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Some feedback on BP 12.0.0-beta2 though please treat with caution!

Local Install – Local, php 8.2.10 – MySQL 8.0.16 – WP 6.3.1 – BP Version 12.0.0-beta2

a lot of plugins!!

Buddyx theme NouveaU template only or Thaim theme i use Legacy template.

Not a coder or developer.

Just a general interest in BuddyPress
Not in any way dependent. a hobby!

1) Bottom line – With BP Classic all appears good.

2) When BP Classic is not active plugins like buddydrive, buddypress-group-calendar, buddypress-group-email-subscription and bp-idea-stream no longer appear in Group Navigation.

However Q&A from Anspress still appears in Group Nav & works when BP Classic is not active

https://imgur.com/P6gKRWq no-bp classic not active

https://imgur.com/b8yu3fi yes-bp classic active

3) The plugins (with exception of BuddyPress Group Calendar) do appear in the Group Nav —> Manage. (see https://imgur.com/DCYvcOT)

4) Also another (non-buddypress plugin) that interests me a reasonably popular (codecanyon) directory plugin ‘Sabai’ – well, essentially all its data vanishes when bp-attachments is active in BP 12.0.0-beta2 without BP Classic. The message is “it seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.”

5) If bp-attachments is not active (say replaced with mediapress or with mediatheque) in BP 12.0.0-beta2 the Sabai data is unaffected but the non updated plugins (mentioned in 2 above) are ineffective

6) In wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-settings options–attachments the last two choices (see pic https://imgur.com/00yZYna) if clicked to include the choice is NOT saved. Also buddydrive appears in p-admin/admin.php?page=bp-settings options

However everything INCLUDING bp-attachments appears to work safely & pristine with BP Classic active

bp-attachments not used with legacy template

Many Thanks for all the work on BuddyPress.

Hi @imath,
Further to my post on this thread (https://buddypress.org/support/topic/lets-prepare-the-buddypress-12-0-0-next-major-release/#post-331256) regarding the Reply button, I have tested and done all the troubleshooting I can, and there is nothing that brings the Reply link/button on comments back. From everything I have done I have eliminated all plugins, custom functions and css as being the cause, so this is a fairly major problem for me, that does not occur on the non-beta Buddypress. Unfortunately if I try to even preview another theme I get a critical error, so I can’t eliminate Blocksy as the cause; however on my live site the Reply link is there whether it is the Legacy or Nouveau theme, so something appears to be conflicting between Blocksy and the beta version of BP, given that your test with Twenty Twenty Two did not have this issue. Can you or someone talk to Blocksy and try to work out the various issues that exist between that theme and BP please? I have done what I can and really need some assistance now.

Secondly, I found that it wasn’t possible to add a main menu link for the currently logged-in user that remains visible at all times. Although I created a custom link, it only appeared in the menu when viewing specific sections (such as Profile, Activity, etc).

Thirdly, I encountered difficulties in adding a sidebar to any of the Buddypress pages, despite my default Blocksy setting for each page to have one. Upon investigation, I discovered that in the Customizer, Buddypress pages were being counted as Blog Posts. Intuitively, I would have expected this setting to be configured in the Buddypress-specific sections. As it stands, without extensive CSS modifications, this means Blog Pages and Buddypress pages will always have to share the same layout.

I’m curious if you’re considering incorporating enhancements or additional features in the Customizer at some point. In my experience, I’ve needed to make a significant number of CSS adjustments to align Buddypress with my desired color scheme and preferences in previous versions. It would be immensely helpful if at least some of this could be achieved through Customizer settings or a dedicated settings page within the plugin. Historically, Buddypress hasn’t adhered to my theme defaults, but I’m uncertain if this is specific to the theme I use or if it’s a widespread experience.

Old post, but I think the behavior you see is WP-driven. The reason I say that is that I have disabled the REST API for WordPress and the link above (e.g. /wp-json/buddypress/v1/members/3) or similar do not retrieve any data.

I used guidance from this SO article.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41191655/safely-disable-wp-rest-api

Having just installed the Activitypub plug-in I hope as the next version of BuddyPress is being developed some consideration is given to added hooks to connect BuddyPress to ActivityPub. It seems to me this would catapult BuddyPress firmly into the future of social media and social internet community.

I am also looking for a way to set a noindex tag on all buddypress member profile pages and addes the above code to my functions.php file, but it doesn’t work.
Could you please advise where to place the code exactly?

Hi @imath,
Thanks for that, and sorry to be a pain (although hopefully I am bringing up things that do need addressing and are not unique to my setup), but I have discovered something else that is not working as I expect, as follows:
If someone comments on an Activity post, on my existing (not test) setup, that comment has the options below it to either Reply, Edit or Delete; but the reply and edit options are missing in my test setup for non-admin users, and the reply one is missing for admin. I am still using the default theme on my existing site, whereas I am using Nouveau on the test site, so is this a Nouveau issue? I downgraded to the current non beta BP on my test site but no difference. I am going to also investigate if a plugin is causing it, but as I have the same plugins on both sites it seems unlikely. I deactivated one plugin that seemed the most likely culprit (Buddypress Edit Activity from Buddyboss – https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-edit-activity/) but it was still the same (except of course this plugin is what adds the edit button in the first place, but the reply one is still missing).

On a bit of a tangent, can I assume that this forum is running on bbpress? It’s just that I am thinking about adding a forum but am not finding this one very user friendly – for example the reply button is not visible until you hover over the post you want to reply to, and then it doesn’t automatically add the “@name” at the beginning, plus everything is written in a code box rather than normal input, just for starters. Font size could do with being larger too. Or is it just me?

We encountered the exact same error… our elementor editor only works if we disable buddypress. We are an online learning platform and when we disable our buddypress, all of our students lose the ability to access their content. This is a major problem and if there is not a fix for this issue, we will have to use a substitute for buddypress that can work with elementor editor.

Any news regarding a fix would be great.

Hello @imath @vapvarun ,

I would like to seek advice and express my concern about a particular buddypress plugin (Buddypress Follow) in relation to the upcoming version of buddypress 12.0.0.

I decided to test buddypress 12.0.0 beta 1 & 2 and noticed that clicking the user navigation menu for following and followers tab triggers an error. The plugin is not compatible with the upcoming buddypress 12.0.0.

Honestly I believe this plugin should have been a part of the default buddypress component long time ago as an the option to select (connection type) would be awesome. Not every community can be built around friendship component.

For example my site has member types (business) and (organisation), it would not make sense for a business to add another business as friends only human entities should do that, using the follow component would be more appropriate.

My fear and frustration now is that ive built a community around this follow plugin with lots of already established follow connections. Upgrading to buddypress 12.0.0 would be almost impossible

The plugin author (ray) has not been responsive about maintaining this plugin, even the team at Buddydev are ready to help develop and maintain the plugin but the author has been silent see Brajesh’s request at https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/issues/111

I also raised my issue at https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/issues/125

But not feedback from the author.

Your help would be much appreciated in contacting ray

Thanks & regards

I have just updated to the beta 2 version, and I have just discovered something with regards to the issue with the Buddypress Member menu items I reported previously, where they would only appear when the user was actually on a Member page and not on any other page (i.e. Activity, Groups, Members or ordinary WP pages). I had the BP Classic plugin installed and activated, and when I deactivated it, the menus appeared as they should, so that is something to be aware of.
Just as an addendum, so far I have not run into any issues with third party BP plugins yet, but will obviously report any to the relevant plugin authors if I do, so hats off to you for that.