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Clearly there are PHP fatal errors happening. If you can figure out what’s in your PHP error logs, it’ll specify where in the code the errors are happening.

the idea for group forums is absolutely retarded… buddypress would be sooo awesome if it just had a normal forum setup that normal people know how to use off the bat. Group forums are completely unnecessary and confusing. There should at least be an option to choose a classic forum style.

For clarity and referring back to your first post; bbPress in respect of BuddyPress is an integrated app you don’t install it separately it is part of the forums and simply needs setting up from the BP admin section of the dashboard, installing standalone bbPress will not work with BP forums in the integrated sense. bbPress plugin is a separate issue and is in beta release and at initial release won’t integrate with BP forums so you can likely ignore the plugin version for the moment.

It’s absolutely busted PHP code.

The majority of installations of BuddyPress have the internal forums component working just fine. Saying it’s “absolutely busted” is absolutely false.

The folks in this forum are friendly and willing to help you figure out your problem. It’ll help if you’re friendly too.

@mexxa84 what you want is blog on the activity section right where ur user can write blog just frm the front end of ur bp site?
the same i m also searching for …one click post is probablly the one bt it is not running in my case try that …may u can help me with that

Yes to an option with admin settings, which sets the limit in php, with a js counter. Not everyone is going to want this, and it’s critical that the site dev has full control over character limit, not to mention that different spoken languages can have quite different character counts for similar semantics.

@modemlooper – I’ve gone back to your script. For some reason it was running super slow for me the other day when testing, but then I found that @nahummadrid ‘s method breaks the form submit when javascript is disabled, so I’ve gone back to it, and it’s super snappy. Pilot error on my part, clearly.

Actually the nahummadrid method issue could be regarded as a feature in a sense, since it would prevent circumnavigation of the script limit by disabling js in the browser The problem with that script without js appears to be the (depricated) form name, which has been specified with a hyphen and not camelCase, and doesn’t work with the inline onkeyup/onkeydown call. I’m not one for inline scripting anyway, so modemlooper’s is the one for me now.

@djpaul – I’ve had problems logging into trac, and am fried for time, but we’re launching at the end of the month, and then I’ll have the time to engage with trac properly and post the bugs that have cropped up during the site build and testing. There are a few (eg. the multiple nested tags bug when any buddypress user content is edited – just have a look at the source code of this comment!). The fact that the whats-new form only works properly once between page refreshes is a bummer… On subsequent postings, the submit button has to be clicked 5 – 15 times before it fires (confirmed with fresh vanilla install in firefox, camino, safari and opera).

Adendum – going back to the first method (nahummadrid’s). The problem with modemlooper’s method (as things stand with the whats-new bug) is that once an update is posted, if the user then wants to reply to an update before refreshing the page or navigating away, the comment reply form character limit is temporarily broken – the reply counter no longer works, and the reply limit doesn’t work either.

Agh! This really should NOT be this hard. This has to be due to the plethora of identical nonce ids, no?

After much prodding, testing, checking and more, we located the problem. If Zend Optimizer is enabled, BuddyPress will not install. As soon as we disabled it, we had a perfect install of BuddyPress. Woohoo!

I should also note that we had memory set at 150mb prior to install and actually boosted it to 256mb just to see if that was an issue. But, it made no difference until we disabled ZO.

I appreciate everyone’s insight and help. Hopefully, this information will help others struggling with this installation issue. Thanks @stwc and @lph2005 for your time and energy.

@siken

I’ve tried this plugin and have noticed a few hiccups also (like message notifications that don’t go away). Bugs are to be expected in new plugins, so it’s best to contact the plugin author about the problem.

However, that’s running BuddyPress 1.3.

BuddyPress 1.2.8, which is the current version, does have a couple of small issues that we’ve noticed so far with WordPress 3.2, mainly with javascript in the BP-Default theme. If anyone spots any more, please let us know. We plan a same-day release of 1.2.something with WordPress 3.2 to address these.

You can get the latest in the 1.2 series from https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4550/branches/1.2?old_path=%2F&format=zip (at time of writing. SVN is https://svn.buddypress.org/branches/1.2/)

500 is a server-side error. It may be PHP memory-related, it might not be. You need to look in to your web sever’s error logs, or ask your host to do that for you.

== I tried to modify it per the community instructions and broke the site. ==

I hope you backed up DB before activating the plugin. It was for WPMU 2.9.1.1, BuddyPress 1.2.1. http://teleogistic.net/code/buddypress/bp-import-blog-activity/

@katemgilbert

It’s not that the profiles are broken, but that the activity and @mention permalinks for prior events aren’t updated. New activity will have the correct, new link, while prior activity links will be broken.

I’ll let you know if I have any more luck with this!

You can do all that when you transform your single WP into a multisite installation by creating a network with subdomain structure https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Multisite support forum – https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

“same content” – if you mean that each user has a portfolio page, or about me page, a contact us page, etc. this can be achieved by creating a custom theme which you can designate as the default theme for each new subsite created by your members.

Create a network/go multisite before installing BuddyPress plugin if you want to add social networking features – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/

@aces thanks for the link to create a network