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hi try this plugin for redirecting to profile page after login
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/
It should work with single wp too, if it does not, please let me know, I will update the plugin.

For clicking on home link, please create a child theme, copy the header.php from bp-default to your child theme and modify it.
Change the line which says Home in the navigation, It’s anchor url to bp_loggedin_user_domain() from site_url().

Hope that helps.

It took me a while to think about this.

I mostly like it, but the ‘faded’ quality of the colors is weirding me out.

• Text in the forums is a little … small. Compare it to wordpress.org and notice how their text is a little darker and larger. That is much easier to read for the majority of people, I’d think.
• The blue for links should be darker
• The grey for alternate posts is a great background color. Don’t change.
• The TEXT in the post-reply form is too light.
• The text in the Post Reply button is similarly too light.

The other thought I have is hard to quantify, but I’m going to say it anyway. Something about the GROUPS makes it feel like a hobby site, rather than a serious ‘business’ site (yeah, I said it). I’m not sure if it’s the rounded corners missing, or the general paleness of the site, but something feels off. Casual.

Yeah, that were crap feedback. Sorry.

(Oh and the fact that HTML isn’t working? Like I put LI and UL in this post and it’s borked? Is frustrating.)

I did it with just a template. Copy and paste the members, groups, forums, and activity loops into a new template file. Add the parameter ‘search_terms=’ . esc_html( $_GET ) to each of the loops and then create a new WordPress page called search and assign the template file to it. Then just pass ?f=searchterms to the URL and bob’s your uncle.

@techguy The philosophy for wide-spread adoption is to not create any additional tables, and use meta whenever possible. This way you can rely on the internal functions of WordPress and BuddyPress to get and set that data, and you don’t have an upset site admin that needs to figure out where to put that table, how to cache it, how to serve it across multiple servers, etc…

I also think it depends on the scope that you need to achieve. The Groups API works really well for just about anything that you would want to plug into the groups component, but at the same time there can also be a need for totally 100% custom jobs where even the built in functionality doesn’t work for your application, in which case a totally custom theme might be in order.

All in all, I usually start with a custom plugin, that relies on the Groups API and group meta, and only use wp_sitemeta/wp_options if it’s a blanket default setting for all groups that can be changed by the site administrator.

Either .htaccess or if that is uncomfortable, you can use some code and checkout for referrer at any of the wordpress actions like “wp” or “init” or anything else. Check for the original referrer and then redirect if the origin is not your site.

If you don’t mind dabbling with BP code… sitewide search could be implemented like this (I say “could” because I haven’t tried it yet).

First a form needs to be created with an input field. Then, you’d need to create a new page (in BuddyPress or a page in WordPress with a page template) and add a bunch of BP loops that checks for the same input field variable.

@michael

Try Modemlooper’s widgetized theme as a child theme of bp-default. It might be just what you’re looking for.

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme

HI again and thanx for supporting,
I really dont see where u say i can find the ” groups” in my admin panel of wordpress site.
See picture, where should i go exactly to find this though i cant find anything in the logical place for me to look, as in “Buddypress>>Forums setup”

see picture:
http://yfrog.com/jqwpproblj

Please advice.

hi @r-a-y is_site_admin() and is_admin() are very different. is_admin() checks whether you are inside wordpress admin or not.
@scotm
How about making the activity of admin user private
`add_filter(“bp_activity_hide_sitewide_before_save”,”make_admin_activity_private”,10,2);
function make_admin_activity_private($hide_sitewide,$activity){
//get the current activity
if(current_user_can(‘manage_options’))//user is admin
return 1;
else
return $hide_sitewide;

}
`
Hopefully the code goes through this forum.

@Anthony why don’t you check if “allow new registrations” is enabled at “options” under “site admin” in your wordpress backend ? Read the same question today and provided the same answer, let’s hope it is the same problem !

I am really a big fan of buddypress.

Looks solid, would love to check it out.

Hi Tosh,
What’s the easiest way for my users to view their points? I can’t seem to find a link on my profile page or the buddypress admin bar? Or is the only way to view your points is to go to the WordPress admin pages?

There’s one in /wp-admin/profile.php in the WordPress dashboard. Presumably you could look at how that’s working, and just reuse the code in your register.php in your child theme.

It looks like you need to increase the allocated memory limit for PHP. Depending on the way your hosting company has set up the servers, you might be able to do this yourself. If you’re on a shared hosting package, they might not allow you to increase the memory limit.

I suggest contacting technical support at Rackspace and tell them about the error message. Then ask them what is set in the server’s php.ini file for the value of the memory_limit directive. If Rackspace allows for this value to be overridden by Apache, then you can easily tell php to use more memory by adding this to the very top of your .htaccess file.

### Set PHP Memory Directive ###
php_value memory_limit 60M


As a final check, make sure that your site is running PHP5. Although WordPress does run under PHP 4, it also runs under PHP 5 and that is always better.

If this is all foreign to you, then perhaps Rackspace will do it for you.

For that to work as intended, you also need to set WP_LANG in your wp-config.php and load a nBb_NO translation for WordPress.

Maybe you will find this info from the Google SoC site interesting @derekbolden:

Student Name: Kunal Bhalla
Mentor Name: John Jacoby
Title: Events Plugin for WordPress and BuddyPress
Abstract: Events have become an integral part of Social Networking; this plugin would also be useful for WordCamp.org – allowing people to handle WordCamp registration through the WordCamp site itself, etc.

This plugin will provide basic event functionality for plain vanilla WordPress installs and enhanced capabilities for BuddyPress installs by leveraging the new WordPress Custom post types and moving on from that.

Source: http://socghop.appspot.com/

Anyone tried using Posthaste Plugin or the TDO mini-forms with BP posting yet?

Now this is just my honest opinion, but I wouldn’t get it (this isn’t a slight against Lisa).

If you glance the TOC, it’s more of an introduction to BP, which is great if you don’t know anything about WordPress or BuddyPress and you’re just diving in. And, you’re right, you can find most of this info online.

If you are an intermediate developer (or if you’re experienced with WP), you can learn as you go and dig through the BP code and other BP plugin’s code.

FYI, WPMU.org is not an affiliate site.