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buddy press never worked, and will never work. do you think facebook is going to seet around let you create social network all over the web. it is not happning and this people work for facebook and they just looking how stupid we are trying to make our own social network while there is facebook out there.
so let just give up, buddypress never work

I want to make it clear to those who try to make a social network using BuddyPress. look it will never work and never designed to work. what do you think is going to happen to Facebook if every one is able to open their own social network. Facebook crack down on this things and they pay buddypress to full us around. please stop this
I been trying this for years, and it never work.

@ljmac
You can try this:
https://github.com/bphelp/activity-privacy-component
It gives you an activity stream that includes yours and your friends activities only. It was only tested up to WP 3.5.1 and BP 1.7.1 and I decided not to add any further development since @megainfo ‘s BuddyPress Activity Privacy plugin release, because for my purposes it made it obsolete but it may fit your requirement so use it at your own risk. As far as followers go, I thought there was another plugin that handled that already. Feel free to use and modify the plugin anyway you choose and if you add code that may make it useful for others then feel free to share it on the forum as I am sure others may want the same functionality and they would appreciate it. 🙂

when I try example.com/forums, it goes straight to the forum index

@dnbrawler What theme are you using? What plugins do you have installed? If you deactivate BuddyPress, does /forums/ go to the correct page like this one (if you added the shortcode/s) http://testbp.org/discussion/ ?

@acceptableice make sure you created a Forum for the Group Forums and made it a category see https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Thanks for this post! I was head-banging on this very issue and, up until the time I realized that the problem was only with the member widgets on search pages last night, I didn’t even know how to begin to troubleshoot it or what to search for.

As @leemour wrote in his reply, the code on line 309 of bp-members-template.php had to be modified at line 309. To get it to work, I replaced:

	// Pass a filter if ?s= is set.
	if ( is_null( $search_terms ) ) {
		if ( !empty( $_REQUEST['s'] ) )
			$search_terms = $_REQUEST['s'];
		else
			$search_terms = false;
            	}

With:

if ( !is_search() && isset( $_REQUEST ) && !empty( $_REQUEST ) )
        $search_terms = $_REQUEST;

I’m not completely comfortable altering “core code” though. Is this a Buddypress bug? Shouldn’t there be a better solution than hacking core code?

@matt55 – The php errors still continued so it was not due to using Server Protocol. I am not exactly sure what action the spammers are doing in combination with the .htaccess code that is generating the php errors, but for now I just suppressed them by adding an @ symbol infront of strstr below until I can analyze this some more. /buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template.php code line 864.

if ( !empty( $page_template ) && @strstr( strtolower( $page_template ), strtolower( $component ) ) ) {

@bp-help – I tested your plugin and for whatever reason on my site it prevented good registrations. I will isolate exactly why that is on my particular site.

@matt55 – I did some more research and built on your .htaccess code. A php error was occurring due to using Server Protocol so per jdMorgan “the htaccess Master” 😉 the better condition check is The Request.

Special thanks to jdMorgan a true htaccess Master

# BuddyPress Anti-Spam Registration
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^POST
# only match the register page URI
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/register/$
# domain referer is better than IP - allows for subdomains
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*ait-pro.com.* [OR]
# Blank or single hyphen user-agent spoofers or curl
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(|-?|curl)$ [OR]
# HTTP request header
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} HTTP/1\.0$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /spam-prevention [R=301,L]

1.7.2 – Maintenance and Security Release https://buddypress.org/2013/05/buddypress-1-7-2/

Here you go @peterjhead. This should do the trick 🙂
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-privacy/

Hope this help

you could approach the dev himself

http://radiok.info/blog/wordpress-multisite-activation-and-the-illogical-disregard-for-plugins/

@jcollier
You could try @r-a-y ‘s solution for disabling BP registration and using WP’s instead.
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432

@mahdiar didn’t know wordpress.com was blocked in your country. Found the page.php file for Complete Theme. Please confirm that the source code of your page.php file is the same as the one posted at http://pastebin.com/wnfS1Gky If so, I’m thinking that it’s more likely a plugin conflict – e.g. “javascript to footer” plugin and/or the gallery plugin which might be using an older version of jquery, etc.

Before looking around for other themes, change to Twenty Twelve, a responsive theme which has been tested quite thoroughly with BuddyPress 1.7+. If BuddyPress doesn’t work on Twenty Twelve in your installation, then I doubt BP will work on other WP themes in you server.

Are all styles overloading or just some? If just some it could be forcing styles through.
Are you also using BuddyPress 1.7.2 (or 1.7.x)?

However, if it’s all then can you check if the theme has this line in it:

add_theme_support( 'buddypress' );

If no, then can you try with another theme just to see if it’s Avenue that’s being grumpy? Maybe something like the default WordPress Twenty-Twelve would be a nice test theme.

Hi, unfortunately as each theme is different could you either provide a link or a screenshot (going to be less useful than link) along with what theme you are using?

Menus can be styled but it all depends on what you have to start off what recommendation is made.

Forums will be active after installing bbpress
Did you install buddypress pluging and bbpress plugin ?

Because they are different

@applegateian
I tested it and it works as it should so maybe you need to give more info about your setup because something else is interfering with this function. It could be a plugin as well. Also, have you followed the procedures here in regards to theme compatibility:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

@ljmac
This thread was out prior to the plugins release but now I actually find BuddyPress Activity Privacy plugin by @megainfo a more flexible option because it give users a choice as to who see’s their activity. Check it out:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-privacy/

You’re welcome. Thanks for reporting back.