https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Style_Posts_From_Some_Category_Differently
@rossagrant – these Codex pages on the loop are your ‘bread and butter’ when theming with WordPress blogs.
@Jalien – not sure just how I missed your request before. If you need to use SCORM (and not everyone does/should), we released a plug-in a month or so ago that does just that. It allows you to use our SCORM Cloud product directly in WordPress and it’s BuddyPress compatible. You can see an example of it in BuddyPress on my testing blog – http://susanvillaslewis.com/scormtesting/ – although you have to be registered user to see the courses. More at http://scorm.com/wordpress
Hello,
I have a navigation bar in my wordpress installation, on that navigation bar, I have various tabs and one of those tabs is ‘Member Content’ now member content is parent to various pages within my wordpress installation, I also want it to be parent to some of the buddypress pages. Basically I want Forums, Groups and Members to be in the ‘Member Content’ sub nav, and if the user is on the Forum for example I want the ‘Member content’ tab to active, much like it is for any other tab if that tab is the parent of the current page. The code I have so is as follows,
`<?php
if(!is_user_logged_in()) {
wp_page_menu(‘show_home=1&exclude=214&exclude_tree=80’);
} else {
wp_page_menu(‘show_home=1&exclude=214’);
}
?>`
I suspect that your rewrite rules are not working, especially as you are running on IIS server which handles rewrites slightly differently from Apache. I would check the WordPress codex on rewrites and IIS
Hello @hnla and @mercime. Thanks for your attention.
However I think you’ll see from previous posts that I have changed the Permalinks settings from the default (to Month and name) successfuly.
I have checked the URL settings and both the WordPress address (URL) and Site address (URL) are the same (‘blog’ subdirectory of root).
I have activated the default theme (successfully in the admin) but once installed all links from admin or the blog result in the error described.
So I’m no further forward at the moment. I have also deleted and reinstalled BuddyPress. No difference.
Happy to leave the ‘broken’ blog in place so you can look to see if I’m missing something: http://www.warchest.co.uk/blog/
Thanks in advance
I believe that’s actually a built-in functionality of WordPress. See the photo here: http://screencast.com/t/YTg5NzBlN
Someone please help:
This seems to be an old issue – still happening with
latest WordPress 3.0.1 and Buddypress.1.2.5.2
`define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false );`
Expected : users who have uploaded a cropped photo or avatar via buddypress should be able to show the same in all posts and comments across blog posts in wordpress.
What is happening instead: gravatars are showing in blog posts eg. blog comments while the correct user uploaded avtaars are showing up in activity stream and all pages across buddypress
Relevant links BUT gives no solution in the most current scenario
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-avatars-uploaded-via-buddypress-in-wordpress-mu/
http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2426 [ says fixed but it is not]
@fahadm150
Recipe for your success:
Wordpress for basic framework https://wordpress.org/download/ (Free)
Buddypress for community https://buddypress.org/download/ (Free)
s2member plugin for membership http://www.primothemes.com/post/product/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/ (Free or Pro versions)
Videopress for awesome video functions http://videopress.com/ ($59.97/year) also available as a plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video/ (videos hosted at wordpress.com)
Hope this helps! 
I know you don’t want to use a plugin or edit the core files but then you’ve basically got no options to disable gravatar. This will help, even though it is a plugin http://netweblogic.com/wordpress/plugins/disable-user-gravatar/
in wp-config.php:
`
/**
* WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
*
* Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
* language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install
* de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’ to enable German
* language support.
*/
define (‘WPLANG’, ‘fr_FR’);
`
I wrote a plugin that allows you to switch on RSS feeds for all kinds of stuff in BP (individual forum topics, member sitewide blog comments, etc). It’s called BP Lotsa Feeds and you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-lotsa-feeds/
Feedback welcome!
Good day to everyone
I had just set up a WordPress with buddypress. And I realize that when I post something at the Forum. I will facing the encoding issue. My Simplified Chinese will automatic turn into “???” Even the comments in the forum also the same. (look at the screenshoot: http://www.gaoyang-debate.com/books/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Screen-shot-2010-09-28-at-8.29.57-PM.png ) This issue only face in forum. May I know what’s the real reason that make it like that? And what’s the solution. Urgent!
Thank You!
I’m experiencing something that I can’t quite explain. On a blog post I want to display the poster name like this
`Posted post_author ) ) ?>`
But it just stays empty. With debug mode I get this:
`Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /Users/…/Sites/wordpress.mu/wp-content/themes/custom/_inc/custom-single.php on line 133`
I can’t really figure out what’s happening. Is there someone who could help me out here?
I have no problems fetching the avatar of the poster though: “
Running latest versions of WP and BP.
@groan , by “links” I actually mean BuddyPress URL paths such as “http://yoursite/…/groups/”. BuddyPress recognises a few of these (activity, groups, members, forums) and I believe these are directories in BuddyPress themes. Under unix operating systems (I’m installing on Linux) you can create “symbolic links” or “symlinks” which are like shortcuts to other directories. My solution was to “hack” such links into the “mobile_pack_base” and “mobile_pack_blue” themes, linking to the corresponding directories under the BuddyPress Default theme. And it worked. (I was a bit surprised) The lines starting with dollar signs are linux commands. If you don’t have command line access you may be able to create symlinks using ftp or something else, I’m not sure. If you’re on Windows I have no idea what to do.
