It’s some problems we have been having at buddypress.org, it’s happened to me as well. I think JJJ is upgrading some things on the site.
Working.
@Virtuali – Thanks man – worked great. I did wonder why the default was to make the Avatar so large when replying – you addition worked great.
@pcwriter – I appreciate you taking the time to respond – Thank you
That’s not the issue he is having. It’s with the avatar and the textarea is colliding.
Find this line in your `wp-content/themes/fishbook-buddypress-buddypack/style.css`
`div.ac-reply-avatar img {
border: 2px solid #FFFFFF !important;`
Add this to the bottom:
`width: 33px;
height: 33px;
}`
@Scotty501
The problem doesn’t look like it’s the image; rather, there doesn’t seem to be a large enough margin to the left of the comment div. Look for the following in your theme’s style.css file:
`div.activity-comments form div.ac-reply-content`
Add this and adjust to taste:
`margin-left:50px;`
To add to the activity stream you call
`
bp_activity_add(array(
‘action’ => ‘I did something awesome’,
‘content’ => ‘more content heret’,
‘component’ => ‘your component’,
‘type’ => ‘activity_thing’
));`
If you are calling this from a plug-in, the function that contains this call needs to be hooked into bp_init
Here is a full description of your options from bp-activity.php
`
$defaults = array(
‘id’ => false, // Pass an existing activity ID to update an existing entry.
‘action’ => ”, // The activity action – e.g. “Jon Doe posted an update”
‘content’ => ”, // Optional: The content of the activity item e.g. “BuddyPress is awesome guys!”
‘component’ => false, // The name/ID of the component e.g. groups, profile, mycomponent
‘type’ => false, // The activity type e.g. activity_update, profile_updated
‘primary_link’ => ”, // Optional: The primary URL for this item in RSS feeds (defaults to activity permalink)
‘user_id’ => $bp->loggedin_user->id, // Optional: The user to record the activity for, can be false if this activity is not for a user.
‘item_id’ => false, // Optional: The ID of the specific item being recorded, e.g. a blog_id
‘secondary_item_id’ => false, // Optional: A second ID used to further filter e.g. a comment_id
‘recorded_time’ => bp_core_current_time(), // The GMT time that this activity was recorded
‘hide_sitewide’ => false // Should this be hidden on the sitewide activity stream?
);`
Matt,
Yes and No. I have two sites using the Q&A plugin from WPMU Dev. This plugin works great except buddypress integration is not present. If I recall correctly, the dev wrote interest in adding integration (sorry, I cannot find that link). The plugin is quite good.
Another approach is to use a Q&A theme and the BP template pack. I did this prior to switching to the plugin. In this case the integration was fine because the WP posts went to the activity stream.
Hope this helps.
Hi, I run RiotCart 
Just wanted to pop in and say that I’m no longer using the BP groups component for anything but a private group/forum for my vendors. If you’d like to see the working parts of the site (which is in the midst of an overhaul, so be kind), you can do so here: http://www.riotcart.com
I personally think that WordPress is a great platform for running an online shop, and have set up many standalone ecommerce sites for individual crafters using it in conjunction with my personal favorite shopping cart plugin, eShop. This is actually what led to the idea for RiotCart, which is more of a venue for crafters to set up a shop/site in the RC network, rather than a shop in itself. The only thing that RC sells is the monthly shop hosting terms. We use Buddypress more for the shoppers themselves, as it gave me a starting point from which I’ve implimented a p2p feedback system, a “wishlist” feature, and more. I’ve tried offering members the BP groups several different times, and the concept never seems to take off.
@Boone I am using the BP templates as installed in my theme by the new Template Pack. I haven’t amended them.
All I have done is
1. install BP,
2. install template pack,
3. run through BP compatability
4. Create a group
5. as another user, go to mydomain/groups
Where I would expect to see a link to ‘Join Group’ I get nothing.
This is a fresh install of WP 3.1.3 using twentyten with BP 1.2.8 and template Pack 1.1.1 as the only active plugins. Groups are enabled and the group is Public.
It was only a question, because Google Webmaster Tools tell me I must give the bot only the primary link, and only one, instead of 2. I would be kind with bots, but I don’t want to create a miss in my site. It’s not a trouble in BuddyPress, and a ticket wouldn’t be not justified. Thank’s for your help !
@stwc
`As r-a-y suggests, in my experience at least, that kind of error is almost always malformed PHP files — trailing spaces, unclosed brackets, stuff like that. If you’ve pasted functions into your functions.php or bp-custom.php, look there first, then any other template files you’ve edited.`
There was no error in my functions.php, bp-custom.php and template files. The warning error, above in my first posted, was possible from the core bp-default /registration/activate.php.
First of all, please keep the bp-default theme where you found it – in buddypress/bp-themes folder, delete the bp-default theme you uploaded to wp-content/themes folder. If you want to use the theme, you should create a child theme instead https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
== I could not update the categories in my own blog, nor access the posts through my dashboard ==
BuddyPress doesn’t cause this strange behavior, but other plugins could have done so. Deactivate all other plugins except BuddyPress
@r-a-y
“Is that a general recommendation? 
