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The 500 error is very general and it is very difficult to diagnose based on that info alone.

I can activate the EWWW plugin on a BP site without a 500 error.

Google ‘wordpress plugin 500 error’ and try the suggestions.
You can also ask the authors of the EWWW plugin via their support forum.

There should be plugins available that can do this. Have you tried searching the WordPress Plugin Directory?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

Example:

function dlongm_show_role() {
    $user = get_userdata( bp_displayed_user_id() );

    if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
        foreach ( $user->roles as $role )
    	    echo $role;
    }
}
add_action( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'dlongm_show_role' );

It’s possible, but there is no ready-to-use out-of-the-box plugins for that.

Categories: http://wptavern.com/new-plugin-adds-taxonomies-to-buddypress-groups or https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-categoriestypes/

Location: https://github.com/naton/bp-group-location
https://geomywp.com/add-ons/groups-locator/

Introducing BuddyPress Simple Google Map Plugin

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Connected:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/locationaddress-for-buddypress-groups/

Blog posts:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-post-notification/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/notify-users-e-mail/
Other options: http://www.mailpoet.com/post-notify-solutions-wordpress/

And I didn’t find anything special for activity updates.

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.