[Techknowledgic]

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

[@mercime]

@jianzhi Manual edit at this time 🙂
Edit your first post, add [Resolved] to front of title. For your own forums, you can install a cool plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddy-bbpress-support-topic/

[aces]

@notpoppy

I just found http://tompenney.com/updating-buddypress-legacy-forums-on-multisite-to-bbpress/ is it any help?

My forums converted ok but there wasn’t much material, however I found the above while trying to solve my messed up menu and theme customisation….

[Bjwangschowe]

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.

[notpoppy]

I’m having the same problem – did you ever get to the bottom of this @bjwangschowe?

[Rachel Biel]

Thanks, Hugo. I do appreciate the dialog, but now there is another issue and I’m at my wits end. I was trying different editors the skinny one that BuddyPress provides now is not so great. All of a sudden, I could not post in forums. I had lost my permissions as an administrator. I was already tired and worked on it for two hours, scouring the forums again, even finding you in the threads I was looking at, and finally got it fixed by using an old bbpress file in your repository and then doing an update as one guy suggested. The forum was back, I could post again, I went to sleep.

Woke up and it’s the same thing. This is really awful. I would love to get involved, volunteer, etc., but I already sit at the computer 10 hours a day for very little income and last night I lost a $100 ad because the site wasn’t working. Hopefully, she will still do it, but now I am really nervous about BuddyPress’s stability. I’ve invested hundreds of hours in the last six months getting this thing to work and now it finally seemed like we were moving forward and this happens. I really am overwhelmed.

Is there a fix that is working to restore admin privileges?

[Techknowledgic]

Thanks for ur reply!

1-I create sitewide forum as written here https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/#a-set-up-sitewide-forums-only but without the bbpress group part because I only want forum and not groups

2-Yes I can create topics now maybe there was something wrong before

3-Yes its enabled and I still can’t register or log in

ty

[Hugo Ashmore]

(Make you smile?)
More or less.

If I were given a really nice house for free I would suffer it’s little flaws, I would attempt to learn how to construct window frames by studying books etc, however what I wouldn’t be doing is ‘looking a gift horse in the mouth’ to quote a metaphor – not suggesting that this what you are doing here though, but the point being that nothing is perfect, and BP has it’s issues and is in ongoing development; it’s not a finished product but one stable enough, developed enough that it serves sites well enough to be used, it can, and works best, when extended, modified, adjusted to suit the particular sites purpose.

If it’s an inherent problem, then we should have a button in the settings area where we can turn off that problem.
There is! and you found it:

The only thing that I have found is in BuddyPress>Settings where it says:
Blog & Forum Comments Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts

I unchecked the box and the Reply option still shows on the Activity Streams page and on the Group Home pages.
That shouldn’t be the case and isn’t on my test installations so not sure what’s happening with yours, first thing to try is activating the default theme or twentytwelve to see if still the same to test whether this is a theme issue.

As for general site users feeling unsure or confused in how to use I ought to point out this isn’t unusual nor is it particular to buddypress installs, one overlooks the fact often that the vast majority of users on the internet really struggle to understand anything in real depth, with many apps causing them confusion. With buddpress or any app really there is the need for guidance and explanation, but this is the responsibility of the site owner to provide, guide pages on a site imho are essential, something that sets out the sites purpose, explains the various features and how users ought to use them.

Buddypress as stated earlier is in ongoing development, but as an Open Source project requires feedback from users, bugs reported, issues or enhancements raise on the ticket system ‘trac’

As for BP ever providing everything to all people out of the box this is never likely to happen, providing options is the biggest nightmare as it’s endless and eventually grinds things to a halt. Due to the nature of WP being open in terms of it’s plugin API a lot of what one may want is going to be left to plugin developers to provide.

So BP improves with each iteration but if you believe there are issues or enhancements to be made then please get involved feedback to the project (and not in the support forum where it will just get lost) add your thoughts, examples, possible solutions to the BP trac ticketing system, it’s open to anyone to use.

[Rachel Biel]

Thanks, Hugo. But, is there a way to disable commenting on the Activity Streams without knowing code? That is exactly what I want to do.

If not, can you point me somewhere where there is info on how to do it? There is just too much info to dig through.

The only thing that I have found is in BuddyPress>Settings where it says:
Blog & Forum Comments Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts

I unchecked the box and the Reply option still shows on the Activity Streams page and on the Group Home pages.

I worked with FrontPage for years, then with DreamWeaver and have navigated around on many different types of platforms. I do understand a bit of code and I do understand all of the work that goes into all of this. But, I don’t have the confidence to mess with the files and with the constant updates from WordPress, plugins, and theme, I would much prefer to work with settings than to mess with things that might later conflict with future updates, etc. I did a lot of reading and looked at many options before choosing to go with BuddyPress, but I had no idea that it would be so hard. I set up WordPress sites for other people and am a good tweaker, so it’s not like I am totally green. But, there are some major flaws as can be seen by all of the distressed people flooding the forums here and on bbPress.

When I started up in January, everything was a mess with the new updates. The theme I had bought took several months to work out their incompatibilities, various plugins were going through revisions, etc. Now, finally, almost everything seems to work, but our members are totally confused and I just want to make it as simple as possible for them.

