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I found out what was causing the problem for me. I don’t know if the cause is the same for the OP.

In forum settings, I had unchecked the “Forum Prefix” box (the one that prefixes all forum pages with the root slug “Forums.”) I also had the Search slug set to the default “search.”

This left the forum search results “script” if you can call it that, pointing to domain.com/search – which I gather is the default search URL for WordPress and BuddyPress?

Without BuddyPress installed, the forum search still worked, but with BuddyPress installed – nothing. And yet, it was NOT BuddyPress, it was my own lack of understanding. 🙁

I hadn’t realized that the root search slug, without forums in front of it, would cause a problem. But I did some digging around in all this and discovered that both the twentysixteen theme, and BuddyPress, have pages called “search.php” – so naturally, domain.com/search would point to one of those scripts, and not to bbPress search results. (bbPress does not have a search.php page)

Anwyay, when I check the Forums Prefix box, and search the forums, the results page loads at domain.com/<strong>forums</strong>/search and everything works perfectly.

Unforunately I’m using a plugin for bbPress that changes the URL structure and requires me to leave the Forum Prefix box unchecked. But, I found a way around that too – in Forum Settings, I simply changed the search slug to search-results and again, everything works perfectly (and the URL for search-results is now domain.com/search-results which in no way conflicts with domain.com/search)

I have to say, had you not mentioned the search slug in your response, it never would have occurred to me that it would be the cause of all my frustration. I’m glad to have this resolved, and hope that my explanation is enough that it will be able to help anyone else who might run into the same issue.

EDIT

I’ve also discovered that I can set the search slug to forums/search which effectively accomplished the same thing as leaving it on search whilst checking the Forum Prefix box. i.e. they both return the URL as domain.com/forums/search which may not be a huge deal, but it does seem to look prettier than any other URL…

It depends on what you want to do.

If you are talking about template overrides, then follow this guide:

Theme Compatibility – Customizing

If you are talking about code snippets, you can use your theme’s functions.php file or wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php.

When I try and search the forums I get no results and returned to the home page

I’m having this same problem and it is definitely an issue that is caused by BuddyPress. I’m using WordPress 4.6.1 with the TwentySixteen Theme, bbPress 2.5.10, and BuddyPress 2.6.2.

When I deactivate all bbPress related plugins, the search still sends me back to the home page. When I deactivate BuddyPress – the search works exactly the way it’s supposed to.

Is there a file in the BuddyPress theme that I can modify/remove/replace, that will correct this issue?

How about your theme?

hi @dsnic,

this should work. Add to bp-custom.php or child-theme functions.php

function bpfr_hide_visibility_tab() {	
	if( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) )	
			
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'settings', 'profile' ); 
	
}
add_action( 'bp_ready', 'bpfr_hide_visibility_tab' );

Hi all,

As @danbp suggested, I’ve looked at the file: bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php
The full avatar size is indeed set to 150×150 by default there, as @imath has said.

If the others in this thread facing the same problem are using the Kleo or Sweet Date theme, then you’ll find the default 580×580 avatar size set in this file: wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php

The problem, however, is that even when the image being uploaded is a lot bigger than 580×580, the error notification still appears.

For now, I’ve temporarily “solved” the problem by commenting out the code mentioned by @danbp so the error notification doesn’t appear. This kinda works because the site will still accept the uploaded photo despite the error notification. At least this way there’s no error notification to confuse users.

However, this is probably not the correct way to solve this issue. Can someone please help with a more elegant solution?

Have you momentarily changing to a theme like WP 2015?
To confirm that the issue is not related to your theme?

Hi Trecks,
It’s a good question.
The page that you see being loaded is actually register.php template file.

Are you using a child theme? If yes, then look for buddypress/members/register.php in the child/parent theme and copy it to your child theme in buddypress/members/register.php and modify the text as required.

If your theme does not come with it, you can copy the register.php from wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/members/register.php to yourtheme/buddypress/members/register.php and modify it.

All we are doing here is overriding the registration template.

Hope that helps.

Regards
Brajesh

Hi,

appart it is a wordpress related question, you can use CSS.

Try this rule; goes to child-theme style.css

div.wp-editor-container div.quicktags-toolbar {
	background-color: red!important;
}

You can find good tuts on the web for more details.

