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We asked around a few people on Friday and no-one has any ideas how this might have happened unless you – or your host – has edited the WordPress PHP files. I haven’t seen other reports yet, so it’s probably related to your install somehow.

The issues here are being tracked in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7298 and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7300

dbDelta is a WordPress function, @danbp, it’s not bbPress specific. It’s used to update the schema of a MySQL database. The bigger question is how did something trigger the BuddyPress installation methods yet not make sure the relevant WordPress function was loaded.

@nhatnnt1 What version number of WordPress are you using?

I think with multisite, WordPress user registrations only occur on the main/root site. I don’t know how BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG works with this (i.e. I can’t remember if the registration redirect happens). It’s been a while since I’ve used it.

If you’re a little technical, you could test it, and then look in the database afterwards — probably the wp_x_users, wp_x_usermeta, wp_x_signups tables, and see if there’s any field such as a blog ID or blog URL set somewhere for the new users that you could use.

Otherwise, I think you’d have to code something up.

So… you CAN log into WordPress with your email address and password. On example.com/wp-login.php, it even says “Username or Email” and “Password”. Is this the main log in that you are talking about?

I have just tested the BuddyPress log in widget and I can log in using the email address.

I am a bit baffled why this doesn’t work for you. Please can you remove any relevant code customisations, and just test it again?

If you can’t log into /wp-login.php using an email address and password, you should try the WordPress.org support forums first and get that fixed, because that’s how it should be working.

Hi @romanreignempire

You need to change a WordPress settings — you need to enable permalinks. Your WordPress blog URLs look like: example.com/index.php/roman-reigns/ and we need to have them look like example.com/romain-reigns/. This is required to have BuddyPress work.

If we’re lucky, you can go into wp-admin and Settings > Permalinks, then pick anything other than “Default”. Then save, and check if your blog post links have changed, and if they still work.

If they DON’T work, you need to fix that first. There is lots of information on the web about enabling WordPress permalinks, and if you have a good web host, oftentimes they will know how to enable them if they are disabled by default for some reason.

I guess that means that when a user registers on one of the multi-sites he can use his account on all the other websites of the Multi-site installation, right ?

Yes, but understand that you have to give that user access to those other sites (in wp-admin) to write blog posts, for example. If a user does not have explicit permissions to a specific multisite site, they won’t have any special access; they’ll only be able to read the content as if they were another normal visitor. You can test this right now, without BuddyPress, and see how it works.

meaning it takes him out of the French Website to put him onto the English on

You seem to be using multisite to have your content localised into different languages. This is a common approach for WordPress multisite, but BuddyPress does not work the way you want it to in this situation.

You can activate BuddyPress in a few different ways. Simply, on multisite, you can activate the plugin on a specific site, or network-wide. There is lots more detail at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installation-in-wordpress-multisite/ but if BuddyPress is activated network-wide, all the BuddyPress content will only appear on one site (we call this the “root blog”). We use redirects to support this, exactly as you’ve found.

You can’t have BuddyPress active on a multisite that uses the sub-sites as different languages, and have the BuddyPress social network appear on all of them and work in the same way, except with different translations. It doesn’t work that way out the box…

…however here is an advanced setting you can use to make BuddyPress behave like this: BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG

See https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/bp_enable_multiblog/
I would encourage you fully test this setting out if you enable it, before you start building the rest of your site, just to understand and confirm its behaviour.

🙂

@dioniq Did this work with a previous version of BuddyPress? If so, what version?

While the developers of that plugin are contributors to BuddyPress, you’re best to try requesting support via that plugin’s forums: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-docs

look through this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-notifications-widget/

The code could be reused to create a menu

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-simple-private/

This makes it so the only page you can view is the homepage, then make sure all you can see on the homepage is the login button? Either that or modify the above plugin so that it redirects to the login page.

* Please refrain from @ mentioning specific users in the topics.

Most of these are plugin territory. The great thing about WordPress and BuddyPress is the nature of plugins and being able to choose the functionality you need to create a custom user experience.

Hello Scott,

My site is not really focused on images and videos so I did not have to export/import a lot of this, but the media I did import went well.

Comments on blogs (from Ning) were imported so I guess this could work out well for comments on photos/videos as well. The only thing is whenever you have a lot of media content it will take some time to export.

You just would give it a try to see how it works out. I took the following steps:
Installed WP
Installed Buddypress
Installed BBPress
Downloaded the Ning Export tool (http://www.ning.com/help/?p=5219) and started exporting
Downloaded and installed Import from Ning tool https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-from-ning/

I used ftp to upload the Ning files, to avoid errors I did this step by step (not all content at once).

Good luck with it!

A partial explanation about “why”can be found here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6230#comment:11

Instead of filtering ajax_querystring, how about using bp_parse_args()?

Ref https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.2.1/src/bp-groups/bp-groups-template.php#L431

As already said: it’s constructed.
The site url is defined in WP general settings and stored in wp_options table
The user name is stored in wp_users table
For the other questions about DB, read:

BuddyPress Database Diagram

WordPress database schema

Make sure you are logged out when accessing the register page.

Sometimes wordPress losts it’s connection to pages, you can reset this by resaving the Dashboard>>Settings>>Permalinks page, that might fix your Groups page access problem.

The most recent version of BuddyPress should work with the most recent version of WordPress. Can you describe the problem you’re seeing?

Can I simply change it on my WP-admin settings

Yes !