I have a freshly installed WordPress/BuddyPress with no content added.
Wordpress is 4.1 (latest.tar.gz downloaded on Jan 8, 2014)
BuddyPress is whatever version it installs when I installed the plugin about 10 minutes afterwards.
At first it seems to be installed, even though there is very little apparent change in the outward appearance of the default website.
But when I follow the path of Settings -> BuddyPress and then click the Pages tab, I get a page where I associate a WordPress page with each BuddyPress component directory. When I click on ‘View’ for either of the ‘Members’, ‘Activity’, or ‘Groups’, I get a 404 page. Apparently the paths of /members, /groups, or /activity were not included.
Similar problems happen, for example, if I were to try to create a group.
I’ve noticed that this has been going on for several years. I’ve found postings regarding this going on 5 years back, but those are older versions in which required different steps to resolve that are no longer reproducible. I find it surprising that I’ve found so little on this given that I’ve done practically nothing to customize the installation.
Okay I found this https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5610
This is really a critically ill-experience for the end-users BUT the milestones are being delayed from 2 to 2.1, then to 2.2 and then to 2.3
Looks like BP has to be abandoned if this is not provided immediately in the form of a “hack” or plugin. I am unable to execute the patch provided there.
Go to wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=bp-page-settings
Find:
Registration
Associate WordPress Pages with the following BuddyPress Registration pages.
Now create a New Page and save it with the name – register
and then choose it from the drop-down and save settings.
If you’re concerned by freedom, a little plugin was published last night to let WP users add a “#jesuischarlie” ribbon to their blog.
You can download here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/je-suis-charlie/
Dan – Paris
Running WordPress 4.1. Buddypress 2.1.1.
In the Site-Wide Activity screen, there is a selector ‘Post in’ where one can select ‘My Profile’ or one of the groups to which one is a member.
Is there a way to get the same box in /activity/personal screen?
it would be wonderful, if the WPMUDEV team were to come out with its long awaited theme.
currently, i own “Terso Theme” and WPLMS.
you can buy premium wordpress themes that just plain break BuddyPress, so it is necessary to try things out.
i also run a BuddyPress site with the 2012 theme. i don’t know why, but the activity stream is actually nicely styled and works properly, whereas other themes simply turned the activity stream into an ugly mess.
one criteria for the theme is that certain key functionality has to work in a way that makes sense to users.
Do they also have a profile field for gender?
You could write custom mysql queries – more info.
I’m looking for a simple extension for users within their profile to be able to track their own collection of things, like books, articles, my cars, my collectable antiques etc… the site admin will and/or design the forms per category, but the collection of data is stored as a relationship to the user. (Similar to Goodreads, but I don’t want to track books, just things I as the site designer/admin determine they can track.)
I’ve poured over wordpress plug-ins and buddy press plug-ins and can not find anything like this, other than lists and auctions. (Auctions not exactly the right thing and lists are too simple.)
If anyone knows of something already built, please post a plug-in to consider. Not looking for free either, if it’s solid, I’ll pay for the plug-in.
Hi there, I am using wordpress 4.1 and buddypress 2.1.1
I would like to add the “status update” bar that appears at the top of the activity stream to my home page so that users are encouraged to immediately contribute content upon arrival to the site. Is there a way to insert the code to my static home page?
I am familiar but not knowledgeable with php or javascript, so if the solution involves hand coding, please be very specific – as if you were explaining to a 5 year old.
Any clues are greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Monica
there has been some discussion of media handling in core I’m not sure the exact status of it but you may want to show up for a dev chat to lobby for your request(s) theres one later today in fact:
Wednesdays at 20:00 UTC
#buddypress on Slack
https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/buddypress
The Toolbar belongs to WordPress. See WP Codex for how you can rearrange this.
So far i see, your register button is correctly linked to BuddyPress register page.
Hello, I have trouble removing or hiding the wordpress log in on the every page, I want to get rid of this because it is not necessary for the website, I need new registration will be directed to the register page of buddypress.
please have a look on http://focussingwithin.com/ and check the top grey bar with a wordpress logo
anyone have the same situation
Thank You so much, I think updating the wordpress fixed the problem
Running WordPress 4.1, Buddypress 2.1.1.
The @ auto-complete (used for mentioning someone) does not work on the site in all areas except the site-wide activity.
How can I enable @ auto-complete throughout the site?
