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Closing:
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Regarding the WP_DEBUG errors. Have you recently upgraded to BuddyPress 1.6+? There was a schema change, and we added the is_spam column in the wp_bp_activity table, and your error message says that it doesn’t exist.

Can you look inside your WordPress admin area, and check that you’ve not got some pending update action? https://i.imgur.com/MseHC.png

In your WordPress admin area, there’s a “Activity” item in the main menu list. On this page, there’s a button to filter to view only spam posts, and if any have been marked as akismet, there’s a little label nearby that says “marked as spam by akismet” etc.

http://bp-fr.net/groupes/utilisation-configuration-optimisation-de-buddypress/forum/topic/ajouter-le-champs-avatar-lors-de-linscription/#post-5737

huh, i just tried the “private buddypress” plugin — using the latest WP BP for nov 2 2012 (plz lookup the versions if you need to), and the plugin works just fine.

i am quite grateful to the creator of the private buddypress plugin. it does everything i need it to do.

life’s hard enough as it is — when you catch a “break” like this with code that works as promised without hassles and even without payment — you just really have to say thanks.

thanks to dennis at: https://profiles.wordpress.org/GIGALinux/ seriously — thanks!

Use
`$bp->bp_options_nav = ’30’;
$bp->bp_options_nav = false;`

People will chime in but anything recommended by WordPress should be good. Just remember BuddyPress has more overhead in displaying content and will use more resources.

https://wordpress.org/hosting

As of BP 1.5, `BP_REGISTER_SLUG` isn’t used for this purpose anymore.

Login to the WP dashboard, navigate to “Pages” and find the registration page you registered with BuddyPress under the BuddyPress page settings area.

Next, edit the page and change the page slug and save.

This should give you your custom page slug for the registration page.

I just installed also and I’m having the same problem. I went through the installation wizard. Installed several different Buddypress themes and cannot customize or even access most of the components. Installed a buddypress toolbar. Same problem.

@ A Swede in Greece

You could try this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
But you’ll want the beta version as it fixes an issue with BuddyPress
http://www.blogseye.com/beta-test-plugins/

Also, you should look into installing ZBBlock.
http://www.spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php

The spam comment by “panlong” is still here after 2 weeks and 5 days…This says a lot about BuddyPress I think. We have started up a new site with BP, still not ready, but I think we’ll have to close it because of all spam members and spam activity, if we can not get help how to stop it. It’s UNBELIEVABLE how much spam we get. Three persons had made 100 membership each as well!!!
This Akismet plugin is for comments, but this is not so much needed as you can have comments with moderation.
I really think spam protection should be included from the beginning in the BudyPress plugin!
Another issue as well is that someone made a group without showing who created it. It doesn’t show up in the activity stream, even if I filter “created a group” either.

Something else, the page forums doesn’t show up. It says:
The forums component has not been set up yet.
What do I need to do?

Sean,

I have a very similar question to yours — I’m trying to modify the order of the tabs in the Groups navigation, rename some of them, and get rid of some of them. I, too, am running BP 1.6.1.

I can help in one respect — you need to enclose the code in your bp-custom.php file in the php brackets:
<?php

YOUR CODE

?>

In the meantime, I would appreciate (from anyone) help with these customizations of the BP menus. Did something change in 1.6 to affect this? Much of the help out there concerns v1.5.

Thanks in advance,
Dylan

You’re welcome. Good luck.

After you activated BuddyPress, did you go through the BP Installation Wizard? https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/

== I successfully set up Multisite with my Buddypress site and everything looked like it was working well until any members tried to create a new site. ==

Deactivate BuddyPress and make sure that you can create subdomain/subdirectory sites without any issues. If there is, please resolve multisite issue first before activating BP again – https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

If you can create subsites in your WP install, then activate BuddyPress plugin only, go through the BP Installation Wizard — make sure you choose pretty permalink and choose for BP-default theme. Then create a blog/subsite and check if subsite is working.

BP Template Pack plugin requires BuddyPress plugin to be activated in your WP site. It won’t work otherwise.

@famous BP 1.7 is not due anytime soon. There’s just still so much more to be done and everything should be settled and tested before any documentation is finalized/released. So if you’re going to launch this month or early next month, recommend either create bp-default child theme OR use WP theme with BP Template Pack plugin OR use BP-ready WordPress theme.

The most basic rendition of BP components will just be like how the bbPress plugin forums are rendered with very minimal effort on your part and you can add customizations via shortcodes, style.css or functions.php files. That’s all there is to it. The trac ticket seeks to provide options for developers to customize the structure of each BP component page further, among other things.

BuddyPress 1.7 will use page.php and override the_content() to display BP content. Think in terms of page template hierarchy in WP. single.php gets overridden by single-{post type}.php

You can then just create the custom template parts and style it however you want. BP will have base files and styles to make it work with most themes. When 1.7 gets closer to release I’ll blog a bit about how to customize.