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BuddyPress no longer bundles bbPress therefore has no forums. You can install bbPress separately. There is a setting in bbPress to have a forum for each BuddyPress group.

but when I click in settings (account, profile or create group) gives error. The system returned with inexistent page

@tuliodc not quite clear. You mean you go to dashboard Settings > BuddyPress > Components/Pages/orSettings and when you click on some sections, you go to a 404 page?

I saw that buddypress should work with bbpress, is true?

Yes. https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

My question is, what plugins I should install

I recommend that before you install other plugins, double-check that your BP install is in good working condition – e.g. registration ok, can create groups, can add friends, delete activity stream item, etc. If all OK, then read compatibility version, reviews and support forum topics of that plugin to check if plugin is supported and/or updated to latest BP/WP versions.

Thank you @r-a-y!!

A solution to this problem will also help me understand the problem with my page lay-out. (Seems like I have to comment in order to subscribe to this thread.)

@caming
#1 – Profile > Edit in Member’s profile page and/or BuddyPress member account links in WP Toolbar?
#2 – Have you done some basic troubleshooting like deactivating plugins except BP and bbPress to check if activating emails are sent?

@bp-help
I’ve been doing that for the past couple hours and I think I have found one thing that may be the difference between the two sites. I’ve posted about it here (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-menu-showing-up-at-top-of-admin-dashboard/) – not sure if you would have any knowledge on that or how to solve it.

the original group based forums have been depreciated now what happens is each group is it’s own forum/topic in the regular site wide forums which are connected vis the forum tab in the groups page.

I followed the instructions … Buddypress now works flawlessly. All three problems I had were solved.

Music to my ears 🙂 Thank you for following instructions.

But the slider of the theme stopped working, as expected. .. To change somehow the version of the jquery that my theme uses isn’t an option?

There are alternatives to your slider which should work with current WP standards. Check out the ones updated in 2013 -> https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/slider

You need to make sure that your theme is updated to the latest WordPress version including jQuery, otherwise you’d be stuck in an old WordPress version which could be buggy and/or a security risk. In addition plugins, like BuddyPress and bbPress, use the latest jQuery version included in current WordPress, so if you use older version, things could get very bumpy.

To keep theme updated, install the Theme Check plugin and run it in Appearance > Theme Check with your theme. If you find any REQUIRED or WARNING results, you need to address that in your theme right away. RECOMMENDED results are just that, recommendations which you might want to address but not that important or necessary. Good luck.

@patricksaad Thank you! Can it also be added for comments? friend requests, activity, etc. we know bbpress has it so everything else other than forum posts (via bbpress) would be helpful to have throttling

@shirleyl open up your theme’s full-width page template and save as buddypress.php and upload this file to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/yourthemename/

Do the same for bbPress, create a new file bbpress.php from full-width theme template and upload same to theme folder in server.

Know that the full-width with apply to all BP and bbPress templates. If you want different layouts for each BP component, read this https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

@patricksaad,
apologize if i mentionned your blog, but it was the only place i found speaking about this problem.
FYI, “throttling” is used in BP 1.7.2, but a minima. Should be extanded much more. I guess it’s preferably you open an ehancement ticket on the Trac.
And thank you for sharing your code. 😉

buddypress 1.7.2\bp-core\bp-core-moderation.php (6 hits)
Line 24: * @uses current_user_can() To check if the current user can throttle
Line 25: * @uses bp_get_option() To get the throttle time
Line 32: if ( !$throttle_time = bp_get_option( ‘_bp_throttle_time’ ) )
Line 32: if ( !$throttle_time = bp_get_option( ‘_bp_throttle_time’ ) )
Line 40: if ( isset( $last_posted ) && ( time() < ( $last_posted + $throttle_time ) ) && !current_user_can( ‘throttle’ ) )
Line 40: if ( isset( $last_posted ) && ( time() < ( $last_posted + $throttle_time ) ) && !current_user_can( ‘throttle’ ) )
buddypress 1.7.2\bp-forums\bbpress\bb-admin\admin-ajax.php (6 hits)
Line 160: if ( $throttle_time = bb_get_option( ‘throttle_time’ ) )
Line 160: if ( $throttle_time = bb_get_option( ‘throttle_time’ ) )
Line 161: if ( isset($bb_current_user->data->last_posted) && time() < $bb_current_user->data->last_posted + $throttle_time && !bb_current_user_can(‘throttle’) )
Line 161: if ( isset($bb_current_user->data->last_posted) && time() < $bb_current_user->data->last_posted + $throttle_time && !bb_current_user_can(‘throttle’) )
Line 162: $error = new WP_Error( ‘throttle-limit’, sprintf( __(‘Slow down! You can only post every %d seconds.’), $throttle_time );
Line 162: $error = new WP_Error( ‘throttle-limit’, sprintf( __(‘Slow down! You can only post every %d seconds.’), $throttle_time );
buddypress 1.7.2\bp-forums\bbpress\bb-admin\includes\functions.bb-admin.php (4 hits)
Line 408: $user_meta[‘throttle’] = $_POST[‘throttle’];
Line 408: $user_meta[‘throttle’] = $_POST[‘throttle’];
Line 531: $user_meta[‘throttle’] = $edit_user->throttle;
Line 531: $user_meta[‘throttle’] = $edit_user->throttle;
buddypress 1.7.2\bp-forums\bbpress\bb-admin\options-writing.php (3 hits)
Line 43: ‘throttle_time’ => array(
Line 44: ‘title’ => __( ‘Throttle time’ ),
Line 47: ‘note’ => __( ‘Users must wait this many seconds between posts. By default, moderators, administrators and keymasters are not throttled.’ )

Although Yoast’s WordPress SEO works perfectly with WordPress, it isn’t currently compatible with BuddyPress. I suggest you try a plugin such as SeoPress. There are some problems with that plugin (lacking 404 page support, registration page title buggy, incompatible Friends component etc) but on the whole it is about the best option on the market at the moment.

And I notice that the pages for forums and registration don’t work.

Did you enable Registration in Settings > General? If you did, did you check Settings > BuddyPress > Pages to see if a page for Registration is associated with the Registration dropdown and saved?

I don’t understand the bbpress thing. Am I supposed to have that too if I want forums? Does BuddyPress not have forums built within?

BP no longer has internal bbPress group forums built in. For current version, you need to install and activate the bbPress forums plugin for sitewide and/or group forums. https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

better to install bbpress using FTP. I can do it either way, but I’d prefer to do it through BuddyPress

@ldjautobody Recommend that you install BuddyPress first. That way, after you install bbPress plugin via Plugins > Add New, you can activate BP group forums (if you want) in Settings > Forums . https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/