”
– No! However I have only been using your two codes that works but after awhile when I found the bugs it’s causing of your codes.
1. Duplicate Content: Slash and No Slash at the End of URL
2. The page isn’t redirecting properly
“I did say it was test code. Looks like you have whitespace issues in your /registration/activate.php. Delete any trailing whitespace from the beginning of that file.”
I did put back the function bp_core_redirect_canonical in functions.php and deleted redirect trailing slash in .htaccess before process your above posted. It is the same problem I had it before except no warning error show up, only missed a key link in the domain link.
I haven’t touch activate.php in bp-default therefore when I looked for trailing space, it looks like this:
`
`
If that is what you were talking about I deleted the whole line 1 and I tested it again and result I get when click the activation link in email:
http://www.domain.com/blog/activate/
`Activate your Account
Please provide a valid activation key.
Activation Key:`
There is no key link in the domain. e.g.
http://www.domain.com/blog/activate?key=afd7528c3b5664d429f94a2ed59a4c32
The line 1 in activate.php said “This template is only used on multisite installations.” I have single WordPress. Does it matter? All those error the user still able get in after clicked the activation link in the email. Huh?
Is there a fix? What is the solution for Single WP after user completed sign-up?
“Your htaccess rewrite rules look like it will interfere with querystring variables.
eg. example.com/my-page/?variable=my-test”
Ha, thanks for noticed.
Interesting. I’m with Fasthosts and while they’re fine for most everything what you get is what you get, so I can’t change the memory allocation.
I’m actually thinking of switching to Media Temple – anyone know if Buddypress works on their Grid-Service?
Yeah, I’ve had problems – see details of memory usage here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/rss-error-in-dashboard#post-88690
If you are on 1and1, then their newer packages may have more memory available….
@psivait What @andrea_r is talking about robots.txt and rel=“nofollow” to noindex the link?
robots.txt
`User-agent: *
Disallow: /register/`
rel=“nofollow”
In your child theme: sidebar.php
`<?php printf( __( ' You can also create an account.’, ‘buddypress’ ), site_url( BP_REGISTER_SLUG . ‘/’ ) ) ?>`
I’ve just done a new clean install of everything (WP, DB, Buddypress) and the same thing has happened again.
I thought it might be because I’d not changed my permalink setting to anything other than the default, but clearly not. I guess it’s this memory issue which is strange because it’s never been a problem with other plugins/scripts that I’ve used before. Is there any reason why Buddypress is so ‘greedy’ with memory?
all i want is if my user entered a wrong password they should not redirected to wordpress log-in page @mercime
The Template Pack does, essentially, three things:
1) Moves BP-specific templates into your child theme
2) Enqueues bp-default’s JS
3) Enqueues a stripped-down version of bp-default’s CSS, to handle structural stuff
As @r-a-y says, you probably don’t want to replace your customized templates. Instead, you’ll have to merge in any custom functionality that you think you’re missing from later versions of bp-default.
Here’s one of the error messages (I’ve removed IP addresses and paths):
[Fri Jun 03 12:41:34 2011] [error] [client …] FastCGI: server “/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi” stderr: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /[…]/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php on line 1474
It looks like Buddypress is trying to use more than 32MB, which is the amount allocated to my server. I’m not sure if I can change this as it’s a shared host? Is there any way around this?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ is the place for bug reports; we might miss them here.
I went over user name issues like this, and I believe it should be fixed in our upcoming 1.3 release. Would you report this as a bug please and then we can test it in the dev version, to confirm if it’s still an issue or if it’s fixed? Thanks.
Look in your web server’s error log; what messages do you get?
Thanks a lot for all of you for taking your precious time here! I sincerely appreciate your suggestions.
@Andrea_r could you please help me on your point? How to put a noindex on my buddypress registration link? By doing so, will it affect SEO of my website?
@Pisanojm I’m also looking for an access-role other Administrators who can moderate the website by marking as spam, deleting irrelevant users etc. If any wordpress consultant guides us, would be grateful..!!
Thanks for the suggestions. I’m still at a loss.
The only plugins I have activated are:
login logo
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Template Pack
I also have htaccess set to 744.
But still their is no redirect when registering.
http://builtbykids.com/beta/register
Any other ideas?
Thanks
I’d love someone to help with a quick review and fixes for accessibility issues for BP-Default 1.3. There is unlikely to be time to do a 100% full sweep, but every little improvement helps. I’ve made some initial tickets:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3263
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3264
If anyone uses an assistive device for interacting with websites, or has specific knowledge testing in these areas, any general feedback would be appreciated; you can check out http://testbp.org/
Primarily because it makes the URL match that of the component that generated the activity. If you think search engines have issues with 302 redirects, I would be very surprised, but if you can provide some evidence and make a ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/, we can see if there’s anything that we can do.
