[jameat]

Hi Jeff

I tried that but I must be doing something wrong as it doesn’t work.
I created a bp-custom.php file and put it in the plugins folder (not buddy press).

This is exactly what I wrote

<?php

// hacks and mods will go here
define( ‘BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION’, ‘forum’ );

?>

Where am I going wrong? Help would be much appreciated.

[m1000]

I’m using Buddypress and bbpress for group forums. You have 1 new reply to … is working fine on the admin bar but somehow my code can’t display this kind of notification.

[BuddyBoss]

Hey there, I’m the author of BuddyBoss. This is not the default behavior in the theme. Have you updated to the latest version? 3.0.6 put out a patch for notifications before BuddyPress 1.9 came out, and I have a feeling you’re using a version prior to that as that could cause a blank page without the patch. If you still have issues after updating head over to our support forums and TJ will happily help you out.

[quince85]

@ubernaut
I read this as well, but it still not working.
I’m using attitude theme
I created child theme and created buddypress.php and only create group works.
However, register page is blank and forums page is showing: ”
Search for: HOME › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness Group Forums Private: test (0, 0) 0 0 No Topics ”

[Tearstone]

I have run into an issue where I converted a vBulletin forum over to bbpress/buddypress combination.

I really do not quite understand why, but over the course of the past week since the migration. Me and my users have been getting non-stop emails 50-100 a day with @mentions. The longer a user has been involved in the community, the worse it got. I started out by completely disabling emails from WordPress, then I found r-a-y’s no mention plug-in. I’m hoping that does the trick.

Either way, there should be a way to disable certain notifications or messages transmitted from Buddypress.

Kudos to all the devs that work on this project! Thank you.

[quince85]

I really need help here. Even the forum is breaking.
Can anyone help me with this? It’s very important project I’m working on with the tight deadline
http://unicefchallenge.com/forums/
http://unicefchallenge.com/forums/topic/test-topic-1/

[focallocal]

this has also broken my forums as any linked to a group dont work anymore

[meg@info]

1 – edit your style.css of your theme, and remove buddypress from tags :

Tags: buddypress,white,one-column,two-columns,three-columns,right-sidebar,fixed-width,editor-style,custom-menu,custom-header,featured-images,full-width-template,theme-options,threaded-comments

2 – remove all this directories if they exisit on your theme :
‘activity’, ‘members’, ‘groups’, ‘bbpress’,’blogs’, ‘forums’, , ‘_inc’, ‘registration’.
(mybe you will find these directories on others sub dir like ‘lib’ or ‘buddypress’.

Hope this can help you!

[Ben Hansen]

it probably would not be that hard to create a page with a filtered activity loop that would look very similar, but also probably not nested. another thing is you could probably make is some kind of plugin which which alters the layout of bbpress content. both of those things are well beyond my own area of expertise but you might also try the bbpress forums.

[wiste]

I didn’t take it away because it’s still useful, and with the filter options the general “noise” is much less. If you have a forum, it’s not the most used part of the network, the people who will be using my network are more focused on the forum. By making the forums the first thing they see and not the activity feed, it makes it so the activity feed is an extra feature and not the main focus of the group.

[Globetrotter12]

I understand that answering all those questions on the forum might be overwhelming but if you know how, anyone, please help, the launch of my site depends on that. I wont publish a site where the activity page is full of unuseful info and long comments page.

[wiste]

If you want to see what it looks like you can check out a group page on my website:

http://www.makeloops.com/groups/amigurumi-designers/forum/

[wiste]

If you want to see what it looks like you can check out a group page on my website:

http://www.makeloops.com/groups/amigurumi-designers/forum/

[wiste]

I made it so that the “home” tab was named the “activity” tab, moved it over, and made the “forum” tab the first tab that users see when viewing a group. That way at least the first thing they see isn’t the activity feed for the group which is very overwhelming.

You can do this for each group individually using the BuddPress Group Extras plugin, but you’d have to do it one group at a time. Instead, I added some code to my functions.php in my child theme to do the same thing, but for all groups.

Below are the two functions I created. The first renames the activity tab and moves it over, the second forces the “forum” tab to be the first tab a user sees when visiting the group (unless the group has no forum in which case it still defaults to the activity tab).

