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Which update ? Do you use a child theme ?
Do you follow changelogs ? If so, have you noticed the recent template changes made in BuddyPress 2.7 ?

Also, because BP pages are not exactly ordinary WP pages, how have you implemented your slider ? Those details may help to help you.

Note also that an issue with Canvas/BP 2.7 was reported 2 mounth back. I ignore if you are concerned, but in case of, the discussion is here.

You can use the theme approach by overloading a group template, home.php, from a plugin.
https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/template-overload-from-a-plugin/

Then in your overload, add a conditional at the top.

That should side-step switching themes issues for most themes.

I am guessing an installer from a web host likely includes some plugins and different themes.
I suggest deactivating or deleting all plugins, and switch to default theme in wordpress before you try to install buddypress. then follow the prompts from there.

It’s possible that either a plugin or your theme is conflicting. If the problem has just started happening, try checking what you’ve done recently (added new plugins, changed or upgraded your theme etc)

Can you provide a list of the plugins you’re using? Also which theme?

I would change permalinks, save, then change back and save..

then – make a list of other plugins you are using, and which theme – try with all other plugins disabled.. and the 2014 (or 15 – default) theme.

does it work?

if not delete bp – and get your regular wordpress to work. remove any pages you don’t need – change permalinks.. basically getting a fresh install that works just as wordpress.. change permalinks twice.

then install bp – and run through the process of assigning pages, and all that – and check permalinks twice..

I would be it’s a theme or other plugin causing the conflict at this point.. if your htaccess is fresh anyhow..

Never heard about a dropdown option limit! What is the limit you reached ?

…nothing accurate in /bp-xprofile/classes/class-bp-xprofile-field-type-selectbox.php

…or on common forum question.

Plugin list and theme name could help to help you.

Hi,

you certainly know that you use a theme with your BP install. And as any theme user, you know that you can add your own styles to it with help of a child-theme.

Why do you have a weird output ?
Because activity content is partially sanitized, and perhaps also, because your theme add some custom styles to blog posts. Do know that, you could test the output of SWA with one of twenty’s theme.

And in any case, you have to style the output via your child-theme style.css file.

About image size.
You’re talking about a “normal rt media” image… Hum, rtmedia is a third party plugin, and not exactly what WordPress use as first to show pictures, or is what impact BP when you display a post excerpt on the SWA.

You have at least to test WordPress attachments output, then BP, then your theme and eventually any other plugin using images… To do that, you have to adjust correctly your image settings (in WP, BP, theme & plugins…).

To resume:
– issue can be solved by using CSS
– and before using CSS, ensure settings are correctly working on a basic install of WP+BP and a twenty theme. Once all this is ok, you can use your theme and adjust CSS.

what does your htaccess include in it?

switched to a default theme like 2014?

using the basic, default /register/ or whatever? (or did you chage it to something custom at some point?)

Go to settings -> permalinks – make a note of what they are set to..
change it to some else like post=1223 – click save.. then change it back to the /postname/ or whatever.. save again..

problem fix?

Hi @luisa227,

considering your questions, i would suggest you read attentively both WP and BP codex.

– child theme
– bp-custom

bp-custom.php goes to wp-content/plugins/ directory, not into the (child)theme folder.

such path members/single/swap is related to BP legacy by default.

But as swap is a custom folder, that custom path means in fact wp-content/themes/child-theme/buddypress/members/single/swap.php, where /child-theme/buddypress/contains copies of all your customized legacy files and your own additionnal files you want to use.

Hopefully reading the codex will help you to understand a little better how all this works together.

I would download Simple Custom CSS and put all the custom CSS there. In this way your changes wont go away when updating a plugin or theme.

Hi,

to deactivate a plugin you can use WP’s plugin manager page or to go directly to your files via FTP where you can remove the plugin from the directory wp-content/plugins/your-plugin/

Those warnings are not obligatory in direct relation with BuddyPress. Why ? Because you’re the only one until today who mention such an issue. I activate and deactivate my BP many times a week and have never get such a warning.

Try first to deactivate your theme in favor of a twenty theme and see if you continue to receive the messages. If still there, deactivate all your plugins but BP one by one until you find a culprit.

disclaimer, I am not a bp dev, just a long time user, and my knowledge is far from complete.

1 -each Profile / Member offered a separate gallery or media library?
This was a problem from the very beginning, and perhaps the biggest problem for bp aside from lousy filter options for the activity stream. Initially it was handled by the ‘bp-album’ plugin – which was later abandoned amidst some drama – rtmedia is kind of the standard for handling this now – but it’s bloated, important functions have gotten expensive, and it’s not well supported in core or themes – it’s terrible at keeping things separated like comments on media and galleries –
There is a new bp media like experimental thing that looks promising, and some attempts at making placeholders for bp media have been made in the past year, new hooks for bp attachment, etc. Some code has appeared on github showing a great start at possible core bp media handling – but not enough devs on that.

if you must have media with bp I suggest getting the premium “press permit core” and ask for support in limiting what other users can see in the media library. God forbid you have a problem with users trolling other users – and you have media – as you can purchase the buddyblock plugin which will prevent most abuse user to user, but it does not hook into the separate commenting system that rt-media creates. I strongly encourage you to try the other media plugin and hope that works for what you need before getting stuck with rtmedia and no way to export it’s data to something else.

