@creativologist You need to buy gravity forms for WordPress. It’s a premium plugin but does exactly what you want and is quite literally amazing! stacked full of features. The best WP plugin there is in my opinion for this kind of thing. Well worth the small cost.
Buddypress is great and has many features I’m looking for. However, I’m looking for a feature to allow members to submit a news story (or blog post) on the front page (preferably).
Wordpress P2 Theme has such a feature http://www.p2theme.com
I’m not looking for a member to add a “status update” as that feature is obviously here already. I want them to submit a post.
Is anyone aware of such a plugin?
thanks
I have a similar situation with the other site – bbpress 1.2.5, wordpress 3.0.1 – activity reply does not update group last activity. Did you experience the same?
BuddyPress works in single site mode. The only time you want multisite or network is if you want to allow your members to create blogs.
If that’s the case, deactivate BuddyPress. Then follow steps to create a network here – https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network. Then double-check your WordPress is working as it should before installing BuddyPress – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
Do you mean you cannot edit the WordPress theme from theme editor? Or that you revised your WP theme’s index.php, uploaded it to server and revisions do not show?
I need to promote one or more users to Administrator (or Super Administrator) status to approve/delete new or spammer/abusive members, along with patrolling Groups and Forums to clean up content. I did that with a test account to see what level of access a promoted user gets. When I logged into my network under this newly promoted test account, it didn’t seem to have any greater level of function than before.
How does an Administrator get to the Dashboard, so that if needed he/she can delete users, add plugins, etc? The way I do it now is to go to Blue Host, login under the Control Panel (cPanel) and the login as Admin through there. Then I see the Network Admin with the “Super Admin” functions.
Is a promoted user supposed to have a WordPress account, and are they supposed to login with that at the NetworkName dot com/wp-login.php address? I want any new Admins to NOT have access through Blue Host.
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@boonebgorges
true. it makes a lot more sense working towards a certain goal. in my case that was also wordpress development, so that’s the way i learned php as well. which wasn’t necessarily the easiest or fastest way to do it. Anyways, I think, having a certain understanding of php makes it so much easier to understand WP, or any other php-based code.
Once I got my hands on Programming PHP, my skills developed a lot faster than by trying to figure out stuff by reading other peoples source code.
it’s item 9 on this list for BuddyPress 1.3:
Wed 28th July Dev Chat homework
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A good way to start are these 2 pages:
This one specifically for BP:
https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
And this one for WP:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
On that last one have a look at the developers documentation.
But as said before, if you don’t know php, then that’s where you need to start.
@dubbelf – it’s no more technical than modifying your theme loops to exclude posts from various categories, and certainly less technical than restricting certain authors to specific categories.
At this stage the questions you are asking are not really BuddyPress support specific, more general WordPress considerations.
If you want someone to build / enhance your site for you, you can advertise on the Jobs Board: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/
If you are going to modify the site yourself, you will have to get technical (PHP, HTML and some base WordPress theming knowledge).
You have more than one problem in your install unlike the singular issues posted above. Before blaming everything on BuddyPress, make sure you’ve got your WordPress working https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/. Where are you hosted? Single site or Multisite? BP/WP versions used?
I am running buddypress, I have several users each with their own blog. When a user comments on another blog their avatars do not show just the default that I have Mysteryman.
Here is the site and example
Main Site
http://eyeofthevortexonline.com/wordpress/
One of the Blogs
http://eyeofthevortexonline.com/wordpress/gamepad/
you will also notice users avatars do not show up in the members widget either.
and all the members have an uploaded avatar?
Suggestions?
@airrykah deactivate BuddyPress. It depends on your WordPress installation. Check if your install is sending out activation emails to those registering. Find resolution for your email problem at WordPress.org forums before activating BuddyPress.
If your WP activation email is working, deactivate any BP registration plugins and see if regular registration works.
Edit – there’s also a workaround, see if this works for you – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register
Couldnt you use the existing user roles… built in to wordpress?
I’ve been using: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dbd-login-style/ It’s not perfect, but works ok. I thought I saw another one released recently, but I can’t remember where.
That’s because it’s hardcoded in the bp-default theme (unfortunately).
You can remedy this by creating a child theme with bp-default as the template. Then, copy over bp-default’s header.php and remove the WordPress version meta tag.
Hi everyone.
The Log Out problem is with the Admin Bar. The link is http://example.com/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fwordpress&_wpnonce=xxxxxxx
The user gets logged out but it’s a 404. Interestingly, the sidebar logout works fine and the logout link is http://example.com/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com&_wpnonce=xxxxxxx
The first link has /wordpress in there. WordPress is installed in /wordpress, not the root directory, so this is where the problem is, but I don’t understand why the Admin bar has the incorrect link. Any ideas?
Delete Account also goes to a 404, but the account gets deleted. I’ve seen posts on this but it was solved with the lastest Buddypress release? I have the latest version, so I’m not sure what the problem is here.
Any help would be appeciated! Thank you.
Hi Sven — Thanks! I replied to your question on the google group. Copy/pasting here for the sake of completion:
Hi
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:10 PM, svenl77 wrote:
> first of all, thanks for the nice powerful plugin. Brilliant work!
Thanks!
> I have a question. how can I display the event categories?
> I like to display The event categories in the sidebar. But with the
> eventspress templates for the entry. Not as a normal entry.
> I couldn’t find anything in your files. Will this function be
> developed soon? It’s an important part for me.
Depends on whether you’re using EventPress on WordPress or EventPress on
BuddyPress — support for nicely displaying tags and categories hasn’t been
included at the moment, but for I can definitely add in templates for
WordPress by 0.1.3. Tag/Category support in BuddyPress needs much more work
and will take a bit of time.
Kunal
Hi
I’m trying to do exactly the same thing but the plugin linked above doesn’t work when you have buddypress installed.
Wordpress can use the user “nicename” as the url – but for some reason the profile page breaks whenever there is a dash (“-“) in that field.
Hello,
I’m using buddypress with WordPress multi-blogging. I’ve got some modifications to make to my buddypress’s navigation bar.
I would like to know how I could stylizing the buddypress navigation in the aim to make it look like the same on all the blogs. On certain blogs the buddypress’s navigation bar is different than the others blogs.
Also I would like to modify the background property to make it 100% compatible with IE.
Is it possible to add a link in the buddypress navigation bar ?
Thanks you for your help.
Best regards,
@dubbelf –
Yes, members can have their own blog – it’s a standard feature of a WordPress Multisite install.
Follow the instructions here to set up Multisite: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Then check everything works, including custom permalinks.
Install BuddyPress (automatic plugin install)
And, hey, you will have an admin blog, and separate blogs enabled for members
Have a look at a basic WordPress install with a theme like P2
In normal WP you can add:
`remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);`
to functions.php.
This removes the WordPress version number from the but it doesn’t seem to work with Buddypress.
