I found the stupid working solution.. it’s a little bit illogical but worked 100%
1 – Delete your group.. doing the other way around is impossible for non-developers.
2 – Create a the new group..
STEP 1 add title and description ( title will be used as the group slug )
STEP 2 ( DO NOT SAVE SETTING AS IS!! I REPEAT DO NOT!!!! ) here’s what to do.
in step 2 ((un-check)) the Enable discussion forums, and then check it again.. and THEN save settings..
Step 3 avatar bla bla.. but the thing is 
it’s solved!
How it works!
the problem is stupidly simple.. that in some times.. ( not all buddypress installations for some weird reason either plugin conflict or a script timing error…
the check of enable forums is saved as “null” instead of 0/1 imagine it as a multiple choice radio button..
as long as you didn’t either.. it’s unselected.. but once you click.. it’s always 1 of the both and can’t be null…
Why is this happening? even WPMU and BPMU geniuses couldn’t solve it for 2 years now ^__^’>
AWESOME DUDE!!! You figured it out while we developers try to figure why the topic is not posting.. the issue was in the GROUP – forum linking that should. be initiated in the first settings made..
Here’s the more detailed 100% solution!!
1 – Delete your group.. doing the other way around is impossible for non-developers.
2 – Create a the new group..
STEP 1 add title and description ( title will be used as the group slug )
STEP 2 ( DO NOT SAVE SETTING AS IS!! I REPEAT DO NOT!!!! ) here’s what to do.
in step 2 un-check the Enable discussion forums, and then check it again.. and THEN save settings..
Step 3 avatar bla bla.. but the thing is it’s solved!
How it works!
the problem is stupidly simple.. that in some times.. ( not all buddypress installations for some weird reason either plugin conflict or a script timing error…
the check of enable forums is saved as “null” instead of 0/1 imagine it as a multiple choice radio button..
as long as you didn’t either.. it’s unselected.. but once you click.. it’s always 1 of the both and can’t be null…
Why is this happening? even WPMU and BPMU geniuses couldn’t solve it for 2 years now ^__^’>
Again.. Thanks alot!
Are you on BP 1.2.8? I think we may have fixed this in trunk, it rings a bell. Best to report it on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ please so we can check it out. Let us know version numbers of WP/BP that you are using at the moment.
@shanebp Thanks for your help I’ll try that
What does it say in your web server’s PHP error log?
I would also love something like this, I just posted something similar in a different area. Not sure how I missed this thread. It is a bit disappointing that the great user management features of WordPress don’t work with BuddyPress.
The plugin @Pisanojm suggested might work if we can add the custom profile loop fields to it.
Yes this is exactly what I want to accomplish to a T. I am just as surprised as you, @jvoss, that this functionality is not standard or that someone has still not created a plugin to simply export all user profile data to a .csv or .xls? Have you found a solution yet?
Hm… also finding out that the post MUST have some text added to it or else BP will spit an error: There was an error when replying to that topic.
That’s weird. I’m having a similar issue where I can create a post and add images to it, but I can’t add images to the replies within that post. My site is only a month old and I haven’t even started to tick off some of the plugins I installed. Maybe I should start by deactivating them one by one and seeing if any of them are causing conflicts.
super , just downloaded httpFox and will examine how it works , where can I find those server logs ? my hosting cpanel ?
thanks for your respond
You don’t need a dedicated server they are expensive to run a good VPS will work fine and is so close to being a dedicated srver anyway and you won’t notice the difference but you will compared to shared hosting.
As for tools not aware of any other than browser extensions such as httpFox or simply reading server logs to determine where page loading issues lie
@hnla thank you for your respond , I thought that I will be finally forced to do that with all my plugins , I also thought that somewhere should exists some tool which is able to realize which plugin should do that , or if is already known fact that for example I have noticed that most of google maps plugins are calling google website even when no map is currently on the page , and I think that it causes bigger server load , or if somebody knows that it is better to do not use for example “followers plugin” because it is getting website slower (it was example) , I hoped somebody should say how they are experiencing their website script speed with their plugins .
@Andrea_r I am on Bluehost for 5 ys. and it is true that all my scripts seems to run slower , is it much more bigger difference to go for dedicated server ? I was thinking about dedicated server , but my website is not running yet , I have no earnings from that , hoping I will in near future , but before I didn’t want to spend a too much money .
Now something that may be againts (well not really cause it will be GPL) the rules is how would I go about striping out all the bp_ and ‘buddypress’ in this “clone” and replacing them with say bw and BLACKANDWHITE.
And thanks for the advice and tips
Has everyone suddenly deserted BuddyPress for another platform i’m not aware of? The documentation is very very very “light” here, and if no one pitches in anymore this plugin is going to die off…
I figured something out so here’s the code in case someone wants to achieve the same thing:
` // Check to see if you are currently displaying a member profile page.
// Replace xProfile_field with the profile field name.
// Display value of profile field
`
Thanks,
C.
i am using bp role manager to create roles for users in wordpress.
now i want to that only user with specific role should be approved by admin through BuddyPress Registration Options plugin it is now used for every type of users registered.
how can i do this plz suggest.
just found this, should get me started, but am still a bit mystified by how these profiles work :S
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-edit-user-profiles/
Thanks guys! Will await this with anticipation! Any ETA?
@DJPaul @pcwriter thanks for the input guys.
Deleting a member through the WP dashboard most certainly DOESN’T delete any of their BP entries.
Their username is deleted from the member’s list and their avatar etc goes, but from what I see all of their forum posts remain, without a username and a random avatar associated with the posts.
Is this a bug then Paul? Anything I need to do to file it?
@sanchothefat – Hi did you find a solution for that ?
@djpaul
Thanks for reminding me of my favorite prayer: “Oh Lord, help me to keep my big mouth shut until I know what I am talking about.”
@rossagrant
Sorry if I led you astray 
Thanks for your advise. I am not a techie guy but I could able to realize what you have said!
I understand that the paypal donate button should be visible in a group page. What my requirements are, it should be amended only by group admins such that they can update their paypal email ids to get donations. In this buddypress.org website, the groups have a link called Donate which is what I am searching for. I knew it’s not an easy or too difficult for any techie to achieve this functionality. I am expecting a built-in plugin. If not, is there any one who could help me out here?
Thanks in advance.
