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@natmba1 – you do not need a wordpress dot COM account to run buddypress – and I am not sure that you can run BP there – not the last time I checked.

What I suggest is getting your own web hosting account – for 10 or 20$ per month you can run your own (shared) hosting – and put wordpress and buddypress and any other plugins you like into it.

Some places like dreamhost.com (and similar hosting companies) – make it pretty simple to setup a wordpress hosting account and then you can add plugins and themes through the backend admin dashboard.

You will likely end up with an account at wordpress dot ORG – to ask questions about plugins and stuff – but the dot ORG is the free open community and the dot COM is more the commercial thing kind of like wix.. which I am sure you have seen places like that are very limited – running your own system has many more options – but with that comes a bit more learning and responsibility 😉

See the Members Navigation Menus article.

@aju29 – If I were you I would make a zip file backup of all your files (through cpanel or whatever) – then export your database (follow the instructions in the wordpress.org for exporting backups – (you’ll need to go into phpmyadmin -> export – advanced – check “add drop table” – export)

check your server error log to see if there is anything in there that would give a clue when you get the ““insufficient permission to view this page” error.

Check to make sure you have “pretty permalinks” set properly.

IF you deactivate all plugins, and switch to default theme, and things do not work right at that point – something is wrong.. could be your server setup, could be you forget to add the line needed for multi-site to work properly.. go back and re-trace steps..

Then I would start fresh, delete everything and install a totally fresh WP –

Of course you could do this in a different folder or something.. but you need to get wp multi-site and buddypress working with default theme before mucking it up with other plugins and themes.. once you establish that the basics work with your server and setup – then start adding the other stuff one by one to see if something breaks it.

Someone else may have an idea of what your trouble is and chime in – I don’t know your exact setup and what your exact issues are when you are trying to do what exactly – I am just another BP user, not a wp / bp dev / guru by any means.

@scotty_417 – profile pages, member pages, groups pages – these are not “real pages” – they do not have a “taxonomy” – they are “pseudo pages” – basically add widget stuff your default sidebar and pray it shows up there. It’s a major downside of the current BP, and causes problems not just for easy customization, but also things like page titles and meta descriptions.

Those in the BP forums will likely just point you to your them developer and tell you to ask them. Of course there is no easy answer if they don’t know all the ins and out of BP. Just like the meta problems – point the finger at others, the point back saying they follow the WP guidelines (which for many things have changed recently, making it more difficult for theme designers and BP coders)

No one here is going to help you with a premium theme from somewhere else – at least from what I have seen. You might get a reply if you are asking about the default 2014 theme or something else similar / default WP.

OF course I am not a BP Dev – just another user, so take these thoughts with a grain of salt or two.

This is the standard login link: http://www.profoundstudio.net/wp-login.php

So your login/out link is non-standard.
Did you ask the theme authors about your issue?

Did you set “pretty permalinks” ? – Did it actually write the code to your htaccess file?

Some server settings will not let WP write the htaccess file when you change permalinks and you need to create that manually.

What theme are you using?

Hi Joe,

I don’t think there is a setting you can change for that specifically but you can restrict access to the content on that page and similar pages by adding a conditional in to their templates.

You need to copy over the relevant template from here:

…\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\

and put it in to your theme here:

…\wp-content\themes\your-theme\buddypress\

so for example for that particular page, the friends list on a user profile, you would copy this file:

…\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\friends.php

and put it here:

…\wp-content\themes\your-theme\buddypress\members\single\friends.php

then open up that file in a text editor and add this code near the top (under the first closing ?>)

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

Then right at the end of that file, add this code:

<?php endif; ?>

That should work but I haven’t tested it as I don’t have access to my main PC right now. That will show the normal header and footer but none of the friends list content.

Alternatively if you wanted to show an error message like ‘you need to be logged in’ you could use something like this in place of that first snippet of code:

<?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

<p>You need to be logged in to view this content</p>

<?php else : ?>

Hope that helps 🙂

Normally, the Add Friend action is very fast.
The issue is probably in your theme or server setup.
Try switching to a WP theme like 2013 and then check the speed of the same button actions.

@stegtflesk Looks like you’re using a premium theme with it’s own features built in. Not sure, because we need more information, like what theme are you using? Have you tried asking at the theme author’s forums? We have no access to premium themes.

You want to prevent emails being sent for all new messages?

Try this in your theme/functions.php or in plugins/bp-custom.php
remove_action( 'messages_message_sent', 'messages_notification_new_message', 10 );

If that doesn’t work, try writing a function using this hook:
do_action_ref_array( 'messages_message_sent', array( &$message ) );
Found in: bp-messages\bp-messages-functions.php

In that function, remove all the recipients from $message.

@rollercoasterider – are you still doing this with a default theme like 2014 or something similar?
Have you tried it with ALL plugins disabled except buddypress?

