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It looks as though BuddyPress has got PHP 7 in the bag 🙂

Hi there Justin,

I’ve run into a similar issue but in reverse.

We’re in the process of migrating an individual WordPress site with BuddyPress to a multi-site WordPress with BuddyPress.

In my case, the normal practice would be to rename the WordPress tables from wp_ to something like wp_99_* , where 99 represents one of the site IDs.

The tool I used called “Export2 Multisite”, does a great job at fixing the table names.
However, it’s not smart enough to handle the data merge of the wp_bp_* and wp_rt_* table names.

Regardless, I’m seeing the same symptoms on the site I migrated from a single WordPress install to a multi-site WordPress.

So, any help whatsoever from this community on migrating sites with Buddypress either coming FROM or TO a multi-site would be GREATLY appreciated!

Hi

We’ve been testing against PHP7 nightly releases for a long time. It helps that our PHP is newer than most of WordPress’, so we have less really old stuff to migrate.

You can view our test coverage on https://travis-ci.org/buddypress/BuddyPress/ (“PHP: nightly” is PHP7), as you can see, there’s currently a failure with one test that we need to fix. It looks fairly straightforward to fix, and we’ll do that soon.

This one test aside, to the best of knowledge, yes, BuddyPress works with PHP 7.

Good question! This is likely to being looked at by the core team.

See this post which describes what is being done by the WordPress core team: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/10/wordpress-and-php7/

My guess is the BuddyPress core team are doing something like that. Maybe @djpaul can add something here?

Hi,

of course, in so far that php 7 will be used by WordPress. BuddyPress’s dev follow the same route.

WordPress and PHP7

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/change-name-view-in-profile-menu/

@wecreatehype Have you done any basic troubleshooting like deactivating other plugins except BuddyPress and changing to the WP default theme? Also, do provide more information about your installation so we won’t be chasing ghosts. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

I have read many stories about converting BuddyPress to BBPress format

@netentry Just to clarify that the only converting we ever did was to import content from the very old stand-alone bbPress 1.x.x versions included in very old BuddyPress installations into the bbPress 2.x.x plugin a long while back. That’s it. BuddyPress itself cannot be converted into bbPress forums.

Are there any good tools for performing a BBPress-to-BuddyPress conversion?

Another clarification here. BuddyPress is not a forum. It is a social network plugin with many components which could have Sitewide and/or Group forums if bbPress 2.x.x is installed and activated.

So in your case, if you only have the bbPress plugin activated, you could install and activate BuddyPress and set it up in the bbPress Settings screen to allow Group forums in addition to the Sitewide Forums. Take note however, that if you activate bbPress and BuddyPress at the same time, the BuddyPress member profile pages will trump (or will show up instead of) the bbPress member profile pages.

This sounds doable theoretically. But i am sure there will be implications 🙂

abc.com – table prefix wpabc_
xyz.com – table prefix wpxyz_

Now in xyz.com, if you want to use buddypress tables of abc.com, go to active theme of xyz.com > functions.php and add the following code: ( untested )

add_filter( 'bp_core_get_table_prefix', 'bporg_244943_change_table_prefix', 99 );
function bporg_244943_change_table_prefix( $prefix ) {
    return 'wpabc_';
}

I’d vote for boss theme too. It looks awesome and is specifically built for buddypress network sites.
http://www.buddyboss.com/product/boss-theme/. You might want to check its live demo.

Hey @wecreatehype

Feel free to show off your community in the Your BuddyPress forum. It’ll be great to see a live version of Boss “in the wild”.

Hi,

consider this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscription/

You could try the BuddyPress Ideas forum:

Ideas

Hi,

Maybe using this would help stop users who aren’t logged in seeing things you don’t want them to in the first place (and therefore they won’t be able to try and access it). Not really the redirect solution you are after but it may be of use. Works with BuddyPress (I don’t use bbPress).

//Prevents non logged in users seeing pages other than those permitted
function bpcustom_restrict_bp_pages() {
	global $bp;
	
	//These pages are permitted to logged out users
	if( bp_is_blog_page() || bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	if( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
		bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain );
	}	
}
add_action( 'get_header', 'bpcustom_restrict_bp_pages' );

Hi,

read here, maybe it helps
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-check-if-the-length-of-field-is-too-long/

or try:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-validate-with-regex/

do you have site tracking option on in the BuddyPress settings? Also custom post types do not show by default and you have to add them.

add_post_type_support( 'custom-post-type-name', 'buddypress-activity' );

Post Types Activities

Doubt there is a plugin this specific. I’m not sure the specifics but are you saying anyone can review a woo product if they are not logged in?

BuddyPress doesn’t have a specific method for logging in its the same login as WP.

You might try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24747095/woocommerce-require-registration-to-buy