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The only reason why I started this topic was because I spoke to a WordPress representative and as I’ve done here, after explaining the issues to the rep, they said for me to get in contact with the creators of the plugin that allows me to do all of these news feed configurations so I assumed it was through here, BuddyPress. And I already was reading through the Codex, videos tutorials, support forums and speaking to numerous amounts of representatives and didn’t get anywhere. But okay, I will try reaching out to the creator of the Vipress theme and hopefully get my questions answered. Thank you.

@danbp

I understand everything that you’re saying, but everything that you’re saying through here is still not resolving my issue to get the registration process to work on my site. I am not allowing just any random person to upload to my server with random documents if I am not only having them labeled as “Authors” (where they are able to edit their OWN profiles and edit their OWN posts, so on and so forth) and not as “Administrators” (where a person has control to change up EVERYTHING on the site and the server), but also for the fact that this Vipress theme was created to be compatible with BuddyPress, therefore, allowing people to be able to create a profile with, in this case, the MyLoopNetwork.

As far as with the whole newly register user, I already know to keep in mind about who I allow to become a member for I am constantly checking the back end of my site on a regular basis. All I’m trying to do is create my own version of a website where users can sign up as a new user, create their own profiles, update their posts, upload their own pictures, connect with other MyLoopNetwork users, create groups that people can join, and pretty much build up on their own news feed through their profiles without conflicting with any sections or areas of the overall site.

I don’t know anything about this BuddyDrive plugin that you have mentioned, but for the record, this is my first WordPress website that I’ve been working on for months and I’m trying to learn as much as possible. I’m just trying to get some assistance on how to resolve certain issues that came across my way with configuring this particular theme. So with you saying, “You’re talking about pdf, doc and docx, but on the register page nothing appears about what type of file they have to upload (as it is required) and for what !” that’s what I’m trying to explain to you. That’s what pops up on my end and on other people’s end that are trying to create their own MyLoopNetwork profile, so therefore, I do not have any control over that, for I wasn’t the one that created that coding for it to show up that way. And then you was saying, “‘Here you’ll be able to upload images. Try it out now!’ is a bit vague.” you will have to ask the creator of this Vipress theme and ask them why they have it set that way because, once again, I am NOT the one that created this theme, and this is how it automatically showed up on the registration page when people were trying to create their profile. So unless you’re going to actually give me a full detailed, step-by-step guide on how to resolve the issues that I’m trying to fix, I thank you for your time and patience and I hope you have a good day.

/my-stuff/ is sort of a placeholder. I know it’s blank now. I was testing out woocommerce but it’s currently deactivated, but I was planning on integrating it in the future, so right now it’s just there. Nothing links to it, so I didn’t really see the harm. But it’s not necessary.

Okay. So following your advice, I got rid of my-stuff. I moved /activate and /register to No Parent, emptied the Pages trash, checked my Buddypress pages settings, and saved my Permalinks structure.

And now it works fine. Argh, the frustrating part is I don’t know what was wrong with it…

But thanks for your help!

Thanks for the quick response.

I have a default install.

My site is http://kingstonnexus.ca

Wordpress is installed in the root directory (httpdocs on my server) (v 4.1.1)
Buddypress is installed in wp-content/plugins/buddypress (v 2.2.1)

Happy to provide more information I’m just not sure what you need.

PHP 5.4, I think it’s Apache but I will have to find out.

Quick follow-up since I’m still struggling with this problem with registration, but done some more testing in the meantime.
I’ve installed clean WP with BuddyPress (same versions as above) on my other machine – LAMP server this time (php 5.5.9 & apache 2.4.7 running on Ubuntu 14.04). This time registration process is working properly! However on Windows machine still nothing…
Can this problem be somehow connected with the non-default port (8080) used on Windows machine? Or maybe BuddyPress requires some specific php modules enabled I’m not aware of? As I mentioned all other pages of my WordPress install are working properly on WAMP server and that’s not the first WordPress install I’m doing on that server and never had any WordPress problems before.
Anybody has any ideas how to fix this registration issue? Or how to test it additionally to figure out what’s going wrong here?

