I prepared this BP Template Pack walkthrough using the free Motion Theme which may be able to help you. Depending on the HTML structure of your WordPress theme, it could take from an hour or so.
Are permalinks configured on your WordPress? Do you know if your server is Apache, Nginx or IIS? What versions of WordPress/BuddyPress are you running?
oEmbed is not a video uploading plugin. It relies heavily on 3rd-party sites like YouTube, Vimeo et al.
SInce you’re using P2 to write a blog post, you should try enabling auto-embeds in WordPress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Media_SubPanel
Make sure “Auto-embeds” is checked.
Also read the codex page for more info:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
On the p2 theme page it says, “All buddypress functionality and third party plugins work inside the blog, but you need to enable them sitewide. For example “BuddyPress Oembed”
I’ve done that but I can’t figure out how my bloggers can upload their videos and embed them in their blogposts (not youtube videos but av files or anything else they’ve taken). The videos seem to upload to the gallery but the only thing that posts is a link to download them from the webpage.
Any suggests or is there another plugin that does this for wordpress 3.0.1?
search these forums, this is discussed lots of times.
Can your site send standard WordPress admin emails, e.g. if you create a new user in the admin panel, does it send an email to you as site admin?
If not, you need to configure your WordPress mail correctly, before proceeding with BuddyPress
I just installed buddypress onto my arras theme. I currently have both the facebook connect and the friendconnect (google/openid) plugins. This means one person could have 3+ ways of logging into my site, which creates 3+ users for the same person in wordpress.
I’d like to at least reduce that from happening by having the facebook connect and friendconnect (google) options on the REGISTRATION page, where they do not currently show-up.
Currently facebook connect shows up on the login page. Friendconnect only shows up underneath comments.
Please help!
Mark
PS See my site here – http://colage.dreamhosters.com I would LOVE Your tips!!!!
PSS Constant Contact plug-in stopped showing up on registration page too after I installed the theme my login plugin 
That sounds like a general WordPress question – have you looked in the general WordPress Codex documentation?
I don’t know anyone who uses those wp-admin screens to edit files. For large scale development, you should really be working on a local copy in an editing environment before publishing to your server.
You are probably best to find a suitable WordPress theme, and then use the BP template pack to make it compatible with BuddyPress.
Have a Google for WordPress Magazine themes
Wordpress will most likely build on top of 2010. They will not make a theme called 2011, unless the design is radically different.
Much like Kubrick to 2010 was a totally different design.
For example, P2 adds features on top of their theme all the time and I think a lot of people appreciate that.
Maybe new features should be a theme option…
@r-a-y – sure, we can get rid of them with some additional work on sites in development, but what about the installed sites – who’s going to schedule, manage and pay for their modifications?
As you know, BuddyPress has real world 3rd party implementations – it’s not just in the realm of coders, who only maintain and support their own site.
If the client hits the upgrade button (which the admin system will be encouraging them to do), they will be left with a site that doesn’t look like they want (and in some cases, will have multiple buttons and areas that simply don’t work anymore).
Surely, the whole point about a child theme is the exact opposite – it’s not expecting things to change – it’s expecting the parent to stay working as expected when the core is upgraded – to provide us with a safe consistent level of abstraction.
The client has paid for a site they want, designed the way they want – not to have it change on the arbitrary design whims of a 3rd party they’ve never met.
What will happen when WordPress bring out a new design for their default theme? Will they overwrite 2010 and thereby change the look / behaviour of every child based on it? Of course not, they will they introduce it as a new theme, and 2010 will happily continue to function.
Looks like you’re using a plugin as there is no stock option for that in WordPress network mode.
Group AND Member avatar Cropping! I have tried different browsers -> all the same. Avatar Upload works but then I don´t see the Avatar Crop Plugin. But I can press crop and it works. But that makes no sense I have to see what I crop. I use WordPress 3.0.1 and have following Plugins running:
BP-Album+
BP Xtra Signup
Deactivating don´t help. Why fails the new fix?
If I look into the sourcecode I see that the Plugin loads but if I go with the cursor (with firebug) over the pictureadress firebug should give a preview but it don´t. 777CMOD is done. Hm…
Glenn… there is nothing new in charging for premium themes, it’s not a BuddyPress phenomenon… there are hundreds of people selling premium themes for WordPress (e.g. WooThemes, ThemeForest, …), and even more sites that are completely bespoke developments costing many thousands of pounds.
If you don’t like what people are providing you for free, you don’t have to use their work. If you don’t like the price of their paid for work, don’t buy them. You can take the bp-default theme for free and extend it as you want.
As I explained in one of your other threads about availability of themes, BuddyPress is extremely difficult to create distinctive generic themes for – it’s no wonder that some people charge a few pounds for their themes.
That means I can not view members, groups and profiles on other wordpress sites of my wordpress installation? Other sites are sites which are not buddypress primary sites but which do have buddypress activated because buddypress is a network plugin.
I spent all day yesterday installing this theme and making it look nice on the home page, I then browsed around to find that inside the theme there is a lack of functionality such as no activity streams in group, poor css making pages look messy, no new topic buttons in the forums. Then you start to look for assistance and its hard to get, then you find the theme author offers a premium version of the theme and a membership group with ongoing subscriptions. If I had known this before I started I wouldnt have bothered.
Is it just me or are others finding it a little annoying that buddypress seems to be not in the keeping of the wordpress ethos of free software for all. Everyone seems to want to make money from it, which is fair enough at the right price, but monthly subscriptions have you by the balls.
Is there anyone out there who makes a nice free theme or a premium theme with upgrades at one off fee or an acceptable yearly fee ?
Thanks Roger. That documentation confuses me a little though. If I activate buddypress it is activated on alle sites of the wordpress installation, so what does “if you didn’t activate BuddyPress site-wide” mean? I want a buddpress community over several worpress sites, are these sites not all equal in the community because there is a buddypress root blog?
I have wordpress 3.0.1 in which I creacted several sites(blogs). I installed the buddpress plugin. Now I want to use it for a site, but not the wordpress default site. This seems impossible, I have to use the wordpress default site first. Is this required or a bug?
Provide more details about your configuration and your problem.
If you mean you want to allow members to create blogs, you’ll need to ensure you have WordPress multisite setup
It’s not a question of whether you like it or not, the problem is that it breaks the design of existing sites – because their themes are using bp-default as a ‘much touted future proof’ parent theme.
You expect bug and compatibility fixes in a theme upgrade, not presentation and design changes.
If you’re changing the actual design, you’d expect that in a new theme. Much as you’ll expect WordPress to release 2011, and not simply overwrite 2010 with something different that changes the look of every child theme based on it.
1. Yes.
2. Not sure what you mean. Nothing in core limits members, anyway.
3. Yes, but not in core. Use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/
4. See 3.
5. Not sure. 3. might be able to help, or it might not.
6. See 3. 
I have that same problem with WordPress’s built in oEmbed’s actually.
Upgraded to 1.2.6,
Uploaded 1.2.6 po and mo files to buddypress language folder.
Wordpress is in Polish, buddypress is in english.
Any ideas?
Thanks
