I am currently in a running team who wants to have a portal for communicating with runners and volunteers more effectively. Since I have almost 3 years of WordPress experience I’ve decided to volunteer to make this happen. I’ve tinkered with BuddyPress a little bit before but have never used it in a production environment. Will it probably be suitable for this purpose? I think they want to keep their current basic HTML site in place so I am thinking of putting BuddyPress on a subdirectory or another directory on the site. Hopefully they eventually decide to migrate everything to WordPress and BuddyPress for simplicity.
It’ll be a pretty simple setup I am guessing. I’ll probably just need to add one group in BuddyPress and have all of the participants register. Also, it seems as they have GoDaddy hosting unfortunately. Not looking forward to the loading times. 
What i can do about on Fatal Error on Installing ” Buddy Press ” On my Website? What is mean of
Call to undefined function bp_get_activity_slug() on php error what is the steps to fix error
Message On Dash Board : Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_get_activity_slug() in /home/a9837712/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-loader.php on line 114
What is the steps for that or some Vids on how to fix it the Problem.
My website is http://www.friendwire.co.cc/wordpress
Thanks,For Reply And help me.
PS: My wordpress use is 3.3.1
1 I disabled all WordPress plugins (not very graceful) by renaming the “plugins” folder in wp-content to “~plugins”
2 going back to the plugin area in the wp-admin give the message that all your plugins are gone, and therfore deactivated
3 I renamed my plugin folder ‘~plugins’ back to ‘plugins’ and all my plugins showed up in my admin again, deactivated.
4 Activating them one by one gave me a 500 error again by activating “Group E-mail Subscription” https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscription/
5 repating the proces, but skipping the “Group E-mail Subscription” gave me a up-to-date BP, I have to find a other solution to email my groups… (any ideas?)
In your situation where you mentioned you didn’t change the BP template files at all, you can’t hook into div#content as your theme already has it – the one which renders grey background between your content and sidebar. You could hook into `div.padder` and add this to your stylsheet:
`div.padder {
background-color: #fff;
padding: 20px;
}`
BuddyPress generates body classes for each component/specific BP pages. Check out body classes generated https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-core/bp-core-template.php#L1482
If your BP theme or bp-default child theme doesn’t have one yet, copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/activity.php to your theme folder following the directory structure, i.e. yourthemefolder/groups/single/
Open up activity.php file and delete the following lines:
`
`
Save.
If it’s not in your theme or child theme folder, copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/activity-loop.php following the directory structure i.e. yourthemefolder/activity/activity-loop.php
Open up activity-loop.php and replace:
“
with
“
replace 10 with higher or lower number.
WP/BP versions? Is WP installed in domain root or in subdirectory named wordpress?
Are you using custom BP theme or is this also happening when you switch to bp-default theme?
I hope that subject makes sense. I am using Buddypress 1.5.1 & wordpress 3.3.1
I have copied the change-avatar.php code over to a custom page and I am trying to make my own avatar upload page. The users have to be logged in to see this page. Everything seems to work fine I upload then crop the image but after that it doesn’t seem to update the logged in users avatar. The regular edit avatar page still works. What is it that I am missing? I have gone through bp-core-avatars.php and saw the functions in there but none of them seem to bind a user with an avatar when uploading. I am defiantly missing something. Could any one please steer me in the right direction? Is there one more function I need to bind the user to the newly updated avatar? I kinda expected if the user was logged in that this would just work… but wrong again
The “create account” link in the login area is redirecting to /wordpress/register instead of /register. All the other permalinks are working fine as far as I can tell. This is probably a easy fix, but I can’t find it. Help?
OK.
I have it running.
I had to enable ‘Show adminbar on the homepage’ in GenesisConnect Settings.
This displayed the BuddyPress admin bar at the top of my homepage where I was being redirected on logging in. *Then* I was able to use the BuddyPress admin bar to log in to WordPress.
This was very confusing.
I kept expecting to go straight to the old WordPress admin area after logging in.
== If you choose Sitewide Forum as your forum option, you do not get a menu link to your forum. ==
You create one in custom menu. What theme are you using?.
== If I select to install Sitewide Forums for Buddypress, it presents a popup window to install bbPress as a plugin in wordpress. ==
That’s the way it’s done.
Have you read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
If you choose Sitewide Forum as your forum option, you do not get a menu link to your forum.
If I select to install Sitewide Forums for Buddypress, it presents a popup window to install bbPress as a plugin in wordpress.
This works great, however, there is no setting saved in BP to let it know that I have installed bbPress after installing it from the popup, therefore WP knows I have the bbPress plugin installed but BP does not. Since BP is serving the menu, it is not showing the Forums menu link.
I need to know how to enable the Forum menu link because it wont show up even though I have forums. The Forums page is alive and I can visit the URL for it but the menu refuses to show it.
The only way I can get the Forums link to show up is if I choose Group based forums and I do not want this.
After further thought; it can’t be the .htaccess.
The URLs are not being redirected- they are where I want to go.
