I’ve just experienced the same problem. Installation via WordPress ‘appears’ to be successful but when accessing BP interface I get ‘Page cannot be found’.
Checked the files via ftp and the ‘blogs’ folder that BP wants to access is empty except for a ‘media’ folder with a ‘.hidden’ file in it.
So it seems that the files were not copied to the correct location. Check the folder permissions and they are 755.
Using a new install of WP 3.0.1.
Anyone help?
Hi Hnla, thankyou for your reply.
With regards to the other thread i think that is solved now thankyou. Still having a few problems with the issue on this thread. I’m putting in the code you gave me in every place i can think of but still no luck. I hope it’s ok if i explain what i have done here and you can see if i’ve missed anything. Thank you in advance.
I have a members page on my wordpress/buddypress site – all working wonderfully. I have set up 3 other pages in wordpress which i want to show only specific members on. These pages are called DJs, Venues and Promoters. Each member when registering has to fill out the field of Business type. There are 3 business types – djs, venues and promoters. I want all the members who put in DJ on business type to show on the DJ page, the members who put venue as business type to go on the venue page etc.
So far i have 3 template .php files for each of the 3 pages. The code on the template pages is the same as the members.php file with the exeption of the directory name and the “ code. The loop directory here varies for each page.
With each of the loop directories i have copied the members-loop.php file and all i want to do is make each directory show its specific members. I’ve tried so hard to put in your code above into each of the respecitive loop directories but i’m obvoiusly missing something. Can you tell me where exactly i should be putting the code in each of these loop directories.
Many thanks!
You could hack together something like Lifestream fairly easily using https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-external-activity/. There’s no interface for it yet, but the infrastructure is all there.
Jeff Sayre has said that he’ll be releasing his Privacy Component shortly after 1.2.6 is released.
The kind of rich tagging you’re talking about really isn’t possible at the moment. Only when BP’s core components are converted into WordPress content types (like custom post types) will they be able to easily inherit WP’s taxonomy functionality. I’m guessing that will happen in the BP 1.4 range. The good news is that, once it does, tagging/categorization will be totally seamless.
The social features of BuddyPress are in addition to, not in place of, the ‘posting’ features of WordPress. If you set up a WP site so that users can write and publish new blog posts, BuddyPress won’t change that.
sorry hnla didn’t mean to cause any trouble by posting in another thread. I thought the two issues were slightly different. 1) to do with member directory and 2) to do with listing particular members on a certian wordpress page – not members page. will try above. Thank you.
I’m using buddypress 1.2.5.2 (latest version) and wordpress 3.0.1(latest version).
What i’ve done so far: I’ve gone to ‘Profile Field Setup’ on the WordPress Dashboard under the Link ‘Buddypress’ and added the fields ‘Business Type’ with a drop down box of three options – DJs, Venue or Promoter. So when users register they choose one of these business types. I wanted these to show up on the members directory so put in to members-loop.php this code:
`<?php
//code inside the members-loop.php
$business_type= xprofile_get_field_data( “Business Type” ,bp_get_the_site_member_user_id());//fetch the text for business type
?>`
and i’ve tried:
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Anyone have any idea where i’m going wrong?
@addisonkirk
Why not use this version?
Because as djpaul mentioned above, it’s outdated. WP 3.0.1 single or multisite with BP 1.2.5.2 is the way to go. In addition to stronger WP security and better features, you’ll be missing out on the BP plugin extension goodness which are only available and actively developed for current BP version – https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/
Is there any way to get this theme on the new version?
Ah, it’s do-able but porting it would take some time to do so with all the customization in layout and coding to make it work with BP 1.2.5.2. There are free and premium BP child/regular themes which can further customize to taste. And, if you have WP theme, use BP Template Pack to bring over BP social networking goodness.
I am creating a Motion Picture Casting site
Cool. I’ve always wanted to play a vampire 
Kidding aside, BP 1.2.5.2 and WP 3.0.1 install is the way to go. If you haven’t yet, check these out
– https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
– https://wordpress.org/showcase/flavor/buddypress/
– http://www.bpinspire.com/
Many have customized BuddyPress themes and majority are on latest BP/WP versions.
Cheers.
