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By the looks of that site – you need to enable pretty permalinks which is required for buddypress….
To fix this problem, enter the WordPress admin panel > Settings > Pemalinks – set to any configuration other than the default configuration. The mod_rewrite must be enabled on your server for pretty permalinks to work
Are you on the ‘Dual Perfect’ but only with 30meg?
My only experience has been with 30 meg which often, these days, isn’t enough to run wordpress on with not too many plugins…. I would have thought 60 would be just about enough…. – but maybe someone with more experience in that area could answer….
They state in their uk faq (which i hope is now out of date) that none of the memory tricks will work…
What I would like to know is if this is also a problem with their new packages, not just with their old accounts….
1and1 is notorious for their memory issues – you need to talk to them.
I have had a problem with them in the UK but their new uk packages are supposed to come with 90 meg and this is supposed to apply to their older (equivalent) uk packages but tech support told me today that there is a glitch that they’re looking into.
It’s winding me up seeing that 1and1 appear to have increased the memory limit to 90 meg available (I can see it set – by them – within wordpress) but it isn’t working yet….
I don’t know if that applies to the spanish 1and1 though….
EDIT: I’ve just had a look at http://1and1.es and it’s their uk equivalent ‘dual’ hosting service i’m refering to
Who is your host?
hmmmn… dunno what it is but it seems to have something to do with `content=”<meta name="google-site-verification` …
…in ie9 developer tools, looking at script, and searching on the offending characters, they appear twice – on lines 580 and 581…
If you are referring to the buddypress default theme ( /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/ ) it already has the necessary `Tags: buddypress` near the top of the style.css file……
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#Final
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
phew…. panic over!
I don’t know as I don’t think i’ve ever used it…..
Yes…. with the ‘world famous’ wordpress 5 minute installer and not cpanel – although I’ve never used cpanel or any host’s wordpress installer….
If you have the necessary information to hand, it should be a simple and reliable process…
If the wordpress files are ok and all present then it should be possible just to delete the wp-config.php file (or rename it to something like wp-config.php.bak in case you neet to refer to it again), and go to your web address.
Ideally you should delete all the wordpress files, get the latest versions from wordpress.org and then re-upload them via ftp ( using a ‘client’ program such as filezilla ) to make sure that they are all uploaded correctly. Delete the WordPress database user and table through cPanel control panel.
Sometimes there are problems when not all the files have been uploaded, or have been corrupted, but I haven’t had any problems using filezilla….
Yeah, that certainly looks a mess.
If you have a new install then maybe you need to do it again, unless you can reconstruct the wp-config.php file….
It is probably not a good idea to use any host’s ‘automated’ install (if there is one) as so many people have problems afterwards.
What might be simpler, quicker and less work is to talk to your friend/host as he may have a better idea what’s going on… including the available memory and ways to increase it if still necessary….
I don’t understand what you mean by ‘bunches’….
If you look at the wp-config-sample.php it should have a text block at the beginning like the following (quoted from wp 3.1.2)
`
<?php
/**
* The base configurations of the WordPress.
*
* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
* Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information
* by visiting { @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php Editing
* wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host.
*
* This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the
* installation. You don’t have to use the web site, you can just copy this file
* to “wp-config.php” and fill in the values.
*
* @package WordPress
*/
`
those /* and */signs mark the beginning and end of text blocks that should be ignored in a .php type file…. ( this also true for single lines beginning // )Make sure that is the case with your config file.
To edit php files you should use a text editor such as notepad++ rather than a wordprocessor such as MS Word.
If it doesn’t already exist you can just add
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');to the wp-config.php in the wordpress root directory.
It needs to go somewhere above
/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
There are situations where this won’t have any effect, so you could try asking your host to increase your wordpress memory limit, or do a search on that subject as there are other ways to do it yourself…
If that doesn’t work, and for some shared server hosts it won’t, then have a look at the suggestions here and here.
Or find a host that offers more memory – which could be difficult as all the other shared hosting services, that I’ve found, don’t quote the memory available in their advertising….
It would have been better to start a new thread, but….
bp default theme index.php still has “ in it.
If you copy the index.php from the buddypress parent (ie: http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/bp-themes/bp-default/index.php or your current alternative parent) theme to the child theme then it doesn’t take much creation…..
all you need to do then is the edit suggested by mercime…
Edit
“
to
“
and you’re done.looking at the css with ie9 developer tools, it appears to be a background image: “userbar_header.gif” in #userbar h3
I haven’t really explored it much, apart from getting the css to match various site designs…. I’ve tried to avoid using it but the spam (particularly the spam registrations) gets to be annoying. Adding this and the problem goes – apart from what appears to be the odd human spammer…
You could change where it says CAPTCHA Code to your own message – It’s an option at the bottom of the admin screen.
It would be nice to be able to place a text line above the graphic and above the captcha code line….
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-contact-form/ and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/ work well for me with buddypress….
For example at the top of the twentyten theme’s style.css is the following line:
`Tags: custom-menu, sticky-post, microformats, rtl-language-support, translation-ready`
If you change it to:
`Tags: buddypress, custom-menu, sticky-post, microformats, rtl-language-support, translation-ready`
then that warning will go away.However that warning is to tell you that the theme isn’t buddypress compatible so it needs to be converted/updated.
This can be done by following the guide in the buddypress codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
Some themes, such as Suffusion, have their own conversion pack, so it would be worth checking to see if one is available first.
Some web hosts have a problem with email sent from wordpress. I have used https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ to fix it on a non budddypress site, but it should work with bp installed as well – though haven’t tried it that way. It can also send test emails to help diagnose the problem….
There are other techniques/plugins…
my-columns will have it’s own style.css (as it is a clone of bp columns which has one) and that is where you change the font sizes and colours etc. It will overwrite the css in buddypress default theme. So you could change the font size by writing
`body {
font-size: 14px;
}`
in the my columns style.css file….You can quite often see what needs to be changed using developer tools built into ie8 or firebug in firefox (and equivalents for other browsers). Firebug has a neat trick of being able to show changes as you make them….
As you are creating a child of bp default your changes won’t be lost when bp default is upgraded… bp columns is now a different theme and if it is upgraded you would need to compare the changes manually…
I actually used this method with bp columns to create the child of bp default I used here
You might also find https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ useful if you haven’t already seen it!
I would suggest making a copy of bp columns ie making a directory in your themes directory called my-columns and putting all the contents of bp-columns in it.
Then redo the details at the top of the style.css sheet – change:
` Theme Name: BP Columns `
to:
` Theme Name: My Columns `
leave
`Template: bp-default`
as it is.Then you should find My Columns available to activate in the appearance > themes > Manage themes area.
Then make your changes to the new directory which is / will still be a child of bp-default…
Do not touch the bp default theme.
Seems there may have been a country list in version 1.0 : https://svn.buddypress.org/branches/1.0/bp-xprofile/prebuilt-fields/
Try asking your host to increase your wordpress memory limit, or do a search on that subject as there are some ways to do it yourself…
If neither of those work, and for some shared server hosts such as 1and1 they won’t, then have a look at the suggestions here and here.
Or find a host that offers more memory – which is difficult as all other shared hosting services, that I’ve found, don’t quote the memory available in their advertising….
