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@rafferjr You’d either need to revise 16 BP template files or just create 2 files and upload to server. It all depends on your HTML structure. Which Admire WP theme, URI to theme demo?

@eric-johnson – BuddyPress isn’t a commenting system (Like Disqus) so to answer your first question, no. It creates something similar (but different) to Facebook.com (as in the site, not including their external products)

However BuddyPress can/does hook into WordPress’s commenting system to bring somewhat of a social component to WordPress comments for registered members. Out of the box it…
1. Allows registered users to upload an avatar that will replace the gravatar. (if an avatar is what you mean by photo in question 2, then the answer is yes – but only registered members can)
2. links the name of the registered user to their profile page (so that other readers can learn more about them).
3. adds comments (of registed users) to the activity stream (show off comments to friends and gets others to engage in conversation).

Non-registered users will use the WordPress commenting system the same way it did without BP.

But, having said that – If you know how to code, or your able to hire someone who can – BuddyPress was made to make nearly anything possible. (except make you breakfast)

The WP ‘Pages’ used to create the page views are just there to create the url path if you view one it’s intentionally empty – or am I missing the point of what you’re saying?

@Hugo @mercime Thanks for your guidance. On a testing server I took down all plugins and gradually tested everything out the culprit was the Easy Mailchimp email subscriber plugin available here.. http://www.najeebmedia.com/wordpress-mailchimp-plugin-2-0-released

And without that plugin, comments work like a charm. I guess if this was my own post, I could set it to resolved

Then this means that you have not completed Step 3 of the BP Compatibility process, i.e., fixing alignment and HTML structure of BP template files to use your own theme’s HTML structure. Check if your WP theme has already been “template-packed” in list near the end of the webpage linked to above.

“there is a plugin out there that tells you what template is being parsed”
I’m assuming your talking about ‘Reveal templates’ or is their another one?

“but it does not seem to work on buddypress.”
Yeah, BuddyPress does templating really weirdly. BuddyPress never talks to WordPress’ template loading functions which is why most of thoes types of plugins don’t work. The plugin should work after ‘theme compatibility’ comes, https://buddypress.org/2012/04/the-default-theme/

“I am using buddypress but are there any plugins for bp or wordpress that will do what I want?”
Nope. Not that i know of.

“I would also like it if when users clicked on their name it brought them to a full profile page with a list of posts underneath..”
Not sure what your asking here, it sounds like WordPress does this by default with their Author Archives?

“Im looking for a plugin that will provide a list of my authors with a short profile..”
If you require it in a plugin, you might need to hire someone to do it. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/

WordPress has a function called wp_list_authors()
(see: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_authors)

By default, it will link to the WordPress Author archive, i just used the ‘author_link’ filter to make the author id go through `bp_core_get_userlink();` which will make it link to the User’s BuddyPress profile.

read: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.2/wp-includes/author-template.php#L273
and: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.2/wp-includes/author-template.php#L224

@bigjosh – their are some privacy plugins that will allow a user to choose who can see their details
such as: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-privacy/

If it’s possible to wait afew weeks, this feature has also been written for Core, to be included in the next major release (bp 1.6) Here is the developers announcement of the feature – http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/profile-field-visibility-in-bp-1-6/

@starprintbrokers Go to BuddyPress > Pages and check if Registration is still associated with a Page. If it is,resave page. Don’t know why that’s acting up with Salutation theme. If you change to bp-default theme, does the register issue also happen there or is it resolved?

And did you go through Appearance > BP compatibility process? It looks like you have not finished with Step 3 – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#step-three – where you need to fix alignment, then keep the bp.css enabled and adjust some styles to your theme.

@artisantopia Per scan of your theme’s HTML structure, you’d need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your Alyeska theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

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