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@asnakea3
Have you considered it is a theme or plugin other than BuddyPress causing the issue? I have had this happen to me before and I had to narrow it down by using a process of elimination by reverting to the bp-default theme or twenty twelve and deactivating each plugin one by one and testing registration against it every time until I found the culprit. It was tedious but with all the 3rd party themes and plugins out there that unfortunately introduce bad code then it is a necessary evil. You can’t expect the Dev team to work around all your favorite plugins or themes. I do not put my plugins on the Repo because I personally don’t feel my coding practices are worthy but unfortunately there are developers that release plugins to the Repo just because they want notoriety and in reality they have have little skill and bad coding practices. Also have you considered that you have a crappy host. BP needs more resources than most free or cheap shared hosting solutions won’t supply. What did you actually think Facebook runs off a server 2.2 ghz processor with 1gb ram and a 250gb hard drive lol? Before you blame BuddyPress then do your homework and check the themes and plugins your using. Also learn some respect because nobody owes you nothing!

@ljmac
Give it time, maybe an expert will give you the insight you need to get it rolling. I am still fairly inexperienced, I am a jack of all trades and a master of nothing when it comes to BuddyPress! Have you tried writing a function, and hooking it to a do_action? Alternatively you could write a function in a child theme’s functions.php or bp-custom.php then copy the buddypress folder with the templates you want to modify and in the particular template file you could simply call that function.

I failed to mention BuddyPress is dependent on WordPress. You can’t use BuddyPress without having an installation of WordPress. BuddyPress is a social networking/niche community plugin for WordPress. 🙂

@asnakea3
Wow, that is pretty harsh! BuddyPress is no scam, it is free software built by an amazing development team and they also give free support. If your upset because you cant figure out something then ask the community. The community is made of volunteers that are not compensated so please keep that in mind. You can’t come on here and demand support and expect a volunteer to answer you immediately because they do this on their free time and have lives and responsibilities of their own that take precedence over the forums. Give your thread 24 hours then if no one reply’s you can politely bump it. I have made many buddypress sites and I am not affiliated in any way with the Dev team or moderation team and I can assure you it is the real deal. I do volunteer and help here when I can as a way of paying the help I have received forward. 🙂

@ljmac
All I did was change lines 27 and 51 in the plugins activity-privacy-component.php Rich’s code used is_site_admin() I changed it to is_super_admin() to reflect depreciated code, and I changed line 40 to return true instead of false. I think most of Rich’s code is still intact other than that. I also just added the loader.php and a check for BuddyPress. As you can see there was no major changes I made, and it was all in an effort just to get the needed functionality for my purposes of usage at that time. I hope this helps, and if you do something cool with it then that would be even better and remember sharing is caring! 🙂

troll much?

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.