I have been doing a little more digging into this problem and the same bug effects:
- domain.com/blogs/*
- domain.com/groups/*
- domain.com/members/*
For instance, you have a post on your main blog called ‘testing BuddyPress’, and someone creates a group called ‘test’ – each time you try to access that group, WordPress will magically use its rewrite rules class and send you to the post entry.
To start with, I thought it may have been a WordPress bug, but no… its WordPress’ default behavior.
It seems that currently BuddyPress is doing its own URL rewriting and then WordPress takes over to convert domain.com/anything/you/like/except/THIS to find ‘THIS‘ as a possible candidate for a place to be.
I have no experience using the correct methods of plugging into the WordPress rewrite rules structure and I am still getting familiar with the ins and outs of BuddyPress – but I hope to keep people posted on my findings.
Firstly, https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Rewrite makes it sound simple to utilise the correct and preferred WordPress ways of doing things correctly.
Secondly, If this is the case – it is a good job this has been spotted early because I have a feeling that fixing BuddyPress to use the above would require some core changes.
For anyone interested in the way WordPress looks at its URL’s, paste the following into the <body> of your test theme’s header.php
<pre>
<?php global $wp_rewrite;
print_r($wp_rewrite);
?>
</pre>'
The important part to look at is [rules] => Array that has no mention of blogs, groups or members.
Anyways…
I will continue getting to grips with BuddyPress internals and reporting my findings…
I hope this has helped someone getting closer to fixing!
