You probably don’t want bbPress activated network wide, unless you’re confident you want forums on every single site in your network. (hint: unlikely)
If you’ve already network activated bbPress, and if for some reason bbPress’s roles are in each of those subsites, you have some cleaning up to do. bbPress 2.2 and beyond do not save roles in the database anymore, so bbPress’s roles won’t float into sites they don’t belong in.
Roles are per site, and each site can have their own plugins active. Plugins like BuddyPress can sometimes be Network activated. BuddyPress does not add roles anymore; it used to with BuddyPress Forums in 1.5 and before. If this is a site from before BuddyPress 1.7 betas and bbPress 2.3 betas, some of the role integration is more complicated than it needs to be, and it’s addressed in 1.7/2.3.
We’re moving away from database capabilities exactly because of the confusion you’re experiencing. There’s no proper UI to display roles and caps in a way that makes much sense. There are plugins out there that try to help, but in my experience many of them provide medium functionality with high complexity.
Basically, you’ll need to do some digging, figure out what’s wrong, which could be an unlimited combination of things based on your configuration and needs…
@txrunner have you reverted back to the default theme and deactivated all plugins other than BuddyPress?
I should add there are several other issues with links not working within BP pages. Such as: the links under posts (Comment, favorite, share), the links used to sort posts in the activity stream, and the read more link on posts in the activity stream (to name a few). Sometimes these links work and sometimes they don’t. The “post” link however, never shows up.
I have another site that is almost exactly the same with none of these issues. The only difference I can find is that the site having issues is an addon site on my server and so it is stored in a sub-folder. Could there be an issue with how BP pages load when they are stored in a sub-folder on a server?
@ljvd it will be announced at https://buddypress.org/blog/ which would show up in your wp-admin dashboard unless you’ve removed the feeds.
Hello,
I have the same problem on my new installation. I used a couple of buddypress themes and i have the same error when i want to create a new topic on my group forum.
Anybody can help us with this issue ?
Well as has been made clear on so many threads on this sort of requirement it aint part of BP core so BP and this forum can’t really be a lot of help.
The concerns you note above are all to do with third party plugins, you have roughly two options, fix those that are broken, approach the plugin author with request for features/commission additional work be done.
Other than that little more can be said.
Thanks for all the input. BUT I am seriously and urgently looking for a media (only photo will do) plug in – paid or free – that will allow just 3 things without any hitch or bump for BUDDYPRESS 1.7 beta :
- ability to create album and upload photo with chosen privacy
- ability to directly mark or tag on photo</li
- comment to a photo from both activity stream and on the page itself`
BP Album is broken with BP 1.7
BP Media photo commenting from activity stream is buggy+ it has no photo marking
BuddyPics keeps on giving error message : Warning: Division by zero in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\BuddyPics-master\includes\bpa.template.tags.php on line 84 etc and does not actually upload a photo (fresh install of latest WP, BP 1.7, no other plugin)
BP Gallery – does it work ok with BP 1.7? Does it allow photo marking? Please answer if you know, also a link to a demo site with BP gallery + photo marking + BP 1.7 beta will be really really helpful.
@juanmaguerrero Very cool, is that a custom theme? I like it!
Just found this topic. And te last function on it seems to be doing the job except for Activity Streams page… it’s still visible.
Hi Everyone
I want to put some notification things, something like Facebook notification. So when someone Post any updates in BP Activity page, others will get the notification as ‘User1 has updated a post’ or if somebody has unlocked something, regardless WP-Achievement plugin, then there should be notification on the top bar.
I hope there would be a function or hook so that i can trigger my own notification wherever i want
Many thanks and regards
Thanks Hugo. I’ve reinstalled everything and found the installation wizard and it all seems to be working now:). . just figuring out how to set up eerything. thanks so much for your help and pointing me in the right direction!:)
Oh man i wished I knew there was BuddyBoss.
I am new and I rewrote everything from scratch. grrrr.
Okay, thanks I will try that, although it implies I can’t have a single test for multiple pages, but never mind, I can work around it.
Thanks again…
I’m doing this for fun atm.
It’s my first website and I’m wondering what you guys think about it. I have not yet skinned the site so it’s still plain.
What should I do next?
All tips welcome.
http://hmonglife.com
login as guest
pass guest
Very inspiring. My site is still SKINless and I’m pretty inspired by your site. I love your skin and colors. Very effective on eyes. Soothing and the site is easy to get around.
More importantly than being able to see the plugin listed is whether BP is running correctly?
The plugin – activated as ‘network’ – is listed in plugins list on the network admin dashboard.
Hi Thanks Hugo,
i’ve set up a brand new separate installation on a test site.
installed wordpress MU 3.5.1
installed buddypress 1.6.4 from the plubin menu
network activiated
ran through setup wizard
activated the buddypress theme
Went into the dashboard of the site
Buddypress theme present
but no evidence of buddypress plugin in plug ins in plug in area?
Any ideas?
many thanks
well that’s probably the real bug then, those roles shouldn’t have any effect on a non-buddypress site which is what the sub-sites are unless you have made each site it’s own buddypress instance (not likely and you’d know if you had).
pardon me for chiming in here but if i might i think mercime is trying to say that the roles you are referring to as “missing” should not be available on sub-sites since they are buddypress roles and should only ever apply to the primary blog. the list of roles you provided for the sub-site is the normal list of wordpress roles and is what you should be seeing.
Thanks @bphelp
This sounds like exactly what I’m looking for.
I must have done something wrong, though, as I can still access Buddypress whilst logged out.
I downloaded the zip from your repository, installed and activated. Are there more steps?
I’m at bp.youpix.org if you need to check.
-paul
THanks for your suggestion. . when you say default theme, do you mean to download a specific buddypress theme? .
Hi,
I’m using Version 1.7-beta1 and wish to restrict access to the buddypress areas of a wordpress site to logged-in users.
I’ve seen code to do this and tried placing it in bp-custom.php but have had no luck. Does anyone have any code that works with 1.7. I don’t need anything fancy, just redirect to register/login page if anyone tries to access buddypress pages.
many thanks
@bookee for the login form, just copy the code (lines 8 to 59) in sidebar.php from the BP Default theme to your theme’s sidebar.
As for BP login in the top menu of your theme, not quite sure what you mean by that. Custom menu? In appearance > menus, add a link http://yoursite.com/wp-login.php to the custom menu.
@rizingsun the Member role is a BuddyPress role. BuddyPress must be network-activated as well.
