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Ha. Yes, this is an old and annoying issue in WordPress and WP plugins.

That said, we have done extensive work in the past to ensure that quotes are stripped where necessary throughout various interfaces. If you can share more detail about exactly where you’re seeing the slashed content, we may be able to help figure out where things are going amiss. For example, you say that you’re seeing this in the activity feed. But in what context? Is it when you type something directly into the “What’s new” box, or when something is syndicated from elsewhere on the site? Are you seeing the slashes when you refresh the page, or only when the content is returned from the database?

Hi @mycraze – It sounds as something is failing to load the jquery-cookie script. BP attempts to do it in the function bp_core_register_common_scripts(): https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.2/src/bp-core/bp-core-cssjs.php?marks=54#L18

The first thing to check is to see whether the page is attempting to load the script in the first place. View the source of the page, and look for a tag that looks something like this, in the document head:

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://example.com/plugins/buddypress/src/bp-core/js/vendor/jquery-cookie.js?ver=2.9.2'></script>

If you *do* see this, but are still having the problem, try the following:

* Load the script URL directly in a new tab. Does it load?
* Open the Network tab of your browser’s developer tools. Is the browser unable to access the file for some reason? Perhaps a 404 or some other error?

If you do *not* see the script tag, then it’s a server-side issue. My guess, in this case, is that you are using a third-party theme that loads the bp-legacy JS file without also properly declaring the dependencies. To verify, switch to a default WP theme (like Twenty Sixteen) to see if the problem clears itself up. If this is the problem, you may want to talk to your theme author, or share the relevant code from the theme (probably looks like wp_enqueue_script...) and we may be able to help you correct it. In the meantime, you may be able to work around this problem by manually enqueing the cookie script in your functions.php file. Something like:

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', function() {
    wp_enqueue_script( 'bp-jquery-cookie', buddypress()->plugin_url . 'bp-core/js/vendor/jquery-cookie.min.js', array( 'jquery' ) );
} );

Hi @redcompolitica – I’ve built multi-page registration processes for clients in the past, but unfortunately, it’s not very easy to do – BP’s registration system is not built in such a way as to make it easy.

If your main goal is to make registration less overwhelming, you might consider moving some or most of your registration fields out of the “Base” group. This will mean that they don’t show up during the registration process, and users will have to fill them in by editing their profile after signing in.

If your goal is to have *conditional* registration steps – where, for example, step 2 depends on a specific value provided in step 1 – then I’m afraid it’d have to be custom-built. Much of the work could be done with a custom theme template members/register.php and by modifying the way that registration data is saved and validated https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.2/src/bp-members/bp-members-screens.php?marks=113#L72

Some Trac tickets that are somewhat related that you might want to follow:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1842
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4278

Good luck with your project!

Hi,

just for your information, we’ve created a plugin which remove the password confirmation in the registration form:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/nopassconfirm/

Test it and tell us if that works fine for you!

Olivier

No sure if this was others’ experience, but for me the description duplication does not happen when tested with a WordPress theme. I just submitted a request to SeventhQueen regarding this, while using their “Kleo” theme.

BuddyPress uses a theme compatibility layer, meaning it uses its own templates that are designed to drop into any theme. You can overload all kinds of template parts for BuddyPress:

Template Hierarchy

However, there are plugins (I’ve not tested) that you could maybe get to work if you have two themes in mind: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-multiple-themes/

Best,

-David

This is sort of a big WordPress question that lots of people would like to change, but it’s not that easy. You could try using the plugin Theme My Login, which would need to be applied carefully, as it overlaps with BP a bit. https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/ (I have no idea if this is a good plan, you’ll just have to try it.)

