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Customizations in one theme will not work in another theme, whether it be a WordPress theme or a BuddyPress one. It’s not chaos, it’s just a part of reality that anyone who has installed a basic WP site without BP would know.

If you’re going to develop a community with BP, you’d have to learn how to cope with the changes in code. Not to put you off BP or anything, but have you tried https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-symposium/ ?

What’s in your .htaccess file? Please post here.

I have the same problem, that is the member registered and the display name (Full name) is overwritten by username. And also I cannot change it using edit profiles (I typed the new one but it is still overwritten. @r-a-y do you have any other solution? and for edit profile?

Since you’re using:
`add_filter( ‘bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav’, ‘__return_true’ );`

You can also define your mystery man image with:
http://pastebin.com/AST92STz

For LINKTOYOURIMAGE.gif, try making it a transparent GIF. That’s probably the best you can do at the moment.

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Also, a ticket was just brought up to add CSS classes to avatars:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3922

Keep an eye on that one.

If you’re having trouble with autocomplete even with the friends component enabled, then there’s something wrong. I’m guessing you’re not using the bp-default theme?

Regarding the old snippet I posted, you don’t need that any more to get autocomplete working without the friends component.

Just add the following to your theme’s functions.php or /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

`define( ‘BP_MESSAGES_AUTOCOMPLETE_ALL’, true );`

> I have a site that has an entire section where the URLs are /membership-information/

I had a quick go at recreating, but couldn’t. What type of content is membership-information, and the URLs underneath? Are they all pages?

See:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/

It’s doable, @dnxpert and @djpaul.

When there’s an oEmbed item in the activity stream, there’s usually some accompanying meta saved in the activity meta table.

You’ll want to hook into the filters available in BP_Activity_Activity::get() (located in /bp-activitiy/bp-activity-classes.php)

Specifically, you’ll want to do a LEFT JOIN with the activity meta table (wp_bp_activity_meta) and do a search for “meta_key” that beings with “_oembed_”.

If I can get myself around to it, it will be in my oft-delayed oEmbed plugin update.

Also check out /plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-signup.php.

That’s where most of the refactored code is.

@davidveldt updating DB info in bb-config.php along with wp-config.php is definitely something to remember when you migrate site from localhost.

@kingary – do you mean you also migrated from localhost and/or that you can’t get Group Forums going?

I’m having the same problem with a brand new install. All my config settings are correct, and I’ve activated forums.

I’m thinking about using it for instructional purposes, but until I can get the forums working, it’s relatively useless for that.

Okay well its the darndest thing…

I created a brand new group (the first I’ve created since updating bb-config.php) and successfully posted a topic. Everything appears to be working fine!

Osha, all of the above is my way of saying – check your bb-config.php file, located in your root folder. Make sure you have the correct `BBDB_NAME`, `BBDB_USER`, `BBDB_PASSWORD` and `BBDB_HOST` filled in. At least that’s where the solution was for me.

Okay, I solved half of the equation. I checked bb-config.php and realized I had never updated my database name, username, password or MySQL hostname, like I did for wp-config.php (funny, nobody ever mentioned that file for every migration tutorial I’ve seen).

I also made sure that the line `$bb->uri = ‘http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/’;` was correct.

Doing these, I can now post topics to groups that were existing before. I still can’t post to a brand new group. I still receive the “This group does not have a forum setup yet” error.

I’m having this same problem and I have disabled all plugins and reverted to the bp-default theme – no luck. I also can’t find a solution to this anywhere.

Everything works fine on my localhost version, but things went haywire when I transferred the site and my database to the server. All my bugs up until now have been database-related, and considering my admin panel no longer had Forums for Groups activated at first (even though it was prior to transfer, and all my other settings were saved just fine), I think this might be as well.

Also, I only receive the “This group does not have a forum” error when I try to post a new topic to a new group I create, post-migration. If I try to post a new topic to an existing group, that I previously set up while on my localhost, I receive the error “There was an error when creating the topic.”

Deactivate the genesis plugins, change theme to Twenty Eleven, then activate BuddyPress, and change theme to bp-default theme. And if everything’s working well, activate your new theme (genesis i presume) and the other genesis plugins.

I did install into the root, not the folder members.

I did go through the install process.

I did not change the page slug for members.

Yes I am using the default buddypress theme.

Just to clarify, where did you install WordPress, at domain root http://yoursite.com/ or elsewhere?
If you did not install in root, did you install in subdirectory named members?
Did you go through the installation process?
Did you change the page slug for members?
Are you using the bp-default theme?