[disqusnow]

@mgrmn
I entered it like this:

<?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {?>
To participate in Forums and Groups <font color = “#306EFF”>REGISTER</font> here
<?}?>

with the text widget and placed on the side bar but when a user logs in they could still see the “Register Message” although they can’t register once they are logged in. That is, the register page wasn’t loading anymore.

@hnla
Is your advice that I should remove <font>? If so, can I still use . Sorry am a newbie, learning as I go. All advice is appreciated.

Thanks
Benjamin

[@mercime]

@pewee123 WP/BP versions? New install or is this an upgrade? Are you referring to the old BP group forums or bbPress plugin forums for groups? Do you have any plugin or script directing Group’s home page to the Group Forum page?

[@mercime]

@disqusnow Please do not post in more than one forum on the same topic. Closing this topic for original post https://buddypress.org/support/topic/excessive-vertical-gap-in-buddypress/#post-167184

[disqusnow]

Am using WordPress 3.5.2, BuddyPress Version 1.7.2 and BBPress Version 2.3.2. The theme is a custom theme. This is the the link http://mythemeshop.com/themes/ribbon/
Here is how its behaving http://www.disqusnow.co.uk/groups/test-group/forum/. Still working on the look.

[disqusnow]

@mercime Am using WordPress 3.5.2, BuddyPress Version 1.7.2 and BBPress Version 2.3.2. The theme is a custom theme. This is the the link http://mythemeshop.com/themes/ribbon/
Here is how its behaving http://www.disqusnow.co.uk/groups/test-group/forum/. Still working on the look.

[crashy11]

I tried to put your code and changed user login but its not working.

echo 'Username: ' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";

echo 'User ID: ' . $current_user->ID . "\n";

This situation could be done with custom post type, but another problem is that posts are not showing in category that you mark.

I found on this forum someone had similar problem like mine:

Posts are added to the activity stream when the post is saved.

It’s done in the bp_blogs_record_post() function, which is hooked on to the save_post action.

There isn’t any easy way to filter bp_blogs_record_post() to stop certain categories appearing, so, your best options may be:

1. To unhook the whole bp_blogs_record_post() function and replace with your own
or:
2. Use a custom post type for your teaser posts – the built in function will only post to activity stream if the post type is ‘post’

That questions and solution is from this link:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-filter-posts-with-specific-categorytag-from-activity-stream/

If I go with solution 1. that was offered “unhook the whole bp_blogs_record_post() function and replace with your own”, where to find bp_blogs_record_post(), and just to delete it or?

[@mercime]

all content and users are mirrored/shared across the networks/sites

@mike245 Strange. Only users not the content should be shared across the network for that plugin as far as I know. Have only used the other BP Multinetwork plugin, so don’t quite know why that’s happening in your installation. Recommend that you post at plugin’s support forums https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-multi-network

[dran2013]

I was wondering this too. The “create group” tab shows up if I directly go to my link: http://durhamregionactionnetwork.com/groups/ (same with Forums with bbpress) but how do users find the link when it isn’t appearing in their profile? I have everything enabled in settings for both plugins.So once a person is logged in they see this on their page:

Activity
Profile
Messages
Friends
Groups
Forums
Events
Settings

But when you click on Groups from there, there is no link to create a group. Same with Forums. Maybe BuddyPress doesn’t have that option? I wanted to improve usability by adding the links to the user’s dashboard, it seems to make sense it would be there but it’s not. I hope I am explaining this OK 🙂 Thank you for any help you can provide!

[shanebp]

You need to apply a filter to the activity sql.

You can contact me via PhiloPress

Or post at Jobs

[Henry]

Even though your plugin is BP related, it might be worth also posting the question in:

https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks

Your reach will be extended to the WP plugin dev community

[bp-help]

@mcpeanut
Please don’t troll your own thread and don’t take what @hnla said as an attack towards your intelligence.
It was just a recommendation, not an attack. If your upset about him closing another thread that posed the same questions basically then don’t be. It is common for a forum with threads with duplicate content or support requests to lock duplicate posts. Sometimes duplicates happen by accident if you loose a wifi connection for instance and refresh after you reconnect because sometimes it will post the same topic twice.
For future reference try not to take things to personally as all of the volunteers do the best we can at accommodating the requests.
Have a good day!

