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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.

@Djsteve

This seems like a buddypress flaw, not a wordpress or mu issue.

Perhaps if buddypress can’t read the wpmu blocked domains, maybe BP needs it’s own domain banner.

This has been a wordpress mu issue for a while off and on.. I discussed an idea about at mu forums:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13982

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I too have noticed that even putting domains in the block list seems to not stop future registrations. Here is a thought of mine.

MAYBE a spammer actually signs up 100 new accounts, and then only activates one a day. So even though we have added his domain to the ban list for signups, he still has 99 more that have been signed up, but not yet activated?

If this is the case I would like to see MU add core code that checks to see upon activation if the domain they originally used to signup has since been banned, and then prevent them from activating if it has.

Just a thought, not sure if this is the case – but it may be worth looking into.

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It was suggested that I add this suggestion to the trac, ( https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ )

but I really don’t know how to use that thing…

not sure that it is a buddypress specific issues, but I DO believe that the spammers are looking for buddypress phrases when compiling their lists of sites to hit…

I’m having 300 spam registrations a day and having to mark them all as spam manually 15 in one go in the user list. The plugin wordpress Hashcash (updated today to 4.5.1) should now work for BuddyPress registration but it stops EVERYBODY from registering.

David Lewis, one week later, is your solution still working for you?

I’m currently running an active site, and having followed the instructions in https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory I’ve got all my files in a mysite/wordpress file with everything in the wordpress folder but the index.php and .htaccess files in the home directory. that’s given the whole of my site a mysite address rather than a mysite/wordpress address.

This sites been up a while and works well, but I’m having trouble getting BuddyPress to work on it. Whatever I try, I seem to end up with half the site still on mysite (whilst everything in mysite/wordpress is coming up unobtainable); or half the site on mysite/wordpress (whilst everything in mysite is unobtainable).

There’s quite a bit of activity on the site, so I don’t want to start from scratch, but I would like to get BuddyPress on it. Has anyone worked out how to do this yet?

I tried the solution at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/permalinks-setup-with-wp-intalled-in-subdirectory-and-indexphp-in-root?replies=23#post-45920 (which is marked “Resolved”) but it didn’t work for me.

Didn’t get a reply so I tried it anyway. It didn’t work for me.

1. The top of my page displayed the following message function my_bp_override_core_domain() { $domain = get_bloginfo('url'); return $domain; } add_filter('bp_core_get_root_domain','my_bp_override_core_domain')

2. The buddypress folder still opened as mysite/wordpress rather than just mysite.

Expected behavior as activity commenting and forum discussion are separate. (only a one way tie-in when a new post/reply is made and the content is sent to the activity stream). You can disable activity commenting on forum posts/topics and blogs postings.

I updated

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/

which now includes an activity subplugin -> will pull in activity comments made to a topic post (no reply ability but at least someone can see the conversation from the stream)