2 a cap on how many Mb’s a user is allowed to upload for the total amount of media space
Wordpress has a setting for this when using multi-site setup – but I think it affects only what gets posted to the user blogs aka sites. I think rtmedia has an optional purchase-able plugin for this if you use their system to allow for the media uploads – not sure if the other competing system has such functionality.

This is a problem, and a solution should include a way for admins to look at users who have uploaded media, not just by user and space taken up, but also by date. There should be more control for deleting content with various parameters as well. I pity you if you find one day a user has uploaded 100s of photos that violate… terms.. and you have to delete each one at a time. If you find a way to handle this better with rtmedia I’d love for you to share it.

Currently I have tons of photos and videos that users have uploaded and no good way to look at or remove, aside from going profile to profile and manually checking what shows up there. A better way may exist, I have not found it yet.

3 – Why do all members have to be Authors in order to be able to Post because this was the only method that worked for me.
When you say post, that sounds like posting a post to a blog – either their own multi-site blog, or perhaps to a group blog. This is how worpdress is and is great for controlling things with blogs. If you mean a user needs to be an author in order to add to thier “activity stream” aka wall or profile or whatever, I do not think they need to be a blog author in order to do so… “What’s new” activity posts work fine without being a blog author.

4 – BuddyPress and BB Press how should I set up my .htaccess file – this should be documented somewhere around here. Wish I could tell you, I don’t have any bb press running with any buddypress installs any longer.

If you don’t want robots to crawl your site, search for forums for making buddypress private – you’ll want to lock down your site with a password required to view anything – if you really want to block bots.. if it’s just the nicer bots you are referring to, like googlebot, yahoo and bigbots – then you can setup a robots.txt with something like

robots *
disallow /
allow index.php

but I don’t think having the main engines index your index.php is really helpful with most WP themes.. you’d probably be better with “allow /about-us/” for example.. as most wp sites I’ve worked with dont have a good ol’ index.html

your experiences may vary..

With BP you eaither have lots of time to code, or you take everything as is for the most part. Auttomatic has not funded bp well since the first dev Andy left – it’s basically abandoned like unwanted bastard child that gets (almost) no support – and has been for years. Instead depending mainly on volunteer contributors that obviously have to do other things like earn a living and pay bills.

Some great people do amazing things making bp better – I appreciate those that are making the documentation better and fighting the good fight of dealing with all the wp core changes and how they affect bp when it updates – and other work to make it better. However what is seemingly most important to many webmasters and end users may not be on the roadmap for future releases – and finding developers to mod up BP is not as easy as one may hope either.

custom fixes today may well be broken with future updates, and no one has thought about the laws in Europe for privacy and users being able to export data you have them.. all kinds of things..

consider bp a huge mix of free code that is very experimental, and in my humble opinion should be removed from the wp plugin repo if automattic is not going to fund it properly – it certainly should not be on the first page view of plugins – anyone installing it likely has no idea what can of worms they are getting into.

If you are thinking of the future and how you may need to moderate user’s uploads and such, I strongly encourage you to test out the mediapress alternative – but realize in order to get core functionality with bp right now you will have to add on a walled garden from one place or another.. without any import / export options – before you invest too much of your time and your user’s pictures and videos into silos you may never escape, you right as well look into and test out peepso (https://www.peepso.com )- as they seem to have more skin in the game and have made at least some import / export things if I remember correctly.

again, I am not a bp dev. also I have not used mediapress yet – although I would with a fresh install – rtmedia has not met my expectations, although not a total fail, it is only 60% of what it should be. I have not used peepso yet either. Just a guy that’s been running a few bp installs for a few years, and my knowledge is fuzzy at best. surely @ma.tt, others thoughts, and your mileage may vary.

If you not done any changes (no new plugins, themes, costum code) after last time when it worked you should check your db through php my admin because it might be broken table. If you want you can write me ignas.rackus@gmail.com and I will take a look. Because I have fixed my site.

@igniens,
sorry youu have troubles with BuddyPress.

If you expect some usefull help, it would be better you give as first some important details about your installation.

PHP version, server type, theme name…
Do you have sme custom code in your theme or in bp-custom.php ?

Did you followed the instruction you see from the Captcha message showed in your screen shot ?
Have you setup permalinks and have you save them again ?
Did you used one of BP’s repair tool ?
How many groups do you use ? Which group type do you use ? Have you issues with all group activities or only with public groups ?

Can you see other activities on the Site Activity or on Group Activity ?

You should also test with a twenty theme, in any case to get sure the basic WP+BP install is working corrently, wihout any other plugin and wp-debug on, of course.

If you use a cache plugin, clear the cache. Same thing for your browser history…

Oh, and avoid to write Help in a topic title. You’re already on a help support, no need to rewrite it for your purpose, it doesn’t accelerate anything. 😉