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Thanks for the terrific instructions!

My only question is after WPMU 2.7.1, BuddyPress RC-2 and BBpress Alpha 6 is installed and functional, is how to include the Forum button on the home and member templates or did not follow the instructions properly?

Thanks Again

I’ve just checked and replying to messages works fine on the default themes. I’ll take a look what the problem is on buddypress.org – but it’s most likely because I forgot to mention something that needs to be upgraded.

Before you report bugs, always check to see if it broken using the default themes. Most of the time you’ll find those bugs are because you haven’t updated your old theme properly.

Be sure to put your bp-custom.php in /plugins/ and not the /buddypress/ directory so it is not overwritten on upgrades. You’ll need to add a comment header and activate it in RC-2.

Phluxor: disabling the admin bar is easy, add this to your bp-custom.php or your wp-config.php:

define( 'BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR', true );

I installed WPMU 2.7.1 and then BP 1.0 RC-2, but nothing happens.

Neither ‘themes’ no ‘appearance’ shows BP RC2 is installed.

Further, plugins show “You do not appear to have any plugins available at this time”.

It obviously is not as easy as you have mentioned.

here’s the solution in case you missed it. and for all others with the same issue.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2339

I had the same issue and this time around my BP core hacks are really at a minimum (but I still had to hack ! ). Mostly my hacks are to do with disabling some includes (like the admin bar – I wish there was just a switch which isn’t too hard to do).

As Jeff says, I used bp-custom.php for my custom functionality but that only goes so far… You OK with that approach as long as the core BP functions uses a filter or action. If that’s not the case, then your options are gone. What I ended up doing in a couple of cases, was just copy the core BP function into my bp-custom.php file, rename it and change the functionality then call that one instead of the original from my template. Again, this only works if you’re going to change the template functions only. If you need to dig deeper then I have no grand ideas left…

Maxaud-

Yeah, hacking core files is never a good idea. That is why there’s a slick, simple solution!

Place all your custom code in a file called bp-custom.php. It should be located in /wp-content/plugins/ not in the BuddyPress directory. This file will load before the BuddyPress components load.

The file has to be named bp-custom.php and placed where I indicated.

Now, when you update BuddyPress, since your custom code exists outside of the BuddyPress directory, you’ll be fine.

agree with @belogical. Sometimes it’s user error or there’s an easy fix.

I’m not sure if I’m using it correctly or not. But type the problem, attach file if any, and submit. right?

Trac is intimidating to most people, including me somedays. I don’t think it’s not knowing they have the ability, I think it’s just not knowing how to use the trac system.

I wish I could contribute, but I got no skills to code.

btw, I don’t see active forum users reporting problems/bugs on the trac. Perhaps they don’t know they can simply do it with the same account.

Andy’s got a few bug fixes he’s working on at the moment. Keep reporting them as you come across them but also know that he’s on top of them. BP.org was actually down completely yesterday for about 20 minutes, so we’re lucky he brought it back up in its current form.

I’ve posted this last night.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2352

rc2 has so many bugs that disable basic features. Bug fix should be released asap.

Since other users are facing this, I’ve made this ticket as critical.

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/704

I agree. I’ve seen this locally and also on this very website.

Standard WP support won’t be coming until a release after v1.

Can’t wait to give it a try, WPMU seems to be a bit like an overkill for my purpose.

Other than BuddyPress, what other plugins are you running? Try deactivating all but your BuddyPress plugins and see what happens.

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