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Thanks for the confirmation that it should work out of the box. I was puzzled why recently it didn’t work for forum posts but activity streams only.
I did the usual disable all plugins and test one by one in case of a plugin conflict.
I can confirm that the Buddypress Rate Forum Posts plugin is the culprit
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-rate-forum-posts/
After disabling this, video embedding now works. Will post feedback to the author.

BuddyPress Extended Settings by @modemlooper can change the default. This is an excellent plugin with many useful settings. Get it here:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-extended-settings/
BP FriendPress can filter activity dependent on friendships so basically it has the ability to show only yours and your friends activity like facebooks wall. Just make sure to read the readme.txt. Get it here:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-friendpress/

you could try:

http://buddydev.com/plugins/one-click-mark-spammer-for-buddypress/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-verified/

Hi,

I’m having the exact same problem. I installed Buddypress today. After installing the BP Template Pack, when you click on the links to check your pages, you still are not taken to the registration page. Your redirected to your site’s home page. This is the third such query I’ve read on your forums trying to work my way through similar forum topics and none of those threads have answered the problem as I’ve tried all the suggestions.

I checked my pages and there is actually a registration.php page created in my pages, but when I navigate to that page , it just bounces to the home page as the gentleman says above.

I have been into my Settings > Membership and checked if the “Allow Registration” is checked. It is and was checked to allow for registration before I installed Buddypress. Still nothing. As I havn’t gone through the processes of every running a wordpress based community before I’m only familiar with the Login area at the backend of WordPress. This is not an area I would want my site users to see and I’m aware that I can install whitelabel plugins to pimp that area myself but I expected that Buddypress would somehow have a front end login and registration area already wrapped up in the plugin.

Could someone please enlighten me about getting my registration link working. My site is here:

http://www.thebridesboudoir.com/

I’m WPSU not MU. I’ve followed all instructions as best I can and seem to be getting nowhere. I’ve adjusted all my template files to correspond with my current theme, it would be so nice to get the rest of Buddypress working. I’m sure it’s a great plugin and I’ve worked most of the day on forums and buddypress, but a little frustrated with the registration hiccup.

RE: Forum Installation from your links. You click and are taken to install bbPress, but then have to delete the automatically created forum.php created by Buddypress in order to install bbPress forums correctly. Later in the processes of trying to get bbPress templates tweaked to match my theme I’m told I can make Group Forums, but when I come over to the buddypress panel it states in your documentation to look for bb-config.php (or something similar) but there is no config file of any name (or nothing with the word config in it) when you look through all the bbPress package or folders after install. As a consequence I cannot now install Group Forums as I don’t know the path to the bbPress config file – it seems not to exist? I’ve used the latest version downloaded from wordpress.org for both plugins, Newly downoaded today.

Thanks for help in advance.

The default BuddyPress search searches profiles based on profile fields

What version WP & BP are you using? What theme are you using? Is it a child theme or did you use the buddypress template pack plugin with a wordpress theme? It will be easier to get help when you provide the mentioned information!

Hi @shawn38 – it’s Group forums. I am using the latest BP 1.6.1
The video will embed in the activity stream but not in forum posts
I have tried the defunct oembed plugin but it doesn’t work now.

@guitaragora Open up permalink.php from wp-content/themes/wallbase/members/single/activity/permalink.php

At the very top of the file, replace “ with what I posted above for the top part

At the very bottom of the file, replace “ with what I posted above for the bottom part.

@palmdoc What kind of forum are you using? The group forums, or sitewide forum? If its the sitewide you need to go to dashboard/settings/forums and under the main settings you need to check the box beside Auto-embed Links!

When you say “have their own communities”, do you mean like a BuddyPress multisite mode? If so, that’s not possible, unfortunately. You’d have to use a multi-network configuration (one BP instance per network), but I don’t know enough about these to understand what the dis/advantages might be.

Hello,

I am also facing the same issue with my test site. I am using wordpress mu 3.4.2 and buddypress 1.6.1
I have not installed anything else yet ( any other plugin)
But the buddypress admin bar ( buddybar) not showing at the top. Its a fresh installation and in Network admin -> Buddypress -> Settings -> “Show the Toolbar for logged out users” is checked, but neither logged in user, super admin nor logged out user is able to see the buddybar.

Please help some body to solve the issue

Thanks
Hozefa

@ashraf something’s getting lost in translation. Are you asking how to add profile fields (https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/#users-profile-fields) and/or asking for a demo site which allows you to add profile fields (none public that I know of) ?

== But what I don’t understand is that it doesn’t look like the group forums were ever created, even though I had the box checked. ==

Check your database if the 7 bbp_ tables were created https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/#bbpress-forums-tables-in-database

In addition, basic troubleshooting would involve changing to bp-default theme and deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress.