Hello dear Buddypress community, let me alert you that I’m a newbie in this field.
I’m also a young wordpress developer, and I’m developing this website – http://www.cutestpetcompetition.co.uk and I’d like to know if I could achieve the same result through a buddypress installation. I mean, would it be possible to develop a website that looks like mine with buddypress functionality on the backoffice?
If yes, please let me know which plugins I must or mustn’t use, I’d really love to receive tips from you.
Many thanks in advance,
Respect,
FF
I want to activate blogs so, when a new registration, appear blog build controls exist, in form…what to do? Also if not in Registration, later blogs can created… The problem is I do NOT find
Site Admin > Options > Allow new Registrations: Enabled Blogs and User Accounts can be created
as my book (old 2010/2009 Buddy Press for Dummies refers: MU WP Edition), well where this found in WordPress 3.1.3/buddypress?
Check out this fantastic new plugin – BP Multisite http://wpmu.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bp-multi-site.zip. I’ve installed and am testing it. Not completely sure yet, as there’s a permissions issue (see my comment on the article page below, but it seems to work like a charm.
Now I can have my main network site and not only set up a mixture of regular blogsites (like a restaurant review) and networks (a local English club) but offer my members the chance to have their own distinct network, rather than a mainsite group or regular blog! All using the same username, as @dgmodel and I’ve got it working with facebook connect, so people don’t even have to create ANY accounts!
Here’s the article with the guy/project who got this going:
http://wpmu.org/free-plugin-lets-you-use-wordpress-multisite-to-power-multiple-buddypress-social-networks/
I was able to hack this plugin to accomplish most of what I needed:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-export-users/
You have to edit the array in the plugin file to use your buddypress profile fields (you can add or delete), but other than that, pretty slick.
When will that update happen? I like self hosting so I can use advertisements (wordpress hosting doesn’t let you do this)
I ended up changing my theme before I read this and that was the issue. Now, I need to know how to delete a group. Thanks for your help.
Do you also know how I can redirect log in from the WordPress sign in page to go directly to my site?
– To create a group, assuming you’re using bp-default theme and that you’ve allowed Groups in BuddyPress > General Settings, go to http://yoursite.com/groups and click on the “Create a Group” link beside the Groups Directory header.
– The bp-default theme has a log-in form in the sidebar. Then assuming you allowed registration, it will have a link to the default BP registration page.
– Before installing any plugin, WP or BP, check plugin compatibility with your current BP/WP versions. If plugin notes compatibility up to WordPress 3.0 and BP 1.2.6, then you shouldn’t be installing that plugin in a WP 3.1.3/BP 1.2.8 installation.
Please check out the BuddyPress Codex for more information
https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/
There’s a plugin for this, but it needs to be updated so the admin setting page link works in newer versions of WP:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/
To fix the admin menu problem, read this:
http://code.ipstenu.org/2011/wordpress-3-1-network-menu/ (also read the comments on that post)
Sounds like you’re using a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache.
If you have it enabled, disable it.
Right now, there are a few issues with using object caching plugins.
Stay tuned to the following ticket for updates:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2636
Greetings,
I am on wordpress 3.1.3 and the latest BuddyPress. I want to enable people to create an account on my site which starts them out with the “subscriber” role. I want the subscriber role to be a “read only” role in terms of comments on WP posts, creating forum topics, and posting activity status.
So I have managed to hack up the UI pages in the WP themes and the BP theme files to remove various buttons from the UI that lets people post stuff. Today, when a user creates an account on my site, they get a BP profile and they can join public groups, etc. But if they go to the status page and enter a status, they cannot submit it because I’ve hacked it up so that the button is replaced with text that says “sorry, your level is not allowed to post status updates.”
But today I discovered that there are still some bots who have been able to create accounts on my site and post spam as status updates. So I figure the bots know just the right API call and they don’t have to go through the UI at all. Bah!
Before I try to dig deeper into the BP code, I figured I’d post here. Are there any extensions/plugins that let me restrict posting/status updating to certain WP roles?
I get the bbPress correctly installed message but there is no button to create a group. What do I do?
