hi @julia_b,
you can try to apply patch 8. See here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6107
Will probably be solved in BP 2.2.2
Hi @fpvtv, @norek,
it’s actually an obvious issue which maybe solved in next update.
For now you could try to apply patch #8.
See ticket here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6107
Hi @alice-claire,
if the member counter shows 4.000 users and your dashboard only 2.000, wp_users table should contain around 4.000 user too.
Check this table first. Search for user status 1. In case you find some, these are probably ghost accounts.
See also wp_signup. Should normally be empty if you have no pending accounts in dashboard.
Now you can install this plugin and clean your DB.
I have had some complaints from users that when they try to post in a forum thread they get the following error message:
“You cannot reply to this topic”
I am confused by this as other users do not have the same problem and I was under the impression that when a user posts to a forum in a group they do not belong to, they are automatically added to that group.
Can someone tell me:
1. Am I right in saying that BuddyPress’s default behaviour is that when a user posts to a forum in a group they do not belong to, they are automatically added to that group?
2. If that is the case, why it isn’t working here and how it might be fixed?
I am using WordPress 4.1.0, BuddyPress 2.1.1 and BBPress 2.5.6.
I just wanted to thank you again for that plugin! Simplest solution and works perfect! Why not submit it to the WordPress plugin archive?
Why would you uninstall BP and reinstall it, you even don’t know where the issue came from ?
Take a breath and stay calm. 😉
Activate Twenty Fifteen theme.
Deactivate all plugins except BP.
check for anything is correct. If it is, you can reactivate your plugins one by one, checking after each for an issue, untill you find eventually a culprit.
If all is correct, the only thing who may bring an issue at this stage is your theme.
Activate it and see the result. If you get the same issue, you should contact the theme support.
We cannot help you for this, as it is a premium theme and we have no free access to it’s code.
Please read also here, where some basics are explained.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress
Hey Everyone,
I have recently moved my buddypress site to a new server and since the move both the Add Friend and Join Group buttons are failing to work anymore.
I just get the error: Are you sure you want to this? Please try again.
But, when you click to try again it does not work.
I believe the functioning of the buttons are working as members who are accepting friend requests that were sent previous to the server move are able to process.
I wondered if you could suggest a reason for these buttons not to work since moving servers, so I can pass on to the hosts in the hope it can be resolved as soon as poss.
Thank you for your time.
Wordpress version: 4.1.1
Buddypress version: 2.2.1
@rosyteddy a couple of good reads there man, i like to read through the comment sections on articles like the ones above because there is some good points raised, there are alot of varied opinions as how to effectively pull this off dependent on the complexity of your site, which i would consider mine as quite complex, the reason for the questions and advice is because of how complex i consider the website to be, i have alot of stylesheets for various different things here there and everywhere loading when not needed etc, in the past i have used plugins to successfully combine and serve them as one cached minified version etc.. but i was just wanting to go more in depth with it and configure it all myself to run at an optimum level.
I am going to be messing around with this over the next few days and will get back to you on what i feel was the best way to do it, any more advice off anyone else who has tackled doing this manually for wordpress/buddypress give us a shout.
No worries m8, as far as sleep is concerned, what is this sleep you speak of? hahahaha
Besides i just woke up at 12am so im up all night now, damn my sleeping pattern is a mess at the minute :/
Oh i always forget about the top menu as i have disabled the top bar, i hate it!
I hate the wordpress bar at the top and always have , it screams your using wordpress above anything else. I always disable it hence why i was working on my own notifications i a previous post.
Wide subject and several answered on this forum.
Askimet covers comment spam and doesn’t avoid clever spam bots to hit directly the DB.
Basic recommandation is to use table prefix different of the classic wp_. This calms down most bots.
A closed door is always a challenge for any spammer. WP is not fort Knox and depending your host, what YOU did and many other security details, this has no end in fact. If your site is Facebook, you’ll probably receive more spam than if it would be mykittycat homepage. Glory has a price ! 😉
Some htaccess rules against reputated spam server and one or to plugins aside what exist natively in WP should be enough to protect you a little from massive spam.
