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I doubt I can help much, but I’m sure whoever does help will need more details. Here are a few follow up questions for you.

How did you try to install buddypress, exactly? Did you add the plugin from wp-admin or by uploading to the plugins directory via ftp? Were you able to activate the buddypress plugin? i.e., when you say you just “tried to install” it, is that because it gave some error directly (and therefore you never saw buddypress in action at all or altered the default settings), or because you haven’t been able to log into wordpress since then?

Hopefully with some more details, one of the generous wp/bp gurus on here will be able to sort you out.

in response to the original poster. how do I place that file in my wordpress root directory, and where is the directory?

Thanks

It’s there as Paul said in your main wordpress admin, find it in your WP admin left menu towards the bottom. “WP Admin – Settings > Reading Settings > A static page (tick radio button) > “Front Page displays” (and select a page you want for your home). You can set a page for home page there, also for posts index page just under there.

This chart might help: WP Roles & Capabilities.

There’s a good plugin for that, something like Restrict Group Creation. If somebody doesn’t beat me to it, I’ll dig up the link.

EDIT: Here you go: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ or get it the WordPress plugin directory.

The “blog” tab here is to the main BP site blog. If you want to offer each of your members their own individual WP blog sites, you’ll need to activate Multisite in your WordPress installation (WP 3.0 or higher only):

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

I have WP 3.0.1 in Multisite mode running the latest BP, and it’s working great for me. I manually create the child sites, though, so I can’t vouch for how things work if you want to allow members to register their blog sites themselves (but I don’t see why it should matter).

It is rather easier to work with if you’re starting a site than if you’re modifying an existing one, I’d imagine. I’m sure you’ll find other ways to engage people. (I did briefly look at Mingle, but can’t say as I feel strongly one way or another about it.)

There’s also WP Hide Dashboard: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hide-dashboard/

@jonnylons

Don’t know about the post, but here’s the plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/

I got the same problem. Did anyone know whether the plugin that caused it. I’m using WordPress 3.0.1, BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 , and so many plugins.

I had two users apparently never get the activation email. (One is me, so I know it didn’t go through, but the other attempt belongs to someone I don’t know. They MIGHT have simply never opened the email.) My first attempt used a hotmail (live.com) address. The other person’s is a personal domain.

I thought I was having a problem with ALL activation emails, but when I tried a new user registration with a gmail address, it worked. I suppose I should test new user creation with some more email addresses and providers.

In any case, if you don’t have tons & tons of new users, one thing you can do while “we” figure this out is to check the Users list under the WordPress settings (from wp-admin), as even unactivated users will show up there. Then visit any problem user in buddypress by manually typing in the address for their profile page (you know, something like http://www.example.com/members/USERNAME/). Then in the admin bar, you’ll find an option along the lines of “Admin Options->Mark user as not a spammer”. That’s probably not the exact text.