The black bar across the top is a WordPress per-user preference “Show Toolbar when viewing site”. There are many resources on the web about how to disable it/change the behavior:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+disable+toolbar+for+subscribers

You can save extra things manually on the bp_core_signup_user hook:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.1/src/bp-members/bp-members-functions.php#L1900

But I imagine that the simpler answer would be to use Profile Fields. If you add profile fields to the base group, then they appear on the registration form and are saved at signup. https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/extended-profiles/

Best,

-David

Hi moefahmy,

Just registered my first WordPress.org account since over hundreds of sites I’ve built in the past, hehe. I’m facing exact the same issue as you have. I seriously thought that BuddyPress would support features like this. In the wp-admin > Groups > Single Group, there’s even an option that says: ‘Who can invite others to this group?’, WHY is this option available but not ‘Which usertype can post to this group? e.g. Administrators, Moderators, Subscribers etc.’.

Is there a plugin that anyone in this community is aware of which handles above feature? I really need a feature to assign posting permissions to users or userlevels…

Hey! I am using the plugin: BuddyPress Docs. You can create Wikis and upload docs inside the groups.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-docs/

“Part wiki, part document editing, part shared dropbox, “

It is working, but I would be interested too if there is a better solution..

Hi @paksunny-

#1 can be accomplished by adding this code to you bp-custom.php file (or wherever you keep your customizations): https://gist.github.com/dcavins/c65f3856dd6ed5be37eef115ab09405a

#2 Try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/

-David

It sounds like you need to change/update your permalink structure for your WordPress installation. Visit wp-admin > Settings > Permalinks to update.

-David

follow these instructions for a free way : https://www.en.suaralo.com/allow-user-wordpress-frontend-post/

BP functions need to be used in WP & BP context.
For example, they should not be called until BP is loaded and ready – use the ‘bp_ready’ hook.
And use the WP db functions – see $wpdb
If you want to use vanilla php and mysqli, then you’ll need to roll your own join group function.

I need to exclude Author role from my BP members loop. The authors will all go into a different Directory system with different profile template and no BP functionality, just wordpress blogging capabilities.

Does anyone have some code I can pop into the functions.php of my child theme?

thanks!

It sounds like you need @imath’s Rendez Vous plugin.

Rendez Vous

If you haven’t already, create a child theme.

Then copy your buddypress/template folder & subfolders over to your child theme.

Go through each file, search for instances of the word “FRIENDS,” and replace it with “CONNECTIONS.”

If you can’t find all instances of the word “FRIENDS” in these files, check your buddypress.po file and use Poedit to hack it out of there too.

If you haven’t already, create a child theme.

Then copy your buddypress/template folder & subfolders over to your child theme.

Go through each file, search for instances of the word “FRIENDS,” and replace it with “CONNECTIONS.”

Or, you can pay a developer thousands of dollars to make a plugin do it for you 🙂

The problem you’re having is really common, not related to any specific code or plugin, and it affects pretty much all WordPress emails (contact form emails, notices, etc) that are sent from a web server instead of through SMTP. (SMTP is what your email programs use.) You never know when a site will start having this problem, so it can appear random, or it can seem connected to a plugin, etc. (It hardly ever is.)

Over the past few years sending mail from a web server has become more unreliable due to the various improvements in fighting email spam: SPF/DKIM/DMARC etc. Using SMTP is the only reliable way to get emails to arrive at their destination (unless you really have your site’s email configuration dialed in).

I could get into all the technical issues/reasons, I’ll spare you. 🙂

Short answer:

• Use an SMTP plugin.
• Create an email account that is only used for sending emails from your site. (Gmail account is fine.)
• Do a search in the WordPress.org plugin directory for “SMTP”, and pick one of those plugins: Easy WP SMTP for example.

Once you get those setup, you should be good to go.

Hey @friendlygooners

You can go to Tools > BuddyPress in the WordPress admin area and then select Reinstall emails under Repair tools.

Is your user name a reference to Arsenal? I’m a fan 🙂

2 options I see:
1) Use hooks on the register.php page like do_action( ‘bp_after_registration_submit_buttons’ ) add_action('bp_after_registration_submit_buttons','your_function');
function your_function(){
echo do_shortcode( '' );
}
2) Modify register page –> copy wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/members/register.php to wp-content/themes/your-child-theme/buddypress/members/register.php and modify in your-child-theme

do_shortcode()