I have the newest versions of wordpress and buddypress 1.5.1.
A while back I created a user via admin panel with capitol letters in his name. This was one of the first users I made and it has admin rights. Now on my dev site I have done all the upgrading here before upgrading it to my live site. I noticed that on the dev site the specific users “AAPLTrader” profile page brings up a 404 error page but when I type the username in the url with the correct Capitol letters it is found. I have tried other users in which i think have capitol letters but it seems to work. On the live site with the older version it seems to work fine without having to type it in with capitol letters.
I have this code define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true ); in both wp-config.php files to. Does anyone got any ideas? I do not want to switch until I get this worked out.
Thanks!
@mercime
WP 3.3.1 and BP 1.5.3.1 — Check
WP and BP installed at domain root — Check, sub-domain root
Changed to bp-default theme / deactivated all plugins — Check
Linux server
Re: group/stand-alone — I installed stand-alone so that I could get some data for the DB. I thought if I just imported some existing data it might change something. I installed bbPress stand alone, created a topic or two with a post or two, exported all the data to a SQL file, changed then prefixes of the tables, and inserted it into the buddyPress/bbPress tables, then deleted the stand-alone installation. Through phpMyAdmin, there were clearly records in the tables; buddypress still said there were no forums, and I was still unable to create any forum post. I’ve since also deleted all records from the wp_bb_XXX tables.
Current forum setup: “Forums for Groups” installed (under “Forums” tab at buddypress admin); Sitewide forums NOT installed; NO other plugins; default theme; everything is as Plain Jane as humanly possible. Still, same errors on submitting new forum topic: either: “This group doesn’t have a forum set up yet.” or “Please pick the group forum where you would like to post this topic” (which of course I did).
There’s no registration security question in a default BuddyPress installation so the security question in your theme is not a BP problem. Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and change to bp-default theme and you’ll find that there’s none at all.
Sanity check:
– WP 3.3.1 and BP 1.5.3.1?
– WP and BP installed at domain root?
– You have changed to bp-default theme and deactivated all plugins except BuddyPress?
– You want group forums so you don’t need the stand-alone forums installed and messing up with installation. Or are you trying to make the stand-alone forums work as group forums?
– Linux or Windows server?
Log in the BuddyPress demo site testbp.org and send me a private message with username and password and the url to the webpage you are referring to.
Hello,
I am using wordpress 3.3.1 and buddypress 1.5.3.1
I would like to add a static home page, how can I proceed?
Thank you for your help end regards
Michaël
Still just trying to keep this current.
In short: I can’t get forums working. Nothing I’ve tried works, not even suggestions (rather, the suggestion — thanks @mercime) here. It’s a rather fundamental element that is not working, and I’m about to give up on it and go look for alternatives.
Hmmm , strange . All I got is BuddyPress Plugin and thats all . All others are different plugs . So I never seen Humanity Part . Im using WP 3.3.1 and latest BP 1.5.3 . Please help . Thank you very much
Hi, I’ve been working with buddypress activity stream to add meta data in table bp_activity_meta, I want to use bp_activity_update_meta() which has three parameters, the meta_key, the meta_value, and lastly the ID in which i find it hard to retrieve.. Any Help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Could one of the admins please fix my profile as I cant update it nor change settings.
When even I try to view my profile on Buddypress.org I get a 404
Thanks
You should build a child theme for bp-default so your customizations won’t be overwritten when you upgrade BuddyPress https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
You’d add the new styles In your child theme’s stylesheet. If you need assistance, site url?
Hello.
I seem to be back to squar one this morning.
When I login to WordPress I am taken to my website’s homepage with the BuddyPress toolbar at the top.
When I click on ‘Dashboard’ i get a completely blank page at http://www.kairoscanada.org/wp-admin/.
Not good.
I can’t access my admin at all.
Nik
Forgot to say what I’m using:
Wordpress 3.3.1
Buddypress 1.5.3.1 with default theme
bbpress 2.0.2
GD Attachments 1.5.3
GD Attachments Plugin is designed for bbpress forums. It allow users upload files to topics or replies.
If those files are images it renders them by creating a thumbnail for each one and relating them with lightbox for example.
So with this plugin beside the capability of users attach almost any file type on forums it allows easily a gallery of photos in a user reply.
