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For simple purposes can set up an extended field (say ‘Country’) in Buddypress without need for any particular plugin and have it included, even ‘required’, then you can use the ordinary WordPress search to filter the list of members to reflect only those matching the country of search. However I am not certain if you can restrict the content of that field to a particular known dataset of countries (ie you would have to rely on members correctly listing their country).
If you want to go further you could use a plugin like the BP Avatar Map ( https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-members-avatar-map/ ) which needs a ‘Location” extended field using various depth of location eg. just USA or Sydney,Australia or Sydney, NSW, Australia – the WordPress search should then find all from Sydney or all USA etc. The plugin includes a map for the Directory page but you could probably exclude that if you wanted.
Hope this helps.

You are welcome to join my site ( http://www.experiment.vacau.com ) just to see the “Location” field in the registration page and then see the results in the members (locate) directory and of course your profile. you will find you can alter the city/country detail etc. to refine the positioning.
Hope you find what you need.
Bon chance!

@mercime
sorry, i cant find the corresponding files, neither in the directories nor in the editor list. Could you please point me to where they are located?

I have installed Buddypress on a brand new site using the Default theme.
When a visitor creates an account on the site, they do not show up as members. When I go in through my dashboard, I find them listed as subscribers. How do I get Members on the site that can join Groups?

@tiagobeloto If you find a bug, create a ticket on http://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org.

For other feedback, or if you’re not sure you found a bug, make a topic here, and write “1.6” in the title so we can more easily see it. Or write it on http://bpdevel.wordpress.com

Thanks for help testing

@enderandrew – yes – there are quite a few sites now going with the tiled approach, e.g. the ‘new’ look Facebook friends page tiles 3 per row, and linkedIn has some tiled directories (with the profile tiles having a business card type feel). You’ll also find lots of smaller community / event site examples.

As HTML5 / CSS3 transitions become more prevalent, I expect to see more and more nice hover effects on the tiles – e.g. opening up in place to reveal more details about the member along with the ‘friend’ and ‘send message’ buttons. Andy Clarke’s “Hardboiled Web Design” book has some interesting examples of the type of effects that can be achieved, and the zurb playground is worth a look.

Here’s the site: http://fifaadvocate.com/members/ However I can’t find how to open the forums, register, or activate pages at the top of my website to make a test account. “anyone can register” is enabled under Settings>General. I’ve tried http://fifaadvocate.com/register/ but this directs me back to the home screen. Anything I can do to open these pages?

And a parting final comment or two on what does tend to become a wearisome topic:

Spam is pandemic across internet sites, all internet sites that have a member/registration system suffer from spammers – it is not! a problem that BP has more than any other app.

It’s annoying to have to go in every day and delete these users

And here is the rub so to speak; you DO! have to go in everyday and manage your site, how could you not think that wasn’t important or even vital? Any site of the type ‘Forum’ or ‘blog’ has to be managed and that really has to be realised why run a site if your not prepared to… run it – it’s why there are ‘admin’ roles!

I perform admin / moderator duties on a fairly large tech forum running Drupal we number six mods and each and every day we each deal with two or three spammers each this is over and above the measures put in place to deal with spam bots.

There are primarily two types of spam bots(automated) and humans(real people) There are a number of tricks and tips to dealing with bots and by and large there are actually pretty effective, these approaches and been linked to quite often so search those out and implement. As for humans this is the real issue, there isn’t a lot you can do about people registering on your site then posting garbage – not unless you close of membership or restrict membership – you have decided to run a open registration member site so really you need to get with the plot and understand that you WILL be spammed, if you find it too much trouble to visit your site once a day or to appoint further admins in your community that can deal with it then expect, when you do finally visit to have a lot more spam to deal with and for those spammers to have had the luxury of unfettered access to promote their links or harass your members – It really is your choice how you run your site but please please stop hunting round for this magic ‘thing’ that stops all spam dead it does not! exist.

