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1. Before installing any plugin – BP or WP – double-check the compatibility of the plugin with the version of BP/WP you have installed. If the compatibility is not there and you choose to install the plugin, be prepared for errors and to tackle it. In other words, the safe bet for a novice is not to install plugins which are not compatible with your installation.

2. One way is via https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/ I recommend reading through the documentation http://www.primothemes.com/post/product/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/

3. Something like this – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/ and redirect visitors who are not logged in to the login page

To enable wp-admin have you tried disabling the bp-code-snippets plugin by using ftp to delete or change name of the plugin directory causing wordpress to deactivate that plugin?

I’m one of the ones who installed WordPress with one click on Dreamhost. I can’t downgrade my MySQL and even if I could, we have a production server running membership site now (just without forums) so manual wordress install from scratch is not an option. Can I just manually create missing tables using phpmyadmin or something?

Presume that you actually mean – “so they *can* blog” ?

Can you not simply set the ‘new user default role’ to ‘Contributor’ or ‘Author’ in general settings then all your users can post to the main blog.

If that isn’t what you’re after then you’ll need to elaborate a little on what you are actually wanting to do i.e allow them to post from the front end of the blog without having to use the dashboard?

=== Is it possible to display complete details and add additional fields tabout the member including a photo? ===
Yes. The avatar upload will be the photo of the member.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

=== and I’d really not want them to be a member of WordPress. ===
BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin that uses WP functions in many cases including being added in the wp_users table. If you don’t want the members to be WP “users” in the main site, go multisite and install BuddyPress in secondary blog.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

I found this thread and it looks like exactly what I need to stop users real names from displaying in there profile. the problem is I cannot find the file /members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
can someone point me in the right direction. is it in buddypress pluggin or in wordpress main files?
Alice.

I’m going to install this tonight: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-firewall-2/

Wordpress firewall. I would consider it on your install as well.

@dharmen99

Go to your WordPress backend and click “Users”. If you’re running WP-single, you’ll find it under the “Plugins” menu; if you’re running multisite, you can find the link in the “Super Admin” menu.
Check each user you want to delete, then in the “Bulk Actions” dropdown at top-left, select “Delete”.
Click “Apply”. You’re done.

Well it was just for one group essentially, the others I would have used the Group Hierarchy to have a slug anyways. So for the one group that is not like the others, I just made a page template with a full page iframe of the source group. It sucks because the urls don’t change as you navigate within the group but I think it makes more sense.

I hope to see this toggle introduced in future versions of wordpress.

In addition to what @hnla said above, if you cannot log in your WP installation
https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin

I’m trying this now… cloudflare… I’ll let you know what it what… do you also use the wordpress cloudflare plugin with buddypress?

Back that press up!

https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

[ edit ] In addition to what @hnla said above [ /edit ]

https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
http://ocaoimh.ie/did-your-wordpress-site-get-hacked/
http://ottopress.com/2011/how-to-cope-with-a-hacked-site/

[ edit ] https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress [ /edit ]

Find resolution in WordPress.org Forums before installing BuddyPress

[RESOLVED] Root cause was meta_value in table wp_bb_meta remain unchanged after migration to other site.
Scenario: I had similar problem on forum. I tried removing and re-installing many times. Re-installing means copying my complete wordpress with plugin buddypress folder still didn’t worked. Sometimes i used to get HTTP Error 403 Forbidden while accessing forums. This was error was esp when i used existing installation option from admin page in forums setup under buddypress.
But when I click on setup new bbpress installation I could post on forums but could not see topics.
REASON: I checked the database for table wp_bb_forums and it had entry of new topic, then I checked wp_bb_meta in that incorrect meta value was setup for field meta_value where meta_key is uri , I corrected the url stored in meta_value it was url of my previous website name. I had done migration to new site so the problem. If you face similar conditions just check these values.

Category pages as in- your theme?

If so, I would say this isn’t a buddypress issue.

Use the wordpress forums, or Twenty-Ten Theme Forums if possible.

Paul already mentioned this. It’s possible, but requires some workarounds.

You’d need to unhook how BuddyPress catches URI requests and route them to groups.

The comments below are for people who know their way around WordPress:

– The catch URI function in BP is the bp_core_set_uri_globals() function located in /bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php.
– You can unhook this from the “bp_loaded” action. Then write your own function to catch URI requests. Would be good to duplicate the function and look at the BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES section of the code to modify it to read groups.

Hope that gives you some pointers!

1. You don’t require BuddyPress if you just want something like the photoblog site you linked to. You only need
a. The reflection theme http://xyloid.org/projects/reflection/
b. Yet Another Photoblog Plugin http://johannes.jarolim.com/blog/wordpress/yet-another-photoblog/
c. Allow user registration to your site – at least Contributor level – and instruct users on single image uploads only.

If you still want to install BuddyPress, the three BuddyPress-compatible gallery/media plugins mentioned above can be configured to limit users to single image uploads at a time.

I have tried all that and if I don’t manually add an auto_increment id to the bb_term_relationships table, I get the error “There was an error creating forum topic”. I cannot either see the topic details… I have no additional plugins installed and my permalink structure is the “Month and name” one. Also, my document root is “c:/xampp/htdocs/” and I have my installation in “c:/xampp/htdocs/www/wordpress”.

=== Another plugin perhaps that could be styled so that the password recovery page could be made to look like the rest of the site? ===

There’s premium plugin http://buddydev.com/buddypress/buddypress-branded-login-plugin-for-your-buddypress-powered-site/

Hello, I have installed Buddypress 1.2.8 in wordpress 3.1, and solved the forum topic creation error buy adding an auto_increment field to the bb_term_relationships table, as follows:

id bigint(20) auto_increment

It seems that the installation does not create the table with a primary auto_increment id field, and for me that was causing the problems. I am running a windows xp with xampp, working in localhost. Mysql version is 5.5.8 and php 5.x. The theme I am using is a custom one, located at wp-content/themes/

Still, I cannot see each topic’s detail page when I click them. I am trying to fix this at the moment, any clues ?