If you’re using a child theme you’ll need to copy over the header.php again as it has changed. I’ve just searched, this function is not called anywhere in RC3, so make sure all the files were updated.
The user roles are inherited from the group. If you are a group admin you are an admin of the group forum. If you are a group moderator, you are a moderator of the forum.
You should be using the wp_ajax_ hook to run your AJAX functions and using the ajaxurl parameter in JS as the request URL. IF you do that then the WP environment should be loaded. Basically exactly how all ajax is done in bp-default.
To be honest the way it is now is the way every WordPress theme designer is used to. It’s the way WordPress does it natively. Using home.php is actually not the best idea since it overrides all settings – as we found out in the end.
Copy your index.php contents into a new template called blog.php.
Add this to the very top:
<?php /* Template Name: Blog Home */ ?>
Then create a new page called “Blog” in your wp-admin area. On the right menu of the page creation screen you’ll see a dropdown called “Template”, select “Blog Home” and save the page.
Go to “Settings > Reading” and check the “A static page (select below)” and select nothing for the first dropdown and “Blog” for the second dropdown. Save.
You also need at least one page to see this option. So you might want to create a page to show blog posts on such as “News”. Then select the appropriate options in “Settings > Reading”.
This is fixed in trunk. Now you can just select “Activity Stream” as a page that you can use for the front page in “Settings > Reading”. This will also let you choose a static page instead, or a page to show posts on.
