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Do you mind telling what version of Buddypress you are running since I am experiencing the same issue.

Thank you. I have experienced the same thing and found that registration only works when the extended profiles turned off.

@angelaq – I think your problem is related to this:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-profile-edit/#post-174602

I’m quoting the workaround solution below:

Since I’ve seen so many threads regarding it and I was having same issue.

this is regarding 404 error page if you are on page profile/edit/group/1/

Problem is group 1 is missing in your profile section.

All you need to do is go into you DB and look for table: wp_bp_xprofile_groups

Then look for id=2, Base

then just change id=2 to 1 and that’s it.

This does sound like a legitimate bug.

I’ve opened an issue about this here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7109

If you do not have access to your database, you can temporarily put the following snippet in your theme’s functions.php or wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file:

function ray_xprofile_group_fix() {
	global $wpdb, $bp;

	if ( empty( $_GET['xprofilefix'] ) || empty( $bp ) ) {
		return;
	}

	$wpdb->query( "UPDATE {$bp->profile->table_name_groups} SET id = 1 WHERE id = 2" );
}
add_action( 'get_header', 'ray_xprofile_group_fix' );

Then, go to your website and append ?xprofilefix=1 to your website URL.

eg. example.com/?xprofilefix=1

This should change your profile group ID back to 1. Next, check your registration page and “Edit Profile” link and see if they work.

Once you have confirmed that it works, remove the code snippet from your theme’s functions.php or bp-custom.php file.

Sorry to hear you had trouble applying the snippet. I tested it locally before posting and it worked for me.

How did you add the snippet? If you have FTP access to your server, you should be able to navigate to the file to open and remove the snippet.

that worked!!

Glad to hear you’re up and running!

But should I now see 5 tabs of Field Groups that all say “Base (Primary)” when I go to Profile Fields under Users?

No, you shouldn’t.

You should leave the first “Base (Primary)” tab alone, but do delete the rest of them.

Do the same for the “Name (Primary)” field in the “Base” group. Keep the first one, but delete the rest.

Note that this is a new install. I’ve never used BuddyPress before

This does sound like a bug. It would be great to retrace your steps so we can duplicate this problem. Did you activate / deactivate / activate the plugin multiple times?

Same goes for the components list under “Settings > BuddyPress > Components” in the WP admin dashboard. Did you uncheck / check / submit certain components multiple times?

Hmm… I forgot that those “Name” fields were not deletable from the admin dashboard.

I would recommend the following:

1. Disable the Extended Profiles component
2. Tell your developer to go into your database and drop the following DB tables:
– wp_bp_xprofile_data
– wp_bp_xprofile_fields
– wp_bp_xprofile_groups
– wp_bp_xprofile_meta
3. Next, go back to “Settings > BuddyPress > Components” and re-enable the Extended Profiles component

This should recreate the Extended Profiles database tables from scratch and hopefully things should be okay afterwards.