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hi, i really do like the group-blog functionality, dont get me wrong!
here my question: in a practical or psychological or user perspective way – what is the difference (advantage/disadvantage) between activating group blog and the group forum functionality? am i a complete bloghead ?

best regards
roman

@en3r0 – as far as I am aware this plugin appears to have been abandoned. I have tried it myself and it does not work. I have seen no activity for months and the plugin site has been down for a long time. possibly a lost cause….the good news is though – we have one available which you can see in action at our demo site http://buddypress-maps-demo.glocate.me/

Are you talking about groups in Buddypress? I can’t remember a bp-version where you were able to set user roles. Do you need a function to select different usertypes? If yes, there’s a solution – needs a few hacks in your template and also in buddypress core – but a needful tool.

Set up a wordpress-multisite installation, then hack the files. If you need help, just tell me.
Here’s the link:

http://cleverness.org/2010/08/08/add-user-types-to-wordpress-and-buddypress/

similar problem over here, autocomplete function finds valid users and shows them up, but in the following lines an error is displayed 3 times:

“Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at mountpointwp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-themesbp-default_incajax.php:556 in mountpointwp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-messages.php on line 556”

any idea?

by the way, is there a plugin which enables a better useabbility for choosing multiple user’s to send a private message to? Something like a list with checkboxes for example?

You can disable posting of updates to posts and forums in Activity Stream. Go to dashboard > BuddyPress > General Settings – click on the “yes” radio button for “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?”

Create a child theme of bp-default theme, upload and activate. Then go to dashboard Appearance > Widgets and drag the “Recently Active Member Avatars” widget to Sidebar and save it.

I was able to activate the plugin just fine, but it dosnt seem to add group markers correctly.

Wish this was kept up.

Any ideas?

Please let us know the following information so that someone can help:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

Also, do you have a link to the website?

Sure. Make an enhancement ticket on https://trac.buddypress.org/; patches also welcome

You came here seeking help from those more experienced!

BTW, I’m a total newby at both WP and BuddyPress and came to the forum to find help, not to get dumped on

Where have you been dumped on?

It doesn’t help to get snippy about “generally not the done thing to do on forum

There is a very deliberate reason old threads are not raised again, and yes sorry but forums rules in general frown upon this action and do ask that people start their own threads. You claim this thread mirrors your own issue, but I’ll point out that your stated inexperience in matter leaves you not best placed to judge that.

I don’t think starting lots of new threads about the same problem will help anyone

Again let us worry about that.

Please set aside the attitude it doesn’t help. Once again you have come here for help, that help often comes from experienced professionals that earn their living coding and developing, please respect the fact that there is no obligation to help and that this help forum and the project itself is maintained by volunteers – unpaid!

You really needed to have followed my advice earlier about testing with bp-default and plugins disabled if you had lurked on the forum you would have noted that this is a very common and important request.

Now as to your concern as to losing work you wont! it is perfectly safe to change themes that is the nature of the WP themeing side of things, disable your custom theme and activate bp-default also deactivate any BP related plugins except BP itself nat and also any custom functions that you may have created in your themes functions file.

Test the registration process in this default state if it works then you now know you have an issue with either your custom theme or a plugin; if it still doesn’t work then you might consider checking that you have in fact told WP to allow registrations in the WP options screen, if that is set confirm whether WP itself can accept registrations – helps to make sure WP is set up correctly and working before moving on to adding further layers like BP.

When that is done please report back and let us know what the outcomes were and we can then proceed from there.

You can disable plugins and themes temporarily without losing work. WP and BP content is stored in the database and shouldn’t be affected by what themes and plugins you do or do not have activated.

It’s important that you test whether the problem arises with bp-default, the BuddyPress Default theme that comes with BP. If registration works with that theme but not with your custom theme, then we’ll know that your problem is theme-related. Most likely, your theme is missing the template files that BP expects to find when someone visits the registration page, and for some reason the fallback template (which should be wp-signup.php) is not being found either.

Please test with the default theme and report back.

We have WP 3.0.1 and are using the Citizen Kane 1.0.2 theme. I can’t see any way to tell what version of BuddyPress we have, but it was installed just a few days ago, so it should be whatever the latest number is.

BTW, I’m a total newby at both WP and BuddyPress and came to the forum to find help, not to get dumped on. This topic is dead on point. Although this thread was STARTED 5 months ago, nobody seems to have offered any help and people were still posting the same problem just a week and a half ago.

It doesn’t help to get snippy about “generally not the done thing to do on forum” when there hasn’t been any useful response to this one in the past and, frankly, I don’t think starting lots of new threads about the same problem will help anyone. Isn’t that why forums are organized into threads in the first place?

Can we get back to solving the issue?

Before we start dismantling all our work, what will happen to all the stuff we’ve created (design work, etc.) if we disable all the plugins and change themes?

You will probably need to add a little more detail, version numbers, theme in use plugins etc. 1.2.6 has no issues that I’m aware of with signup and works correctly so there must be something else upsetting things.

It would help to confirm whether disabling all plugins other than required BP and dropping back to the bp-default theme still presents the issue or whether it works with default bp

This thread is 5 months old and apart from possible usefulness as archive reading (not in this instance) it serves little purpose resurrecting old threads to post to, and is generally not the done thing to do on forum please always create a fresh thread on an issue.