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@aaronhester

Are you are logged out when you fill the form in?

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@brealtv

https://wordpress.org/plugins/unconfirmed/ ?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/ ?

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@grantg182

I’m not clear about what you have done.

Buddypress is a single plugin and should be in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/

Underneath that should be all the other files and folders ie: /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages/ etc. that were in the zip.

It should be installed and activated as a normal plugin.

Once activated you should have a buddypress section under the wordpress settings section in admin.

From there you activate different components such as bp messaging

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@grantg182

What is the actual BP Messages plugin and a link to it would be helpful. A simple google search was inconclusive….

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@matthewhout

At the very top of the page below the admin bar on the right you should have a ‘Screen Options’ button – next to ‘Help’.

Have you got ‘Buddypress’ ticked in the ‘show on screen’ section?

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@matthewhout

I think you may be running on a windows IIS server as your links are of the form http://www.hout.us/Hout.US/index.php/about/ I’m not sure, but I don’t think you are meant to have index.php in a URL –

Also I think that capital letters in a URL are also invalid as maybe also is a dot between slashes ( in this probable context ) – ie the dot in: /Hout.US/

Are you sure you have installed wordpress correctly with mod_rewrite or substitute.

Does the suggestions on https://buddypress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-using-toolbaradminbar/ help?

Unfortunately I can’t be of more help as although I run windows I use an apache server, But others may have a better idea….

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@xxxtristamxxx

I get a white screen with:

This error (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) means that the website you are visiting had a server problem which prevented the webpage from displaying.

This is often caused by a php programming error or conflict which will show up in the sites ( apache ) error log or maybe by putting the site into debug mode…

Have you tried the usual troubleshooting of temporarily disabling all plugins ( including bp-custom.php ) to see if that helps. Then re-enabling ‘1 at a time’ to see if you can trigger it’s re-occurence.

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It would help if you listed the plugins, and details about anything else you have tried such as code snippets.

Did you try https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/ – if so what was the problem?

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@amckinnell

I’m not sure if it’s useful to you but upgrading to the latest version of buddypress might help as there has been some attention to issues with usernames….

See the following tickets: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5185 and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622

in the above is an example of user name validation that, if adapted, might help stop the problem in future (without upgrading)

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@jerrysc

It’s not clear from your code as you don’t use the code tag….

The error messages suggest that the problem is on line two of your bp-custom.php file.

Is that all that’s in your file and if so, then is <?php the first thing in the file? There should not be any other characters, blank spaces or lines before it. Similarly there should be nothing after the final ?>.

Also make sure that your 'single quote marks' aren’t turned in to ‘smart quotes’ when you copy and paste ( this can also happen with double quotes – " " turning to “ ” ). Also this needs to be done using a text/code editor such as Notepad++ not a wordprocessor such as MS Word.

Have you tried the recent variation of the above mentioned by buddypress lead developer jjj in https://buddypress.org/support/topic/profile-sorry/#post-178320

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@mrk79uk

Have you tried wrapping it in a function and and using an action as suggested in
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432 ?

Did you find this discussion about the issue:

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see other topic: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/disable-the-bp-registration/

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@aravere

Try upgrading to bp 1.9+ it has had some attention in the user name area: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5185 and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622

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@mtm-solutions

Try add_filter( 'bp_do_register_theme_directory', '__return_true' ); added to bp-custom.php

See https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-default-theme-moving-forward-with-bp-1-9/ also http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/the-future-of-the-bp-default-theme/ and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5212

Alternatively, what about https://github.com/modemlooper/Buddy-Default

Buddypress 2.0 should have a new template pack – see https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.0

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https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap …

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https://github.com/modemlooper/Buddy-Default ?

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@multiplegnat

You can actually map multiple domains to one wordpress mu site with https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ … not sure if that helps…

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@gparrott

Not really, apart from making sure all plugins are up to date.

If I am worried about a particular plugin and/or it hasn’t been upgraded for a long time, I will check on it’s wordpress.org ‘support’ section as well as the plugin or developer’s website…

I also run a local version of a website to test things out on first.

Also backup files and database…

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@gparrott

That fatal error is referencing bp profile widgets plugin…. Can you access your /wp-content/plugins/ directory and either rename or delete that folder. That should de-activate that plugin…..

Edit: you beat me to it….

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@xwafflecakes

You should not edit core files.

See https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

The line you refer to is in the buddypress.pot file…

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@naijaping

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5185#comment:15 ?

Have you got anything in your bp-custom.php or functions.php files (or a custom plugin etc.) that might affect this?

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@staion

Try add_filter( 'bp_do_register_theme_directory', '__return_true' ); added to bp-custom.php

See https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-default-theme-moving-forward-with-bp-1-9/ also http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/the-future-of-the-bp-default-theme/

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@ride2719

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/critical-exploit-backdoor-spam-registrations-via-bbpress/#post-173527 ?

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@rimoreno

Please don’t hijack other people’s topics, especially when they are so ancient.

There is a a way to add the username on the second link down on my post: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/dashes-in-usernames/#post-169926.

If your issue is about buddypress removing hyphens then it looks like it will be fixed for bp 1.9 due quite soon – See the last post on the first link for more info…

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@formbi
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/ supports buddypress according to it’s feature list…. although I haven’t tried it.