I have a WordPress blog, and now want to add the features of BuddyPress to my site. If I download the BuddyPress plugin, and activate it, does this keep my current wp blog the way it is, and add a separate BP application to the site, or does it change the WP to BP? If so, what happens to everything currently on the site?
hi i have a simular problem except when i attempt a registration i get redirected to /?bp_pc_redir_to=%2Fregister which jut show my home page some help would be Greatly appriciated as i am not to familiar with wordpress Thanks
@mercime
Need your help to see why my registeration page is not displaying the right information field to allow user to key in name.
This is my code for the register.php
http://pastebin.com/Jg2Wxq1D
I have disable most plugin which potential is a conflict. My other plugins which are active are:
fast secure contact form
google analytics
get the image
mail from
max banner ads
seo friendly image
seo pressor
seo smart link
TinyMCE advanced
Wordpress SEO (Yoast)
wordpress related posts
Tweetmeme
Google xml sitemap
comment luv
Thanks
Unsure. We’re a little at the mercy of how WordPress core handles media uploading, and there are lots of potential ways it can be done. In the meanwhile, check out BP-Media.
I have the latest version on buddypress
I have the latest version of BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
I have the latest version of BuddyPress Private Community ( all at default install)
I have the latest version of wordpress
when I try and send a “Private Message” I get sent to a page that says “Oops! This link appears to be broken.” however when I check my sent box the message is sent to the member. How can I fix the the page that says: “Oops! This link appears to be broken.” from not happening.
Butch
Hi,
My buddypress installation was working fine, and then suddenly I get these messages in the back end for ‘WordPress Blog’ ‘Incoming links’ and ‘plugins’.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 47185920 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/deven/public_html/welfarereformclub.co.uk/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 14908
The site seems to work fine besides that, but it looks unprofessional. Any advice appreciated.
OK – I’ve found the answer.
please ignore my first suggestion above.
the solution is to either:
a) wordpress, admin, settings, privacy (site visibility) – allow search engines to index this site – must be set
OR
b) include the following filter in my plugin (or themes functions.php file):
`
add_filter(‘bp_is_blog_public’,’scl_bp_is_blog_public’,10,1);
function scl_bp_is_blog_public($is_blog_public) {
return true;
}
`
i chose the second method for my purposes.
note: BP seems to make very confusing/ambiguous use of the wordpress ‘blog_public’ option – in the file functions referred to in my first post above, it makes an explicit test of this option, and if not set to public then disables posts or comments from appearing as items in the activity stream.
i note that issues around this factor were raised as a ticket a year or so back and this mechanism was provided as some sort of solution (to exactly what problem i am uncertain – though luckily a filter was provided).
personally, i cant see the point of it – surely a BP option to specifically allow/disallow wordpress post and comment activities would have been far better – after all, what has WP search engine visibility got to do with BP activity streams – i have no idea! (perhaps someone could enlighten me).
meanwhile, I am considering raising a new/reopening a ticket on this (since the situation appears unchanged in the new BP 1.6 code).
be interested in others views.
hope this helps someone.
Best place for this is https://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org — post it as an enhancement ticket. Thanks.
ps. having scanned though the buddypress source code i’ve just found a clue to what the problem maybe:
file: bp-blogs-function.php
function: bp_blogs_record_comment
– takes a parameter ‘is_approved’ – if it is false, then blog comments are NOT added to BP activity stream.
this suggests that WP comments are ONLY recorded in BP activity stream IFF comments are wide open and ‘automatically approved’/’do not require approval’. If on the other hand, comments are set as ‘requiring admin/moderator approval’ (as they most usually will be), then they will NOT EVER be posted to BP activity stream
this seems to be confirmed by the appearance of a NEW function on the forthcoming BP 1.6. The new function is:
bp_blogs_transition_activity_status
– and its purpose seems to be to enable WP comments status to appear on BP activity stream WHEN/IFF admin/moderator approves them.
please could someone confirm this is the case?
is there any workaround for BP V 1.5.4?
many thanks
1. Ok, this is something I have never understood and I really need to now that this site is about to go live. When I sign up a test account on my buddypress register page, I activate it via the email, etc then it says activation complete, etc. But what I don’t get is, the new user does not show up in the SITE admin > Users > All Users, it only shows up in the NETWORK admin Users > All Users. This means that my client’s staff will not be able to see the BuddyPress members in their site admin users area right? Why is this?
2. Another issue I am having now is that when checking what the actual WordPress ROLE the new BuddyPress user was by testing it with a function like this:
if( current_user_can( ‘author’ ))
…the BuddyPress new user didn’t match any of them. I tried Editor, Author, Member, Subscriber, Moderator, Contributor, Key Master… and even Blocked and Inactive (whatever those are) and none of them affected this new user. What role is WordPress even giving the new BuddyPress users? I have verified that the new BP user does not have access to the WP admin dashboard at all, so that is good. But I need to be able to filter certain aspects of the site in addition to this, thus I need to know how to use the above conditional for BP users.
