@nahummadrid In general, template files used:
1. index.php file – move link to author into post meta then replace the author-box div with your new post thumbnail div
2. functions.php – add support for post thumbnail
3. theme’s stylesheet – add styles (e.g. float: left;) to your post thumbnail div and margin for your post title, post meta and post content
4. (optional) archive.php, tags.php, category.php, search.php etc.
WP Codex – https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails
Old Tuts, good reference – http://www.kremalicious.com/2009/12/wordpress-post-thumbnails/
Another tuts – http://nenuno.co.uk/creative/wordpress/adding-post-thumbnails-to-wordpress-3-0/
@jkrysto –
Theirs code snippets around that will help you choose your own default avatar – http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-a-custom-default-avatar-for-buddypress-members-and-groups/
Their’s currently no built in screen to do it because BuddyPress inherits some of the WordPress’ philosophy’s Including Decisions not Options “It’s our duty as developers to make smart design decisions and avoid putting the weight of technical choices on our end users.”
Though, it might be a good enhancement ticket in trac.
I am running WordPress in LAMP with buddypress installed. Whenever I try to click a link to goto the activity page it is missing – isn’t buddypress meant to create that?
No, I just have buddypress. And my template is smileth by myreviewplugin, so I have no idea. Is there a file using ftp that drives wordpress signup? I could just re-route it to go to my /register page…
Hi
I have some problemes at my webpage. When I write articles and post forumtopics my name won’t show. It’s because the xprofile name I write in BuddyPress when I register don’t come at users firstname and lastname (also known as Name in WordPress User directory).
Does some of you know how I can fix that problems?
If you look at this picture, u’ll see that some users misses the “Name”field.
View post on imgur.com
I am having an issue with the gravtar crop function. I currently have a wordpress network installed and when you upload a gravtar it immediate shows the bpfull.jep but when you go to crop, it complete deleted everything and says that it is successful and comes up blank.
So I went to the server to see what happens. It looks like when you first upload it create the folder in avatar folder and puts the bpfull.jep. but when you crop it, it deletes the folder.
Does anyone know how to fix this bug?
I am on a rackspace server.
I just installed buddypress 1.5.5 on wordpress 3.3.1 into the swagger 1.12 theme and all looks good except for some random content in the body.
http://beta.superpolypixel.com/members/timorourke
How would I go about getting rid of this? Thanks in advance.
if u want i reinstall wordpress, reinstall buddypress, but my team have resolved a bug with avatars that are not shared betwen subsites, i wan’t loose this correction, but is shure we have same problem i have done many test abouth this and is all the same results, pls help.
The newest. I figured out that for some reason, when I click “sign up”, my site redirects me to the wordpress login. How do I get it to take me to the buddy press login?! That’s all I need to fix.
@ktrojan Sorry, missed your reply.
With BBpress site-wide forums (bbpress 2.0 – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/) within the forums menu (settings/forums) you can choose to allow “anonymous posting” which will allow non-members to post in it.
But, that wont allow anonymous postings within a group, to do that is slightly harder (you’ll need to hire a developer) as it has an extra requirement of being a group member.
@gajananh999 Media uploads via Activity Updates:
1. BuddyPress Activity Plus – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/screenshots/ free
2. There’s also the premium BP Gallery plugin http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/ which also includes uploading images, audio and/or video in status updates forms in Activity Directory, Member’s activity page, and Group’s activity page.
@gajananh999 It is possible. It’s rare to find something that’s not possible 
The real question is “how difficult?”
The BuddyBoss commercial theme has implemented a feature that attaches an upload button to the activity updates post form – SEE: http://buddyboss.com/
Theirs also afew plugins that adds photo uploading, such as BP Albums – SEE: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/ but they are independent of the activity updates post form.
@flair1 – Nice site. Just a quick mention though, the Buddybar seems to be covering the site description on some monitors. You might want to either switch to the WordPress toolbar with
`define ( ‘BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR’, true );` in your bp-custom.php
or add some CSS to bump your site down by afew pixels so that it’s underneath the buddybar.
`body {
margin-top: 40px;
}`
Hope someone can help me with this, I’m totally new at wordpress/ buddypress, in short… i’m a n00b!
My problem is this:
I want to create a website where, for example, pets are registered.
Often pets have no last name so when a owner registers his pet, for instance a cat named alex, a second other user can’t claim this name.
He needs to register alex1 or something like that.
What I want is this, every member gets not the name as a permalink but a number.
My goal is this:
Someone registers the name alex:
In stead of websitename.com/members/alex i would like to see: websitename.com/members/1
Second owner registers the name alex: websitename.com/members/2
Thirtieth owner registers the name alex: websitename.com/members/30
I’m running Buddypress Version 1.5.5 with the plugin Allow Multiple Accounts (so more than 1 members can have only 1 emailadres)
Thanks in advance for reading this, maybe you could help me further!
@mercime, it loads the responsive CSS on IE7 which breaks the main navigation. testbp.org / trunk has a fix for LTR, but not for RTL yet
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3595
We’ve fixed this in the most recent commit on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3294
You could either download the 1.5 branch version of BuddyPress from SVN (https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/branches/1.5/ which *should* be stable enough to use in production, or try to make the relevant code change in your version of BuddyPress.
