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I use a bp-custom.php file in the plugin folder

Do you mean like this plugins/buddypress/bp-custom.php?

If so, that’s the wrong place. It should be here:

plugins/bp-custom.php

Test this using 2014 theme? With other plugins disabled?
have you “enabled site tracking” in the buddypress settings?
( https://buddypress.org/support/topic/what-does-site-tracking-do/ )

I think I may have a similar issue, and I think there was a thread about this recently, like in the past 3 weeks or so.. I have not whittled it down to a bp-custom issue, or theme issue, or what yet myself – too busy trying to fix more important things at the moment..

interested if you find the issue / resolution – hope these tidbits help to find..

Please read here.

Are you sure that the mo file contains you’re change ? If yes, save po/mo in a safe place, then remove po/mo from live site and ensure your site comes in english (default).

– Reload buddypress_xx_XX.mo to wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-xx_XX.mo

Aside, which language are you using ?

You’re welcome !

To all readers, Codex reminder when getting 404, missing BP pages, not found errors after setup or upgrade ! 😉

Settings → BuddyPress → Pages

Pages are automatically generated for the BuddyPress components you enabled in the components settings using the default slugs based on the name of each component activated. Make sure that activated components have corresponding pages assigned to each in this panel.

Directories
Associate a WordPress Page with each BuddyPress component directory.

• Activity Streams (if activated)
• User Groups (if activated)
• Members > this is core and can’t be removed/modified

Registration

Associate WordPress Pages with the following BuddyPress Registration pages.

• Register
• Activate

Note: registration is not a BuddyPress component but part of WP core.
When you allow user registration, you have to add manually these pages.

To all readers, Codex reminder when getting 404, missing BP pages, not found errors after setup or upgrade ! 😉

Settings → BuddyPress → Pages

Pages are automatically generated for the BuddyPress components you enabled in the components settings using the default slugs based on the name of each component activated. Make sure that activated components have corresponding pages assigned to each in this panel.

Directories
Associate a WordPress Page with each BuddyPress component directory.

• Activity Streams (if activated)
• User Groups (if activated)
• Members > this is core and can’t be removed/modified

Registration

Associate WordPress Pages with the following BuddyPress Registration pages.

• Register
• Activate

Note: registration is not a BuddyPress component but part of WP core.
When you allow user registration, you have to add manually these pages.

Found the problem.

BuddyPress didn’t like that I had the groups page as a sub page of Members. Moved Groups page to the root and now everything works great.

Thanks for your assistance

~M

@shanebp, similar issue here ?
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/after-restoring-site-to-backup-cant-create-groups/

@shanebp, see similar topic:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/add-group-redirects-to-404-error/

Hi there,

I am having this exact same problem, but nothing listed above seems to fix it.

After a fresh install of BuddyPress, with groups activated, and “Enable group creation for all users” checked in the settings page; I receive a 404 Error when clicking the “create group” button on either the groups page, or in the admin panel of WordPress. Is there something i’m missing? is the group creation page built into BuddyPress or do I need to create it? Nothing about creating this page is mentioned in the codex linked above.

I also tried deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress as well as changing my theme to the “twentyThirteen” theme but still no dice. I could really use some help with this.

Stats:
WordPress Version: 4.3
BuddyPress Version: 2.3.2.1
DynamiX Theme Version: 4.3.1

like I mentioned in my first reply when this thread came out – “quick chat” works great as a basic “text chat” plugin with my buddypress sites. It’s free, and in the wp -repo – maybe if I provided a direct link -> https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-chat/

many backend options, can display your avatars and everything. It rocks.
( I always turn off the feature that has it show up on every page of the site – I think it’s better on server resources and page speed to just have the group chat room on a static page)

Of course I still suggest reading up on the other discussions for details about other systems.

as far as using skype for your site, I think that is a short sighted choice – no privacy, no control, dependent upon third parties… I went down that road once, and not getting into that dependency again.

Are you sure you have both the Site Tracking component from the BuddyPress component’s Administration screen AND the “Allow the activity stream commenting on blog posts” from the BuddyPress settings Administration screen selected ?

Create a new post and then comment on it.

@shanebp, I am unable to get comments to show up in my activity feed.. I even set up a staging environment, running only Buddypress with 2015 theme…. Still no comments! 🙁

Creating a post adds a row to the activity table, but commenting on that post doesn’t do anything.. Any thoughts??

I have made sure that I have buddypress properly configured to track post comments, but it isn’t working on my live site, or the staging environment that is running default wordpress theme and only one plugin, Buddypress..

Your help is much appreciated

Is the group page assigned to groups component in BP settings ?
Does your DB contain the 3 tables related to groups ? (_bp_groups, _bp_groups_groupmeta & _bp_groups_group_members ?

Have you tried to use the BuddyPress repair tool ? Dashboard > Tools > BuddyPress ?

hi @bruce7075,

read from here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/not-recently-active/

If you are referring to the Site Tracking component – it is confusing.
A lot of the BP documentation refers to it as the Blogs component.

If you activate the Site Tracking component from the BuddyPress component’s Administration screen, the ‘post’ post_type will automatically have the “buddypress-activity” feature enable. So if you create a post, an entry will appear in the activity stream.

Comments about the post will also generate activities or, if you chose to “Allow the activity stream commenting on blog posts” from the BuddyPress settings Administration screen, comments will be synchronized with the activity stream.

If you want videochat with chatrooms, groupchats => Skype for Buddypress by uicoders.com

If you only want a simple plain texting chatroom => try tinychat. Have tried that too but it’s buggy.

BuddyPress activity stream is explained on Codex:

Activity Streams

It’s a feature for internal purpose. In other terms, an activity log(journal) of your site/network only.

Site tracking has a similar target (inform users), but oriented for statistics to search engines (like Google Analytics), advertisement & banner service, ping & trackback and other things happening with help of cookies. It’s used for external purpose and need generally a plugin to be managed.

Never used Skype before? 🙂

You can videochat and also text.

I was looking for this plugin for years and finally got one and it works perfectly on my Buddypress site. A really must have for every social networking site!
easy to setup: download, install and you’re all set. Few clicks, 30 seconds bingo!

Almost everybody on this world has a Skype account and I was looking for a long time for a plugin that seamlessly integrates with Buddypress.

Finally found Skype for Buddypress by uicoders.com. It works like a charm. Setup in 2 minutes and you’re ready to rock!

This is the one that you really need to reach more people and to increase engagement on your Buddypress site. You don’t need special server setups like RedHat, etc, etc. Just install and rock! This plugin saved my buddypress platform … kudoooooooooooooosssssssssssss for the guys at uicoders.com!

@katiemeeks

You could also use one of these snippet in bp-custom