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Have you started by doing all the basic steps:

1. Make a copy of your site (so you are not working on the live server)
2. Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress
3. Switch to bp-default theme
4. [Ideally make sure you have updated WP / BP to the latest versions]
5. Then uninstall multisite [which instructions did you follow to do that?]

Does it work correctly if you do this?

If so, the problem is in your theme or your plugins. If not, the problem is more general.

If working after these steps, switch to your theme, then activate plugins one by one, checking functionality at each stage.

If you can report back on that, it should be possible to give more help (if needed!)

[Edit: it would also be helpful if you gave the exact error message you received – with that information, finding the problem may be much simpler]

It’s hard to say just not knowing your install and set up really. But, BuddyPress does work without Multisite so if you are having issues my advice probably in this case would be to export the contents you want and put on a fresh site.

However, others may have something better as this is a bit of a brutal fix. It’s just that so many things could be at play I’m always keen to strip back as much as can.

Well, unless someone has happened to do this before and reads it, it’s unlikely someone is going to spend the time to figure it out. It’s not an easy copy-and-paste job.

It’s a problem with your “Decor” theme. Switch to twentyeleven or another theme, then go back to complete BuddyPress setup.

Are you using buddypress mobile plugin?

Yes, you need to echo the value returned by bp_get_member_profile_data(), or just use bp_profile_field_data() as you’ve done

Hi just did a uninstall and reinstall but didn’t get any log errors. The errors below were the last errors that i received, but i don’t think they have anything to do with buddy press. Where should i go to get help with this?

I am running wordpress locally on a mamp server could that be the problem?

Regards
gary

30-Jun-2012 23:53:27 PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ‘)’ in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php on line 16

30-Jun-2012 23:53:23 PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ‘)’ in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php on line 16

30-Jun-2012 23:51:51 PHP Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php’ (include_path=’.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php’) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/page.php on line 5

30-Jun-2012 23:51:51 PHP Warning: require(/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/page.php on line 5

Hi Jeroen,

we’ve built a lot of sites on BuddyPress – and forums are often a big issue for our clients.

Clients / users expect forums to behave like normal forums (as your users have already indicated as well). Unfortunately, the BuddyPress group forum approach just doesn’t work in this regard.

If forums are crucial to your site – then yes, install the bbPress plugin alongside BuddyPress, and work with the standalone forums it provides.

You’ll need to implement some logic to control accessibility / visibility to certain restricted forums – but that’s not difficult – you can either use the BuddyPress Groups to group your guild officers, and then use the BuddyPress API to test whether a member is in that group. Or, if you don’t require the other group functionality, you may be best to create a new user role with the standard WordPress API.

If you want to see a couple of examples of bbPress providing standalone forums on a BuddyPress site, you can check out our builds for http://worshipministry.com and http://enterprisenation.com

Hope that helps, Roger

Can’t reproduce this online – so its something to do with my set-up

ok. this is happening with buddypress as the sole plugin active. (Single site install bp default theme admin user, non admin user – the behavior is as described above)

opened a ticket https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4320

To make the URL clickable, add an anchor tag and use bp_get_member_profile_data() to get the value for the href attribute.

No, you don’t need to use a child theme.

You can work the way you do with Twenty Eleven – copying over the parts of bp-default that you want to reuse into a clean non-child theme. We build all our BuddyPress sites this way.

We do it for a number of reasons: completely different layout structures, markup, and to better allow our clients to upgrade –

If you are building a site for a client, making your site a child of bp-default is not a future proof approach. Often update releases of BuddyPress change look, feel and functional elements in bp-default – if your client upgrades their site and it is a child of bp-default, they will have these changes forced on them.

I’ve never seen anything like that before. I don’t know. Are there any errors in your web browser’s javascript console or on your server’s PHP logs?

Keep an eye on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4252

Disable BuddyPress. Create a new site from inside the WordPress (Network) Admin. Can you access it?

You could ask them to review their web server’s logs and tell you if/what the error messages are.

Yes. The BuddyPress template files are in the plugins folder and get written over on upgrade. It’s a safety measure to use a child theme in case you make mistakes.

in a future BP version BP will use something like template parts and you can use any theme.

Presume this is the best place for feedback. if not let me know and i’ll do a separate topic.

Bp 1.6 Beta 1 and up to trunk 6154 and wp 3.4.1 local install

on a single site with bp default theme and on a multisite with child of bp default.

Changes to Profile fields visibility don’t seem to be sticking

Hobbies – not a required field Who can see this field ? Anyone (default)

Change Anyone to Logged in Users and Press Save Changes.

Green Box arrives on top of page —-> Changes Saved

But the changes are NOT saved. Everything stays the same !

Refresh page/Empty cache —> No help,

Same for non-admin user as for admin.

I have a good few plugins active and that possibly could be the cause.

Will disable these tomorrow to check.

In the meantime it would be great to have this confirmed or refuted.