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I am having a similar issue. The menu bar link shows
http://siteURL/press/members/admin/activity/ which gives me an error. If I change it to
http://siteURL/press/index.php/members/admin/activity/ Then it works fine.
I am on Windows hosting IIS 6.0.

Any suggestions?

I had used a fresh installation.
1. Installed WP using the instructions given at https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress.
2. Installed BP according to the “Manual Installation” steps given at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation.
3. When WP prompted “BuddyPress is ready. You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features.”, I used the BuddyPress Default 1.2.7 theme.
4. I try to login as a normal user and nothing happens.
5. I try to login as admin-user and I can log in correctly.
6. If I disable buddypress, I can log in as a non-admin user.
7. If I enable BP again, I can’t login as a non-admin user.

Please let me know if I can provide any other information.

Google Analytics is great for seeing the number of page views, but it won’t give you information about specific users.

We just released an alpha version of Heavy Analytics (http://heavyanalytics.com) for single-user WordPress installations. This plugin handles analytics and reporting on the WordPress and user level, picking up where Google Analytics leaves off.

In the near future, we will be releasing a BuddyPress add-on for Heavy Analytics, which will give you all sorts of information about how users are using your BuddyPress site – how they are interacting with each other, who are the quality contributors, etc.

Hi, I should preface this by saying that I’m not a BuddyPress developer as such, but have been coding WordPress themes professionally for a couple of years, and have been researching BP and putting together a BP-based startup for the past couple of months, so have been through these questions myself, and my own early steps may prove useful.

1. See https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-profile-privacy/

2. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/ might be interesting. There’s another, more granular, privacy plugin that the community has its fingers crossed for, for further details see http://bp-privacy.com/

3. All of that should, and does, happen as a matter of course.

4. Semantics aside, they are all “subscribers” as far as WP is concerned, ie. members and commenters are one and the same.

5. BuddyPress themes contain extra template files for the parts of BP that are an extension on the WP template system (eg. activity, groups, user profile etc.) plus various css and javascript files. Running a regular WP theme with BP running won’t give you the framework to display that BP functionality. In order to achieve that, your WP theme needs the extra template files. You have two options, each with benefits and drawbacks:

a) Extend your existing theme with the required template files, javascript and css to enable and display the BuddyPress sections and functionalities. See https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/ The drawback is that next time BuddyPress is updated, you might be faced with quite a fair amount of development getting your site aligned with the latest code base, new features etc.

b) Constructing a child theme. This relies on running the Default theme, and then adding your own css overrides and theme hacks as a non-destructive layer on top. The principle is that you can strip away your own additions, and you’ve still got the Default theme running beneath it, so in a sense it’s “unbreakable” and whilst you may need to modify your additions once BP is next updated, the underlying template will always function. With a decent caching strategy, unless you’ve expert level php behind you, I think it’s the way to go.

@satomom – No membership software. Just some basic PayPal subscription buttons and theme/function customizations based on whether a user is logged in or not. This method requires more oversight and maintenance (ex. if someone cancels their subscription), but it keeps everything simple for upgrades.

If you’re looking for a more robust solution, you might want to check out – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/

If you use a non BuddyPress theme then you need to do a little more work search for BuddyPress template pack plugin. Install and follow directions. This will move some extra theme files into your WordPress theme and include the necessary functions and JavaScript to run BuddyPress

Mark him as a bozo, on the backend of bbPress, or a spammer on the ack end of WordPress. Oughta do it…

You can get all that working on the BP registration form.

The requiring x amount of numbers for a password can be done with JavaScript

@brutalregime

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-xtra-signup/ (for TOS, password strength meter, username availablity…)
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/ (for welcome emails… might need updating though…)
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-humanity/ (for arithmetic or alphabetic human check… simple and efficient)

Just curious, what is the reason to use WP registration?

what theme did you switch to?

Um, reinstalling wordpress is not necessary. This is an issue with your Database Connection, not connecting properly, changing your DB psw in your bb-config.php can trigger this to happen.

#1. I see that you’ve installed WP 3.1 RC3. Unless you’re developing and/or interesting in debugging, you should install stable version of WP 3.0.4 which is what you’ll get in download here https://wordpress.org/download/. I recommend reinstall from scratch – clean database.

#2. Re Gallery plugin you installed – PhotoSmash Gallery plugin. I haven’t used the plugin and do not know whether it’s compatible with BuddyPress in terms of allowing users to upload media without going to the backend/dashboard i.e. uploading images in posts. There are free and paid Gallery plugins which are compatible with BuddyPress.
BP Album +: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/
BuddyPress Media Component with KalturaCE Suppor: http://wpveda.com/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/
BP Gallery (paid): http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/

#3. How young are the kids you’re expecting to post in your site? In relation to that, won’t you need parental permission for kids to enter your site? Different laws for different states/countries.

#4. I suggest changing your admin username and password. Anyone can come in and mess around in your site – though I appreciate the pass since I saw right away what WP version you’re using and Gallery plugin you installed

You should be able to use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/achievements/ as a starting point.

I can’t get into your blog posts, which means you’ve got a bigger rewrite problem. Revert to the twentyten theme, disable BuddyPress and then fix the rewrite permalinks; best place to ask for / research common problems with WordPress is at https://wordpress.org/support/

BP-Default is only distributed within the main BuddyPress plugin, which lives at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/. You will need BuddyPress for BP-Default to work.