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If you have WordPress installed with permalinks (so urls are like: example.com/sample-page, and they work – display the content of the Sample Page) and you can upload images without any errors on Media page in wp-admin area (and can attached/insert into post/page content in WYSIWYG editor) – you are good to go.
That’s basically what those 2 last requirements mean.

Hi @klame,

I am a newbie at all this too. I discovered that the function you pulled off Buddypress.org doesn’t have to be modified to work. You have to simply copy and paste it in your functions.php file as/is without changing a thing. What matters and needs to be modified is the php to render the members loop on your page (e.g., <?php if ( bp_has_members( my_custom_ids( 'location', 'san francisco' ) ) ) : ?>). Adding href tags around it I don’t believe is the right idea. That code goes in your members loop where you want the members to be displayed matching that criteria. In my example I am showing only users in San Francisco. I’m pretty sure you can display the members loop anywhere you want but I haven’t tried that yet. I decided to create a page template and I simply copied the code out of my theme’s buddypress members-loop.php file and pasted it into the template file. You could probably even use the default WordPress members-loop.php file as your base, though if you have a theme you’re better off getting it out of there. I hope this helps. Good luck!

You can add profile fields via wp-admin > Users > Profile Fields

You can search those fields with this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/

I have similar problem. and also I can’t find anywhere here CREATE NEW TOPIC / POST link I am using this one.

When I installed buddypress our site registration option was disabled. So I enabled it now, and then used REPAIR option –> The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activate, Register. Repair <– But the problem is that REPAIR does nothing. How to fix that problem and create these registration and acitvate pages?

Also I noticed from installation manual something weird –> Make sure you have pretty permalinks enabled on your WordPress install. <– WTF is that? There in wordpress does not exist option like pretty permalinks. You have plain, numeric, Post name, and other options, but not “pretty permalinks”. Anyway I am using date/postname version at the moment, it should be pretty enough, but still where is that “pretty permalinks” option and where I should find it?

Perhaps not quite what you’re after but @danbp has a community statistics plugin that might be helpful?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddy-community-stats/

Try these:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ (and this http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-restrict-buddypress-group-creation-based-on-user-roles-and-capabilities/)
http://stackoverflow.com/a/23513783/515162

Try this: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/disable-leave-group-and-request-membership-buttons/
And try this plugin as well: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-mandatory-groups/

Ajax would be my first thought. Check out the AJAX in Plugins article for an introduction to that:
https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins

@slaffik Apologies – I did not see the .htaccess file when I did a ls -l, however it is there:

# 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

Do I need to makes changes? Sorry I am not a programmer.

Richard

It looks like you’ve tried all the normal investigative things, so thanks.

Not sure without debugging the code — but why does registration on your site take me to http://192.241.173.232/wordpress/register/ ? Totally different URL etc.

I wonder if that has something to do with it.

EDIT: is this your testing still? Do you have two different WordPress sites?

I don’t know how well it works, but I found https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-message-attachment/ from a quick search.

Look in the WordPress codex.

I never used a plugin to accomplish this but there are many out there, just google “wordpress email login”

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-email-login/

Because of no .htaccess file (and no WordPress permalinks) BuddyPress will not be working properly. It requires permalinks enabled. On BuddyPress activation you should see this text:
You must update your permalink structure to something other than the default for it to work.