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I don’t know how to make this work on Windows. It’s not really a BuddyPress problem – I’m guessing that a normal WP installation won’t work either, if you turn on pretty permalinks. Have a look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite

The Header and footer and sidebar and content area are usually in every WordPress template. You need to edit the BuddyPress files added to your theme to match the structure of your theme.

Sometimes the content area is called container or wrapper or something else. You need to match the containing div around the content to the BP files.

In step 3 it shows you a diagram of div markup. If you have never edited code you may need to hire someone to do this. On complex themes it can be a challenge.

== I assume that this means that I am having a plugin problem? ==
Yes it does.

== now what do i need to do? ==
– Since you’ve been able to access your wp-admin, you can now rename wp-content/plugins-x to wp-content/plugins
– Activate BuddyPress
– Use bp-default theme in the meantime
– Do not activate maintenance mode plugin yet – it sometimes messes up with BP plugins
– Activate BP plugins one by one and see which one is messing up with your login. There’s a list of plugins compatible with BP 1.5 – https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-plugin-compatibility/

@enderpal444 you mentioned there is a plugin for this I assume to get it in a users profile?

And, for what it’s worth, the idea of a “component” is not one with clear demarcations. Both you and @modemlooper suggest some useful criteria:
– if your plugin creates new data objects, it’s probably a component
– if your plugin needs to have a top-level directory, it’s probably a component (and, in this case, a special kind of component called a “root” component.

In BP 1.5, the idea of a “component” has a little bit more technical fleshing-out due to the BP_Component base class. A quick look at that class and its more important methods (setup_globals(), setup_nav()) will give you sense of when it’s useful to think of a plugin as a component. But again, there are no hard-and-fast rules.

In general, when in doubt, I would suggest using the BP_Component class. Sometimes your component won’t need some parts of the component infrastructure – sounds to me like your “up vote” plugin doesn’t need dedicated navigation items, for instance – but in that case, you can just leave those methods out. Using the BP_Component class just makes your life a bit easier by hooking you into the BP load order in the appropriate places.

Try the buddystream plugin

Hey echoman,

I just stumbled across your questions through Google and thought I’d offer you a little help. Do you see in your Fatal error where it says “is_site_admin()”? That’s where your problem is. You will need to open the bp-album-core.php file, scroll down to line 305 where it says “is_site_admin()”, and replace the word “site” with the word “super”.

is_super-admin()

Closing this topic.

I can’t see how setting the front page back to showing blog posts should be broken by 1.5. All this works fine for me on my test installs (admittedly a new install, not an upgrade).

@tmcneill71 You can grab older versions from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/download/

@mikepratt, Tim: What other plugins are you running. What theme. Multisite – if so, subdomain or subdirectory? Prior to upgrading, what did you have your home page set as, or was it just showing blog posts?

@walid3 I will be posting info re Twenty Eleven theme with BP Template Pack by this Sunday/Monday.

This post explains everything:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/activating-existing-users/#post-40221

You’ll need to write a script that gives everyone a “last_activity” timestamp.

Some example code to get it working for one user:
`
// change $user_id to the ID you want to become active
update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘last_activity’, bp_core_current_time() );`

OK. I am embarrassed by how long I have been away. Just upgraded my sandbox (no harm) to 1.5, @djpaul and I have the same issue. it’s a redirect thing. cannot get activity to show ever. Actions are recordding fine to the db but nothing. When I set to home, I get a redirect loop timeout. Thoughts?

Rule of thumb: disable all BuddyPress 3rd-party plugins and reactivate them one by one until you figure out the culprit.

You probably want to make the forums page the default group tab. That way you can do what you want.

Andrew has posted some code for BP 1.5:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-109704

Give it a shot!

cc @boonebgorges what’s the timeline for compatibility with current BP?

Please answer some troubleshooting questions posted

@nysom please start a new topic, this thread was about forums in this site. I suggest you include more information in your new topic like:
– do you have group forums installed,
– did you also install the new sitewide forums,
– single WP or WP multisite
– is BP installed in main site or subsite (if MS),
– etc.

EDIT – ok, you did start a new topic https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/unable-to-post-new-topics-to-forum/