I found on here somewhere (??? sorry I can’t find it now) – that if you COPY the Settings folder from the MEMBER folder in the Buddypress CORE over to the MEMBER folder in your THEME – it will resolve our issue.
Copy the ENTIRE Settings folder from here
…./wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/settings

to here — be sure to put it in YOUR THEME FOLDER

…./wp-content/themes/YOUR THEME FOLDER/members/single

This worked fine for me.

I have a similar problem: after installing buddypress: groups; forum; activities ;members come up. But at registration I get this error message: User registration is currently not allowed.
On the four tabs of Buddypress settings I cant find a setting to turn registration on or off.
I have looked up and found this line in the php files but don’t know how to read those.

I use a clean wordpress 3.3.2_nl install for budypressonly on a subdomain.
And also the default buddypresstheme.

Interesting… haven’t tried it yet.

So, if get_template_part can’t find a different template for a particular activity type (because a different template doesn’t exist) it will revert to calling entry.php ?

Note: I think you meant
members/single/activity/permalink.php
rather than
members/single/permalink.php

>> just as it wants to enter into a user option does not find this page.
Not clear what you mean. Can you elaborate further?

>> The problem is also a list of users, one does not display. What may be the problem?
If you already have users before installing BuddyPress, they need to log in at least once after the BP installation so they will be “recognized/recorded” and listed in Members Directory.

Hello peeps just wondering if u can help me out. After doing a fresh install off buddy press it seems i can’t sign up new member profiles or any other component working i can enter by admin and set up new users but can’t register new users from the login or register page. I have followed step by step instructions but it seems it might have something to do with my permalinks. Buddypress installs with default url permalinks but when i was setting up buddy press it asked me to set up my permalinks. I chose php my admin but after setting up pages for buddy press which it asks u to assign a page to a catergory it seems the urls are the default permalink urls and not the ones for my site. My url permalink is http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/index.php/activity-streams/ The default set of links are:

Activity: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/activity/
Members: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/members/
Groups: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/groups/
Forums: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/forums/
Register: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/register/ (registration must be enabled)
I have read so many turorials but none seem to point me in the right direction. Can someone help me out as i still can’t find an answer and i thought it was a simple plugin that worked out of the box LOL

Gerry, looks like you have it sorted, I just checked your website. I too am experiencing
the same after following the guide to a letter on how to install bbpress with buddpress and integrate them. I can view my bbpres forums no problems when I select them with a widget in the sidebar but when you select the Forum page, nothing comes up. The same goes with members, progiles, activity etc. How did you go did you do just as stated above or did you find an easier fix/solution.
my site is http://www.smartdroid-rom.kleinrealms.com it has me stumped, and already this is my second complete rebuild, I’d hate to have to redo the whole site again.

To elaborate on what @DJPaul said – BP uses WP’s logout, which is handled by wp-login.php. In particular, a request is sent to wp-login.php?action=logout, with a redirect_to argument of the current BP page.

@glepage you can integrate BP into your theme. Install and activate the BP Template Pack plugin and go through Appearance > BP Compatibility process https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ At the bottom of that page you’ll find an example of using the 1st method and two examples of the second method to make your theme compatible with BuddyPress.

You shouldn’t have two files named style.css however you could rename the old style.css to old.css and import it into the buddypress child of bp default theme.

To create a child of bp-default theme, create a new directory in your themes subfolder ie: /wp-content/themes/shinshan/ and in it put a simple text file named style.css

At the very top of style.css put something like the following:
`/*
Theme Name: shinshan
Theme URI: http://example.org/themes/shinshan/
Description: shinshan theme for BuddyPress.
Version: 1.0
Author: shinshan
Author URI: http://example.org/
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress, two-column, grey, dark
*/`
You could copy and paste the css (without the Theme head section) from your old theme immediately below that header or use the following line:

@import url( old.css );

(presuming the above file is renamed and in the current folder). Then preview or activate your new bp-default child theme.

I suspect that importing the css might cause more problems than it solves – but it depends on what you have in it….

To find out what needs to be changed, webpages can be examined with firebug (download) in firefox, or developer tools in internet exlorer 8/9 and Chrome (press f12 on windows)…