//function to reorder and rename group tabs in buddypress
function whff_setup_nav() 
{

global $bp;

  if (isset($bp->groups->current_group->slug) && $bp->groups->current_group->slug == $bp->current_item) 
  {
     $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['position'] = 110;
	 
	 $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['name'] = 'Activity';
	 
}

} 
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'whff_setup_nav', 100000 );

//function to redirect group home pages to the forum tab instead of the activity tab
function redirect_group_home() {
  global $bp;
  $path = clean_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
  $path = apply_filters( 'bp_uri', $path );
  if (bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['slug'] ) === false && bp_is_active('forums') ) {
    if ($bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member || $bp->groups->current_group->status == 'public') {
      bp_core_redirect( $path . 'forum/' );
    }
  }
  
}

add_action('bp_init', 'redirect_group_home');

[Ben Hansen]

if you have converted your group based forums to the new site wide forums i believe you can by using a post type switching plugin (i believe forum posts are just custom post types). You might need to do some re-write rules or something to make sure the links still work though. I would strongly advise you to try this whole scenario out on a staging or test server first before attempting it on your live site though.

[wiste]

I made a slight change to the function for redirecting the user to the forum instead of the activity page because I forgot that you can create groups that have no forums which results in the group page never being able to be found. Now if you the group h as no page the activity page will still be the first tab selected when viewing a group:

//function to redirect group home pages to the forum tab instead of the activity tab
function redirect_group_home() {
  global $bp;
  $path = clean_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
  $path = apply_filters( 'bp_uri', $path );
  if (bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['slug'] ) === false && bp_is_active('forums') ) {
    if ($bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member || $bp->groups->current_group->status == 'public') {
      bp_core_redirect( $path . 'forum/' );
    }
  }
  
}

add_action('bp_init', 'redirect_group_home');

[wiste]

No problem! I found your post because I had the exact same issue. On my site I’ve just renamed and reordered the tab because I think it’s still useful, it’s just information overload if that’s the first thing you see when coming upon a very busy group. I also disabled the ability to make comments on items in the group activity feed to reduce the confusion about where forum posts should be made.

[wiste]

Hi @rayela, since your original question never got answered I thought I’d give you an answer:

As you discovered, you can disable all activity feeds for your entire site by unchecking the “activities” component on the BuddyPress settings Components tab, but as you mentioned this results in a blank home page which isn’t good.

Unfortunately, you cannot fix this without writing code because there are no easy options to do this with BuddyPress (I feel your pain, I quit programming for a reason).

You will need to create a functions.php or bp-custom.php as mentioned above to add custom code to. This function will redirect it so that the forum tab is the “home page” for your group and remove the “home” tab so that it’s no longer visible:

function redirect_group_home() {
  global $bp;
  $path = clean_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
  $path = apply_filters( 'bp_uri', $path );
  if (bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['slug'] ) === false ) {
    if ($bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member || $bp->groups->current_group->status == 'public') {
      bp_core_redirect( $path . 'forum/' );
    }
  }
  
  $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home'] = false;
}

add_action('bp_init', 'redirect_group_home');

I’m not sure if you’re still active here but I felt after your amiable responses you deserved a real answer.

[wiste]

I’m calling it like I see it. Some of the responses I’ve seen here are down right uncivil. WordPress powers 20% of all websites on the internet, you think people sign up to use it because they’re just lazy programmers? No, they really don’t know how to program so when someone asks for help and says, “I don’t know how to program” telling them to go learn and stop bothering the “busy” developers is completely useless.

These forums are pointless because the developers are unresponsive. I can go to a dozen other forums and ask random blokes what they think I should do and get just as much help as I’ve seen anyone get here. At least if you didn’t have these forums people wouldn’t keep getting told to go here and ask for help by well meaning people who assume that help will be given when help is very unlikely to be received.

A large portion of the threads I see here are people asking for help, getting no response, and then either muddling through long enough to answer their own question or just giving up. If they are lucky enough to figure it out, there are half a dozen or more other people begging for the solution because they got no answer when they asked themselves. It’s completely dysfunctional.

[Hugo Ashmore]

WordPress was designed just so that people who didn’t know how to code could build custom blogs and websites.

No it wasn’t actually, it was originally just developed as a blogging app to be better than those that existed, and in the early days before the theme api or the plugins api were introduced you would have had to have some knowledge of basic coding. The notion that it should take all the effort and requirement to learn a little basic coding skills out of the equation didn’t really develop until much later.

I’m sorry you feel aggrieved at the level of help or that you perceive an attitude from some here as for referring to the ‘Devs’ that is likely a little unfair, for the most part they are busy developing the core app and knowing most of them I can say that they don’t have an attitude or ever put anyone down.

>You are lucky that you have users here helping one another, because for the most part they are the only one I see providing any support.

