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1. What Woo theme are you using? We have compiled a list of “template-packed” themes near bottom of https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

2. correct naming for the files needed for 2nd option of theme compatibility
buddypress-header.php should be header-buddypress.php
and
buddypress-sidebar.php should be sidebar-buddypress.php
Otherwise your changes will be implemented at all.

@idanny08 Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you will only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make the BP templates compatible with your theme.

If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your wisdom of life theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php

Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add the code from http://pastebin.com/pTiuAruq

Save file.

B. CREATE A NEW BLANK FILE named sidebar-buddypress.php

Open up the blank sidebar-buddypress.php file and add the code from http://pastebin.com/1FyKJ5eK

Save file.

C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/wisdom-of-life/ in the same directory where your regular header.php and sidebar.php files are

D. Copy the style modifications for some BP elements https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste those at the bottom of your theme’s stylesheet, then adjust to taste.

Final note: not sure whether the breadcrumbs or theme options will work in the BP pages.

@dreamlarp BP Docs shouldn’t affect the forums at all. If you change to bp-default theme, can you see your posts.

I suggest searching or asking for help on bbPress.org’s forums — maybe someone’s seen this before.

Thanks @Paul Gibbs. I’ve imported my old group forums/topics into bbP2 like you suggested above and the import bit seems to work OK – they appear in the bbP forum list and can be read from there.

But when I create a new BP group forum (via group admin front end) or add a new topic to a BP group forum, nothing shows up in the bbP forum listing (as I assume it should do – am I right?). Similarly, when I add a topic to the bbP forum for a particular BP group, it doesn’t show up in the BP group forum accessed from the BP group page. So BP group forums and bbP forums are still acting completely independently of each other and not integrated at all.

Perhaps it is a bug? What would you advise? Has anyone else achieved proper integration?

(Note that I did disable the Groups Forum component inside the BuddyPress components setting page in wp-admin as you said above.)

Yes, Buddypress can be installed on a subdomain as a single WordPress install. The subdomain will be your siteurl and blogurl;

please see djpaul’s post at the bottom of https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/registration-page-has-prepoulated-full-name-field-help/#post-133441

Ah hah. Then you need to go to Tools > bbPress Importer in wp-admin (or something similar – I can’t remember what it’s called) to move your content from bbP1 to bbP2.

Thanks for your reply @Paul Gibbs. Yes, I am using bbPress 2.1, BuddyPress 1.6 RC1 and WordPress 3.4.1.

I’ve done what you say above but I still see no changes on my site. The group forums are still working fine the same as before and the bbPress sitewide forum is still working fine the same as before. But I can’t see any signs of integration between the two.

What should I see? For example, should the group forums be listed in the main bbPress forum too, under the “group forums parent” selected in WP-Admin>Settings>Forum that you refer to above?

You can do this using a custom language file: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

It’s going to take a little bit of code diving but this thread should shed some light on how you can do that: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/sort-groups-alphabetically-by-default-bp-12/

It’s hard to tell really without a link as sounds very like this could be due to your theme. If you can provide a link that would be great. Alternatively, could you try the default BuddyPress theme and see if it happens there? I understand on a live community this may not be possible.

If it’s not theme related it could be some plugin / something adding CSS / scripting and clashing. I’d therefore you look at if you can striping back plugins to try and find the culprit. It does sound this is the less likely thing though and it’s something in your theme.

Ok, this forum post goes into adding and removing here https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-remove-and-add-items-in-bp_get_displayed_user_nav/

@sydneydesigner You need bbPress 2.1, BuddyPress 1.6 (any version of, incl. the RC1), and WordPress 3.4.1.

Disable the Groups Forum component inside the BuddyPress components setting page in wp-admin, then go to Settings > Forum. This is the bbPress settings page. Scroll right down to the bottom, and you’ll see some new settings to enable the forums.

Release notes are still being written up, sorry. There’s a high-level overview in https://buddypress.org/2012/07/buddypress-1-6-beta-2/ for now.

I’ve already brought up this issue but I’m glad to hear another voice added to mine
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120720_MQ_TYJ/

the waterfall analysis shows the bottleneck occurring right at the start:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120720_MQ_TYJ/1/details/

might be an issue with ngix or something else, the fact that the site is not optimized at all… take a look at those scores to the top right… doesn’t help either

a CDN would be nice, so would W3 caching plugin but there are also very very simple actions that can be taken in the .htaccess to improve performance

I don’t know but I have told the appropriate people and they are investigating.

I would suggest you start by only trying to get WordPress working (no plugins or custom themes). Once you have custom permalinks working, then move on to BuddyPress and bbPress.

If it doesn’t work in WordPress, I would suggest asking for help / searching for help on the WordPress.org forums as people will have found themselves with this problem before.

BuddyPress Groups Extras or Groups plus i can’t remember which ones crashes group forums even after deactivated and deleted. I had to start back over with a fresh install of wordpress

Hi Paul,

I’ve updated to BP1.6-RC1 and am currently testing this out on my site to try to help out. Does bbPress 2 currently work for group forums on BP1.6-RC1 or do we need to wait for the BP 1.6 proper to be released?

In any case, I’d appreciate some guidance on how to integrate my previous (BP1.5.6) group and sitewide BBPress forums together. I understand that BP1.6 does this, but whatever I’ve tried so far, they still stay separate.

Are there any BP1.6-RC1 release notes on forums (or all the improvements for that matter) telling me what is new so I can focus my testing and help out better?

Many thanks.

BP mobile does not affect the WordPress admin. At least it shouldn’t. The theme error is not that important, it’s just a notice and does not affect BuddyPress. You can install the BuddyPress Extended Settings plugin that has a setting to stop that theme notice.

I’m a little confused by your post. Are you saying when you are in the WordPress admin on a mobile device the option to add a featured image is missing from the Add new post page?

Does this occur when using the bp-default theme as the desktop theme?
Are you using another plugins that could cause this?

What is the error?