I’d love to have that feature too! buddypress.org has that feature. Under each profile there is a form for us to post comments directly to friends. I’d like to be able to do that in my site.
Here is the result.
In my case it was face stream the plugin causing the groups/forums problem.
I’ve re-installed and tested the following plugins/themes and everything works as it should. With the exception of FaceStream.
My advice is once you have the base installation up and running with the groups and forums. Go step by step activating one plugin at a time and testing the group/forum functionality.
Regards.
Martin
TwettStream – OK
FaceStream – Failed It corrupted the group functionality. (If you uninstall and delete the plugin
group and forums start to work normally)
BuddyPress Like – OK
oEmbed for BuddyPress – OK
BuddyPress Classifieds – OK
BuddyPress Rate Forum Posts – OK
BuddyPress Links – OK
BuddyPress Album+ – OK
BuddyPress Group Forum Extras – OK
BuddyPress Site Wide Activity Widget – OK
BuddyPress Community Stats 0.2.0 – OK
-Themes.
Installed Default Buddy Press theme – ok.
Installed Fishbook – ok
OKay. Installed tweetstream and everything worked just fine. Installed the second plugin (FaceStream) and it corrupted the group/forum functionality. I’ll continue to test with other popular plugins and I’ll keep you posted.
Okay. Issue resolved. This time I deleted everything and activated buddypress and selected the default theme. No additionals plugins at all. And it works okay. All the group/forums capabilities work as expected.
Now, I’m going to install one pluging at a time and re-check if functionality remains the same, till I find out which of the plugins is causing the malfunctioning.
I had installed several plugins including: tweetstream, facestream, SEO for buddypress, bp like, bp friends, etc, etc. One of those is crashing the group/forums feature in buddypress.
I’ll let you know which one is causing it after I finish testing.
Howdy. I’m experiencing the same problem. Not only group creation is involved. After not being able to continue to the select group avatar step whilst creating a group. I go back to the groups page index and the group is there. However if I try to create a topic I get the error: “There was an error when creating the topic”.
Though I only have one group created, the group count says 4!.
Regarding the discussion capabilities for groups I have installed bbpress through the built in installer in buddy press. bb-config.php looks okay. All the involved directories have the right permissions.
I deleted all the files from the server, dropped the db, re-installed from ground without any additional plugins and it still produces the same error.
I wonder if any of the developers can give us a hint on what to check.
