On the registration page for my site the ‘Name’ option already has text in it, presumably from a previous user who signed up.
It now seems some people are not noticing this when they register and so I now have several users all with the same name.
There is also a drop-down input box on the page which offers a list of options. One of these options is already selected, when it should not be.
Not all the field on the registration page are behaving incorrectly in this page. For example the Usernasme, Email address and Password fields are empty.
How can I make the Name and drop-down input box behave the same way?
I’m currently running:
Wordpress 3.3.2
Buddypress 1.5.5
I have the W3 Total Cache plugin (0.9.2.4) which may be interfering. I also have the SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam (2.7.5) and Wangguard (1.4.5) plugins which may be related to what’s happening.
Ah hah. Then you need to go to Tools > bbPress Importer in wp-admin (or something similar – I can’t remember what it’s called) to move your content from bbP1 to bbP2.
Thanks for your reply @Paul Gibbs. Yes, I am using bbPress 2.1, BuddyPress 1.6 RC1 and WordPress 3.4.1.
I’ve done what you say above but I still see no changes on my site. The group forums are still working fine the same as before and the bbPress sitewide forum is still working fine the same as before. But I can’t see any signs of integration between the two.
What should I see? For example, should the group forums be listed in the main bbPress forum too, under the “group forums parent” selected in WP-Admin>Settings>Forum that you refer to above?
SOLVED! A problem with the BuddyPress Template plugin (for the double post) and a caching plugin (for the disappearing “Post a New Topic”).
Thank you very much! “Code Diving” sounds terrifying. Can you dummy it down for me a bit and tell me exactly what to open up and where to put this code (I obviously know nothing about code). Also, will this fix work with BuddyPress 1.5.6? The posts from your thread were 1-2 yrs old, so thought I’d check before I take the “dive” 
I would like to use BuddyPress as a private community/forum- not published on the internet, for registered users on a website I am setting up.
It’s hard to tell really without a link as sounds very like this could be due to your theme. If you can provide a link that would be great. Alternatively, could you try the default BuddyPress theme and see if it happens there? I understand on a live community this may not be possible.
If it’s not theme related it could be some plugin / something adding CSS / scripting and clashing. I’d therefore you look at if you can striping back plugins to try and find the culprit. It does sound this is the less likely thing though and it’s something in your theme.
@sydneydesigner You need bbPress 2.1, BuddyPress 1.6 (any version of, incl. the RC1), and WordPress 3.4.1.
Disable the Groups Forum component inside the BuddyPress components setting page in wp-admin, then go to Settings > Forum. This is the bbPress settings page. Scroll right down to the bottom, and you’ll see some new settings to enable the forums.
Release notes are still being written up, sorry. There’s a high-level overview in https://buddypress.org/2012/07/buddypress-1-6-beta-2/ for now.
I’ve already brought up this issue but I’m glad to hear another voice added to mine
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120720_MQ_TYJ/
the waterfall analysis shows the bottleneck occurring right at the start:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120720_MQ_TYJ/1/details/
might be an issue with ngix or something else, the fact that the site is not optimized at all… take a look at those scores to the top right… doesn’t help either
a CDN would be nice, so would W3 caching plugin but there are also very very simple actions that can be taken in the .htaccess to improve performance
I don’t know but I have told the appropriate people and they are investigating.
I would suggest you start by only trying to get WordPress working (no plugins or custom themes). Once you have custom permalinks working, then move on to BuddyPress and bbPress.
If it doesn’t work in WordPress, I would suggest asking for help / searching for help on the WordPress.org forums as people will have found themselves with this problem before.
Hello! I am new to wordpress, I installed the plugins: BuddyPress and bbPress and all pages show me that error.
I work in MS Win7 with Apache 2 and PHP 5.
I enabled the mod_rewrite.so in the httpd.conf file and changed the AllowOverride attribute value from None to All, from the Directory tab, but just does not work
When I change the Permalinks to default, do work.
I wonder if I did something wrong.
BuddyPress Groups Extras or Groups plus i can’t remember which ones crashes group forums even after deactivated and deleted. I had to start back over with a fresh install of wordpress
For some reason buddypress.org is extremely slow and it takes me forever to find what I want. God forbid I click on something that doesn’t give me what I want, I won’t find out for at least 5-10 seconds. Why is this site so much slower than wordpress.org? It’s not the end of the world, but it’s a bit disappointing when I’m trying to find answers to my questions through the forums.
How do I order Groups so they always show up alphabetically as the default (instead of last active)? I have BuddyPress 1.5.6 and WordPress 3.4.1 Thank you!
Hi Paul,
I’ve updated to BP1.6-RC1 and am currently testing this out on my site to try to help out. Does bbPress 2 currently work for group forums on BP1.6-RC1 or do we need to wait for the BP 1.6 proper to be released?
In any case, I’d appreciate some guidance on how to integrate my previous (BP1.5.6) group and sitewide BBPress forums together. I understand that BP1.6 does this, but whatever I’ve tried so far, they still stay separate.
Are there any BP1.6-RC1 release notes on forums (or all the improvements for that matter) telling me what is new so I can focus my testing and help out better?
Many thanks.
***Sorry! I posted in the wrong forum*** This was meant to be here: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-courseware/forum/
When I try to publish an assignment I get a message saying “Please fill in all the fields”.
Problem is I have filled in all the fields available, including choosing a linked lecture and a due date.
I’m using latest versions of WP, BP and Courseware (and I’m this is on the main site of a WP multsite)
Thanks for any help
Oli
BP mobile does not affect the WordPress admin. At least it shouldn’t. The theme error is not that important, it’s just a notice and does not affect BuddyPress. You can install the BuddyPress Extended Settings plugin that has a setting to stop that theme notice.
I’m a little confused by your post. Are you saying when you are in the WordPress admin on a mobile device the option to add a featured image is missing from the Add new post page?
Does this occur when using the bp-default theme as the desktop theme?
Are you using another plugins that could cause this?
There’s an error right after I activate the plugin either after the installation wizard or after deactivating it via changing its filename.
I’ve tried:
1) Increasing the php.ini memory allocation
2) Changing mod_rewrite in the httpd.conf file from:
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
To
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
3. I’ve also tried changing my hosts file to be able to run http://localhost:8888 from http://local.dev:8888 because I heard that WPMU has issues with the former URL.
Does anyone else have this problem? I’ve installed BuddyPress online before via a web host and I never had any problems. Is this happening because I’m hosting it locally on my machine?
George
@geoyws
Okay a I know about Twitter. I clicked on my “mention” and I got this response:
Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter.
So do I go to my friends page to mention….I tried in my comments to @name but nothing happened…lost here.
Sure. Make a ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ and we’ll look into it for a future release. If you are able toacreage a patch for this change, it’d get into BP quicker.
