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@chiangmai let’s go back to the root of the problem and deactivate BP Disable Activation. Resolve email send/receive issue https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/

Let your users make friend connections so they can track the activity each other, and focus on the people they care about the most.

– @tdempsey2012 Private Messages can only be sent to and received by Friends
– Friends who are Group Admins can send invitations to friends to join the group created.
– All those who accepted your friendship request show up in the Friends tab of your Profile page and you can check out the activities of your friends.
– Of course, if you’re Super Admin, you don’t need to be friending everybody to send messages to one and all.

@primetimejas need more info. What theme are you using? What plugins do you have installed? If you change to BP default theme and deactivate all plugins except BP, are the issues resolved?

@koki_xiong glad you have it resolved. I suggest that before you install plugins or themes, double-check to make sure that these are compatible with the latest WP/BP versions.

Re BP Activity Plus: It has not been updated for WP 3.4.2 nor does it show it has been updated for current BP versions. To get support for this plugin, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-activity-plus and click on Support tab. Deactivate this plugin and check if duplicate posts are resolved.

Thanks for your time!

@lottiejam Yes, it’s a permalink issue. Adding index.php in permalink is not an option to use with BuddyPress as you can see. mod_rewrite or equivalent should be enabled in your server, contact webhost for assistance in setting it up

Hi mercime. I set up a test site on my localhost(mac environment). I then recreated the same set up on my hosting space using a fresh download of both wordpress and buddy press. I think I have located the problem to my permalinks in that WordPress includes the index.php in the permalink and this inhibits buddy press functionality(?). I have mod rewrite enabled on the server and have tried numerous elements from other support threads e.g. ensuring .htaccess is correct. I don’t have a url at present as I am only putting it up as a test site and by the time I had posted I took it down! let me know if this is enough information and any help would be most welcome.

The simplest approach may be to surpress the “click here to activate your account” emails, and use something like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unconfirmed/ to manually activate them.

I still can’t find anywhere that BuddyPress sends emails when something happens in the forums (unless another plugin is providing this feature for you). Best I can find is if someone replies to an Activity item created by someone posting on the forum.

@boonebgorges I have updated the line as suggested and now the e.g. twitter link acts like a buddypress search rather than a twitter link. e.g. the twitter id is mytwittername clicking it goes to http://mywebsite/members/?s=mytwittername

@naijaping On second thought I do like what I see in your approach better than the drop down menu I have. So I am interest in the code. From what I can tell it seems like you have everything in in your header.php file. I would like to do this with maybe a few changes in styling. Let me know when you have the code here. Thanks!
Edit:
It would also be helpful if you can share where in the header.php file that the code needs to be placed. Thanks again!

if you use a buddypress compatible theme, you need to edit

mytheme/members/single/home.php
and
mytheme/members/single/profile.php

home.php is global template of member page , it include the profile part.

– if you use the buddypress default, theme, you find it
plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/

Its ridiculous you are bound to be loosing users that give up in frustration because they cant find their answers – or the same questions gets asked over and over for the same reason wasting resources. And I just started a new thread exclaiming the same because I couldn’t find this thread – I had to use google which returns lots of links to plugins about forums or about search functions.

@sarah_lena

I spend a lot of time to find a fix for that. So if you still have problems do the following:
1.) Download the “avatars” folder and delete all bpfull-XXxXX.jpg pictures and reupload it
2.) Take a look here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4092
@boonebgorges gave the comment with the workaround (Thanks for this!)…

So this is the code to replace with in bp-core-avatars.php, line 211:
`// Check for current avatar
foreach( $avatar_files as $key => $value ) {
if ( strpos ( $value, $avatar_size )!== false ) {
$avatar_url = $avatar_folder_url . ‘/’ . $avatar_files[$key];
break;
}
}
`

For me there are no more problems now… It would be great if the BuddyPress-Team could get this into the next release…

Best!