main blog that is a news style theme wordpress blog and a number of child sites that are all buddypress social networks, is this possible with networked wp?
So
Main site = site1.com (wordpress news theme)
Child Site = child1.site1.com (buddypress theme/network)
Child Site = child2.site1.com (buddypress theme/network)
Child Site = child3.site1.com (buddypress theme/network)
Or if not can I put a news theme into the main site and hide the buddypress features?
Thanks in advance for any help
i do update it but haven’t added too much to it except a catacha and few other tools that help me, but not my readers. So I thought about using buddypress as a way to help my readers out. Now my theme on the website has only been up for like six to 8 months. Yes it has had updates and i installed them. But as far as upgrades are concerned that benefit the readers, and members i haven’t done much at all. I did install a spam blocker, to help them out too. I have never used buddypress, and if i do use it then I will because of the benefits to my members and readers. But I think I will be losing my theme. After looking at buddypress I think it will effect my whole site layout.
It may sound brutal but you really should be updating WordPress whether you are using BuddyPress or not. If your theme is limiting you then I’m afraid you do have to consider an alternative or update to it. Upgrades when done right shouldn’t effect your blog posts – it all depends though how far you’ve gotten behind though as to this task (and it won’t get less leaving it).
In saying this I do understand sometimes restrictions and issues happen that mean upgrading isn’t easy or as frequent. I usually find though that the issues in doing are out weighed by the benefits.
I would like to try out buddypress but my site is older and I have a theme I have used a while that my members/readers love. Plus many blog post.
How will buddypress affect an older blog?
Hello All,
I have been searching for a few months on how to get images show up in BuddyPress Extended Profiles. Alex wrote an awesome coding post about how to hack this here: http://alextheafrican.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/how-to-add-an-image-field-to-buddypress-extended-profile-fields/
It would be nice if this functionality were part of BuddyPress Core.
@elangley
~eric
You can change the text on line #21 loop-forums.php within bbPress plugin folders https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0.2/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress/loop-forums.php
For more information, please post at bbPress.org support forums
@olihaslam Please check out:
Multisite User Management
Add user role to site during registration
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-user-management/
@elangley
~eric
I have BuddyPress (1.5.5) with WPMU (3.3.2)
I’d like to automaticall enable all new users to be able to post on the main blog. How do I do this?
In normal WordPress I would go to ‘Settings’ and select the option to make newly registered users into ‘Contributors’. But that option isn’t available with BP.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Oli
@ChrisClayton
Ah, I see now & I can see where using these would be useful – there is no need to edit the WordPress/BuddyPress core.
The part I couldn’t get my head around was why you wouldn’t just place the whole function in the theme but now I realise by using do_action() you can insert multiple functions at that specific particular point in the code.
Thanks for helping out!
On the BuddyPress Pages panel, I have associated Discssion Forums with a blank page named Community. However, when I attempt to view the Community page, I am redirected to the Home page. How can I resolve this problem?
The Members, Register, and Activate pages all display without error.
I am running WordPress 3.3.2 and BuddyPress 1.5.5 with version 2.0.2 of the BuddyPress Site-Wide Forums (all the latest versions). I am also using the latest versions of the Genesis framework with GenesisConnect plugin for BuddyPress which integrates BuddyPress with the Genesis Prose child theme.
Hi,
I’ve installed the latest version of WordPress, Buddypress, and BBPress Forums. I’m using the sitewide bbpress forums and have deactivated all buddypress forums. So far so good. I created a page called Forums and placed the ‘[bbp-forum-index]‘ short code there and I get the forum index, which is what I expect. However, once that page loads, or when viewing any other Forum section or topic, the “Forums” button does not stay highlighted or “active”. It seems to work for all other buttons. I’m using the default Buddypress theme with some slight changes to the colors, etc. How can I get the “Forums” button to stay highlighted when viewing any part of the forum?
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I want to replace buddypress comments with facebook comments. So users can login to their facebook account and can comment by using it. I have tried “Facebook comments for wordpress” that you can download at http://we8u.com/facebook-comments/ but that only replaces comments in the notes page. it not works with buddypress activity pages. So can anybody help me into this?
Thanks