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@kdforf here you go https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F1.6&old=6231&new_path=%2Ftags%2F1.6.2&new=6567

First thing you do is check the BP codex documentation where you will find a walkthrough for this step people seem to get stuck on. Have a read and a go at starting the process off and report back to this thread with your results and issues.

Or better still if you can hang on and wait for BP 1.7 to be released, that will work with any theme and is the best option really.

I am not sure that something is out there to do that but it does sound like a nice idea and I can see it being useful. Off the top of my head you could do something possibly using profile fields. Maybe in a similar way to tagging. There probably are a number of ways to achieve this though.

Upgrading is not something to be fearful about if you do it methodically. First up, 1.7 hasn’t been released yet so if you’re going to upgrade my suggestion would be to go to 1.6.x (whatever the latest is when you do it). That way you can ensure you’re also ready for when 1.7 comes out. You can of course run ‘bleeding edge’ or the latest 1.7 but if you’re upgrading and it’s a live community you may not want to do that.

Next, my advice is make a list of all the plugins and check each to see if they are updated. If they aren’t note it and when you reactivate all plugins do those one by one to see if they work or break your site. You may even want to do that testing on a test site.

Before you do anything you need to back up – this is your safety net. Remove all plugins, make sure you have the latest theme and use the default one first then load the default BuddyPress theme first. Doing in stages means you can check as you do each one and know what is responsible for the issue if you do find any.

hi,

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switch-my-main-network-site-home-page-to-wp-loginphp
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Alternative: http://w4dev.com/wp/wordpress-login-page/

@kizzywizzy, BP 1.6.2 use wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.8.3

@gorod, it seems that you installed bbpress as standalone forum plugin instead of using Group Forums. Anyway, both can be used, the only thing to take care of, is the forum base name. BP Group Forum use “forums” by priority, even if you use bbPress as plugin. So if you use bbpress, you have to rename the forum base name to something other as “forums”. See “forums > settings” to change this.
Here’s a video for more explanation: http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/
and something older, but good to understand on how all this works, on the codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums-v1-5/

I’m confused…

To keep the admin toolbar in place for everyone, all the time, go to Settings > BuddyPress > Settings page — Main Settings – Toolbar and leave the box unchecked.

The Toolbar line under Main Settings reads “[checkbox] Show the Toolbar for logged out users”

If I uncheck the box, would the toolbar not disappear for visitors that have not logged in???

thx mercime…but now i have another issue…
i thought the link you gave me was the fix for for 4510 and was to be applied to BP 1.6.2

when going thru the change set i noticed that in my installed ver of BP which i confirmed is 1.6.2 there are no “legacy” folders as specified in the changeset below:

bp-themes/bp-legacy/buddypress-functions.php (3 diffs)
bp-themes/bp-legacy/js/buddypress.js (2 diffs)
—————————————————————-
trunk/bp-loader.php
change line 269 does not exist
– $this->version = ‘1.7-bleeding-6305’;
+ $this->version = ‘1.7-bleeding-6326’;

my .php file line 269 has $root_blog_id = 1;
—————————————————————-
and i can’t remember which but the file did not change at all..
????
i know i’m looking at the correct installation and directories.

could you give me some guidance.

thanks in advance,

I am also having the same issue. I am served on Bluehost pro using the most current WP and BP. Registration seems to come and go randomly, I have tried deactivating EVERY plugin to no avail. I also deleted the buddypress plugin, deleted its folder, then re installed it fresh: same problem

I can register in google chrome on my computer, but not in IE or Firefox. Other folks are reporting the same problem, including google chrome on certain devices. My new website is now at an absolute standstill because of this. I just can’t seem to remedy the situation.

@ubernaut that is correct.

Good to hear it, @bluellipse!

And sorry, BuddyPress Mods, and everyone else, for the multiple replies here that I couldn’t get to work properly with the correct code (backticks, [code][/code], etc.) showing?

@bluellipse it’s not letting me place the code within the reply for some reason, so just find what I’ve been able to post above (it stripped some of it away, such as; meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0″) and remove that entire line of code that exists between the php statements and you should be good to go.

Hey @bluellipse don’t worry about reverting or any of that other jazz, just try removing the following code from your header.php file near the top;

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Of course, place the updated header.php file in your child theme so that it’s not overwritten on the next update.

I can’t recall offhand if we’d also deleted anything else, but I’m pretty sure that this will quickly solve your problem.

Sorry everyone, but the “responsiveness” does look terrible on mobile, at least concerning the BP-Default/child theme, and we killed it off as soon as it showed up and are currently exploring other options for mobile, which is extremely important these days, no doubt about it, but achieving it by making your site into a jumbled mess is most definitely not the way to go here.

Hope this helps!

@sureshkutti Did you go through the steps posted here? https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

If not, how did you install your group forums and your sitewide forums? Which did you set up first? What’s the slug/URL of your Group forums? What’s the slug/URL of your Sitewide forums?

As for the Anonymous posting you set up in Sitewide Forums, best place to troubleshoot that would be at https://bbpress.org/support/

What you are trying to do isn’t going to be easy (or advisable, in my opinion). It’s probably going to involve extracting an older version on bp default from a much older then current version of buddypress (and probably having to do a lot of modification) or something equally unpleasant. Making something which is designed as responsive unresponsive is a little bit like making a car out of spare parts from a plane (a lot more trouble then it’s typically worth).

Not trying to judge your motivations at all here but you may want to consider if you can live with a responsive theme as it has a lot of benefits if you can. Mobile device traffic share is growing everyday and i suspect it won’t be long before most web traffic is via mobile devices. In fact google has even issued statements to the fact that there a search benefits for using single responsive design as opposed to distinct layouts for different devices:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/responsive-design-harnessing-power-of.html

Obviously, i have no idea why you don’t like responsive so maybe that’s all irrelevant but i just thought you might want to consider that.

well there is https://codex.buddypress.org/ but it is a little more geared for development as opposed to usage the way the wpmudev.org one you referred to is.

i would defer to anything hugo tells you but i’m still wondering if you are getting any wp generated emails (for comments, wp registrations) if you are not then it would tend to indicate some thing is wrong with the way wp and/or your server is configured and not have anything to do with buddypress itself. just my 2 cents.

Ok, I did what your asked me to do last night. I deactivated all the plugins and then activated the BuddyPress default theme. I get the same results. I sign up to be come a new member and I do not get the confirmation email. I have attempted to sign up with a number of email accounts that I have and nothing is going into my spam folders or my inbox.

Are you using multisite? Are you installing as admin full rights or as a user? What hosting are you using – self hosted or with a hosting company that installed WordPress?

What version of BuddyPress are you using?

My ‘gut’ reaction when commenting doesn’t work would be it’s scripting but you say it’s commenting only for users. So that doesn’t really apply – scripting would mean it was broken for one and all.

Have you tried with the default theme for BuddyPress? Just as a sanity check?