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If you are using IIS, you might have to follow the directions suggested here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite

I don’t think IIS supports mod_rewrite which is what WP uses (and BP).

Does your site work with BP installed?

@cpentleton & @xiv-studios: Sorry if I offended either of you.

BuddyPress has the unfortunate (and fortunate) ability to be installed via the plugin installer built into WordPress. Out of the box it is fantastic and very complex. This can create a very confusing and quite steep learning curve for anyone starting out.

@cpentleton: I look forward to your new topic. Hopefully it’s something I can give you a hand with. If not, I’m sure there will be a BP community member who can.

Hi Ron –

Hey thanks very much for your work on porting over Thematic for the BuddyPress platform.

General Question: Now that Themeshaper and Thematic are part of the WordPress core effort, do you look to see “great assimiliation” with WP3/MU, BuddyPress, and Thematic/Buddymatic?

TESTING 1.2 NOTES:

I am testing Buddymatic version 1.2, using the “Coffee with Friends” 1.0 child theme — on WordPress 2.9.2

* Yellow notice at top in admin to “activate a BuddyPress compatible theme” remains present, even after child theme activation. Notice disappears when default BuddyPress theme is used.

* Cannot add a new forum topic even though one group has been created

* GROUPS/FORUMS Functionality: Using Buddymatic with the “Coffee with Friends” child theme there are several problems that occur when attempting to set up forums and topics:

– Topic accepted under a new group, but does not appear in topic list

– Under forums link (http://SITE.com/forums/) no topics appear

– Attempts to create a new topic at the forums page does not happen — no group appears in the pop-down list

Thanks –

Scott

bbPress and Gravatar are Automattic projects, as is WordPress, BuddyPress and many others. Check the full list at http://automattic.com/.

jQuery is native to WordPress. In my custom theme I try to leverage what’s built-in as much as possible and jQuery is very flexible. This looks like the standard jQuery library conveniently packaged with some popular applications. I’m not sure what if anything it adds to what’s already in WP.

There are plugins that allow WP users to write posts without going into the backend. I think TDO Mini Forms (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/) allows this. I’m not that familiar with the plugin though.

I think there is also a “quickpress” type plugin to allow the same as what the “quickpress” function does on the main dashboard in WP.

there is a new version of this plugin that a bunch of us are working on that might supersede the one listed above:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscription/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

Try using is_user_logged_in() and/or bp_loggedin_user_avatar()

Why don’t you just use the default oEmbed class in WordPress?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

http://www.viper007bond.com/2009/10/13/easy-embeds-for-wordpress-2-point-9/

Shortcodes work like this:

[embed]youtube link[/embed]

You can enable oEmbed support across all blogs with the New Blog Defaults plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

I repeat myself:

BuddyPress 1.2.* isn’t built or tested for compatibility with WP 3.0-Alpha yet.

That will come in BuddyPress 1.3.

You have to create a page in the admin and choose the widget page template for that page. If you have latest version you have two page template options.

If wordpress theme repo would allow I would include screen shots and a better how to. They don’t give us the same repo as plugins.

I don’t see a Blog option show up with latest trunk of WP 3.0 and latest trunk of BP so did BP disable the blog under current trunk?

If you want to use an existing WP theme, use the BP Template Pack plugin to add BP functionality to your WP theme:

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

You didn’t follow the instructions:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/367781

BuddyPress *doesn’t* ever write to the .htaccess file; you probably mean WordPress itself.

Same problem here but I reverted back to the previous version 1.0.2.1 https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facestreamownload/

That version doesn’t sync from FB to BP but at least you can submit statuses to FB from BP

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/