[@mercime]

@tom-peak there’s no longer any Forums Component circa BP 1.7. You need to install the bbPress forums plugin https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[Tom Peak]

There is no Component Forums… I’ve been there.

[omgayush]

Are you using the default theme provided by WordPress? Have you installed bbpress?
To go to BuddyPress settings, go to
Settings > Buddypress..

[bp-help]

@wlk-1
BuddyPress xProfiles ACL hasn’t been updated in almost 2 years so I doubt it is compatible with the current version of BP. You can always request support from the plugin authors support forum but from what I can see the author has not been active on that forum in over a year.

[bp-help]

@silvre
Anything is possible if you have the skill to accomplish it. What your trying to do shouldn’t be too hard if you know WP and BP. The person that could perhaps shed more light is @sbrajesh from http://buddydev.com since it is his plugin and he is one of the best BuddyPress developers out there period. Don’t discount however the other members that volunteer here because your in good company on this forum and there are lots of members with vast knowledge of BP.

[fredje007]

I found this issue is caused by RTmedia Plugin (former Buddypress media). Once disabled group avatars uploading went fine, once activated again group avatar uploads did not work anymore. I will post this issue on their forum

[Faramarz]

Hi, Thanks again @mercime, you are a life saver.. Looking at the thread, looks like this is a Buddypress issue and not bbpress. I see a lot of people are fixing the issue by replacing the ‘groups’ folder with the one in version 1.7.3. Is that something that you or Buddypress peeps recommend? Is that going to cause other problems down the road?

For one thing, I know the group folder will be overwritten again when a new update is available.

[@mercime]

@faramarz thanks for posting the error, see https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fatal-error-unable-to-create-forum-from-buddypress-group/#post-135487

EDIT – Trac Ticket at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2374

[marbler]

I am getting this as well since upgrading to the latest version of BP.

I see it when I go to Admin and then Extras:

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/….public_html/…/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-groups-extras/core/loader.php on line 345

Any ideas of a fix. I have seen people on the BBPress forum also talking about this (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fatal-error-unable-to-create-forum-from-buddypress-group/)
but I don’t think it is BBPress relate because I am not using this on my site.

[Faramarz]

@mercime.. I am still getting the same error even after changing my URL and my subdomain. When I check my error_log file, I get this error:

[28-Jul-2013 22:51:11] PHP Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php on line 461

I’ll post this question in BBpress forum as well. I thought maybe you’ve experienced the same issue before.

This is on bbpress 2.3.2 and buddypress 1.8 and I followed every step of instructions on this page to create a sitewide forum and forum for buddypress groups:
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Thanks

[Mike Olaski]

I added [bbp-forum-index] to a /test/ page. That worked.

Given the instructions on (https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/), I did the following:

#3 -If you kept the default “forums” slug in Settings > Forums, you can create a new Page via Pages > Add New. Add Title “Forums” and insert the forums index shortcode and/or other bbPress shortcode you’ll find in the bbPress Codex then publish the new page.

But somethings broken.

Thanks,

Mike

[Mike Olaski]

Thanks guys. Definately referred to those when installing.

This is essentially new WP install with new BP and bb. BP came first. Both at most recent versions.

Most everything seems to be working, but I wonder if somethings missing in those “Tabs” and “Modules”. Are they just gone now.

My biggest concern is that [bbp-forum-index] doesn’t seem that functional. The page that I created to put that shortcode on only has 1 link (continue reading). Also the Edit Page link in the adminbar is missing.

I have 4 created forums that I would expect to display here no?

Thanks,

Mike

[Faramarz]

Update: I figured out what the problem was. When I created a Wildcard, my hosting cPanel adds the word ‘Wildcard’ to the end of my document root, so my document root was /public_html/Wildcard. I changed it to /public_html and that fixed the subdomain issue. Now http://community.example.com/ is accessible via admin and browser :). I guess I don’t need to install the Domain Mapping plugin anymore, and I am still not sure what exactly that plugin does.

Now back to fixing the Forum/Group issue.

[Faramarz]

The more I read, the more I understand how much I do not know about Multisites. I read something about WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin. Is that something that I need to install to enable my sub-domain website? So far, I have only created a Wildcard in my host.

Please note: I do not want my users to create their own websites (and sub-domains). I only want to have one main site http://example.com (I decided to get rid of www) and one Community site for BuddyPress which is: http://community.example.com

Thanks

[@mercime]

@emjayoh https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[Faramarz]

@mercime first I want to thank you for your help and support.

