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I’ll clarify when I say “upgrade BuddyPress”, I mean update the files and reactivate the plugin, then visit the plugins page in wp-admin. Then before the next step, deactivate BuddyPress. You won’t need to toggle between the BP Default theme during this.

Backup everything — entire web root folders and the SQL database. Check the backups work. It never hurts to keep a backup of the backup somewhere, perhaps on another computer. The idea being is that if you have to delete everything and start out from scratch, you know you’ll be able to get back to where you are now.

You will have to re-build your theme, as the BuddyPress theme structure changed since the version you are using. You’ll probably be able to keep your WordPress theme, but you’ll essentially have to build a new BuddyPress theme, or be happy with using the (new) default BuddyPress theme. You can check out the default theme on http://testbp.org/.
I would suggest you get your theme sorted out before you upgrade.

It’d be massively easier starting from scratch with a new BuddyPress installation, but I’m assuming you can’t do that. The upgrade process from this old versions will be complex. Definitely do it in steps, don’t jump to the latest version.

0) Disable BuddyPress and all other plugins. Revert to standard WP theme. Get WPMU upgraded to 2.9.2.
1) Get BuddyPress updated to 1.1.3.
2) Get new theme ready (or use BP-Default) and then upgrade to BuddyPress 1.2.4
3) Upgrade WPMU to WP 3.1.1 (latest version)
4) Upgrade BP to 1.2.8 (latest version)

You’ll need to test this upgrade process / order of events before you have a go on your live site. Set up a local test site, or on a test server, and try this there. I haven’t done any upgrades like this (keeping the data from an old version), but good luck

Am attempting to implement some of the ideas from this forum, particularly those from the post https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-spam/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-69499
Would really appreciate some guidance in order to do this correctly. Some of this may appear stupid –

My Set up is the following-BuddyPress installation on a subsite.

a) Multisite with subdirectories http://examplesite.com/ – http://examplesite.com/subsite1 – http://examplesite.com/subsite2 – http://examplesite.com/subsite3 etc etc.
b)BuddyPress installed on a subdirectory. say on http://examplesite.com/subsite3
c) So that there is a consistent signup interface I have redirected the signup of http://examplesite.com/ from http://examplesite.com/wp-signup.php to http://examplesite.com/subsite3/register via a plugin Quick Page/Post Redirect. Before doing this the signups at http://examplesite.com/ were going to http://examplesite.com/wp-signup.php and from anywhere else were going to http://examplesite.com/subsite3/register.

Question 1
With regard to
1)# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
2)RewriteEngine On
3)RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
4)RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*
5)RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.examplesite.com. [OR]
6)RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
7)RewriteRule (.*) http://examplesite.com/goaway.html [R=301,L]

A) In line 4 what do I replace .wp-signup.php* with ? Is it .register.php* ? or is it .subsite3/register.php ?? or is it something else ???
In line 5 do i replace !.examplesite.com. with anything ? say !.examplesite.com/subsite3. ???

Question 2
With regard to “changing the register slug”
A) does this mean changing the name of the file register.php ??? or something else ??? and inserting define( “BP_REGISTER_SLUG”, “your-registration-slug” ); with the new name replacing “your-registration-slug” say retsiger.php or with some other name?
Would it then be necessary to go into the plugins like say Buddypress Humanity and change any references to register.php to whatever its name has been changed to or is that taken care of by the define( statement )) ??

Question 3
If the site was http://www.examplesite.com/ instead of http://examplesite.com/ would there be any changes to your advice ?

Question 4
In my .htaccess file there is already a line “RewriteEngine On” . Do I still include line 2 of the above?

Question 5
Is there any particular place in the .htaccess file where the above code should be inserted ?

Many Thanks

BuddyPress Codex

Yes. Any WordPress plugins that extends the user authentication should work just fine with BuddyPress

== thumbnails of next and previous images ==

@famous next and previous thumbnail images are shown by template tags –
and

One quick solution for an image.php file:
– copy bp-default theme’s index.php and save to your child theme folder
– open up index.php and replace the following lines:

Replace

<div class="entry">

</div>

With

<div class="entry">
ID, 'large' ); ?>

</div>

Replace

<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"></div>
<div class="alignright"></div>
</div>

With

<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"></div>
<div class="alignright"></div>
</div>

Replace
<h2 class="posttitle"><a href=&quot;" rel="bookmark" title=" "></a></h2>
With
<h2 class="posttitle"><a href=&quot;post_parent); ?>" rel="attachment">post_parent); ?> </a></h2>

You can also check out twentyten’s loop-attachment.php to see how image attachments are rendered along with other forms of attachment https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.1.1/wp-content/themes/twentyten/loop-attachment.php

@hnla lol dude sorry im a fool. ‘*space*odd’

Working great >.<

This is exactly what I want to try and do. Mingle I think has outlived it’s purpose at http://ecigusers.com and I’m trying to migrate to buddypress but I have around 29 users and a steadily growing forum built in using mingle forum, Both Mingle and Buddypress can be activated at the same time I have found but the menu system thats semi-transparent on the header is a knighmare to navigate. If I re-activate buddypress could someone take a quick look at the site and make suggestions as to what I can do.

