BuddyPress.org

I have wordpress 3.5.1, buddypress 1.7, bbpress 2.3

Site installed in an root directory

Need more info?

nothing in my error log !!

please help . I tried everything advised on bbpress site and updated permalinks but no use !!

Hey Aces – thanks! I installed the firebug addon and I was able to make the necessary changes pretty easily. Nifty lil add on!

However…new issue…not sure if I should open a new thread but my sidebar is just all messed up. It doesn’t appear on my bbpress /forums/ page at all, but it does appear on my /members, /activity, /groups pages – except it’s lost it’s alignment and is pushed down.

I guess my real problem after hours of searching and reading is finishing the 3rd step in the buddypress template pack install, Step Three: Tweaking your layout. I just can’t seem to get this darn thing to work. I’ve tried the manual way and changing header, footer sidebar to buddypress-sidebar, etc. It’s just out of my league. I have a purchased wp theme and have been in contact with the creator but it’s been days since I’ve heard anything :/

Ugh!

No it doesn’t work (I just restored the database from backup). Instead of showing a list of discussion threads (sorted by freshness) it shows Group forums as the root (which people can post in) and all the group forums.
[bbp-forum-index] in a new page also gets the same result
Have disabled all plugins but bbPress and Buddypress to no avail. bbPress 2.3 update doesn’t help.

I tried resetting the bbPress forums from Tools/Forums to try from scratch and it’s worse – lost all the Group forum links.
Anyone can help? Why am I seeing a Forums page like this instead of the discussion list?

http:// malaysianmedicine.com/forums/

It was a bbPress error. Now fixed with the 2.4 version!

So the topic status is SOLVED!

Thank you Shane!!

I am running WordPress Multisite 3.5.1 in the root directory. When I had everything setup correctly after installing BuddyPress it broke some of the profile fields on some users. I am running BuddyPress 1.7. I have the following latest versions of plugins and none of them from trial and error did anything:

• Bad Behavior
• bbPress
• Blubrry PowerPress
• BuddyPress
• Flowplayer 5 for WordPress
• Jetpack by WordPress.com
• SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
• Wordfence Security
• WordPress MU Domain Mapping
• WP Maintenance Mode

I was upgrading from BP Beta 2 and had no problems before. I am hosted on Linode and web server is Apache.

First off FINDING instructions is in itself a bit confusing. There are multiple
“official” sources which compounds the confusion. End users keep wondering is there a separation between Buddy Press and bbPress? Have they merged, they’re separate? It seems the intend is to merge bbPress into BuddyPress. Curious that bbPress only appears under plug-ins and once installed appears under Forums on the Dashboard.

One finds the bbPress help under a green banner https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ and what you wrote: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/ has a red heading background.

This begins the confusion. One installing bbpess then running into a problem is likely to use a major search engine then search for bbpress, after all THAT is the plug-in many have problems with as I did.

Note YOUR install instructions are labeled under BuddyPress, not bbPress. Why is that? This in itself will leave many to wonder if they ended up on the right help page. This endless back and forth trying to decide am I dealing with BuddyPress or bbPress is unnecessary and really a clumsy design decision on part of the developers because all it does is create needless confusion. That gets compounded when BuddyPress and bbPress offer overlapping features and it never really becomes clear which one you are dealing with as confirmed by having two how-to sets of instructions.

Can’t you guys work together and CONSOLIDATE the how-to in ONE place?

Can’t you guys make up your mind if you’re BuddyPress or bbPress or are you really still both?

Now specifically to your instructions: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Please accept as offered, constructive critique from a newbie’s point of view.

First What I tried to do: Create site wide Forum, keeping my already working Buddy Press Groups.
I scrolled down the page until I found

A. Set Up Sitewide Forums only

The first step is obvious. The 2nd which takes one away from YOUR instructions to the bbPress page is needlessly confusing. Again you leave the end user to wonder what the hell am I working with bbPress or BuddyPress? The endless back and forth to a newbie is MADING.

The main content of the bbpress page you reference does nothing but define what various settings do. This will cause the typical newbie to skim the list and wonder WHY was I told to go here, now what? While useful, the page you reference to does NOT offer anything to do with installing, the TASK AT HAND. This will like for me, cause a newbie to leave that page quickly, since it seems to be something one might want to review AFTER bbPress is actually installed and running correctly.

So I like I’m guessing most would return to YOUR instructions page. Continuing on with your instructions you say:

`”•If you kept the default “forums” slug in Settings > Forums, you can create a new Page via Pages > Add New. Add Title “Forums” and insert the forums index shortcode and/or other bbPress shortcode you’ll find in the bbPress Codex then publish the new page. `

Oh no, you redirect to yet another page? This is really getting frustrating. Why? Because you first redirected to a page that had nothing to do with installation. Many will either ignore your suggestion or if they visit the page, again get confused.

Also if I was writing the instructions I would FIRST define all the terms you use. Many writing instructions are guilty of this omission which is the root cause of much confusion to newbies!
Slug? Shortcode? Index? What the heck are those in the context used?

You instruct if a page already exists called “forums” to make a new one where the only change is to capitalize the word forums to Forums, again I bet you confused many why they should bother and I bet they will skip doing it. I know why, others won’t and its a poor choice for a name when you could pick anything else.

If I wrote the instructions:

Under Prelude I would have made a warning that unlike Buddy Press that simply accepts a blank page for Groups and that alone generates a listing of all groups, if a page named Groups exists, setting up Forums in bbPress requires the addition of a shortcode. A blank page named “forums” or something else does nothing. You should not send people wandering off to other pages. YOU should specifically mention this CRITICAL fact in YOUR instructions. Something like:

Warning If you already have an earlier version of bbPress or Buddy Press installed, go to Dashboard
Pages and look for any page named forums. Send this page to the trash. Empty trash.

. Install and activate bbPress.
. If you want to have a page that lists all your forums, make a new page with a more descriptive
name for Forums such as all-forums.
. Add the shortcode `[bbp-forum-index]` to this new page, publish.
. From Dashboard go to Appearances, Menu. Locate the page you just created and add to your
menu.
. Create one or more forums if you haven’t already. Test that they all show up when you click on
the page you just added to menu.

@Fraternity Do you already have a working buddypress install with 1.6.5?

If so, I guess you can migrate with not many problems, but for new installs the old (and good, why not?) forum component it´s NOT available anymore.

At least till now i could not find a way of  keeping it.

As i´m not a coder i need a bit more info to try that moebis hack 🙁

Gee, am I the only one with this problem?

Please mark as resolved the problem was caused by a plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-recent-groups-topics/

have left a note in the plugin forum

above should be

added a functions.php with just “

Some progress!

When “Show the Toolbar for logged out users” is checked admin bar is shown to logged out users

However

When “Show the Toolbar for logged out users” is unchecked admin bar is still shown logged out users

still nothing for logged in users.

started from scartch with a new child theme

with just

@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );

aha!

no admin bar

added a function.php with just

i will now go ahead and deactivate all plugins except buddypress & bbpress

though the admin bar appears in bp default theme with these plugins activated

Would really really appreciate some guidance