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@henrywright But this is a standard register form from buddypress 🙂
I ask if i can remove it for a moment from buddypress register form 🙂

We have just finished up with a WP project with a BuddyPress module to it, and the site is in https status. As it is a unique offering, the client have strictly forbidden us from sharing the url as the launch is around the corner. ( which makes it all the more frustrating from our point of view).

The issue is, a Fresh User cannot login and register to become a registered user from any device. But, the moment an EXISTING user logs into the Community module – say from the same laptop and logs out, the earlier prospective user now finds no problem in registering and creating a profile !

Pls help.

@r-a-y I’m using the BuddyPress method of having my admin bar appear more as a menu. I had been playing with code for the past couple of days I’d tried.

But that hadn’t worked as now no matter what my message notifications just keep saying no new notifications.

Hadn’t thought to use JS… Will have to give that a try. Thanks!

Again, I did not create a user called “admin”. The page/url I linked to above was generated by BuddyPress for the user called “Antrodius”, which happens to be the WP admin. I have every setting possible set to display the name as such. If you look at my members page ( http://www.rickey-rat.com/member-grid/) , you can see that even BP acknowledges the username, but instead of using that username in the profile and its URL (like all other users), it shows this user as Admin.

I’m not so concerned about the url as I am about the name displaying at the top. Is there a way to edit the template in my child-theme – I might be able to figure out how to pull the correct username, since it displays properly in some places.

That link should be http://www.rickey-rat.com/members/admin (when I clicked ‘edit’ at the bottom of this page, it took me to the BuddyPress.org root.)

Edit to add – ah, apparently my ‘edit time’ for the op had expired.

Isn’t there a possibility to edit posts? I wanted to update the just written post above, but could not find an appropriate link! The only “Edit” button below this textarea leads to => “https://buddypress.org/” 🙁

Hi

Thank you for responding.
I tried a few other themes including twentythirteen & Mesocolumn – no difference.
Then today I disabled all plugins except buddypress & bbforum.

Observation:
#1. The mentioned links worked.
#2. I then first activated a number of security plugins + Hyper cache plugin. Problem back, of page not found, until I deactivated Hyper cache.

This was solved by reading this article => http://www.buddyboss.com/buddypress-speed-and-performance/ & doing this:

By default this plugin will cache all of your site’s pages, including your BuddyPress-specific content like activity posts and forum posts. This is not good, as your BuddyPress content is constantly updated and needs to remain fresh. To fix it add the following lines into “URI to reject” in the “Filters” settings panel of Hyper Cache:

/forums/
/groups/
/members/
/activity/
/blogs/
/messages/
/register/
/activate/

… I think current plugin terminology is “Exact URIs to bypass” & “(Starting with) URIs to bypass”, which I did and clearing the cache.

#3. As I continued activating, I discovered the used https://wordpress.org/plugins/404-to-start/ also causes if I try to go to my profile page or for example /members/user-x/, etc to re-direct to site front page, with no error.

I have to look into this later. The other plugins I had tried before caused some issues, so I was happy with this re-direct plugin.

Will report back, at least if I get a response from author or get a plugin not causing issues, someone could recommend one ;).

Thank you & regards.

Yeah it is @henrywright and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong if it’s from my end. As far as I know,I don’t have any custom code in my functions.php file, but is it possible if you can look it over for me if I copy and paste it into a new message (The only thing is it’s a lot of coding in this particular PHP file though)? Because you probably can catch a weird coding that I might have overlooked; I really don’t want to start messing around with the coding and risk messing up the functions.php file all together. Also, exactly in what folder would I be able to find that bp-custom.php file at? Because I looked from my hosting plan back end when I logged in and I only see this bp-settings-functions.php in the “buddypress > bpsettings” folder.

@hnla lol sorry my bad i didnt realise the HE was infact a SHE :), yes i agree its slightly off topic as a whole for buddypress but isnt that some point serious buddypress users are in-fact going to have to deal with in the future?

This is why i said maybe have its own section in the forums than just having to post it under miscellaneous?

What good is it having a porche with only a sinclair c5 engine under the hood ? 🙂

Thats the thing henry alot of people dont even understand what you just said more than likely and if they do once they have performed their initial install of Linux/ Apache/ MySQL and PHP everything is left as default for most people. I guess what i have been trying to do for the past few years is come up with the best possible config and environment for true scalability, this is my 4th server and i have upgraded from first having a vps to then having 3 dedicated servers each more powerfull than the last, i have now decided to stick with my newest server for the initial release of my buddypress built site and may keep my other 2 online for when i want to delve into the world of adding servers together for scalability (which i still have alot to learn as i know how to do this in theory but not yet in paractice) as i have a good deal on them and use them for testing with.

my new server is an 8 core xeon @3.3ghz with 32gb eec ram and 4 x 3tb hardrive in raid 10 with a dedicated hardware raid controller so should be great for buddypress.

cool he will probs read this when hes online, this is the thing with buddypress, i just didnt understand when i first came to these forums a few years ago even though i had been comming longer without registering, I myself had shared hosting and thought yippee i have found a plugin that i was looking for and installed it, then after messing around with buddypress it dawned on me that shared hosting just was not gonna cut the ice with buddypress let alone wordpress for a serious install.

I then decided to delve into the world of dedicated/vps servers. I am by no means an expert in this world yet but i believe from my own experience that it is a very daunting task moving to these kind of setups at first, once you get the basics of initial setup and general security right its then time to tweak everything for future proofing and scaling and performance tweaking if your serious about the future of your website, unless your willing to pay ALOT of cash out to people who can do his for you full time.

This is why i sort of pushed my buddypress websites design back in favour of looking into all this. I think this is one of the biggest points concerning every website build and believe that not enough info is out there to make people understand just how important all this is to succeed with their websites, alot of people see these one click easy installs and adverts off companys telling them to come build your website with us its easy then see wordpress installed and think yippe look at my new website and what it can do, until of course they then get popular crash and burn then fail and give up because they just dont understand the reality involved in pushing forward a scalable environment. This is why i believe people doing a massive project such as buddypress should really be able to share this info with each other from nivice users to experts in this field.

@henrywright who is the best person to ask on these forums to add a new section?

I would love to see a server configuration and hardware setups section for buddypress in these forums, i have mentioned this before.

It could be a specific place for people to share all kinds of server configuration settings and tips and server scalability issues etc along with initial setup advice to.

I mean i would be willing to post a few server tips and tricks i have learnt along the way into this section and maybe write a few guides etc for server lockdown and shh hardening tips etc, even though i am still learning alot of server administration tasks (because the scope is vast )it would be good to have a place for vps and dedicated server users to all have a chat about issues and setups etc for buddypress. I do realise as a rule that there are plenty of server setup and config info all over the web on other forums etc and in articles but hey would it not be great for users of buddypress to have a tips and help section for this to? this would let users share their experiences with setups running with buddypress installs specifically and could also cover things like server level caching php caching and many other tweaks needed to run at optimum performance. lets be real here buddypress is not designed to run very well on shared hosting (not for very long anyhows to you bottleneck yourself) and i think this would be good info for people making the leap to other setups.