It’s the content that’s incorrect; which seems that it’s one of the buddypress options to ‘select page’ to show the content on; however, I’ve delected the page, created a new one, etc in trying to get this to work – it’s a buddypress/wordpress issue – not an .htaccess one.
Customizations in one theme will not work in another theme, whether it be a WordPress theme or a BuddyPress one. It’s not chaos, it’s just a part of reality that anyone who has installed a basic WP site without BP would know.
If you’re going to develop a community with BP, you’d have to learn how to cope with the changes in code. Not to put you off BP or anything, but have you tried https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-symposium/ ?
I thought that this was likely the answer:
http://www.studiopress.com/plugins/genesis-connect
Special plugin from StudioPress ($50) to run with BuddyPress if you’re running the Genesis Framework.
Still have the same problem.
Have posted prob to StudioPress forum and they are currently responding.
Hi Mercime.
Genesis is the theme I’ve had running for six months since I first launched kairoscanada.org.
I’ll check in at StudioPress (who make Genesis) re. problems installing BuddyPress.
They’ve been good in providing support.
Will let forum know if they have any answers.
Thanks for the tips.
NIk
Thanks for your help Paul and Brian… here’s my htaccess:
‘
#
# Server root folder www .htaccess
# This file provides server security limiting access to the localhost only.
# Comment next four lines to deactivate. (Allows external access)
#
#Order Deny,Allow
#Deny from all
#Allow from 127.0.0.1
#Allow from ::1
#
# To allow execution of cgi scripts in this directory uncomment next two lines.
#
AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi
Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
#
# Activate this section to use the Private Server Feature!
# Defaults: Username – root; Password – root
# Note AuthUserFile: File path is relative to server root
# To lock server, uncomment the next 4 lines. (A name and password is required)
#
#AuthName “Uniform Server – Server Access”
#AuthType Basic
#AuthUserFile ../../../htpasswd/www/.htpasswd
#Require valid-user
# BEGIN WordPress
# END WordPress
‘
Wordpress is 3.3.1, BuddyPress is 1.5.3.1 and Dynamic Widgets is 1.4.2 which is out of date (latest is 1.5) however the list of fixes doesn’t include anything that seems to be related to this problem.
TIA,
George
Wordpress is installed at the root domain.
I went through the upgrade process.
It’s a multi-site install.
It’s not the default theme; although the default theme has the same problems.
The /membership-information/ URLs are all pages.
I’ve tried changing the members page, slug, resaving permalinks, and so far nothing has worked. This only affects the members page. The activity, forums, and other buddypress features don’t show content on inappropriate pages.
The URLs load fine; but the content is always the buddypress membership information.
Since you’re using:
`add_filter( ‘bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav’, ‘__return_true’ );`
You can also define your mystery man image with:
http://pastebin.com/AST92STz
For LINKTOYOURIMAGE.gif, try making it a transparent GIF. That’s probably the best you can do at the moment.
—
Also, a ticket was just brought up to add CSS classes to avatars:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3922
Keep an eye on that one.
Deactivate the genesis plugins, change theme to Twenty Eleven, then activate BuddyPress, and change theme to bp-default theme. And if everything’s working well, activate your new theme (genesis i presume) and the other genesis plugins.
Just to clarify, where did you install WordPress, at domain root http://yoursite.com/ or elsewhere?
If you did not install in root, did you install in subdirectory named members?
Did you go through the installation process?
Did you change the page slug for members?
Are you using the bp-default theme?
I don’t understand why this happened, but all I wanted was a left column and installed bp-columns to aquire such. My understanding is that bp-columns uses bp-default, only with the left column…….but when I activated bp-columns, all the hard work I had put into my site was lost.
1) “Professional Contacts” went back to “Friends,” even though I have .mo/.po from po edit loaded in my directory and in my WordPress dashboard, under “Buddypress,” components/pages is set to “Professional Contacts” where “Friends” was.
2) My footer changed from my custom color (#778899) back to white, even though I have the style.css loaded in my directory in it’s own directory in wp-content/themes.
3) My custom header is completely cut-off at the end, even though I set the px to exactly 1250 X 133
4) I seem to have lost everything I had already set up in my bp-default.
5) There is a “home” link at the end of my header that was not there before and I can’t get rid of it…….
So, the question is……..Is there ANY Buddypress theme that I can use at all that doesn’t cause all kinds of chaos?????
I’m on 1.5.3.1.
Other Plugins:
AddThis
Akismet
AStickyPostOrderer
BrokenLink Checker
Category Order
Custom CSS
Dirty Suds
Flickr Gallery
Genesis Simple hooks
Genesis Simple Sidebars
Genesis Title Toggle
Google Analytics
Google XML Sitemaps
Hello Dolly (of course!)
Promotion SLider
Quick Page/Post Redirect
Raw HTML
Search & Replace
Search Regex
User Role Editor
Widget Logic
WPML Multilingual CMS
WPML String Translation
WPML Translation Management
That’s it.
Thanks for the reply mercime….
NIk
Go to Network Admin dashboard panel menu > Plugins > Installed and activate BuddyPress plugin.
Btw, if you’re activating this on live site, remember to backup database and server files first.
