BuddyPress.org

1) I’m able to register and see my newly-created profile on your website. Your users have to activate their account via email before logging in.

2) Did you setup the Buddypress forums correctly under the “Buddypress > Forums Setup” menu in the WP admin area?

3) Make sure your wp-content/uploads directory has the right permissions. Check out this article for more info:
http://samdevol.com/wordpress-troubleshooting-permissions-chmod-and-paths-oh-my/

@thebigbonanza – BuddyPress is overkill for what you want to do. This is what I’d suggest you do with your $700 per your notes above

1. Find a web development tool (free or nearly free) that will allow me to create and customize a social website that a dummy (me) can manage.
– Get a free account at WordPress.com, pay for upgrades to
a) get your own domain name pointed to your free WordPress.com account
b) get a premium theme installed (if you don’t like the offerings at WordPress.com)

2. On this site, I’d like for visitors to be able to upload their own videos of them eating my pizza, talking about it, etc, comment on posts, vote for fave videos, and forward posts to their friends via email, FB or Twitter.
– You’re going to spend a lot more than $700 if you’re going to allow people to upload videos in your own server if you choose that route, and you will need to upgrade your plan again at WordPress.com to allow others to upload videos there at limited upload space at that.
I suggest that you ask your friends to upload videos at Youtube, Vimeo, etc and to send you the video URL. Post that URL to your wordpress.com and enable free Ratings and Poll systems, then add free widgets for Twitter et.al on your sidebar.

3. I’d also like the site to prompt people to sign up for email alerts throughout the contest
– add free Subscription widget to sidebar as well so others can follow your blog.

4. link to PJ’s online locator of PJ stores and online ordering system.
– Add link to PJ’s online locator in free Text Widget you can add to sidebar

There are free tutorials to manage that WordPress.com blog at http://wordpress.tv and there is free assistance at http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Then after the Papa John’s contest in August, if you want to go full social networking with own server and move over all your posts in info from your free wordpress.com account, then go BuddyPress.

Good luck.

What’s wrong with creating the user before the activation email is sent? If it doesn’t get sent, then the user won’t be created and they’ll never be able to login since the user account won’t be activated.

Of course, if you’re using the plugins that r-a-y mentions, then that’s a different story.

Have a similar problem

Prev. installation WP 3.0 and BP 1.2.4.1
Upgraded to BP 1.2.5

In the blog comments of the blog with id 2 I got some warnings:

Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/is/htdocs/my-account-name/my-domain/www/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files//avatars/3) is not within the allowed path(s): (/is/htdocs/user_tmp/my-account-name:/tmp:/dev/null:/dev/urandom:/bin:/usr:/is/default.errors:/is/htdocs/my-account-name) in /is/htdocs/my-account-name/my-domain/www/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 150

The Problem is, that there is no directory /wp-content/blogs.dir/1 in my installation! Besides the main blog I created only a second one (/wp-content/blogs.dir/2).

If I copy bp-core-avatars.php from BP 1.2.4.1 in my 1.2.5 installation the waring is gone! But this does not seem to be a proper solution because there a some changes in the php file …

My solution, which I found some where else in this forum: I put the following two lines in /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

define( ‘BP_AVATAR_URL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER . ‘/wp-content/uploads’ );
define( ‘BP_AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH’, $_SERVER . ‘/wp-content/uploads’ );

The warning is gone

I might be missing the point completely here, but I changed my theme’s sidebar.php code to call up the root sign-up using this;

<?php printf( __( ' You can also create an account.’, ‘buddypress’ ), site_url( ‘/wp-signup.php’ ) ) ?>

Mind you, it shows the sign-up form complete with the extra fields I added via Buddypress. Does this mean it’s still being hooked into by BP and is actually bypassing the standard WP 3.0 sign-up code? I noticed that even pulling out the php and replacing it with a normal href link, it still does the same thing.

Ning defines blogs differently than how we at WordPress/BuddyPress do. A Ning site member can click on a link “Blog” and Ning’s post panel. You can try using Jet QuickPress – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jet-quickpress/ which adds “a “Quickpress” submenu you can find in bp admin bar > My Accounts > Blogs > QuickPress from which you can easily add a post to any of your blogs

Just a thought: the plugin, in effect, can render a Multi-Author BP site without adding subsites and without allowing access to the dashboard because members can post from the front and click on categories and add tags there as well. Then, one can create a customized member profile page to have that link to blog posting and then render the latest posts of each individual member .

@philippmuenchen and @sbrajesh.

Thanks for your discussion. Did you ever figure this out?

I’m trying to show all groups and make sure that all required fields get filled. I tried your solution and yes, it shows all fields but it allows user to create account without filling out all required fields.

Thanks for the response in advance.

Giovanni

@nbishop
Go to your wordpress dashboard – settings – general and make sure that ‘Anyone can register’ is checked next to ‘Membership’

@tbep – Read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-41850

did you enable allow users to register on your blog?

