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Hi @archie22is,

thank you for your report. But when you write such information, it is of your responsability to give correct information.

Such alarming title can confuse any user. It is unfair and to be honest, it is only concerning you (it’s your install who has that issue, not WordPress or BuddyPress, in their globality). Especially that the error message has nothing to do with BuddyPress.

In other words, you annonce 2 wrong information on the wrong forum.

The error is related to bbPress. And there is already a topic about this warning on WordPress support.

Read it and try to repair or add your own opinion to that topic.
Open also – if none exist – a topic on bbPress support.

Please be serious,

why do you use index.php (it is a file), when i give you the correct path in my previous answer ?
Such URL‘s can’t work: http://eltconjunction.com/index.php/groups/

You’re on buddypress support forum and your BP pages where correctly displayed, a few hours back when i visited your site.

The error you have now is related to ppress. If you have issue with it, you have to ask for help on the appropriate support.

I invite you to read any plugins documentation you want to use BEFORE using them. And encourage you to learn a bit about internet, wordpress and how to build a site…

Just checked your site… seems to work !

http://eltconjunction.com/register/ is ok
http://eltconjunction.com/members/ is ok
http://eltconjunction.com/members/Alliebells15/ (your profile is……. OK !)
http://eltconjunction.com/groups/ is ok (no groups, but the page is correctly displayed)

So what is the problem ? Do you mean perhaps some missing buttons to access those pages ?

Please read here if it’s the case:

BuddyPress Links in WordPress Menus

How about this:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-login-redirect/

You need to find some tutorials on adding plugins to wordpress.

Can you get to the Dashboard in your installation? It should have the URL of http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/

From the Dashboard are you able to get to Plugins? If so then click on Add New and BuddyPress will be displayed (if not enter BuddyPress into the search, once you see BuddyPress then you can click on Install and then Activate.

If you theme’s default page has a sidebar then it’s possible to control which widgets are shown on different pages including the BuddyPress Pages by using Display Widgets SEO Plus.

in the admin, visit plugins, click add new, search “BuddyPress”, install then activate.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins

Use something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/

Block off BP pages to logged in users and you dont have to do anything special.

Add users manually like danbp suggested. Non members cans still comment on blog posts.

Hi @vukhachminh, @doulos12,

– “subscriber” is wp’s default role. This is site admin territory and is handled on this screen.

– who can comment can be defined in wp settings.

Is “xprofile component” the feature exposed in “Settings > BuddyPress” named “Extended Profiles” (at the very top of the config page)? (It probably is, but I just want to be sure, thanks.)

Yes it is !

it is possible […] to effect the change of either the email or password fields?

Yes it is ! from here: your-site.abc/members/USERNAME/settings/ – the link can be found under the top right usermenu on wp’s toolbar: username > settings > general OR/AND on the buddymenu, when you’re on your profile: Settings ! And that’s it !

For all other BP related questions, please read through the codex, i really have no time to (re)write all explanations. Sorry, hope you uderstand.

Thanks for the background info about WP, @danbp. It certainly is interesting to see how the little old single-user blog platform called “WordPress” has mushroomed into the gargantuan that it is today, following the old adage, “Man expands to fill the available space.”

Obviously I’m a bit of a noobie to WordPress (I’ll admit, so feel free to flame away ;)), but I’d like to ask about your reference to the clause “When BP is activated, and if you use the xprofile component…” I am a bit confused about “the xprofile component” and was wondering if you can help me understand it a bit better.

Is “xprofile component” the feature exposed in “Settings > BuddyPress” named “Extended Profiles” (at the very top of the config page)? (It probably is, but I just want to be sure, thanks.)

I am fully cognizant of the fact that one can preclude access to the WP Dashboard in a number ways, including by Role, etc., and I plan to do that. However, that causes me to provide exposure to the standard WP Profile fields (or as many of thsoe fields that I want to expose, that is) so that the user can modify them. This includes the critical email and password fields.

Relating to this situation, you didn’t quite address my key question as to whether it is possible (without serious WP core hacking — something I would NEVER do, btw) to effect the change of either the email or password fields?

Now listen, I realize that probably sounds like a shameless noobie question, but it really begs the question of whether modifying the email/password fields outside of the WP dashboard is considered “bad form” in some way.

Thanks in advance for your advice and insights.

Just because you mention paid themes, here a small free BP ready theme list available on WP’s theme repo:

Level

Profile

Republic

Alchem

@uscore713,

i’ll try to explain. You’re using WordPress and a plugin called BuddyPRess which add a community dimension to WP.

Members are the heart of BP. Anything done by the plugin will return something related to members: activities, friendships, dicussion and much more.

How is this possible ?
Because WP let you register members separately. To do this, WP ask for a username(pseudonym), a password and a valid email.

You cannot avoid this, whatever plugin you use. It is how it works.

Now, we have 2 different question in this topic.

1) how to restrict access to profile settings ?
2) do we need a plugin for that ?

About point 1
WordPress was designed to be a blog builder. A CMS with one blog author who was mainly also the site
owner/builder… This changed with the years and today, you can handle a multiauthor blog.

When you install BP, you can still handle a multiauthor blog (or even blogs) and also a big community of different users, whith different (wp) roles.

What hasn’t changed is the way WP handles authors(or members): from within the dashboard, whatever the role.

When BP is activated, and if you use the xprofile component, you can build a registration form who is added to the original wp registration form. This form is then available on each user profile and can be modified from there.

To restrict user access to wp-admin, you can use different technique. This depends of your coding knowledge or working philosophy, with custom code or applying some plugin solution.

This is independant of BuddyPress and out of the scope of this forum. Just remember that BP let you access to your credentials from front-end.

About point 2
– in theory, you don’t need a plugin
– you always need to read about a plugin before using it.
For example, the workaround mentionned in this topic about the usage of Profile Builder.
– here a recent tutorial – for beginners – you may found more advanced advice by googling about “wordpress restrict dashbord access”.

When you read the teaser on that plugin page, you already should have understand that you don’t need it !
Simple to use profile plugin allowing front-end login, user registration and edit profile by using shortcodes.

Astonishment ! BuddyPress offers exactly the same options (among others).

What ever plugin you use, the regiter process of WordPress won’t change, and the user list or the user data will always be at the same place. What plugins do (most of them), is to modify the appearance of that process.

What you can also do is to remove all WP related items from the toolbar, if you use it. This is widely documented and discussed on WP’s support and codex. It’s WP territory and has nothing to do with the fact you use BuddyPress.

Admitting you found a solution for the backend, you need to use BP’s login widget. From there, users can enter the site. And if they loosed their password, they can ask for a new one from there (usually the sidebar, on front-end).