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Hi JJJ,

After a bunch of troubleshooting on plugins, I found that it was the Events Calendar Pro plugin that had a WP 3.5 issue. So the mystery of no WP Toolbar, and the lack of ability for users to post to Activity, Groups etc is now solved once I disabled the plugin.

Thank you so much for your patience on this. You are a great resource for WP, BP, and bbPress, and I appreciate what you do!

Hi JJJ,

Hmmmm…
This is my first BP site so please forgive the seemingly ignorant statements and questions 🙂

I thought that BP created the Member role when it was first installed?
It is possible that another plugin I use did, but I’m not sure…
I definitely did not add_role for Member myself…
So you are saying that BP never created a ‘Member’ role at any time (i.e. it is not a default role for BP)?

I just tested on the site. In addition to to not being able to see the WP Toolbar, the users with Role = ‘No role for this site’ cannot post activity, etc in BP (as I guessed since they have no Capabilities.

Hi JJJ,

That sort of makes sense, but why is it that every upgrade of Buddypress 1.5.X and bbPress 2.X I’ve had until now left the Member role there?

It’s only this last upgrade from BuddyPress 1.5.7 to 1.6.2 that the role disappeared…

If what you say is true and I don’t need the Member role, I still have a problem now because every User that was Member role is now assigned to NO role at all.
I believe that this is causing an issue with displaying the WP Toolbar, which does not show up for any of the ‘No Role’ users. Not having the WP Toolbar with the Buddypress menus is not desirable because the user cannot access the BP menus from the WP Toolbar, as they normally would.
Also, I haven’t tested yet to see if the ‘No Role’ users can add to BP Activity, Groups, etc. I need to test that.

So what would you recommend? Me creating a custom role for Member? If so, I would have to have the correct capabilities to make the BP stuff work?

Thanks for your help on this.

Mmmmm, maybe I didn’t explain myself the right way.

My website http://elanillounico.com has a menu on top right corner.

TU CUENTA means “your account” and the idea is that it should go to http://elanillounico.com/usuarios/USER/profile

The problem is I do not know how to get the variable USER for making that menu option go to the self-user profile.

Obviously if user is not logged in, it must go to login page.

It’s quite strange that there is not like a menu preset for this as I can add wordpress pages, personalized links, and even some plugins add another box with menu options you can add to your own menu, but there’s not any for buddypress?

I do not want to use WordPress toolbar, I have removed it. Buddypress allows users to edit their profile within the website without entering dashboard. How can I add a dynamic link to their own profile?

thanks!

hope I explained myself better this time 😉

update: reinstalled wp 3.5 and bp 1.6.2 and all is well with default bp template, accessing setup pages, registering via the top toolbar, accessing the forum, etc.

But I am now back to square one with the wp meta widget ‘register’ link where it takes me to myprimarysite.com/blogs/create, not myprimarysite.com/register link, like it should. I verified the pages setup in bp, saved it again to be sure, still the same issue. And on the primary site the meta register link goes to the correct form. On all sites the top toolbar register and log in links work just fine.

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To others: If you are experiencing a similar situation like I started with, verify your php.ini and/or htaccess file setup in your root directory, to possibly save yourself a lot of time. Also, backup, backup and backup!! And don’t accidently delete a backup folder unless you know for sure you won’t need them anymore!

I like the admin bar options as it’s so much easier and faster than having to go to the dashboard and then search for them and then delete.
The toolbar was much easier.

@mercime Thats exactly what I have done … i have only installed BP and some plugins related to BP like BP toolbar, BP template pack and such and I am working on a theme made compatible with ur help few days back. Still when i login and try post something on the sub sites i get the error whereas when i log in, in the main site as the admin n post something it works … I am not able to post anything on the subsites after activating this plugin … Any idea?

cheers for the reply, but are you sure that’s necessary?

If you’re extending BP_Component (which is since 1.5 but I don’t want to backpat further for, a year is long enough), it’s very easy to add new menus all you do is add the setup_admin_bar function to your class and it’s called automatically.

At that point, it’s pretty safe to assume BP does that check for you.

OK nevermind you can’t login directly from the toolbar. I am wrong. It does redirect you to your profile immediately without ever seeing the wordpress dashboard. If I can fix this I can finally get my site up and running. If you have any idea how to help please advise.

But I like how on buddypress.org you can login straight from the toolbar and it redirects to your profile.How can I do that?

Thanks for the reply I am using multi site and did what you said but it is the same options under main settings I have

Toolbar Show the Toolbar for logged out users
Account Deletion Allow registered members to delete their own accounts

thats it and both are checked

Thanks for the reply but nope no option for that I have a show tool bar for logged out users but no other toolbar options all the boxes are checked in my settings page aswell I would really like to “change my mind “ like it suggested haha