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@ksample Thanks for posting back about the plugin conflict. If you like the plugin might I suggest informing the developer about the issue so he can update it https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-like

Marking this as resolved.

I just tried mentioning 11 users on P2 and couldn’t duplicate your issue.

It appears this issue only occurs when you view the post on the frontend since you state that the correct content shows up when you edit the post.

Try the recommendation I listed in the ticket you opened:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5565#comment:1

If that doesn’t work, what other plugins are you using?

Hi Djsix,

The problem occurs because a check is added to see if a user is logged in before the activity comments block is displayed.

I’ve created a new ticket about this here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5567

In the meantime, you can override the specific template by copying wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/entry.php to your theme.

The file should reside here – wp-content/themes/YOUR-THEME/buddypress/activity/entry.php. Then, make the file change listed in the patch linked in the ticket above.

@blankpoint Sorry for the troubles. The upgrade routine necessary for BP 2.0 is fairly large.

I’ll work in the upcoming weeks on improving it, but in the meantime, a few things to try:

1. Your memory limit issue is due to the fact that WP will not allow you to exceed 256M per pageload without explicitly saying you want to (regardless of your php.ini settings). You can put the following into wp-config.php to override for the admin only:

define( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '1024M' );

2. Just to get up and running, you might also consider running the heavy migration manually: from the mysql command line.

INSERT INTO wp_bp_activity (<code>user_id</code>, <code>component</code>, <code>type</code>, <code>action</code>, <code>content</code>, <code>primary_link</code>, <code>item_id</code>, <code></code>
date_reco
                  SELECT user_id, 'members' as component, 'last_activity' as type, '' as action, '' as content, '' as
                  FROM wp_usermeta
                  WHERE
                    meta_key = 'last_activity'
                    AND
                    user_id NOT IN (
                      SELECT user_id
                      FROM wp_bp_activity
                      WHERE component = 'members' AND type = 'last_activity'
                    )
        );

You could split this up with a LIMIT clause in case you need to run it a few times.

The other problematic bit of the upgrade routine has to do with migrating your old signups to the new signups schema. (I’m assuming you have open registration + non-multisite.) That migration is not necessarily mission-critical, so you could skip it altogether. So, in other words, once you’ve run the ‘last_activity’ migration, you could comment out line 351 and lines 355-395 here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0/bp-core/bp-core-update.php#L351 and then reload your admin to mark the migration as complete.

Again, sorry about the difficulties. You’re running a very large BP site, and the migration tools were not up to the job.

Then, you could comment out this line: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0/bp-core/bp-core-update.php#L351

hi @tsabar

code is located in buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php

BuddyPress Login widget

Maybe read here also ?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/

above 2 work for me absoutely fine. great plugins by @bp-help

Trac ticket at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5545

@iol2014 https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Connection_Timed_Out
So if you don’t want/need to fix connection time out error/s, then just delete the BuddyPress folder in the wp-content/plugins folder via FTP if you have access.

@jonbie Make sure you use the same/right selectors or more specific ones to override the styles for I assume, BP 2.0 https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0/bp-templates/bp-legacy/css/buddypress.css
What theme are you using? Site URL?

I am not using BuddyPress for a forum. I am using BuddyPress for only volunteer groups on my website. I am just getting started with that. I tried to control access to the Group Page by WordPress Member Role… and running into issues. I see that persons want role control for reasons probably like mine. My site is a team membership site, it is not open to the general public. It’s not the vision of a community forum that I think persons are trying to force from their own vision of what a BuddyPress site “should be like”. 🙂 It’s like they are trying to force a square into round hole thinking that there should be no admin management by WordPress user role. 🙂 They’re thinking of an “open community”… and this is a closed community. If persons registered to my site and went to become member of a team in my team group… they would mess up my whole site and all of my volunteer structure. Not just anyone can join a volunteer team in my site.

So, enough said about why the BuddyPress vision of everyone is equal and should have power on a hosted website hosted by an individual for a specific cause… just is not a conducive philosophy to my website and my group creation.

But, here is a plug-in. I have reasons why it conflicts a bit with other things I am using… and I am not ready to implement this. But, check it out please…

http://presspermit.com/wp-content/uploads/PP-RS-Feature-Grid.pdf

– BuddyPress group as Permission Group

is an option on both the free and pro version of Permit Plus.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/faq/

Can Press Permit Pro do everything Role Scoper can do?
Press Permit Pro introduces some important new features, including custom post statuses,

. For most sites, it is a functional equivalent to Role Scoper, with major improvements in UI and performance. A few of Role Scoper’s more obscure features are not currently provided by PP Pro:

HTTP Authentication for feeds
Supplemental roles and restrictions for links defined in wp-admin/link-manager.php
Customization of NextGEN Gallery editing permissions

Role assignment for limited content date range (but membership in custom-defined permission groups can be date-limited)

http://presspermit.com/extensions/

Plugin Extensions:
PP Compatibility Pack
PUBLISHED IN PLUGINS, PRESS PERMIT ON JUNE 7, 2013
PP Compatibility Pack
Adds compatibility and/or integration with bbPress, Relevanssi, CMS Tree Page View, Subscribe2, BuddyPress, WPML, various other plugins. For multisite, provides network-wide permission groups.

