Hi I am working on a site for a computer repair company, where users can register their device and maintain a profile. Everything is running fine . Now I need to display a ‘Repair Status’ message in the user’s profile. This status message needs to be updated by the admin in back end .Please help me out . I am running WordPress-3.2.1 and Buddypress-1.5 .Thanks in advance
Hi,
I just started getting into WordPress last month and liked it so I bought http://blogurp.com and made it using BuddyPress. It’s my 3rd version and I used WordPress 3.2.1 and BuddyPress 1.5. It’s a site where I am giving members free blog subdomains with unlimited bandwidth and blog space. I haven’t slept much this month, ha. I still have a great amount of designing to do on it, but, it is live and new registrations are enabled. I am proud of it for just learning it all this month 
Hello,
Just wondering if you ever figure out how to do this; or if anyone else knows how to do it. I am facing a similar problem and I am a total newbie to wordpress / buddypress.
Any help would be much appreciated!
I’ve turned on gravatars on the default WordPress main but still no gravatars shows.
I might actually be able to help out with this one. I was getting the same errors. Apparently this is because your wp-config.php is reading the default memory allocation of about 8meg that your host usually sets up by default. Once I edit my wp-config file to allocate 64 or 96 meg with the below instructions it popped back up fine.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
@ granville
according to the bp plugin documentation the. htaccess file was to be changed to this:
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress
I did that. am i suppose to leave the olf RewiteCond?
Thanks
Hi Dr Mikel Brown
This sounds like an htaccess issue. Please see this post.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/404-on-every-link/
To summarise, you should have a file in the root directory of your folder that is called .htaccess (there is a fullstop at the beginning of the file name). The contents of the .htaccess file should contain the following:
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
Hope this helps
Rob G
Hello,
I am very new to BP. I am currently using BP 1.5 and wordpress 3.2.1.
I have a hosted site running UNIX with Php 5.1.56.
I am testing the site and I wanted to create a test user and see how a new person would interact with the site. I tried to create the user and it once i click complete signup, it takes me back to the main page.
I browsed around buddypress and google and tried making sure the username is in all lowercase, I sent a test email to ensure the activation email wasn’t being sent, and I also checked User in WP-Admin and no new user was created. Also I installed Mail log to see if it had an error sending the email, but Mail log doesn’t even pickup an attempt to send the email. After i sent a test email, mail log picked up that attempt so I know BP isn’t sending the email to create the user.
The plugins I’m using are: BuddyPress, BBPress, Custom permalinks, Events Manager Extneded, and the mail plugins mentioned above.
Also I am using the default Buddypress theme that came with the plugin (I wanted to test the functionality before i started trying to make the theme I actually wanted to use BP compatible)
I have no seen anyone with this issue and any suggestions will be a great help.
Thank you
an idea for the insanely productive @boonebgorges, or any others up to the task.
When trying to integrate buddypress into any other theme, the page wrapper divs ‘content’ and ‘padder’ invariably conflict and much editing is necessary to figure it out. This is true even for default wordpress themes like twenty ten and twenty eleven (whose wrapper divs are primary and content; and container and main). An easy backwards compatible solution would be to echo out the bp-default divs using php rather than hard code them. the defaults would be BP defaults, however buddypress or the BP Template Pack plugin could intelligently guess the correct divs for the most popular themes. And for all other themes, you could simply enter the div names your theme uses. WIth this small change BuddyPress could be made to work much more seamlessly with a large number of themes out of the box.
@boonegorges yes, please forgive me. I’m using BP 1.5 (the “definitive” version) and the last version of WordPress. Here’s the thing:
After editing the profile fields of a user and hitting the “save” button, an error shows telling that there was an error while saving the changes and if the fullname of the user was changed, it shows the username insted of the previous one.
(i.e: I set my fullname to “Boone Gorges” and hit “save”. Then the fullname field shows the value of “boongorges”).
Now checking my Database I see in “wp_users” -> boongorges I see that this fields and values… (among others):
|| user_login || boongorges
|| user_nicename || boongorges
|| user_url || (empty)
|| display_name || (empty)
This was fixed on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4939 but that worked on BP 1.5 beta 2 but now with the release of “Lombardi” it got back to the same problem.
