I updated one of my ttest sites and activity comments started giving me errors, haven’t looked into it further.
Ah hah. I think I see the confusion.
When BP is installed or update, you need to run the Install/Update Wizard. There’s a banner at the top of the page that shows you this: see https://mercime.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/bp-installation-wizard-01.gif
Once you have completed the Install/Update Wizard, the “Settings” link (and everything else) should work. Can people here check they’ve done this, and let me know if the problem’s resolved?
We can make the Settings link only appear once the Wizard has been completed in future releases of BuddyPress; we didn’t think of this. Thanks for the feedback.
Close this, I put everything back one by one, cleared cache in the browser and in the WP_Cache plugin. I also edited out of my htaccess something that had been put there by host support people:
deny from all
I’m not sure what part of this process did it, but it worked.
@susan — backup before any update! Then, worst case, you can restore from the backup if anything goes wrong.
Ah, found the Feed, Still curious about the plugin though.
No just the one installation. Manually uploaded the WP files to the root web folder of the server, then installed the buddypress as a plugin.
No multiple copies, no multisite.
I did have one weird problem when I first installed. I was fooling around with ‘frontend posting’ plugins just before the 1.6 release of buddypress. The database structure broke which stopped the wordpress admin area from working properly (I think because the JS weren’t loading). So I deleted the database entries for buddypress then reinstalled and it was fixed. Then I upgraded to 1.6.
I don’t see how this would cause the problem however.
Anyone have any ideas?
Hi, I’m currently working on website that uses Basic Theme from Elegant Themes.
I need to fix Buddypress into it, which I partially managed to do, but when I get to
buddypress pages, layout of my site gets screwed up.
Site is in Polish, so please click the upper menu button saying “Znajdz fachowca”
and for example pick “Aktywuj” from dropdown.
Websites URL: http://fachowabudowa.pl/
As you can see it crashes websites layout.
Any idea how I can fix it??
Will be very grateful for your help.
THANK YOU
Hi, ive installed buddypress and cant seem to get it to work? If you click on forum you get whats on my homepage and no reference to any forum? my site is http://www.christopherreeve.co.uk. In the Dashboard area the only mention of Buddypress is under settings. I cant seem to find how to create topics forum headers or anything? 
anyone help? running all uptodate software including the extension to make it compatiable with wordpress 2011 theme.
Thanks
Alexei
@miguelcortereal, Thanks for the feedback, SeoPress update is in work.
@djpaul Some user report this issue:
Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in …/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template.php on line 787
and after update to 1.6.1 the error moved to line 823:
Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in …/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template.php on line 823
I’m not sure if this is a theme bug or BuddyPress related.
Two things..first, terrified to update..last one cost me tons of work..crashed everything. Second, this is directly to George: Your BP Lots Feeds..accommodates my need for feeds in Forums..does it still work with the new updates? Not been updated for a while.
If the Buddypress 1.6.1 has forums feed already, where the heck do I find them. 
Susan
Will not you help me? I found this: http://pastebin.com/jKdQ2kLu
Received, but the code is old and has a problem. Do not display text. Only featured image (post_thumbnail). Is there a code for the new version? (buddypress 1.6.1)
No worries @kristarella. Thanks for posting what the problematic plugin was.
@rossagrant — I think it’s a site by site, use case by use case, issue. I don’t think one or the other approach should be forced. Would be nice if the core functions for blog post updates / edits provided a parameter to set one or the other behaviour.
Some sites may want a snapshot in time, others will want activity stream content that evolves with changes to the underlying content.
I suspect in the majority of cases, edited blog posts after publishing are relatively rare, but can also envisage situations where they are a fundamental part of the site operation — and may also require bumping to the top of the stream.
You also have the issue of minor edits (fixing typos) versus major edits (fundamental content changes) — they may logically need handling in different ways, but are complex to differentiate between in code.
In the short term, the solution is to build or own hooks to give site specific behaviour.
@mercime @zkwc I have the same issue. I am using a child theme of the bp-default theme. Any advice gratefully received.
Thanks
I can see there’s no way I can get this to work. I just created another installation of Buddypress 1.6 (fresh install) and still doesn’t work.
I’d still like to know whether SSL would help, but I’m going to work through this blog post at the moment : http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/security/best-practices-for-preventing-buddypress-spam-user-registrations/
This doesn’t seem to be a BuddyPress question. Does cometchat have support forums you could ask?
In general, if you can’t find a bit of markup in your theme, just add it.
@rossagrant – if you want to keep the bumping of posts on edit, you should be able to hook on to the edit_post or pre_post_update actions, and modify the datetime of the corresponding activity item.
Be careful though, as edit_post is also invoked when comments are added, so you’ll need to catch that condition. [not sure if that’s also the case with pre_post_update]
Yes, wondering what you’ve done to get it like that. Have you got two copies of WordPress (http://processpedia.designquotes.com.au/ and http://processpedia.designquotes.com.au/buddypress/)? Or are you running multisite, and “buddypress” is a site?
@Chouf1 We’ve fixed the NOBLOGREDIRECT thing in 1.6.1
Yes, and I work very closely with John; he’s also the lead developer of BuddyPress. You did not ask John about the BBP_Theme_Compat error message. It’s not a BuddyPress class, so it’s not a BuddyPress problem.
You have a standard PHP error message. It’s saying it can’t find the BBP_Theme_Compat class, and you’re using it in /themes/animassrdblogbp_kid/functions.php on line 32. You (or whoever built your theme) need to figure out what you’re doing in functions.php that triggers this errors.
Hi Websitevala, if possible can you go to your BuddyPress settings and resave and also resave the permlinks under Settings? This may not be it but a good check.
If that doesn’t work it’s worth checking if a plugin could be interacting and testing (if possible) with the default BuddyPress theme.
If we’re still out of luck as to where the culprit is can you please link to your site (if possible) and tell us what theme you are using? Also if you are able to paste into https://gist.github.com/ any errors you are having in your error log (your hosting can help you locate this), that would also be helpful.
As for what gets effected when you upgrade, well that’s a little dependent on your set up. It is usually advised to make sure all your essential plugins and your theme either have updated versions or work with BuddyPress 1.6 – the same goes with WordPress.
I’ve been developing my WP 3.4.1 BP1.5.7 site, many changes to many things, plugins themes you name it.
I’ve just taken a look and my comments have stopped working, I tried posting activity and that wouldn’t work either.
when you write something and press post, it appears to be constantly loading and getting nowhere.
I changed back to the default theme and I removed every plugin going except buddypress, still the same problem.
I removed buddypress and tried wordpress with the 2011 theme, comments work fine.