So, when you say, “Commenting on items in the activity stream such as forum entries has always had issues and the advice and best practise generally has been to disable commenting on such items in the activity stream in order to avoid this confusion.”, then, yes. I do expect that issues that come up regularly for you developers should be addressed and fixed, especially when it can cause so much confusion for the end users. If it’s an inherent problem, then we should have a button in the settings area where we can turn off that problem.

I also provide loads of free technical assistance to my people, so I do appreciate what all of you do. I believe in the WordPress model, encourage other people to use it, and now have had these months to try to learn BuddyPress. Would I recommend it to other groups and organizations? Not unless they have the money to hire their own code people (which I don’t). Are there better options out there? I ran a Ning group for a couple of years and it did what I want this forum to do: groups with topical discussions. But, I hated how it looked, found it clunky and wanted the freedom that BuddyPress offers in adding on WordPress pages. I tried several other platforms, too. All were a mess. There are some very nice cloud options but they are expensive and I’m doing the “starving artist” routine, so it’s not fun. So, I think BuddyPress has the potential to be the top model, but it’s not there yet, at least not “out of the box”. IMHO

Anyway, if there is a fix for this, please point me the way and I’ll try to make it happen. Thank you.

[@mercime]

– What did you create – Group Forums or Sitewide Forums or Sitewide/Group forums?
– Click on the phones forum, there should be a form where you can create a topic for that forum.
– Did you enable registration in your site via Settings > General ?

[@mercime]

@rayela https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-more-support-here-use-httprtcampcomgroupsbuddypress-mediaforum

[@mercime]

Could there be an issue using a responsive design with a static front page instead of the WordPress default page?

None that I could imagine.

[Hugo Ashmore]

buddypress and bbpress
Two completely different apps/plugins, bbpress is a forum plugin that integrates with BP groups if desired. Activity streams are designed to try and record and display as much site activity as possible. Commenting on items in the activity stream such as forum entries has always had issues and the advice and best practise generally has been to disable commenting on such items in the activity stream in order to avoid this confusion.

I don’t write code and I think that this needs to be set up with backend controls so that people like me can use it. Otherwise, you should have a notice saying that BuddyPress and BBPress are only useful to programmers.

Uttered out of frustration!. Sorry but BP does a lot out of the box but works best when taken and modified to suit the individual site. You always have the option of learning some level of coding ability, stating you don’t want to learn code somewhat limits your ability to use and manage these apps really, it’s not simply a case that they MUST be written for absolute non coders, these are open source apps that represent thousands of hours of work that people get to use for gratis, expecting more than that a little unfair? Also both these two plugins really do do a remarkable job of working out of the box with both teams having put a lot of effort in on that side of things (too much imho)

[Rachel Biel]

Mine was also super slow and we moved from Blue Host to MDD Hosting and that took care of most of it. I also installed W3 Total Cache because I was told to… It’s much better! http://www.tafaforum.com

[notpoppy]

OK I restored the database from the backup but the conversion failed again. It got about as far as “Converting topics 600” then just hung.

I restored from backup again, this time I set the rows limit to 50 and the delay time to 2 seconds. It got to “Converting topics 700” then hung again.

So my question now is why do my attempts to convert the forum keep failing?

I read @johnjamesjacoby’s post here which is similar to the instructions posted above – perhaps he could shed some light?

My set-up is WordPress 3.5.2, BuddyPress 1.8, BBPress 2.3.2

[Hugo Ashmore]

Please do not start new threads on same question when you have one running already.
Closing this thread, continue in:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/question-about-after-installing-buddypress/

[Techknowledgic]

Thanks for ur reply!

I tried to do what it’s saying in the link and this is what I got http://www.techknowledgic.com/forums

idk what’s going on I can’t create topics or let the visitors to log in or do anything please help me to set up the forum

BTW, my website is still under construction so the menu and the content are just random and don’t take it seriously 😀

ty

[marketmynovel]

Thanks for the response!

I did use the shortcode from the bbPress codex, but I did not use the codex instructions for the installs. I used a few videos – one from my theme creator (which ended up being out of date) and some I found on YouTube. I’m a visual person, so I tend to go with video first.

Question:
Could there be an issue using a responsive design with a static front page instead of the WordPress default page?

I’ll go over the bbPress codex link above this afternoon, do a clean install and see if that makes a difference.

Appreciate it!

[Hugo Ashmore]

Not really clear what their solution was, presume they were referring to copying over the groups core directory from 1.7.3, this does not sound like a hugely sensible fix mixing files from two versions but probably won’t cause issues.

[prikid]

yeah they all related in a sense)) it seems that users solved the issue quicker =)

Thanks a lot!

[craig]

ah hah… those work great!

… god knows who marked this as resolved before now… haha. Pet peev when forum goers assume their answer’s gonna solve the problem before the thread poster even gets back.

Anyway, thanks! Exactly what I was looking for

[notpoppy]

@aces Thanks very much for the reply.

The “reset forum” option indicates that “data will be removed” which doesn’t sound like what I want – that says to me it’s going to get rid of my data, not restore it to what it was.

The “purge previous import” option looks a bit more likely. But when I tried it I got the “Starting Conversion” message with the loading wheel next to it and it stayed that way for about 15 minutes and gave no indication that anything further was happening.

[aces]

Don’t you have another option below:

Alternatively have you tried resetting ( > Tools > Forums )…

[notpoppy]

Well unless anyone has any better suggestions it looks like all I can do is put the old database back and start again.

[bp-help]

@techknowledgic
The codex is your Buddy!
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/