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@rogercoathup no I didn’t change the slug or the default text. I’m not a developer and wasn’t 100% sure how to change the slug. I looked at the wp-config.php but it looks a lot different than Andy’s example on BP org I read. Would I change it under wp-config still? Andy’s posting is from 09. I will go ahead and change the default text. I’ll do anything to keep those bot ******* away. lol. So far Ive been good with the two plugins even though it looks like overkill to my visitors.
Side note. I’m having a problem with viewing status on my activity feed. When someone joins the site or posts a notification and I go to click on view next to the notification, the page it takes my to has issues with the theme. I assume it has to do with my themes template file?. here’s the snipit of code View Any thoughts on how to fix it? Thanks.

When BuddyPress is updated, changes are often made to bp-default, either to fix bugs, make styling tweaks, or support new features. If you are not inheriting the version of bp-default that is bundled with BuddyPress (in other words, if you copy the entire theme into wp-content/themes and use that instead), then you either won’t get these updates, or you’ll have to manually apply them.

Using a child theme is great in this way. If you use a child theme, you are only supplying the files that you plan on changing, while the rest of the necessary template files are automatically inherited from the parent (in this case, bp-default). This is an especially good idea if you’re only going to make small, CSS-ish changes to bp-default.

You need to make sure “Anyone Can Register” is checked off under Membership in the General WordPress Settings

Ah yes, as @djpaul points out – making sure the permalinks work in the base install sans BuddyPress is important. @djpaul – are there any other ‘easter eggs’ lurking under the skin?

@mark211 – did you change the register slug in BuddyPress as well? Also, changing the default text that appears on the register page?

@intimez – I think there should only be one register.php, in your theme’s (or the defaults if inheriting) register folder

FYI, I deleted the register.php file in bbpress last night and I had another 7 spam accounts in the morning so that didn’t work for me. I then installed humanity this morning and I’m using it with the si captcha plugin and the two combined seem to be ok so far. I’ll keep you guys posted.

@lordsnake – At the risk of sounding patronising: –

1. are you sure it’s the single.php template that is being used to render your page? Give it a little tweak in the bp-default theme (you can change it back afterwards) and let us know if it’s being picked up.

2. are you sure your new single.php (child theme) has been published to your server?

3. what happens if you try to override your index.php, does that get picked up?

Failing that: post your folder structure, header from your style.css, and your single.php file for us to check.

Oh, and which version of WP and BP

@lordsnake it might be same glitch that happened to me once using FF even after clearing cache, I opened up Chrome, safari and IE where I saw my revisions. Looking into it further, I decided to uninstall WP Super Cache, and my FF showed the revisions as well. Installed WP Super Cache back and it has not happened again since.

Or, it might be the new code you added is not rendering as you expected – but if you’re not seeing the surrounding divs that you might might have added in source like you say, then it could just be a browser thing.

@rossagrant glad it works for you now, my pleasure.

@r-a-y – yes, it was There’s a bit of follow up on my profile about it. I’m worried about the effect it has on the OP.

Everything’s enabled, including page caching which I would personally not recommend because a lot of BuddyPress pages need to be dynamic. The workaround for this employed on testbp is for a very short page expiration cache (5 minutes, IIRC).

You install the buddypress plugin from with in wordpress admin as buddypress needs wordpress 3.0 to work and add other buddypress plugins the same way.

In what situations do you need to remove ‘ characters? They should be safe throughout BuddyPress, otherwise it’s a bug.

Ah hah, nicework @tryggvib! Depending on how (well-) written the WordPress plugin is, sometimes you can get conflicts when things load in areas of BuddyPress where they don’t need to, and conflicts happen. I run into this quite often with plugins that load Javascript.

BuddyPress categories and tags? Are you referring to a feature provided by a plugin or are you referring to the categories and tags that come with regular WordPress?

The admin says “cheatin, uh?”, I believe, when you try to submit a form or follow a link with a nonce belonging to another user.

@Boniu Make sure you have a fully working multisite before you install BuddyPress. i.e. permalinks, comments, and so on. To try to resurrect your site, remove the /plugins/ folder then visit /wp-admin/ again.

Yup. As per https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

Assuming the ID of the site running BuddyPress is “2”, put this in your wp-config.php near the other configuration settings:

define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 2 );

Try the code in this thread to make the forums tab the default group tab:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults#post-55449

Removing the group home tab will probably need some additional code.
Or you can use some CSS to hide it.

So other two register.php not be deleted? Want to make sure.

everyone wants a plugin to solve this. Remove that register.php in the bbPress folder… go on, trust me, it really helps!