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The plugin wordpress Hashcash (updated today to 4.5.1) should now work for BuddyPress registration but it stops EVERYBODY from registering.

This is not true for me. I just registered a test user with Hashcash 4.5.1 installed. Though still waiting to see if it stops BP splog spammers.

This is going to come across wrong but…

Buddypress functionality works out of the box. You install the plugin and everything works. What doesn’t work out of the box is all of the styling required to fit Buddypress into your current site design (assuming you don’t want to use the default theme).

If you currently use a stock downloaded theme for your WordPress site and have never made any changes to it, or mucked around with CSS and HTML then hiring someone to do this stuff for you might be the best approach.

Now, that said, once someone spends some time learning about CSS, HTML and how WordPress themes and plugins work, it’s really not that difficult to make changes.

There are very helpful people here but they can’t do everything for you. We can point you in the right direction but much like any education, you need to do some homework on your own.

Something to do with owner permissions.

Do a search on google for “wordpress upload owner permissions”.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

It will walk you through it.

EDIT:

Sorry I misread your question. I thought you where looking to edit a WP theme.

I found the hooks but I cant figure out to give points to poster/author instead of logged in user.

I want posters to get points when someone else likes their post or comment etc. a sitewide point system.

Like:

if( function_exists(‘cp_alterPoints’) && is_user_logged_in() ){

cp_alterPoints(the_author_ID(), 5);

}

This is what the docs says:

cp_alterPoints( int $uid, int $points )

Parameters

int $uid: ID of a WordPress user. To get the ID of the current logged in user, use the cp_currentUser() function.

int $return: Number of points to add to the specified user.

Sorted. Thank you r-a-y for pointing me in the right direction.

I created a child theme, copied the header files into it. Changed the above two lines so they pointed to mysite.com instead of mysite.com/wordpress that they were originally pointing to.

Thank you once again.

I’m really pleased with your help, and with the result.

Sue

hi Mike

That’s great

well, you may give this a try

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/

hi there

Well, currently Buddypress allows users to change the text/their images(gravatar) etc. So most of the thing you want is already there.

For your second question, I don’t think there is a plugin which allows selecting font size/color, so this is something which you will not get out of the box.

You may want to take a look at Boone’s plugin tinyMCE for Buddypress. That allows posting rich text data.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-tinymce/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-css-drop-down-menu/

Would this allow for the main site to not be a BuddyPress site but the main WordPress MU domain (www.mydomain.com).

Then when a new blog is created it would be it’s own buddypress private social area, lets say for company XYZ.mydomain.com.

Then employees from XYZ could come to XYZ.mydomain.com and register from there?

This is what I’m trying to do with my requirements I have. If we are looking for the same thing maybe we can help each other and forward the answer to each other when we find it.

All I need now is for the ‘Home’ link in the header to point to mysite.com it currently points to mysite/wordpress

Anyone know how I change this?

The bp theme header shows

<div id="header">



<h1 id="logo"><a>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php bp_site_name() ?></a></h1>



<ul id="nav">

<li<?php if ( bp_is_front_page() ) : ?> class="selected"<?php endif; ?>>

<a>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

So presumably (says she with little knowledge) I need to change this to something else?

When I go direct to mysite.com it goes to my correct homepage and the default homepage tag is highlighted, but if I actually click on that tag it takes me to the mysite/wordpress folder list. weird!

Actually I am trying to solve the same situation…only with more access levels Free Bronze, Silver and Gold.

I do have role manager running access to pages nicely via wishlist member…..and I need something to bridge to protect forums by role.

I have checked the above instructions. I’m using the above code and my site is sorted except for the ‘Home’ Page.

All my links, BuddyPress and the pre-existing WordPress links all open on the correct page except the ‘Home Page.

I’m using BuddyPress default theme and when I activated it. it created a ‘Home’ tag that goes straight to the Mysite/WordPress folder and lists its content.

I’ve created a static ‘Home’ page, and this to has created a ‘Home’ tag in the header that does actually go to the home page.

So, currently, I’ve got two ‘Home’ links in my header, an incorrect one taking me to a folder list, and a correct one taking me to my home page.

Is there a way of getting rid of the default home page, just leaving me with the new one I’ve created?

With the above code snippet, your BP pages should actually go to mysite.com/BPpage.

If you did not use the code snippet above, your BP pages would reside at mysite.com/wordpress/BPpage.

So if BP wasn’t running correctly before the snippet, there’s something larger going on.

I think you should double-check these instructions again:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

The Homepage link previously went direct to mysite.com and all my pages or blogs were at mysite.com/pagename.

Now all the new BuddyPress pages go to mysite/wordpress/buddypresspage That’s OK

All my previous pages and blogs still go to mysite/pagename That’s OK

The only problem is my ‘Homepage’ which was showing my most recent blogs but now shows mysite/wordpress

To be honest, I don’t know what would have happened if I’d gone to mysite/wordpress before, because nothing ever went to it!

Just worked out that if I change ‘Settings – Reading’ to ‘Static Page’ instead of ‘Latest Posts’ then the ‘Home’ Link will go to it, so will use that as a work around for now. Would still like to get my home page back to ‘Latest Posts’ though.

Kind of hard to debug without seeing your site and theme code.

Did your homepage link previously direct to mysite.com?

Also, before adding the above code snippet, what happened when you went directly to mysite.com/wordpress?

@ Andrea_r

Yeah I realise that now after having a play with it

I inadvertently asked a similar yet different question in another thread, perhaps it could be considered a half way for this also. It involves using the domain map plugin and then adding the following to the wp-config.php:

Allow BuddyPress to function on multiple blogs of a WPMU installation, not just on one root blog:

define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );

It wouldn’t give each site its own buddypress, but it would let you share the one install.

I’ve not actually tested all this but it seems logical.

I know there also use to be a plugin that allowed you to be an oid provider, the WP directory shows its last update as 2007 though so not sure how viable an option that would be.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mu-open-id/

Increase your PHP memory limit then.

Read this:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

Increase your limit to 128MB or higher.