== BuddyPress does not even show up in the individual dashboards’ “Plugins” screen ==

@b747fp It’s because BP can only be network-activated for a multisite installation.

== how do i get buddypress to work on all 64 sites through MultiSite? ==

BP is already working on all 64 sites in MS installation by tracking/logging blog posts sitewide

if you want to have people posting in the Activity stream without going to the main site or in subsite you defined BP to run in, then check this out https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/bp_enable_multiblog/ (see usage)

@dailyblog https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/ for bbPress 2.+ plugin aka Sitewide Forums.

There’s no updated plugin for the BP Group Forums.

B. At the bottom of the same 16 files, replace:
`

`

with the following (except for registration/register.php):
`

`

with the following for registration/register.php:
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

Save files.

C. Upload the 6 BP folders containing the 16 files you’ve just revised to your server wp-content/themes/collection/

D. Copy the style modifications made in BP Twenty Ten at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste to your theme’s stylesheet. Adjust to taste.

@lakhlu late as this may be … Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your collection theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder in server, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility.

Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive.

A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
`

You’re welcome. Marking this topic as resolved.

B. COPY your theme’s sidebar.php file and Save As > sidebar-buddypress.php

Open up sidebar-buddypress.php and at the TOP of the file, before all other code, add the following:

``

Then at the very BOTTOM of the same file, below all other code, add the following
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

Save file.

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

D. Final note: 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.

@workingman Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you will be 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 avenue 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 this:
`

And also all the bbpress plugins like bbpress topic location and bbcode are well served within groups. I wonder why these buddypress guys dont cater it at first place (bbpress 2.0) without tweaking an old version. Burgess Hills must be under heavy rain or bbpress raining on buddypress’s parade?

Marvelous. This thing is going to keep me stuck with bbpress+buddypress (for how long? I have no clue). bbpress new version is deeply integrated into buddypress provided Buddypress group forums is disabled and uninstalled.

go to bbpress forums and creat a new forum or category and in the bbpress settings select it as the group forums base. At the moment you cannot have more than one forum or a category for a group. I hope things will change.
And also it promises changing things wont erase previously owned stuff. (Dont forget to check whether “Forums” in the “Settings” or “Component” tab (I dont remember where it is) of Buddypress is unchecked)

Deactivate BuddyPress by deleting the BuddyPress folder so you can get too site.

The correct steps to update a BuddyPress site are

1. place your site into a maintenance mode. How you do this is up to you. There are many WP plugins for this.

2. switch your theme to bp-default.

3. deactivate every plugin including BuddyPress.

4. upgrade the BuddyPress plugin.

5. If you need to re-activate bp-default do so.

6. Check your site now to see if the upgrade was successful by going to the front end. log out and in, post activity and forum posts, check avatar uploads. And any other things to check.

7. if you are using a custom theme then test your custom theme the same way you did with bp-default.

8. if custom theme checks out test plugins one by one using the same method. After checking a plugin and its ok deactivate it.

9. if you find an error with a certain plugin then deactivate it. move on to next plugin.

10. post in this forum the error you may have found with a certain plugin. the developer may have not updated a plugin and your findings can help them. It’s the least you can do to give back when using FREE open source software.

All of the above should be done on separate install just for testing. This is to avoid the horror of updating only to find your killer site feature (plugin) completely broken. I usually do a BuddyPress install on the same server so it has similar configurations to get realistic tests.

I usually do it on a sub domain: mytest.url.com

This test site is for you only so you can test away. Just make sure you block sign ups and block it from search bots etc. I run a maintenance mode full time on my test install.

Since you already updated just get to the backend and then deactivate all plugins. Reinstall BuddyPress and activate. Then do the one by one test stated above. It’s most likely a plugin conflict.

@mahdiar you need to match HTML structure of BP template files with your theme’s structure. Open up your theme’s header.php, copy all code, paste code in pastebin.com, click submit, and post the generated URI here. Then post the codes of your theme’s sidebar.php, index.php, page.php, and footer.php as well

I have just tried to install BuddyPress on my WP version 3.4.1 and using the salutation theme.
On click Finish and I get the below error:
Warning: Illegal offset type in AppServwwwwordpresswp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-coreadminbp-core-update.php on line 642.
Any ideas / suggestions ?

