Thanks for the heads-up, @gunju2221 
If by “BuddyPress profile”, you mean the fields and groups you have configured in the xprofile settings screen, then yes it’s certainly technically possible because site admins can create new user accounts without having to complete BuddyPress profiles. I’m not sure how to practically do this, however. Would need to try and find out.
Try to see if there’s a user registration widget (i.e. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registration-form-widget/ — not tested) and see if it works and does what you want it to do.
(To clarify, there’s no difference between a “WordPress user” and a “BuddyPress”, both are the same.)
I don’t know about that, I think someone will pass FB up, not sure when, but they’ll get some competition that’ll have them shaking in their boots lol
I hope its me
Hey @Andrea_r lol, i remember when you helped me with my first line of BP code….I’ve gotten better, thank you
Your code did not appear.
Try, as @hnla said before she deleted her post to revert to the default theme and see if it appears.
If you don’t want users to see your fixing on your site, install “maintenance mode” plugin
Well it should be there. I wonder why it is not working?
Go into your theme, if you have the buddypress extension pack installed, or you have created your child theme, go into your theme folder, (wp-content/themes/yourtheme) and then go into the folder named “groups.” Inside there should be a file called “Index.php”
Now check to see if the following code is listed anywhere in the file, “control or command +f” will search for the term.
` <a class="button" href="”>`
If for any reason that it is not in the file, put the code above directly after this code in the file:
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This is an excellent question that I can’t answer, I’ll get the core developer @djpaul
Hi everyone! I hope you are all experiencing the New Year to the fullest.
I am working on a site for Hair Stylists and Salons. Here’s what I’ve got going on:
WordPress 3.0.4
BuddyPress 1.2.6
I am using profile fields to determine a member type (stylist, salon, client).
Is there a way to automatically create a group for the stylist or salon when they sign up?
I assume I would have to:
1) Check the field value to see if they are a salon or stylist.
2) Call a create group function, assigning the member as the admin and assigning the group properties (name, etc).
Has anyone done something similar?
Thanks in advance!
Compared to what facebook? Nobody will ever reach what facebook has achieved. And really who would want to? I have a few close friends on FB but could careless what the other users are doing. BuddyPress is more to create groups of interest. That’s it’s power over FB. Also you can control the experience, FB is generic.
you need to give more information about your issue. “there is no option for this”
What do you mean???
Also, please provide some, or all of the questions from This post
We are very successful and only 6 months in evolution at 1,200 members with a 70% active participant number (at least once every 2 weeks). The site is specifically for Music Education. You can check it out at musicpln[dot]org You’ll have to sign up to see it though (free sign-up).
Regards.
I’d like to allow registered users of my site the OPTION of creating a buddypress profile. Is there anyway I can set up my site so people can register to access the site without utilizing the buddypress features?
Thanks for your help!
@mercime Just slightly concerned as I remember that when I was roughing up my approach to the lack of a blog/dashboard link for users or that a user elevated actually didn’t get the same main dashboard link as the original site admin it proved problematical getting things correct for all types of install if I indeed did, haven’t had a moment to look at the actual committed patch to see how it does perform for all install types.
@hnla I didn’t think to ask if it was clear that the new dashboard link only shows up for super admins everywhere and for blog owners only if they’re in their blog site
And what would be your definition of a “real social network”?
I’m not really seeing a buddypress driven site become as big as facebook or twitter w/o some serious original ideas etc.
Seeing that BuddyPress can be setup by anyone.
Of course BP is one of the best social network plugin and its quickly evolving into separate entity, but I am bit skeptic about the user engagement a forum offers vis-a-vis BP . So between, forum vs BuddyPress, who wins?
Puzzled by this what are you running and in what configuration, your users – if they are simply subscribers – shouldn’t be able to do much anyway. Is this dashboard link coming off the back of my ticket and code example as I had written it with user capabilities in mind it was only meant to show for users elevated to super admin.
This has probably been answered somewhere just not seeing it in the forums so I applogise for posting in Advance….
Everything appears to be functioning correctly on my site, only, if a user goes in to update/edit his profile, as soon as they click Save Changes it redirects to a 404 page error, the changes are saved on the profile so I assume the “save changes” should revert the user back to his/her profile rather than another page.
I have tried a few things found on the support even installed the BuddyPress IIS7 Compatibility plugin.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Try installing Email Log (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/email-log.zip), which records all mails sent from the WP+BP installation, this will at least let you know if the activation email has been processed from the Site (According to the site itself).
There is also another plugin (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wp-activate-users/) which will allow you to activate users that dont seem to get the email or are just plain lazy.
I am asking a very basic question here, but would like to see if there are any successful communities created using Buddypress?
Have you guys seen any serious community built using Buddypress? Most of the ‘featured’ sites in Buddypress site have no serious participation (except for maybe educational sites, but those are more professors driven and less by choice).
Would love to see some real social network coming from Buddypress and inspiration one can derive from these.
@desha Thanks this solved the issue.
Deactivate BuddyPress and BP-dependent plugins. See if your media upload works in the first place. Before installing BuddyPress – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration re media uploading
Is your install multisite? If so, post content of your .htaccess file
