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Try something like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/set-email-from-address/

Go to your wordpress Admin Dashboard, and go to “Add plugin” then search “Buddypress”. Install the plain and simple Buddypress plugin first, then activate the template pack.

Not a buddypress issue. Use: https://wordpress.org/support/

Ah, the famous 404 not found

Try this reference link: https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/navigation-links-return-404-errors/

Unfortunately, from the BP end, the only way you can do this is to give users super admin privileges. This will improve in future versions of BP, but for now that’s how it works.

You might be able to finagle something on the Dashboard side. I believe that WP also requires you to be a Super Admin to spam users, but there are custom role plugins for WP (I think https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/ will do it, but others can correct me) that will let you, say, allow Editors to mark users as spam, or to create a new role for that purpose. They’ll have to do it from the Dashboard, but it should work.

Don’t know the site, but there’s only two good options. One is to enable multisite with a custom theme for each blog so that it *looks* like the same site (as your main site). Second is to only use the one blog (no multisite) and set each user up as an author. Those people could use the wp-admin interface to blog, or you could create your own posting form, or use gravity forms which has this feature.

If you used the one blog technique, you’d have to make sure your WordPress post loops only pulled out stuff written by I.e. The admin account. You could then get your PHP hat on and then write a new panel for their BP user profile which would basically do its own post loop but for that specific user ID.

You need to get your “pretty permalinks” – one of the major requirements – working first before activating BuddyPress. Deactivate BuddyPress and change theme to default twenty ten theme. Find resolution for your permalink settings at WordPress.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting . Good luck.

Greetings all,
I am new to WordPress and BuddyPress. (The first version of WP I ever installed was 3.0.x!) and I am very very confused about how to give each BP user a “blog” of their own.

I’ve been digging through the instructions for multisite and it seems like way overkill for what I want to do.

http://www.nodepression.com is a good example of what I’d like to do. From an end user perspective, I can go to a page that is “my blog”. But as far as I can tell, it’s just an “all posts” page with a ?author=idnum parameter on the end of it. For example, my “blog” in nodepression.com is located at:
http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blog/list?user=37d8c5io9r1pq

Just based on hacking around the site, it appears that they are using buddy press, and ucanpost and have disabled the admin bar. So the only way to post is through the ucanpost editor.

Does BuddyPress have a “user blog” type of capability or is the “blog” concept on the ND site just a set of highly customized templates?

== it returns a non-existent LINK (PAGE NOT FOUND ==
You need mod_rewrite module enabled – aka “pretty permalinks” for BuddyPress to work

== Folders to be moved are Activity, menbers, Groups, Forums ==
Not sure what you mean. If you’re using the BP Template Pack to make your WordPress theme compatible with BuddyPress, the plugin will do that for during during the compatibility process.

Well, I have gotten past this issue. I am not sure its related, but I changed the permalinks before enabling buddypress to “day and month”. This seemed to resolve I think. Otherwise I am without a clue. Tried so many variations to get this to work without much systematic success. I hate random failure OR success in software.

Hey, nice one Update us here when it gets approved (I assume you’re talking about the wordpress.org list?)

Hate to say it, but I am having the same issue using WP 3.1.1 and BP 1.2.8

This is using the BP Default Theme.

Same behavior too, as it redirects after registration to the main site url. This is NOT in the root of the web server, but a sub direction if it matters (domain.com/_news/)

There seem to be issues surrounding this all across the forums with mixed updates. Anyone definitively have the solution for this as it seems people either post and figure it out or post and give up?

Thanks in advance!

@henrypwmoulton Doesn’t look to be compatible with BP and it looks more like a forum custom post type. Reminds me of a premium theme http://wordpressqa.com/
Having said that, the best way to find out if that plugin is compatible with BP would be to ask the plugin devs at http://wp-answers.com/contact

@dcaccavo thanks for sharing. Is this for latest versions – WordPress 3.1.1, BuddyPress 1.2.8 and bbPress 1.0.3?

The last time I did an external bbPress install for BP was more than a year ago and it took me about 38++ steps If I recall well, that was bbPress 1.0.2 with WPMU 2.8.4a and BP 1.1.2 or something I think…

How’s the external forum working so far for you? Does posting to forum show up in sitewide Activity Stream and in member’s activity stream?

Just posted this for another guy. I actually read this forum when having my issue…just resolved, hope it works for you too. took about 10 mins with this technique, hope it works.
1. First delete the bb-config.php from you server (in root wordpress folder, if you used the buddypress bbpress installer).
2. download the zip of bbpress from their site. -> extract all -> and ftp to a new directory (foooorum was mine)
3. go to http://yourawsomedomain.com/fooooorum it should open their installer.
4. ftp your wp-config.php from your server to computer and open it.
5. follow instructions on the installer first is db info: dbhost db user, user password. all this is in the wp-config.php file you just opened. Use this same info -> click advanced settings, and make sure the host is right mine needed to be changed from localhost to mysql.mydomain.com
6. click to step two, click wordpress integration. Now you need to log onto you phpmyadmin. you can often do this by mysql.yourdomain.com then use the login details for the db that you used again, the dbuser and user password. Once in there click the database, you will see a lot of files that look like wp_daks_bpetc This is important. you need the wp_daks (the daks signify random letters from your actual one). So just where it asks for the tables of wp files give it to them in “wp_daks_” format. click next, and install i think. ALMOST THERE!
7. go to your wp dashboard click on the buddypress area, click on forums setup. it will say you already did it, but click reinstall.
8. Select use an outside install.
9. Enter the path of the other install for me it already said /user/domain/ so i just changed it to /user/domain/foooorum. Click complete and you are good to go. no it should all work. Please let me know if it doesn’t, cause it worked for me easily when nothing else would.

Hello, not sure if this is your exact problem, but I was not able to post anything in my forum. I looked and had no tables. the fix I used after trying everything I could find:
1. First delete the bb-config.php from you server.
2. download the zip of bbpress from their site. -> extract all -> and ftp to a new directory (foooorum was mine)
3. go to http://yourawsomedomain.com/fooooorum it should open their installer.
4. ftp your wp-config.php from your server to computer and open it.
5. follow instructions on the installer first is db info: dbhost db user, user password. all this is in the wp-config.php file you just opened. Use this same info -> click advanced settings, and make sure the host is right mine needed to be changed from localhost to mysql.mydomain.com
6. click to step two, click wordpress integration. Now you need to log onto you phpmyadmin. you can often do this by mysql.yourdomain.com then use the login details for the db that you used again, the dbuser and user password. Once in there click the database, you will see a lot of files that look like wp_daks_bpetc This is important. you need the wp_daks (the daks signify random letters from your actual one). So just where it asks for the tables of wp files give it to them in “wp_daks_” format. click next, and install i think. ALMOST THERE!
7. go to your wp dashboard click on the buddypress area, click on forums setup. it will say you already did it, but click reinstall.
8. Select use an outside install.
9. Enter the path of the other install for me it already said /user/domain/ so i just changed it to /user/domain/foooorum. Click complete and you are good to go. no it should all work. Please let me know if it doesn’t, cause it worked for me easily when nothing else would.

Figure out the basics of plugins first, https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin, and then try AJAX https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins

Typically, you start by creating a plugin and go from there. Have you written plugins for WordPress before? Also, what are you trying to do?

You’d have to adapt group codes to do that, much like this plugin did https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-reviews/