Thanks for your help, very much
Hello All,
My site is idreamconnection.com. I have a clean install of wp WordPress 3.2.1, bp 1.5. My server is a linix running php 5.2.13. I bp site is a multisite setup. on my homepage all five tabs gives me 404 errors. Is there a way that I can test this or does anyone have a similar problem?
Thanks
Don’t exactly know how current that list is. I would suggest double-checking compatibility of the plugin/s you want to install yourself as well. BP compatiblity is usually noted in right sidebar re plugin like you saw for BP Moderation – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-moderation/
Im trying to create a process where all my users can handle all the posting and editing of posts on the front end. I only have a few simple things I need them to do but I can find a plugin that works for editing. I tried “WordPress User Frontend” but it shows an error on line 943 of the wp-content/wp-includes/pluggable.php.
Anyone have any good suggestions?
Ok thanks Boone, I can see why it would be used for the WordPress menus.
Hopefully bbPress can integrate these templates into shortcodes in the future.
The question about theming/shortcodes is not really related to the issue of WP pages in BP 1.5. BP 1.5 uses WP pages in order to integrate into WP menus, to make it easier to change permalinks, etc. There is no integration with the page templates in your WP theme.
In the future, there will be better integration with a wider variety of WordPress themes. Test out the new bbPress to get a sense of what it might look like. It might not involve shortcodes, but it will be something equally easy. In the meantime, the Template Pack is your best bet.
I don’t know how to make this work on Windows. It’s not really a BuddyPress problem – I’m guessing that a normal WP installation won’t work either, if you turn on pretty permalinks. Have a look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite
Hello,
I’m kind of confused about the WordPress pages concept with Buddypress 1.5. If we have to install the BP Compatibility plugin to edit the template files for our theme then why do we need these pages?
Can anyone confirm if Buddypress is going to use a shortcode for this in the future? Take the jigoshop plugin for instance, once installed it lets you display content with shortcodes where creating pages makes sense, etc etc.
This would be a big help and would make it easier on theme designers so they don’t have to keep updating the buddypress templates, /activity/, /members/, etc etc.
The Header and footer and sidebar and content area are usually in every WordPress template. You need to edit the BuddyPress files added to your theme to match the structure of your theme.
Sometimes the content area is called container or wrapper or something else. You need to match the containing div around the content to the BP files.
In step 3 it shows you a diagram of div markup. If you have never edited code you may need to hire someone to do this. On complex themes it can be a challenge.
@mercime
via ftp i did what you stated and now i can get into the backend and see the site.
The theme is the default is wordpress’ Twenty Eleven 1.2. I assume that this means that I am having a plugin problem? my site is idreamconnection.com
now what do i need to do?
thx
? Can’t Delete “Topics” — only possibility is to delete “Groups”
Group Forums installed: ?
Sitewide Forums: ?
Single WordPress: ?
BP in Main Site: ?
WordPress 3.2.1 + BuddyPress 1.5 RC1 + child theme based on default theme (styling purpose/css)
Hello All,
I am the admin with full rights for a site that I keep receiving this error. I have done everything that I can find to fix this problem please help. I am running a clean install of WP 3.2.1, BP 1.5. It is a multisite and I am running it on a linux server with 5.2.13 php. Currently I only have 4 plugins:
– Askismet
– bp-moderation
– buddypress –
– websitedefnder-wordpress-security
– wp-maintainace-mode
I can navigate to the home page and the login page. Once I log in i receive the aformentioned mentioned error.
Please advise.
Thanks for your help
The gravatar choice is controlled by WordPress’ main option. I think this is on the Reading page of the Appearance wp-admin menu.
I can’t see how setting the front page back to showing blog posts should be broken by 1.5. All this works fine for me on my test installs (admittedly a new install, not an upgrade).
@tmcneill71 You can grab older versions from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/download/
@mikepratt, Tim: What other plugins are you running. What theme. Multisite – if so, subdomain or subdirectory? Prior to upgrading, what did you have your home page set as, or was it just showing blog posts?
The WordPress Admin Bar (not BuddyBar) is a different bar entirely.
Try finding something on the WordPress forums:
https://wordpress.org/support
Can also try this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-custom-admin-bar/ (haven’t tested it myself)
