This is a known and reported problem: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/330
Did you previously have group forums installed and operating correctly?
See: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471
Okay, I’m not sure what the problem is but here is how I fixed it.
First I totally wiped out all buddypress and WPMU files from the site. I then downloaded the SVN from this URL: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk. This gives you the WPMU 2.7 version which is still beta at this time but seems to work fine. After setting up WPMU and setting it up so that blogs come under a subdomain (ex. yourblog.yoursite.com) I updated my svn version of buddypress (https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk) and uploaded to the site and installed it. Everything is now working.
I have no idea why it wasn’t working before. I had tried to rewrite some of the code but to no avail. ANywho … doing it this way will get your site working. Also I think it may be important to use subdomains for the blogs. Not sure if that is true but I believe it may be.
@gpo1
Due to all communication of buddypress and bbpress being done over xmlrpc, the normal plugins most likely won’t work. I have been looking at ones like a view counter and they require massive modification of buddypress. Because of caching, the forums are not always pulled from bbpress. So it would produce falsely low view count.
Also, group forums, are just a single forum in bbpress, this changes the administration and moderation of the forums and topics. If someone is a moderator on bbpress, they can moderate the whole site I believe, with buddypress a moderator is only a moderator of that group forum.
Hope this helps,
Brad
Pretty simple really:
1) Make a backup of your DB just in case you change your mind.
2) Remove anything that has prefix of bp in your /mu-plugins/ folder
3) Delete the folder /wp-content/member-themes/
4) Delete the folder /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/
5) Delete any tables in your DB that start with the prefix bp
6) Delete the tables that are in format of wp_user_X_activity ….. Not wp_users, just those specific to BP
7) Change your main WPMU blog to use a different theme
Be prepared for hits to non-existent information if you have been hit by search engines
Really, it is just reversing what you did in the installation process. Making backups before and after are really important as you don’t want to make a mistake. It is also good practice to tell your members that you are doing it since they might have issue with the changes, or at least need to be notified.
Hope that helps.
Trent
I DID it but still have stuff in my DB and the template in wp_content/themes. Now everytime i add a new blog it shows a blank page because no template is choosen. When i switch de BP Template off in the admin the other Templates disapear too!
You just remove the components that live in /mu-plugins.
What album plugin for wordpress mu do you recommend for now?
official 1.0 release date yet?
http://buddypressdev.org/phpxref/nav.html?_functions/index.html
That is a complete list of every function in buddypress, along with location of code and places where it is referenced.
As far as your request for a function which returns groups created by a particular user, what did you need the list for? and where did you want to use it?
Hopefully that helps.
Brad
The buddypress member theme is located in:
/wp-content/themes/member-themes/buddypress-member/
I remember seeing a fix float through svn related to a login/logout problem. If you are running the beta download, try upgrading to the svn trunk. https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk
It isn’t finding the member theme. Do you have the it installed in wp-content/ and not in wp-content/themes/ for the actual member-themes folder?
Trent
Oh, and I use subdomains on my WP-MU.
Just to let everyone know, I’m taking a stab at translating BP to Swedish.
I’ll let you know how it goes in 2-3 weeks time.
Hello,
i have installed the latest version. Now in Buddypress the umlauts in the Title of the forum message are ok. but the umlauts in the textfield are filtered completly out. That means if i put umlauts like öäüÖÄÜß there, then send it and list it, i just see an empty textfield.
Best,
Karl
I mean site wide blog posts, not the main blog post which is called “News”
BP provide “Blog” that we can browse “Blog” by users, but not the Blog Posts by members.
I want to show the blog posts by members like “Blog” menu provided by Buddypress so visitor easy to browse member blog posts with pagination.
See this topic for help getting group forums up and running https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471
Lemme go look at this. I was just in that area about a week ago.
(later) Works for me. Lots of u-umlaut chars going to and from bp group forums, to bbpress and back again. Showing up as proper u-umlaut chars. Andy just installed some fixes lately in this area. Try upgrading to the latest bp trunk.
The fixes include an upgrade to the buddypress-enable.php plugin that runs in bbpress. Don’t forget that.
If i write in the BuddyPress Group Forum in the Buddypress Frontend, all the Umlauts are gone and look like in the first post above.
If i view this in the bbPress frontend the Umlauts are also broken.
When i write into the bbPress Frontend direkt then the Umlauts are ok. They are also ok, when i list them in the BuddyPress Group Forum. So the transfer from bbPress to BuddyPress is ok, the other way around it does not work.
Can you confirm that they are making it back to the bbpress tables correctly? IE if you open the post in bbpress, are they already corrupt?
Or is it only when they get displayed back to Buddypress?
Also if you make a post in bbpress, does it show up in buddypress correctly or is it corrupt there also?
Answering these questions may help to narrow down the bug, or may prove to be a wide spread issue.
Sorry I couldn’t give you a solution, but first we must understand the problem at hand.
Brad
