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hi @rosyteddy,
guess the mytery sit here: http://localhost/wordpress/userA/

Multisite (subdomain or subdirectory) need that wordpress stays at the site root. At least for a default install.

SSite: hxxp://my_site.com
MS: hxxp//my_site.com

MS subdomain: hxxp//wouah.my_site.com
MS subdirectory: hxxp//my_site.com/wouah/

A local install (wamp, mamp or xamp) is mostly in a ‘www’ folder at your hard disk root C://
(recommended path) Refer to your software documentation for more details about installing Wamp/Mamp/Xamp – at least about localhost in URL. In the latest version (wamp 2.5), this is no more used. In my case, the local URL is http://my_site/wp-admin/….

C://www represent the private part of the site path. The equivalent of /var/your_account/htdocs/ on a production server.

The same path scenario goes localy
C://www/my_site (avoid confusion and don’t use WordPress as site name)
My_site folder contains all WP directories and files:

My_site/wp-admin
My_site/wp-content
My-site/wp-include
My_site/wp-config.php and so on…

At the end of the install, you got a htaccess file containing:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

The important things here are rewrite engine on and rewrite base /, where the slash means “start to manage site URL’s form this point”, which is /…/…/var/your_account/htdocs/<- from here !!!

Before installing BuddyPress, activate pretty permalinks to what you want, EXCEPT default. Save. I do this before, because WP likes also pretty permalinks, and so i don’t forget to do it after i finished with a BP install.

Install BP and setup (or at least control if they exist) the choosen component page(s).

If you do this, you won’t have 404 or other issues, no matter if you use MS or subdirectories or subdomain. WP alone will work, and BP too.

The most important advice if you want to work localy, is to setup correctly apache (mod_rewrite is not activated for ex.). And if you use it with windows, to double-check anything, including HOST file where you have to declare manually each of your local sites (since wamp 2.4 – don’t remember exactly)

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost

127.0.0.1       my_site
::1             my_site

127.0.0.1       my_other_site
::1             my_other_site

Hi @svenl77,

It’s the case, just tested it and the function does what it intends to do : remove the group-avatar && the delete-group manage tabs.

I don’t manage to reproduce your issue. If i go to groups/GROUP-SLUG/adminthen i’m automatically redirected to groups/GROUP-SLUG/admin/edit-details so no 404.

My config is :
fresh install
WordPress latest trunk
BuddyPress latest trunk
twentytwelve

I don’t think we’ve played in this area since 2.2.1

FYI : if i add the edit-details to the list of restricted tabs, then the group admin cannot access to any manage page without knowing the url of the allowed tabs. So i’d say the edit-details should always be there.

I have also created a plugin for this purpose if you need more complex forms check out BuddyForms. https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddyforms-members/

There is also a demo available http://buddyforms.com/

Feedback is welcome 😉

Cheers,
Sven

@nomad48 see https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6107

@danbp

Thanks. Its not a question of trusting them. I trust always. Issue is:
Suppose you have created a site where your members use this feature and posts pictures not belonging to them in their stream. It is okay but there should be a small note (if the site admin feels so as an option) to say if that is picture is from flickr | original postername (if available) or photobucket or whatever

Asking users to manually add a note won’t work most of the time – it should be and must be solved programmatically. I visited the page https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/design-decisions/#whitelisting-oembed-providers but could not see any comment-box ( although there are other user’s comments)

This should be an issue but in WP main site I have no idea where do I submit “issue”, and even if I do I wonder if there is going to be any response at all. But I think this should be addressed immediately. Thanks.

