Hello,
I am very new to BP. I am currently using BP 1.5 and wordpress 3.2.1.
I have a hosted site running UNIX with Php 5.1.56.
I am testing the site and I wanted to create a test user and see how a new person would interact with the site. I tried to create the user and it once i click complete signup, it takes me back to the main page.
I browsed around buddypress and google and tried making sure the username is in all lowercase, I sent a test email to ensure the activation email wasn’t being sent, and I also checked User in WP-Admin and no new user was created. Also I installed Mail log to see if it had an error sending the email, but Mail log doesn’t even pickup an attempt to send the email. After i sent a test email, mail log picked up that attempt so I know BP isn’t sending the email to create the user.
The plugins I’m using are: BuddyPress, BBPress, Custom permalinks, Events Manager Extneded, and the mail plugins mentioned above.
Also I am using the default Buddypress theme that came with the plugin (I wanted to test the functionality before i started trying to make the theme I actually wanted to use BP compatible)
I have no seen anyone with this issue and any suggestions will be a great help.
Thank you
> ALL Full Names were suddenly replaced by the username field data, seemingly deleting full name data
What’s your evidence for that? It would be *very* surprising if it were true. Probably the correct diagnosis is that some logic was causing the username to be displayed instead of the display name.
Do you have the Extended Profiles component enabled?
I’m not sure that my problem is exactly the same as Juan’s, but obviously it’s very similar.
I upgraded an existing Buddypress 1.2.10 installation to 1.5. Upon doing so, ALL Full Names were suddenly replaced by the username field data, seemingly deleting full name data. Rather than deal with this problem, and a variety of broken plugins, I decided to disable all plugins and delete 1.5 and reinstall the previous version to see if I could avoid a total recovery from a back up.
After reinstalling 1.2.10, Full Names were only partially restored. I’m not sure exactly why some Full Names were not restored. Here is an example of the problem – http://www.arhistoryhub.com/members/knash/. Pretty bizarre. At no point did I receive an error or anything indication the 1.5 upgrade wizard did not complete successfully.
I’ll probably work on upgrading to 1.5 again over the next week or two, I’ll come back to this thread and update whether this same problem reoccurs.
Thank you so much for your help 
an idea for the insanely productive @boonebgorges, or any others up to the task.
When trying to integrate buddypress into any other theme, the page wrapper divs ‘content’ and ‘padder’ invariably conflict and much editing is necessary to figure it out. This is true even for default wordpress themes like twenty ten and twenty eleven (whose wrapper divs are primary and content; and container and main). An easy backwards compatible solution would be to echo out the bp-default divs using php rather than hard code them. the defaults would be BP defaults, however buddypress or the BP Template Pack plugin could intelligently guess the correct divs for the most popular themes. And for all other themes, you could simply enter the div names your theme uses. WIth this small change BuddyPress could be made to work much more seamlessly with a large number of themes out of the box.
I can’t reproduce it on my installations. The changeset that you point to as having fixed the issue has not been rolled back, so there’s no obvious reason why it should have stopped working.
Just to be clear:
– I changed the name of profile field #1 to something other than ‘Name’
– I went to Edit Profile on the front end, made a change to the field, and saved
– Everything saved correctly. I got no errors, and the name is properly saved.
Im using a plugin called “buddypress widget pack” that lets me show the newest members in a widget. I want to add an option to each avatar in that widget that gives a user the option to add them as a friend. How do I do that?
PS: my profile fields are changed to spanish names/labels. ie: “Full name” is “Nombre Completo” and so on… thanks
@boonegorges yes, please forgive me. I’m using BP 1.5 (the “definitive” version) and the last version of WordPress. Here’s the thing:
After editing the profile fields of a user and hitting the “save” button, an error shows telling that there was an error while saving the changes and if the fullname of the user was changed, it shows the username insted of the previous one.
(i.e: I set my fullname to “Boone Gorges” and hit “save”. Then the fullname field shows the value of “boongorges”).
Now checking my Database I see in “wp_users” -> boongorges I see that this fields and values… (among others):
|| user_login || boongorges
|| user_nicename || boongorges
|| user_url || (empty)
|| display_name || (empty)
This was fixed on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4939 but that worked on BP 1.5 beta 2 but now with the release of “Lombardi” it got back to the same problem.
