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Thanks for your feedback @mrgiblets! Also, thanks for your review over at wordpress.org 😀

The only reason why I started this topic was because I spoke to a WordPress representative and as I’ve done here, after explaining the issues to the rep, they said for me to get in contact with the creators of the plugin that allows me to do all of these news feed configurations so I assumed it was through here, BuddyPress. And I already was reading through the Codex, videos tutorials, support forums and speaking to numerous amounts of representatives and didn’t get anywhere. But okay, I will try reaching out to the creator of the Vipress theme and hopefully get my questions answered. Thank you.

@danbp

I understand everything that you’re saying, but everything that you’re saying through here is still not resolving my issue to get the registration process to work on my site. I am not allowing just any random person to upload to my server with random documents if I am not only having them labeled as “Authors” (where they are able to edit their OWN profiles and edit their OWN posts, so on and so forth) and not as “Administrators” (where a person has control to change up EVERYTHING on the site and the server), but also for the fact that this Vipress theme was created to be compatible with BuddyPress, therefore, allowing people to be able to create a profile with, in this case, the MyLoopNetwork.

As far as with the whole newly register user, I already know to keep in mind about who I allow to become a member for I am constantly checking the back end of my site on a regular basis. All I’m trying to do is create my own version of a website where users can sign up as a new user, create their own profiles, update their posts, upload their own pictures, connect with other MyLoopNetwork users, create groups that people can join, and pretty much build up on their own news feed through their profiles without conflicting with any sections or areas of the overall site.

I don’t know anything about this BuddyDrive plugin that you have mentioned, but for the record, this is my first WordPress website that I’ve been working on for months and I’m trying to learn as much as possible. I’m just trying to get some assistance on how to resolve certain issues that came across my way with configuring this particular theme. So with you saying, “You’re talking about pdf, doc and docx, but on the register page nothing appears about what type of file they have to upload (as it is required) and for what !” that’s what I’m trying to explain to you. That’s what pops up on my end and on other people’s end that are trying to create their own MyLoopNetwork profile, so therefore, I do not have any control over that, for I wasn’t the one that created that coding for it to show up that way. And then you was saying, “‘Here you’ll be able to upload images. Try it out now!’ is a bit vague.” you will have to ask the creator of this Vipress theme and ask them why they have it set that way because, once again, I am NOT the one that created this theme, and this is how it automatically showed up on the registration page when people were trying to create their profile. So unless you’re going to actually give me a full detailed, step-by-step guide on how to resolve the issues that I’m trying to fix, I thank you for your time and patience and I hope you have a good day.

Thanks for the quick response.

I have a default install.

My site is http://kingstonnexus.ca

Wordpress is installed in the root directory (httpdocs on my server) (v 4.1.1)
Buddypress is installed in wp-content/plugins/buddypress (v 2.2.1)

Happy to provide more information I’m just not sure what you need.

PHP 5.4, I think it’s Apache but I will have to find out.

Quick follow-up since I’m still struggling with this problem with registration, but done some more testing in the meantime.
I’ve installed clean WP with BuddyPress (same versions as above) on my other machine – LAMP server this time (php 5.5.9 & apache 2.4.7 running on Ubuntu 14.04). This time registration process is working properly! However on Windows machine still nothing…
Can this problem be somehow connected with the non-default port (8080) used on Windows machine? Or maybe BuddyPress requires some specific php modules enabled I’m not aware of? As I mentioned all other pages of my WordPress install are working properly on WAMP server and that’s not the first WordPress install I’m doing on that server and never had any WordPress problems before.
Anybody has any ideas how to fix this registration issue? Or how to test it additionally to figure out what’s going wrong here?

Ok managed to do it, it’s a dirty way but it works…

1) Compile all of the above scripts into a single file “mynewjsfile.js” then minify it to keep it even more compact if you want (forget the buddypress.js thing as what I’ve done stops the script from looking for it completely).

2) Upload mynewjsfile.js wherever you want to put it (for the sake of this I’ve put it into my theme root /js/mynewjsfile.js

3) Make a copy of buddypress-functions.php (inside bp-legacy/)

4) In your new buddypress-functions.php around line 89 comment out the following :

add_action( 'bp_enqueue_scripts', array( $this, 'enqueue_scripts' ) );

Like this :

/* add_action( 'bp_enqueue_scripts', array( $this, 'enqueue_scripts' ) ); */

5) Create a new folder called “buddypress” in your theme’s root and upload buddypress-functions.php into it. Now buddypress will use this file instead of the original.

6) In your wordpress functions.php add the following :

function mynewjsfile() {
	wp_enqueue_script( 'mynewjsfile', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/mynewjsfile.js', 'jquery', false );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'mynewjsfile' );

The ‘jquery’ is there because our new script requires it to function properly. This ensures that Jquery loads before it. False is telling wordpress to load it in the header.

7) Enjoy your new single minified JS file 😉

If anyone knows of a BuddyPress plugin that requires setting role capabilities

Buddypress itself does not require setting role capabilities – so a Buddypress plugin usually should not need this. Most of the commonly used buddypress plugins like photo/album (rtmedia), location plugins, imath’s Rendzevous ( sort of an Event plugin with a difference) do NOT require setting role capabilities and works well in the above scenario.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-user-management/

I actually tried this extensively even before I saw this post – its purpose is something different. It will not add users to the main site.

If anyone knows of a BuddyPress plugin that requires setting role capabilities and works without members belonging to the main site

Event Manager does this. It requires setting role capabilities and yet no one has to manually set the members belonging to the main site. It has a very wide range of configuration options that makes it rather “heavy” – still I could have used it but it has no Attendee options. It lacks “Attending : Yes | NO | Maybe ” and an Attendee list that others can see. Apart from this, from frontend it offers same functions and users can add Events from the profile too with Location Map etc.

A huge amount of thanks and gratitude to @shanebp, who is actually doing tremendous amount of help and work for the buddypress events plugin. Kudos!

What I mean is this: Right now, it seems users can only send “standard” messages through the wordpress/buddypress messages system, or chat through for example arrow chat or Cometchat.

To be able to view all messages (chat messages and “standard” messages between users) in the same place (like in FB or any other modern platform) would be a good improvement. Or perhaps simply throw out the regular messaging system and be able to add the chat to the profile?

1- WordPress 4.1
2- install directory
3- subdirectory
4- wordpress upgrade 4.1.1
6-BuddyPress 2.2.1
7- last version
8- yes i have many plugins

8.1-Advanced Custom Fields
8.2-bbPress
8.3-BP Login Redirect
8.4-BP Profile Search
8.5-BP Profile Widgets
8.6-BuddyPress
8.7-BuddyPress cover
8.8-BuddyPress Edit Activity
8.9-BuddyPress Follow
8.10-BuddyPress Security Check
8.11-Buddypress Social
8.12-BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Fields Type
8.13-Email newsletter
8.14-Facebook Friends Inviter
8.15-HashBuddy
8.16-rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
8.17-Social Login
8.18-User Name Availability Checker for wordpress/buddypress
8.19-Wordpress Social Invitations – Lite

Thanks bro, had a look at that plug in but it hasn’t been updated since 2013 and isn’t compatible with my version of WordPress.

Sounds like a great plug-in though, if it works (haha).

Hope you get it fixed.

Still gonna try to do with without a plug-in though as i’ve done all the legwork manually already, just need to stop buddypress from enqueuing the original files (or at very least dequeue them in my functions.php). Just can’t find the functions in BP that are loading them originally.