Read & Discuss »
PP Circles
PUBLISHED IN PLUGINS, PRESS PERMIT ON JUNE 7, 2013
PP Circles
Visibility Circles and Editorial Circles block access to content not authored by other group members. Any WP Role, BuddyPress Group or custom Group can be marked as a Circle for specified post types.

Read & Discuss »
PP Buddypress Role Groups
PUBLISHED IN PLUGINS, PRESS PERMIT ON JUNE 7, 2013
PP Buddypress Role Groups
Modify any BuddyPress group’s access to specified content. Assign type-specific supplemental roles and post-specific exceptions as with PP-defined groups.

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I haven’t tried these… I am not far enough along in my website construction. Plus, sadly, the role scoper has group request and add… the new version doesn’t… and I am as stubborn as a horse lead to water that won’t drink… when asked to give up a feature I LOVE!! 🙂 I don’t want to give up that group feature I would lose from Role Scoper. So, I have not migrated.

Here’s some solutions for you that you can try, that I have read about.. but I have not tried myself yet.

**The author of these plug-ins ought to be a multi-millionaire… but lacks in sales and marketing skills. 🙂 But, I’m helping him out here for free. lol

Blessings!

Cheers!

Laura Lee

carlsandburg – Create a WordPress menu:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/

@texrat – Thanks. It’s possible that other plugins would cause this sort of problem. You probably are running now, or have run in the past, the kind of plugin that would cause the behavior.

I’ve opened a bug ticket to discuss the bug and possible fixes: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5553#ticket

For anyone currently affected:
– By default, BP does not create users with a status greater than Subscriber. This issue only affects people with a role higher than Subscriber
– If your admin user account does not have access to the Dashboard, I’ve written a small plugin that you can use to repair. Instructions and code are here: https://gist.github.com/boonebgorges/4ee64723ba75caa3c7e1
– If you need to repair other users, I recommend that you use the bulk update tools at Dashboard > Users

Note that this is something that only happens during the 2.0 upgrade, so you don’t have to be afraid that it’ll happen again.

Many apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience and help as we sort things out.

I am running multiple (5) single, standalone sites, but the usertable and the usermeta table are the same everywhere.

I have added the login and register redirection BP plugins and the disable activation one. I am using CubePoints, BP Followers, BP Media, BP Links, BP Extended Groups, BP Friends& Groups Suggest, BP Like, BP Group Extras, WordPress Captcha, BP Activity Refresh and Register Plus Redux (EDIT:) and W3 Total Cache.

These accounts I am using ATM are registered long ago upon the wordpress installation or in the wp admin section, I have registered an other account, but the problem is the same.

Now, I will try to restore the DB and Disable all the other BP plugins and we will see what happens.

1. This is not a bug. We have never supported screen notifications for activity comments in core. There is already a ticket for this – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5395.

2. The main activity directory doesn’t show activity comments as separate entries by default because it will clutter up the stream. This is intentional, but since people will be using activity comments more, this might be a good time to revisit this.

Here’s a quick plugin to force the activity stream to always show activity comments as separate entries:
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/10937509

3. Good idea. Will add an enhancement ticket for this for v2.1.

Most plugins that add user fields are for the WordPress profile. The new Extended profile in the admin is for BuddyPress specific user information.

@canadadre

Can registered users upload media (photos, video, music)?

Yes, there are plugins for that, like
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-media/

Can I modify the themes to allow for streams to be viewed similar to Pinterest or Tumblr? (I am familiar with PHP, CSS etc).

You can do anything you like – it’s open source 🙂

Is there a maximum number of registered user allowed? 1000? 10,000? What determines this?

It is determined by your server(s) resources and setup.

Also can the administrator send out email to all registered users?

There are several free WP plugins for that. You don’t need one specific to BP.

A fix for this has been included in BuddyPress 2.0, which is due for release today.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/8277

r_a_y, could you please explain in few words, what changes were done to activity add?

I mean this patch https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3856 and the words “..(short version – plugins that insert activity items will continue to work as before, but should be good citizens and update to the new technique)…”.

As I see, bp_activity_add wasn’t changed, so what update Boone is talking about? thanks!

Hi All

Thank you for sharing. When I wanna try to install “BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation”, I saw this note on top of the page

“This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.”

Hopefully this plugin still useful.

Other than Buddy Press, not sure if anyone of you try any other plugin that come with Group Control function?

Hope to hear from you soon. Thank you

I usually test on the Twenty Twelve theme as it’s nice and clean. You can basically use any decent WordPress theme for the most part.

If BuddyPress doesn’t work with a certain theme, let us know.

Hi @mikebw2000

try https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-usernames/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-site-site-list-shortcode/ try this works without site tracking

Following might help asssuming its a multi network

https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-site-site-list-shortcode/