Title: Works…missing functionality Last modified: September 2, 2016 --- # Works…missing functionality * [codyecp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codyecp/) * (@codyecp) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-garbage-2/) * First off, I had buddypress set up pretty well. All I wanted to do was get rid of the sidebars on certain pages that are not actually “pages” within the wordpress system. These would be like “member profile” pages and a few others. After spending hours reading through their forums that DID NOT HELP, I ended up crashing my site with a fatal error after following someones instructions. Why such a simple functionality wouldn’t be built into it in the first place is beyond me…. Now I’ve wasted countless hours and my site just displays the following on the backend: * Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_get_groups_slug() in /home/codyecp/ public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php on line 207 * Cant do anything anymore with the admin panel…F*%$ buddypress! * AHHHHHHH I just spent a whole day styling this damn plugin and now my site crashes from nothing????? WTF. I’d rate it ZERO stars if I could…. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [monoentrenado](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monoentrenado/) * (@monoentrenado) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-garbage-2/#post-7843761) * Boy you’d be that naive… * You SHOULD NEVER EVER edit a live site… EVER. Before implementing anything new or make mayor changes, create a production environment (you could set up a “development” folder on your server or virtualize a server on your desktop) * What you wanted to achieve is pretty easy with a bit of knowledge of the Theming schemes on WordPress, and off course, some PHP and css. * I don’t really think buddypress had gotten anything with you crashing your site, you just rated bad a plugin because you weren’t able to tweak it… not nice. * [glowzar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glowzar/) * (@glowzar) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-garbage-2/#post-7843773) * what kind of review is that one codyecp ??? * sucks! * Thread Starter [codyecp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codyecp/) * (@codyecp) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-garbage-2/#post-7843774) * Well, this review was a while ago and I would up the rating a little bit (2-3 stars) if I could figure out how to edit the post…. * But I’m still sticking to my guns. Compared to JomSocial for Joomla, or a host of other plugins for Joomla I still think BuddyPress comes up way short. I was a little harsh in my review and have since realized that this is a collaboration effort done by developers in their free time so I definitely should not have been as harsh (and I respect the work). * HOWEVER, there are so many great plugins out there with twice as much functionality already built into the core code (as well as standard WordPress templates). So I was HUGELY disappointed in this plugin. I also don’t understand why they don’t make a paid version that unlocks this functionality. Keep what they have already as a free version and then create add-ons that are paid… I would gladly pay for the added features. * And I didn’t crash the live site FYI, I crashed a test site that I had spent all day editing code on. Stupid on my part to trust one of the devs on updating some code I guess without backing up first…. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Works…missing functionality’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/buddypress/assets/icon.svg?rev=977480) * [BuddyPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress/reviews/) * 3 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [codyecp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codyecp/) * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-garbage-2/#post-7843774)