OK, I have sorted it out.
The bp-capabilities value somehow had got changed to author rather than administrator.
I edited the bp-capabilities item for user_id 1 in bp_usermeta table to be
a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;}
and logged in again and everything was fine.
If you have multisite, you may need this thread which I used to find the place to start looking for the solution.
I tried their bp_settings and it gave me a ‘you are not authorised to view this page’ message, so I used my value above for my non-multisite installation.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/im-no-longer-super-admin-what-happened/
Hope that helps someone else.
@ocpaul20 is right. It’s an extra space somewhere. I would recommend copy and pasting the default file back.
Just updated my site to 3.1 and 1.2.8. The only thing i can notice up to now is that i´ve lost the plugin config links that appeared under the buddypress menu tab. Any idea on how to fix this?
Thanks all.
I am using buddypress with wp-member. It works, except buddypress lets you input a password upon registration, but wp-member generates a pw. Anyone know how to fix this? I’d like to make it so my clients can log in with the pw buddypress allows them to choose rather than check their email. Or can I remove the pw option from buddypress?
So, the fix that worked for me was:
1. Go to https://bbpress.org/download/ and download current bbpress zip or tar file.
2. Unzip or untar it, which will give you a “bbpress” directory
3. Ftp to your site. Rename bb-config.php to something else in your root directory.
4. go to “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/
5. In that directory, upload the bbpress directory (not the contents of it but the actual bbpress directory including its contents)
6. Rename bb-config.php back to bb-config.php in your root directory for your wordpress site
7. Go to *yoursite*/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bb-forums-setup
8. Tell it to reinstall bbpress using the existing file (and make sure it is pointing to the right path to find bb-config.php)
This fixed my site and everything is working again.
John James Jacoby said: On February 23, 2011
Sorry folks; had comments turned off on accident
“They’re baaaaaaack!”
I’m reminded of that sweet little girl in Poltergeist every time I see that adminbar at the top of my site.
All my hard work scouring the forums for a fix is null and void now. (JK.)
Anyhow … apparently, the new buddypress version has changed something, cause now my code
`define (‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true);` in my funtions.php file of my child theme isn’t working.
What do I do?
@modemlooper i did that and still white.
@josh101 did you delete your bb-config to make it work?
Darn, should’ve made a screenshot. It was disabled, honest! 
Hm…comments seem to be enabled, from what I can see?
If you copied the files back over and it’s blank try to go back to admin >> buddypress >> forums set up and do a re install. Click the Use an existing bbPress installation button.
Same problem. So I went to go get a copy @ bbpress now i got this
Warning: require_once(/home4/techtro2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/class.bb-query.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home4/techtro2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress.php on line 19
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home4/techtro2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/class.bb-query.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib64/php:/usr/lib/php:/home4/techtro2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mini-mail-dashboard-widget’) in /home4/techtro2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress.php on line 19
@tamilbeam I have a similar issue. I reply to a update. Shows it, but when I refresh the reply to the update is gone …
I did upgrade and I see the message
Network Admin > BuddyPress > Forums Setup
bbPress files were not found. To install the forums component you must download a copy of bbPress and make sure it is in the folder: “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/”
No, don’t do that. The developers are aware of this and the 1.2.8 fix is out.
I cannot install Multisite after a BuddyPress install.
My wp-config has the lines at the end,
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );
But still, can’t enable multisite… also, how to I enable specific themes for the child blogs after that?
@boonebgorges great, thanks, I look forward to it
@paragate try disablying it followint this instructions: http://yoast.com/disable-wp-admin-bar/
BuddyPress will be updated later today to account for changes in WP 3.1.
In the meantime, if you have upgraded your live site and are unexpectedly missing the BP admin bar, use the code provided by aces above.
Can you share the work arounds for getting rid of the admin bar? It is covering my buddypress bar. Ugh!
@modemlooper most definitely not – although I did hit upgrade on a dev site and unsurprisingly it broke it, I can’t see the new sparkly dashboard – but I can see the admin bar!
So WordPress 3.1 has just been launched, I was interested in when Buddypress 1.3 is expected and any experiences/thoughts anyone has about the new updates.
I can see the admin bar is already something that currently clash, although I saw some comments on work arounds for that.
i just have overwritten the complete pluginsbuddypress* folder with the original core files (downloaded from this site) error still there. STRANGE!
I noticed John disabled comments for the latest post, the 1.2.8 release announcement. Is there any particular reasoning behind this?
It wouldn’t have been that odd if it wasn’t for the fact that every post before it enables comments, unlike the wordpress.org blog for instance where posts comments are also disabled.