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I think now it’s better because my website developer helped me with it http://www.techknowledgic.com/forums

but if a visitor wants to register do they have to register with wordpress to be able to log in to my site? I mean I can’t have my own registration area?

ty

tks, mercime… u’re the best…

Could you be so kind as to assist me in providing the code to tag the_content and the_title in the buddypress file and all its related?

cheers

I mean in the WP admin area and I see it in the dashboard

and about the pic I have asked a question yesterday about re sizing the pic size in the forum https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-resize-memebrs-images-sizes/

idk what’s going on with me and why nothing is working

and about the weird characters also they are available almost in all the pages like the contact us for example it ends with #.Ue-C0PnI1FM I thought that it’s normal but I will check this out with the developer if he solve it

– Let’s test. Create a new Page named Discussions and place the forums shortcode there. Go to Settings > Forums and change archive slug to discussions. Then go to technowldgic.com/discussions/ and check out your forums

I tried this and after saving the setting the forum page became 404 error page and also I am seeing this error near the box where I wrote discussions “Possible bbPress conflict: Topics base” so I removed it and wrote forums and topics again in the archive slugs

Going back to logging in. I added the bbPress login widget to the sidebar of Twenty Twelve theme and it’s working fine even with BuddyPress activated. What are you using for your users to log in?

I don’t think I am using anything, I thought everything would come with the buddypress plugin like the log in area and everything else. what should I use?

and I am so sorry for asking too many questions and having too many problems but idk why I am so lost by installing the forum

and ty so much for ur help

i have done this, it does cause some small issues, for example when adding group avatar there some issue appeared but still it has added the image. Would be good to solve this issue:)

Ok !
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5111

I want to thank you so much for your assistance in this matter.

You don’t know how much it means to me to have you pointing out that the first link is what matters in my case.

I’ll look into the child theme compatibility issue and making of the buddypress.php. Could you assist in providing the code to tag the_content and the_title in this file?

Lastly, is this all that I need to do? I guess in your own way you’ve answered my Questions 1 and 2. But how about No.3? Do I have to copy files from:

/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/
To:
/my-theme/community/ or /my-theme/buddypress/

as stated in your article?

I apologise for taking up your time in this matter and I cannot thank you enough for your kind assistance. Please forgive my newbie questions; I’m trying really hard to understand this and get it to work.

cheers

I’ve tried changing it to Twenty Twelve and I can see the BP pages. So, it’s definitely an issue with my theme.

Ok, after reading and rereading the codex, these are the questions in my head:
1. Am I supposed to create a child theme?
If yes, is the child theme directory supposed to read /parenttheme-child/ or /buddypress/ ?

2. you mentioned about these list of templates:
– plugin-buddypress.php
– buddypress.php
– community.php
– generic.php
– page.php
– single.php
– index.php

I gather from the article that BP will use JUST 1 of this. Did I understand this correctly?
If yes, am I supposed to copy one of these files into the child theme directory?
If I’m not supposed to create a child theme, which sub-directory should this file be found in my theme directory?

For my case, I have none of the above files in my theme’s directory. The closest I have is mytheme/includes/news-single.php. Is this supposed to be the directory that this file should be found? Am I supposed to rename this file? Or am I supposed to rename and copy this file into the child theme directory? Or am I supposed to create a new php file altogether for my case? And, if so, how do I go about doing it?

3. You mentioned in your article that Template compatibility also runs a check to see if two directories or folders exist in a theme:
‘buddypress’
‘community’

I’ve checked and they don’t exist in my theme directory. Can I safely conclude that BP will use the files in the plugin and that I won’t need to create these folders in my theme? Or do I need to create them in my theme or child theme?

While still on this, you mentioned in your article:

“Therefore, you can modify any bp theme compatibility template by copying it over from:
/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/
To:
/my-theme/community/ or /my-theme/buddypress/”

Am I supposed to create either community or buddy press and copy the files I found in the BP plugin /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ into them? And if I’m supposed to create a child theme, am I supposed to create these in the child theme instead and copy these into them? Or should I do nothing at all?

Please advise and assist me in this; I’m really very confused. Or if it’s in any way possible, could you list down the steps that I’m supposed to take?

Thanks.

@hnla, since you have been patient with me so far, Hugo, can you help me with my initial question of the Activity streams? I found the following and made notes in my forum help area on my site:

I want to disable replies on the Activity Streams because they do not carry through to the original post in the Group Forums.

My notes on how to do this:

Post on why this is confusing: http://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/your-members-might-be-confused-activity-stream-comment-vs-group-forum-reply/

Discussion about this on GitHub: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/73

Solution by boonebgorges (one of the BuddyPress authors):
Putting this line in your functions.php or bp-custom.php file will disable all activity stream commenting:

add_filter( ‘bp_activity_can_comment’, ‘__return_false’ );

Note on bp-custom.php file:
Creating your file

bp-custom.php does not exist by default. If you don’t have a file located at /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php, go ahead and create a blank file with the following:

?
1
2
3
< ?php
// hacks and mods will go here
?>
Next, save the file as “bp-custom.php” and verify that this file is located at /wp-content/plugins/.

Now, when you encounter a forum thread telling you to put a code snippet in bp-custom.php, you’ll know what to do!
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/

Action:
How is this done? Do I go to my control panel and create a file there?

I tried to deactivate bbpress and the forum got deleted and the page which is mywebsite.com/forums became not available and giving 404 error and when I activated it again it worked again and in both cases I can’t see log in or register or anything in the page

and about the second question actually there was someone that was developing my website and he is done now with the website and now I am just trying to fix some issues with it before I launch it so idk if he used GoDaddy or not but when I log in to my admin area I see this message “Go Daddy Quick Setup ™
Build your WordPress site in just a few clicks.

Get Started No thanks, I’m good.” and sure with pictures and stuff but this is in general so maybe he didn’t use GoDaddy and also I have an FTP account to upload files or images but I just edit my site by the admin area mywebsite.com/wp-admin

and here is the link of the forum if you wanna check it clearly and see the details http://www.techknowledgic.com/forums

ty

Any help guys?

I am sorry I am just bumping the thread but I really need to solve this issue ASAP and run the forum to start running my website because it’s the only problem left

ty

ha ha ha… u’re right, Hugo… tks for the humour…

I’m using Legatus Theme from Orange Themes and my website is http://www.modacustica.com.

I’ve installed buddypress 1.8 and I have all the 5 pages created without any problem. However, when I click on them, they are all empty. I’ve tried changing the theme to another and the pages were alright. So I kinda concluded that it gotta be the Legatus Theme.

Please take a look at my site and advise me on what I should do next.

Thanks.

Hello @notpoppy,

Yes, with Ray’s help, I was able to resolve this. I had posted this problem in this (buddypress.org) and CBOX (commonsinabox.org) forums.

The details can be found in the http://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/problems-migrating-old-forums-to-bbpress-2-2/ thread in the CBOX forum. Look for my post dated February 6, 2013 at 5:18 pm and read on.

I did document my successful BP->bb forums migration process. And, I can send it to you as pdf if needed.

Hope this helps and good luck.