Ok just found this, I think this will achieve the same thing in a different way :

Customizing BuddyPress Avatars

But I’d still like to be able to give the members page avatars a different class, so instead of it rendering img.avatar it would output img.ml_avatar for example.

Any ideas how to pass that new class arg here?

Hey guys,

Thanks for your replies.

Firstly, I am going to eat some humble pie. I didn’t realise that buddypress was entirely user driven and supported so apologies for jumping the gun there.

I promise that I will make it my mission to share anything I learn while using buddypress and offer help to others in the spirit of the project. It could certainly do with some basic “start up” guides, there are a few simple things that virtually everybody using this for the first time is going to want to do and they could be laid out in simple terms with easy to follow “how to” guides and I am more than happy to post a few of these once I am confident that I know what I’m doing is correct.

Thanks for the explanation and link Dan, that is most helpful.

I’m slowly starting to understand how everything ties together, and I’m sure I’ll have a million other questions along the way, but I’m also pretty confident that I’ll crack it and once I do I will be more than happy to contribute to the BP family wherever possible 😉

Yes, I have permalinks enabled and set to Post name. All other pages and posts are loading just fine, no problems there. BuddyPress Members, Activity Streams and User Groups pages were successfully created and seem to be working just fine as well.
Just the registration page reloads with form data filled when I try to submit it and no user gets registered.

I haven’t mentioned it in the previous post but I’ve also checked Apache logs to see if any errors were logged, but logs are all clean, so no help there unfortunately as well (btw I have Apache 2.4.4 and php 5.4.12 on my WAMP server install).

Ok managed to do it, it’s a dirty way but it works…

1) Compile all of the above scripts into a single file “mynewjsfile.js” then minify it to keep it even more compact if you want (forget the buddypress.js thing as what I’ve done stops the script from looking for it completely).

2) Upload mynewjsfile.js wherever you want to put it (for the sake of this I’ve put it into my theme root /js/mynewjsfile.js

3) Make a copy of buddypress-functions.php (inside bp-legacy/)

4) In your new buddypress-functions.php around line 89 comment out the following :

add_action( 'bp_enqueue_scripts', array( $this, 'enqueue_scripts' ) );

Like this :

/* add_action( 'bp_enqueue_scripts', array( $this, 'enqueue_scripts' ) ); */

5) Create a new folder called “buddypress” in your theme’s root and upload buddypress-functions.php into it. Now buddypress will use this file instead of the original.

6) In your wordpress functions.php add the following :

function mynewjsfile() {
	wp_enqueue_script( 'mynewjsfile', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/mynewjsfile.js', 'jquery', false );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'mynewjsfile' );

The ‘jquery’ is there because our new script requires it to function properly. This ensures that Jquery loads before it. False is telling wordpress to load it in the header.

7) Enjoy your new single minified JS file 😉

If anyone knows of a BuddyPress plugin that requires setting role capabilities

Buddypress itself does not require setting role capabilities – so a Buddypress plugin usually should not need this. Most of the commonly used buddypress plugins like photo/album (rtmedia), location plugins, imath’s Rendzevous ( sort of an Event plugin with a difference) do NOT require setting role capabilities and works well in the above scenario.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-user-management/

I actually tried this extensively even before I saw this post – its purpose is something different. It will not add users to the main site.

If anyone knows of a BuddyPress plugin that requires setting role capabilities and works without members belonging to the main site

Event Manager does this. It requires setting role capabilities and yet no one has to manually set the members belonging to the main site. It has a very wide range of configuration options that makes it rather “heavy” – still I could have used it but it has no Attendee options. It lacks “Attending : Yes | NO | Maybe ” and an Attendee list that others can see. Apart from this, from frontend it offers same functions and users can add Events from the profile too with Location Map etc.

A huge amount of thanks and gratitude to @shanebp, who is actually doing tremendous amount of help and work for the buddypress events plugin. Kudos!

Hey,

Have you had any luck fixing it? Im not sure what would cause that to happen. Is it that your buddypress activities won’t post or that your blog posts disappeared?

The only thing I can think to do would be to go into a fresh copy of WP and copy the complete bp-acitivity-loader.php page and paste it on the file on your site. See if that brings back up your posts. If it does, then try to change the name again and see if it works.

Best of luck!