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@matthewhout

At the very top of the page below the admin bar on the right you should have a ‘Screen Options’ button – next to ‘Help’.

Have you got ‘Buddypress’ ticked in the ‘show on screen’ section?

lol im confused? what you mean? buddypress in Appearance > Menus?

are you trying to create a custom menu in wordpress? all you have to do is name the menu then on the left handside tick the pages you want to appear in this menu, then under the menu you have created you will see these options.

Menu Settings

Auto add pages
Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu

Theme locations
Primary Menu

Tick primary menu option then save and your menu will appear how you want it

@henrywright i agree with you on that definitely, but adding some functionality that some plugins offer as built into buddypress would also help because your adding less weight from these plugins too no?

I’m actually about to move over to my 1&1 VPS so will try to report back what I find. I’m pretty sure I’ve used root profiles on it before without problems.

You might have better luck with root profiles when BP adopts WP-style rewrite rules in v2.1. You’ll be able to put any component you like in the root. It was scheduled for 2.0 but there’s lots of work involved. Check out this ticket for the latest updates:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4954

@henrywright nope nothing that would effect it, because i can even install a fresh wordpress and buddypress install then create a new bp-custom.php and add the code and they still wont work, this has been the same way for 12 months and on 2 different linux servers, the first one was on shared hosting with hostgator so should of been no problem with config of server, and ive now just upgraded to a 1&1 vps, and the same thing applies, next month im upgrading to full dedicated for launch and would hope to have root profiles activated for this time, but like i said im hitting a brick wall with this code??

oh and by the way i dont use multisite

@mcpeanut humm, that’s interesting. I’ve never had any problems getting root profiles to work. Are you doing anything else special inside bp-custom?

On a slightly different note, but still related, you might find this page of some use:

Changing Internal Configuration Settings

@henrywright yo henry, this confuses me because this option never works for me on any of my buddypress installs?

define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );

ive put this in bp-custom plenty of times but it never actually does anything all my links remain the same, yes my bp-custom.php is in my plugins folder and all the other tweaks in there work fine?

so why doesnt this work for me?

doesnt even work when i add it directly to my wp-config.php either btw
this is also the case on fresh installs of wordpress with default themes, never can seem to get users to show as root??

@matthewhout Hmm, buddypress settings are located in the settings submenu in wordpress dashboard, make sure you turn on all the options you need in there, also make sure your pages are setup in there as you want them to, also dont forget to go to settings and permalinks too, and select which permalinks you prefare, hopefully everything should be fine for you then, well if i understand correctly that the issues you where having was due to having a windows server and now you have changed to a linux server? i cant see there being any problems with a fresh install.

If you know WordPress theming the book gets you up to speed with the extra functionality BuddyPress brings to templates.

BuddyPress Theme Development

No. The default them was deprecated. BuddyPress works with any well coded WordPress theme

@robg48 something else you could do is use a honeypot. An example is

http://www.pixeljar.net/2012/09/19/eliminate-buddypress-spam-registrations/

It works by adding a hidden field to your registration form. Users can’t see the field so will never complete it (it will always be blank). Spam bots, however, don’t view the page in the same way as users. They ‘see’ the page source so will always ‘see’ the hidden field and try to complete it.

On registration form submission, if the hidden field is blank then we know it’s a genuine user trying to sign up. If the field is completed then we know it’s a spam bot and we can halt the registration. Hence, the name honeypot.

Take a look at BuddyPress Like

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-like/

It’s close to what you want. You can change the ‘like’ wording to ‘recommend’ easily via the WP dashboard.

>to use the normal bp loop functions to return all potential results regardless of location, and then write a PHP function to apply the radius test.

Don’t do that.

Use the radius, etc test first to gather matching user ids.
Then pass them to BP_User_Query, using the bp_pre_user_query_construct hook, so that you only have BP process the relevant ids.

BP_User_Query

@matthewhout

I think you may be running on a windows IIS server as your links are of the form http://www.hout.us/Hout.US/index.php/about/ I’m not sure, but I don’t think you are meant to have index.php in a URL –

Also I think that capital letters in a URL are also invalid as maybe also is a dot between slashes ( in this probable context ) – ie the dot in: /Hout.US/

Are you sure you have installed wordpress correctly with mod_rewrite or substitute.

Does the suggestions on https://buddypress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-using-toolbaradminbar/ help?

Unfortunately I can’t be of more help as although I run windows I use an apache server, But others may have a better idea….

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you very much for the BuddyPress plugin (it is an awesome work! )
I have the same issue than nigelsd =(. When I click on “Complete Sign Up”, the page is reloading emptying just the password fields.

I have just installed on a local environment with MAMP:
– The latest stable version of wordpress (3.8.1).
– One plugin alone: BuddyPress in its latest stable version (1.9.2).
– I have installed nothing else and all with a new clean BDD.

Could you support us in order to be able to go a step further in the use of BuddyPress please?
Thank you very much in advance

Jordane

Hi, I’m using Buddypress Version 1.7.2 and WP Content Filter Version 2.33. i already add your code at line 208 and it doesn’t work. i also add it into bp-custom.php file and also doesn’t work. did you have any suggestion for me.

Thanks

Hi @matthew.hout, Did you try Buddybosses Second idea? That’s what it sounds like the problem is. After you install BuddyPress you need to assign certain BuddyPress Pages to WordPress Pages (Activity Streams, Site Tracking, Members, Register and Active, are the pages depending on your Component Settings). To set these pages go to; Settings -> BuddyPress -> Pages. I don’t remember if BuddyPress creates the WordPress pages for you. You may have the create a blank page for each yourself. After you connect the WordPress pages to BuddyPress, I’d imagine it will start working.

@neerajkumar2020 have you posted at plugin’s support forum as Henry suggested in https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-ass_digest_items-in-usermeta-table/ ?