[westmdresearch]

Thanks so much @imatt! I really appreciate learning more about BP development.

Unfortunately, neither the deprecated functions, nor the return of these functions fixed our issues. I’ve reached out to the theme authors for fixes, and had some mixed results.

I’ve manually cut out the affected custom functions from our most important themes until the authors get around to issuing fixes (hopefully).

I would like to point out that our team tested our plugins (we’re researchers more than developers, so it was tricky but definitely possible to troubleshoot) when the notice first went out and the adjustment period was announced. Unfortunately, it appears that many of the premium theme authors, in particular, did not make the needed adjustments ahead of time.

Thanks again for all of the work that went into this release, as well as the ongoing maintenance of this project. I really do appreciate not only the work, but the ongoing support as well. 🙂

Thanks again, and have a great day/evening!

[westmdresearch]

Thanks @imath for the detailed response!

Is there a list of deprecated functions that we could use as a starting point to troubleshoot the critical and non-critical errors? By checking error logs, all of the errors seem to be in custom theme functions for BuddyPress-specific themes, but it would be handy to have a starting point with so many themes throwing different errors (because of custom function naming). All of the non BP-specific themes I’ve toggled through appear to be working fine with BPClassic installed and activated, so this could be the root issue I’m seeing across different installations (I’m thinking it has something to do with pulling user functions, user meta, messages, etc… or something universal that is only present on themes with BP support built-in).

Some of the sites we work with are 5-10 years old, and even though we update themes/plugins as they become available, there are a lot of functional BP themes/plugins that have been psuedo-abandoned/un-updated, that I’d like to try to update with my limited BP-specific knowledge.

I completely understand that progress must be made, so I’d like to try to see what I can do on my end to support the legacy ecosystem that seems to grow more and more each year. BP is an incredibly powerful tool for community work and non-profits, but many of the tools, plugins, and themes that we’ve used will have to be carried forward by the community to remain functional.

Thanks again, and have a great day!

[westmdresearch]

Hello there!

I run/help administer quite a number of BuddyPress sites (and I greatly appreciate all of the work that makes ours possible!), but almost all of the sites that I administer or assist with are not working, even with the BP Classic plugin installed and activated.

Conflicts so far include: Grimlock BP add-ons (required for several Themeforest themes), Kleo (very popular Themeforest theme), and any of the sites using Visual Composer/WP Bakery widgets. All of these sites continue to throw errors (or have broken displays in the case of WP Bakery widgets), even with BP Classic installed and activated. I have stopped upgrading other sites until I’m able to figure out what is causing these to crash, even with the BPC plugin activated, but I’d assume that there are probably additional conflicts with the 5 other themes we utilize.

The only sites that continue to be fully operational are those running Divi (with BP Classic installed and activated) or WP Default themes.

I am reaching out to theme and plugin authors for updates, but this seems to be pretty widespread, so I’m hoping there’s some other conflict or issue that I’m missing or not understanding.

I greatly appreciate any help or guidance. Thanks again for all of the work that goes into this plugin. 🙂