BuddyPress.org

UPDATE:

I’ve changed BuddyPress from being ‘network activated’ to just ‘activated’ on the main/root site. I don’t know what the recommended setup is these days, but we’ve had it network activated since BuddyPress only ran on WPMU.

Having it activated on the main site only means that the ‘bug’ now only affects the main site and not every site across the network. So the example I give above no longer shows the issue.

However, you can still see it on this page:

http://blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/test/

See how, whenever there is @lincoln.ac.uk either in the content of the page, or in a mailto link, BuddyPress injects a hyperlink with a random user’s email address following the root domain:

http://blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/amakrzanowska%40lincoln.ac.uk/

I’ve no idea how or why it’s constructing that URL and automatically inserting it whenever @lincoln.ac.uk is found in the body content.

Ideas much appreciated!

Hi again,

I still have this problem. I’m sure it’s BuddyPress that is the cause, as it still occurs with different themes and with all other plugins deactivated. When I deactivate BuddyPress, the problem stops.

Run your mouse over the links on this page, and you’ll see the issue: http://blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/test/

I was wondering whether it is a legacy of running BuddyPress since alpha/beta and whether there is an old setting in the database or something that I might look out for. Where are the BuddyPress settings stored in the database? None of the wp_bp tables look like they hold global settings.

In my wp-config.php file, I have the following:

define( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true ); //removes the /members/ slug
define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘custom-profile’ ); //defaults to profile page rather than activity stream of a user
define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true ); //for LDAP compatibility
define ( ‘BP_IGNORE_DEPRECATED’, true );
define(‘BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR’,true);

Thanks for any advice,
Joss

For the record, I’ve narrowed it down to the ‘Activity Streams’ component of BuddyPress. When this is disabled, the problem does not occur.