BuddyPress.org

Also, I do have this in my buddypress settings tab under Legacy Group Forums – bbPress configuration: /var/www/vhosts/lochmoorclub.com/httpdocs/wordpress/bb-config.php

Not sure what that is…

Thanks @bphelp. Info listed below:

1. Which version of WordPress are you running?

3.5.2

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?

Directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

root

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?

3.5

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.

Wordpress seems to be working fine

6. Which version of BP are you running?

1.7.2

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

1.7

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?

Yes, a lot. 🙂

Allow Multiple Accounts
amr users + buddypress
buddypress group email subscription
buddypress member import
buddypress message attachement
Buddypress Toolbar
Buddypress Xprofile custom fields type
comprehensive google map
contact form manager
events manager pro
easy table
form lightbox
GRAND Flash Album Gallery
Lightbox Galleries EWSEL
Mass Messaging in Buddypress
Online Backup for WordPress
Peter’s Login Redirect
SHortcode Widget
User Switching
WP Full Calendar
WP Wunderground

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

I’m using Razor 1.1.3 from Themeforest/Parallelus

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

No

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

No

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

14. Which company provides your hosting?

Network Solutions

15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?

VPS hosting package

Thanks guys! Ah, here it is: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/releases/version-1-7/

Forums

Retired bbPress 1.x “Group Forums” component (replaced with bbPress 2.x integration) (#3598)

bbPress is a separate plugin – bbpress.org. We have the BuddyPress 1.6.5 forums on our site without the bbpress plugin installed, and they seem very dated IMO.

It would be nice to have this all explained in one definitive document though, as we’re not clear what we have to do to maintain the most up-to-date forums.

I found this video the best I’ve seen this far, because it keeps it very easy to understand.

It starts with a very basic understanding of what Actions and what Filters do because they maybe sound very overwhelming? when you bump onto them for the first time.
You don’t wanna know how many bbPress or BuddyPress projects I have deleted because I couldn’t understand what actions are, I knew they where spot that you can Hook into but making it happen and writing some code that finally gets Hooked into an action is a different story.

Actions DO stuff.
Filters CHANGE stuff.

I’ve tried to make my own custom add_action for the first time just to see if I was able to Hook into that ‘ bp_group_header_actions ‘ and it worked.
Something as simple as this added an empty span tag above the ‘ bp_group_header_actions ‘ code but the only question that still remains how to I get inside the HTML of this action.

add_action ( 'bp_group_header_actions', 'my_stuff', 1 );

function my_stuff() {
	echo '<span></span>';
}

This empty span tag has to go inside that div before the a href tag.

Am using WordPress 3.5.2, BuddyPress Version 1.7.2 and BBPress Version 2.3.2. The theme is a custom theme. This is the the link http://mythemeshop.com/themes/ribbon/
Here is how its behaving http://www.disqusnow.co.uk/groups/test-group/forum/. Still working on the look.

@mercime Am using WordPress 3.5.2, BuddyPress Version 1.7.2 and BBPress Version 2.3.2. The theme is a custom theme. This is the the link http://mythemeshop.com/themes/ribbon/
Here is how its behaving http://www.disqusnow.co.uk/groups/test-group/forum/. Still working on the look.

Shortcode to display posts like ShowCase:
http://theme.firmasite.com/showcase-shortcode/

I would like to hear your suggestions on this. Please send a comment in post.

I’ve had a look in the database and realised what the problem is. The rogue posts are coming from people posting using the ppBress form (I have a page that includes it using the shortcode bbp-topic-form) which creates a topic in the group’s forum, but doesn’t associate the topic with the group.

You can mark this issue resolved! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Guys, thanks you for your responses – very helpful!

See i have a very active web site built in WP (well i will – its just being built). The Community/Forum elements (with BuddyPress and BBPress) will be an integral part of it also. When i done a few test’s on activating BuddyPress and BBPress, i found that this doubled the site queries which i’m just monitoring very closely as i’m trying to keep everything as efficient as possible. The site will be on a dedicated server with the database on a separate dedicated database server so i think we should be OK if we keep queries down as small as possible.

Sorry @synaptic, i was aware that BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress, it was more the approach i was questioning – ie when you’re starting off with a site, do you think that the site is going to be a community site everything focused on BuddyPress or is safe to say that you could have a large active non community site and simply append a community with BuddyPress as secondary and have the site still run efficiently. I see in some sites that the community element is on a separate sub domain site – for example see http://www.babycentre.co.uk – they community element of this is on a separate install (possibly WP multi site?) at http://community.babycentre.co.uk/. I’m sort of wondering is there any reason why they do this? Is it because its physically easier to manage? Is it because the load of a community may affect the normal running of the website? I’m just wondering what the general convention is?

If the convention is to separate say – then why would it make sense to have a multi site install as the community BuddyPress tables are still in the same database? You get waht i mean? Actually why use multi site at all? (http://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/06/06/how-to-integrate-buddypress-with-wordpress-multi-site-seamlessly/)

Thanks for all your help everyone! Appreciate it!

Also when this problem occurs, the update doesn’t get emailed via GES as GES gets its content from the activity stream.

The topic/reply DOES appear in the all members activity stream, just not the My groups one or on the group’s Home tab. So looks like the association between the item and the group is being lost somewhere. The item appears in the forum OK.

Update: I’m running W3 Total Cache with Xcache. Turned off W3TC but left XCache on – problem still occuring.

I am using the old buddypress forum. Is there a way to bring all my current topics to bbpress? I’d rather keep my current set up with buddypress. I just want my users to be abl to get email notices when somebody responds. I guess I have two questions.
1. Does buddypress offer email responses built in?
2. Any suggestions?
Thanks!