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Hmm, it sounds harsh that you get burned and have problems on each update because ive not really had many problems when updating in the past, maybe a few small ones but not many, and if i have had a few problems ive just held off updating for a couple of weeks until the fixes have been issued into buddypress or the plugins.

After trying out “ALOT” of themes (paid and free) with buddypress and wordpress over the past 2 years i have made my own conclusion that the best themes to use in both cases are usually the bare bones and lightweight themes that can have things integrated by yourself as and when needed, this way you are cutting out alot of problems that can be caused within the theme itself, i know some themes look amazing but they can also cause alot of problems for you in the future if not regular updated by the developer.

If your comfy with design i would always opt for a lightweight and barebones theme and build upon that. less things built into a theme = easier to troubleshoot! (This is just my opinion)
I have tried numerous themes that have caused wiered things to happen with certain plugins, yet work fine on the default themes for example.

As for setting up a local test server, this is quite easy to do now, you should definitely look into using something like XXAMP and give it a try.

I still havent got round to testing the new buddypress update yet on my themes and plugins as i fell asleep lol.

Another option might be something like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/. I haven’t used it myself, so I’m not positive it still works.

If P2 fits your needs, there is a P2-Likes plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/p2-likes/

P2 is not a standard theme. There is a lot of custom stuff going on there, so unlike most themes, you will have trouble making BP and P2 play nice.

If you need Likes on BP, this looks to be an option: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-like/

Didn’t know “Featured Posts” was a Twenty Fourteen thing. Oops! 🙂

For anyone else reading, some more info on the “Featured Content” option in Twenty Fourteen can be found here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Twenty_Fourteen

Will try to look this when I have some more time.

About the member widget avatar CSS, looks like Twenty Fourteen showcases a bug 🙁

Try this patch to fix the staggering issue:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5817/5817.clear.patch

@onesmart – After looking into this some more, I would say this is a bug with the WP-reCAPTCHA plugin.

They are incorrectly using the 'wpmu_validate_user_signup' filter. You should use another reCAPTCHA plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=recaptcha

@onesmart – Can you list exactly which plugins you are using with links to the repo?

There are numerous reCAPTCHA plugins. I tried WP-reCAPTCHA by itself, but that doesn’t include any BuddyPress integration and doesn’t create the error?.

Update – Error duplicated (needed to submit the form!). Doing some more research. More to come.

What modemlooper meant to say was, try adding a custom menu under “Appearance > Menus” in the WP admin dashboard.

Follow the steps in step 2 of this codex article:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/#step-2-create-your-main-navigation-menu

did these plugins not work?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-groupomatic/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-auto-group-join/

or function

function automatic_group_membership( $user_id ) {
   if( !$user_id ) return false;
 
   groups_accept_invite( $user_id, $group_id );
}
add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'automatic_group_membership' );

Hi @jeremy_lv

Unfortunately, the functionality you describe isn’t available in BuddyPress currently. You could try opening a topic in the Ideas forum. Alternatively, you could attempt coding it yourself or perhaps search for a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory.

If you decide to go-it-alone and code yourself, then feel free to open a new topic here for each specific question you may have.

Hope this info helps!

Hi @disha76

P2 is made by Automattic so you can be sure the theme is of the highest quality. Whilst I haven’t tried it myself, I’ve heard it offers some great features such as inline comments and real-time updates. If you notice a problem with it, then try opening a support ticket on their support forum.

Hope this helps 😀

Ref: https://wordpress.org/themes/p2

The code will make sure the BP Links directory page is displayed.

I think, there’s no problem with the database. It’s a good practice (i really advise you to follow) to make a backup of all your files and/or at least your database before any upgrade of your WordPress configuration.

@nomad48 what theme are you using? There is an outstanding issue with themes which use the new title feature. Have you you updated that SEO plugin? https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6107

Just tested on a fresh install, i’m not able to reproduce, that’s why i’ve asked you about a specific config.

When you say “Register and Activate pages cannot be created” Have you created the pages from the Add new page WordPress menu. You need to create 2 pages there and then come back to the BuddyPress settings > Page to set for Register and Activate one of the pages you’ve created.

this was the issue before (quotes from our change log)
NSFW: http://scaffies.nl/change-log-nl/
.. and it took from SEP/OCT 2014 to now you get it sorted in this 2.2.0 release.

07 OCT 2014 – Tuesday
☠ [10:35 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] Dumb: the previous BuxFix (known BP 2.1 issues) a few days (Oct 1st) ago, which solved a bug we had reported (GitHub), was NOT included in today’s bugfix update. Manually restored it. Hmmmpf!
☠ [09:00 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] Updated 1 Plug-In: BuddyPress BugFix Release v2.1.1

this referred to the “enqueue” bug, which was previously discovered, and manually fixed
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5889/5889.01.patch

☠ [14:35 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] BuxFix (known BP 2.1 issues) received: The BuddyPress people found a bug we had reported (GitHub)- some of the broken functions are now restored!

23 SEP 2014 – Tuesday
☠ [18:30 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] Upgrading to WordPress 4 and BuddyPress 2.1 unfortunately broke some things – we reported it upstream, and hope for a solution soon.

Same problem here .. pretty annoying, to be honest:

NSFW: http://scaffies.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BuddyPress-Links-gone.png

“☠ [16:50 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] Through the BuddyPress Update the page “Links Elsewhere” was broken – all Links disappeared. Hmph! Removed t from the menu.”

We had lots (!) of links entered on the page(s) under “Links” and many ‘up’ and ‘down’ votes. ALL are lost, it is now completely empty and I had to remove the page from the menu.

When I stated on our change log I had upgraded Buddypress to the latest version, I added “let’s see what it fixed and what it broke” .. something always seems to go wrong, and with over 260,000 users, it is a bummer.
NSFW: http://scaffies.nl/change-log-2015/
Sadly, I was proven right 🙁

This is a bad day for open source development.

We (all the admins) are clueless about “classes” and “skeleton components” – we just use the software, pay / donate for what we do use, and hope it works … and does not render the work and efforts of thousands worthless in a single, badly tested software update.

I am afraid to install updates – the last one required some code changes do be done manually to fix something else which was broken – yet have to, in order to avoid security problems.

We are not using Multi-Site (i.e. single site, WP 4.1, and all plugins in their latest revisions).

Brandon, London