I am still having trouble with this:(
I have vhost working. Just playing around with the apache settings, I am able to make several working generic sites, ie. site1.dev under /rootfolder/site1/, site2.dev under /rootfolder/site2.. and so forth. Unfortunately I don’t have access to another computer to try this on, but I’m pretty sure there is just something wrong with my home setup. Like, if I actually purchased web space and put wp and bp up it would probably work fine, but I really want to be able to test everything out on my own pc first.
What other information about my installation setup do you think would be helpful? I tried using both xampp and wampserver2.2D, I prefer the latter. I used them one at a time, never installing both at once. I pretty much just downloaded the installers and left everything default, I didn’t have any prior sites I was working on before on this computer. For wampserver I had to delete the # symbol to uncomment the line ‘#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf’ but that is all I had to change. xampp does not comment that line out on a clean install. There were no problems with wordpress on either setups.
My mind is boggled!
@mrjarbenne Thanks for the links, But those are paid plugins and I am all about the open source! especially if it is for wordpress
@djpaul Hey was wondering if you might help me out with some idea concepts. I got the whole settings to work and added my own page to the nav bar, that part was easy. However I hit a topping point.
I thought it would be easier to check if an update was part of a group AND if the user is part of that group. However I am finding it difficult to check this.
I noticed that in the activity there is a item_id which if it is a group update it is the group Id … but is there any other way to check to see if the activity_update is a group other than this? What about changing the content type to activity_group_update or something… Right now I have this and it seems totally hackish and not good at all. Seems to work to check though but also is invalid for any other update other than a group one….
` global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$hide_public_groups = get_user_meta( $current_user->ID, ‘hide_public_groups’ );
$hide_update = false;
if ( $hide_public_groups[0] == “yes” ) {
global $activities_template;
$group_id = $activities_template->activity->item_id;
$is_member_of_group = check_is_member_of_group( $current_user->ID, $group_id );
//echo $is_member_of_group;
if ( $is_member_of_group ) {
//this is working but is filtering out any other post
//need to check for if this is not a group post to just let it slide.
//maybe it is better to grab the groups_loop real quick and then just query for this specific group and then make sure it is public and is member….
//echo “no hide”;
//var_dump($group);
} else {
//echo “hide it”;
//$hide_update = true;
}
} `
Also just a note the check_is_member_of_group i stole from the class Bp_Groups_Member…
Any ideas anyone? I know this should be easier and I am way over thinking it.. It was late last night…
I got this error when I tried to install New BuddyPress
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_multisite() in d:hshomeomegatkdomegatao.comwordpresswp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-loader.php on line 35
Will it run on 2.9.2?
I wanted to ask if the register fields/form could be put on the homepage of the wordpress site.
@o4tuna Re: Themes and BP – Ways to have a BuddyPress-compatible theme
1. Create a child theme of bp-default theme – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
2. Make your regular WP theme compatible with BP via BP Template Pack Plugin – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ – includes list of “Template-Packed” WP themes in latter part of the page
3. Install a WP theme with explicit BuddyPress-support e.g. Elbee Elgee – https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/elbee-elgee – this theme already includes BP template files
4. Plugin purchase – Premium themes more often require purchase of a plugin so you could use their themes with BuddyPress – e.g. Genesis, Pagelines, etc.
RE: Do the regular WP plugins still work with BP?
In general, yes. BuddyPress is also a WP plugin. There are rare conflicts with AJAX, JS, etc.
@mrjarbenne
By repo, do you mean the list of WordPress plugins?
It looks like a really cool plugin! Though what i wanted to do, is a bit more simple. I would just present the users with some different cartoon and comic figures, which they could pick from.
Our users are teenagers, and might not be so fluent in English, so if the plugin would work through doppelme, it would be a problem.
I’m not that experienced, but maybe it would be possible to replace the avatar function, with some kind of gallery function?
Hi Everybody,
i’ve set up group forums, then created a group and added a forum topic in this group. Works perfectly so far…
My problem here is, that i get a message “sorry, there were no forum topics found” when i hit the “forums”-tab to see the “forums directory”
This only happens when the group is set to non-public
May be i’am wrong, but i would expect that i see the forum topics of groups where i am a member of. Even if the group is non-public.
As an admin-user this is the case.
– I did a basic installation of wordpress/buddypress with no other plugins so far.
– Versions are latest as of today.
– fresh subdomain install
– shipped standard theme
– lamp
If anyone can help with this I would really appreciate it.
Regards,
tdoubleu
Hello, I run the site http://www.ireekgeek.com. I’ve been experiencing a problem for a couple weeks now and am in desperate need of a solution.
When members try to add a comment to recently posted activiy, the post button redirects to a 404 ‘Page Not Found’.
I’ve tried resetting all permalinks, I’ve checked to see if the theme I was using was the problem, but I recieve the same error when using the bp-default theme. I’ve also tried to deactivate any plugins that might be messing up the link…
I tried looking up similar problems that may have occured to other people on the net, the closest I came to a solution was this ticket: http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2342
I haven’t altered any of the php associated to the activity stream or comments. I’m not even sure where the problem might be contained. Any help on this matter would be much appreciated – this has been a huge obstacle for members trying to communicate.