BuddyPress.org

I couldn’t see how to edit my post, but here is the version information:

Wordpress 3.2.1 Clean install on the root directory (CentOS – Host: Webhostingbuzz)
Buddypress: 1.5.1
bbpress: 2.0 (installed through the buddypress installtion process)
Artisteer theme
Have not messed with core files.

I can go the the bbpress forums via the usual forum lint: http://www.mydomain.com/forums/, but I had articulated in the buddypress setup that discussion forums were to go to http://www.mydomain.com/families, and even though I have created a “families” page, the link does not appear on the menubar, and when I attempt to navigate to that page it is not merely blank, but I get a 404 not found, and in the addressbar there is just the domain: “mydomain.com”.

Best,
James

@modemlooper Because it involved my first multisite install at the same time and reconfiguring an existing eleven year old web site. I’ve totally got the BuddyPress pages up and running and they have been since I installed it – it’s the CONFIGURING the look and feel that is a pita. There are a lot of menus and CSS problems to work out. It’s learning where all of the files live and what does what. It’s not like editing WorPress at all, which is easy, or at least not time consuming.

Oh, and I’m finding that there are a few needed pages the BP Template pack doesn’t create. Like when someone clicks on “View” after an excerpt (not the read more link), the resulting page is not configured with template pack, which is fine, the pages themselves are easy enough to create.

I know you guys think that Template Pack is the coolest thing, but it’s still not plug and play and it’s still a lot of work.

Thanks
I upgraded from 1.5, but my buddypress elements have never worked properly.

I tried everything you said.

I’m now going through the theme check results and editing…
There’s a lot there. I’ll let you know how it goes…

Thanks again!

Thanks Mercime… going to read that now and let you know if it worked.

Hmm. Still seems to be broke.

@r-a-y Thank you! It does help a great deal. Searching the source is OK, but is there perhaps a dictionary of template tags and their meaning somewhere?
joe

All true. Unfortunately I’m not Shiva, nor can I clone myself, and am having a hard time working on QA contracts AND developing a business with a broken install of buddypress. Plus my test environment would be on a live server anyway since I just don’t have room on my laptop. One thing I’d love to see is for BuddyPress to become more compatible with WP themes in general – so that what should be at most a 30 minute install isn’t a 3-month-12-hours-every-single-day hackfest. BuddyPress has a lot of potential which is why I decided to use it. But my business idea is dead in the water until I can get questions answered.

whoops! found it, fixed it, behavior was due to plugin testing for “is_single()” which apparently was false for all of the buddypress pages.
joe

Good thinking but also time intensive – I gave myself two weeks to get BuddyPress 1.2.10 and then 1.5 up and running and marketed on my site and three months later I’m still trying to get it working. I wish I had the time to set up a test environment.

To reduce the DB Queries, I use widget cache plugin and W3 Total Cache (almost all default settings) and from more than 200 queries on some group activity page, I now reach between 100 and 120 queries !