Probably WP related, but to check, deactivate BP and BBP and try again. If it’s still an issue, redirect your questions to the wordpress.org forum. BP and bbp don’t have native media upload functionality (beyond avatars), so you are probably posting in the wrong locale. Hope you find a solution.
That would be the default behaviour of that particular URL, as you’ll see from the test BP site: http://testbp.org/members
If you aren’t seeing that, perhaps something isn’t set up correctly. In the Buddypress Admin page, have you associated all of the components with WordPress pages?
That seems very odd. What are you using to re-route to gmail. Have you tried something like this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
Hello Ben,
Documentation for the plugin may be read here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/.
Thanks.
If you are serious about running your own hosted site then you will need to have a local install to do all your hacking/testing. If a plugin has not been updated to your install version DO NOT USE it unless you can code and fix problems. WordPress and BuddyPress works together OOTB but when you start adding in unknown code it can and will break.
Why do you think ning charges? They host it and make sure the features work. That’s the price. WordPress.com same thing. You pay a small fee to not have to deal with hosting and features breaking.
BuddyPress currently has no hosted solution so my comment about having a local test environment is they way to make sure new features/plugins wont kill your site.
Also, you need to protect user data and having bad plugins that could leak user data is a site killer. They will loose trust, delete and never return.
you have to make it yourself, don’t worry it’s pretty easy:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
@modemlooper I ditched as many of the option tables as I could find, it didn’t solve the problem. I was wrong about it being a database problem it seems. Thank you — I found a solution for me; hopefully it hepls other users
@valuser – I figured out a very simple solution that completely saved my website this morning, try it out: on the sidebar where buddypress came with the built in login widget (top right of your sidebar), you’ll notice “Please create an account to get started”.. For me, this link takes you to yoursite.com/register-2/
register-2 being the slug for my registration page
.. If you try to sign up in here there are 0 issues across the board.
So I went into my wordpress – settings – reading and removed “registration” from my homepage and instead made a static homepage “start” which contains a brief about my website, a link (Sign Up Here) that takes you to yoursite.com/register-2. and the shortcode for login
(I found the login shortcode can be found here http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/08/30/adding-a-login-form-to-a-page).
You don’t have to go about it the same route I did, but short and sweet do not use the registration page you created for buddypress as your home page.. add the SLUG to your website url.. yoursite.com/slug (probably register or registration). problem solved.
Let me know how that goes.
Hello bp community. I have to say that i am very new to wordpress. I was used to Type3 but unfortunately the forum plugin is not as good a buddypress, and wordpress in general has better plugin support.
So basically i am currently getting used to wordpress and it’s do’s and don’ts.
Up to now everything went fine, installation of WP and BP works like a charm, even the theme integration was kind of straightforward.
But now i am facing a problem which i cannot solve.
Here you find my site with the problem.
http://when-money-makes-money.com/forums/forum/indicators-2/
As you can see the avatar pictures should be very small, but unfortunately the are not. The tag has correct height=14 width=14 it doesn’t get applyed.
Any solutions or hints? I have already checked the css but i have not found some command which might override..
Thank you very much in advance
Michael
You could try putting the following in you child theme functions.php file
`function bbg_enqueue_styles() {
remove_theme_support( ‘bp-default-responsive’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘bbg_enqueue_styles’, 5 );`
For more info see: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3881#comment:2
You could try putting the following in you child theme functions.php file
`function bbg_enqueue_styles() {
remove_theme_support( ‘bp-default-responsive’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘bbg_enqueue_styles’, 5 );`
For more info see: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3881#comment:2
`
[import_export] => 1
[manage_options] => 1
[manage_themes] => 1
[manage_plugins] => 1
[edit_users] => 1
[manage_tags] => 1
`
these are WordPress options.
Cause these are not default wordpress roles, but they are all assigned to each user now, at least in the database (as I have unserialized):
“blocked”, “inactive”, “keymaster”, “member”, “moderator”.
Is there a way to easy get rid of all these data?
