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Just install WP and use the standard WP theme , ensure WP works before adding any plugins or themes, when WP works correctly then you can progress to BP using default bp theme and test that that works.

If you want to add code not just CSS you probably want to use an action like here: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/action-reference/groups/

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API is a great ‘getting started guide’ on using those.

It kind of depends where you want to share it but there are a few suggestions here: https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/?search=share

and you are trying registering on the plain vanilla WP install, which suggests something is not quite correct but hard to say where or what. you have installed via ftp upload or unzipped WP files it’s a not a one click install type thing as those are fairly notorious for causing issues. Can you do normal WP type activity i.e create pages and posts, does the site other than registering perform correctly. When you say can’t register what actually happens in the attempt to.

And have you set ‘Anyone can register’ to yes?

@websitevala, try Dynamic Widgets. This plugin already supports BuddyPress.

> This is for a client so I need this sorted today, if possible.

Please bear in mind that this is a volunteer support forum not a service

Based on the info you have supplied it’s going to be pretty hard to help. Is WP installed correctly? can you register a user under WP (forget BP for the moment and I see you say you can log in so that answers that question WP is installed) if you can and your DB does actually correctly function then activate BP – if you have installed it via some auto install avoid that and upload a fresh copy via ftp or similar.

`“For the record you don’t re-name the BP files you just ensure they are copied over ”
– well the walkthroughs/codex/instructions suggest you copy the sidebar/header/footer and rename as sidebar-buddypress.php etc so i was just following that. `

My bad yes BP added ‘buddypress’ into the get_*() calls to allow child themes to call distinct header,footer,sidebar named files for the purposes of combining BP templates into existing themes.

This process of converting BP to be used in a third party theme is a choice though, yes there is a level of difficulty and you will require some basic – very basic – coding skills if you have decided to go this route and those will need to be learnt. It is never expected that an absolute novice could cope with this process, the novice needs to rise above that baseline.

mercime will guide you through the process though, but do understand that you choose to go down a customised route so need to to have a somewhat extended skill set now.

There are two ways to make theme compatible with BP template pack – change 16 files (works in all WP themes) OR add foo-buddypress.php files (possible in some themes) – and it will depend on div#container location and other factors.

What theme are you using? I can take a look. Open up header.php, copy all, paste in http://www.pastebin.com, click submit, and post the generated URI here. Do the same for index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php PLUS loop.php or better yet, loop-page.php if you it.

>>I’m using Membership with Buddypress

Membership plugin?

>>and the name won’t display in the user profile even though we are taking that information when they sign up.

What name? Username or display name? If you deactivate Membership plugin, does that resolve the issue?

Deactivate plugins except BuddyPress and BP Template Pack plugin (if you’re using it). Default WP/BP install privacy does not cause that behavior.

@famous you’re welcome. Marking this as resolved.

Not sure if it still works as intended as it is about two years old but you might want to have a look at this plugin. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/

Hi, just took a look at your site and my first thought would be to try deactivating some plugins – I see quite a few javascript errors going on and it may be one of those is not playing nicely with your posting or something is misfiring. It’s kind of the first port of call but one I think may at least rule out some things to look into this further.

I’d also suggest you check your permlinks are saved (or resave just to be sure) and your BuddyPress pages all linked up under settings – did you do that as part of the configuration?

Hmm not sure ‘out of the box’ BuddyPress can do this you may want to look at one of the membership plugin options out there. Most of those are paid though but perhaps a good start would be to look at a few of those. Alternatively someone else may have an idea of how that can be achieved without a plugin.