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1.1.x (whatever it was) was great. I had an activity stream widget on the front page, so I could immediately see (well, once I’d deleted all the spam registrations) who’d been doing what and where, and I click to go and view the context and respond in the same place.

Now I get the feeling that BuddyPress is a platform for creating communities of BuddyPress users

Now there is no profile wire (I renamed it to ‘wall’ because nobody understood what a ‘wire’ is) – it was an absolutely fantastic way for me to greet new users and have a bit of open chat with them.

Now there is this @username nonsense which I don’t understand myself (I am not and never will be a twitter user) – where does that post go? It shows up as if it’s my (Facebook-style) status update. Someone can reply to it but I can’t reply to their reply. All continuity has been lost. I can see the advantage of AJAX replies in the activity stream, but not when it seems a random factor whether the post will appear only in the stream or whether it will appear at source..

The default theme is awful (1.1.x or whatever I had was beautiful, right out of the box) – It took me forever just to get the home page working with two widget columns (surely that wouldn’t have been hard to include in the release..?) but the profile page… ooooh no, it’s a disaster In 1.1.x I had no problems tweaking the profile page to make it do what I want… with 1.2 it defaults to the awful activity stream and I have to click through to profile on every user to see if he comes from xgGT54GRerju and works at Ox8iHghuf34 before I delete him as a spammer.

I started using BP because I needed to replace an ancient platform that I’d written myself ages ago, and I wanted something reliable and extensible because I just don’t have the free time to work on my site anymore. BP 1.1.x was exactly what I wanted (I tried Elgg and some other yucky, heaving nonsense before stumbling on the beautiful BP).

But now it’s just gone off on an utterly bizarre tangent and lost all its intuitive user- (and admin-)friendliness

I know it’s free and I know I’m moaning and not being productive but I really can’t write plugins or themes for BP (much as I would love to – I can’t even work out how to put the wire back) but I feel it’s very sad to see something so good (and so free) go so wrong

It looks like you also have the 3rd-party plugin bp-registration-options installed and activated. If you can log the dashboard as Site Admin, then go to the Plugins menu and deactivate the plugin bp-registration-options. If you cannot login to your site, then manually remove the bp-registration-options plugin from the /plugins/ directory.

Either way, that should bring your site back up. You will then need to contact the plugin author and tell him/her about the error.

NOTE: This thread should be moved to the support forum Third Party Components & Plugins

There’s a few plugins that do this if you search for redirect login (or something like that).

Otherwise, you could do your own with some code like this:
function bp_redirect_to_page()
{
$redirect_url_cc = ‘URL to redirect to’;
bp_core_redirect($redirect_url_cc);

}
/*Add an action to redirect user after login*/
add_action(“wp_login”,”bp_redirect_to_page”,100,0);

You can add a lot more functionality to that too. I’m also playing with this redirect at registration. Very nice little function.

Are you sure you enabled registrations? If you did enable it, you should see a “Sign up” button right next to “Login” in the BuddyBar.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-41850

@Anthony why don’t you check if “allow new registrations” is enabled at “options” under “site admin” in your wordpress backend ? Read the same question today and provided the same answer, let’s hope it is the same problem !

Updated BP Registration Options to do the BP check.

Maybe you will find this info from the Google SoC site interesting @derekbolden:

Student Name: Kunal Bhalla
Mentor Name: John Jacoby
Title: Events Plugin for WordPress and BuddyPress
Abstract: Events have become an integral part of Social Networking; this plugin would also be useful for WordCamp.org – allowing people to handle WordCamp registration through the WordCamp site itself, etc.

This plugin will provide basic event functionality for plain vanilla WordPress installs and enhanced capabilities for BuddyPress installs by leveraging the new WordPress Custom post types and moving on from that.

Source: http://socghop.appspot.com/

One other idea. In the link to sign up, why not include the group number (or list of numbers) so that the registration theme page could be customized with a special welcome based on the group that invited them without having to do an extra query to the database to see which group they’ve been invited to join.

Something like: http://domain.com/register/accept-invitation/test2%40test.com/groupid=12

I had this same problem on one of my Bluehost domains. However, I was a little disturbed because I had 2 other Bluehost domains with BP that worked perfectly fine. In fact, one WPMU and one WP install as well. However, the emails wouldn’t deliver. I almost used the mail from plugin, but decided to redirect the MX record for my “broken” domain first.

So, I redirected the MX (mail record) from Bluehost’s crappy email service to Google Apps free (and fantastic) email service. Once I finished redirecting the MX record from Bluehost to Google Apps I tried the registration again on BP and the email went through with no problems.

Just thought I’d offer another solution for those on Bluehost.

Now I’m interested to see if the single WP install with BP will be a resource hog or if it’s just the WPMU that was/is the resource hog on a shared host like Bluehost.

FYI the ‘delete’ button in site wide activity didn’t work for me (bp 1.1) but this fix worked:
http://www.bestbop.com/sitedev/topic.php?id=4

@sbrajesh and @r-a-y, it was the bad bad mercime who added the link to the hack. i promise never to let my alter ego do it again

@dandelionweb

It’s better to make your changes in a child theme. This way your changes will not be overwritten when you have to upgrade BP.

@dandelionweb

Try using the post snippet I posted above.

@dandelionweb


function my_redirect_activation_email()
{
return get_site_option( "admin_email" );
}
add_filter('bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_to', 'my_redirect_activation_email');


Add this to wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php or your theme’s functions.php file.

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Or use this java applet:
http://java.freenode.net/?channel=buddypress-dev