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.
Hi – I need to change the color of the nav bar in BuddyPress – the second nav bar for members. It’s white with white text now and very difficult to use. I’ve tried everything including changing the css and reuploading the plugin. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
You’re welcome. If I recall “reports” from WP.org forums well, I believe you also need to increase your memory limits from 32MB to 64MB at GoDaddy if it’s allowed on your plan. Good luck.
If you installed WP/BP in directory http://yoursite.com/wordpress/ and if you have enabled registration and BuddyPress is activated, the link to create an account goes to http://yoursite.com/wordpress/register by default. The only way to have http://yoursite.com/register is if you installed WP/BP at domain root.