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Hi @mercime,

Just following up to see if you’ve had any luck determining what’s causing this problem as several more people seem to be experiencing it as well. Please let us know.

Thanks,
Michael

While searching threads about a similar issue, I stumbled upon this thread that some guys and I solved over on the WP forums.

Question:
Can you log in after one or two failed attempts (with either the sidebar login, or wp-login.php) but then are able to using the default form: wp-login.php?

If so, I presented a workaround on the WP forums, which I will share here:

Add the following php code to your functions.php file, your bp-custom.php file, OR a mu-plugin file that you create:

//fix for cookie error while login.
function set_wp_test_cookie() {
	setcookie(TEST_COOKIE, 'WP Cookie check', 0, COOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN);
	if ( SITECOOKIEPATH != COOKIEPATH )
		setcookie(TEST_COOKIE, 'WP Cookie check', 0, SITECOOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN);
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'set_wp_test_cookie', 101 );

This will try to set the test cookie anytime someone visits any page of your site, and it will allow the sidebar form to start working again if wp-login.php and cookies are enabled.

If you cannot sign in at all (after two or three attempts with wp-login.php), I have not seen a solution yet (was what I was looking around for), but I have seen several threads about people with this issue after the upgrade to 3.7.1.

Hope this helps, and I hope you all are in the first category. 🙂
~Cam

Hi @willandmae
Try this. Remove the lines of code from the bp-default functions.php and create a brand new (blank) file called bp-custom.php in the plugins folder. (/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php)

In the file place the following modified lines of code:

<?php
//fix for cookie error while login.
function set_wp_test_cookie() {
	setcookie(TEST_COOKIE, 'WP Cookie check', 0, COOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN);
	if ( SITECOOKIEPATH != COOKIEPATH ) {
		setcookie(TEST_COOKIE, 'WP Cookie check', 0, SITECOOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN);
	}
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'set_wp_test_cookie', 101 );

?>

Let me know if that works any differently.

~Cam

Seems to have helped here too! Just having a few of my members test it out. You leave the code in place permanently, correct?

@crazycoolcam
thank you for the fix. Works like a charm.
I opened a ticket about this. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5236#ticket

@cam, thank you so very much, this seems to have resolved it for me as well!

@Cam – thank you! Although the fix has been applied in the newest BP update our theme’s login.php file did not have the fix applied. Although I didn’t go with your cookie fix it led me to the right place.

Cheers