Easy use the following code and add it to your functions file.

add_post_type_support( '[your custom post type name', 'excerpt' );

Im not quite sure what the other panels are called. When I find out I will reply to this post with a list.

I came up with this workaround for now until it is sorted.

function get_post_meta_custom($key, $single = false) {
 global $wpdb,$post;
 $answer = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = ".$post->ID." AND meta_key = '".$key."'"));
 return $answer;
}

Call it using the following. I use this inside on the single post inside the loop.

 if ( get_post_meta_custom('client_name', true) ) {echo get_post_meta_portfolio('client_name', true);    }

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../wp-load.php'); (PS my forums is set up in a forums directory in the root of my site.
You may need to change the path to your wp-load.php file)

Next create a functions.php file for your theme if not already there. Then add this line of code to the functions.php file.

add_action( 'bb_foot', 'bp_core_admin_bar');

Now create your menus and add them to the bar.

PS because the buddypress plugin is not activated on a forum, it will load the buddybar with nothing in it. If you are going to copy the default buddypress functions then make sure to change the function name or you will get and error.

Alternatively you could try include the bp-core-adminbar.php file inside buddypress/bp-core if you do not want a blank bar.

This is just a skeleton, you can always add in calls to custom fields and other amazing goodies.

NB Not for commercial USE

Download: fmm-wpmu-recent-posts (rename to .php)

Download: fmm-wpmu-recent-posts v1.1 (rename to .php)

Add the following line to your functions.php file to disable the BuddyBar

define ('BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR', false);

xprofile_set_field_data( $field_name', $usert_id, $value);

This will not work for check boxes. Below is code that should help, check boxes need to be serialized data.

$value = maybe_serialize( [An Array of your values] );

 xprofile_set_field_data( $field_name, $user_set_id, $value);

$newuser_key = substr( md5( $user_id ), 0, 5 );

define( 'BP_GROUPS_SLUG', 'companies' );

define( 'BP_MEMBERS_SLUG', 'volunteers' );

Whats happening is if you use bp_title_tag() is will output the default string as seen above. If you lean towards using the WordPress conditional tags to test the pages, WordPress will see the BuddyPress pages as normal static pages.

Using bp_get_title_tag we can test to see if its a WordPress page or a BuddyPress page and use the appropriate title tag.

<title><?php
if ( is_home() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; bloginfo('description'); }
elseif ( is_search() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; _e('Search Results'); }
elseif ( is_author() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; _e('Author Archives'); }
elseif ( is_single() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; wp_title(''); } 

// Entering the buddypress tags
elseif ( is_page() ) { 

 $page_title = rtrim(ltrim(bp_get_page_title()));

 if ( $page_title == "[INSETRT YOUR WP_TITLE HERE] &#8212; Blog" ) { bloginfo('name'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; wp_title('');}
 else{ bp_page_title(); }
}
elseif ( is_category() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; _e('Archive'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; single_cat_title(); }
elseif ( is_month() ) {  bloginfo('name'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; _e('Archive'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; the_time('F'); }
elseif (function_exists('is_tag')) { if ( is_tag() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;'; _e('Tag Archive'); echo '&nbsp;|&nbsp;';  single_tag_title("", true); } }
else {  } ?></title>

As this is a paid for plugin I will only be placing the line i changed to achive what i wanted.

First change the login redirect url var to /members/ ( Line 32 )

$login_redirect_url = '/members/.$_POST['log']'; // the url you want users to be redirected too after logging in

The $_POST['log'] var is the username that was posted from the User Login form to the next page. This is just a basic implementation, if you have Facebook connect, OpenID etc you will have to put in some variations for that.