For example: buddypress honeypot + ban hammer for BP
or more simple and rought
http://mattts.net/development-stuff/web-development-stuff/wordpress/buddypress/anti-spam-techniques/registration-honeypot/
… + searching this forum, maybe you can find more tips. 😉
A quick follow up question…
Can I echo the xprofile_get_field_data fields elsewhere in WordPress (outside of Buddypress) in the same way?
ie :
$location = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Location', $user_id );
echo $location;
Obviously replacing user_id with the numeric user id.
Hey guys,
I’ve been developing wordpress powered sites for years, sometimes I build them locally and other times I build them live (depending on what I’m doing).
I’m currently building my first BuddyPress powered site (live) and I have noticed a serious amount of spam accounts signing up every time that I leave “anybody can register” open.
I’ve never seen this before with any other wordpress site that I’ve built online.
I never use Akismet or any other kind of anti-spam filter in WP as I’ve never thought the spam account problem was serious enough to warrant it, but I’m 100% going to need one with this BP powered site because it’s getting out of control before anybody even knows the site is out there. (I’ve told WP not to index the site on search engines while I’m building it).
So a couple of questions….
1) Are you guys getting a large amount of fake spam accounts on your sites as well?
2) If you are using a plug-in to prevent spam, which one are you using and does it work ok?
3) Does anybody know what it is about a Buddypress install that is encouraging all of the spam bots through the door?
The site i’m currently developing with Buddypress (my first buddypress site) is totally Ajaxed using Ajaxify WordPress Site Pro.
All profile tabs are now ajaxed as well as everything else.
There is a small issue with messaging but the plug in developer is fixing that as we speak.
Hey @mcpeanut
I don’t think there’s any reason why these shouldn’t have ajax functionality. It may well be planned, but I’m not sure? Take a look through the open Trac tickets to see if anything is in the pipeline.
Hi @andrew55,
add this snippet to bp-custom.php. Now you can use shortcode [profilo] in any blog post, blog comment, page and BP notice. Note that activity walls are stripped, the shortcode will not work/appear there.
For bbPress topics and replies, use this plugin. Read the doc, as you’ll have to check user capacity to get it to work for participant.
function bpfr_link_to_profile() {
return ' <a href="'. bp_get_loggedin_user_link() .'">View my profile</a>';
}
add_shortcode( 'profilo', 'bpfr_link_to_profile' );
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'do_shortcode' );
Hello
I have finally get Buddypress installed but after i have done that its like my browser is freezing everytime im going in to some Buddypress related sites like member pages and Activity page.
http://www.playstationforum.dk/members/nistelroy78 <– My profil page
or just activity page http://www.playstationforum.dk/activity/
I have follow installed.
1. WordPress 4.11 Installed
2. Buddypress 2.2.1
3. Add Meta Tags
4. Advanced Excerpt
5. Advanced Responsive Video Embedder
6. Akismet
7. bbPress
8. bbPress Votes
9. bbp style pack
10. BuddyPress
11. Code Snippets
12. CodeStyling Localization
13. CodeStyling Localization Preserver
14. Customize Posts
15. Disqus Conditional Load
16. Disqus Recent Comments Widget
17. Enhanced Media Library
18. GD bbPress Tools
19. Jetpack af WordPress.com
20. Kraken Image Optimizer
21. Live Stream Badger
There wasnt any load issue before i installed bbpress and its only on the bbpress releated sites.
I Use ThemeFuse GameZone.
I have seen several places where it’s somewhat easy to create a dynamic link to the current logged in user’s profile page using php (using php in a template file).
But what about a link that can be used in a WordPress page or better yet, inside a bbpress topic within the site? I dug up this…
<a href="http://yoursite.com/members/%USERNAME%/">Your Profile</a>
..but from what I’ve seen, and testing it, it doesn’t seem to work anymore. Is there a new, updated method of accomplishing this?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Guys I have cometchat installed on a current wordpress site and I’ve had to deactivate it after much back and forth with their support team (who are very good it has to be said).
I bought the Professional Edition and also purchased the Comet Service to reduce load on my server.
Sadly it hasn’t worked out well.
Every time cometchat gets even slightly busy (30+ chatters in a room) it brings down my entire website. I disabled comet service and tried running it solely on my own dedicated server (which is pretty powerful 12 core / 64GB ram / 1Gbps pipe + 1Gbps burst) but the same issue kept happening.
