I’m building a Buddypress installation from scratch to replace my community’s old one, which has been a train wreck. I installed Buddypress, noticed no installation steps needed taken, and no tables were added to the database. However, I can post on the streams and store all other info.
So this leaves me with three questions I hope you guys can help with:
1. Where’s the BP data being stored?
2. How can I transfer the users’ activity, blog posts, et al?
3. Should I just tell my friends “Tough poopy, I guess we have to start all over”?
Thanks
@themightymo
Your welcome! Maybe @mercime and @hnla could shed some light on this issue?
@bp-help – Thanks for checking. Now that I am looking at it further, I don’t see where said status update would appear. Is this an antiquated feature of buddypress.org? I remember seeing status updates in my profile on the old design, but maybe they were phased out of the new buddypress.org design.
@themightymo
Just tested it out even though it is not a feature I use here but after I posted an activity update it went to a white screen with what appears to be a redirect loop that will not resolve. @mercime @hnla Do you guys have the same issue?
When I try to submit a new activity from my “Activity” page of my profile, I am redirected to a white screen.
Here is the url I am posting from: http://buddypress.org/community/members/themightymo/activity/
My browser/OS details can be found here: https://aboutmybrowser.com/eGSwxqcy
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
@dmd54
if someone could offer advice i would appreciate it.
You asked for advice and I gave it to you.
That was about the most useless response anyone could have provided.
Given your demeanor don’t expect anyone to spoon feed what you did wrong when you supplied little information to begin with and when someone offers friendly advice you make a rude comment. Search the forums for similar issues and study the codex.
Actually I’ve just created the child theme and obviously it doesn’t work as it’s not the active theme.
So in essence, I don’t want a buddypress theme to activate as I already have my own, I just want to use buddypress within my own theme, and customise it.
Any ideas,
Thanks
Building a child theme and then switching shouldn’t be a problem. For a tutorial on how to create a child theme see the Codex
https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
Apologies for my rant!
I managed to resolve this issue by creating all the member forums first from WP dashboard and then assigning them to the appropriate groups from the members forum setting page from the front end.
It appears the issue lies with BuddyPress when trying to create member forums from the front end using the ‘allow group to have its own forum’ setting.
Hi everyone,
I have unfortunately created a custom theme, started using buddypress with member profiles that have been populated, and now need to create a child theme to customise it. I realise I’ve done this the wrong way round but can’t seem to find a solution.
Can this be achieved after the fact? If so, can someone point me in the right direction in how to set this up with minimum downtime please.
Look forward to a response,
Hash
I’m getting this error every time I activate Site Tracking on buddypress.
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare() called in E:\dev\sites\wordpress\site.com\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-blogs\bp-blogs-functions.php on line 52 and defined in E:\dev\sites\wordpress\site.com\wp-includes\wp-db.php on line 990
I am currently using this setup:
Local Server using WAMP
Multisite setup
Wordpress 3.6-beta3
Buddypress 1.7.2
BBpress 2.3.2
This happened on a fresh install.
I could’ve sworn this was not happening before with the same setup.
Not sure if this is only a beta thing, I haven’t tried it on WP 3.5.1
That was about the most useless response anyone could have provided. Cheers
I just checked your issue in BuddyPress Media version 2.15.3 and there’s no such error. Can you tell us in which version you are having this problem?
I tested it on this site: http://buddypress.aws.gagan.pro (my BuddyPress test site)
@patricksaad
I was just informing you of the release of the plugin which works perfectly in my test environment. If you can get your code working and integrated into the core great, if not there is a viable option already.
PParticipant
@bphelp Premium, not my cup of tea. I’m tackling the topic so throttling can be a feature in Buddypress itself (core feature), not simply as a plugin.
Hi. New to the wordpress world and programming in general.
Set up wordpress using microsoft webmatrix as I need to learn on local system (no internet at home)
When I attempt to edit profile page 404 throws up.
Latest wordpress and buddypress
Page address http://localhost:18423/members/admin/profile/edit/
Page title in tab IIS 8.0 detailed error-404.0- not found
Any help greatly appreciated
No I didnt try deactivating plugins since I was not sure which plugin is actually causing this error.
Having links showing up twice in Posts when you only posted it once is not normal for any BuddyPress or regular WordPress installation. It’s basic troubleshooting to deactivate plugins either one by one or by batch or all together (except BuddyPress) to find out which plugin is causing the error. Btw, you didn’t mention what theme you are using.
If I click on “add links” , it shows me add link here and then a preview button.
Is that “add links” coming from a plugin? What exactly do you preview after you click “add link”?
What exactly do you mean by post links and where is the issue showing up? Blog post links or Forum post links or Activity Status update post links?
Have you tried to deactivate plugins batch by batch except BuddyPress to determine whether it’s a plugin conflict?
Hi @mercime,
Sorry for the late reply. I am using WP 3.5.1 and BP 1.7.1. Yes I have been using BP from the begining. Theme used is Bp Nicey. I am using most of the BuddyPress plugins like groups,docs etc.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Sarath
@nanaimomen just tested it in BP 1.7.2 install. That code would bring back the Buddybar of yore and not the current BuddyPress links integrated into the WP toolbar.
If you did want BuddyBar back then check:
– Did you place the code posted above in a new flle named bp-custom.php ?
– Did you upload that file into your server wp-content/plugins/ folder ?
@thebuded something you should report in Trac https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
Log in using WP/BP username and password. Please include more info about your installation including from what version you upgraded, plugins used, etc.
And when I looked for the “bp-custom.php” file, I don’t see it anywhere in the recent installation.
@ebarney You need to create the file. In the last line of the first paragraph at https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/changing-internal-configuration-settings/ there’s a link to the bp-custom.php page
That was a similar bug in bp v1.7.0 which was fixed in v 1.7.1 see: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/white-line-under-head-menu/#post-163065
You could try the ‘temporary’ fix for that bug: http://pastebin.com/sSBGjPNi in your child theme’s functions.php file…
