BuddyPress

just installed buddypress, and everything is working fine accept for the forums, which are impossible to use because of three problems.

One: every time I post a topic I get an error message: “There was an error when creating the topic”.
Two: whenever I view the forum index, it says that there arn’t any topics, but after clicking on the “order by” menu for a bit, the topics appear.
Three: it always says that there are no posts whenever I view a topic, even though there are. When it says that, there is no form to add any new posts.

What is causing these three problems? I am running wordpress 3.0.1 and buddypress 1.2.5.2. Help is appreciated. Thank you.

bump. Please help

We’ll need more information in order to help.http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

Also please do not bump your posts more than once a day. This board is not sufficiently well trafficked to expect a response within a few hours.

sorry

1. Which version of WP/MU are you running?
wordpress 3.0.1

2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install?
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
the directory that I installed it in is: mysite.com/site/wordpress

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version?
no, this is a clean install

5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?
buddypress 1.2.5.2

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
no

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
Akismet, BuddyPress Moderation, and Register Plus. I tried deactivating them to no avail.

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
the standard bp theme with a different header image

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?
Yes. Before this I was getting an error because of mysql_get_server_info on wp-db.com, so I changed line 1589 (or somewhere around there from return preg_replace( '/[^0-9.].*/', '', mysql_get_server_info( $this->dbh )); to return preg_replace( '/[^0-9.].*/', '', mysql_query("select version() as $this->dbh") );, and that error stopped.

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
no

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
it came with bbpress build in.

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
couldn’t find those: I will keep on looking though.

14. Which company provides your hosting?
000webhost.com

15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?
linux with apache 2.0

Thank you for your help.

I’ve still a similar problem, see http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/error-with-forum-bp-v1-2-5-2/ butte didn’t getany response yet. I use a windows 2003 Server System with the following plugins installed: Akismet, BP Xtra Signup, BuddyPress, BuddyPress Album+, BuddyPress Forums Extras – RSS Feeds, Buddypress Friends, BuddyPress Profile Privacy, BuddyPress Tweet Button, Configure SMTP, Duplicate Post, Easy Verification, Fast Secure Contact Form, Invite Anyone, Jet Event System for BuddyPress, Link Library, My Brand Login, NextGEN Gallery, oEmbed for BuddyPress, TinyMCE Advanced, Transposh Translation Filter, Welcome Pack, WP Google Weather

I don’t think the problem is any of the plugins, but buddypress itself. I would file a bug, but I have no idea what is causing it. People, please give us a little bit of help here. This problem is driving us mad, and I have been searching on the forums and finding nothing.

bump, with more info.

I had followed up on a idea from searching the web, and that was I should “Go to: phpmyadmin > yourdatabase > wp_bp_groups_groupmeta and Find the group you’re attempting to post to and then delete the forum_id value.”

The post is 8 months old, but I tried that, and the table and the forum id doesn’t exist. However, I looked around the database, and there was no reference between groups and forums on the database. What I mean is that in the tables that groups use and the tables that forums use, there is no reference to what group the forum or topic is in, and the group has no forum assigned to it. That’s the problem. There is no conection between groups and forums in the database.

I tried deleting all of the tables that belong to buddypress and reinstaling buddypress, but the problem is the same. So what should I do? Is there some sort of super reinstal that I need to do? Or should I add a forum_id field to the group table? Please help me out here, I will be trying things and trying to get it work. I will post any results in this topic.

some more info:

I tried installing bbpress separately and linking that to buddypress. This time, the topics I post show up, but If I post them through buddypress, it says that there are zero posts in the topic (it doesn’t matter if I view them through buddypress or bbpress, it still says the same thing). what’s wrong?

bump

It sounds like you didn’t run the bbPress setup installer, or that something went wrong during that setup process.

Go to Dashboard > BuddyPress > Forum Setup, and click Setup a new bbPress installation. Re-install if it asks you to.

If it still doesn’t work, check to make sure there’s a bb-config.php file in the root of your WordPress installation, and that the credentials in that file are correct.

tried reinstalling it on the buddypress side: bb-config is in place and correct, but this time the topic and the post didn’t get posted. When I integrated it with an existing bbpress installation: I could read and post topics from buddypress: the problem was that while I could post topics, the post didn’t go through and it said that I had 0 posts in the topic.

I have had the same or similar problem. No group forum posts.

I just tried an experiment. I added a group, but made it completely PUBLIC.

Then I created forum inside that group and added a post to that group’s forum.

Wallah! The GROUP forums now has posts.

Hope this helps.

http://www.electionsconnection.com/theelectionconnection/groups/

I tried making the group completely public and private: didn’t work.

Hello, I have installed Buddypress 1.2.8 in wordpress 3.1, and solved the forum topic creation error buy adding an auto_increment field to the bb_term_relationships table, as follows:

id bigint(20) auto_increment

It seems that the installation does not create the table with a primary auto_increment id field, and for me that was causing the problems. I am running a windows xp with xampp, working in localhost. Mysql version is 5.5.8 and php 5.x. The theme I am using is a custom one, located at wp-content/themes/

Still, I cannot see each topic’s detail page when I click them. I am trying to fix this at the moment, any clues ?

1. Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress.

2. Change theme to bp-default.

3. Install Forums – BuddyPress > Forums Setup > New Installation

4. Run Settings > Permalinks

5. Create new public Group and allow Forums

6. Create a new Topic and publish.