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@ondesk007 Don’t know why you are getting that error. To help us help you troubleshoot, do provide more information about your installation https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

@starapple

This webpage has a redirect loop

This is likely to result from two redirects in place. 1. wp-login.php is redirecting to the BuddyPress login page. 2. The BuddyPress login page is redirecting back to the wp-login.php page.

From this, I’m assuming you’re using the firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page function? This would work well if (2) wasn’t happening to begin with. Then again if (2) wasn’t happening to begin with you wouldn’t have the problem.

The solution here would be to find out how BuddyPress is redirecting people away from wp-login.php and remove that redirect. I think r-a-y’s remove_action gist is what you want. The rest of the code you’ve added I think is safe to remove.

@starapple
Create a bp-custom.php if you dont have one already. For more on that see:
https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp-custom-php/
Then copy both snippets from the below link into bp-custom.php :
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432

@starapple

There are two different ways to disable buddypress registration on https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432

I too am experiencing this issue, for reference:
http://dev.cgint.net/

With buddypress enabled the first slide doesn’t work, the second slide and everything after works just fine. As others are experiencing this too in entirely different themes and combined with the fact deactivating buddypress solves the issue it has to be a buddypress problem.

@jptdesrosiers
Never tried it but you can:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/baw-invitation-codes/
On the front page follow the link to the Developers tab for the version that should work with BuddyPress! Let us know how it works out for you!

I would like to create a section where people can sign in and answer questions and add their image and then have people see their answers.

@cortttt Sure. Use BuddyPress Extended Profile Fields to highlight the best of your community https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/extended-profiles/
Make sure that Extended Profiles is checked in wp-admin Settings > BuddyPress > Components

At the top of the sections would be a running total…total years lost to illness

Check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/ and then customize the plugin to include the running total years lost to illness or use/rename birthday field

@profc backup and make sure you delete all the BP Template Pack files transferred to your theme folder in server https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/bp-17-upgrading-template-packed-themes/

@mattadams premium theme clubs usually have forums support for its members. Have you tried searching the forums re BuddyPress compatibility or asking if theme author can provide it? We have no access to the premium file so have no clue what proprietary templating system it’s using that’s circumventing easy integration with BuddyPress.

One solution could be as simple as creating a buddypress.php file which contains the WordPress loop with the_title and the_content tags along with the necessary HTML structure and theme tags. You’d then upload that file to the root of your theme’s folder in server and that’s it.

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Template Hierarchy

Good luck!

@fpats BP works with nearly all WordPress themes. It doesn’t work perfectly in themes with proprietary templating systems but there’s a solution for that.

You can ask the theme author for a buddypress.php file which has the WP with the_title and the_content among the theme’s template tags for that specific theme. Upload that buddypress.php to the root of your theme folder in server and all BuddyPress components will use that file to autogenerate content.

@life1134
You could try this and take what you need from it:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-build-a-facebook-style-members-only-wordpress-buddypress-site/

I’m having the exact same problem within OptimizePress. I also need a solution, I really want to include BuddyPress in my site, but I can’t see getting rid of OptimizePress because I need it’s functionality.

Basically, two things are happening.

1. The redirects to the Members page are happening on my site too.

2. I also can’t edit the theme template on these pages either, and so I’m stuck with the grey pages on some of the BuddyPress pages.

I would LOVE to have this fixed, I would really like to have BuddyPress on my site.

Thanks in advance!

~Matt

Did you use a one click install for WordPress?

@profc
Has all of the buddypress files that the template pack plugin copied over in your theme been removed? If I remember correctly you would have to manually remove those via cpanel or FTP. I don’t think deactivating the plugin will remove them but its been awhile since I used it. Since 1.7+ I haven’t looked back! 🙂

Thanks for sharing your fix.
To suggest a change to core code, please use
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
to submit a ticket re a bug or enhancement.

The core devs will definitely see it there.

Clarification:

This template file is found in the base BuddyPress plugin folder under the bp-members folder.

I just upgraded a BuddyPress site to v1.8.1 and did a cursory check to see if this search issue had been resolved yet. It has not, which sort of mystifies me because the problem is more than two years old and requires a modification to BuddyPress core code.

Here is the segment of code that I’ve changed (again) in the bp-members-template.php script found in the plugin’s “core” folder:

 // Pass a filter if ?s= is set.
  // ref link: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/wp-search-results-page-kills-bp-member-widgets/
  // ref link: http://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/wp-search-results-page-kills-bp-member-widgets/

 // Original code on lines 313-318 remarked out in favor of Modified code on lines 320-322
	//if ( is_null( $search_terms ) ) {
	//	if ( !empty( $_REQUEST['s'] ) )
	//		$search_terms = $_REQUEST['s'];
	//	else
	//		$search_terms = false;
	//}

    /******* Modified search code *******/
    if ( !is_search()&&isset( $_REQUEST['s'] ) && !empty( $_REQUEST['s'] ) )
        $search_terms = $_REQUEST['s'];
    /******* End Modified Search Code *******/

Has anyone on the core development team considered making this into a “hook” that we can remove and rewrite for our child themes?