I really shouldn’t encourage you to continue with BP 1.1 series nor using old WPMU versions:-) … but that BP 1.1 series requires WPMU 2.8.4a (per old record of mine) Click on download link near bottom of page
https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.8.4a
BP 1.2 series support single WordPress
@djpaul – thanks for your response. Yes, http://domain.com/wp-content/plugins/welcome-pack/includes/js/admin.js exists. I am using Firefox.
I checked for javascript errors and it looks like it found 3, all relates to the emails in welcome pack. Here’s a screenshot of the error report: http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/1227/jserrors.png.
Here is a screenshot of the dropdown expanded: http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9350/dropdown.png. Looks normal to me.
I am going to try uninstalling and then reinstalling the plug-in. I’ll let you know if that resolves it. Let me know if you have any other tips. Thanks again.
**follow-up edit: deleting and reinstalling the plug-in via WordPress’s built in plug-in installer did not correct the issue. same js errors occur**
No, it isn’t blocked.
When I was developing, I blocked search engines in the wordpress
privacity options tab.
But when I published the site, I changed it to don’t block search
engines.
I also have the same problem and I’m not hosting on bluehost or godaddy, ‘mail from’ plugin does not seem to fix the issue.
I use the ‘configure SMTP’ plugin for all three wordpress sites on this same hosting accout, all work except for the one where BP is installed. I believe this to be a BP issue since the problem follows BP, not the hosting company which hosts the WP/BP installs.
WP 3.0.1 and BP 1.2.5.2
update: uninstalled ‘configure smtp’ plugin, installed ‘WP-Mail-SMTP’, and ‘mail from’ = success! I hope this helps someone else too!
Thanks Paul,
I had define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 2 );
but not define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );
It’s working, kind of, but now there’s another issue.
A user can now activate their account from the activation email if they use the register from the wordpress meta widget on the main site.
However, if I try to use the buddypress toolbar signup from the main site, it just sits at the main site homepage. Previously that would take you to http://community.howtomakeadesignerhandbag.com/register/
I think I’d like to not use the wp-register at all and somehow get the bp signup/login in the sidebar of http://community.howtomakeadesignerhandbag.com/register/
showing on the main site homepage and allow users to signup either from the toolbar or from the sidebar. But I want them to be returned to the main site homepage instead of the buddypress homepage.
Is this possible?
Thanks for your help and patience in trying to understand what I’m trying to do.
Here it is: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/new-user-approve/
I don’t know if it’s BP compatible though, keep us posted.
i have in the past (which has been refined and fixed with the compat mode flag) – whenever i dump BP on top of an established wordpress blog, the flag is a must. (comes down to the displayname tolerances in the wp_users table )
Ask them if they can increase the php script memory limit, in fact ask then but also report back here how much is allocated, if they can’t or won’t and this is the issue there may be other ways around the issue.
They said that everything is good on their end and to contact you guys. I didnt believe them at first until I installed some other plugins/themes and then installed buddypress to find everything stops working.
@mgelblum For BuddyPress features out of the box, see home page of buddypress.org which lists the major features including Groups, Profiles, Forums, Members, etc. For general guide/info: Check out https://codex.buddypress.org/home/ and test features further by logging in at http://testbp.org/ using your username and password here.
“how to get inexpensive support/wordpress developers “
If you have luxury of time, learn more about WordPress and BuddyPress, create site yourself, then use forums of WordPress.org and BuddyPress.org if you encounter bumps or challenges along the way with specific questions – e.g. how do I get the rating system/review system like the ones bp.org plugin groups have in my site
Not cheap, but reasonable prices from experienced developers who are competent professionals and who also help out in these forums
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/
Whilst you say you have a VPS with 768 Mb of RAM, how much is allocated to PHP?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
If that doesn’t work, try setting it manually in php.ini via the ‘memory_limit’ variable.
hi Roger
I was looking to do it myself – i have created several wordpress sites and html and flash sites so i have some understanding and coding knowledge. Do you think there is a plugin out there that can help or even a basic tutorial that can help me? However if you think the only way i’m going to get this is by getting someone to build it for me i will do you suggested and hire a developer.
Cheers
This is really a WordPress question, but it is possible. You can find the documentation to do it: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_time
