BuddyPress.org

I’m calling it like I see it. Some of the responses I’ve seen here are down right uncivil. WordPress powers 20% of all websites on the internet, you think people sign up to use it because they’re just lazy programmers? No, they really don’t know how to program so when someone asks for help and says, “I don’t know how to program” telling them to go learn and stop bothering the “busy” developers is completely useless.

These forums are pointless because the developers are unresponsive. I can go to a dozen other forums and ask random blokes what they think I should do and get just as much help as I’ve seen anyone get here. At least if you didn’t have these forums people wouldn’t keep getting told to go here and ask for help by well meaning people who assume that help will be given when help is very unlikely to be received.

A large portion of the threads I see here are people asking for help, getting no response, and then either muddling through long enough to answer their own question or just giving up. If they are lucky enough to figure it out, there are half a dozen or more other people begging for the solution because they got no answer when they asked themselves. It’s completely dysfunctional.

@ubernaut thanks for the reply! Sorry but my internet has been down and life a little too busy to log back in here.

I finally got a reply from the theme developer, but his answer didn’t help. He did at least confirm that it was a problem with the theme and then told me to just upgrade to the new theme they were developing (which is still in beta and has massive problems), so not useful at all. I hacked in some custom CSS I’d found for someone else havign as similar problem with a different plugin to trick it into displaying correctly while I look for another theme.

I believe it is somehow related to the fact that buddypress sidebars are not the same as site sidebars, it just doesn’t see that there are any sidebars at all. I went through the codex and the pages and tried to see where I could fix it myself since the developer has essentially abandoned the theme but it’s just a little beyond my coding skills at present. I think my ultimate solution will be to find a theme by a developer with better support. Hopefully as I learn more problems like this will be less of an issue.

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On another note:

I realize that this is an open source, free product but I have to say that the attitude from the developers here in the threads I’ve read is incredibly off putting. Rolling your eyes at people who’ve installed a plugin but do know how to code and find your codex incomprehensible is extremely unhelpful.

Wordpress was designed just so that people who didn’t know how to code could build custom blogs and websites. Whipping out a hipster sneer and telling them that they should be grateful is both rude and mean. You are the ones who chose to develop a plugin for a different user base than the core product. Don’t slap them across the face for assuming your plugin might work for them (since it’s apparently the #1 plugin on WordPress.org) and then having questions when it doesn’t.

I will say that having read the forums here first, I almost didn’t install BuddyPress at all because I don’t really want to interact with devs who treat their users so poorly solely based on the excuse that it’s free so you should be able to talk at us however you like, or simply ignore us if our questions are “too stupid”. If I didn’t have even at least a little experience with programming and web development I would’ve passed over it completely. I won’t be able to recommend it to any of my clients because I wouldn’t ask them to have to deal with this themselves.

You are lucky that you have users here helping one another, because for the most part they are the only one I see providing any support.

And here is my system information :

BuddyPress 1.9.1

Operating System Linux
Server Apache
Memory usage 19.59 Mb
MYSQL Version 5.5.30-30.2-log
SQL Mode Not set
PHP Version 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.19
PHP Safe Mode Off
PHP Allow URL fopen On
PHP Memory Limit 256M
PHP Max Upload Size 50M
PHP Max Post Size 100M
PHP Max Script Execute Time 3600
PHP Exif support Yes ( V1.4 )
PHP IPTC support Yes
PHP XML support Yes
Site URL http://lovebytrust.pro
Home URL http://lovebytrust.pro
WordPress Version 3.8
WordPress DB Version 26691
Multisite No
Active Theme Sweetdate Child 2.3.1

@barney92 your photo makes you look like a dancing hotdog…wait…

Is it really acceptable to come on here and use abusive, offensive slurs like that? Using the word ‘retard’ is completely inappropriate.

Anyway, this is a support forum, and I am asking for support. Most people are happy to help.

I am still learning Buddypress so this is a great place to develop. I contribute regularly to WordPress forums and Stack Exchange to help others.

Hi @r-a-y. Here are the plugins I am currently using on the site.

Network Activated:

Advanced Responsive Video Embedder
Anti-Splog
Are You a Human
bbPress
bbPress – Report Content
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab
bbpress Simple View Counts
BP Profile Search
BuddyPress Activity Plus – (I did deactivate this after the 1.9.1 update but nothing changed)
BuddyPress Avatar Bubble
BuddyPress Follow
BuddyPress Group Calendar
BuddyPress Groups Extras
Buddypress Social
BuddyPress Toolbar
BuddyPress Twitter
Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type
GD bbPress Toolbox
Group Forum Crumbs
rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
User Activity
WP User Avatar

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Single Site Actived

Amazon Product In a Post Plugin
BuddyMenu
BuddyPress Notifications Widget
Really simple Facebook Twitter share buttons

That’s about all the plugins that I have active that play a heavy part in Buddypress or are loosely connected to it.

Sorry, but updating permalinks didn’t work. I also tried changing the theme to Twenty Eleven and remove my child theme files completely, still no dice. Then i downloaded a guaranteed BuddyPress compatible theme “X2” but the problem persisted.

Then i got stubborn.

I started to remove plugins one by one, making sure to revert the settings in each one to default before deactivating and deleting. Finally i had only BuddyPress, and the problem.

So i got angry.

I checked .htaccess and wp_config.php and made sure they where at their default settings, and i removed every folder and file from the wp_content area that wasn’t needed. The only thing i didn’t manage to remove was the problem.

So i got furious!

I completely deleted the whole database and FTP server space, and re-installed WordPress and BuddyPress, and then the problem was gone.

The only problem is, i’ve spent more then 6 months building my site, making all the plugins get along with each other, and so on, starting from scratch is simply not on the table. So i got my site restored from a backup, and tried again to update BuddyPress, and the problem came back of course.

I need to make my current installment work, and i get the feeling that the problem is somewhere in the database, what do you think?

That didn’t seem to do it. I can just dump that code into the theme’s functions.php file?

I’m not great with php. Or is it this:

//disable WordPress sanitization to allow more than just $allowedtags from /wp-includes/kses.php
remove_filter( ‘xprofile_data_value_before_save’,
//add sanitization for WordPress posts
‘xprofile_sanitize_data_value_before_save’, 1, 2 );

I don’t know. I just added the most recent version after 1.6.

I found this but it’s not working:

Enable or Disable All HTML Tags in WordPress Author Biography Profiles

//disable WordPress sanitization to allow more than just $allowedtags from /wp-includes/kses.php
remove_filter(‘pre_user_description’, ‘wp_filter_kses’);
//add sanitization for WordPress posts
add_filter( ‘pre_user_description’, ‘wp_filter_post_kses’);

@henrywright No, it’s in relation to a post I made on the main WordPress forum: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-box-outside-of-the-loop?replies=1. Since then, I have found all the functions apart from the number of forum posts. I have only now realised that I posted this in BuddyPress, and not bbPress, which is the area I am looking for. I have both the blog posts and the blog comments working, and I also have my friends count displaying, but not the forum posts.