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Hi,

have you the same issue with bp-default theme ?

there are plugins for bbpress not sure what else to say

My point was that as long as you have all the correct files backed up there is really very little risk.

I don’t see any particular reason that you would have any problems.

Regarding the update notice. That is strange. Do you get update notices on other plugins and WordPress?

Btw, is there any reason that you are not just upgrading to WordPress 3.5.1 and Buddypress 1.6.4? These are the versions that are the best tested and that you are most likely to be able to get specific advice for.

Regarding a manual update. Yes, just deactivate and delete (after backing it up of course!) the Buddypress plugin and then upload the new one and activate it.

I can’t imagine it will be all that bad 🙂

Hi guys,

I think I have the same problem, just tried and tried many times to solve it, but it won’t work… I got this message:

Warning: require() [function.require]: Filename cannot be empty in /home/prima430/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-sa.php on line 42

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ” (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/prima430/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-sa.php on line 42

And the on config tab I got this:

Forums Settings
bbPress Configuration
Repair File does not exist
Absolute path to your bbPress configuration file.

I have bb-config at the root and just tried “/”, “/home/username/publica_html/” and nothing works…

Even if I deactivate bbpress and ask buddypress to uninstall group forums, the system reinstall it and the problem continues…

Any tip? Thanks and regards,

Thanks, Felipe

Actually what I meant to say is that a child theme is not required but if your modifying your theme files whether it be the “Responsive WordPress Theme” or some other wordpress theme to work with buddypress then my instructions are correct. @modemlooper your great but it is still best for people to make child themes even with BP 1.7 beta 1. Reason being for example is when they update their particular theme from wordpress or they made a lot of changes in the child themes style.css, header.php, or footer.php etc. In any other instance then I am correct. my case it was a plain Jaine wordpress responsive child theme and it work perfectly! We can’t discount the value of a child theme for update reasons so we need to get clear on this! Maybe I suppose with the compatibility layer it is now a wordpress.org issue but people do need to be aware of it when installing buddypress because its a little different now but its not rocket science either!

Hi @hsutliff

To take care of the second, there’s a plugin we’ve built aplugin, BuddyPress Media. Do check it out. It’ll sort out the uploading and sharing of media.

Regards.

Your welcome, and hope my tips helped you!

You could talk to the theme authors and maybe they will help simplify the process otherwise you will need to make the adjustments using a tool like firebug for firefox to target the elements. If you have made a child theme then you can add the adjustments to the style.css so when your parent theme is updated the adjustments you made will remain intact.

Hi@evo252,

in the BP 1.0 branch there was a CSV based country field in xprofile.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches?order=name#1.0/bp-xprofile/prebuilt-fields

Take a look in the code and see if you can build something for 1.6.4 or 1.7.

Since 2008, Google Map became a must have. And IMO it’s a better geoloc tool as a simple city/country dropdown witch only prevent end users from having to write themselves the name of their city and their country….
Doing this is much more complicated as you think. Over 160 countries on earth and millions of cities. What kind of server do you need to just store these informations and to make them work together ?

Typing country and city is the same effort as typing name and first name for the end user. Let them write and use something powerfull, existent and easy to use and show AND effort less for you too.

Spare your time and made it simple so far ! 😉
Give this plugin a try: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-user-profile-map/

Or search another map plugin : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=map

And one other thing if you did this right you do not need a page called community, the community nav item is just a place holder for all your buddypress page links. When you hover it clicking community will not do anything but clicking its subnav items will take you to the buddypress pages you want in the subnav, subtle but effective.

By the way when you created the custom menu you did not need to parent anything in the buddypress pages. The custom menu does this when you nested those pages in the custom menu screen in the dashboard.

Here is a trick, when you create a custom menu as you have then create a dummy link url under custom links and label it “Community”. Add this to to custom menu drag it to the top above the other buddypress menu items, delete the dummy url in community you created and nest the rest of the buddypress menu items under it by dragging them in to the right so the are nested under the community menu item you created. Save menu! Works on my installation, and about 30 others I did.

@modemlooper its not required for the buddypress side of things but it is for the wordpress theme updates side of things unless you wanna loose the changes you may have made to the header.php, footer.php, functions.php, style.css etc.

sure, if you want to make a child of your theme but it’s not required

@modemlooper But what if you have a wordpress theme like The Responsive Theme for instance and you want to make drastic changes to it. Wouldn’t it still be a better idea to make child theme? When I say child theme I mean just basically making a child theme for a wordpress theme not a buddypress theme.

You no longer need child themes. Please read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-compatibility/

As long as you include the template files in your active theme you can update the BuddyPress plugin and preserve changes.