Below is a simple BuddyPress Guide.

1. What is BuddyPress ?

BuddyPress is built to bring people together. It works well to enable people with similar interests to connect and communicate. Some of the fantastic uses might be:

• A campus wide social network for your university, school or college.
• An internal communication tool for your company.
• A niche social network for your interest topic.
• A focused social network for your new product.

2. How can I Contribute to BuddyPress ?

Please consider register and becoming part of the BuddyPress community. By doing this you’ll be able to contribute to the documentation, ask questions in the forum as well as build your BuddyPress profile so other BuddyPress developers and contributors can keep in touch with you.

3. Who are the Lead Developers ?

Andy Peatling – Code Prettyfier
John James Jacoby – Ticket Crusher  { Even the BuddyPress About Page shows JJJ’s Name WRONG }

4. Where I can Test Drive BuddyPress Online ?

http://testbp.org/

5. Official BuddyPress Blog ?

http://buddypress.org/blog/

6. Where can I ask for help ?

http://buddypress.org/forums/

7. Where else I can talk about Buddypress ?

Join channel #buddypress-dev on Freenode.

8. How to Report a Bug ?

Open a ticket if you find a bug in BuddyPress (use your BuddyPress.org login credentials).

9. Where i can find BuddyPress Plugins ?

a)  WordPress Repository

10. Where can i find BuddyPress Themes ?

a)  WordPress.Org Themes Repository ( just select “BuddyPress” and click find themes )

b) Free BP Themes

11. Where can find the Official Documentation ?

In BuddyPress Codex

12. Will BuddyPress Work on Normal WordPress other than WPMU ?

YES, But only If you use the latest version of Both WordPress and Buddypress.

13. what is all about the Forum (bbPress) and Buddypress ? ( or ) Can i have the forum like Buddypress.org ?

a) If you are installing for the first time, the BuddyPress plugin itself has the BBPress forum files.so you don’t have to download or install BBPress separately.

By default, the Buddypress can create a lot of groups and each group has its own forum.got it ? so if you want to participate in any forum, you must be an member of that particular group which is having that forum.

b) you don’t like the above default method ? ie.. you want everybody to post and participate in any forum they want, without having to be a member of any group ?

Actually that’s how the Buddypress.org Works ( atleast until now ) wonder how to do it ?

just install the Bbpress and Buddypress (disable forum creation) separately and join them by means of  WP integration( while installing BBPress)

14. Can I have “BuddyPress” in my Domain Name ?

No.But you can have three excuses/cases to use it

a) you can use, when you’re going to start a site about BuddyPress or related to it.But you should also create a  “bp” equivalent, or another variation and forward the “BuddyPress” named domain to the Bp equivalent.

for example,

if you are a Buddypress developer , want to create a domain called buddypressdeveloper.com, you can’t use it.if you want to use it, you can also create a bpdeveloper.com , and forward the above domain to the bp equivalent and you should use the bp equivalent domain.ie.. bpdeveloper.com

b) “BuddyPress” in the sub-domains is fine, like buddypress.example.com, they are just concerned about top-level domains.

c) As long as your website forwarded to any page of buddypress.org .like you can create buddypressplugins.com and redirect it to http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins and so on…

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As for as the Default Buddypress theme is concerned, when activated the theme only shows the navigation to its main components such as Home, Activity, Members and Groups.It will not show you, other than that four pages.

But we always create many pages such as About and contact, which we believe very important enough to show them in the main navigation along with the default four links.

To show the Top level pages to the Main navigation,

1. Go to Appearance -> Editor in WordPress Administration Panel.

2. Select the Buddypress theme.

3. Open Functions.php in that theme.

4. Add the Following Code at the bottom.

/* Adding Top Level Pages to Default Buddypress Navigation */
function bp_sparun_add_nav(){
do_action(‘bp_sparun_add_nav’);
wp_list_pages(array(‘depth’=>1,’title_li’=>”));
}
add_action(‘bp_nav_items’,'bp_sparun_add_nav’);

5. Save Changes.

Now the top level pages can be seen in the navigation.In the above code, you can change all occurances of “sparun“.But it should be unique.