BuddyPress.org

Okay Ill fill out the questionnaire.

1. Which version of WordPress are you running?

4.0

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?

Directory.

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

Subdirectory /var/www/web

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?

No, its a vanilla install.

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.

Yes.

6. Which version of BP are you running?

None, installing for the first time.

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

No.

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?

Yes see below:

Bulk Move
Move or remove posts in bulk from one category or tag to another
Version 1.2.1

Envato WordPress Toolkit
WordPress toolkit for Envato Marketplace hosted items.
Version 1.6.3

Post Type Switcher Allow switching of a post type while editing a post (in post publish section) Version 1.3

Regenerate Thumbnails
Allows you to regenerate all thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes.
Version 2.2.4

Social Count Plus Display the counting Twitter followers, Facebook fans, YouTube subscribers posts and comments.
Version 3.0.0

Ultimate Coming Soon Page Creates a Coming Soon or Launch page for your website.
Version 1.11.1

Velvet Blues Update URLs This plugin updates all urls in your website by replacing old urls with new urls.Version 3.2.2

Widget Importer & Exporter Imports and exports widgets.
Version 1.1.4

WordPress Importer Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.
Version 0.6.1

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
Not sure what this means, I bought the theme and the vendor says its designed to work with BuddyPress.

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

No.

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

No.

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?

NA

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

Not sure which logs you need but this looks relevant:

[Wed Oct 01 05:30:30.686873 2014] [fcgid:warn]  [client XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:1029] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning:  opendir(/wp-content/themes/mightymag/inc/jackbox/img/graphics/): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /var/www/web/wp-content/themes/mightymag/inc/jackbox/php/graphics.php on line 45, referer: http://mydomain.net/
[Wed Oct 01 05:44:37.340658 2014] [fcgid:warn]  (104)Connection reset by peer: [client XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:1025] mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server, referer: http://mydomain.net/wp-admin/update.php?action=upload-plugin
[Wed Oct 01 05:44:37.340781 2014] [core:error]  [client XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:1025] End of script output before headers: plugins.php, referer: http://mydomain.net/wp-admin/update.php?action=upload-plugin
[Wed Oct 01 06:14:53.652260 2014] [fcgid:warn]  (104)Connection reset by peer: [client XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:1024] mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server, referer: http://mydomain.net/wp-admin/update.php?action=install-plugin&plugin=buddypress&_wpnonce=54d70bf280
[Wed Oct 01 06:14:53.652392 2014] [core:error]  [client XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:1024] End of script output before headers: plugins.php, referer: http://mydomain.net/wp-admin/update.php?action=install-plugin&plugin=buddypress&_wpnonce=54d70bf280
[Wed Oct 01 20:36:21.437859 2014] [fcgid:warn]  (104)Connection reset by peer: [client XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:1024] mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server, referer: http://mydomain.net/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all
[Wed Oct 01 20:36:21.437996 2014] [core:error]  [client XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:1024] End of script output before headers: plugins.php, referer: http://mydomain.net/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all

14. Which company provides your hosting?

localhost

15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?

LAMP

OK, but is there a way to just get rid of the “read more” behavior anyway? I would like to please control the length of the excerpt, and make it long enough where it is a non-issue regardless of theme. The posting and other parts of buddypress are working great with the theme I have chosen, and other than this I don’t seem to have any “theme issues” yet. I’ve found the less ajax I have on pages the less conflicts I get with different themes and plugins anyway and would rather increase the size and test getting rid of excerpt cutoffs altogether due to potential conflicts and funky interaction with other ajax components. For this implementation, I think it would be much better to limit the size of posts when people make them, and not attempt to truncate them in the activity stream at all, to avoid other possible ajax interactions with something like lightbox or different themes. I’m not sure the ideal size to allow yet though. I would also like to look at limiting the size of posts but am hoping that’s easier after changing the “…” [read more] behavior. I am comfortable editing code if I have to, I’m just not sure where to yet.

These are the posts I’ve found of people trying to get rid of the “…” and [read more], or change the excerpt size and wording, but they’re old. There may be partial solutions in these threads but I’m afraid I don’t understand how to pull it all together or if they resolved it.

thank you.

