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@modemlooper : Great! If you have any spare time I would appreciate it if you could give me some guidance here.

Hi @modemlooper – I had come across your plug-in – maybe you can help me because I am not using the default theme so the buddypress menu isn’t there. Instead I have a jquery mega menu and I’d love to add the profile menu items to this. That would be ideal. Do you think this is possible?

Thank you Paul for the very prompt reply.

I take it you mean that if you run bbPress within BuddyPress, just leave it alone and it will be updated along with any new versions of BuddyPress as they come along – or use a new version of bbPress as a separate plugin.

I take it you cannot just drop bbPress 2.0.2 into the bbPress folder of BuddyPress and fire it up?

Thanks again.

Ok after some more debbuging i found that the problems occurs when me or any other user visit another site different from the main site.

I have a copy of my website for development where i was unable to replicate the problem, but then i visited one of my sites (remember im running buddypress + wordpress mu) and as soon as i edit my profile i get the error and the field_1 get overwritted with the username.

My child sites are just twenty eleven sites where people can create their blogs. So not sure why if i move out of my buddypress main site i get the field_1 overwrited with the username.

Also if i check wp_user_meta nick_name first_name and last_name appears empty, so it looks like for some reason the problem also broke the field profile sync.

Once again if i edit and save the primary field, im able to edit it properly and the sync between bp and wp start working again until i move to a child site.

Im totally lost on what can be causing this problem. I tried to open a ticket on the bug tracker of buddypress but someone deleted it without even saying a reason.

i feel kinda alone on this community….

Whilst I.m on the subject, if it needs special attention to install then there should be a clear barrier to installing it directly from the plugin page.

Thanks for the links @mercime. I have question for the Buddypress team – Why force people to do things that they are not qualified for? It would be better if BuddyPress were able to cope with webhost scripts instead of forcing a manual install of WordPress.

The reason we use WordPress is because we do not want or are not capable of all that techy stuff.

Beautiful! Thank you so much

in addition to above. if I delete the file buddypress.pot from the bp-languages folder completely the website still displays ok without it.

thanks aces

I tried modifying it with the method on the first link but couldn’t work out as I couldn’t find out how to replace every instance of the word I wanted to change with poedit. It appears as if you can only edit one line at a time?

Any way I decided to edit the file buddypress.pot file (inside the bp-languages folder) with a text editor and replace the word “groups” and “group” inside the quotation marks but left the instances where it was associated with .php files. But the word “group” still kept appearing on the website despite it being changed in the .pot file.

Is there something I am missing? or is there a better way of replacing it?

Anybody have an idea?

Also if i install just wordpress on its own without buddypress the links are not found either. Im uploading and installing straight to the webserver online if that makes sense, should i be doing this locally first then uploading it to the server?