I’m unable to reproduce your issue on a single install with over 20 plugins active and plenty of custom functions active in bp-custom.php
I can upload medias without problem with different 3th party themes or Twenty’s

Try to upload a fresh copy of WordPress and BP and see if it makes a difference.

Now about the snippet.
It works more or less, no code error. You commented the action, so it is deactivated if someone copy/paste it without correcting this.

That said, what is the reason behind using a redirection to login if the site, or at least the buddyPress parts, should be private ?

Wouldn’t it be more logic to redirect visitors to an anonymous page with some important information, from which the first one could be Sorry, but this site is private ? Followed by some informations how to register or pay a fee or whatever the reason.

A private site has two type of visitors: those invited to join and the others. Don’t give the opportunity to those who are there by chance to enter the site so easily.

I let you think about this and eventually create an appropriate page and template.
Here a code example redirecting to a page called Intranet and the correct calls to slugs for all components (including bbPress).

function bpfr_guest_redirect() {
global $bp;
// enter the slug or component conditional here
	if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) || is_bbpress() ) {
	
// not logged in user are redirected to - comment/uncomment or add/remove to your need
		if( !is_user_logged_in() ) { 
			//wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') ); //back to homepage
			//wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/register' ); // back to register page	
			wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/intranet' ); // back to whatever page
		} 
	}
}
add_filter( 'get_header', 'bpfr_guest_redirect', 1 );

Add it to child-theme’s functions.php

You followed apparently all steps except one: permalinks activation. Go to dashboard > Settings > Permalinks and choose an option, except “default”. Save and see if your urls are working. 😉

Check also anything listed here (php version, htaccess,… ) in case of.

FYI:
The default register page is in following location
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/register.php

This theme exist only for backward compatibility and is no more used by BuddyPress since BP 1.8
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration

Hi,

the logout link is redirected to the same page. If you’re on your profile notifications screen, which is only intended for you, it is normal that when you logout from there, you’re redirected to a page not found message. Notifications is even private and not public.

The solution is to redirect to an always public part of the site on logout.

Add this snippet to child-theme’s functions.php

//* Redirect WordPress Logout to Home Page
add_action( 'wp_logout', create_function( '', 'wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit();' ) );

Advice 1: use preferably the login widget, so the user stays on the same page where he attempt to login instead to be redirected to that boring wp-login page.

Advice 2: on the Home (which is the member directory), you have all BP pages listed at the bottom. Remove them ! You certainly don’t need to give access to account activation or register page to your visitors…

Best recommendation would be to use this premium plugin

WooCommerce BuddyPress Integration

and some additionnal add_on like this one:
https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-buddypress-integration-xprofile-checkout-manager/

Note: BuddyPress doesn’t handle registering, it only shows the wp-login form with some more fields (if xprofile component is activated).

Loginizer is a third party plugin, it is not part of WordPress.

Afaik you have to check WordPress alone as very first debug step.
Rename the complete plugin folder (this will deactivate all plugins) and test WP with a twenty theme.
Keep also define('WP_DEBUG', true); in wp-config while testing.

kleo matches 175 times in search result on this forum… and only 55 times at 7thqueen support.

Despite we can’t help you with premium themes, as we have no access to the code, people constantly comes here to ask for help, solve issues or get advice for customizing their expensive theme.

That’s sad, a little unfair and may be just c’est la vie finally ?

Perhaps, when you are tempted to buy some novelty item – such as an awesome newest theme – try to visualize it in a pile of junk at a yard sale with a 50 cent price tag on it!

Did you ever asked you why WordPress comes with a new default theme each year since 2010 ?

Guess it’s time to say Hello Twenty Seventeen !

hi @karmatiger,

have you tried to hide this option via CSS ?
The radio button “Everyone” is in by default. His visibility level is “public”.

With CSS you can use li.public {display:none!important;}.
Add this to your child-theme style.css or if you use a theme coming with his own custom CSS option, add it there.

Hi,

this cannot be answered without details about your site. Please give
– plugins list
– server params (php memory_limit, php version)
– used theme
– do you use custom functions for groups ?
– did you modified the update textarea ?