@themeanwhile – you can enable or disable the various components so if you want Activities only, enable that and disable other components. After you activate BuddyPress, go to the new BuddyPress menu item on the left column of dashboard, and go to

a) General Settings – these are your choices
Base profile group name:
Full Name field name:
Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?: Yes No
Hide admin bar for logged out users?: Yes No
Disable avatar uploads? (Gravatars will still work): Yes No
Disable user account deletion?: Yes No
Disable global forum directory?: Yes No
Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?: Yes No
Default User Avatar – For users without a custom avatar of their own, you can either display a generic logo or a generated one based on their email address

b) Component Setup
Activity Streams – Allow users to post activity updates and track all activity across the entire site.
Enabled Disabled
Blog Tracking – Tracks blogs, blog posts and blogs comments for a user across a WPMU installation.
Enabled Disabled
bbPress Forums – Activates bbPress forum support within BuddyPress groups or any other custom component.
Enabled Disabled
Friends – Allows the creation of friend connections between users.
Enabled Disabled
Groups – Let users create, join and participate in groups.
Enabled Disabled
Private Messaging – Let users send private messages to one another. Site admins can also send site-wide notices.
Enabled Disabled
Extended Profiles – Activates customizable profiles and avatars for site users.
Enabled Disabled

I would suggest you set up a test install so you can check the features for yourself.

“Of course, activity filters, profile page, friends page, settings page, etc, would also need to be migrated to display in the backend.”
Why? If you want to make the BP Activity section private, you can add conditional tags for is_user_logged_in …

I have a couple BuddyPress installs. The older of the 2 has received 150+ spam member registrations (and blogs) this weekend. All create members like bob45873675 and “Bob’s Blog”.

I have changed slugs, activated recaptcha and followed several blog posts on best practices. What’s interesting is they are somehow bypassing my registration page. I have required fields and have removed the “create a blog” from the registration page; but somehow they manage to create an account and a blog. I also receive “lost password reset” email notices for each account that is created, so maybe that’s a clue to where the issue is.

I was so fed up with it, I disabled registrations completely (only allowing blog creation by logged in users) — and I’m still getting new spam members and blogs (how is that possible??) This seems to be a pretty serious security issue that is different from previous “splogging”…

Vulnerability/hack in the registration or lost password, etc…?? I presume this could be WPMU not necessarily BP?

Check Site Admin > Options – Allow new registrations == must be set to “Blogs and user accounts can be created.”

Don’t worry about sploggers, when you have WPMU Secure Invites on, no one can register without an invitation — unless of course one of your members invites one…

I think I’ve solved this problem the same as every here has been describing.

After about 3 re-installs and 10 cups of tea, I finally dawned on me like a chisel falling from the grasp of a tired granite mason.

You do indeed need to install at the domain level, this also includes as I have found, the sub-domain level.

1) Create sub-domain. http://www.SUB.DOMAIN.com
2) Fresh wordpress install to your new sub-domain
3) Then Buddypress install

Hey Presto works, get your self one final cup of your favourite beverage, that you can now take the time to enjoy.
Then get some sleep, you’ve earned it.

my twitter is @samuelmunro if it worked for you or didn’t I’d like to know either way.

The above steps takes into account the understanding that you already know your way around cPanel, at least to the same level as me, which boasting aside is about one level higher than that of a monkey with lobotomy.

Usually a flip of a switch and it is not connected to BP but to WP.

Go to setting –> General and there is a line called “Membership” with a check box that says “Anyone can register”. Select that and save and you should be good to go.

Kalman

A default install will allow users to enter their “Name”.
eg. http://testbp.org/accounts/

It’s supposed to show your “Name” across the site by default… excluding the @mention names, where in particular are you seeing usernames ?

Hi, I’ve just created my first installation of buddypress and I’m having the same issue. Activation email hasn’t been received for 3 accounts I’ve set up with 3 different email addresses.

any ideas? thanks!

Billy

I “had” the same problem, and mail from may have solved but what I think was really going on is the mail was being sent from “noreply@websitename dot com” Most reputable hosts don’t allow mail to be sent from an account that does not exist. Once I created the account noreply everything worked as it should.

The new reg’s probably worked on the clean basic installs because the server could tell the email wasn’t be relayed, (the server saw it was coming from WP) once you install BP the host didn’t recognize who the mail was coming from.

This worked a treat for me!

If you need to find your “Full URL path to files” you can find your DOCUMENT_ROOT by using phpinfo(); and adding “wp-content/uploads” to the end.

e.g:
Store uploads in this folder “wp-content/uploads”
Full URL path to files “/home/ACCOUNT/public_html/wp-content/uploads”

How can I create a phpinfo.php page? Try this link:
http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/764/How+can+I+create+a+phpinfo.php+page%3F

Be aware that copying the code directly from @gian-ava will copy the wrong type of single quotes as @shaista points out above.

To check that your image is being uploaded take a look in /public_html/wp-content/uploads/group-avatars on your server

I am also unable to create any groups on my installation. Details:
1. Ubuntu 10.04 fresh install dedicated to WPMU+BP only, on a corporate intranet.
2. WP-MU 2.9.2, BP 1.2.3, + LDAP user authentication.
3. Site blog uses BP default theme, user blogs use Kubrick.
4. No other plugins enabled.
5. From “groups” tab, click on “Create a Group”, which takes me to “site/groups/create/step/group-details/”. After entering Group Name and Group Description, clicking on “Create Group and Continue ->” just takes me back to /group-details/, Step 1, as if I had hit the refresh button instead of “Create Groups and Continue”.
6. Have verified that after every attempt, the wp_bp_groups table in the MySQL database is empty.

Any ideas?

EDIT: forgot to mention, WPMU is set up for subdirectory blogs (“blogs.corp.lan/blogname”). User account authentication, blog creation, etc., work just fine, as well as BP user activity, mentions. But user private messages don’t work (separate issue, it appears).