Thanks for your help, very much
You need to change every file that is listed on the step 3 page.
@mercime
thanks for all of your help. I will do what you suggest here. I did know about the list that you provided:
https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-plugin-compatibility/
My question is how current is this list as I know that BP-moderation has been update as per the Group here on bp.
Thanks Again.
Can somebody sum up the problem in a sentence or two? I’m confused by this thread.
@boonebgorges Is there any known fix for this or some page were we could search for a solution? thx!
I don’t know how to make this work on Windows. It’s not really a BuddyPress problem – I’m guessing that a normal WP installation won’t work either, if you turn on pretty permalinks. Have a look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite
Hello,
I’m kind of confused about the WordPress pages concept with Buddypress 1.5. If we have to install the BP Compatibility plugin to edit the template files for our theme then why do we need these pages?
Can anyone confirm if Buddypress is going to use a shortcode for this in the future? Take the jigoshop plugin for instance, once installed it lets you display content with shortcodes where creating pages makes sense, etc etc.
This would be a big help and would make it easier on theme designers so they don’t have to keep updating the buddypress templates, /activity/, /members/, etc etc.
It says that i only need to change “pages.php” take a look here: http://pastebin.com/fUwwGwak
can you help?
The Header and footer and sidebar and content area are usually in every WordPress template. You need to edit the BuddyPress files added to your theme to match the structure of your theme.
Sometimes the content area is called container or wrapper or something else. You need to match the containing div around the content to the BP files.
In step 3 it shows you a diagram of div markup. If you have never edited code you may need to hire someone to do this. On complex themes it can be a challenge.
== I assume that this means that I am having a plugin problem? ==
Yes it does.
== now what do i need to do? ==
– Since you’ve been able to access your wp-admin, you can now rename wp-content/plugins-x to wp-content/plugins
– Activate BuddyPress
– Use bp-default theme in the meantime
– Do not activate maintenance mode plugin yet – it sometimes messes up with BP plugins
– Activate BP plugins one by one and see which one is messing up with your login. There’s a list of plugins compatible with BP 1.5 – https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-plugin-compatibility/
@mercime
via ftp i did what you stated and now i can get into the backend and see the site.
The theme is the default is wordpress’ Twenty Eleven 1.2. I assume that this means that I am having a plugin problem? my site is idreamconnection.com
now what do i need to do?
thx
Someone took a look at my website and suggested that it could be a rights problem.
How can I get this right?
I did the installation manually, worked fine, when I attempted to upgrade to buddypress 1.5, I recieved a white screen.
Site is http://bit.ly/pf9fCY
I was able to restore the backup using EZPZ Backup, and turn on all the buddypress complements since they were turned off.
When I checked on ACTIVITY. Only one event shows up and all the widgets are gone.
So right now I would like to fix ACTIVITY,
Any Ideas on how to fix this?
Hello. Can someone help me with step three in the buddypress installation?
It says: You will need to change the HTML structure in the BuddyPress templates that you copied into your theme to match the structure in your page.php or index.php file.
I dont know what to do. can someone please do it for me?
http://pastebin.com/fUwwGwak
after reading how to create buddypress child theme i have created and activated buddypress child theme placed in ( public_html/funjog.com/wp-content/themes/bp15child ).
After activating theme when i click on tags and categories it displays all the post from that tag or category but when i click on any link to view post an error is displayed
“Page not found
We’re sorry, but we can’t find the page that you’re looking for. Perhaps searching will help.”
Actually problem is with the url’s, at the end of post url’s %20rel= is added, here is full url of a post,
http://www.funjog.com/blog/2011/09/28/phati-phati-aankhon-se-youn-na-dekh-mujay/%20rel=
and when i remove %20rel= from thr url the url works fine and post is displayed and i can browse previous and nest post.
Please help me how can i fix this error that my categories and tags work fine.
? Can’t Delete “Topics” — only possibility is to delete “Groups”
Group Forums installed: ?
Sitewide Forums: ?
Single WordPress: ?
BP in Main Site: ?
WordPress 3.2.1 + BuddyPress 1.5 RC1 + child theme based on default theme (styling purpose/css)
