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Also, turn on WP Debug and check your error logs.

Hi,

You have to install BP correctly on WordPress as very first.
This means particulary that you use WordPress with one of default’s Twenty theme.
– install BuddyPress
– activate the component you want to use
– ensure that each component has his own page
– pretty permalinks must be activated too.

To get a proper register page, allow user registration in WP settings and add manually, if not created automatically, a “register” page to BP.

NOTE: BP pages are not usual WP pages. They are only placeholder (a unique ID in the wp ecosystem) where BP will show dynamic content. These page must be unique and shouldn’t be asigned to any template or model. Give them a title and you’re done.

once WP+BP work correctly together and you can access to the register page without trouble, you can be sure that this couple is definetly OK.

No it’s time to activate a custom theme if you use one. An if something gooes wrong at this stage you’re sure it’s the new theme who is the culprit.

And if the new theme is working correctly with WP+BP, you can install plugins.

And again, WP+BP+Theme = OK, but what about the plugin ?

Easy to understand, easy to build, very annoying to write this for the 589 000 time, but still the only way to install BP.

On your side, you need to follow these steps, but also to read the documentation from codex and of course, from any additionnal plugin you want to use !

That said, be warned that we can’t assist you on this forum with third party premium theme or plugins as we have no free access to their code.

You want to hide the Members menu item from non logged in users?

I use WPFront User Role Editor, that allows you to choose if menu items are displayed for non logged in members or not.

Perhaps you can spare time and use https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddy-progress-bar/ ?

hi @robcnz,

not tested, but sounds doable

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I actually think that’s a WordPress issue, however, I can’t replicate your fault, so it must be a plugin conflict or similar that is causing this.

Just guessing…

Try using the bp_ready hook instead of bp_init.

Try adding the priority to the call:
remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_description', 'wp_filter_kses', 1 );

Try adding your attributes to the $allowedtags global.
https://ben.lobaugh.net/blog/201762/add-html-tags-to-the-allowed-tags-list-in-wordpress

You can request one be added here

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org

BuddyPress doesn’t create a database. It only add it’s own tables to the existing WordPress db.

Why are these tables not created ? Impossible to say without more details about your server configuration and more information about how, what and where you tried to install the plugin.

Hi @mthant,

sorry for your menu trouble, but it seems to me, after visiting your site, that you omitted some important settings steps. So let’s try to set up properly your site menu before adding BP related conditionnals.

1) Each active BP component should have his unique page.
2) Site should have pretty permalinks activated (whatever option but default)

For example step 1 indicate that your register page is at /site/register-2. This could be correct, but tells that you created a page called register first, than removed it, and finally recreated a second “register” page. This explains why you have “-2” in the URL and probably a page in the trash. You have to clear it definetly. And you have to ensure that the slug is /register/. Go to dashboard > Pages > Quick edit and correct it.

As BP is active, you should also have a page called by default “members”. His default url should be http://7fc.d70.myftpupload.com/members/.
I assume you renamed it to “directory”. Problemen is that “directory” doesn’t show the member directory, or no message telling visitors they have to log in to see this page…

And as you use a lot of different directories, it is confusing, even for you when you try to build a menu.

But you’re using Salutation, which is a premium theme and i can’t help you further to set it up correctly.
But you could activate a Twenty theme for the time you need to create and test how WP menus are created and displayed. And perhaps read through Salutation documentation too. 😉

Here’s BP guide about the BP menu you can add aside the site main menu.

And here, the access to any menu related codex articles.

If you are a newbie you might like to check out my website – http//:buddyuser.com, it’s aimed at getting newbies up to speed.

Regarding your issue with menus, is this not a more general WordPress/Theme issue? What happens when you replace those BuddyPress Options with other options, do you still get the same behaviour?

thank you for sharing @peterspliid, but it would also be usefull for the devs that you add your fix to this ticket: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7349

so at least it will be taken in consideration.

It’s related to your theme. Test it is the case by activating a Twenty theme. Once you have found that it is indeed this, go to your theme documentation or support and see how to remove the comment template in your-theme/page.php or how to deactivate that if you use a framework or a very customizable theme.

This should normally be done via a child theme.

You’re wrong and it is not a BP question.
If you’re not comfortable with coding, i would at your place use a working plugin instead of trying to customize something i don’t completely understand.

There is a similar one called Compliments (and up to date). Will be easier (perhaps) to adapt or even use as is for your needs ? 😉

Related ticket: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7261

There a plugin that does Favourite notifications:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-favorite-notification/

If you install BuddyPress on the main domain you can use the Display Widgets SEO Plus Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-widgets-seo-plus/ (I’m the developer) to show/hide widgets on specific sections of a site.

Just released version 1.1.0 which includes specific widget logic support for BuddyPress/bbPress, could set the widgets for the BuddyPress parts of the site to NOT load on non-BuddyPress sections, this would stop some ‘bleed through’ of content from BuddyPress to the rest of the site.

That being said, from an SEO perspective (my background is SEO) there are other issues that could leak out to potential Google visitors.

Check this Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=WordPress+Plugin

Note the WordPress Plugin Repository listing (1st result) has six additional indented results (called sitelinks: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en).

The 6 links for the WordPress Plugin Repository listing are benign, but if there was an adult section of WordPress it could be listed as a sitelink.

From a WordPress perspective there’s also the core WordPress Search functions. The Static Pages that BuddyPress uses for ‘holding’ the BuddyPress specific output can be found via a search. If you have the default BuddyPress setup try using the WordPress Search Form to search for the word “Members”.

This will find your BuddyPress Members Directory Holding Page.

Same result with “Registration”, “Activate” and “Activity”.

It’s difficult to prevent bleed through of different types of WordPress content, so if your client is conservative I’d suggest a sub-domain/other domain to play it safe and manually add interlinking via Text Widgets and Nav Menu Links.

David Law

I’m not sure about integrating fb into the activity feed but you can display the FB page activity in a widget with Custom Facebook Feed, also there are a couple of Social Login plugins to allow FB users to log in to your site using their fb credentials.