[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

This sounds like a theme issue, and will be pretty hard to help you with based on the info supplied and SC How does the site behave if you switch to the BP-default theme? However your second post confuses things, is it some errant plugin? can you test by getting things back in order but leaving unessential plugins deactivated to test whether it is a plugin causing the issue.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

As aces says we have covered email issues many times here so a search may throw up further info, this is seldom actually an issue with WP/BP but a server one an tied into your whole domain config setup

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

You should have a good look through the BP options in the dashboard and turn off components you don’t want, as for editing core files, you don’t!

WP/BP set up correctly should run just as well on any server platform but preference would always be for Linux boxes as they are simply better than windows for running servers.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Are you running Event Espresso plugin for WP?

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Firstly please avoid auto install they tend to cause issues more times than any of us probably care to remember in dealing with posts here.

Secondly do not set php script memory to a value in the region you mentioned ‘4096M’ the reason for this config setting in php is to AVOID the possibility that a script could get stuck in an infinite loop and drain all your system memory at which point your machine would grimace and grind to a halt. So a value as mentioned earlier 128M or 256M is more than enough and the issue you have is not due to this aspect.

Your host has provided a ‘Local’ copy of php.ini for your site they still have a master copy that runs for all sites or for the main web server if you run phpinfo() in a file you will see the settings table is divided into two one for master values one for local. Some server boxes that run things like Plesk control panels tend to have a confusing set of php.ini copies which is why I asked about editing correct one.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

But you really really ought to plan for a bp upgrade at some point, 1.1 is hugely out of date, it also makes me wonder what version of WP you are running.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

You need to ensure that you have WP set to allow registrations and then ensure BP is correctly associated to it’s registration page then if you are logged out you should have a login box along with a link to registering or simply navigate to example.com/registration.

BP provides you with your registration page as long as these steps are followed.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Have you definitely edited the correct copy of php.ini what does phpinfo() run from your site root say is set for script memory? And did you re-start the httpd process

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Time to dig out your server error logs and hunt the error down
It’s unlikely a problem with BP more likely with the server configuration, although there was another post similar to this one that, I think, mentioned getting to last BP step and things falling over.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

BP should fulfil all your requirements in respect of the opening post and you can extend that profile functionality with a little work – by default all profile fields are shown excepting signup fields such as email.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Yes they ought to – not much more I can add to that really I would guess that if you are running a child theme something in your file naming / wp settings is overriding things .

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

no it’s in /bp-members/bp-members-buddybar.php and /bp-members-notifications.php

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Are you running a custom theme? If so have you tried deactivating and running the BP default theme to see if the issue still manifests, that way you narrow down the issue to a theme related one. If the issue is present with BP default then detail your setup and versions – oh and deactivate any plugins that are not 100% required to eliminate those from the problem.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

does the Buddypress theme sit over the default WordPress Twenty Eleven?

No it doesn’t BP is it’s own unique set of files.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

You should not be adding, modifying anything in the BP default themes folders , if you are editing any files ensure you are doing so with those files copied to a child theme folder – if you have a child theme folder then you will want to look at bp-default and observe the files in there specifically ‘index.php’ this file contains the wp post loop and needs to be in your child theme for editing purposes, more than that is explained in the link mercime provided and should explain the template hierarchy in a little more detail.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

using a custom theme or buddypress default theme? If a custom theme deactivate it and run tests again but using the bp default theme and no plugins other than as absolutely necessary.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

This is a WP issue really when you set a static page and set the WP posts to display on another named page WP still uses the index.php and any loop parts required, so you should be able to simply edit those files.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

It works where plugin authors have bothered to provide some form of overloading of files, in general WP plugins don’t have need for screens whereas BP plugins will often need to create a component , creating new dir pages or user account screens and the approach Paul mentions above is catered for so you should in theory always be able to copy template files to your theme and modify them.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

changing the bp plugin folder name is simply to get you in to your WP install again if the whole site has white screened.

I’m assuming that the WP install runs fine without BP? And wondering whether you are running out of script memory or something of that ilk, without more detailed info I just guessing really, it may be time for you to hunt through your server error logs and try and see if anything is thrown up in those.

And you can confirm that the steps to replicate this issue are with a plain vanilla copy of WP and BP and no other plugins running or custom theme only bp-default theme

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

you shouldn’t need to re-install WP simply rename BP plugin folder to something else which will force a deactivation of it as WP will no longer see it ; as for why this happens you might need to explain with a little more detail, but test things such as activating BP and it’s default-theme not your custom theme or template pack try to see if default BP will run for starters.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

To remove notifications from buddybar:

`remove_action(‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_notifications_menu’, ;`

The file you need to look in is buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-buddybar.php in core.

You can then copy the function from there to use elsewhere as a template part include or similar and just remove the ul li elements that are not required.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Those highlighted pages should be in your WP page listings, you would need to tell BP to associate the component to a particular page by selecting available pages to use from the dropdon in the BP settings page.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

@asonbrodbeck.com You will be needing to play around with CSS styling to get the look you require, more than that is difficult to help you with based on your initial post detail. That you have a different layout from the plugins screenshots might suggest that default styles for the plugin are being overridden by your theme styles? but again it’s a guess without being able to see any code at work.

You might get a more forthcoming answer to your issue if you try asking the plugin author, although I failed to track this pluging down in either the BP lists or WP plugin repo.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Profiles are by default public, you can also extend them by creating your own custom xprofile fields, these and any profile fields can be further modified if wished to show or hide some based on whether the displayed user is also the logged in user.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Have you ensured that the bp dashboard settings for forums are activated? Forums discussions are enabled and forums for groups installed, if yes to both of those check your bb-config.ph file has the correct connections details to access the DB (the settings should be the same as the wp-config.php file and is located in the root directory)

When you create groups ensure you enable forums in the group steps, if you have forums enabled and all settings correct try checking the group forums checkbox again in the creation steps and re-saving the group to see if that kicks things into life.