No not lucky this is how forums have always been intended to work, this is a classic volunteer help forum and it’s the general users that help out and return to the project or community their knowledge and experience to help users like yourself who hopefully in turn then help out others in turn.

[wiste]

@ubernaut thanks for the reply! Sorry but my internet has been down and life a little too busy to log back in here.

I finally got a reply from the theme developer, but his answer didn’t help. He did at least confirm that it was a problem with the theme and then told me to just upgrade to the new theme they were developing (which is still in beta and has massive problems), so not useful at all. I hacked in some custom CSS I’d found for someone else havign as similar problem with a different plugin to trick it into displaying correctly while I look for another theme.

I believe it is somehow related to the fact that buddypress sidebars are not the same as site sidebars, it just doesn’t see that there are any sidebars at all. I went through the codex and the pages and tried to see where I could fix it myself since the developer has essentially abandoned the theme but it’s just a little beyond my coding skills at present. I think my ultimate solution will be to find a theme by a developer with better support. Hopefully as I learn more problems like this will be less of an issue.

—

On another note:

I realize that this is an open source, free product but I have to say that the attitude from the developers here in the threads I’ve read is incredibly off putting. Rolling your eyes at people who’ve installed a plugin but do know how to code and find your codex incomprehensible is extremely unhelpful.

Wordpress was designed just so that people who didn’t know how to code could build custom blogs and websites. Whipping out a hipster sneer and telling them that they should be grateful is both rude and mean. You are the ones who chose to develop a plugin for a different user base than the core product. Don’t slap them across the face for assuming your plugin might work for them (since it’s apparently the #1 plugin on WordPress.org) and then having questions when it doesn’t.

I will say that having read the forums here first, I almost didn’t install BuddyPress at all because I don’t really want to interact with devs who treat their users so poorly solely based on the excuse that it’s free so you should be able to talk at us however you like, or simply ignore us if our questions are “too stupid”. If I didn’t have even at least a little experience with programming and web development I would’ve passed over it completely. I won’t be able to recommend it to any of my clients because I wouldn’t ask them to have to deal with this themselves.

You are lucky that you have users here helping one another, because for the most part they are the only one I see providing any support.

[Hugo Ashmore]

> I’m conflicted on how much we can realistically support themes that deviate so far from the norm.

I see no real conflict to be resolved, it’s impossible for BP to take into account unknown divergences from the core template api WP provides, if theme authors want to create something non-standard then sadly that’s their problem and unfair to expect BP to have to try and deal with this. The best BP can do and is doing pretty well is to tie in as much as possible to the set WP template approach and if all themes did the same – and frankly they probably could regardless of proprietary approach to frameworking – then this would be a non issue.

>that now uncover pretty fatal flaws in several themes

Flaws that existed and have existed in many themes that do their own thing.

Where that leaves things is sadly fairly and squarely in the theme authors court to try and help provide a solution for template issues.

On a sidenote on another thread I noted a response relayed from a theme author to the user on enquiry of how to resolve their theme issue that the theme author couldn’t possibly support every third party plugin issue that happened along! It’s worth perhaps pointing out to any theme authors that might happen past this thread that there are plugins and there are plugins that really are best described as modules that extend WP they transcend the notion of a simple plugin and leverage the WP API to it’s fullest, these plugins, and I’m thinking of BuddyPress and bbPress here are in wide spread use, and really the smart theme author might be advised to actually test their themes with both these ‘plugins’ to gauge the level of support the theme offers and where possible improve it!

Obviously the above isn’t a great deal of help to those of you having these issues, but this forum is going to struggle to help on these sorts of issues being it’s primary purpose has to be directly related to BP issues and third party themes especially premium ones are something we can’t deal with due to lack of knowledge on how they are constructed.

[focallocal]

using response 2.0. it was working working fine with BP 1.8.1 before i updated but now something is broken, even after i downloaded and re-installed 1.8.1.

if you click the link above and then click on any group you’ll see it just opens a blank page.. so all the content has gone. forums, activity, etc.

[modemlooper]

search this forum its been a previous topic

[ofloveandbeauty]

Thanks for the reply @mercime. I looked into Genesis Connect and it appears that a compatibility plugin is no longer needed as of BP 1.7. (I did try it myself and it made things look worse rather than better.) And yes, I have checked the Studio Press forums, and have also posted my question there.

If I find a solution, I’ll post it here.

Also, since this is a problem that can only be seen when logged in, here is a screenshot: http://kingdompen.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2nd-level-dropdown-blank.png