BuddyPress.org

Discussed in this thread. You’ll have to install bbPress separately and integrate it with WordPress.

@bpinspire I had this issue on my WP 2.9 setup and I fixed it like so:

1. Go to Settings > Miscellaneous
2. Blank out: “Store uploads in this folder”
3. Fill out: “Full URL path to files”

Not sure why the default wp-content/uploads doesn’t work, never took the time to report it as a bug to see if it was my server or WordPress or BuddyPress at fault.

The old theme (BP Classic) is available in the BP Backwards Compatibility plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/

The new theme is built with child themes in mind! So yes, you can use a custom child theme on top of bp-default!

More info here:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@ashfame – “Banned Names” blocks both usernames and blog slugs:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/11245#post-67685

not according to this – Version: 0.9.6.4

# Last Updated: 2010-02-15

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddymatic

I’ve just uploaded 1.61 to the WordPress repository. It fixes the uninstallation error on WordPress (not MU) and now lists up to 1000 users/groups in those selection boxes (once BP fixes a bug, I’ll update to list all user/groups for mega-huge sites).

Any other issues in this thread I’ll fix tomorrow after sleep *snore*

wp_ tables are WordPress/MU’s, and wp_bp_ are BuddyPress’.

I’m looking to do the same things, so maybe I can be some help. For now, I may be putting the avatar moderation on back-burner and focusing instead on removing gravatar support. The low-tech solution is to delete the user’s avatar from the server.

Gravatars don’t make a lot of sense on BuddyPress, since they are stretched and look blurry on the member pages. There’s a plugin that disables the gravatar for WPMU & BP: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-user-gravatar/ Haven’t tried it with BP 1.2 yet.

Did you test BuddyPress before with just the default theme and no plugins? Did you have it working with the default (bp-default) theme before you switched to your theme?

Either way, the first thing I would do now is disable all plugins except BuddyPress.

Next, I would switch the theme to back to the default (bp-default) within Appearance > Themes in your dashboard.

Once you disable all plugins (except BuddyPress) and switch to the bp-default theme, you should confirm that the theme is working similarly to testbp.org.

Assuming that everything is working and you are not seeing any error messages, switch the theme back to your custom theme before you re-activate any of the other plugins. Check to see if you are still seeing an error message.

If you are, double-check steps 1,2,3 at https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/. (1) Make sure you’ve put the theme extension pack in your custom theme. (2) Make sure you’ve added the following line to the top of the functions.php file for your custom theme:

include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/bp/bp-functions.php' );

(3) And make sure you’ve added the “Tags” line to your custom theme’s CSS header.

Do you still see the error message? If so, try replacing the code you added to the top of your theme’s functions.php with the code as Andy suggested:

include( STYLESHEETPATH . '/bp/bp-functions.php' );

Check for the error message again.

Once you have BuddyPress functioning using your custom theme without any error messages, then you can try activating plugins one-by-one to ensure you can identify any conflicts.

P.S. You mentioned in #10 above that you had modified the core files by adding the functions line of code to the functions.php file. Just to make sure, the core files are in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/. You should not be modifying any files or folders within the core files. All of the customizations you need to make to adapt your custom theme should be within /wp-content/themes/your-theme/ which I believe for you is /wp-content/themes/wp-clear-basic/. So you are adding the theme extension pack within your theme’s folder at /wp-content/themes/wp-clear-basic/. And you are modifying functions.php and style.css within your custom theme’s folder only.

Does this plugin work for version 1.1.3? Or are there other versions and hacks floating around that work?

I’ll try after coffee…

Cool, I ‘m sure that’s the problem. I’ll check it out.

@armandmorin – it’s more than likely either the “container” or “content” div in your WordPress theme. The BuddyPress template pack uses:

[header]



<div id="container">

<div id="content">

[content]

</div>



<div id="sidebar">

[sidebar]

</div>

</div>



[footer]

If your WordPress theme doesn’t match this, then there are about 6 or 7 templates (mainly members/index.php groups/index.php etc etc) that you will need to tweak this html layout in to match the one used by your theme.

Once you have it matched, then the content should sit in the correct place and not break the layout. If you’re using a theme with this HTML layout, then you should be fine off the bat.

I’d put a download manager on your site anyway.

That’s pretty much how to do it. You have to go thru the BP files you added to your theme and change the markup to match your WP theme.

@geoffm33 – ah yes I can instantly understand why. You can tell my test sites don’t often exceed 20 users! Sorry for this and I will get a fix out this evening.

And the delete_blog_option – I’m actually blaming this on BuddyPress as it has missed this function from its regular WordPress compatibility files. Again fix out this evening.. thanks very much for the feedback, it is appreciated.

I’ve tried this on two standard WordPress themes and it breaks the CSS in the theme each time at the content section. any ideas on this?

These are the directions I used.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

BP isn’t remotely accessible – you need to load the PHP files. I do not have a working knowledge of Flex but I suggest you look into WordPress/bbPress “deep integration” and find out which files in the bbPress theme header are included to bring in WordPress.

We need to version that .zip otherwise we are going to have to wade through hundreds of confusing topics in future BP versions.