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I wrote my own theme and am always trying to do things the right way but initially things were not working correctly with bbPress or BuddyPress. I now realise was my theme using the_excerpt rather than the_content on the special pages.

I’d read the topics in the buddypress codex on theme support but these mainly addressed the issue of altering pages using the template selection rather then explaining what a theme author needs to do to make their theme work properly with bbPress or BuddyPress. Just explaining how it injects its content into pages (by hooking the_content) is not immediately obvious to the newcomer.

In my theme I had been using is_singular() to know when to show content rather then expert and use parameterised preferences for each post type for when is_singluar() was false.

Simply changing this test to (is_singular() || is_page()) suddenly turned my theme from incompatible to reasonably compatible. The “/forums” slug still did not work properly but after searching around I discovered the is_bbPress() function and expanded the test to:

(is_singular() || is_page() || (function_exists(‘is_bbPress’) && is_bbPress()))

There may be other tricks and gotchas I haven’t found yet, but as I say it would be really nice to have a topic directed specifically at theme authors to make sure they know what needs to be in place to make things work.

Our buddypress plugin main plugin was deactivated by accident and now we can no longer access any content on the website or login ad admin to reactivate it.

I am not sure what to do. We had a backup of the entire wordpress installation prior to that mistake and it was restored in full. This is from the error log:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_is_register_page() in /home1/tgscca1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/s2member/includes/classes/custom-reg-fields-4bp.inc.php on line 50

Looks like your theme css is overriding BuddyPress.

hi @aniclip

it’s not a bug, you just try to translate something that doesn’t exist in the original file !
The exact string is Notify group members of these changes via email

If you’re using BP 1.9 the string to translate looks like this in the po file:

5912 #: bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/single/admin.php:26
5913 #: bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/admin.php:26
5914 msgid “Notify group members of these changes via email”
5915 msgstr “Signaler par mail les changements aux membres du groupe”

If you need the fr_FR translations, you can find them here:
https://i18n.trac.buddypress.org/browser/fr_FR/tags

And in the future, also here:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev/fr/default

And of course, any information about translating BP in french is on the french BuddyPress site: http://bp-fr.net

Ok what is not clear in that particular guide is the necessity of creating a new forum but selecting ‘category’ rather than ‘forum’ when you save/create it, this category is the groups forums parent and the slug that you would see appear in that select option, the one referenced ‘Groups Forum’ is simply an example name.

Have a read of this other guide to installing bbPress from new written by our own @mercime as it explains the steps very clearly:

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

The upgrading guide will need a little editing to make things clearer.

Hi, I tried this code but it doesn’t seem to do anything? Is there a change that needs to be made to it for latest BuddyPress versions?
Thanks.

Tried reinstalling BP – still REDIRECT LOOP disaster. On top of that, deleting the plug-in is impossible. When I hit “Deactivate” in Safari OR Chrome, I wait – then get “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in… buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php on line 195”

Just a mess. Deleting all tables and manually removing the plug via ftp again. Ughhhh!

@mbonner considering it’s a brand new site then root profiles will be disabled (that is the default) so it can’t be related to that problem.

Try updating BP to 1.9.2 (released yesterday) and deactivate WooCommerce. There shouldn’t be any conflict with bbPress and BuddyPress. However, WooCommerce is third party so there might be a conflict there.

I’m going to post this thread in BuddyPress forums to see if they are aware of what’s going on but any help here would be greatly appreciated.

This is the BuddyPress forum?

Regarding root profiles, there may be a problem with certain logic working in 1.9.2 if root profiles are enabled. Root profiles are enabled if your links look like this:

example.com/username

rather than:

example.com/members/username

@fkapnist
>What is version 1.9.2 supposed to fix anyway? I could not find any documentation
There’s very clear documentation, right there on the main blog!
https://buddypress.org/blog/
If you want help, you’ll need to provide as much detailed info as possible on your setup, in particular your theme in use and it’s approach to working with BP.

Hello I BuddyPress is gone now I only have 2 blank pages in the network and groups http://fanphone.altervista.org page “attività and groups”

Hello I BuddyPress is gone now I only have 2 blank pages in the network and groups http://fanphone.altervista.org page “attività and groups”

Are you using root profiles?

Your problem may be related to a change which went live in 1.9.2. Have a read this ticket from comment 10 onwards:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5307