After some debugging it all boils down to the fact that, whether you have comet service activated or not, the script “calls home” to comet’s servers every time somebody loads it in their browser. The problem that was taking my site out is that their servers couldn’t handle the load and were returning 504 errors which was wiping my site out (as the comet chat scripts are loaded aright after the opening <head> tag, preventing the rest of the site from loading).
They tried a few things to fix it for me, but ultimately the script still needs to contact their servers and their servers can’t handle the requests.
It’s a shame because it is a really good script and when working, works flawlessly. The integration with WP is brilliant, although, as mentioned above, any messaging done via comet chat stays in comet chat and can’t be translated elsewhere on your site.
There is this WP chat plug in that I’ve had to revert back to (had it prior to buying comet chat) but it’s a bit clunky and is a bit of a resource pig – https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-chat/
It does work though. Hope that helps 😉
Thanks for your feedback @mrgiblets! Also, thanks for your review over at wordpress.org 😀
The only reason why I started this topic was because I spoke to a WordPress representative and as I’ve done here, after explaining the issues to the rep, they said for me to get in contact with the creators of the plugin that allows me to do all of these news feed configurations so I assumed it was through here, BuddyPress. And I already was reading through the Codex, videos tutorials, support forums and speaking to numerous amounts of representatives and didn’t get anywhere. But okay, I will try reaching out to the creator of the Vipress theme and hopefully get my questions answered. Thank you.
@danbp
I understand everything that you’re saying, but everything that you’re saying through here is still not resolving my issue to get the registration process to work on my site. I am not allowing just any random person to upload to my server with random documents if I am not only having them labeled as “Authors” (where they are able to edit their OWN profiles and edit their OWN posts, so on and so forth) and not as “Administrators” (where a person has control to change up EVERYTHING on the site and the server), but also for the fact that this Vipress theme was created to be compatible with BuddyPress, therefore, allowing people to be able to create a profile with, in this case, the MyLoopNetwork.
As far as with the whole newly register user, I already know to keep in mind about who I allow to become a member for I am constantly checking the back end of my site on a regular basis. All I’m trying to do is create my own version of a website where users can sign up as a new user, create their own profiles, update their posts, upload their own pictures, connect with other MyLoopNetwork users, create groups that people can join, and pretty much build up on their own news feed through their profiles without conflicting with any sections or areas of the overall site.
I don’t know anything about this BuddyDrive plugin that you have mentioned, but for the record, this is my first WordPress website that I’ve been working on for months and I’m trying to learn as much as possible. I’m just trying to get some assistance on how to resolve certain issues that came across my way with configuring this particular theme. So with you saying, “You’re talking about pdf, doc and docx, but on the register page nothing appears about what type of file they have to upload (as it is required) and for what !” that’s what I’m trying to explain to you. That’s what pops up on my end and on other people’s end that are trying to create their own MyLoopNetwork profile, so therefore, I do not have any control over that, for I wasn’t the one that created that coding for it to show up that way. And then you was saying, “‘Here you’ll be able to upload images. Try it out now!’ is a bit vague.” you will have to ask the creator of this Vipress theme and ask them why they have it set that way because, once again, I am NOT the one that created this theme, and this is how it automatically showed up on the registration page when people were trying to create their profile. So unless you’re going to actually give me a full detailed, step-by-step guide on how to resolve the issues that I’m trying to fix, I thank you for your time and patience and I hope you have a good day.
Weebly is a site buider with his own tools to do that.
BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin. 2 different concept, 2 technologies.
The answer is no. 😉
To Whom It May Concern,
I’m trying to get my registration page to work for my http://www.myloopnetwork.com website. My client explained that people that are trying to become new users (which I set all users up as Authors when creating a profile) and none of them can create a profile. It keeps saying that they’re using the wrong files (PDFs, DOCs, and DOCXs), even when I try to create a new user, and I’m only using the JPG, GIF and PNG files for the new user profile image. For the JPG and GIF file, it keeps bringing up about the file statement (as mentioned earlier) and for the PNG file, its telling me that the section to upload pictures is a required field as if I didn’t upload anything. Anything that anyone can do to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated, for I am pressed for time to start promoting this site and get people as MyLoopNetwork users. I have the WordPress 4.1.1 and the BuddyPress 2.2.1 version, and I’m using the Vipress 1.7 (dark layout) version.
