To me, it depends on if you’ve updated WordPress or not. The last couple small releases were critical security upgrades.
Bluehost might be the best option for WordPress (I use it myself), but it’s far from the best option for BuddyPress. It can work with BuddyPress, but not with any scale and you have to deal with little things like configuring the mail from plugin, or setting up the email address that BP uses. Either fix works for Bluehost.
Site in question:
http://yaytech3.co.cc/
Quick problem description: BuddyPress seems to work fine, but the top bar doesn’t display correctly, instead shows up as a text menu at the bottom of the page.
This is an under construction site that’ll later be moved to a different domain. Installed BuddyPress, and it seemed to be working perfectly, including the top nav bar. A couple hours later it broke, I believe when I upgraded WordPress to 3.0.4. Tried putting it back to 3.0.3, and it didn’t help any, so I put it back to 3.0.4 again. Really, everything seems to be working fine except the top bar, which instead displays at the bottom.
I installed WordPress in a different directory. I see this is causing problems so I will just install in the home directory. Thank you.
I can get to the login page via WordPress. I cannot get to the login page via the Buddypress menu at the top of my page.
Hello all,
I have been beating my head against the wall for a day now. Here is my site http://gaminglegacyclan.com. Whenever I click on the “Log In” link, it says it cannot find the page. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have uninstalled WordPress, BuddyPress, and Template pack three times and keep getting the same result.
See I knew it was something simple, lol. Thank you SOO much for your speedy assistance. I’ll just need to tidy up some things and then I’ll submit it to the wordpress plugin directory sometime this week.
Wpmu? There’s WordPress with multisite now a days?
And no you can’t use the native register page with BuddyPress.
I have a WPMU setup and I would like to make it whereas you have to register through the native WordPress registration page, rather than the buddypress registrations page. Is there some kind of setting or plugin that i am overlooking or is there some kind of code I would have to insert somewhere?
Its been so long to your post , but I wonder where have you reached with your idea.
I am looking for something similar, but not just replacing the name from group to project. Can there be any drawing tool, so that we can just draw and share.?
anyways if somebody come across again,this plugin can be helpful :
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/
for sharing documents inside a group.
@PiManIII The plugin works with WordPress multisite, whether BP is installed or not.
@Savannah,
Hi,
I realise that it’s not a buddypress functional problem, but as it’s a buddypress theme the wordpress forum won’t help so that’s why I am hoping to get some help here. I am really not a programmer, and have been trying to fix this last little thing for nearly a day now so was just hoping for some second eyes.
Thanks for picking up on the open div, I closed that and now the custom-post-meta div is showing. Yay!
I still can’t get the sidebar aligned though.
Here’s the archive.php if anyone feels like some light reading I’d really appreciate it. 
http://pastebin.com/K7uRR0Xi
Default login URL http://yourwordpress.com/wp-login.php or http://yourwordpress.com/wp-admin/
so unless you placed a redirect script to log in at front end, those are the links.
@hnia: Yes. You are absolutely right. The dashboard tab does not show up for regular subscribers. Sorry, I kept getting it because I was signed in as super admin. Problem solved 
The only remaining issue is that when I start letting my users sign up for their site/blog, they will have access to wordpress dashboard. I really would like to offer them a more user friendly interface like buddypress’s front end; color wise, etc.. But that’s a whole other issue. For now, I am happy to have this solved 
Thanks so much hnia and everyone else 
Vida
Thanks for the heads-up, @gunju2221 
If by “BuddyPress profile”, you mean the fields and groups you have configured in the xprofile settings screen, then yes it’s certainly technically possible because site admins can create new user accounts without having to complete BuddyPress profiles. I’m not sure how to practically do this, however. Would need to try and find out.
Try to see if there’s a user registration widget (i.e. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registration-form-widget/ — not tested) and see if it works and does what you want it to do.
(To clarify, there’s no difference between a “WordPress user” and a “BuddyPress”, both are the same.)
Hi everyone! I hope you are all experiencing the New Year to the fullest. 
I am working on a site for Hair Stylists and Salons. Here’s what I’ve got going on:
WordPress 3.0.4
BuddyPress 1.2.6
I am using profile fields to determine a member type (stylist, salon, client).
Is there a way to automatically create a group for the stylist or salon when they sign up?
I assume I would have to:
1) Check the field value to see if they are a salon or stylist.
2) Call a create group function, assigning the member as the admin and assigning the group properties (name, etc).
Has anyone done something similar?
Thanks in advance!
Try installing Email Log (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/email-log.zip), which records all mails sent from the WP+BP installation, this will at least let you know if the activation email has been processed from the Site (According to the site itself).
There is also another plugin (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wp-activate-users/) which will allow you to activate users that dont seem to get the email or are just plain lazy.
Hello, I have a wordpress installation of 3.04, buddypress 1.2.7.
When I upload a avatar anywhere on the site, it crops and uploads fine, but it seems the images won’t load.
The background image, header, or any other image that is supposed to be there, shows question mark, or is simply not there.
Any help would be awesome! Thanks!
I cannot for the life of me get the activation email to send. Can anyone please help? I’ve been working on this for over 12 hours straight now and am exhausted. Please help me! I’ve checked the box next to “allow anyone to register”, saved changes and installed the latest versions of “wordpress”, “buddypress”, “buddypress template pack” and “mail from” and it still won’t work. What else do I need to do?
Hey Savannah
Thanks for that link.
The posts were from months ago about earlier versions.
I read all the posts and still saw no resolution for this issue.
Thought this may be an update problem.
Windows 2008 virtual server
Xampp
Version 1.2.7 BuddyPress
version 3.0.4 WordPress
No other plugins activated
Using BuddyPress Theme
Well..the problem was solved when i installed the plugin, but why does that problem exists..especially with bluehost if it is supposed to be the bes option to host wordpress..right?