BuddyPress.org

WordPress 5.8.3, BuddyPress 10.0.0
Site in SiteGround Staging
Theme: Blocksy; Same problem with WP Twenty Nineteen

New site, integrating BuddyPress with bbPress.
All goes well until the following step: “If you do not have a group, create a new group under Groups->Add New. Proceed through the setup steps. There will be a ‘Forum’ settings step. Check the ‘Yes. I want this group to have a forum’ option. Continue with the setup steps and create the Group.”
When I click on “Add New” the following message appears: “Oops! That page can’t be found.”

Heyho. I have a major update jump with Buddy-/BB-Press so it was difficult for me to find out the error:

Since BBPress version 2.6.7, the profile notifications regarding the forum and mantions are “undefined”. If I go back ones more – i.e. 2.6.6 – it works.

is there a manual fix for this?

best, neratashy

Hello,

I am currently developing a website with many different groups and each has its own forum.
I’m using bbpress to create these forums.
For every forum, only the group’s members should have access to it, which works fine.
The problem is that all of these group forums also have subforums but these can be accessed by anyone no matter which group they are in.
in the forum settings itself, I can only choose between public, private and hidden and since all our users will be logged in anyway there is no difference between Public and private.
Is there any way to also use the group restriction for subforums?

Regards
Gerry

Hello,

The site we’ve developed the client doesn’t want to have any of the forum topics or posts available to the public. I’ve tried a few plugins to try and fix this but none seem to work;

bbPress Members Only
BuddyPress Members Only
Wbcom Designs – Private Community for BuddyPress

Does anyone know how to completely lock down anything in the /forums/ part of the site so that only members can access?

Greetings.

I have been looking for information but have not found a clear solution. That is why I thought it would be best to contact you, the developers.

I would like to show only the @usernames in the buddypress profiles and also in the bbpress forums, also in the private messages or blog comments.

This is possible?

Thanks for your patience.

Note: I am submitting this again because for some reason my initial post was marked as spam. I’m assuming because I edited it after I submitted it.

What is happening is when I try to make a change to the Components section in BuddyPress settings, I get the infamous “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.” when I try to save the settings and the settings do not take effect.

I am able to successfully enable and disable settings on the Options tab.

I have followed all the steps on several sites that talk about sorting this error, including reinstalling WordPress, deactivating all plugins, enabling debugging, using the default theme, regenerating permalinks, etc. etc.

The account has administrator role, and bbp_keymaster capabilities, from my attempt to fix the problem by installing bbPress. Deleting the database and starting over is not an option, even though this is a new site, I already have content.

What is odd is, when I get the error in WordPress, there are no corresponding PHP or Apache errors, and when I enable debugging, no errors are logged.

The only explanation I can come up with is that I have enabled IPv6/dual stack support on my network and it appears that the connection IP from my account isn’t consistent. Sometimes it connects with the IPv4 address, sometimes with the IPv6 address. That’s the only odd thing I can see in the Apache logs.

Site URL: https://displaced.zone

• WordPress Version: 5.8.1
• Directory install in root directory
• Upgraded from WordPress 5.7.1
• WordPress functions properly, other than this one problem
• BuddyPress Version: 9.1.1
• Not upgraded from a previous version
• Other Plugins: BP Better Messages, Comments Like Dislike, Top Bar, WP Cerber Security, WP Mail SMTP
• Theme: NS Minimal with minor css tweaks
• Core files have not been modified in any way
• No custom functions
• bbPress not installed, although I did install it to see if it would fix the problem
• No server error logs, which is weird
• Self hosted on a home network. I’m not a novice at this, I have done this for years, including a previous WordPress website where I had BuddyPress installed in the same environment, and did not have this issue. The only thing that has changed is the IPv6 support.
• Server OS: Debian GNU/Linux, Bullseye, typical LAMP stack
• I have tried both the Legacy and Nouveau BuddyPress themes
• I have made no changes to BuddyPress template files
• The only other information that might have a bearing on this is that I am not running WordPress “The Debian Way”. I have copied all the files, including the symlinked php libraries, out of the Debian file structure and am running them out of a folder in my home directory. Apache is running as that group and user. But again, I have done this for an entire year, successfully, with another website. Running WordPress this way allows me to use the built in WordPress update system, which doesn’t function as expected if you run WordPress “The Debian Way”.

Hey there. I am wondering what kind of host is recommended for an ideally growing/large concurrent user website using BP & bbpress?

I think the choices are really between Cloud hosting, VPS, or Dedicated Server.

From what I’ve read about BP, scalability concerns seem to be the most mentioned, which is why Cloud hosting is often recommended.

Since I’m unfamiliar in server hardware, I asked a few hosting companies and they said that even on a traditional VPS/dedicated server, scaling to a newer server isn’t an issue and only takes few minutes and a reboot (although I am not sure how true this is in practice, and buddypress is a lot more complicated than a standard blog?)

I do notice that I can find traditional VPS’ and dedicated servers significantly cheaper than cloud hosting for the resources offered.

With that said, should I specifically be looking for Cloud services over traditional? Or are traditional VPS’ and dedicated servers fine?

Also, are there specific configurations one should look out for when choosing a server for Buddypress? For e.g. Apache vs Litespeed or 1gbps vs 10gbps port speed seem to be common options.