Unable to Activate

Sorry to hear you’re encountering the same error as others. Have you followed the advice in this thread? The most important advice is that “the safest way to upgrade this plugin is simply to replace the plugin’s directory with the new one” which “avoids the deactivate-reactivate procedure”.

However, given that you’re where you are, please try this advice to fix the issue.

No worries, the site is still in development so no harm done.

Yes, I did what they did in the thread with deleting the extra name fields from the database. However, when I activate the plugin it throws the “Can’t set Can_Delete” error. When I comment out the plugin code that generates that and activate, it activates but only creates a Last Name field. Something behind the scenes is going on that’s preventing this from creating the new first and last name fields correctly.

You need to find the field IDs of the actual “first name” and “last name” fields from the **_bp_xprofile_data table, then sync the fields in **_bp_xprofile_fields so that you only have one of each for “first name” and “last name” and so that their IDs match the IDs of the entries in the data table.

So when you say find the field IDs from xprofile_data, then sync the fields in xprofile_fields, I’m not sure exactly what to do. Should there be first name and last name in xprofile_fields even when the plugin doesn’t activate? And they should be the same ID as the first and last name from xprofile_data?

Thanks again!

Perhaps when attempting to activate, the plugin isn’t finding the correct field because something is incorrect in my database?

Does the default name field have to be called something specific (name vs full name, etc), have a certain ID, etc. Something might not be right in my database.

So my previous idea wasn’t the case. I uninstalled buddypress and deleted all bp tables, then reinstalled buddypress so that the tables and xprofile fields were recreated from scratch. Deleted and reinstalled this plugin too. Tried to activate after reinstalling the fresh buddypress and bp tables and I still get the error

string(85) "BP XProfile WordPress User Sync plugin: Could not set "can_delete" for xProfile field"

and then a bunch of first name fields get created. I see what you meant with making sure the IDs match and they do. I’m not sure what’s going on and why I can’t activate the plugin when starting out completely fresh. Any more ideas or thoughts of what’s going on? I’m not sure what else to try.

Apologies for the delay, @berserk24. I’ve just released a new version which should solve your problem. Thanks for the report.

Thanks for the fix, updated and working perfectly.