I just installed and activated the latest auto group join for my site healclick.com, and it’s still not showing up in my plugins menu or my buddypress dashboard. I tried the suggestion by Boone and manually entered the suggestions by Onyx into the php files. No go. Any suggestions?
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@onyx808
That’s a basic feature of profile fields. Go to “Profile Field Setup” in your backend and you’ll see this:
“NOTE: Any fields in the first group will appear on the signup page.”
Simply click the “Add New Field Group” button and create the fields you want in that new group. They will not appear on the signup page, but will be available on the user’s Profile page.
Be careful with the “Required” setting though. If you set fields in new groups to “Required”, your users will be trapped on their profile page the first time they visit until they fill in all required fields.
@boonebgorges shoots you lost me in the whole convert the post to UNIX format and subtract the two… 
is there a guide somewhere?
Thank you!
Right now, your function is coded so it runs whenever the function is called.
You need to create an action listening function at a predetermined slug so your function should run; or if you’re feeling really up to it, use ajax to send the request.
Check out any action function in BP for hints.
Here’s such an example to get you started:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-xprofile.php#L398
@boonebgorges invite-anyone plugin has template file “which can be overridden with a template file at groups/single/invite-anyone.php”
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/invite-anyone/tags/0.8.9/group-invites/templates/invite-anyone.php
Next time, it’ll be better if you post at the Invite Anyone plugin forums so plugin dev will be able to see your post https://buddypress.org/community/groups/invite-anyone/forum/
this is not the first time this error came up, unfortunately. and I’ve been scouring the forums with no success.
`Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of apply_filters(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-notifications.php on line 83`
(this error goes on several more times)
these are the bits that I have found:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/where-do-i-disable-group-notifications/
– no one has replied
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/call-time-pass-by-reference-has-been-deprecated/
– there was a great discussion about editing the core files (which I did and still received the error). This thread was also unresolved.
http://buddypress.org/community/members/EffortlessEnglishClub/activity/118352/
– this guy ranting about the plugin. The response was concise, but it still did not work for me.
I have seen notes about editing the php.ini file (like it says in the error message)
this is my php.ini file (in it’s entirety)
`memory_limit=48MB
upload_max_filesize=10M
post_max_size=20M
allow_call_time_pass_reference=true`
I have uploaded this file to the root directory, and to the wp-admin directory (where I saw a post said to put it)
unfortunately, it does not seem to be affecting anything.
I have edited my chmod’d my folders to make sure the write permissions are correctly set.
what am I missing?
and why do I get this error every time I post something to the groups?
I do not get this error when I post to the forum.
I am worried that my endless tinkering is going to break something down the line and I will have no idea what.
in a perfect world, it would be an easy fix and we can all move on.
any help would be appreciated. and hopefully, the answer will help other people in the future!
Thank you!
@r-a-y put together a solution that worked for caching and private messaging https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/persistent-caching-and-private-messaging
Maybe this is in a similar family…
Thanks for your input Paul.
I bumped it because Boone and I were going through all the 1.3 milestone tickets to see what we thought could be left out until a later version. It was bumped because, whilst it’s an important issue or showstopper for people who use this sort of caching, it’s not a critical issue for every install and we need to focus on the must-fix tickets. It’s also outside Boone and mine’s knowledge/area. Personally I would have to go away and spend a lot of time figuring out how to figure out what’s not being cleared somewhere.
At time of writing, there are 47 tickets which we thought we really really need to get fixed for 1.3 — that’s obviously a lot of work and time, and contributions on any of the tickets in https://trac.buddypress.org/report/11 would be appreciated 
And if anyone has information on how to solve this particular ticket, or does fix it and provides a good patch, it’ll get into 1.3. It’s not set in stone.
Is this the ticket you were thinking of?
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2636
Looks like it’s been bumped to BP 1.4.
This user was using W3TC and had the same issue – and that’s a popular plugin here in the community. As anyone found a fix?
From memory when I used to use W3TC, I ran into problems with caching not clearing on, I think, group pages (maybe the group’s activity stream). I think this happened when object caching was enabled (not page caching). We’ve got a ticket for 1.3 to try to look into this, but I personally don’t have enough knowledge about the way object and page caching works internally in BuddyPress, so I can’t do much more.
Did you update group slug the BP way, i.e. adding the following to your wp-config.php file?
`define ( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘challenges’ );
per https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
Just disabled batcache by removing object-cache.php and advcanced-cache.php and defining caching as false in wp-config. Not only does it work now, but the broken permalinks are fixed.]
Blog comments were always fine – there must be something regarding BP/bbpress that isn’t caching-aware. Or, because batcache isn’t supposed to apply to logged-in users, maybe there is something about bbpress where cookies aren’t recognized.
Any ideas? Is there a bat-phone I can call for help?
Turn on debugging, as I spotted a few deprecated functions pop up in warnings.
Ye rushing doesn’t help, all good n green now 
Thanks hnla, I saw you posted something similar concerning forum topics.. and ye the link was dead.
Anyway ill give it a go in the morning, and im linking back to blogs and forum topics on how the functionality has been implemented.
@cspowers
That’s a very interesting idea for a plugin! Any takers?
@sesaconsulting –
1. By default you create a group from the link at the Groups Directory header “Create Group” which generates this URL to take you through the process
2. The “Add Friend” link is found in any member’s header usually under or beside the member’s avatar.
3. You cannot find dashboard > BuddyPress > Forums Setup on your single WP site?
Further testing – Deactivate BP Template Pack plugin and change theme to bp-default theme to isolate the problem.
Does it go away if you disable memcache and batcache? (after clearing your own cache, of course)
@Eclipsetuner018 I’ve tested the BP Mag theme on a test install upgraded to BP 1.2.8 and WP 3.1 before, and encountered that problem once. I deactivated all plugins except BP and the problem went away. I haven’t gone back to check which among the possibly outdated plugins caused the conflict since I was just focused on creating a child theme for BP Mag at that time.
Btw, @sbrajesh provides support for his themes and plugins at http://buddydev.com/forums/
Hahaha nice one!
Thanks a lot it’s working! So now, even there is a buddypress’ update it will work or did I change buddypress’ core?
Many thanks
Still struggling here – it’s not my theme, plugins, and I can’t find any documentation that caching would screw up permalinks. Even some gurus are stumped.
My question now: Is there a way to “reset” my install to account for a possible glitch? I’ve reinstalled WP and BP but that doesn’t help, so maybe it’s a database error?
Aargh.
Just did it with bp-default theme; and same result
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDIF in /homez.193//www//wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php on line 93
I will try to understand the it and will let you know!
I have installed the buddypress plugin at http://www.imastormchaser.info with a custom theme (dreamplace) that I made compatible using the BP Template Pack plugin.
I am running wp 3.1.1 and bp 1.2.8 and it is running on a Dreamhost server.
I am currently dealing with 3 issues:
1. There is no create group link available anywhere. I can get to it by typing in the url manuall y http://www.imastormchaser.info/groups/
2. When logged in as a user, there is no link to add a friend. For instance as an admin, when I click on the friends link, it takes me to my friends overview page and I see a link for “My Friends” and “Requests” but no link to add a friend. I feel like i have followed every possible link but cannot find it anywhere.
3. Under teh BuddyPress menu in my WP admin dashboard there is no “Forums” setup option.
I have been driving myself crazy with this for hours. I have read other threads on tehse issues and even tried remedies listed there to no avail. I have even tried switching to a BP compatible theme and am still facing the same problem.
I would appreciate any help I can get with thie matter.
Thanks in advance!
@KendrickSnyder
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