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This is a heavily customised theme. Generally the support forum here helps with matters related to the running of BuddyPress and the BuddyPress default theme.

Although it almost certainly an issue with the themes styling to determine that absolutely one should drop back to the BP default theme to check if the issue still persists.

Fixing styling issues with third party themes is slightly beyond the remit of this forum but someone may take a look for you and offer some suggestions (presently I am without the two aforementioned afflicted browsers)

I don’t know of anything like that. You’d probably have to investigate if there is a bbPress plugin you could use. You’d have to use an external install of bbPress for BuddyPress for this (not as trivial to integrate as the default forum installation is).

Er. I would certainly have stepped it through into 1.2 first, then the latest version. I don’t know if you can go from 1.1 to 1.2.8 in one go.

Which admin bar? WordPress’ or BuddyPress’, or?

== Buddypress was not there nor was the section to configure it. ==

The Super/Network Admin has a separate new panel in WP 3.1. Click on Network Admin link in upper right hand corner and you’ll find the BuddyPress button in admin menu.

== OK but the site was totaly broken ==

Deactivate all plugins and change theme to default WP theme. Know that many BP plugins and themes from way back 1.1.2 are not compatible with current WP/BP versions.

== Do I need to upgrade a number of times ==

Nope. Just upload BP 1.2.8 and WP 3.1 manually i.e. via FTP or cpanel, etc. Access wp-admin, then go through the upgrade process. Btw, curious why not start from scratch?

=== syntax error …. on line 1 ==

open up your bp-custom.php file and make sure at the top that there’s an opening
`<?php`
without any space or line before that.

At the bottom, make sure that you have a closing
`?>`

Did anyone resolve this? I have BuddyPress 1.2.8 installed on WordPress 3.1 (not multisite). I am using the default theme. I have not installed any other plugins. Seems I’m in the same situation as munman. mod_rewrite is enabled.

From your wp-admin, go to general settings of buddypress….

@nexia

If all you want to do is replace the bp-adminbar with the new WP version, simply add this to your functions.php file:

`remove_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’, 8 );
remove_action( ‘admin_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’);
show_admin_bar(true);`

How to make a link of Author’s blog posted? Example John James Jacoby’s member:

Activity | Followers (158) | Following (24) | Groups (18) | Author (11)

Thanks, Mikey3D

Hi,

Thanks, your instructions seem simple enough but i get the following msg after uploading a file called bp-custom.php to the buddypress plugin folder exactly as you said:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /srv/samenm3/www/www.samenmetkok.nl/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 1

What does that mean?

Thank you!!

@steliodj

See this codex page:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/functions/core/bp_core_new_nav_item/

These automated bots are usually just that, automated that are programmed to look for specific strings in search engines that return a list of buddypress sites and then harvested. I was getting hammered with 20+ blogs getting created a day that was spam. I tried ever plugin and .htaccess tricks known to man and none of them worked. I was tired of all of the spam I was getting so I put on my tin foil and went to war. I was determined to win this war and to stop 99.9% of automated spam dead in its tracks.
First I went to cpanel and under the “Website Traffic” on the left side of the page and clicked “View all traffic” then clicked on my domain name.

When the statistics page for that domain loaded I looked on the left hand side of the page for “Search Keyphrases”, this will show me a list of the keyphrases that was used to find my site.

I found all the keyphrases that was used by the spammers to find my site in the search engines and here is the list of the keyphrases.

1. intext create an account username required email address required blog details inurl register
2. to start connecting please log in first. you can also create an account. .cr. blogs
3. allintext create an account account details profile details blog details yes i d like to create a new blog
4. yes i d like to create a new blog
5. “blog url required ” inurl /register
6. “yes i’d like to create a new blog”
7. intext create an account blog details inurl register
8. to start connecting please log in first. you can also create an account. .be.blogs
9. inurl register yes i d like to create a new blog
10. intext blogs create an account username email address blog details inurl register
11. to start connecting please log in first. you can also create an account. .de.

What I did was I went downloaded the buddypress to my desktop and open every file with NotePad++ and started searching for “create an account; blog details; yes i d like to create a new blog” Once I found those strings, I changed the name to something else and on the registration page I removed the “yes i/d like to create a new blog” along with its checkbox completely and i searched everything with the word “blog” and changed it to something completely different. I Also renamed the “bp-blog.php” and the /bp-blog/ folder.
Make sure to search through the other files in the buddypress folder for anything calling the “bp-blog.php” and the /bp-blogs/ and rename it accordingly.

It has been a week since I done this and I have yet to be spammed. I went from 20 a day to zero overnight by doing this.

I do not understand why people have these problems. BuddyPress has similar features as Facebook and Twitter and both those services have millions of users.

You said:
1 The concept of Forums being tied to Groups (no one “gets” this)
2 The serious disconnect between commenting on a blog post or forum topic in the feed vs. in the original
3 @mentions (99% of users are like… WTH is that?)

1 Groups in BuddyPress are like Facebook fan pages and yes Facebook fan pages have forums.
2 You can turn it off in the admin and force users to comment on the original post and not activity
3 @mentions are the basis of Twitter with millions of users who have no difficulty using the service. Also Facebook uses @mentions when you post status updates. You type @ then there name and they get notified about the message.

One last thing, BuddyPress is not really an out-of-the-box software. You should figure out what functions you want for your users and then use those. Having everything can be too much.

Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and change theme to bp-default theme. Activate other plugins one by one and then your custom theme which I believe needs to be updated.

Furthermore: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Not without changing BuddyPress core code in a couple of places.

As you don’t mention BuddyPress, and that this problem seems to be limited to WP e-Commerce, you’ll need to talk to Instinct to understand if it’s a WP e-Commerce PayPal library problem or something with PayPal itself.

http://getshopped.org/forums/

You are correct there are dozens of threads out there and most of them are from when I put my buddypress site on hold (ver. 103 late 2009- 20010) because i could not control splogs. I tried all the suggestions from the posts but still had sploggers working around everything. I am researching the environment now to get the site up and running and it does not seem to have changed much. It has been the #1 thorn-in-the-side of Buddypress and still appears to be so. I have spent hours on this and would appreciate an answer, also.