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If you’re not comfortable using command line to do EVERYTHING I highly suggest mediaTemple. I’ve done an install for my friend and it works GREAT. An actual human being picks up the phone at all times of the night and they’re really friendly. Plesk is installed. They are a little on the expensive side but for consistency and reliable uptime, nightly backups, 1 click applications, etc, they can’t be beat. Getting shell access with them for some of the more meticulous sides of BuddyPress is recommended. http://www.mediatemple.net

I own my own machine, and it works very well for BP (CentOS, latest stable PHP, SQL, etc). I have all the control I need, and its nice that my server is literally down the street from me! I am also my own tech support, which is pretty awesome. http://www.digitaldomainmd.com

I think “News” fits better than “Blogs” for an actual WPMU/BuddyPress site. Just my opinion…

Check out this post: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=261

In that post, I first agreed with what Burt said but in the end I used the suggested plugin: http://www.callum-macdonald.com/code/wp-mail-smtp/ and it works like a dream.

I upgraded to BuddyPress B2 but the errors still persist. Any tips? Thanks in advance!

I’ve been looking at this problem and getting frustrated. I realized finally that the filter function actually does two things:

$content = htmlentities( $content, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8" );

$content = str_replace( '&', '/amp/', $content );

From http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Data_Formats/Character_Encoding

[…] But there are a number of other issues to deal with. In particular, because UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding, meaning one character can be represented by more one or more bytes. This causes trouble for PHP, because the language parses and processes strings based on bytes, not characters, and makes mincemeat multibyte strings – for example, by splitting characters ‘in half’, bodging up regular expressions, and rendering email unreadable.

Karl can you just comment out the following lines please:

Line 46 $content = str_replace( '&', '/amp/', $content ) in bp-forums-filters.php

and line 52 $post_text = str_replace( '/amp/', '&', $post_text ); in buddypress-enable.php on the bbpress side.

I’d like to narrow this down to the htmlentities fn.

I’m gonna help solve this or just move to a planet where only ASCII is spoken.

Thanks again for your help and support,
in my Site Admin > BuddyPress I only see a wp mu number, and it’s 2.7

but now you’ve make me think about that I’ve overriden the install
with an traslation,which was not update, possibly, because 2.7 did came out just a couple of hours before install, just guessing anyway.
One thing is for sure, that page/link ‘Account Settings’, was working after install,
I can bet on that because I’m runnining wp mu+BP 2.6.5 on another site and i’ve basically tried out and poked out everithing on the new (the one we are talking about)

Thanks

If you go to Site Admin > BuddyPress what version numbers display at the bottom of that page?

The admin mods no longer are part of the BuddyPress package. if you are still getting these errors then you need to make sure you have updated BuddyPress completely.

Something is very wrong with your installation if you’re getting that error. That is a core WordPress function.

I have this same problem arturo84. I am using WP MU 2.7 and BuddyPress beta 2 on a Windows XAMPP.

In advance, thanks.

UPDATE follow: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=405#post-4931

I’ve runned back-up (24 hours old, at the present time) but no improving.

The ploblem persist, even if my Homepage (as specified above) this time did not get modified in any way =no widgets reset.

as feedback

cheers

Hy,
same problem here, on wp mu 2.7,
plus after having ‘runned’ that file twice with same alert.wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-xprofile/admin-mods/bp-xprofile-account-tab.php (just to see what happen)

homepage (on ‘root’+ BuddyPress Home Theme) did appear without most of the previously selected widgets (only the center/middle coloum did ‘survive’).

funnily, so to speak, on the widgets board them appear deactivated,

the “self-deactivated” widgets (after the double run of ‘ bp-xprofile-account-tab.php ‘ or incidentally at the same time but for other unknown reasons)
are:

• Welcome
• Members
• Who’s Online
• Site Wide Activity
• Recent Blog Posts
• Groups

so all dinamic related plugs

Unafected widgets,in the Homepage, as this matter did possibily trigger homepage only (apparently)

• pages
• Recent post
• Calendar
• Search
• Archives

I’ve reactivated the ‘rebels’ widgets on their original position, content and setting
were not affected by this incident

I will hide (//) that string, even if I’m quite sure that function was working up to this morning, when I had All in One SEO , Google XML Sitemaps , and Post to SimpleMachines Forum SMF plugin already working

I did a back up before to install:Add to Any: Share/Save/Bookmark Button- AJAX Comment Preview -OpenID – and SEO Smart Links,so I’m going to deactivate theese latests plug
and see what happen backing up of 4-5 hors.

please read this post as feedback.
cheers 🙂

@ apeatling

I did that, but it still didn’t change.