3. After I get this sorted, is there a plugin or function I can use that would cause new BuddyPress registrants to be automatically redirected to the BP Groups area when logging in?
Hmm, I installed clean wordpress, clean buddypress and clean database – the problem remains .. http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20120324/UNK7xT0a.jpg
@piccollopete we don’t quite know from what application/software you are migrating from in the first place. I can only guess from the first post that you’re migrating from another forum software. The easier route then is to import data/users from that software into WordPress with bbPress plugin, after which you can install BuddyPress which works with bbPress plugin.
Do post at bbPress.org to check whether an import script has been created for your specific forum software.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/ is probably no longer compatible with the latest buddypress.
Did you try the patched version: http://alantait.net/2011/07/27/wp-multi-network-plugin-fix-for-wordpress/ ? In the comments of that page @johnjamesjacoby mentioned ( 12/02/2012 ) that he planned to update wp-multi-network soon…..
@boonebgorges recently wrote http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/45682/7401 which seems particularly relevant to your question. In the post he mentions Networks + as an alternative way to enable multiple networks but it is a premium plugin.
I don’t think we can just ignore the -2 issue, because I think that it points to a larger confusion between `user_nicename` and `user_login` on your installation. I’m not sure what kind of further debugging can be easily done at this point, though, without direct access to your system. I guess I would check a couple of things if this were my system:
– Drop some debug `var_dump()`s around https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.4/bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php#L239, to see how BP is determining your displayed user ID
– Check directly in your database to see if there is some strangeness in the way that your user_nicename is defined in wp_users. The nicename should not contain capital letters or spaces, though user_login can.
mercime and aces thank you guys for your replies
@mercime
1 – No its not just the posts, I want the blog owners to interact and be friends with each other.
3 – I did try this method, used Networks for wordpress and WP multi network by @johnjamesjacoby.
that would obviously solve the problem but there were few limitations because of which I had to give-up.
my story was- I was planning for a site under which other users could create their own subsites (blogs).
I am also using several domains for it, so that if a particular blog name is booked by someone then others could get same name blog on other domains ie networks.
the Limitation was – If a particular blog already exsisted on one network, then new users were unable to create blogs(of same name) by themselves on other networks.
i had chat with the plugin authors and other experts but unfortunately this was not possible.
2 – The second method that you described i found hope in it. So I went ahead and tried it.
the issue was- I could not have users create their own blogs on those mapped domains, when someone tries to register it redirects them to the main site instead of letting them create subsites from mapped domains.
yes I am saying subsites from subsites using Network plugins, but in the end its the same problem as above.
btw thanks for in detail explanation mercime 
@aces – hey buddy what I understood was this feature would add a link on blogs same as buddypress to display contents of BP.
Have you guys seen any website WP or non-wp which offers blogs on sub domains/directories using multiple domain names ?
One way is to use:
http://www.hitreach.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/allow-php-in-posts-and-pages/
Then create a page called ‘Invite’ in wp-admin and put this on the page
between open and close [ php ] tags without the spaces
` locate_template( array( ‘some-theme-dir/invite.php’ ), true ); `
The url for that page won’t be your-site/members/invite
It wil be your-site/invite
If it has to be /members/invite, then I’m not sure how to do it.
@roxor If you mean 10 WP installations with their own respective DB’s then no.
Alternatives:
1. If it’s just the posts, then you can set up RSS feeds for the 10 in your WP/BP installation in one WP install without BuddyPress so that the links to aggregated posts will show up in a page or over a number of pages.
2. You could also create a single Network out of one of the 10 WP installs, create the subsites, install Domain Mapping plugin, then install BuddyPress plugin, then import other WP sites one by one as subsites into the multisite installation. https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/
There is one instance of BP for a multisite installation, so as @aces pointed above, you can enable multiblog so that you don’t have to navigate to main site to post in activity or forums, etc.
3. You could also create a Multi-Network out of one of the 10 WP installs and have multiple instances of BuddyPress with BP Social Networks, import remaining 9 WP sites as a network into the multi-network installation. The multiple instances of BuddyPress in this case are separate i.e., don’t overlap activities, memberships, groups, etc. http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/
Not sure where to start with this, but the `-2-2` problem reminds me of https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2642. Note that that ticket had to do with a very specific problem which is, I think, different from yours in the details, but may have the same root issue. As an experiment, try commenting out the following line in `bp-members/bp-members-functions.php`:
`add_action( ‘pre_user_login’, ‘bp_core_strip_username_spaces’ );`
I’m trying to unhook the custom comment form template in the buddypress default theme so I can add it to my child theme functions.php and customize it but it doesnt seem to unhook. Here’s a full explanation with code snippets posted on wordpress.stackexchange.com http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/46751/unhook-the-comment-form-in-buddypress