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What you basically need to do is:

1) rename the old plugins/buddypress/ folder to bp-backup
2) unzip BP 2.5.0 into plugins/buddypress/
3) go to your site, into wp-admin/plugins.php. This will start the update script (it should happen instantly and without displaying anything).
4) If the new BP is working for you, you can then delete the bp-backup folder.

If you find a problem, you can delete the new BP folder and rename bp-backup to buddypress, if that makes sense.

HTTP 500 errors are pretty bad. We’re tracking one bug that might be the cause, but if you can look in your web server’s PHP error log (or ask your host to do this for you) and share with us any error or warning messages for the time period where you tried to update BuddyPress, we can look at it and find out for sure.

I’m very sorry 2.5 didn’t work for you, but we want to fix it.

The very last one might be an issue, but the others need to be fixed to be sure. Those others are to do with some other plugin you have active on your site; it’s doing something at the wrong time (too early), and BuddyPress and bbPress are both throwing warning messages.

I don’t think there’s a BuddyPress bug, you’ll need to look at those other plugins.

@danbp The email subject and email body content are both intended to be translatable via .po/.mo.

@xxsemmiexx The Dutch translation of BuddyPress has not been updated for v2.5. Look here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress — “Dutch” + “Stable” = 90%.

For example – the email in your screenshots – you can see the text is untranslated at the bottom of this screen of the translation tool: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/nl/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=untranslated&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc&page=10

Once a language’s translation is 100% complete for the “Stable” version, a Language Pack is automatically built, and your WordPress will then prompt you to download it on its normal “Updates” screen.

Once THIS happen, THEN you can run the repair tool, and you’ll have Dutch emails. 🙂

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You can see the latest available translation packs for all languages here:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/language-packs

Hi,
it seems you don’t use BuddyPress.
Ask better on https://wordpress.org/support/ or at least, analize your site on an expert site like https://gtmetrix.com

Hi @xxsemmiexx,

the new email feature comes in with a pre-built list of emails. These emails are defaults one for any possible situation in BuddyPress. It’s more or less the same as you have on your profile > settings > messages, where you have the email situation and a checkbox.

The translatable part of these emails, shipped with xx_XX.po/mo, is the mail subject.
When you click on the subject from within the email list, you’ll get the email editor.

At this stage and if the mo file is correctly made, you see the list in your language.

Now, let’s see the mail content. Click on Edit.

As title you have the subject (which is translated) and the body (which is not).
That’s intended so. It’s fake content in english and let you see how to use the tokens inside the email body – or subject.

This is also usefull if you want to add some custom email.

That said, after updating a translation, the modification doesn’t show up automagically in the list. To see it, you have to run the email repair tool.

Hope it is clear and helpfull for you.

I’m no Buddypress or WordPress pro but for a temporary fix add this to your styles.css

ul.first.acfb-holder li{
list-style:none;
}

Please use the code button when sharing code or error-log entries.

Thanks for your report.

Re #3: See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6937

Re #2: Use the new BP filters.
See: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-2-4-x-to-2-5-wp_mail_from-not-working-with-new-emails-in-bp/#post-250532

Re #1: You can open an enhancement ticket here..
Use the same user / pw you use on these forums.
The new BP Mail API is generating a lot of tickets – per usual for a new API.

You’ll need to be able to write and debug code.

You can create a template overload of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\profile\profile-loop.php

Set a variable with the current user role. Google how to get that value.

Then create an array of profile field ids for a role.
For example :

if ( $current_role == 'model' )
    $show_fields = array( 1, 5, 23 ); 
elseif( $current_role == 'photographer' ) 
    $show_fields = array( 1, 7, 12, 35 );

Then check if the current profile field is in that array.
Something like:

<?php while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field(); ?>

	<?php if ( in_array( bp_get_the_profile_field_id(), $show_fields ) ) : ?>
	
		<?php if ( bp_field_has_data() ) : ?>
	
			<tr<?php bp_field_css_class(); ?>>
	
				<td class="label"><?php bp_the_profile_field_name(); ?></td>
	
				<td class="data"><?php bp_the_profile_field_value(); ?></td>
	
			</tr>
	
		<?php endif; ?>
		
	<?php endif; ?>

Avoid setting any fields to ‘required’ if you’re only going to show them based on role.

Also a couple of new features in GlotPress now on https://translate.w.org:
• BuddyPress Language packs: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/language-packs
• BuddyPress Translator contributors: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/contributors

I haven’t looked into this yet, but nejisly’s problem may be due to the Easy WP SMTP plugin and how BuddyPress 2.5 is not compatible with it.

@nejisly – Can you try another SMTP plugin and see if that works?

If you need to keep using Easy WP SMTP, read the last point in this article to find out how to disable BP’s email functionality:
https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/#customize-email-template

This has been reported here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6935

This is rare. In my installation if it works. You have seen this message left today “Paul Gibbs” in another post ?. Apparently the new version of BuddyPress does not support these functions.

“wp_mail_from or wp_from_name filters
Developers: if you’ve been using the wp_mail_from or wp_from_name filters, these do not work in BuddyPress 2.5 onwards because we no longer use wp_mail().
Read this post for sample code to re-implement your filters.”

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