BuddyPress.org

I haven’t used BuddyBuilder but after looking at their offering I would guess that you are correct that this plugin is the culprit. It looks like they provide some other templating system to replace some of the standard BuddyPress pages and provide an entire authentication process. I think the first course of action should be to work with them to fix the problem. I mean they offer this entire solution so I’m assuming it does work! Also, did you try disabling this plugin?

Anyway, when I go to Settings>BuddyPress>Pages, I have these 4:
Activate, Activity, Members, & Register.

There may be more or less depending on features you’ve enabled. Activate, Activity, and Members are all blank pages, while Register uses the shortcode ‘[bbp-register]‘ (its actually a bbPress page). You should be able to at least create these 3 blank pages and assign them on that settings page.

Here’s another post about missing pages: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-create-login-and-register-pages/

Moderator shanebp says “BP does not handle a login page.” Here again I have a page with a bbPress shortcode ‘[bbp-login]‘. So basically it looks like login and registration need to be handled by some other plugin or theme.

There are hooks that can be used to modify these pages, but full control over content and styling would probably require a theme, plugin, or custom page templates. I tried Elementor with BuddyPress but quickly found that Elementor was making the process too complicated. TBH I think Elementor gets in they way more than it helps. I ended up using Blocksy and Stackable.

What forum software are you using?
bbpress?

OneCommunity theme is integrated with a BuddyPress plugin which lets users register on site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. A social network in a box, build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community.OneCommunity is a BuddyPress WordPress theme for community websites or else. This nice template offers a bunch of useful and advanced features such as full bbPress integration, color and layout variants, translation readiness and many more. With OneCommunity you have the option to create social networks for all kinds of purposes e.g. company, school, sports team or niche community. That way you can bring people sharing the same interests together. You do not need coding skills or knowledge and can still operate your website like rtc logistics tracking with ease and simplicity.

Heyo everybody!

I think the issue with buddypress is the same it always had, you had 2 choices, make a rock solid basic social framework (like wordpress is for blogs) and then expand with plugins, or make a solid all in one product that can be extended with plugins, the problem is that buddypress was never one or the other, it was always a mix of the basic, with lots of holes in the feature set with some extended stuff that no one needs.

Besides that the basic social network features NEVER realized to this day, ive tried buddypress several times and its always lacking the most basic features that social networks all have as well as most competing social network software always has, but in buddypress its, oh no use this broken plugin and of course that breaks or its also janky, like the whole image posting on buddypress, its ridiculous and a broken system, im sure it has improved a lot over the years, but my impression comparing with something like wordpress, is that buddypress is always launching optimizations and improvements and never new features and never good social features… like im not a super fan of wordpress blocks, to this day its pretty broken to me but at least they are trying new things and making improvements, buddypress is stuck on myspace era social networks but doesnt even deliver on those…

You should install buddypress and get old school facebook, thats it, member pages, a feed you can tweak, make connections, post stuff… can buddypress do this? kinda? maybe? if you install some plugins… almost…

And to that point and i know some people on this tread went about lots of features they want, but look at your competition, tiktok, discord, reddit, they are not facebook with 1 billion features, they are way more streamlined and sometimes very simplistic social networks, personal page feed, main page feed thats pretty much it, you dont need a million features to have a great social network, but you need solid basics with as many points of interaction possible (share, text, images, videos, like, subscribe, swipe left, star, heart, join, chat, message) and even today buddypress lacks… lacks so much on the very basic social stuff.

Today, a basic vanila forum soft is more social and expandable than buddypress, its not that buddypress hasnt moved with the times, its that it never moved in the first place and im your market, i run a lot of sites, a lot of communities, small and large, lots of it on wordpress, if buddypress was good, not even great i would use it and i would extend it…

Now regarding the original news about the low usage of buddypress, im impressed you had that many, and im kinda on the side of hummm after this many years of meh, the only way i would try and care again about buddypress is if you completely revamped the whole thing, doesnt need to be what im talking about here, but you need to start from scratch, because what you build clearly is not working, optimizing this or improving that feature wont change my mind, just look at the 10.0 release changelog, its like… the same as a good maintenance release… but i dont think you can, because there are still 100k using it… so you are stuck… i would say drop those people, give it a year or two of life support and just start over…