I started over fresh, restored my database, disabled WordPress Multisite, changed my website URL structure in my single site to http://example.com (no more wwww).. then I reactivated Multisite and recreated my community site and this time WordPress allowed my to create it as a subdomain.. so now I have http://community.example.com but when I tried to View the site in browser, I got this error: “Oops! Google Chrome could not find community.example.com”.. then I remembered I did not create a Wildcard.. I created a Wildcard as this articles describes but that didn’t really help.. I thought maybe it’s the cache issue. Today, I do not get the same error as last night (“Oops!…”) but instead, I get to a Bluehost page (my hosting company).. Looks like I am getting close but I guess I am missing a step or something. I posted this question on WordPress Multisite forum but unfortunately no responses yet.

Do you have any idea what I am missing? Thanks

[Hugo Ashmore]

Yes old. There are codex docs that do guide on using bbPress with BP or migrating older bp group forums to bbPress standalone plugin, jut have another hunt through them.

[Techknowledgic]

about the size of the images I think it’s a CSS problem and I will try to get I solved

about the second problem I found the registration page but there is no registration button

here is the log in page or the main forum page http://www.techknowledgic.com/forums

and here is the registration page which I found it after I click on the log in which I will be redirected to this page http://www.techknowledgic.com/wp-login.php and then I have to click register and I go to this page http://www.techknowledgic.com/buddypress/register

so please guys anyone can help me get the registration button to the maain forums page?

Thanks!

[Uncle Jimmy]

@mercime lol ..I forgot to mention my theme didn’t have a page.php file!, ha! ..so when I dropped one in there, poof! there was my reg/act pages..Made my day! lol, and yes, my other pages seemed fine..just lucky grappling around if ya ask me, lol.

The theme is as basic as they come so I could build from the ground up, but your right!, if it would have been a purchased theme from RocketTheme [with most assuredly a page.php file] it would have blown my site to bits! lol!

As to forum assistance – I totally understand and deeply appreciate you all with all my heart, you wonderful people have brought open source to the table and I love you all! My entire site is WordPress/BuddyPress/bbPress and is only possible because of you all.

I apologize if my remark sounded offensive, I certainly didn’t mean for it to.

I am having other issues with BuddyPress but I’ll tackle those one Topic at a time now that I’m get’n familiar with the many Forums BuddyPress.org has.

Most people probably do have Themes with page.php files so I WAS fortunate in this case and it probably is an unusual case.

I’m more of an artist than a code junky but it has become necessary for me to familiarize myself with it to deal with a perpetual shoestring budget. I do hope to not be too much of a pest around here.

Again, thanks so much for being here. 🙂

[@mercime]

@uncle-jimmy Glad you resolved your issue and thank you for posting your solution. You are indeed fortunate that copying over the page.php file from the BP Default theme into your gantry theme folder replacing your theme’s page.php file would work in this case 🙂 I assume that your other non-BP Pages are working as well?

As to forum assistance – please be aware that we are all volunteers living in different time zones. We do try to help as many as we possibly can. Cheers.

[@mercime]

@pssawhney you could post at http://jpbs.wordpress.net/ if you have the budget to hire a developer.

If you have no budget but would have to create the site all by youself, then post at the bbPress.org forums, in the WordPress.org forums and here of course. Do post specific questions per topic i.e., do not cram all your issues in one topic. That way, those who know how to resolve certain issues would respond to your topic and help out. There’s no guarantee that all your questions will be answered but at least you’re steps closer to where you want to go.

[Uncle Jimmy]

By copying [page.php] from this directory;

/christianitees/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/page.php

to this directory;

/christianitees/wp-content/themes/rt_gantry_wp/page.php

my Registration and Activation Pages immediately appeared…wahoooo!

Guess I’d call this RESOLVED!

The repeatedly referred to [https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/template-hierarchy/#base-templates] clued me what to do.

Hope this helps someone cause I didn’t get a response from the forum.

[Georg]

Okay, at least I found out roughly whats happening: The buddypress legacy group forums (which I have since I started a community originally with buddypress 1.6x) is working fine in 1.8. However, newly created legacy group forums in 1.8 do give above error notice and the forums do not work at all.

Was this mentioned somewhere in the update notes? If not, it should be, because it created quite some trouble.

Even worse then is what I described above, that I can’t simply switch and convert to the new bbpress 2.3 group forums, since then all attachments are lost to normal user interface (and since we have several hundred documents attached, manually reassigning them somehow is not an option).

For now, I had to switch back to buddypress 1.7.3 where newly created groups have functioning forums and the attachments using U Forum Buddypress Attachments plugin are included.

I had a rough look at the sql database and can’t imagine an easy quick way to migrate attachments from U Forum Buddypress Attachments plugin to e.g. GD bppress attachments, which would work with bbpress 2.3 group forums.

Does anyone have a clue whether and how that would be possible in an automated way? Otherwise I can’t update buddypress without losing functionality of either creating new groups with working forums or losing all previous attachments in posts!

[blg002]

Yeah i figured as much. This forum is usually just so much more responsive 🙂

[Hugo Ashmore]

This is buddypress support, question is probably better served on bbPress support really.