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@drraven0,

have you setup correctly all component pages ?
Have you setup pretty permalinks ?
Which theme do you use ?
Used plugins, is it a single or MS install ?
Have you a correct php version (at least php 5.2.4) ?

And last but not least, which group function are you talking about, as they are many !

Give more details please !

The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activate, Register. Repair

Those pages are not created automatically. When you get this error message, you have to create the pages manually first.

Go back to bp settings > pages tab and allocate the new pages to the respective component. Save.

You have also to set pretty permalinks to something other thant “by default”. Save.

Now BP has his page assigned and should work.

About the missing button.
Clear your browser cache.
If you use a cache plugin, clear it.
Go to wp-config.php and activate debug mode at the end of the file.

Deactivate all plugins except BP and activate one of WP’s theme (2015, 2014 or 2013…)

See if you get some error message and correct the errors (if exist).

If after tracking/repairing errors, the button is still not showing, deactivate buddypress, delete it and upload a fresh copy of BuddyPress to your site. Sometimes files can be corrupted and need to be replaced. No worry, this will not affect any data in your DB.

If still nothing, check that your host plan has the required php version to be used with WP and BP: at least 5.2.4

Hi @manakio2k,

you could try to just modify the template to get alphabetical as first sort option, instead of the default Last active.

Create a child-theme first, add a folder called buddypress. In this folder add members folder and in that folder add a copy of index.php which is in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/index.php

Around line 78, change the options order to get this:

<select id="members-order-by">
	<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) : ?>
		<option value="alphabetical"><?php _e( 'Alphabetical', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
	<?php endif; ?>
		<option value="active"><?php _e( 'Last Active', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
		<option value="newest"><?php _e( 'Newest Registered', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>

Now, members directory is sorted alphabetically by default.

now it does nothing.

So you can see it.
That means that ‘buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-template.php’ is not inactive.

Your description of the problem is so muddled that suggesting a solution is nigh impossible.

Confirm that the issues are not in your theme. Try switching to a standard theme like WP 2013.

Please use the code button when sharing code.

This is a theme that you are creating?
If not, please ask the theme author.

This looks incorrect:
action="[fn function=" method="post">
No function is stated. And the closing ‘]’ is missing.

I just started implementing this in my theme. I was going to try to hook into bp_filter_request() but it doesn’t use nonces so I am not sure if it is secure for loading tabs that may have restricted visibility.

I couldn’t see anything on trac. Is this being worked on at the moment?

hi @wpthemes,

thank you for sharing, even if bp-default theme is no more maintained. This old theme is only in for backward compatibility with older install.
More here:
The future of the bp-default theme

I added that snip to the bottom of the PLUGIN bbpress.php, NOT the THEME functions.php

I am going to scrounge to see how I can add that warning to the top of the page in the welcome.

Which theme are you using?

That’s an old bug who was patched. (see here) Check bbpress code and update it if you’re using an older version.

Also, if you have debug mode on in wp-config, revert it to off.
If the message still remains, deactivate your theme and use Twenty Fifteen or Fourteen to test.
If the message disappear, you know the culprit. In that case , contact your theme support

hi @aventurine_geode,

BuddyPress use templates and CSS which are all stored in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

To modify them, you have to create first a child-theme and copy into it any of the files you want to modify, by respecting /path/file structure of the original /buddypress/ folder.

In brief, wp-content/themes/child-theme/buddypress/file

Most of your questions are related to CSS. You make these changes in /child-theme/style.css
To alter the searchbar, but depending of what you exactly want to do, see bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/index.php (similar path for members) or creating a custom function if more in-depth modification. In that case you put this function into bp-custom.php (wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php) or into child-theme’s functions.php

More details can bee found on Codex

BuddyPress Theme Development

That CSS trick is weak and should contain !important to work. And add it to your child-theme style.css (no matter the line) or you will loose that setting at next theme update.

li#members-all span , li#activity-all span {
   display: none!important;
}

Another solution is given here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/all-members-tab-count/#post-228851

Hi @ethanoltom,

don’t double post (this-webpage-has-a-redirect-loop) as it doesn’t bring faster or any answer. Also, searching for similar issues before asking is good practice.

So please, read here and follow advices. You’re not the only one whith this issue. For now, deactivate also your theme, any plugins except BuddyPress and if you use a cache plugin, clear it previously.
Concerning the forum rules, please read here. If you use some custom functions, remove them too while testing.

Aside, i visited this profile. I would recommend you review your email strategy, it’s not a good idea to show it publicly.

According to your past topics here, you have now a haunted mention system ! 🙂
A change you make ? Here….

Uploading a fresh BP copy is just in case of one of the files was corrupted during update. This doesn’t affect anything in a theme or another plugin, or even in the DB. If you did it, BP is already restored to default.

I suspect a remaining old setting option from an uninstalled plugin or theme, but without any idea what it could be. 🙁

It may also be possible that Buddy theme is not following strict BP coding standards or is outdated at some point. But only if the site is extremeinferno.com…

Can you provide a temporary test user account for your site ?

On any particular condition other than just messages? If you want to simply remove the item-header you have two choices really, query the page for the component and action being viewed and wrap a conditional around the item-header or using the template hierarchy create a index-messages.php file in your theme adding it into file structure as outlined in the codex guides ‘buddypress/single/members/’ now you can modify this template and remove elements just for that one component view.

Template Hierarchy

hi @julia_b,

Seems your mention link has no closing tag, but difficult to say who, what, where without details.

Have you a custom template file for members-header.php in a child-theme ? If yes check the @ link at the begin of that file.

If no, have you custom functions in bp-custom.php or theme functions.php ? Check there for some code error.

If no to both, simply upload a new copy of buddypress, maybe a file get corrupted during update.