And i dont think social networks are going away anytime soon, sure a lot of it moved for mobile, but that doesnt mean you cant run your mobile social app on wordpress/buddypress, i do, most of my sites are if not available on mobile, they do have some mobile integration, so buddypress could have lots of value, and it could be much more, but as of today im pretty sure it wont amount to anything, im your target audience, buddypress has pretty much burned all its bridges with me, like a lot of users, I posted here and on wordpress.org the issues, the recommendations, or views of whats wrong, and there were no replies or replies like this plugin solves it, or that’s how it works, i remember one of those comments got me mad enough that on that day i restarted one of my sites from buddypress to elgg, freaking elgg its an atrocious social network software, but it was still better than buddypress, at least it had the most basic social features, like posting a picture, i really don’t see anything coming from this, i hope im wrong but, well… look where i am writing this… this is the main buddypress site, it should be a showcase of a social network on wordpress, but no, we are all writing on bbpress, the only really social part of your entire site.

With bbPress you can create two types of a forum in a BuddyPress context .

Just my opinion and just an AI translation:

Where are the sticking points?

BP core:
After 9 months with BP and several free BP plugins, there are still a lot of questions. Group handling and invitation are too complex and partly illogical. (Example: Group Owner is allowed to remove himself and then the administrator has to ‘intervene’). Furthermore, internal e-mail, where you have to select users based on their usernames (@…). Also not visually appealing and sometimes rather confusing in use. Other BP features (sorting/displaying members within groups!) that don’t work even on a WP default theme (Twenty Twenty-Two). Just annoying!

In principle, the core plugin provides too little (in terms of functionality). Best example: Blogging and media. Something that defines WP at its core. In addition to two larger commercial “BP providers” and some ancient plugins in the WP repo, the selection and comparability is difficult if you want to use them for specific rights and groups. I understand that you want to offer an open and expandable system, but something “more” would be desirable or necessary.

BP mailing list:
Hardly any actions, but many (trivial) questions and no answers. On the other hand, technically interesting answers are often 10 years or more in the past (and unfortunately still up-to-date in principle), but where there is no attempt to test them in a current BP version.

ToDo (Plugins into Core):
Directory: Very important! Of course you can use “BP Custom Fields” but there’s no option to do a filter search, based on different fields to exclude displaying other profiles – or I just can’t find the options. Tried “BP Profile Search”

Why not just embed a few components “more tightly” into the core, why not simply take over the source code of others who simply “copy” BP themselves without returning anything to the community? There was an interesting discussion about this recently on another platform site.

Wishes:
– Rights management for pages/posts or for individual BP components (either private/public or at user level) – e.g. “User Access Manager”
– E-mail communication between each other without having to use the real e-mail address and being able to leave the borders of BP – e.g. “BP Reply By Email”

It’s a pity, but currently STILL not enough for uncomplicated use and sometimes stopped in development. In addition, commercial providers who copy BP as well as other WP Social Media Group solutions that are more complete and appear more self-contained.

To name a few plugins that could be partially included:

Theme: BuddyX (free)
BP 11 (dev) &
BP Attachments (dev) (what does it do? Substitution of BuddyDrive?)
– bbPress (smarter integration)
– BP Profile Search (no filter options found)
– BP Reply By Email (should be core as option)
– BuddyDrive (should be Core)
– Buddpress Docs
– BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types (should be core)
– BuddyPress Xprofile Conditional Fields (should be core)
– Rendez Vous (should be core as option)
– “BuddyPress XY Blog” (should be core)
– “BuddyPress XY Search”

@kerchmcc, @sub0810, @maryreyes:

Just wanted to make sure you saw the latest developments (the bbPress thread just above).

I’ve also updated the bbPress Track ticket with the suggested code. I don’t feel competent to say that it’s correct, but it appeared to work on my test site:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3454#comment:2

Hopefully someone who really understands these things will take a look at the ticket!

Mike

Just one final note: It turns out there is a known bbPress bug for this, and future developments will all be on the bbPress thread, not here. So watch this thread:

bbP subscription control in the BP profile?

Just in case anybody is still following this thread 🙂

I had a little time recently to look at this again, and I got some info from the folks at BuddyDev, that this is actually a bbPress thing:

[x] icon to delete subscriptions

I haven’t yet tried the fix Brajesh suggested.

I’m asking for more info on the bbPress forum:

bbP subscription control in the BP profile?

Please use the bbPress forums.

BuddyPress does not include forums.
Are you also using bbPress? If so, you should post on their support forums.
If you are using BuddyBOSS, which includes forums, you should contact them.