BuddyPress

I have installed WordPress 3.0 and BuddyPress Version 1.2.5.2. Everything is functional with the exception of Forums. I have done a reinstall of the Forums. I have created 50 groups. When I attempt to post a topic through a group forum, I receive the following error message:

There was an error when creating the topic

I’ve recently switched from using DotNetNuke to WordPress – so I’m a veritable newb. Can someone assist me with troubleshooting this?

TIA for any help rendered.

Had you ever previously installed BuddyPress or attempted a BuddyPress forum installation on this site / database before now?

Are all the forums broken, or do, for example, newly-created groups’ forums work ok?

Is your WordPress set up as a multisite? (this used to be called WPMU. If you don’t understand this question, the answer’s no)

Are the bbPress tables in your database? For example, wp_bb_forums, wp_bb_meta, wp_bb_posts and so on?

@jabberjazz
Jane to answer the question from the other thread; yes the support forums are of use, as can be seen by the number of issues raised and solutions provided, of course not all issues are that easy to get to the root of, especially without a lot of detailed info and steps to hopefully reproduce the issue on a local dev install.

I have had this issue before and oddly just a second ago, what causes it ? Can’t tell you for sure, my install was pretty clean no plugins to speak of , forums had been installed, one test group forum activated, create topic -> failure , re-install forums using existing installation , still no joy, create a new group with forum, create a topic -> success ?? something to do with that original group I set up was out of sequence ?

Checking my DB shows that the forum name and id doesn’t exist for the group forum acting up only the default id and group forum recently created are seen.

Soooo I go back to the troublesome group as the admin I go to the admin tab of the group I select ‘Group Settings’ I am shown the initial screen one sees after creating a group and the ‘Enable Discussion Forum’ checkbox. I – unnecessarily – uncheck and check again that box and then select save at bottom of screen – tab back to my DB and yep forum group now is entered!

Attempt to create new topic – success!

So can you give the above procedure a try and report back to us whether it worked or not.

And I hope this changes your opinion on whether there is a help to be found on this support forum

@hnla – I followed your instructions and it works ! Thanks !

@peterreiser Good to hear, it won’t work for all circumstances but is worth trying before hunting further. thanks for reporting back on it

Hey – it worked! Thanks a go-zillion! I had temporarily abandoned this endeavor, going back to DNN… but it’s just not as intuitive as WordPress / BuddyPress, so I was was very happy to find that you’d posted this solution.

I’ve been having trouble with my forums for a long time – and tried reenabling them to try this process of turning them on and off again – no luck

@ajaxmac It was never a procedure that would resolve all issues, sorry to hear it wasn’t a help in your case. If you want any further help with the issue then you will need to provide clear detail on your setup and of the issue you are encountering, and to create a new topic rather than continue in this one.

I had the same problem and the solution worked for me, thank you so much for sharing.

Dotnetnuke convert here as well. was about to start a thread until I found this. Thanks

@hnla — I had same problem and tried your solution and it worked. Thanks! Hopefully this bug can be fixed down the line.

HOLY CRAP, @hnla, it worked!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so so so so so so so much!

Now Will I need to do this on every single group???

@gunju2221 Ah you found the thread. See I knew it would work

You only need do this with the groups that have not been created successfully but if that means quite a few then ‘m afraid it will just have to be done for each, why it happens ? not sure but it’s possibly a mis-sequence of events.

Can I ask that you pop back to the original thread and just add a footnote comment to round things up and close the thread, might be kind to add a link back to this one as threads can be difficult to locate and the more links the easier it is to stumble across

@hnla, Why don’t you just delete the topic maun?

Hello! I completed my first install of WordPress / Buddypress today and was extremely excited about switching after seeing how easy everything was to install…so impressive, I love it! However, I’ve been struggling all day with the “There was an error when creating the topic” issue mentioned above. I searched for hours on the Internet trying to find a solution and was thrilled to see this post! But unfortunately, nhla’s suggestion to check and uncheck the ‘Enable Discussion Forum’ didn’t work for me. :0( I desperately want a forum for my Word Press so I looked into installing the SimplePress plugin, but…. would definitely prefer to go the Buddypress route.

Are there any other suggestions/fixes for this problem?

I’m using a “one click install” of Word Press v3.0.4, and Buddypress v1.2.7.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I don’t want to give up on Word Press!