(some hosts do include a wp-cahe type plugin, that is enabled by default, that drove me crazy with a similar issue a couple years ago – lol)

@thatmtnman – sounds to me that you just have not played with a few different themes and changing some widgets – that would do about everything you are saying from what I gather. Should be pretty easy to come up with what you are talking about with just some basic theme modifications – a little css color changes and different widgets in the sidebars.

“dying to see how you did it” – I think the site you are talking about just added a bbpress forums plugin and added some topics to the sidebar.

“BP might not be able to handle a high traffic site…” – handles a small site on a shared server fine – handles a site with 10,000 members on a dedicated server just fine (even sharing that dedicated with a dozen other wp and wp-multisite and bunch of other fair traffic sites – so I don’t think that would be an issue.

@ewerto2015

“is the best?” – that is going to be quite a subjective answer from whoever may answer it.

The best one?! One that does not use facebook at all (IMHO) – privacy. dependency. more important than making it easy for that one person who might actually use it.

In the few cases that I added anything facebook to my sites, I made sure they only loaded assets (like the like button) from local storage, not some iframed pulled from fbook, or some other privacy sacrificinf javascript or something.

If you want to find what you think may be best, install a few from the wp-repo and see how they work, and how they work.. you may find the one that looks best with your theme is what you think the best is.

I will never use a plugin that phones home to Ggl and Fbk for my site to function – it’s bad enough when gravatar slows down page loads – and privacy is not just a personal issue – but in some cases a country laws issue (look at http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html (might have to paste the url into a service that will translate the German to your language)
from the author of “2 Click Social Media Buttons ” – from what I gather some of the common WP things people are deploying are in complete violation of various Euro laws.
(looking at your Google Fonts auto-embedded in WP, and Emoji third party calls, and many theme’s auto use of CDNs for things)

and plugins like “Social Media Feather”

are the kind of tradeoffs I might consider when a project requires some third party stuff.

OF course I am no expert on any of this, just some random BP user. Your opinions of whats best may differ.

@dangthrimble – no matter what you do to hide the admin username, the really good hack teams are running scans to get the admin names by running url checks like “yourdotcom /?author=2
?author=3

and scraping the details wp is providing both on page, and in meta fields.
Then adding those names to their pass cracking bot nets.
(look in your raw access logs, you will see it)

I’ve tried changing names on wp sites many times, the rssn hackers get getting the new names, you can tell if you check your fail log with “limit login attempts” plugin.

I’ve played with some code to change in wp themes to hide details there, but my php is slightly below beginner and my understanding of what the theme code is doing is same.

I tried a plugin from the wp-repo that is supposed to hide all that- but it’s not working.

(you could htaccess geo block ukrain and chna from your site completely and probably prevent 90% of these issues anyway from what I have seen by checking logs)

I found some htaccess someone posted that is supposed to suppress all requests for “/?auth [nc] or something like that – but since I do not understand what each part is doing, I have not deployed it.

I think it needs to be htaccess add and include anything with “author” and a number to work well (reg ex for numbers?)

Until I find a htaccess regex method I understand and trust, I have found that the best combo for prevention is:

Geo IP Block
(https://wordpress.org/plugins/ip-geo-block/ )
(default settings are okay, I think it’s best to change the drop downs to block by country the plugins area, theme area, admin ajax, etc as well – options in settings
Also some blogs may want to uncheck the “comment post” block by country
)

If this geoip block plugin author had a donate link I’d already sent him some bucks, it’s the most useful plugin I’ve found since… “good question”

and succuri is an informative add on as well
(shows that some bots have figured out how to bypass the limit login attempts max tries setting)

The way WP is handling question marks in urls (string queries I think it’s called) and giving up 200 status codes and extra info (including author names) to bots is a big issue for me, this kind of relates to the unanswered support question I posted here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-mark-url-return-200-not-404-string-query-noindex-or?replies=1

Is there a way to connect my lessons to BuddyPRess?

Probably, but there are too variables in your questions:
– what does ‘connect’ my lessons mean?
– what is a gamification plugin?
– how are you dripping?

btw – Those questions are rhetorical.

Unless somebody here has the same theme / plugin setup as you ( doubtful ), your chances of getting answers are slim to none.

Unless you are a developer, you’ll probably need to hire one to create the experience you desire.
And it sounds like a fairly large job.
You can post job listings here.

@rollercoasterider – so you created a new “page” and that page’s title is “Home”
maybe you created a second “page” and called tha “blog”
You went to: Settings -> reading and selected static front page to show the “page” Home ?
Perhaps blog to the “blog” page)

I assume you did the confige bp pages thing ( https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/ )

maybe assigning ( https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/register-and-activation-pages/ )

and you are using a default theme like 2014 ?

and when you click on members it goes to home?

Is this the same with all the other plugins deactivated?

Set your permalinks to pretty urls?