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?
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– 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:
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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.
Hello and thanks so much in advance for any help you can offer. I have created a BuddyPress site that is just taking off, it is for a non-profit group I am a member of. I noticed that I could not update the categories in my own blog, nor access the posts through my dashboard(I have created 3 blogs on the site) I have a superadmin user ID, sunshine, and an Editor ID, handsun. The Blogs have all been created with my editor ID, but the edit a post link actually takes me to the blog the SuperAdmin created in the main site. The blogs are all mixed up.
I did notice that I had chosen bp-default theme in Appearances, but when I looked in FTP, the theme was only located in the plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ folder, so I disabled the bp-default in the Appearances section and copied the folder to wp-content/themes and then reactivated it, but no change. I also added the plugin quickpress, and activated it in Site Admin, sitewide, but see no change in the appearance of the backends of the site. Thanks again, Carin
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? 
i do not want to redirect my user to be redirected , if they entered any wrong password to the wordpress log-in page…..can any one help me with it plz using latest version of wp and buddypress
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?
I’ve just set up a clean install of WP on a subdomain of my main domain to test Buddypress. After installing it and clicking ‘Activate’ I got the error ‘HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error)’.
I now can’t access the Admin part of the site at all, but I can access the front-end. Could it be something to do with the fact I’ve installed it on a subdomain (error in the .htaccess file perhaps)?
Any suggestions?
Hello,
I found a bug in Buddypress 1.2.8.
In a forum, like this
http://www.site.com/groups/%5Bgroup-name%5D/forum/topic/%5Bthe-topic%5D
When the wordpress username of the topic’s poster contains a “.”, the username’s link appears like this :
http://www.site.com/members/user.name
But in buddypress, the members link must contain “-” and not “.”. The link must be :
http://www.site.com/members/user-name
This is the hack to fix this problem :
in plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-templatetags.php
In the function :
function bp_get_the_topic_post_poster_link() {
Just replace
return apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_poster_link’, bp_core_get_user_domain( $topic_template->post->poster_id, $topic_template->post->poster_nicename, $topic_template->post->poster_login ) );
With (str_replace added) :
return apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_poster_link’, bp_core_get_user_domain( $topic_template->post->poster_id, str_replace(‘.’,’-‘,$topic_template->post->poster_nicename), $topic_template->post->poster_login ) );
Can you send this bug report to the developers of Buddypress ?
I’m looking to set up something similar to Quora and wondered whether Buddypress would be suited to this?
What I’m after are the social features of Buddypress (such as follow/connections), plus Q&A features so users can ask and answer questions and also vote on the best ones. So far I’ve found plugins that do the social side, or the Q&A side, but haven’t found one yet that does both…
Thanks.
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.
Hello ! Would someone explain me why an activity slug http://domain.com/activity/p/XYZ/ is redirected to http://domain.com/members/display_user/activity/WYZ/ ? I ask the question to Dan, and he tell me that probably @boonebgorges could be the right man to give me a good answers :
http://bp-fr.net/groups/utilisation-configuration-optimisation-de-buddypress/forum/topic/adresses-url-des-pages-dactivite/
I’m asking the question, because bots have some trouble to index redirected URI, but I’m using activities many times… Il saw it’s easy to code the slugs to use the right one. Is it risky, and cause trouble in the site ?
@mercime: I tried AllowOverride All and there was no difference. WP/BP is installed under root, there is no subdirectory. BTW the URL in question is http://planetdsa.gr
@doug.daulton: Your case is a bit different, I’m not even getting to the group create form, I immediately get to the home page even though the address bar says http://planetdsa.gr/groups/create/step/group-details/
@hnla – Why would we start up a new thread when the community history of this issue lives on this thread? It seems less efficient to be rebooting an unresolved issue on multiple threads.
As for my wp-content, it is owned by www-data (the apache user) and set to 777. I still experience this issue.
DD
`Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /path/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/activate.php:3) in /path/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 897`
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.
I’m sure this has been covered but my relatively weak Google-fu (and search-fu as it applies to this forum) has come up with very little that can help me with this.
I currently have one WP3 install, multi-site, subdomain, that just hosts sites with content on them. No community stuff. Subdomain install. Let’s say it’s http://www.mysite.com.
I want to have BuddyPress installed in order to give users blogs and have a community, but I am paranoid about them being able to use the plugins I have installed (since the plugin limitation plugins I’ve found do not properly work on the latest WP version) AND from what I understand, I can’t have BuddyPress give users a subdirectory blog on a subdomain install.
tl;dr: Here’s what I want to do:
– have one WP install with just content. Subdomain install.
— http://www.mysite.com, blah.mysite.com, blahblah.mysite.com etc.
— In a perfect world, be able to embed BuddyPress stuff into this site, too.
– have a WP install just for a community OR a BuddyPress install that would let users use subdirectories. (Possibly-undesirable plugins isolated, if that’s the case.) Subdirectory install.
— community.mysite.com/userblog1 etc.
— Probably integrate with Simple:Press too, but that’s outside the scope of what I need help with and I can deal with that myself
I already know that there’s a way to share user tables by way of wp-config. What the big deal is now is if this is possible to properly execute. With that in mind, has anyone tried this or know how to pull it off?
Thanks in advance, and please forgive me if it turns out this was the easiest thing to find in the history of ever.