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Make any user an Admin, oh, and add this plugin: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-edit-user-profiles/

@xxxxx Stop notification spamming. Consider this your third (and final?) warning.

The email issues are a common topic with bluehost sites, check this thread and the plugins mentioned by mercime – they should get around an issue which frankly should be tackled at the server level.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/problem-after-installing-buddypress/

Also you might want to add an SPF record to your zone file and ask bluehost to add a PTR RDNS record for your IP/Domain name as these two items – or the lack of them – can be the cause of email server rejecting sent emails from a server they can’t verify.

=== but other than my main blog, brand new install? ===

It all depends on a variety of factors which include what your realistic expectations about adding BuddyPress are. I don’t know what your current site/blog is all about so only you can determine if social networking will enhance your current site’s branding or if it would be better if the social networking feature was a separate entity/site altogether.

This may be a temporary option for your site: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/registered-users-only-2/

I’m not sure how to specifically limit widgets for those who are logged in.

@xxxxx Please dont @mention quite so many people it’s not going to get you any faster attention and likely to just annoy

@MrMaz – just wanted to give you a heads-up about this issue…

=== … relocating my .htaccess file to various locations throughout the /var/www/html hierarchy … I thought the BuddyPress installation instructions were pretty straightforward, but it seems to actually work in a whole different way from what is documented. ===

BuddyPress installation is pretty straightforward when server configuration is stable and meets standard requirements https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
which includes WordPress install already working with pretty permalinks at the very least https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_.22Pretty.22_permalinks You should read this as it addresses the .htaccess file which is at the crux of the matter

The .htaccess file for your WordPress installation should be where WP is installed.
If WP in root, http://yoursite.com/ then .htaccess should be at http://yoursite.com/.htaccess.
if WP in subdirectory, then .htaccess should be at http://yoursite.com/subdirectory/.htaccess.

Strongly recommend you restart from scratch by deactivating BuddyPress and BP plugins, change theme to default twentyten theme, deleting .htaccess file wherever you placed it and dropping tables in DB. Reinstall WordPress and resolve pretty permalinks issues at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting before installing BuddyPress.

Good luck.

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It’s not working for me either… any solutions??

There are a few rules you will probably want to follow if you want help on these forums:

– Please don’t call out every notable user by name. Use the @-mention system for drawing someone’s attention to an item when it’s relevant to them. To flag everyone down every time you have a problem has the potential to be quite annoying.
– Make your forum post titles descriptive. Almost everyone in this forum is looking for help; naming your topic ‘HELP’ does not help anyone else to know what your problem is. Also, no need for all the exclamation points.
– Please give as much information as you can about your installation. You are apparently not running the latest stable version of BP (1.2., as line 432 of bp-core-signup.php in BP 1.2.8 does not have a reference to bp_core_signup_user(): https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php#L432 Try upgrading to the most recent version of the software, or at least providing more details about your installation: WP/BP versions, other plugins you are running, etc.

Go multisite (create a network) and install BuddyPress if you want to allow your users to create a blog/site of their own in your installation. Otherwise, do not create a network, stay single WP installation.

I was right about to launch a BuddyPress powered site at work when I upgraded to 3.1, and now I’m not sure whether to downgrade back to 3.0.5 for now or not.

Currently I have the same issue as the original poster, only way I can activate the plugins that deliver the core featureset the site is designed for is as a “Network Activate”, but I don’t want them enabled on the additional blogs we’ll be providing to some users.

Would you recommend downgrading to 3.0.5 in order to keep the functionality we had during the whole design and testing phase? Am I misunderstanding what Network Activate will do?