Thanks. So, after unserializing data in my OPTIONS table, user_roles, I find, among other data, the settings of “keymaster” and “member” and “moderator” and (not) wordpress “subscriber” and a lot of settings like this:
`[moderate] => 1
[participate] => 1
[keep_gate] => 1
[import_export] => 1
[recount] => 1
[manage_options] => 1
[manage_themes] => 1
[manage_plugins] => 1
[edit_users] => 1
[manage_tags] => 1
[edit_others_favorites] => 1
[manage_forums] => 1
[delete_forums] => 1
[delete_topics] => 1
[close_topics] => 1
`
All this has to be Buddypress ghosts inside the user role row in the different “options” databases. I guess it is impossible to remove all these data… but… do they have any effect upon my multisite performance, or do they have any effect on my users (multisite blog owners) roles in the multisite?
I am asking because something is messing up my multisites different blogs comment settings.
Also consider the honey pot method. It catches automated spammers but not human spammers.
https://github.com/pixeljar/BuddyPress-Honeypot
For human spammers you almost need to approve each user request. Which is a pretty big barrier to entry, I think. I’ve used this plugin to do that:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/
I didn’t change anything but it now says,
‘# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress’
The PHP version is 5.2.17
Hi,
forget languages in a first time and set up your WP to a network.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Then install BP with group forums activated
Then create a group for each language you want
This is the most simple solution i guess. The’re probably others. 😉
Hi,
by default, to invite users to join a group witch you are the admin, you must first have friends. Once they accepted friendship, you can invite them from the friends list who appear when you click on “invite” on the group menu.
But perhaps you may prefer this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/
Thank you Gentlemen,
Your answer was more than I could have hoped for.
I am very excited to know that a new version of buddypress is on the make. I cheer the engineers on and hope they consider lots of flexible header options. 😉
Also, I’m now thoroughly studying the ‘https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes’ with an aim to figure it out, as I think I might love coding, & though I have no idea what I’m doing half the time,… I seem to spend days on this stuff …. there’s no end to the fun.
Zuckerberg may have created the first ‘popular’ version, but not the last.
slanche!,
mcgrafx
The 1.6 branch of BuddyPress should have this fixed now.
You can either temporarily patch bp-default’s JS:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6704
Or wait until 1.6.3 officially drops.
i much like yourself don’t have much if any programming skills but reading your post gives me two thoughts.
#1 not sure i agree with you about the child theme thing unless you are saying the people shouldn’t need to know html/css in order to customize html/css. if you are not saying that then i think the regular wp child theme doc should be fine. https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
#2 we (i use that term loosely) are actually working on a new default theme it’s called turtleshell which if I’m not mistaken is being designed as a completely fresh UI/X perspective and responsive from the ground up. i think you are more then welcome to be a part of that process, if you want more info start here: http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/
bonus the plan for 1.7 is (i believe) to make it work with any wp theme by default so maybe that this something to consider as well.
Hello,
I have WP 3.4.1 and Buddypress 1.6.2 but I wouldn’t like to upgrade to WP 3.5.
When I’m trying to upload an image to a profile or to a group, when I press the crop button I have “this page cannot be found” in browser and nothing happened.
When I’m trying to upload a file in forums, the bar is loading and loading and nothing happens also.
I have disabled ALL the plugins and left only buddypress with its default theme but no luck. I have also make these changes as described here:
http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6708
but still the same errors.
Can you please help? Any advise?
Thank you!
Greetings buddypress gurus and followers like me,
I have been playing around with buddypress quite a lot recently and realized that it is probably the best thing that has happened to business communities trying to expand their network online – especially valuable organizations with zero revenue. It’s awesome and powerful!
Just wondering why no one has made another buddypress default theme (with different look and feel) that is updatable, similarily to how wordpress themes are updatable. I see that the theme area is empty on this website, so perhaps there are plenty in development, but still, why? I am not a programmer, though the buddy press default install is really easy so I managed that for my non-profit organization. It took me a week to make the header taller, just to find out that all my hard work will be replaced with an update.
Just create a child theme you say? Well, that’s great, but way too complicated and there are no clear directions anywhere on how to do this for someone who does not know how to code but willing to follow VERY detailed, step by step instructions on where to put what code where, etc,… You laugh, but it would take you 5 min perhaps – but for me months to figure out…
and besides, wouldn’t that coding be different for each theme? So,… that doesn’t work for the general buddypress population demographic with less programming skills like me.
Just some thoughts,…. perhaps I’m the only one who has these ideas…. but wondering what you all think. Please commment and let me know if you think more buddypress default themes would help.
peace,
mcgrafx
