[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Do you have a link to the website?
What versions of BuddyPress and WordPress are installed?
What theme are you using? Have you tried the default theme?

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

This is done through groups; that is, each group has its own forum.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Did you set up the forums in the wp-admin?
Did you enable the forum in each group?

Once enabled then the link for a forum for that particular group becomes available (a page is available) …

Are you using the bbpress included in BuddyPress?

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

(1) Set up in the wp-admin panel
In the wp-admin panel > BuddyPress > Forums Setup

(2) Each group now has access to enabling a forum. Go to Group Settings for each group Group > Admin > Edit Settings. There is a checkbox for enabling the forum.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Decided to add this to the front page of the code:

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/navigation-links-return-404-errors/

Edit as you please

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

bookmarked for codex.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

We should add more to the codex about profiles…. I’m tied up for a few days. If not tackled by Thursday then I’ll add a page with some text and links to questions (with answers).

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

@notpoppy

Do you have a timeline in mind for migrating to BuddyPress? The bbPress plugin will become available Q1 and should work well with BuddyPress. You might wait until Q1/Q2. Another consideration is installing BuddyPress with your current setup and slowly migrating everything to work together as new versions are released (WP 3.1, BP 1.3, bbPress 1.2…). The later was a decision I made o a site – install but not have it completely tied together – and will slowly connect things as new versions are released.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Does this write up in the codex help?

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/buddypress-forum/

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Just to save a little time, I’m not sure which version of vB you are using but …

Guide to convert vBulletin 4 to bbPress (plus integrating bbPress with WordPress

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Have you read this post?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/404-error-on-bp-links-2/#post-59456

Hope this helps.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

If possible, increase the memory limit in either php.ini, .htaccess, or in the wp-config.php file.

In php.ini
`memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)`
Follow the proper procedures for restarting apache, etc.

.htaccess method
This is in my .htaccess because of file upload limitations in the php.ini as well as memory limits (I use many many plugins).
`php_value memory_limit 256M
php_value upload_max_filesize 55M
php_value post_max_size 55M
php_value max_execution_time 80000
php_value max_input_time 80000`

In wp-config.php
`define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘128M’);`

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Welp – glad to have learned something new today. I can see where it is powerful for making many changes at one time.

I went with the poedit software and only goofed up by not naming the po file properly the first time through. Otherwise the directions are spot on .. just a PITA. Probably should have put the file in a different directory too .. will maybe make that change later.

Regardless, forgot to thank you for steering me in the right direction.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

OK. Done. But what a horrible procedure :p

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

So – the bp-custom.php changes the slug and then must go through a language file to change the activity portion …

Doesn’t that seem rather odd? You’d think it should be done in one place …

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Sorry to read you are having problems but we’ll need more details from you.

Please consider the following two links:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

https://buddypress.org/search/?f=avatar+upload

Additionally, do you have a link to your site so that we may look?

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

bp-custom.php is a file you may create and place in the wp-content/plugins/ directory.

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/bp-custom-php/

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Tiger Technologies is a fantastic hosting company.

tigertech.net

$7 per month just cannot be beat – and an even better price if you pay for a full year in advance. The guys there constantly monitor my site and help out with changes.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Sorry to read you are having trouble. A couple of items will help us help.

First, would you please edit your original topic title and provide a title actually dealing with your topic. Something like, “Guests cannot see forums”

Second, here is a link of details we’ll need to be able to help you.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

Finally, a link to your site would be most helpful.

Please let us know.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Hands down “Add All Nav Links to BP Adminbar” is the best plugin for building drop down menus from the admin bar.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

@whitbyglennk – been there many times because sometimes it is just the word choices for finding the threads

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Non-admins are not shown the upload fields. Adding the actions and will let you know.

Update: Yes. That worked. Thank you.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Sorry – didn’t see your reply https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bb_attachments-roles-for-uploading/

We should close that other thread. I’ll have to study `groups_is_user_mod()` rather than `bb_current_user_can()`

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Sorry, I didn’t see your reply earlier. This thread should be closed. We should continue discussions on the thread linked below:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/forum-attachments-for-buddypress-only-admins-can-attach-docs/

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Yep – tried `read` instead of `participate` but that didn’t work.