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@invisibleland Can you start by looking in your web browser’s Javascript Console for any problems? See https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Your_Browser_to_Diagnose_JavaScript_Errors — go to step 3.

bbpress.org/support would be a better question as they provide the forum software (not BuddyPress) but generally speaking, it depends how you’re going to automate inviting those 600 people. As long as your invite script doesn’t run out of memory, you shouldn’t have any problem. Certainly, there’s no limit inside bbPress for the number of users it…[Read more]

@jhvaletaolcom @invisibleland could you both please contact your web host and ask them to look in your server’s PHP error log for any Fatal Errors or Notices. If they find anything, please copy/paste those logs here.

@dcstyle Not directly for your issue (the success says as far as we can tell, it was delivered to the email server — if you didn’t receive it and if it didn’t get marked as spam, the mail server could have rejected delivery for all kinds of reasons.

We will have a couple of fixes coming into BuddyPress 2.5.1 this week which have a chance of…[Read more]

Tell me about it. Serious PITA 🙂

@karolbielecki The German language pack has not been updated for BuddyPress 2.5, so that’s expected: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/language-packs

Please start a new support discussion, I don’t think your issues have anything to do with this thread.

…but WordPress multisite and regular WordPress have different character restrictions in the username.

Nice 🙁

No, but WordPress multisite and regular WordPress have different character restrictions in the username.

That would be buddypress/members/index-register.php. See the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article for more details.

Ref: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/

Update: With reference to usernames on the wordpress.org forum:

Since [dotorg11555] only a-z and 0-9 are allowed for usernames.

Ref: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1308#comment:13

I’m not sure if this change will extend to the WordPress platform and BuddyPress.

sanitize_user() is used on the username at signup time so it should be alphanumeric characters plus _ space . – * and @.

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/sanitize_user

Ta

@shanebp Can you replace bp-email-debug.php with https://www.dropbox.com/s/yz1155axhbyntw7/bp-email-debug-2.php?dl=0 and run again?

It dumps the Email object along with the error message, so I can test some ideas.
Can I also get the URL of the site this is being tested on?

Thanks!

Good point

@shanebp That’s interesting. “Could not instantiate mail function” error comes from PHPMailer which (most likely) happens if the PHP mail call fails.

Is PHP Safe Mode enabled?

So the wpMandrill plugin re-implements wp_mail() function which means BuddyPress should be passing on the plain text versions of the BuddyPress emails onto Mandrill.

Did Mandrill recently update their pricing to remove the free option?

@ingeb1983 @dcstyle @ingeb1983 Hi. If any of you are still using BP 2.5 and still have problems and are NOT using “WP-Mail-SMTP” or “Easy WP SMTP” plugins, maybe could you help me test something?

Download this plugin and activate it (it’s called “BP Email Debug”). Then do something to get a BuddyPress email sent — something that you know was…[Read more]

Let me know how you’d get on. I’d love developer feedback regarding building such extensions.

I don’t know how easy this might be to change at the moment – I think someone would have to write a small plugin – but we are tracking this feature request at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5500 for inclusion in a future BuddyPress release.