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first test with default 2014 or 2015 theme – and all other plugins disabled except bp – does it work then? If not…

previous forum posts maybe helpful –
(let us know what you find works!)

With a new bp setup I usually check these things first if email are not seeming to send or go through ->https://buddypress.org/support/topic/activation-e-mail-failing-to-send/#post-241079 (From a recent similar thread)

Better to check the basics before digging into whether it’s a email header config on the server, php settings limiting functionality – need for wp to send as smtp plugin – something just with gmail blackhole filtering –

so many different things can affect wp sending, bp sending, your web serving sending email as php, or an email service accepting something that was sent, much less put in the actual inbox instead of junk mail / promotions box or whatever…

=-=- also from danbp about 8 months ago:
When encountering a registration problem, first thing to do is to test your install without any plugins and one of WP’s Twenty default theme. Ensure that your site send correctly emails. Before activating any plugin, your base WP install must work.

Once WP is OK – you can install BuddyPress and check your permalinks. Pretty permalinks must be activated to get the plugin working correctly.

This point is important, especially if you have redirection issues after BP is activated.

Second point to check is your theme installation.

Proceeding like this will help you to isolate easely the culprit. If:
– WP install: OK
– BP install: OK
– theme activation: problem

So you know here the problem comes from.

While testing your install, you can activate wp_debug (set to TRUE) in the wp-config file. This can give you a lot of information about conflict and/or errors.

Just keep in mind that these information have 2 levels of importance: notice and warning.
While notice are generally harmless, warnings should be taken seriously in account and solved.

If WP is the problem, see first the wordPress support
If it’s BuddyPress, see the BP support
If it’s the theme, see the theme support
If it’s any other plugin, see first the plugin support.

hi @kostasbarkas30,

i even tried to copy some functions from bp default theme in my functions php theme but still nothing.

Revert back to the original install by deleting that custom work. then follow @djsteveb advice.

Keep in mind that you should never install something on WordPRess before WP is working correctly. Same thing when you add, let’s say BuddyPress. In this case, WP and BP should work flawlessly together. Once you hace the built your house, you can add the wallpaper. OMG ! Like IRL ! 😉

That way, it’s much easier to debug if an issue occurs. 1 is ok, add 2. 1 & 2 are ok. Add 3. 1 & 2 & 3 are ok, and so on.

Note also that BP-Default theme is no more maintained and is only in for backward compatibility. BuddyPress works on slightly any theme !

BP has no theme, just some templates with minimal styles. This stuff is stored in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/. If you need to modify some theme functions, you do it from within a child-theme, in which you copy what you want to change from bp-legacy.

All this and more, is explained on Codex. Don’t hesitate to read through it, if you’re new to BP !

We all started a day. Rome wasn’t built in one day. It’s a Long Way to Tipperary . Facebook is unique and BuddyPress is great. Hold on, it’s just the begin ! 🙂

@kostasbarkas30 – disable all other plugins except buddypress.
might want to add another user just in case that’s an issue.
switch to 2014 theme or 2015 theme.
these “buttons” you are talking about may be tabs, or text – sometimes across the top, with the updated 2014 and 15 I think they are styled to be a side tab kind of display.

If they display on the default themes and not the one from linash – then you will need to contact them and ask why.

Hi,

Did you have any luck with this?

I believe I had a similar issue and I managed to unregister the default BP Login Widget, and register my own so I could customise it. My login widget was a duplicate of theirs with many elements swapped around, and some added html.

I can paste my code if it helps, it turns out it was really simple.

I should have put it in a plugin, but it’s all in the functions.php for now as I’m building a bespoke theme.

This behave is intented so. Read in bp-core-admin-functions.php:799

 * If a person is editing a BP menu item, that person should not be able to
 * see or edit the following fields:
 *
 * - CSS Classes - We use the 'bp-menu' CSS class to determine if the
 *   menu item belongs to BP, so we cannot allow manipulation of this field to
 *   occur.
 * - URL - This field is automatically generated by BP on output, so this
 *   field is useless and can cause confusion.

Why would you change the class name, as you can override any CSS rule within from your child-theme.

If you hav so much session, i would be preferably for yu to have a local install where you can test and replicate what’s going on live site.

Now, regarding your avatar issue, it can be related to the same symptom reported here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/profile-pic-upload-failure/

or not !

In this case (and also the missing sidebar), we nead more details about your config, (ms, single), active theme and used plugins. Or at least a site URL.

I can confirm that Raindrops theme is working correctly with BP and taht the admin bar is showing up to logged in users.

Deactivate and delete the admin bar plugin. Remove also any custom code you have added in the past concerning the toolbar. The idea is to revert back to a fully standard WP install.

If this doesn’t work, you have to go to your db and check the wp_options table for the toolbar setting.
Search for option_name hide-loggedout-adminbar where value must contain 1.

Are users allowed to change their avatar ? See BP settings.
If yes:
Test with Twenty Fourteen theme and without any plugin as BP.
Also, while testing, enable debug mode in wp-config (from false to true).

@atfpodcast – is the bar there when they are not logged in?

does it do the same thing when using the 2014 or 2015 theme?

have you checked settings –

admin dashboard – settings – buddypress – click the settings tab – checkbox – Toolbar Show the Toolbar for logged out users ?

occur when other plugins are deactivated?

