Read your host documentation and FYI here.
Or create an FTP account and upload WP/BP via FTP as recommended.
Sorry I didn’t want to be rude, there is so many scams online so I wasn’t sure.
Thank you for your links. I’m studding it now.
In required section I found this information:
WordPress should be installed manually i.e. via FTP, cpanel, etc. and NOT via webhost scripts (fantastico, softalicious, etc.)which bring about numerous issues when BuddyPress is activated.
I use zyma.com for hosting my website. I downloaded WP in my cpanel, but when I click on WP (in my cpanel) it redirect me to…softalicious.
Is that mean that I cannot use BuddyPress correctly?
Hi
I just downloaded BuddyPress and unfortunately when I tried to activate my plugin black stripe with wordpress appear and cover my MENU. I am building my site there is nothing on it yet:
http://www.glosujenogami.pl
Do you know how to get rid of it?
I was unable to reproduce this on a single install with Twenty Twelve.
Simply copy/pasted your link into the what’s new form, and published.
Are yu sure that group admin hasn’t tried to use a <a> tag ?
FYI read also here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6430
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6432
If you want to customize your site, do it happy few, but please read the Codex documentation before asking for such basic things !
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect
Henry Wright gave a good explanation, that is the exact same way that I implemented user password and validation on my php classifieds website, which used to be a wordpress site. Can buddypress work easily with a PHP website that is not wordpress-based? It would be a cool feature to add.
Hi, I am using buddypress + bbpress, with userpro in a theme called Magmik.
The setting for buddypress, bbpress, and userpro seems to be ok, however, I am don’t know how to make sure for these, although I have released my order to the theme company to set it up for me.
My question here is that, due to the userpro, the message in the admin board keeps showing:
The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activate, Register. Repair.
I am told that I am using userpro to replace both the Activate and Register pages, therefore, there is no issue in here, it seems.
however, my problem is the message in the backend of the website.
Please advise how could I hide this message in my dashboard for administrator.
Versions are:
WordPress 4.2.2
buddypress: 2-2-3-1
bbpress: 2.5.7
The website is: http://www.enihongo.net/
Please help. thanks.
Kay
@henrywright
Could not get it to work. I ‘fixed’ it by removing the whole option for users to change their password. If they want to change it, they can use the lost password option. That does work with wordpress security plugins.
Hello,
I have a question and I do apologise if it’s been asked before but I can’t find any information about it..
I run a Xenforo board, and am keen on a purchasing a WordPress bridge.
I need a plugin that will create a member directory of sorts, showing member profiles, their bio’s and avatars and any other relevant information.
Do you know if I can integrate this with Xenforo or use a bridge to get it to work?
I’d appreciate any help and pointers.
Many thanks.
Hello,
Is there a way to use BuddyPress without permalink. BuddyPress is a great plugin which allows to create group and send messages to that specific group within wordpress.
In fact, I need a messaging system which can send message by department(group). There are more than 500 users. So we need to group those users.
But the problem here is that here is that the website does not use permalink. So I’m unable find another plugin which will provide this feature.
Can you help me please or can you suggest me a plugin?
Thanks,
Sweta
I tested it on my site and on a clean installation and both do not work on members/member_name/settings/ . Users do see a password strength meter, but can still change their password into something simple as 1 or A. How did you get it to work on members/member_name/settings/?
With WordPress there are many plugins (none that work with buddypress frond-end settings page) that set a minimum strength for passwords. Such as Login Security Solution and iThemes Security. You can force users to change their password or set an amount of days when users must change their password.
It seems like a major security problems (that has existed for a few years) that Buddypress allows simple passwords such as 1 and A on members/member_name/settings/
@modemlooper thanks for the suggestion, I will change that from “register” to something else 🙂 I have tried changing the url on permlinks to a handful or different possibilities and still I get the 404 page, I have also tried all suggestions at: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/the-requested-url-register-was-not-found-on-this-server/ including adding a .htaccess file which was not in my WordPress root directory for some reason, I have also tried enabling mod_rewrite in Apache to no avail, I’m stocked 🙁
@danbp thanks! but the pages are created! I went to WordPress and set them up, I did however had an error I did while trying to figure things out with the registration page pointing to the wrong url, I have fixed that since you told me, also on the BudyPress settings I have assigned them to the different components, still the pages are just blank.
Also I’m not sure what the pretty permlinks is? is this changing the Permlinks settings in wordpress to something like “Post Name” ? I’m going to read configure-components page again top to bottom, again thanks so much for your help!
PS: I changed the permlinks in wordpress to “Post Name” and now all component pages are not just blank but they cannot be found. ahhhhh I’m sooooooo confused! lol
Hello @modemlooper
Yes, Registration is turn on in WordPress, and pages are assigned to the default ones that were created when BudyPress was installed, I have no idea if I have to change that or where to.
I would greately appreciate it if you could take a look please
if you have registration turned off in WordPress settings you will have registration troubles. When you got to settings > BuddyPress and on the pages tab do you have the pages assigned to components?
BP doesn’t have a special login aside from showing an avatar in the widget. You can use any login plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-sidebar-widget/
Hi there,
I’m creating a small community site, I have setup wordpress and buddypress successfully, however I haven’t managed to get things such as creation of new groups and registrations working, I also can’t figure out how to display things such as activity & members on the pages which have been automatically created by buddy press, the other automatically created pages such as Register, Activate and Groups also do not show any information, if I try to create a new group or register as a regular member of the site it won’t let me and only shows a “page cannot be found” message.
Also things such as the Member’s Profile page and the “Edit Profile” feature cannot be accessed from the main page, they also display the “Page cannot be found” error, these two features seem to be available from inside the wordpress dashboard though, but the public member’s profile page cannot be accessed from anywhere.
I would really appreciate it if anyone could give me a hand, I’m willing to give access to the backend to anyone who wishes to help, I’m a lost newbie, please help! 🙂
Hi,
I am having a problem that was pointed out to many others: the comments in activity streams (group discussion) are visible only to logged in members. I saw in this post: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5567 that the issue was fixed in 2.1 version, but I have 2.2.3.1 and it’s still here. I am also having the latest WP.
I would appreciate some help with this problem. You can fully test this problem here: http://www.machomen.ro/discutii/ce-suplimente-consumam/ – just check the comments when logged out, you will see that only the main comments are showing, replies don’t, then log in (you can use FB) and you will see all the comments, including replies.
Thank you!
Actually It is solved if I disable profile sync between wordpress and buddypress – but what does that mean any way? Will it kill my client side to disable profile sync?
At the moment, you can’t.
This is handled in the bbPress plugin:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/extend/buddypress/groups.php#L55
You could try overriding those variables on the 'bp_include' hook. See where bbPress initializes BuddyPress:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/core/actions.php#L132
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/core/extend.php#L38
So in theory, you could overload those slugs on the bbpress()->extend->buddypress object on the 'bp_include' hook after priority 10.
Untested, but see if that works. This will also break all your old forum links in the activity stream if you did this.
This doesn’t directly solve your problem, but…
You shouldn’t use ‘admin’ as a user name.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#Security_through_obscurity