BuddyPress.org

Sorry I didn’t want to be rude, there is so many scams online so I wasn’t sure.

Thank you for your links. I’m studding it now.

In required section I found this information:

WordPress should be installed manually i.e. via FTP, cpanel, etc. and NOT via webhost scripts (fantastico, softalicious, etc.)which bring about numerous issues when BuddyPress is activated.

I use zyma.com for hosting my website. I downloaded WP in my cpanel, but when I click on WP (in my cpanel) it redirect me to…softalicious.
Is that mean that I cannot use BuddyPress correctly?

In case anyone has this problem, here’s how I fixed it (I’m still not sure why it wouldn’t work as intended automatically):

– I registered the sidebar in fucntions.php

– Added a copy of page.php to the child theme directory: /wp-content/themes/wellness/buddypress/members/single using the name: index.php

– Where the code in that page calls the Sidebar, I changed it to: <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'new_members_area' ); ?> which of course includes the registered name of the sidebar

– For some reason it wasn’t picking up the Sidebar CSS so I enclosed it in a div:

<div id="sidebar">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'new_members_area' ); ?>
</div>

-VOILA!

Hi @minglonaire,

The forum part is easy because that is built into bbPress in the first place. If you read the “Getting Started with bbPress” page https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ you will note that there are three settings for forum visibility:

Public – Anyone can see these forums
Private – Only logged in registered users can see these forums
Hidden: Only Moderators/Admins can see these forums

I made my base forum (which is actually a category) Private, and the majority of sub-forums Public – but tied into the BuddyPress groups so you required membership to each particular group to access each of the forums. This only works if BuddyPress is hidden from logged out users.

If you don’t want to use BuddyPress groups… just make all your forums Private.

Note that BuddyPress defines Public, Private and Hidden slightly differently than bbPress

I had issues with my theme not displaying Hidden Groups to the people it should… If this is an issue for you, check out another thread… https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hidden-groups-and-forums-not-showing-for-members-of-them/

All the best! 🙂

@henrywright

I tried your code and it does not work for password strength, when users try to change their password on the front-end.

I also tried to change it to signup_password, but that also does not work. It seems to only work on signup and not once members are logged in and try to change their password. This is the code I used.

function my_validation() {
 global $bp;

 if ( !empty( $_POST['signup_password'] ) )
   if ( strlen( $_POST['signup_password'] ) < 9 )
    $bp->signup->errors['signup_password'] = __( 'Your password is not strong enough and needs to be at least 9 characters long', 'buddypress' );  
 }
 add_action( 'bp_signup_validate', 'my_validation');

I tested it on my site and on a clean installation and both do not work on members/member_name/settings/ . Users do see a password strength meter, but can still change their password into something simple as 1 or A. How did you get it to work on members/member_name/settings/?

With WordPress there are many plugins (none that work with buddypress frond-end settings page) that set a minimum strength for passwords. Such as Login Security Solution and iThemes Security. You can force users to change their password or set an amount of days when users must change their password.

It seems like a major security problems (that has existed for a few years) that Buddypress allows simple passwords such as 1 and A on members/member_name/settings/

@modemlooper thanks for the suggestion, I will change that from “register” to something else 🙂 I have tried changing the url on permlinks to a handful or different possibilities and still I get the 404 page, I have also tried all suggestions at: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/the-requested-url-register-was-not-found-on-this-server/ including adding a .htaccess file which was not in my WordPress root directory for some reason, I have also tried enabling mod_rewrite in Apache to no avail, I’m stocked 🙁

These are the errors I receive when trying to activate buddypress

Strict Standards: Declaration of BBP_Forums_Group_Extension::display() should be compatible with BP_Group_Extension::display($group_id = NULL) in /home1/cmpgorg/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/groups.php on line 28

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare kleo_bp_replace_placeholders() (previously declared in /home1/cmpgorg/public_html/wp-content/themes/kleo/lib/theme-functions.php:1894) in /home1/cmpgorg/public_html/wp-content/themes/kleo/lib/plugin-buddypress/config.php on line 105

Ok got most of my site back however, when I activate buddypress I go to a white screen. Any suggestions

btw- that’s Buddypress Follows that I get the following IDs from.

The registration page for instance has been created and can be reached at:

http://www.witnessescity.com/index.php/register-4/

You can reach it from my navigation menu, but the BuddyPress widget for some reason sets it to http://www.witnessescity.com/register-4/

How do I correct that? also I no clue why the page is blank, am I supposed to input code of some sort in the page after it has been created?