Hi,

i’m not familiar with bp-attachment yet, so sorry in advance.
First, I would check that BP is installed and setup correctly and test it with Twenty something theme, and all other plugins deactivated.

An error occurred. Please try again later. is only used in one place: bp-core/bp-core-attachment.php
This error is related to bp_attachments_get_plupload_default_settings function, which controls some default settings to get plupload to work on your install.

Read through it to see what is checked by this function, and maybe you will have an idea of which plugin or theme is messing up the upload process. It’s probably nothing important (pictures are uploaded), but you see that message, which is weird, of course. A little js conflict perhaps. Or a plugin with some bad code or not correctly updated…

The other reason i tell you to re-check BP settings, is this URL to a profile.
http://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/members/members-2/martin_worswick/
Can you explain why you use /members/members-2/ and how you built it ?

Usually, a profile URL looks like this: `http://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/members/martin_worswick/
`
As the attachment API use js, it is possible that the uploader doesn’t find the correct way to end the upload, or something like that, due to this URL.

Headlights call from a Guzzi. 😉

Does front-page.php exist in your theme’s folder? If so, then that’ll override whatever you have in home.php.

@olliecard – I’m sure there are many ways to accomplish this, however I am not sure that buddypress is easily adaptable to some of the requirements – privacy for certain things, restricting profiles and such. I hope someone can chime in an share methods for using BP in this way, I’d love to see those options.

You could play with things like s2member for some restrictions and payments even – but restricting BP stuff is a challenge I think. Using other member and restrictions plugins with regular wordpress is pretty solid.

I believe you may be able to achieve your goal using some other WP plugins – there are many others that get into profiles, membership, restrictions, classifieds and such.

It might be 50 hours of work to mash all the various components together in a perfect way – and if so you may want to look at what wpmudev has withe their “membership 2” plugin and others that mix with it. wpmudev peeps had quick answers and solutions for something similar I posted about there years ago. I think their prices are double what they should be – but the support there exists, and if you are looking at a serious project it may be best to get into a professional support system like that.

Of course you would mix and match some of the free plugins in the wp-repo and probably come out with something – press permit, profile plugins, s2member – custom fields, tweak some themes – maybe even go WP-MS multi site for some semi-separated static things – and you may achieve what you are describing as well.

I’d love to see others post about other options, and I’d love to see BP have more fine grained control over things – it’s moving in that direction with things like user levels and such so the future with bp is possible, I just don’t think it’s there yet, and likely won’t be playing well with others anytime soon – and getting code help with BP – even if you offer to pay for it – is not the easiest thing in the world.

2 cents from a random user – not an expert

@atfpodcast Sorry, not quite clear what you mean. What exactly do “other BuddyPress themes have for the profile” that you want? Can you post a link to the other BP themes profile page URI so we can identify what you mean?

The mistake comes from you ! You probably confused bp-legacy and bp-default. You must use the id’s and classes used by bp-default theme, not thoose comming from buddypress legacy templates.

BP-default was designed to be used by BP < 1.7/1.9. Now, BP can be used with any theme…

When you check for CSS names, read the page source (right click on browser screen > show source).

First screenshot is the whats-new form. You highlighted the CSS and can see that it has nothing to do with the css rule you try to apply to activity avatar.
The div there is called whats-new-avatar and the class is photo.

Code source is in bp-default/activity/post-form.php

Try
div#whats-new-avatar .photo {}

Idem for the second screenshot. It’s the activity page of bp-default theme, which use different names as the actual buddypress template.

Bp-default theme is building a list for activities. Means you’re in a ul/li serrie. Avatars are somewhere inside a li.
You have to try something like

ul#activity-stream .photo {}

All concerned templates are in bp-default/activity/

Can’t help you more as i stopped to use bp-default since a few years now. Simply keep in mind that you’re working on an old theme which has not much to do with the way BP is currently handling with themes.

Codex contains some old reference to bp-default if you have other issue with that theme.

Keep your eyes open and have a nice day. 🙂

To create a shortcode, you use the same function as in the mentionned topic and instead echoing, you return what you need. Like this:

function bpfr_message_shortcode() {	
$author = get_the_author();
$message = 'Login to send a message to this author !';

if( is_user_logged_in() ) {
	return '<a href=" '.wp_nonce_url( bp_loggedin_user_domain() . bp_get_messages_slug() . '/compose/?r=' . $author ) .' title="Private Message to Author" ">Contact the author</a>';
 } else {
    return $message;
 }
} 
add_shortcode( 'ksam', 'bpfr_message_shortcode' );

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

Use the shortcode [ksam] at the place you want and you’ll see a Contact the author link.

Note that I tested it only within a post, meaning you need to be in a post loop to fetch an author.

I tested the snippet on Buddy theme, so i’m pretty sure you have a user menu. This menu is on WP’s Toolbar. You see it when you’re logged in.

To choose an item position, you have to do it differently, as explained here:

[Resolved] Position Notification Counter Bubble after Specific Navigation Tab ID

For more about menu handling and functions, see WP Codex, as this is not really related to BuddyPress. Now it’s your turn to work a little !