Sorry, i can’t help you for best practice in that domain.
They’re many things BP related on GitHub.
https://github.com/boonebgorges/wp-cli-buddypress

Or contact one of the dev on their blog:
https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/

These may help

wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/
wordpress.org/plugins/wp-users-exporter/
buddypress dot org/support/topic/exporting-xprofile-fields-to-csv-etc/

[ My previous reply here had many more links, and it just vanished on hitting submit without any alert message, probably was caught as spam]

Thanks

@rosyteddy,

no idea, but WP use whitelisted oEmbed service. So you can trust them. And you can always add manually an © author ©

I want to create a customised “SharePics” service button that owners of any other websites on any platform can embed in the codes of their sites for the visitors to be able to share the pictures from their to my site by clicking on the “SharePics” button just like the Share on Facebook button, Pin It to Pinterest

Thats actually a great concept and very useful one too. If we could do that for “Likes” ( or +1) or for “Comments” it would be great. When I say this, people immediately ask
– do I want to be another FB or Google +
– who is going to do that for my site, which i supposedly small, not well known etc

True. But there is no harm in the proof-of-concept. Having our own “Like” and “Comment” system that willing websites can share. But sigh! This is one area no php scripts have ever thought or coded, as far as I know. (If they did, FB would not have this ugly monopoly). There may be workarounds with the codes and protocols already available in wordpress (or for that matter in other scripts) but I am afraid there is no ready-made plugin available.

It maybe done by a DEV for an amount of money, I guess.

That is what is my understanding, I may be wrong. Thanks.

Hi you may check these threads – not sure if they can help you but you may consider to have a look. Have you any custom code and/or various plugins? Thanks.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/member-counter-on-activity-page-not-working/
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5228
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4061

If you could get it to work with wordpress using /wp-admin/press-this.php you could probably make it work with the light version of WP’s editor used for notices. Don’t know exactly what you mean by”endpoint”, but if it’s related to “target”, tought that what’s new is targeted and ajaxified, like pressthis.
But i’m not developper, so i can’t help you much for doing that.

Hi @russadams,

on any WordPress site, once a new user registers, the user is created in
the database. That’s why site admin can see him in the control panel. This is normal.

Here default WordPress registration process:

1. User registers.
2. User is shown message to check email.
3. Login credentials are sent to new user in an email.
4. User logs in to site using login credentials.
5. Admin is notified of new user sign up via email.

This doesn’t change when BP is installed, as BP doesn’t handle registration.

Guess your issue is due to browser session. Make the following test.

Create a new user from frontend.
Close the browser or clear cookie and nav history.
Don’t use activation key yet.
Reopen the browser, and see if the user can login. Normaly he can’t as he hasn’t use the activation key.

Where do you publish pictures in BuddyPress ? They’re several share plugins out with img services like pinterest or flikr. Search for them on the plugin repo.

Do you know these WP oEmbed rules ? Entering such allowed urls in the notice editor (what’s new) will work automagically.

Or maybe customize thisplugin.

Hi @dorothykbiz,

thought BP is not correctly configured.

On the left menu, the member item shows ‘Log in’ who links to wp-admin. This is not the right way for users to login when BP is activated. Better you use the login widget. It’s a contextual widget, showing different items for loggedin/logged out users. The idea behind this, is that a visitor can login without changing screen:page. All is done from the same place, which is much better and faster as going to wp-admin login page and be redirected.

Per default, you should also have a register page and an activation page.

Your actual register page is here:
rotaryeclubgreatermelbourne.org.au/register-3/

should be:
rotaryeclubgreatermelbourne.org.au/register/

Check the page admin and remove all pages from trash (-3 means that you created 2 other register page which are registered and/or trashed but not deleted). When you delete something in WordPress, it goes to Trash, but it’s not removed from server. As in real lif, you have to empty the trash to really delete it… (read here)

The activation page doesn’t seem to exist
http://rotaryeclubgreatermelbourne.org.au/activate/

To fix this issue, go to bp settings > pages and activate the register and activation pages.

Once all is correctly working, you can apply again ‘members only’ rules.

It isn’t possible ‘out-of-the-box’. There may be a plugin that does that for you but I haven’t seen one myself. I think your best bet is to search the Plugin Directory for some kind of media management plugin that works with BuddyPress and has options for limiting storage space.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Hi @numumar

You’ll need more than two templates. As an overview, you’d have a theme which would consist of a number of templates. Then you’d have your BuddyPress-specific templates.

Take a look at these articles to get started:

• https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
• https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

Word Press is so advanced, its kind of complicated at times.

I agree it can be complicated at times, but if you consider what you’re trying to do, then you could also say that WordPress does a lot of the heavy lifting for us 😀