Please share the solution provided by @djpaul, I am also facing the same problem. I hope it will help many others.
Not out of the box. If you are creating a *brand new* BuddyPress site, you don’t need to use the Group Forums at all. I recommend that you:
1) Go to Settings > BuddyPress > components, disable the “Group Forums” component. Save.
2) Go to the Pages menu, and delete the “Forums” page which BuddyPress would have created for you.
3) Go to Settings > bbPress settings, and scroll right down to the bottom. You’ll see a box labelled something like “enable BuddyPress integration”. Tick it, save.
4) That’s all!
@queenieb Which plugin was causing problems?
@valuser: thanks for this idea (.htaccess). I’m going to look into this.
@4ella: so here’s the official answer from Login Ninja: “Unfortunately Login Ninja doesn’t support BuddyPress forms.” So how are you using it in BuddyPress???
@queenieb glad you resolved it too 
Marking this as resolved.
There is (was) a plugin bp-posts-on-profile at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-posts-on-profile/ though it is very out of date and hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress and BuddyPress.
I have tried it out with bp 1.6 and wp 3.4.1 and with a host of other bp plugins in a multisite and also in a multi-network local test site.
As far as Multi-Site/Multi-Network it was unsatisfactory as it only drew in blog posts from the main blog.
It did not draw in posts from (say) a group blog.
However for anyone who authored a post on the Main Blog it dragged in that post and showed it on their profile under the tab Posts
Those more qualified might look at the code and see if it would take much to have it brought fully up to date and multi-site compatible.
However as all relevant details including of posts are included in the members activity tab it probably is not as vital as other plugin development ?
On that note is there any kind of group funding facility for plugin development. So that those who want but can’t could collectively fund those who can ? or would something like that ever work ?
Hi
I am currently working on placing a buddypress installation on top of an existing bbpress / wp site. We are continuing to use buddypress sitewide forums for our site, with buddypress group forums for some more private conversations.
Got most of everything working, but noticed that in our sitewide forums we have rich text (TinyMCE) editing, but in our buddypress group forums, it is plain text. Being reasonably new to buddypress, is this a feature? Any way of getting rich text in our buddypress group forums?
Running:
bbPress Version 2.1.2
BuddyPress Version 1.6
WordPress Version 3.4.1
I am using the Genesis Framework with Genesis Connect. There’s a new version available today that fixed my problems, http://www.studiopress.com/support/showthread.php?t=113196&highlight=buddypress
Does anyone have good instructions on how to downgrade BuddyPress? I can’t find any on the site. If there are some here, the search doesn’t really work that great. Like you all posting here, I’m on 1.6 right now, and need to downgrade back to 1.5.7 to get everything working again.
Instructions would be extremely welcome.
@rodtrent – seems like everyone is having issues… I hope it gets resolved for everyone.
@mercime – I am new to Buddypress so I am slowly figuring things out. I use the same template for the groups and members. I use the template that came with BuddyPress when I installed it. I have noticed the redirects as well. I can try renaming the file folders, do I do that through cPanel or WordPress?
Thanks @RogerCoathup.
I actually did Google it…i thought I needed a BP login.
So I tried
`get_currentuserinfo();
echo $current_user->user_login;`
But I get nothing.
Then I tried `bp_loggedin_user_id()` and I get the ID NUmber — getting closer.
To I tried `bp_loggedin_user_login()` but that fails to get me the user_login. It must not be a defined function call.
Also tried `bp_loggedin_user()` and `bp_loggedin_user_name()` — nothing.
Tried `$user_login` — no good…
@joshualedetnet For online visitor, it’s not a matter of page not displaying but a matter of too many redirects as tested in two browsers. I know you mentioned you deactivated the plugins, but did you also deactivate mu-plugins and/or bp-custom.php by renaming file/folders as well and all at the same time? Are you using custom Page Templates for your Members and Groups Directories?
Chrome – This webpage has a redirect loop. The webpage at http://welovejoshualedet.com/groups/ has resulted in too many redirects. etc, etc. Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.
Firefox – The page isn’t redirecting properly. Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete. etc. etc.
Hey @Mebo cool site! noticed that you have different registration forms for different type of users, would you mind sharing how you created that?
Cheers, Jaime
@4ella: I see now that Login Ninja is a paid ($15) Envato/WebFactory plugin. Only sold 135 copies. But when I tested the Captcha on the WebFactory site, it showed a standard WordPress login screen. But I’m using BuddyPress with its Registration screen (and currently using SI Captcha on that). Will it work on BuddyPress? Is that what you’re doing? Thanks.
@lunchgirl @modemlooper GRA4 has been removed from the WP Plugin Extend. It was “phoning home” without user knowing it among others #7 https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/guidelines/
@lunchgirl if you’ve already installed/activated the plugin, I can only recommend that you delete it from your installation.
@valuser: Spam-Destroyer: doesn’t support my version and seems pretty experimental.
@pantone: email verification is already there. They just verify it.
I also have SI Captcha for additional verification on registration form, but they’re able to get around that somehow (do not know how).
They keep coming! (the registration spammers)
– @4ella: there is no WP plugin called “Login Ninja”. I see it on CodeCanyon, but what is it?
– I found and installed two plugins: “Stop Spammer Registrations” and “Custom Registration Link”. No benefit I can see.
– But I did discover the “Whassup” plugin which is pretty cool and shows the IPs that can then be banned. But doing it manually takes way too much time.
I’m going nuts trying to deal with these registration spammers (~30/day). Help! THANKS.
@mercime, thanks for that suggestion. I will definitely test with the bp-default theme first from now on. I appreciate your help. Q!
Thanks for all the help and feedback – this support forum is great!
Having had so many minor problems pop up, I decided to try and remove wordpress and start over. The reason was because I had done a scripted install via cPanel using “QuickInstall”.
So I did a manual install of wordpress, then installed BuddyPress, then installed BBPress.
Happy to report all the issues I had before are gone. Everything seems to be working as it should.
Agains, thanks for all the help!
I have just upgraded to 1.6 and for some reason my members can not post updates in the active stream or in groups. Also when you click on the members director and try to go to the next page to look through members nothing happens.
Can anyone please help or tell me how to go back to the last working version of Buddypress.