It’s a feature that went trough a name change or two, the option is on your create or edit Post view named as ‘Featured Image’ other than that what do you mean ‘is not showing up’

I’m testing this very thing I have 29 users on ecigusers.com both plugins have very different features that attract me to them. I also have a plugin called mingle forum which seems to work even with buddypress activated but the menu system is all over the shop. Is there an extention that anyone knows of that can add a custom menu to buddypress??

You are going to need to supply a little more detail on the events as there is too little to formulate much of an opinion on what is happening.

Simply deactivating BP should not produce a server error- what server error? they are generally given error codes to narrow down what issue the server is happening. What do your server logs say? these are the first port of call when encountering issues with servers as they will provide detail as to what was happening or instruction attempted to complete but failed for whatever reason.

I increased the memory to 64mb and that did solve the problem of running out of memory. There are a vast number of notices that show up in debug mode but I’ll post a new thread about them.

Also I’m running PHP 5.2, not 5.3

This is 1.2.8, but your link says it was fixed in 1.2.6. Maybe there was a regression? I agree about fixing this first.

Cool! Kudos @gunju2221

What BP version are you on? That issue has been fixed https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2759 to address deprecated notice if you’re on PHP 5.3+

== It shouldn’t need 33MB of RAM just to activate the plugin. ==
It depends on server configurations ultimately. I set up a BP install for a friend on a shared hosting plan with 32MB and it’s running well with a private community of 250+ members. Resolve the deprecated notices issues first and see if you still need to increase memory limit.

I am having the same problem, but are you sure this isn’t a bug in the plugin? It shouldn’t need 33MB of RAM just to activate the plugin. I got the same error trying to activate Buddypress 1.2.8 on a fresh install of WordPress 3.1.1 on a high-quality host. There are a huge number of warnings that come before the memory error. Here’s the full output with debug on (I cut out another ~50 warnings on call-time pass-by-reference).

`Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of apply_filters(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 565

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-classes.php on line 228

[many more errors on call-time pass-by-reference…]

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of apply_filters(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-friends.php on line 433

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php on line 85

Notice: is_page was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. (This message was added in version 3.1.) in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3422

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php on line 158

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$loggedin_user in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums.php on line 530

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums.php on line 530

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$displayed_user in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 1070

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 1070

Notice: Undefined index: user-avatar-default in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 160

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$profile in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-classes.php on line 816

Notice: Undefined index: bp-xprofile-base-group-name in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile.php on line 101

Notice: Undefined index: bp-xprofile-fullname-field-name in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile.php on line 102
WordPress database error: [Table ‘z_mysitewp.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT value FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE field_id = 1 AND user_id = 1

WordPress database error: [Table ‘z_mysitewp.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE id = 1

WordPress database error: [Table ‘z_mysitewp.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE id = 1

Notice: Undefined index: bb-config-location in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums.php on line 23

Notice: Undefined index: bp-xprofile-base-group-name in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile.php on line 101

Notice: Constant BP_XPROFILE_BASE_GROUP_NAME already defined in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile.php on line 101

Notice: Undefined index: bp-xprofile-fullname-field-name in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile.php on line 102

Notice: Constant BP_XPROFILE_FULLNAME_FIELD_NAME already defined in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile.php on line 102

Notice: Undefined index: fileupload_maxk in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 35
WordPress database error: [Table ‘z_mysitewp.wp_bp_groups_members’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT m.group_id) FROM wp_bp_groups_members m, wp_bp_groups g WHERE m.group_id = g.id AND m.user_id = 1 AND m.is_confirmed = 1 AND m.is_banned = 0

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$current_group in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups.php on line 223

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups.php on line 223
WordPress database error: [Table ‘z_mysitewp.wp_bp_messages_recipients’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT unread_count FROM wp_bp_messages_recipients WHERE user_id = 1 AND is_deleted = 0 AND sender_only = 0

Notice: Undefined variable: count_indicator in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php on line 115

Notice: Undefined index: action in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php on line 571

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /sites/www.mysite.org/web/content/wp-admin/includes/media.php on line 1963`

If you want your members to create groups at will, then you could place it in member header area.

This is how to do it If you had created a child theme of bp-default theme and you want to place the create group button where it can be seen right away, you could copy this file https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/member-header.php from the bp-default theme into your child theme’s folder following the directory structure
i.e. wp-content/themes/yourchildtheme/members/single/member-header.php . Then you can insert the code as one of item buttons; and you should check if the Groups component was activated in your install first by adding conditional: if ( bp_is_active( ‘groups’ ) )

== after the Add Friend, Mention this user buttons ==
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