[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

This is a heavily customised theme. Generally the support forum here helps with matters related to the running of BuddyPress and the BuddyPress default theme.

Although it almost certainly an issue with the themes styling to determine that absolutely one should drop back to the BP default theme to check if the issue still persists.

Fixing styling issues with third party themes is slightly beyond the remit of this forum but someone may take a look for you and offer some suggestions (presently I am without the two aforementioned afflicted browsers)

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Always check through the Documentation first off as theres often help and guides to be found for common issues.

You might find this helpful for starters :
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Yep probably, must have got it back up and running I guess, just glad we could help

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

if it’s any consolation it took me a few minutes to puzzle out what was going on when I first downloaded and ran a beta, oh ok a few hours

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

hang the firewall I’m wondering where the OP has got to

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

You can simply add it to register.php (preferably in a child theme file copy) add paragraph tag with nested em element just below the input element ~line 31. That’s the easy straightforward approach.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

You are looking at the ‘Network Admin’ dashboard aren’t you? and not the primary site dashboard ‘Site Admin’

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

You’ll need to perform some basic troubleshooting and report back the results. Disable all those plugins (except of course BP) and try again to edit a profile, if you can then re-introduce the plugins one by one testing each time until you find the one causing the issue.

If it’s not a plugin issue, provide your setup details (which should always accompany all help posts) version numbers, custom themes, if using a custom theme disable it and run bp-default theme in case it’s a theme issue.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Afraid not sure what to suggest with this, can’t personally recreate this type of issue on custom test installs. I assume that you have the BP theme files copied over and adjusted and that nothing necessary for BP has been inadvertently removed -although that’s doubtful.

It’s going to be hard to help with a third party custom theme, without having all the pieces to hand as it were, hopefully one of the others will chip in with some thoughts or perhaps even have a better idea why the issue could happening.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Registration issues, once submitted, I’m not going any further, the validation doesn’t activate, and the new user doesn’t capture

I think you may need to expand on this a little , once submitted? does it actually submit? what is meant by “validation doesn’t activate” and “new user doesn’t capture”

This will possibly be hard to help with given it’s a third party theme that appears to be causing the issues and that it works as expected with default BP but understanding exactly what isn’t working will be important.

What’s in that include file ‘addon-functions’ are there scripts in there possibly causing issues?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Presume that you actually mean – “so they *can* blog” ?

Can you not simply set the ‘new user default role’ to ‘Contributor’ or ‘Author’ in general settings then all your users can post to the main blog.

If that isn’t what you’re after then you’ll need to elaborate a little on what you are actually wanting to do i.e allow them to post from the front end of the blog without having to use the dashboard?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

I think, given the OP generic style question, that the first port of call is to your hosting support, and if they are a good support team and hosting company that they will advise on how you should proceed as there are many variables in this equation and many take some detailed knowledge.

However the rough steps – and important first things you must do and ensure – that you should be taking initially, before tackling the actual site restore are:

1/ Ensure you are no longer serving pages publicly -in other words make sure the site is no longer running.

2/ Change all access codes to the site FTP, Admin Control Panels, SSH (if you have that form of access)

When these steps are completed you can begin to think about cleaning the site and restoring from safe backups, but do take any advise and help your hosting support are willing to give.

Oh and sweep your personal computers for root kits, trojans, key loggers and don’t sweep once sweep multiple times with two or three apps.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

I really ought to wait for you to post first should have known there were guides

Otto’s and Donncha’s posts are excellent ones on the general subject of compromised sites.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Not all plugins are going to be the same, however the fix for showing the settings or an admin page are pretty much straightforward- however as you appear to be talking about the ‘Welcome Pack’ plugin I would hold fire as @DJPaul has announced iirc on his plugin page for WelcomePack that he will be upgrading this weekend so you will have a working plugin again soon.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Backups! You do have backups? Contact your hosting support if not sure and ask them. Clean the site completely and restore from backup pre dating the compromise, also first change all site/server access, that is FTP passwords and also set up new DB user passwords and when back up running change all WP user passwords.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@mercime after lengthy and careful consideration I would have to say Bond, it was close though

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@bowromir I’m not sure what admin_url() or network_admin_url() are but guess I probably ought to have used them when fixing my work, however where I needed a path to correct page i.e /wp-admin/network/admin.php?my… or older style I created a new variable with path based on a is_multisite() and is_network_admin() or if not then plain /wp-admin/admin.php which works ok

edit// So a simple network_admin_url() will return a path to current script/page with either network path for multisite or not and thus can be used for self referencing post submission- however I don’t appear to be able to pass any parameters via it? it doesn’t appear to take arguments?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@ronsuarez My original comment had absolutely no overtones to it, it was exactly as written I asked a question and attempted to clarify that the notion of roles and capabilities was a WP one and thus not going to produce results if searched for in the BP Codex. My second post was a retort to virtuali who posted a link to the codex and I was having a friendly dig at her ( I’m sure or hope no offense was taken by her as none was meant) thus it was not a remark directed to yourself.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@linusf sorry for slow response missed you reply.

You don’t give much information about your setup, in theory it should have sufficed to up load the bbpress folder to the forums directory in buddypress as you did and you would have been good to go with an existing install or running a fresh install first, your issues tend to sound as though you have theme issues rather than issues with the forum/bbpress component. Are you running a custom theme rather than BP-default or bp child theme?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@sjtryon please understand that on a community forum such as this where people attempt to provide help to others on their own time for free as it were it does come across slightly rude to make remarks such as ‘silly’

Now I must really get my avatar sorted out as clearly I’m simply posting in far too feminine a manner

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

BuddyPress users are essentially WP users there’s no separation and in this and other respects BP is a plugin running under WP and thus using aspects of WP such as users/signups

Buddypress has extended profiles that can be set in the dashboard under the BP menu there you can add new fields to the base group (base group fields are displayed on the initial signup page) or create new filed groups for anything you like and those will be displayed on the users profile screens and accessed under ‘edit profile’ by the user to complete.

As an admin you are very limited as to what you can set on a users profile, basically being restricted to the capabilities under the WP dashboard ‘users’ and ‘add users’

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Via FTP or your control panel rename jet-events to disable it to allow you access once again.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

people ought to be capable of using google

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Roles? as in WP Roles & Capabilities? If so best place is the WP Codex to find out more on them.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Hmm logins should be the same here as on trac but there may be issues, we’ll put a shout out to @DJPaul @boonebgorges see if they can fix anything.

Back to validating and well formed code; of course the one bug bear in all this is the nature of plugin coding which tends to throw a huge spanner in the works, well from a theming point of view, but can be equally frustrating when you activate a plugin to find you’ll need to spend half a day hacking it to output valid code.