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BuddyPress plugin says inactive but works. Normal?

@cuscom

Participant

14 years, 7 months ago

I had someone install WPMU + BuddyPress + bbPress for me (latest versions of all). When I go to the admin dashboard, “Plugins > Installed” and click “Inactive”, I see BuddyPress there. It does not show up when I click “Active”. Yet “BuddyPress” shows up in the admin dashboard’s left sidebar underneath “Site Admin” — as expected — and I can configure BuddyPress. When I view the site as a regular user, I do see the BuddyPress functionality (Home/Activity/Members/Groups/… tabs) and that works.

Is this normal that the BuddyPress plugin is working yet it shows up as an “Inactive” plugin?

Or am I supposed to click “Activate” or “Activate BuddyPress Site Wide”?

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@cuscom

Participant

14 years, 7 months ago

When I clicked “Activate” (for BuddyPress 1.2.3), WPMU came back with the error “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” Is that normal? Is installing sufficient? Thanks.

@paulhastings0

Participant

14 years, 7 months ago

Buddypress is supposed to be activated sitewide, so click “Activate BuddyPress Site Wide”

@cuscom

Participant

14 years, 7 months ago

Thanks paulhastings0. I followed your instruction and tried “activate site wide” and it also said, “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” Odd that “BuddyPress” does appear in the left sidebar of the Dashboard underneath “Site Admin” yet WPMU is showing the plugin as inactive. I’m thinking that the person who installed WPMU+BuddyPress did not install it in the standard way (i.e.: copied files/database from their template directory). I did a fresh install of WPMU+BuddyPress by myself on my test domain and it worked fine. So now that I see how it’s supposed to work, I’m going to flush everything and do a fresh install by myself. Thanks again.

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