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There was someone who had a similar issue and found reasons why at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/edit-profile-link-leads-to-page-not-found-error/#post-130178 but might not be applicable to yours. And another posted (can’t find it right now – topic title was not related to the issue) a solution which involved deactivating a slideshow plugin and another which involved installing new WP/BP from scratch.

With your forms acting up, it looks more like JS/AJAX issue.

You need to increase memory limit. Some ways to do so: https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/blank-pages/
If neither works, please contact webhost tech support.

1. Free – BP Album plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/ the younger bro of
-> BP Media http://code.google.com/p/buddypress-media/ – please read all docs before installing this plugin

2. Premium BP Gallery http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/

Most of that stuff is for future versions of BuddyPress.

I have the exact same problem, rather annoying to keep checking this since it reverts every time a user changes their profile info in the front end (BuddyPress profile page). Did you manage to solve it by altering W3 Total Cache as you mentioned? I don’t even have W3 Total Cache active or even installed and still have the same issue. Have no idea how to solve this, thought that it was a bug in BuddyPress.

Any idea when BP 1.6 will be coming out?

I agree about scepticism on free hosting – I wasn’t suggesting moving the data simply trying the WP configuration with the established theme then adding Buddypress and looking at the result.
However as a newcomer to WP and BP perhaps my thinking is a bit woolly.
I dont trust my data to free hosting either but I am finding it a good way to learn what seems to fit together for my purposes.

Ah sorry thought by you saying older site no updates you meant you’d not updated WordPress either.

Well there is the template pack you can use for BuddyPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/. Or yes, you can go with making a child of Bp-default and that as your basis. I’d recommend creating a child theme.

Personally I’d be very sceptical over ‘free’ hosting. You are putting maybe your data on their site and personally I’d be sceptical about a free service like that. But, that’s my opinion everyone has their own.

A quick search through Trac produced this :
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4090

It’s not you, it’s us. It’s a known bug. Thank you for reporting it

Hmm.

Are you accessing the forums page on the site’s admin screens, or the network admin screen? It ought to be the latter in a multisite config.

Do you want those child sites to be individual BuddyPress sites, i.e. not connected?

If you don’t already use free hosting you might like to consider using http://www,000hosting.com or http://www.cixx6.com for prototyping changes they both have fairly easy WP installation which might enable you to set up a duplicate/development site (minus members and using their provided domain) to see how installing Buddypress will affect your theme without affecting your production site.
Just a thought.

@mark2741

You could try the BuddyPress Activity Plus plugin (has 32,963 downloads and 5 * rating from 35 votes)
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-activity-plus/

I’d be interested to hear if the plugin works well. The ability to add media to the standard activity feed would suit my site too.

It may sound brutal but you really should be updating WordPress whether you are using BuddyPress or not. If your theme is limiting you then I’m afraid you do have to consider an alternative or update to it. Upgrades when done right shouldn’t effect your blog posts – it all depends though how far you’ve gotten behind though as to this task (and it won’t get less leaving it).

In saying this I do understand sometimes restrictions and issues happen that mean upgrading isn’t easy or as frequent. I usually find though that the issues in doing are out weighed by the benefits.

I really like the strong header and footer you’ve used there with the block format. I would maybe suggest you increase the width of the grid articles so they fill up the space a little. But, really cool use of BuddyPress love the idea of behind the scenes of media.