Also, how can people get to my site without going through the WordPress log in page?
And how do some of the plug ins work such as the BP gift plugin? After I install it and set it up on the admin side I see links to view your gifts but no place to choose or send gifts. Is there something I’m missing when setting up these plug ins?
Thanks again in advance!
Hi,
Currently using the most up to date versions of BP and WP.
I am trying to call the loop on a custom page template but seem to be having problems, I can’t query up the loop!
I am using this guide – http://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/02/21/using-wordpress-custom-template-to-create-layout-with-different-sidebar/comment-page-1/#comment-17524
It works without buddypress on regular wordpress themes. I would imagine I am just not referencing correctly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
The codex is a great resource: https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
Please check the permalinks settings: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks – I prefer day and name.
In terms of forums, there is a modified bbPress available if you enable this under the BuddyPress settings. Registration page is /register – and can only be seen if you are not logged into the site. Groups must be created. The rest is probably answered in the codex – or you can ask here.
Enjoy the journey
When I go to youareditched.com/members I get
“To enable the member directory you must drop the “plugin-template.php and plugin-sidebar.php” files into your theme directory.”
which is something I’ve not seen before.
So you have BuddyPress installed and activated; installed Hybrid theme, and then installed and activated Malleable child theme in some order or another. Next thing you need to do is install the BP Template Pack plugin which is not what I see in your page source.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
== When a user Create’s a Blog and follows the link from the site to their created blog they get the following error; Error establishing a database connection ==
This is not a BuddyPress issue. Deactivate all plugins including BuddyPress; change to twentyten theme and check if you as Super Admin can create a blog from the backend. If not, then you have to resolve multisite setup at WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
As for BP Social Theme, you should be able to get free support for your premium theme at http://buddydress.com/
EDIT- could very well be a theme issue. If you change to bp-default theme, does the same error appear?
Most up to date version of wordpress MU and buddypress.
It does not display member pages, instead I get an error telling me the page cannot be found (http://youareditched.com/members/maliphant/)
Also…the css is not applied to these pages? It should look like this…http://youareditched.com/
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Lewis
Ours is a large content based portal that uses WordPress as its CMS.
We were planning to give our community some networking abilities and want to install buddypress for that. But when we install a buddypress theme, the whole site loses its portal look. So a couple of questions:
1. Can we keep a separate theme for buddypress pages, like a child theme for buddypress section only? or some other option.
2. If that is not possible, can we run two wordpress installations – one without buddypress for cms and one with buddypress – and share their users+login somehow.
Thanks for your help.
I’m using WordPress and Buddypress, when a user Create’s a Blog and follows the link from the site to their created blog they get the following error;
Error establishing a database connection
I am using WordPress 3.1.3 and latest Buddypress 1.2.8, with PHP 5.3.6
Any ideas?
Also I have all the correct files in the /themes/bp-social/blogs/ directory (index.php, create.php, blogs-loop.php) however nothing shows in the Blogs listings? Whats going on?
Error is on http://uknexttopmodel.com/dagwan and http://uknexttopmodel.com/blogs
Yes ipstenu im using BuddyPress Version 1.2.8.
But downloading the same version from that link you gave me has corrected the issue. Is that 1.2.9 without the version number changed?
Did you ever create a wordpress/buddypress plugin for this? I need to limit characters on activity, but I’m not a programmer. I can activate a plugin though! Also, I need to limit characters on a couple of custom profile fields. Thanks and Let me know!
Thank you for your time Ray. Your recommendation for blog post worked as stated. I’m finally making some head way.
The user profile is another matter. when it comes to the user profile, I feel like a three-legged cat trying to bury a turd on a frozen pond. I’ve copied the single folder out of the buddypress default theme folder and placed it in my active wordpress theme. I’ve gone through and edited each file in the folder trying to get some kind of change to happen to my profile page, but nothing. Have I understood you correctly? The home.php file is the file that dictates the relationship of the others? Am I to transfer the single file to my wp theme and then edit the original or the one I’ve copied? I’ve done both with no result, then deleted both with no result.
Any Ideas would be cherished! Thanks for your time again.