PS. In retrospect I should have created a new and independent theme derived from “mobile_pack_base” which then included all of the symlinks. Or perhaps WordPress has a better way of doing such links that would work across platforms. I’m pretty new to WordPress.
Hi, i am using wordpress 3.0 with buddypress, but i am not able to create more than one blog. How to get more than one blog? Many thanks in advance.
This looks like a classifications listing website? Why not look at classipress? I don’t think buddypress activities would work in this case, even a simple wordpress loop might work better here… frontend editor isn’t available without some workaround and plugins but I think its coming in the next release of wordpress… classipress theme has a frontend editor
I’ve done some research, but can’t find anything Here’s what I’d like to know:
I have an existing WordPress site. I’d like to install Buddypress into a subfolder, i.e. http://www.example.com/community.
1) Do I need a multiuser version of WordPress?
2) I’m doing a fresh WP instal in the sub folder. Can I use the main WP install DB or should it be different? (presuming a different table prefix of course)
Anything else? I did it once with the same DB, diff prefix, but got 404 errors all over…
Thanks
Mike
thanks for the info about the admin bar. So there is no workflow built into BuddyPress that enables someone to post on the blog? If thats the case.. how is an account supposed to be able to know where to make a post.. or get to the back end of WordPress at all? Is this something thats missing from my install.. or a feature that doesn’t exist in BuddyPress?
Also.. Anyone have any tips on setting up my domain/subdomain/wp-install directory correctly so its all named correctly. I have a external domain set to the Bluehost name servers… a subdomain – sdcityrobotics.saltbored.com – set up to alias to the publichtml directory my install is in.. so how do i get everything to look like http://www.sdcrobotics.com/activity .. instead of http://www.saltbored.com/sdcityrobotics/activity?
Ok I figured it out. The author role does have the ability to make blog posts… Its just that through their buddypress interfaced account.. they’re never given a link to —-> http://www.saltbored.com/sdcityrobotics/wp-admin/post-new.php… to create one. Where in the buddypress front end can they choose to “create a new post”. or to get to the back end WordPress interface to see the dashboard?
So what I have left to try is setting up the default author role to be able to create blog posts. This is where I was trying to get with messing with the permissions through a plugin. I don’t know how much I care about this feature.. because this introduces group members to the entire wordpress backend.. and I’d like to just have each account only make blog posts and edit nothing.
also… this may seem simple.. but how do i get the site to show with the url structure i described before?
It is a rather important bit of information the server platform Apache and IIS have different approaches to rewrite capability, you may need to speak to your hosts and explain that you need some form of url rewriting for your site.
This WP Codex page gives some detail on IIS and permalink structures and rewriting.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
This is essentially an issue resting with the core app WP rather than BP
@cells
If you are on single wp, upgrade to wordpress Multisite.
Then you can limit it from Super Admin->Options->Limited Email Registrations
Paul,
Thank you so much for your insight! Here’s what I’ve got now:
1. I’m pretty sure we’re using the single site version of WordPress(maybe this is known as the MU version?). It was installed through our server using SimpleScripts. I was aware of the plugin option, but didn’t want to get into that yet until I had the account creation issues taken care of. Thanks for the info.
2. Disabled the BuddyPress plugin, as well as the Group Documents plugin (and reverted to the default non-BuddyPress theme). Created an account, and got the confirmation email right away. The WP account registration was just “username”, and “email”… and WP emails the password. The BuddyPress registration required much more info. So without BP turned on.. Accounts worked.. with it turned on.. The account gets created, but no activation email gets sent out.. thoughts?
3. I’m referring to the WordPress setting: Site Address (url): “Enter the address here if you want your site homepage to be different from the directory you installed WordPress.” I’m trying to point the domain to sdcityrobotics.saltbored.com , and it will display as http://www.sdcrobotics.org (our domain).
4. Got it. I was just curious as to if there were some settings I was just totally missing.
BlueHost Issues !?!?
1. Ok don’t use SimpleScripts or WordPress.. Just install WP manually on my server, and then install the BuddyPress plugin manually? And that will get it to work?
2. I’ll definitely search around for BH. Thanks for the tip!
Hi there, I have a huge problem i need help with.
I need to update WordPress to latest version (3.0.1) from Wp 2.9 I am running today. But i stumble in to some problems. This is what I’v done:
1. Deactivated all plugins, including Buddypress
2. Made an update to WordPress from 2.9 to 3.0.1
no problems so far.
3. Get a message to update Buddypress to 1.2.2.5
4. I do so, no problems
5. Activate Buddypress and get this message:
“You do not have sufficient permissions to enter this site”
After this it become impossible to reach the back-end.
Greatful for any help!
Been using jomsocial since it’s early beta stage (almost 2 years) and now switching to buddypress for a huge community site.
Don’t like that twitter, ’cause to have “jomsocial + wordpress goodness by corephp” you have to spend $218,99 compared to $0,00 for buddypress.
However, what I like of jomsocial is that it already comes with built-in must-have applications/plugins for a community such as videos, photos, events (besides standard ones like groups, forums, pm). Plugins all developed by the same developers (come built-in with the installer). Instead with buddypress you depend on plugin’s developers (events, photos, privacy….) and what if they’ll stop supporting/updating them? Also in jomsocil the users is given the possibility to add what application they want to their profile.
