I just installed Buddy Press into my wordpress site. On installation it said I had the options of installing the BuddyPress default, manual integration into my chosen theme, or a third. I choose to integrate and selected install. Instead BuddyPress took away my wp theme all together and installed the default! Now the past three hours of hard work I have put into my web site have been obliterated by Buddy Press in seconds. I love the idea behind BuddyPress and it can work very well with my site….however! I would like my site in the theme and hard work that I have designed it in. I do not see an option to uninstall BP and deactivating it means I have no site at all now just a blank screen.
How do I get my theme and work back and still be able to integrate BP into my web site?
Hello
Under Activity page (While I’m logging) there is a tab with name “My Favorites”. It also shows the number of the items you did favorite.
I’ve already deleted all of them but it still showing the last number(12). And if I Favorite anything it adds to the last number(13, 14, …).
What would be the problem?
I use the BuddyPress 1.5 default theme and latest WordPress MU.
Thanks
Please post this as an enhancement ticket on Trac:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
On the backend, you’d need to experiment with adding some activity meta.
In BP 1.5, all the activity meta functions are available in bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5/bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php#L438
On the frontend, you’ll need to add an input field to the post form and then grabbing the form data so you can save it as activity meta. Check out /bp-default/activity/post-form.php for the actual form.
Saving the title might be a little tricky with AJAX though.
Is there an exact reason why you want to use WordPress signup rather than the BuddyPress one? BuddyPress sign up is a bit more apt for a BuddyPress site so trying to understand the use case here.
@nahummadrid do post this also at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite where there are BP/MS users as well.
I have followed these two steps –
1. Create a new theme folder for your Twenty Eleven child theme. For this example, the child theme is called BP Twenty Eleven so we’ll name our theme folder bp-twentyeleven.
2. Create a style.css file and add it in the bp-twentyeleven folder with content below:
(copying the suggested content for style.css)
3. Upload the bp-twentyeleven folder with the style.css file within to your server at /wp-content/themes/
NB My installation is on stand alone PC not connected to the internet.
When I attempt the start of the Compatibility Process and click on “update your existing wordpress theme I get the following error:
An unexpected HTTP error occurred during the API request – Try Again
I cant progress beyond this point.
dubwarrior, If you do not want to show activate/register in main navigation, bp-default supports custom menus. Go to dashboard – Appearance > Menus. Create a menu with just the links you want in your main navigation, Save. Then associate that menu with the Primary location and Save.
Deactivate all plugins by renaming the plugins folder manually via FTP/cpanel to e.g. wp-content/plugins-xxx
IF wordpress isn’t sending any emails (ie they’re not in spam or junk folders) it may need an extra plugin – see https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/
Or try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ to help diagnose where the issue is and add some extra settings to fix it…
hi there modemlooper can you help????
This morning I installed buddypress, but had to put off integration until later. Now, when I try to sign on to wordpress and I enter my password, I am redirected to the homepage but am not logged in. I went through password reset via email, but even with the new password, end up on the home page.
Any ideas what might be the issue?
Do you think I should just delete the whole thing and start over?
Thoughts?
When I friend request, it sends the friend request but throws the following error:
( ! ) Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_get_settings_slug() in C:wampwwwwordpresswp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-friendsbp-friends-notifications.php on line 17
Thanks.
The question is, is there any way to use Google Apps with WordPress. BuddyPress doesn’t touch any user authentication parts. Good idea, let us know what you find out
I just tried to install BP on a local xampp multisite WordPress installation, with no plugins activated, my .htaccess file writeable, etc.
It does not show up in the admin menu, under “Appearance” as it says it should in the readme.txt file.
I’m using TwentyEleven as a theme, with nothing changed. Still no show.
Is there something I should be looking into to help solve this? Have the installation methods changed?
Thanks very much.
To be honest just put in the theme files probably is the lightest / speediest solution. Google lets you know where in the code to place things – put that in the footer.php before the closing tags it says.
But, if you are using the default theme for BuddyPress you probably either want to do a child or you want to use a plugin.
I’ve not tried it but perhaps: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/ works – after all if it’s just inserting into the theme files….
Hi,
I installed BuddyPress 1.5 on 3.2.1 WordPress 3.2.1 and it works just fine with the “test drive” buddypress template. However, if I activate my template (yootheme’s “Downtown”), I will be unable to see any buddypress page (for example http://www.bcntonight.com/members). I do have one member registered (me) but can’t see the page on my template.
I activated the Buddypress template pack, as well as yootheme’s buddypress compatibility plugin. Is it a common problem? I looked through the forum but without search function i couldn’t find a topic about this problem.
Thank you in advance for your help!
BuddyPress Private Community is in the Fail list here https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-plugin-compatibility/, however the error listed in this table seems to be for another plugin.
When I install Private Community, it does create a php error, but I found this error is not created by the plugin, but by a BuddyPress bug described here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddypress-private-community-when-clicking-on-a-protected-page-i-get-error.
I have made the fixes described for this bug, and Private Community now seems to be working, although I am still testing.
Deactivate BjuddyPress and other plugins. Check if your registration is working in WordPress first. If not, please find resolution at https://wordpress.org/support/
Hello. I’m not sure my question belongs on this section of the forum, but I could not find an appropriate one, so I’ll just ask away here.
My site averages 15k visitors per day and I want to install buddypress to give my readers a better way to communicate among themselves without having to rely on the comment system only.
I’ve been reading a lot on buddypress and one thing that I’m concerned for is that it uses lots of resources. I can’t afford a dedicated server, my site doesn’t bring in the kind of money that enables me to migrate to one. So my question is this, would it be possible to run buddypress with an existing wordpress blog that gets 15k visitors per day on a VPS?
Based on what I’ve read so far it’s probably a long shot, but I thought I’d ask the more experienced users. Thank you for your time.
Thanks for the reply karmatosed. I have just tried this. Changed from a custom structure (did BP do this?):
/blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
to
Month and name, but it didn’t work. I’ve just had a thought – I followed the codex instructions here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network to add a subdirectory multisite 2 days ago, but changed back because it was not what was needed. I’ve replaced my original .htaccess and wp-config and dropped the multisite tables, but could this have caused this problem?