BP supports whatever WP does to embed videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Hulu, etc. in regular blog posts – http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-embed-videos-in-wordpress-blog-posts/
i’m using http://feedburner.google.com or you can use a simpler http://twitterfeed.com/ set up for your activity stream rss feed url.
i’m using feedburner cuz i can setup wordpress to make the feedburner tweet my activity stream feed in real time
twitter feed is easier to setup and will update every 30mins up to 5 tweets at a time
I think they should work fine in WordPress comments. If you can figure out how to make it stop working reliably, let us know on http://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org
@matdryhurst
Members created in the WP back-end don’t appear in the members list until the first time they login to the site. This is “by design”, and is due to the way user accounts work in WordPress. Its also an optimization to prevent (potentially) huge numbers of users that have never used the site from slowing it down.
^F^
I have BuddyPress installed and just installed the forums following the instructions. The Forum navigation button on my site that goes to http://diabeticclub.com/forums/ doesn’t show any forums, just looks like my home page again.
I did create one forum called fitness. When I click on View it seems to point to http://diabeticclub.com/forums/forum/fitness/ but this page is blank as well.
Home page is http://diabeticclub.com.
Any ideas?
Details:
BuddyPress 1.5.3.1
WordPress 3.3.1 (clean install, no upgrade)
bbpress 2.02
Hi Isbul!
with the plugin BuddyPress Private Community you can choose what will be private and what will be public:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/
Hope it helps to you 
Using site wide forums, the “Forums” page redirects to the site homepage. If I use the default BuddyPress theme, I get the message “The forums component has not been set up yet.”
Installation steps
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– Installed WordPress
– Installed BuddyPress through plugin repository (which created Activate, Activity, Forums, Members and Register pages)
– Configured BuddyPress
– Installed Site Wide Forums through BuddyPress (bbPress 2.0.2)
BuddyPress automatically sets the “Forums” page it creates to be the associated Discussion Forums page. If I remove the association, and put the bbPress forum index shortcode on the Forums page BuddyPress created, then the forums are displayed – although without styling.
Clearly there’s some sort of error with the integration here, if the site wide installation (and its default slug setting) has a conflict with the Forums page BuddyPress creates during installation. The BuddyPress documentation doesn’t cover changing it to anything else, though.
You might need to install a wordpress plugin such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ and/or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
wp-mail-smtp also has a useful debug feature and more settings…
@topracer @peeld
Search on buddypress.org has never worked properly and probably never will work properly. This is because proper, natural-language search is a hard problem that the developers behind WordPress and Buddypress don’t have any experience with.
The most efficient way to search buddypress.org is to go to Google and type in
“site:buddypress.org whatever you’re searching for”
^F^
I have the newest versions of wordpress and buddypress 1.5.1.
A while back I created a user via admin panel with capitol letters in his name. This was one of the first users I made and it has admin rights. Now on my dev site I have done all the upgrading here before upgrading it to my live site. I noticed that on the dev site the specific users “AAPLTrader” profile page brings up a 404 error page but when I type the username in the url with the correct Capitol letters it is found. I have tried other users in which i think have capitol letters but it seems to work. On the live site with the older version it seems to work fine without having to type it in with capitol letters.
I have this code define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true ); in both wp-config.php files to. Does anyone got any ideas? I do not want to switch until I get this worked out.
Thanks!
Same way you would do with a WordPress static home page https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Hello,
I am using wordpress 3.3.1 and buddypress 1.5.3.1
I would like to add a static home page, how can I proceed?
Thank you for your help end regards
Michaël
Glad your hosting plan resolved this for you. Curious how many members, groups, posts etc you already have because that’s a lot of memory for a new installation.
Hi.
Resolved the problem.
Wasn’t enough memory assigned in my php.ini.
My host doubled it to 128 mb.
That took a long time to figure out….
NIk
Did you install any other plugin after you resolved the issues with genesis ? Just to be sure, try to deactivate your plugins folder via FTP/cpanel by renaming the folder to e.g. wp-content/plugins-xxx
Rename the folder back to wp-content/plugins after you access wp-admin.
Hello.
I seem to be back to squar one this morning.
When I login to WordPress I am taken to my website’s homepage with the BuddyPress toolbar at the top.
When I click on ‘Dashboard’ i get a completely blank page at http://www.kairoscanada.org/wp-admin/.
Not good.
I can’t access my admin at all.
Nik
Forgot to say what I’m using:
Wordpress 3.3.1
Buddypress 1.5.3.1 with default theme
bbpress 2.0.2
GD Attachments 1.5.3
The latest buddypress ( with bp-default theme ) can use the default wordpress menu, which is under appearance section of admin.
Some web hosting requires an extra plugin for email. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ has a useful feature that displays debugging information when sending a test email. Another plugin is suggested in https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/
If you installed WP/BP in directory http://yoursite.com/wordpress/ and if you have enabled registration and BuddyPress is activated, the link to create an account goes to http://yoursite.com/wordpress/register by default. The only way to have http://yoursite.com/register is if you installed WP/BP at domain root.
I will be surprised if GoDaddy cooperates with BuddyPress at all. I am currently working on another WordPress site that moves like molasses with GoDaddy. Fortunately for them their hosting/domain expires in a month so they can easily change hosting providers. In the case of where I am planning to install BuddyPress it looks like they have a long time left until GoDaddy ends. I probably will have to figure out other solutions to optimize WordPress and BuddyPress if it’s real slow.
Thanks for the advice about building a child theme!
WP and BP are most recent versions. WP is installed in a directory named wordpress. When I look at the register page from dashboard>pages it shows the link as being “/register”. This is happening with the default theme.
I am thinking about removing and reinstalling BP. Maybe it was something I did?
Finally got my line sorted then battled for 2 days because I didnt know the wp svn was case sensitive..
Anyways, Ive added some screen shots and the plugin is sorted, would love some feed-back or feature requests.
Ps: Buddypress isnt on Klout so I used the WordPress one instead for the group scores


I am trying to get the plugin, “BuddyPress Usernames Only (0.58)” to work, but when I activate it, nothing happens…
I am running WordPress 3.3
I am running Buddypress 1.5.2
I am using a customized theme (pandora theme) that was previously not Buddypress compatible.
My website is pokemonsocial.com
I am not sure what to do to get it to work. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Kyle
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