BuddyPress.org

Already discussed and solved here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/need-activation-key/

and a bit older here
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/activation-code-after-new-member-registration/page/2/

And of my own experience, i had similar problems in the past due to using the same nav session during the registering process.
In brief, a user’s navigator cache problem.

Hope that @djpaul ask on this tread, once more time, about the server type, and that he will finally give a reason or a solution! 😉

@ubernaut
If the server is the culprit for mistakenly taken a user to that page it really isn’t a BuddyPress issue, it is a server issue.

@binutz
Add the below code to bp-custom.php reference:
https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp-custom-php/

define( 'BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', 'profile' );

@inartmedia I’m just seeing a coming soon page. We need more information than what you posted above to help you. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

You only need to post this once.

Closing duplicate of https://buddypress.org/support/topic/convert-wp-users-to-buddypress-members/

@robg48 – this could well be half of the solution you’re looking for when importing stuff from WP to BP. Although there’s no mention of a user import (just blog posts).

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-import-blog-activity/

Edit: Just came across the following – please note i’ve not tested it.

BuddyPress Members Import

I was able to get this (create a link to the post author’s BP profile) to work using Boones suggestion here http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/43528/how-to-get-a-buddypress-user-profile-link-and-a-certain-user-profile-field-for-t

To get it to work in the sidebar (running Genesis and the Content Aware Sidebar plugin) I had to use the code below to pull the author id outside the loop. I am strictly an amateur but this may be where folks are having trouble adding a link in sidebars, plugins or widgets?

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/39493/getting-user-id-for-the-author-meta-outside-the-loop-in-multisite

If you are like me, and not a coder, below is the exact code I used:

<?php
$temp_post = get_post($post_id);
$user_id = $temp_post->post_author;
$author_bp_profile = bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id );
?><a href="<?php echo $author_bp_profile;?>">View the author's profile</a>

Visibility checks are not done when profile data is retrieved ‘outside’ BP_XProfile_Group.

You can use bp_xprofile_get_hidden_fields_for_user() to do your own check.

It is reasonable to expect bp_member_profile_data() to include an argument re visibility check.

So it’s not a bug, but you can create an enhancement request ticket on trac.

trac.buddypress.org sounds like a bug to me.

I’m new so I don’t know what trac is, and whether this is an issue or if I’m doing it wrong.

if this is a common problem someone should add a ticket in trac.

Same issue (details below)

In this file {themename}\members\single\member-header.php, is the following code:

		<?php
		/***
		 * If you'd like to show specific profile fields here use:
		 * bp_member_profile_data( 'field=About Me' ); -- Pass the name of the field
		 */
		 do_action( 'bp_profile_header_meta' );

		 ?>

I have some custom profile fields, so I replaced the ‘do_action’ with these:

		<h3>About Me<h3>
		<?php bp_member_profile_data( 'field=About' ); ?>

		<h3>Birthday</h3>
		<?php bp_member_profile_data( 'field=Birthday' ); ?>

When I click on the Edit Profile link, I can change visibility settings, and it appears to save them. BUT the saved settings don’t do anything. In another browser where I’m not logged in at all, I can always see all of the fields listed, no matter which settings were chosen.

Advice?

@jf_trumpet what exactly is running slow? If the site is accessible you can run it through the Pingdom speed check at http://tools.pingdom.com to see what resource is loading slowly.

WordPress is very zippy as it arrives out of the box – try deactivating BuddyPress to see if there is any improvement in load speed. That way you’ll know if it is in fact BP that’s the problem.

The best way to tackle the problem is to narrow it down.

@bphelp I looked through the BP improving performance page and did not see any mention of what you said. Why aren’t VPS/Dedicated servers more highly mentioned on this page?

Do sites which use BP almost always have a dedicated server or VPS? I’m new to the BP world so all this information is good to learn.

@buddhatunes not familiar with how Buddyboss is wired. But it should follow template hierarchy supported of BP https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/

@hollyspress or check out documentation at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/

I can see why you’d look at bp-core-avatars functions.

But have you tried just replacing the avatar calls in templates with your own function?

You’ll have to hunt down the calls in several templates, but probably easier than messing with core-avatar filters given that you don’t want anything from bp avatar code anyway.

Try it in something like the members loop first:

Members Loop

Of course, in your theme, create an over-ride of the members-loop template first.

@number_6

BuddyPress doesn’t rely on 3rd-party support as far as I know. oEmbed support is provided by WordPress.

Take YouTube for example. If you paste a YouTube video’s link into your blog post, your WordPress blog (the consumer) will make a request to YouTube (the provider). YouTube then responds with an oEmbed response. The HTML therefore gets pulled from the provider’s server.

That is how I understand the process to work. Hope it helps.

Unfortunately I couldn’t migrate bbpress to buddypress and so deleted bbpress (and my buddypress forums) to go for a fresh install.

No migration needed, both plugins work together https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

My issue is that when I navigate to the root forum directory it returns my WP archives page!

If you followed instructions from link above, what slug do you have for your forum archive? Did you create a page specifically with that slug for your forum index and added shortcodes to show all forums and/or topics