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There is documentation https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/navigation-links-return-404-errors/

I see the conflict. Your group forums URL is http://richard-dickinson.com/forums/ is the same as the URL of your SiteWide Forums which should not be the case.

A. If you want to keep the Forums slug for the group forums, then you have change slugs for the sitewide forums:
– Go to http://richard-dickinson.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress and change Archive Slugs (base) and Single Slugs. That is, change “Forums base” to somethig else like “Sitewide Forums” or “Discussions” and Save.

B. If you want the Forums slug for the Sitewide Forums, then you have to change the slug of the group forums:
– Go to Pages > All Pages and delete the “Forums” page. A notice will appear “.The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Discussion Forums.” Repair
– Click on “Repair” button and the BuddyPress > Pages panel will show up.
– On the “Discussion Forums” line, click on “New Page” button and the Page > Add New panel will show up on screen. This is where you’ll place the title for your group forums
– Type in e.g. Group Forums and click on Publish.
– Click on the “Repair” button and the BuddyPress > Pages panel will show up again. This time, in the “Discussion Forums” line, select the “Group Forums” page you recently created then click on Save.
– To check if your group forums are working with the new slug, go to http://yoursite.com/group-forums/ per title of the new page you created for the group forums.

After all this re-run permalinks == wp-admin > Settings > Permalinks > Save.

a) Did you test if your WordPress site could send emails before using BuddyPress? e.g. when you go to Add Users in wp-admin and tell it to email the password to the user.

b) People need to log in to your site at least once, after BuddyPress has been activated, to appear in the members directory list.

There seems to be some serious oversight in the latest version (1.5).
I’m not entirely clear from the above post, but I may have the reverse issue….
After the update my top level site works fine with the Community header features (Activity, Members, Blogs) working after the required plugin repair of the top level site, but the activity stream for each sub-blog on my multi-user installation links to a (non-existent) activity stream for that site, instead of the network.
So, the top level site http://retrofitdiaries.org/activity/ works fine, but for the member site http://member.retrofitdiaries.org the activity header links to http://penwithhousingpenzance.retrofitdiaries.org/activity/ whereas it should also link to http://retrofitdiaries.org/activity/ because that IS the Community. Calling community where it is one blog is meaningless!

Please let me know how this can be fixed.

Each community function can link to a WordPress page BUT this is what Buddypress is supposed to manage!

Thanks

Check that the missing sites’ privacy is set to public (in wp-admin > Settings)

Links hasn’t been updates for a long time, it’s an old plugin. If it still works with 1.5, I expect there would still be things needed to be updated such as this nav menu/item.

BuddyPress’ forums are provided by bbPress, so you may want to search on that.

@socialupgrades Follow the link I posted in reply to the original post.

Strange. Is your secondary blog named “members” “groups” “blogs” “forums” or “activity”?
As in http://members.yoursite.com or http://yoursite.com/members/
If so, change name to e.g “community” or “pals” etc. as long as site is not named alike one of BP components above.

As usual backup DB and files. Copy over BP 1.5.1 on top of existing. BP Twenty Eleven is good to go as BP Template Pack plugin didn’t need to be updated for this version. Even if it was, if you used the method shown in Codex, then you wouldn’t have any issue even if BP Template Pack plugin was updated.

Here’s a partial solution… but barely adequate: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/ New version coming with many more features but not for quite a while…

Can you be more specific about what you mean when you say that the include parameter doesn’t work? By design, the include parameter overrides all others.

I’ll give it a test tomorrow if I remember, but in any case, it’ll never get fixed if there’s no Trac ticket. Trac.buddypress.org. Please provide all the details and steps to reproduce that you can.

Thank you for that @gingram815 but I really find it so hard to believe that “include” no longer works. It really is killing my site. I know it might sound easy to just reverse the query and use “exclude” instead but the query I have is very complicated and it really is not so simple to find the members to exclude. Does anyone know if this will be fixed in the next release or know another way around it?

Checkout http://blogs.ubc.ca/ and https://buddypress.org/showcase/

Any help? Thanks!

@boonebgorges
Hi Boone,
I am trying to create a multi step sign-up registration page. Preferably also include some new profile field such as multi category drop down list and country with flags. Should i create new rows in wp_bp_xprofile_fields?
or just follow the example above and it will create it for me?
I was also wondering if I can have have something like step1, step2 etc like godaddy.com?

@justbishop Have you tried https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/home/

..but it seems the page where it explains how to adjust for granular level blocking is not working…

You should contact @sbrajesh at BuddyDev.com. He provides great support for BP Mag theme.