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I upgraded to both BP 1.2.8 and WP 3.1

I Have completely lost my BuddyPress section of the dashboard unless I navigate to http://mysite/wp-admin/network/ and then (as others have reported) all the BP plugin links are missing. Other than that so far so good.

Our forums seem to be working fine.

That function name is a little misleading, as bp_the_topic_last_poster_name() only works within the forum loop on the forum directory.

You’ll have to write your own function to grab the last poster name in the topic loop try something like this in your theme’s functions.php:

`
function my_the_topic_last_poster_name() {
echo my_get_the_topic_last_poster_name();
}
function my_get_the_topic_last_poster_name() {
global $forum_template;

if ( !$domain = bp_core_get_user_domain( $forum_template->topic->topic_last_poster ) )
return __( ‘Deleted User’, ‘buddypress’ );

return apply_filters( ‘my_get_the_topic_last_poster_name’, ‘‘ . $forum_template->topic->topic_last_poster_name . ‘‘ );
}
`

Then in your topic.php, add the following:

`
`

That’s actually the WordPress Admin Bar and it resembles the Buddypress Admin Bar.
To disable it add this to functions.php:

add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );

you can download some version of translation on the buddypress i18n trac:
https://i18n.trac.buddypress.org/browser
or on the buddypress trac:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser?order=name#tags
there are only 3 strings diffs between 1.2.7 and 1.2.8 pot, so it’s not very important at this time if you miss something

If you want to work with pot files, you have to pick in the tagged version, not in the trunk (except for your private tests of course)

Same issue here, any help?

Did you try repairing the wp_bp_activity table?

Looks like it’s using strings from the currently-in-development BP 1.3

Ping @boonebgorges.

There is no plugin available for this at the moment, but it is possible (like most things).

I skipped the part that said you moved your DB to a new server.

Make sure your wp-config.php has the correct information with regards to your DB host.

A good way to check if the activity component is working is to disable the sitewide activity widget and then use the regular activity form to post.

See if activity posting works then. If it doesn’t try repairing the wp_bp_activity_table in the DB.

Easy way is to modify `/activity/entry.php` in your child theme.

The other (and better) way — if you know your way around WordPress filters — is to hook into the “bp_get_activity_css_class” filter located in bp-activity-templatetags.php.

That’s a 3rd-party plugin by Buddydev.com:
http://buddydev.com/buddypress/buddypress-sitewide-activity-widget-for-buddypress-1-2-and-above/

I’d recommend you post on their site to get support.

Anything is possible, though that example is a little more specific.

You could do something with the topic template:
/groups/single/forum/topic.php

Check if the post is not the first post in the topic, then check to see if that post is yours or not with `bp_get_the_topic_is_mine()`.

Hopefully that gives you a few hints to run with.

I have one solution here for you, although it’ll be up to you to deal with cross browser compatibility as far as the css goes. If the second sidebar is not going to be present on every page, you are going to have problems using this code. ….. be warned!!!

If you are doing this on a live site, make sure you have full backups of your template files. I set this up on an install that I’m playing around with. Its not a live site, it is a place for me to muck around with wordpress and buddypress.

This is just a starting point, but if you know your css you should be just fine

Step 1.

We’ll start with single.php here. this file is found in the bp-default theme folder

around line 57, find this code:

“

Copy that, and paste it a second time right below itself. Add a 2 to the part that says sidebar.php so your two lines now look like this:
“
“

move those two lines to lines 2 and 3, right below
“

Step 2.

Now copy and save sidebar.php as a second file called sidebar2.php. Put that file in the bp-default theme folder so that now you have sidebar.php and sidebar2.php both in there. Open sidebar2.php in a text editor and change the first div at the top from `

No plugin exists for this at the moment.

This has to be manually coded. If you’re a plugin developer, check out this codex article:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/group-extension-api/

And also check out the groupmeta functions in /bp-groups.php.

There are a few threads about this on buddypress.org. I’d suggest doing a search on Google.

An example can be found here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/profile-fields-for-groups#post-78706

== a comprehensive online listing of all buddypress plugins and their compatibility issues – with WP 3.x and among each others ==

That would a great BP community project if members could/would submit their lists of compatible/incompatible BP plugins. Also would be great if someone could check code of current BP plugins if these were updated to meet this http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/updating-your-buddypress-plugins-for-1-2-8/

it would be cool if at the very least, something like what Andy Peatling came up with before for previously released BP plugins when BP 1.2 rolled out.

WP.org Forums has some Troubleshooting Tips for those who have issues after upgrading to WP 3.1
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-31-master-list

To enable multisite on WordPress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

To install BuddyPress:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/

Check out codex.buddypress.org for more articles.