[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Please can we stop telling people to downgrade at the slightest issue? That is not a solution for whatever problems they are having, and when we mark a release as a security release, it’s a very important update.

White page errors, as always, will put information into the server’s error log. If you don’t know where this is, ask your host for help. Then copy/paste the error here so we can help.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

bp_get_profile_field_data() still exists in 1.5.7. Double-check:

* is the BuddyPress plugin active?
* Is there a nag message near the top of the plugins screen with a message “BuddyPress has been updated! Please run the update wizard”? If so, run through the update wizard.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Very very little changed between 1.5.7 and 1.5.6. I would be extremely surprised if it broke anything. What plugin are you referring to?

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

We’re still working writing it up.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

If this is pure bbPress question, you’re best to ask on bbpress.org, as that where those experts are. Or do you mean that you think BuddyPress is affecting bbPress’ log in process?

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

I suggest searching or asking for help on bbPress.org’s forums — maybe someone’s seen this before.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Ah hah. Then you need to go to Tools > bbPress Importer in wp-admin (or something similar – I can’t remember what it’s called) to move your content from bbP1 to bbP2.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

@sydneydesigner You need bbPress 2.1, BuddyPress 1.6 (any version of, incl. the RC1), and WordPress 3.4.1.

Disable the Groups Forum component inside the BuddyPress components setting page in wp-admin, then go to Settings > Forum. This is the bbPress settings page. Scroll right down to the bottom, and you’ll see some new settings to enable the forums.

Release notes are still being written up, sorry. There’s a high-level overview in https://buddypress.org/2012/07/buddypress-1-6-beta-2/ for now.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

I don’t know but I have told the appropriate people and they are investigating.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

I would suggest you start by only trying to get WordPress working (no plugins or custom themes). Once you have custom permalinks working, then move on to BuddyPress and bbPress.

If it doesn’t work in WordPress, I would suggest asking for help / searching for help on the WordPress.org forums as people will have found themselves with this problem before.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Sure. Make a ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ and we’ll look into it for a future release. If you are able toacreage a patch for this change, it’d get into BP quicker.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Look into something called “Open Graph”.

I’m not aware of any decent plugins that add Open Graph markup for BuddyPress content, before you ask

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Activity stores data in what’s known as a “modified preorder tree traversal” structure; it’s a way of storing hierarchical data. http://www.sitepoint.com/hierarchical-data-database-2/ has more information.

Left and right are used to store the position of the node in the tree. Unless you want to/are able to figure out correct values, I strongly suggest you use BuddyPress’ APIs to insert or update data.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Are you familiar with Twitter? Just like that.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

We removed some legacy user name validation in 1.6. We now just let WP validate it, itself.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Again — don’t know — I’ll ask John.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

See “Plugins API” on https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress.org_API and the plugins_api() function in WordPress.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

In BuddyPress 1.6 (due out soon – weeks, rather than months) there is an admin option to do this. In the interim, maybe look on wordpress.org for plugins.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Looks like issues with the BP Mobile plugin rather than BuddyPress. Have you tried contacting the BP Mobile plugin’s author for support?

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

How?

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

How are you setting your logo? Which theme are you using? Can you share a link to your website?

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

This looks like a bbPress bug. Please report the bug to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org, using your username and password that you used to log into this site with.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

In BuddyPress 1.5.6, you have the choice of two forum types: site wide, and group forums. Both are powered by bbPress; the former by bbPress 2 (the plugin), the latter by bbPress 1 (the standalone software). Right now, you can’t use bbPress 2 for group forums.

When BuddyPress 1.6 is released, you will be able to use bbPress 2 for group forums. And that’s what we’re strongly encouraging everyone to do; bbPress 2 is a much better piece of software, and is in active development (bbPress 1 is dead).

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Don’t know. There’s nothing magic hidden on the forums setting page.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Which plugin are you talking about?