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Got pretty much the same issue here. Latest WordPress (non-MU) and BuddyPress installed via BuddyPress Template Pack Plugin.

With nothing disabled in BP general settings, everything enabled in component setup.

There is no “create group” in the “groups” tab. Only “My Groups” and “Invites”. Clicking the “groups” tab goes to http://www.ultimatecultureclash.com/members/cupedoll/groups/ which seems fine.

But I want forums. And it seems forums are a property of groups. So I need groups. How to create groups?

(After much confusion) I enter MANUALLY: http://ultimatecultureclash.com/groups/create/step/group-details/

This goes to /groups/create/step/group-details/images/images/bg_body.gif which looks good. The heading says “Create a Group” and there’s input fields for “Group Name” and “Group Description”.

But entering group name, group description and pressing “Create Group and Continue —->” button only reloads blog homepage and creates nothing.

I’ve read somewhere that this might be theme-related? I run Atahualpa, pretty extensively customized. Yet the BuddyPress Template Pack Plugin was supposed to integrate everything painlessly (for ignorant non-coders like me). And the weird thing is how smoothly it seemed to have done the job. Until it came to creating groups.

Go to Settings -> Miscellaneous Settings
.

Set “Store uploads in this folder” to “wp-content/uploads”.


Set “Full URL path to files” to the REAL FULL PATH of your uploads.


Then change “bp-core-avatars.php” line 389:

Replace:


if ( !$path = get_option( 'upload_path' ) )


$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/uploads';


With:
if ( !$path = get_option( ‘upload_path’ ) )


$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/uploads';


else
$path = ABSPATH . $path;

It fixes the problem.

Source: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/avatar-upload-issues/page/2

This is really something that need be fixed with the next release.

@dweanus — I have noticed an error that has cropped up using Rate Forum Posts: a user’s karma display gets stuck at some arbitrary number and stops incrementing. However, when you click on “Groups” tab sub-menu in the user profile — /members/username/groups/ — and only that page, the correct karma value is displayed. You can see it in action on wordlab.com, where my (“snark”) karma value is stuck at 18p — http://www.wordlab.com/members/snark/activity/ — except on the Groups sub-page, where it shows the correct value of 157p — http://www.wordlab.com/members/snark/groups/. I tried deactivating and re-activating the plugin, but the problem persisted.

Might be worth adding this link to the documentation on creating a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ It has the other details for creating the stylesheet and activating the child theme as well. Details a newbie might want to have on top of what you’ve already said. I know since I just changed my registration page as you described this week:-)

That’s not an issue with this plugin I don’t think, nor is it a bug, as far as I know. It’s core, and had always worked completely fine for me.

I do recall having to make template changes for this plugin to work properly, though, so make sure you did that correctly. See the installation page in the codex for this plugin, or the readme.

Any chance at getting posting a new topic using the “new topic” button on the forum page fixed?

Create a child theme (it’s easy — do a search for instructions on how), copy register.php from /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration to /registration in your new child theme (which will just be the default theme plus this change and any other changes you make in future). Edit that registration.php.

Now your new registration page will override the default, and you are safe from having your changes overwritten by future version upgrades!

Any time you want to override anything (particularly styles), you can just copy files from bp-default, preserving folder structure, to your child theme and modify them there. It’s a little confusing at first, but is extremely powerful and useful.

Hey etiviti (rich!)

Quick question (feel free not to bother to track it down, though, because it’s kind of an edge case, if you don’t care)…

In this thread, I figured out how to make the default front page of the site be the Forums listing. Sadly, though, since doing that (with the method I outlined at the bottom of the first page), the forum index sunb-plugin is failing (silently).

Any thoughts on a quick fix? (Hopefully it’s a minor thing.)

A ticket has already been created about this problem:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2000

Hopefully it will be resolved in a future version of BP.

[EDIT]

It appears you’re using a subdomain install and not a subdirectory:

http://project2.solarpowernewsonline.com/

http://project1.solarpowernewsonline.com/

Also when you go to:

http://project2.solarpowernewsonline.com/blogs

http://project1.solarpowernewsonline.com/blogs

They both link to the same thing as the subdomain URL… how did you setup your permalinks?

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Your “Activity” link problem occurs because you’re trying to use the BP default theme as a user blog theme, which will not work.

If you want to use the BP default theme as a user blog theme, create a child theme and strip out the BP nav links:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=4855

Yep, I’ve extensively customized a lot of the terminology throughout Buddypress for the install I’m currently working on.

Get POEDIT from Sourceforge for editing your language file — it makes life WAYYY easier.

@jjj I submitted my proposal some days ago, part of the project is ‘inappropriate content flagging’. Your opinion would be appreciated. I wrote a post about it here http://flweb.it/2010/04/google-summer-of-code-project-media-component-and-moderation-for-buddypress but it’s probably more detailed in the proposal you should be able to read in GSoC site. Thanks

Hi Ron,

How’s development on this going? After a little pause I’m back in the code. I’m trying to combine the buddypress tabs into the regular navigation.

You’d mentioned you would set up a second child theme this way… any chance you’d give me some hints? I’ve managed to get them side by side with a custom function, but they are still contained within two separate ULs.

Thanks!

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? ? Don’t follow? Please explain… (blogs are in format *.domain.com/blogs/)

What that means is did you activate BuddyPress in blog_id_1 (the main blog) or in a sub-blog? If you activated BP in sub-blog, did you define it in wp-config.php?

define ( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG', $blog_id );

$blog_id = just the number

Hi gian-ava . Try this assuming your active link is .active

<li<?php if ( bp_is_front_page() ) : ?> class="active"<?php endif; ?>>

<a href="<?php echo site_url() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

</li>

All activity action types are stored in an array. Look at the function bp_activity_set_action in bp-activity.php. Components register their activity actions via this function. They then get added to the array $bp->activity->actions.

Now, as far as filtering out the various activity actions, you can either write some custom code, or wait for my BuddyPress Privacy Component as that is one of the services it provides users.

A final note, if a third-party component fails to register any of its activity action types, then they are not added to that array and it becomes much more difficult to filter them.