Similar issue but didn’t see resolved, just replies stopped- https://buddypress.org/support/topic/activity-stream-read-moreview-link-missing/

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vexatious-read-more-linkslack-thereof/

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-activity-stream/

Hello,

I tried installing the “bp-theme-pack” plugin from an old backup we had since it’s no longer available on WordPress.org and didn’t seem to make a difference. However, I have (since posting this) made some progress. I guess what my biggest challenge is, so many things have changed since my last using BP.

I may post back with some questions but right now I’ve finally made some progress.

Thank you for your reply.

Follow-up:

7th:

Capability Manager Enhanced to define custom user roles, if you’re not satisfied with the default wordpress roles (subscriber, contributor,…).
The first step is to create your user roles

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles/

As ready implied there: I did this – and it works so far.

8th:

Create a xprofile field (selectbox) with the title “User Role” and name the options “Band Role” and “Fan Role” – in my case. You can call them whatever you want. Place this field in the “base” profile group, otherwise it won’t be shown during registration. Also make the field “required”. In my case the user can’t decide, if the visibility of the field can be changed.

I did it already, when I installed and activated ‘BP Profile Search’-plugin – and it works.

However, to choosed a dropdown menu and the categories ‘team’ and ‘fan’.

9th:

I modified:

?php
function custom_bp_core_signup_user($user_id) {
    $user_role = strtolower(xprofile_get_field_data('User Role', $user_id));
    switch($user_role) {
        case "Band Role":
            $new_role = 'band';
            break;
        case "Fan Role":
            $new_role = 'fan';
            break;
    }
    wp_update_user(array(
        'ID' => $user_id,
        'role' => $new_role
    ));
}
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'custom_bp_core_signup_user', 10, 1);

into:

function custom_bp_core_signup_user($user_id) {
    $user_role = strtolower(xprofile_get_field_data('Mitglieder-Kategorie (Team oder Fan?)', $user_id));
    switch($user_role) {
        case "Team":
            $new_role = team';
            break;
        case "Fan":
            $new_role = 'fan';
            break;
    }
    wp_update_user(array(
        'ID' => $user_id,
        'role' => $new_role
    ));
}
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'custom_bp_core_signup_user', 10, 1);

(I omitted <?php, because I created not a new bp-costum.php, rather inserted the code into my yet existing bp-costum.php. I inserted the modified code above the line ?>.)

I did not understand, which effect this insertion should have – but, however, – as far as I see – it causes no harm.

Did anyone understood, for which purpose the above mentioned code is?

10th:

I inserted as well:

//hide the user role select field in edit-screen to prevent changes after registration
add_filter("xprofile_group_fields","bpdev_filter_profile_fields_by_usertype",10,2);
function bpdev_filter_profile_fields_by_usertype($fields,$group_id){

//only disable these fields on edit page
if(!bp_is_profile_edit())
return $fields;
//please change it with the name of fields you don't want to allow editing
$field_to_remove=array("User Role");
$count=count($fields);
$flds=array();
for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++){
if(in_array($fields[$i]->name,$field_to_remove))
unset($fields[$i]);
else
$flds[]=$fields[$i];//doh, I did not remember a way to reset the index, so creating a new array
}
return $flds;
}

into my bp-costum.php – again above the line ?>.

It does not work:

— threre the user role is still changeable:

http://kampfsportlerinnenneuwied.1a-spielwiese.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/user_role_still_changeble.jpg

— http://1a-spielwiese.de/members/kampfsportlerinnenneuwied/profile/edit/group/1 causes an redirection error. – The redirection error disappears, when I’m not logged in as kampfsportlerinnenneuwied, rather as superadmin.

Sorry:

This is the list of my plugins:
BackWPup
Better WordPress Minify
Breadcrumb NavXT
Buddypress
BuddyPress Registration Groups
Formulario de Contacto 7
Cookie Law Info
Gears
Hide Admin Bar From Non-admins
Hide User Profile Fields
Límitador de intentos de login
Nav Menu Images
Paid Memberships Pro
PMPro Check Levels
PMPro Customizations
PMPro Email Templates
PMPro Register Helper
Regenerate Thumbnails
Remove Dashboard Access
Revolution Slider
Simple Social Icons
Editor de Roles
WordPress SEO
WP-Optimize
WPBakery Visual Composer
WP Google Fonts
WP Smush.it
WP Super Cache
WP User Frontend Pro

My theme is Klein (http://klein.dunhakdis.me/)

BTW

I’m new to wordpress – how were you able to find my user name? Should I be concerned about this as a security risk?