It turns that Buddypress pulls every forums updates to activity stream and if a thumbnail is found, it comes too which in my case is great. My activity stream starts to look like facebook.
Now I need to add some additional styling to activity stream. Thumbnails are displayed one after another vertically without any spacing. They should be displayed the same way forums are displaying them. There’s some CSS from plugin used on forums that obviously it’s not used at activity stream.
Where do I look in Buddypress to add the missing CSS? I might have to add/change some code to call the plugin class and add a li tag to build the gallery.
At first sight it seems a plugin fail. It’s not. it wasn’t built for buddypress, its author got surprised when I told him that buddypress is rendering the thumbnails at activity stream.
My opinion is that this is a major feature added to Buddypress that needs minor work which is beyound my knowledge for now
Help is appreciated
Thanks
The latest buddypress ( with bp-default theme ) can use the default wordpress menu, which is under appearance section of admin.
Some web hosting requires an extra plugin for email. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ has a useful feature that displays debugging information when sending a test email. Another plugin is suggested in https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/
HI
I would like to have the following already written out in the text in Buddypress area to make the update simpler for users instead of having to write it out all the time:
Time:
Sighting:
Where:
Closest Camp:
Visual:
Doing:
I really hope you can help me!
Thanks so much!
http://www.krugersightings.com
Have a log in option in the sidebar of all pages of your website ..Make sure it is shown only to a user who has not logged in…For this you should create a new sidebar.php and just copy the code from the BP sidebar.php…Hope u got it…

How to fix the following errors:
PHP Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/images/mystery-man.jpg) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/themes/mythemes/framework/utilities/media-functions.php on line 48
and on line 48 of media-functions.php files:
if (!file_exists($file_path)) {
// simple fix for direct links to images on multi-site installs
if (isset($blog_id) && $blog_id > 0) {
// uploaded images to media folders
$imageParts = explode(‘/files/’, $img_url, 2);
if (isset($imageParts[1])) {
$img_url = get_site_url(1) .’/wp-content/blogs.dir/’. $blog_id .’/files/’. $imageParts[1];
$file_path = parse_url( $img_url );
$file_path = $_SERVER . $file_path;
}
// if not found in media folders check theme folders
if (!file_exists($file_path)) {
// files in the theme folder
$imageParts = explode(THEME_URL, $img_url, 2);
if (isset($imageParts[1])) {
$file_path = THEME_DIR . $imageParts[1];
}
}
}
}
Thanks! Hopefully I get the green light soon. They seem pretty inclined to use BuddyPress. When they asked me about suggestions for Content Management Systems, guess what first came to mind? 
Solved my issue… had to start from a totally fresh install, but went a bit more step-by-step with the install to ensure that the forums were working.
Terribly inconvenient, have to work on restoring a bunch of things now… but overall, I would say it is worth it for the group forum function.
-A little off topic, but if you all are into the Occupy Movement and want to stay informed about the happenings in Minnesota, feel free to join me at occupymn.org
I guess I shall slowly master BuddyPress. I’m thinking the issue that I was having was due to my changing of the root file names in the process of making it live in place of an older site.
My recommendation is to always have lots of backed-up information just in case you need to start fresh with new software! :p
Thanks all for your suggestions.
Now onto the next task… custom admin bars that do not show posting options immediately. 
I turned on error reporting and got this:
Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /home4/daisypee/public_html/classroom/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template.php on line 693
In that file, on line 693, is this:
` if ( isset( $bp->{$component}->root_slug ) &&`
Which is part of:
` // Loop through active components and look for a match
foreach ( $bp->active_components as $component => $id )
if ( isset( $bp->{$component}->root_slug ) &&
!empty( $bp->{$component}->root_slug ) &&
$bp->{$component}->root_slug == $root_slug )
return $bp->{$component}->name;
return false;`
Does that help solve my issue?
I just went to another directory, installed stand-alone bbPress but configured it to use the same DB as by bbPress installation. I pulled all the data from the stand alone tables and dumped it into the wp_bb tables. Still, even when browsing tables, buddyPress says there’s no forum.
@ easylife4ever
It’s Buddypress Humanity. I just deleted it myself because it was showing in my security scan as being at risk for xss (cross-site scripting). Go into your plugins and scroll down to Buddypress Humanity. Deactivate it, then delete it. You should be all set.