I have just tried to install BuddyPress on my WP version 3.4.1 and using the salutation theme.
On click Finish and I get the below error:
Warning: Illegal offset type in AppServwwwwordpresswp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-coreadminbp-core-update.php on line 642.
Any ideas / suggestions ?

I have just tried to install BuddyPress on my WP version 3.4.1 and using the salutation theme.
On click Finish and I get the below error:
Warning: Illegal offset type in AppServwwwwordpresswp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-coreadminbp-core-update.php on line 642.
Any ideas / suggestions ?

Yes, significant chunks of this site don’t work. Particularly those relating to forums. It used to work somewhat better, but a new design was introduced which reduced the functionality.

However, try not to let that put you off BuddyPress though — the sites you can build with the platform are far more impressive and consistent. It also integrates well with the new bbPress plugin, allowing you to deliver standard forum behaviour.

@azizmb

This approach might be safer for most people.
It adds to the recorded post_types instead of replacing them.

`
add_filter ( ‘bp_blogs_record_post_post_types’, ‘activity_publish_custom_post_types’,1,1 );
function activity_publish_custom_post_types( $post_types ) {
$post_types[] = ‘videos’;
$post_types[] = ‘pictures’;
return $post_types;
}
`

And if you go thru the trouble of creating a CPT, why not filter the activity action so it isn’t the generic ‘…wrote a new post’. For example:

`
add_filter(‘bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action’, ‘record_cpt_activity_action’, 1, 3);
function record_cpt_activity_action( $activity_action, $post, $post_permalink ) {
global $bp;
if( $post->post_type == ‘videos’ ) {
if ( is_multisite() )
$activity_action = sprintf( __( ‘%1$s created a new Videos post, %2$s, on the site %3$s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), ‘‘ . $post->post_title . ‘‘, ‘‘ . get_blog_option( $blog_id, ‘blogname’ ) . ‘‘ );

else
$activity_action = sprintf( __( ‘%1$s created a new Videos post, %2$s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), ‘‘ . $post->post_title . ‘‘ );

}

return $activity_action;
}
`

Thanks for the feedback, and thank you for testing!

I’m sure someone will create a plugin to do this very soon

These forums don’t notify people of follow up comments — so, no surprise that Boone didn’t pick up on a further question several months later.

You can try the @username approach in your comment to notify them

For questions 2 and 3 — yes, you can customise these aspects of your site — there are many ways of doing it, and to some extent it depends on the approach you take to developing your site’s theme.

You can remove tabs, and add new tabs through the BuddyPress API
You can also remove them by developing your own custom template files (and similarly for the avatar sizes)

If you look on the showcase tab on this site, or visit bpinspire.com for more up to date examples, you can get a feel for what you can achieve based on BuddyPress.

Much the same as a WordPress site doesn’t have to follow the basic blog structure, similarly a BuddyPress site doesn’t have to follow the generic bp-default theme structure and UX.

Hi, I have the same exact problem!
This is what I get in my PHP log file:

`[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php on line 1559
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP Stack trace:
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 1. {main}() /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php:0
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 2. require() /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php:106
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 3. require_once() /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/menu.php:233
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 4. do_action() /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/menu.php:97
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 5. call_user_func_array() /var/www/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php:403
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 6. bp_core_setup_wizard_init() /var/www/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php:0
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 7. BP_Core_Setup_Wizard->__construct() /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/admin/bp-core-update.php:1103
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 8. BP_Core_Setup_Wizard->save() /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/admin/bp-core-update.php:45
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 9. BP_Core_Setup_Wizard->step_db_update_save() /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/admin/bp-core-update.php:103
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 10. bp_core_install() /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/admin/bp-core-update.php:771
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 11. bp_core_install_notifications() /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/admin/bp-core-update.php:1116
[10-Jul-2012 19:39:48] PHP 12. bp_core_set_charset() /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/admin/bp-core-schema.php:20`

Please help me! How can I fix this issue?

go to your current themes directory, open up functions.php
add
`
register_sidebar(array(
‘name’ => __( ‘Sidebar2’ ),
‘id’ => ‘sidebar2’,
‘description’ => __( ‘Widgets in this area will be shown on sidebar2.’ ,’buddypress’ ),
‘before_widget’ => ‘