WordPress was designed just so that people who didn’t know how to code could build custom blogs and websites.
No it wasn’t actually, it was originally just developed as a blogging app to be better than those that existed, and in the early days before the theme api or the plugins api were introduced you would have had to have some knowledge of basic coding. The notion that it should take all the effort and requirement to learn a little basic coding skills out of the equation didn’t really develop until much later.
I’m sorry you feel aggrieved at the level of help or that you perceive an attitude from some here as for referring to the ‘Devs’ that is likely a little unfair, for the most part they are busy developing the core app and knowing most of them I can say that they don’t have an attitude or ever put anyone down.
>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.
No not lucky this is how forums have always been intended to work, this is a classic volunteer help forum and it’s the general users that help out and return to the project or community their knowledge and experience to help users like yourself who hopefully in turn then help out others in turn.
Got WordPress version 3.8 and BuddyPress version 1.9.1.
The BuddyPress default theme works fine.
A child theme of the BuddyPress theme give a page not found on all pages except the sign up and members page.
The child theme worked before on a older version of BuddyPress.
Where should I look to solve this problem?
@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.
Hi, I have 2 installs of BuddyPress and both are producing the same outcomes for the theme twentytwelve and the custom theme i’m building.
Members are signing up.
Activation email received.
Activation URL accessed.
Login – (With message, “your account is now active”)
Then the members directory still only shows 1 user (administrator).
In the WP signups table, the account(s) i created via registering are still in there with activated date and column active set to 1.
I’m running BuddyPress 1.9 and WordPress 3.8.
Any help greatly appreciated as I can’t see any members who have signed up in the members directory. The profiles are working fine.
I’m running the current versions of wordpress, buddypress and bbpress forum plugin for buddypress and the basic woo commerce plugin. The server is with bluehost and it’s on “test” a subdomain. No files have been changed.
Initially I was getting a different error message when trying to update the group avatars (that went away when I selected avatars from the settings menu). I did mess around including reinstalling wordpress and the plugins above until I found out the reason….
Note: All plugins were up-to-date at the start
But, afterward this message below started. Any ideas what the issue is and how to rectify it, it still happens after all other plugins are deactivated.
thanks,
FULL MESSAGE:
Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty needle in /home/smartweb/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-filters.php on line 489
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
I am getting this warning on the member’s pages when I enable extended profiles:
Warning: Creating default object from empty value in C:\Users\C\Documents\Websites\findreelconnections.dev\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-members\bp-members-template.php on line 662
I am using WordPress 3.8 and BuddyPress 1.9.1 with a custom theme. I don’t recall seeing this error before I updated both WP and BP. Any ideas what is going on and how to fix this?
This afternoon I started getting a 500 server error on my site. http://grumpyelder.com/
A quick discussion with my host tracked it back to to the Buddy Press 1.9 update. According to the error logs it has been ongoing since the update, very occasional and unnoticed at first, then as of today, occurring with increasing frequency, and visitors getting a server error and unable to access the site
The error log indicated a missing table in Buddy Press, but neither my host or I were able to determine what table.
The theme is Blog News by Gabfire, WordPress 3.8 and BP 1.9.. I have not added any plugins recently..
I originally installed Buddy Press on the site the day 1.7 was released and have had no issues until now. I’ve been amazed at how well the “New” Buddy Press (starting w/ 1.7) integrated with everything.. until now..I do have rtMedia (for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress) installed, that plugin seems to get almost daily updates, so it has been updated recently..
Please advise, currently I BP disabled, would like to reactivate it, as soon as it’s safe.
Thanks
Hi @glyndavidson,
Please read this ticket hoping this can help you to understand more about bp_moderate capability.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4991
hi @scimea,
Check
wordpress.org/support/topic/mention-privacy-multi-select-features
Regards.
I use a WordPress theme I made to accomplish this. I’ve been asking on the forums if anyone wants me to release it for free but I’ve had no response/ interest from anyone yet. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/flat-portal-client-area-child-theme-of-twenty-thirteen/
It has all the functionality you want.
I made it so that only admin can see all the users and only friends can see each others profiles if not admin.
@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.
I have created the buddypress sidebar in the themes settings.
@queertownabbey per layout of all your BuddyPress pages, the default page.php layout is full-width. Since we don’t have access to the premium theme, will refer you to examples of we’ve added sidebars to pages which are full-width by default at https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-theme-compatibility-and-the-wordpress-default-themes/ specifically with the Twenty Eleven theme
Just to preface, I’ve done everything to troubleshoot (including completely reinstalling wordpress with a new database and everything).
Everything seems to function properly except for when a new user gets the activation email and clicks the link to activate, it just goes to the activation page saying “Invalid activation key”. But… the user can log in fine and seems to be activated.
I’ve tried a lot of searching to no avail. Help please!
Hi, this is mostly for @megainfo regarding his BuddyPress activity privacy plugin. Wondering if there is a solution to allow admin and only members involved to see a conversation in the activity stream or private messages.
If anyone has a different solution I’m happy to listen!
See my dilemma here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/privacy-level-on-mentions?replies=1
Thanks!
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.
Hi @johnjamesjacoby
http://www.helpmemove.ca/wordpress/
That is the website I am developing. It is a WordPress single site. Basically I need admin to be able to see conversations between members in the activity stream or see the private messages between members.
Using the BP Activity Privacy plugin I can set the activity stream option to “admin only” as a member, but this stops the member I mention from seeing the message!
I need the admin to see conversation between a “member1” and “member2” whether it be via activity stream or private messages, but other members should not be able to see it.
Basically only admin, member1, member2 need to be able to see a conversation. Wondering if there is any way to do this!
Thanks,
Adam
Hey @jetlej.
On WordPress multisite, Super Administrators can edit/see/delete anything they want to. It’s their site, after all, so they are free to police it.
On WordPress single site, all Administrators have the same privileges as above.
We have been slowly rolling in the concept of moderator capabilities into BuddyPress for the past few years, though it’s not quite in a place yet where it’s been fully audited and integrated to be able to add/remove explicit permissions.
It’s not ideal for everyone, but it works well for most. Can you explain more about your setup and how this is an issue?
It does, as do many other robust theme frameworks that bypass WordPress’s template loader with their own. I’m conflicted on how much we can realistically support themes that deviate so far from the norm.
Previous to 1.9 we were purposely doing it wrong for the sake of maximum compatibility. In 1.9, we fixed up a few things, that now uncover pretty fatal flaws in several themes. I’m torn, but I think it’s up to theme authors to decide their level of plugin compatibility, rather than the other way around where theme authors would expect every plugin to adapt to their proprietary output system.
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If you say you tried Twenty Fourteen and BuddyPress 1.9 is not working, then it’s possible there is a plugin conflict somewhere.
This is probably related to this ticket:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5021
Can you list the plugins you are using that affect page content? Anything that tries to inject or modify the page content.
Appears to be a problem with your host. Use another plugin to determine the real IP.
Although it’s old, try this:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/real-ip/
You can also search Google ‘wordpress real ip’ to find other solutions involving wp-config.php.
This is probably related:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5301#comment:3
Thesis probably has an unusual method for displaying page content. Atahualpa, another theme, suffers from the same issue.
Since Thesis is a paid theme, I do not have access to see how their templates are set up.
Wordpress 3.8
BuddyPress 1.9.1
Hi everyone,
Virtually our registrations appear to be coming from the IP address of our server, as opposed to the IP address of the registrant’s ISP.
Is there a setting somewhere we missed, or are the spambots managing to spoof their IP?
If that’s the case, I’d imagine we’d run into problems if we try to block our own IP address?