If anyone needs an advice, at the end I’ve chosen this one:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-social-login/
because it works as needed and doesn’t to connect to a third party website to be managed.
@disha76
Even though Jetpack and BuddyPress and both projects under the WordPress ‘umbrella’, they are separate plugins and haven’t been designed to work in that way. That said, both should always be compatible. For example, if you find something stops working as a result of the plugins being installed together and conflicting then you could file a bug report.
I have noticed in the apache error log that we are getting multiple errors as follows:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_get_groups_current_create_step() in /var/www/community/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template.php on line 2328
This may be related to a huge amount of registration spam that we are getting despite captchas etc. which leads me to suspect that it is being done through the back door.
I have temporarily commented out that line but that clearly isn’t a long term solution.
The site is up-to-date in that it is running WordPress 4.1 and Buddypress 2.1.1. All other plugins are also up-to-date. Site is http://bn.myfamilyclub.co.uk/
Any suggestions?
as i said before jetpack likes are really more like Facebook likes, you can’t Facebook like something if you aren’t on Facebook any more than you can jetpack like something if you aren’t on wordpress.com the whole idea of jetpack is to give your self hosted blog/site many of the capabilities of a wordpress.com hosted blog/site, so from that perspective how it works is pretty sensible even if most people have no idea about wordpress.com
Overall it seems Like is not used or not used properly by BP users. Maybe Jetpack Like is used by many individual blogs.
What is expected usage :
1) I am speaking of an uniform Like button under a blog post or a photo or any content. I should be able to Like it there. I should be also able to like it from an entry in the activity stream if I so wish. This is how usually Like is handled in almost all social scripts as well as real world social nets.
2) On hovering or clicking a Like button or a “Liked” link I should be able to see in a scrollable way the names/avtaars of Likers and the total number of Likes
3) A tab or link in my Profile should show content names / thumbnails of what I liked.
4) The plugin should disable BP core favorites
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When tested with WP4.1, latest BP and Media plugins like rtmedia, the results are:
- buddypress-like does (4) above , not others
- love-it.1.0.4 does not work
- wp-ulike is not a Network plug in at all, its suitable for individual blogs but as a super admin of WP mutlsite you cannot set its features like you can set features of BP – see issues posted by ronia – this and this. While it is nice for Blogs Like buttons do not appear below Media files or Media posts created by Media plugins
Hi @christoph744
I’m sure there is a way to filter the members loop via BuddyPress but if you want a WordPress approach then check out the WP_User_Query class. Assuming that s2member uses custom fields to distinguish members (I may be wrong on that) you’d want to look at using the Custom Field Parameters
Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User_Query
@rizar9 – buddypress is a membership plugin (and more) – but you may not need that kind of community (that buddypress essentially creates) – you could use a regular ol’ wordpress site and something like s2member if you are set on a membership plugin.
If you find a way to encrypt all the data that gets stored in the database, please let me know – I have been trying to find a good secure contact form system that encrypts into sql and stuff – which I think would be needed for the hippa stuff with some of my clients..
“without a membership plugin, how am I able to keep a record of the past and pending appointment bookings that the person made?” = I am not sure on that really – but I was pointing you to a couple of plugins up above that seem to do some of what you are describing – so maybe you should install those and play with them – see what they report to you and perhaps some small mercenary (paid) modifications of those could piece together what you are describing(?)
rizar you don’t need a membership plugin for that- you needs a points for actions / karma type plugin and an appointment setting plugin. I have heard of one like that, I guess something similar to https://wordpress.org/plugins/mycred/ and these https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress+appointments&sort= . From my limited experience dealing with some in the medical field in the states, I am not sure what you are describing is technically ethical or legal – but I don’t know for sure, and I am sure those issues vary by region as well. Just a thought you might want to consider before putting too much into that.
@disha76
I found a few in the WP repo that may do what you are asking..
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ulike/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/voter-plugin/
wordpress.org/plugins/likebtn-like-button/
I have not tried any of these, so I’d love to hear from you if you try any and they work for what you are wanting to achieve. I also have not looked to see if any of these have privacy issues (loading images / data from third party sites like jetpack)
They say they work with posts, pages and BP activity stuff, and show some shortcodes to add most liked this and that, I assume to places in your theme..
I hope one of those, or similar will do that trick for you. I may decide to play with that like thing again myself in the near future.
Note: I am running on the latest version of WordPress (4.1) and version (2.1.1) of BuddyPress.
