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8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? Yes (list is long so I’ll detail if needed)

This is likely to be the issue. Sometimes a rogue plugin will cause problems. Your best bet is to deactivate each plugin, one at a time, and check to see if the issue gets fixed. As soon as the reg page begins to work, bang, you have your culprit.

In that case it could be your theme?

Do you have code snippets in your functions.php file? Try removing those too then doing the same testing steps.

Do you have a bp-custom.php file? If so, make sure there’s no code snippets in that. The aim is to remove anything that might be causing the reg page to not work. I’ve tested on a fresh install running Twenty Thirteen and can’t reproduce the problem. Also make sure you’ve upgraded BP to the latest version.

I’m trying to think if there’s anything else you can check. Humm? Usually in cases such as this the problem is caused by either:

• a plugin
• your active theme
• something inside bp-custom.php (if you have one)
• something inside functions.php

It’s strange things work in Chrome but not in FF. I’m wondering if the issue could be JavaScript related?

Try doing everything together. So you should be testing under the following:

• Twenty Fifteen
• No plugins activated aside from BuddyPress
• Nothing in functions.php
• No bp-custom.php file
• Latest WP
• Latest BP

That should make sure there’s no custom JavaScript running.

To take things further you could test on a fresh database.

Did you turn on registration on your WP install? See:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/register-and-activation-pages/

After reading your post some more, you say this problem only occurs in Firefox?

If so, try purging your browser cache in Firefox and try again. Or try in a new Firefox profile.

Hello, I had this same problem and this is how I fixed it. It was mentioned in this thread
(https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-profile-edit/)
that there may be a problem in the database table “wp_bp_xprofile_groups”. For some reason the first item id there is not “1” but something else. As you change the id to 1, everything works. Then it also shows the Profile details side Name field (required) in the registration page.

Also there was a problem to edit profile, it went to “Page not found”. This gets fixed also now, now you can edit the fields.

This seems to be some kind of bug in the installing process in some circumstances. I tested this by removing the BuddyPress and also deleting the BuddyPress database tables. They must be deleted manually, they wont get out by deleting the plugin.

New installation put the first id number to “3” to “wp_bp_xprofile_groups” table. Even the group_id in the table “wp_bp_xprofile_fields” was “1” (after I activated some components in BuddyPress menu, before that the tables were empty) for the first field item. So now the field item and the group item never matched.

Hopefully this helps someone. It seems that there are a lot of discussion of this problem, and this is a very annoying problem if you are really using BuddyPress.

Basically the registering had a workaround for example by using plugin “Theme my login”. The registering also looks simpler as there is not that “extra” name field. It is however unknown how BuddyPress works without that name field. Well, but perhaps that is an another story.

Are you using any caching plugins?

That’s your problem.

Whitelist the register and activate pages in W3 Total Cache from caching.

Please tell me you ended up figuring this out. I am having the same issue.

Hi, i am also facing the same problem…