[mcpeanut]

oh by the way hugo as to reaching my abilities lol, do you not think thats a little off putting and undermining to someone who is just learning from scratch how to develop a website?
3 months ago i knew nothing about web-design and decided to learn myself all through youtube tutorials and places like these forums, my strong points are design/styling and logo creation /artwork ect, so putting these hand in hand with web-design makes sense, what is wrong with learning and asking a question or two when your stuck?

i am not just creating a buddypress website i am also integrating alot of other features to this website that all work very well together (which i would say was a little over ambitious for a first time project but has all come together great), i am a very quik learner and sometimes only need a nudge in the right direction when im stuck, i didnt go out and buy a buddypress allready made theme and stick my own styling on top ive created my own theme and still made it work.

like i said hugo, as for my abilities, well my abilities will only grow, i cannot back out and go…oh i better go hire a developer lol

thx to people like modemlooper people like me can carry on learning! 🙂

[mcpeanut]

hugo and thx for closing the other thread but thats just crazy having to hire a developer when im askinga genuine question to people who know how to do this and could just tell me what to do?
i am capable of doing it myself if someone steps forward and just says “hey this is what you do”!

i know for a fact hugo you will know how to do this by reading other posts, you have helped people out with allsorts of issues. and you could help me out if you wanted to? 🙂
why should it be any different for me to ask a question and for someone to step up and give me a solution?

when someone asks for help doing something, you dont expect the answer to be oh go hire a developer? how is that helpfull?
im asking valid question! whats so different than anyone else asking about how to do something in these forums? and then someone saying oh you do this like this and add this to this etc?

you could allways put a sticky at top of these forums saying …oh by the way if your stuck dont ask in here go and hire a developer! 🙂

[Hugo Ashmore]

Well you do have option of hiring a developer if you have reached the limit of your abilities, self developing is all well and good but has it’s limits 😉

Please don’t get too anxious and do try – in future – to stick to the one thread ( I closed the original as there have been responses in this one), and bear in mind that here we are all volunteers, unpaid, the forum has a basic rule of waiting 24 hours before bumping threads.

As synaptic asked provide all necessary info – if not supplied – so people are best able to help and then wait 🙂

[htrev]

I’ve had a look in the database and realised what the problem is. The rogue posts are coming from people posting using the ppBress form (I have a page that includes it using the shortcode bbp-topic-form) which creates a topic in the group’s forum, but doesn’t associate the topic with the group.

You can mark this issue resolved! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[Asynaptic]

@richardicanie your response sounds like you got my original message but I can’t see it on this thread (the forum here stopped it from being published and gave me an error when I tried to resubmit it).

anyway, about the site you mention: http://community.babycentre.co.uk/

it doesn’t look like they are using wordpress at all. my guess after looking at the source code is that it is drupal

in the future you can also check with builtwith.com

[shanebp]

The stray posts never appear in the group stream?
Or don’t appear until some hours have past?

Inconsistent behaviour is a tough bug.
But at least it’s specific to Group forums.

Are you using Page Caching in the cache plugins?
That can cause BP problems re serving stale pages, but you most likely would have seen that issue elsewhere on your site as well.

Have you raised this issue on the bbPress forums?

You’ll probably have to comb thru the database for activity entries.
And try to eliminate the possibility of a malformed row in the context of the group stream.

[Ben Hansen]

as far as why other sites are doing things the way they are we are making a bunch of assumptions right off the bat but from outside appearances the site you mentioned does not appear to be using buddypress. often times the forum/community software is a different platform from wordpress this is not the case with buddypress, that might explain why some other site would be compartmentalizing their community sections.

the only reason to use multisite is to create totally separate blogs/sites under one network setting. if you do not want to create (or let your users create) other sub-sites then chances you want to go multi are not great. You can also switch to that later if you choose (i had buddypress on a site for over two years before i took it multi).

once you go multi, new users are actually added to the network first they may then be added to a particular site either when you as either super admin or one of your sub-site admins manually adds them to a site or automatically based on activity i believe, that part still baffles me a bit honestly.

[Developer ICAN]

Guys, thanks you for your responses – very helpful!

See i have a very active web site built in WP (well i will – its just being built). The Community/Forum elements (with BuddyPress and BBPress) will be an integral part of it also. When i done a few test’s on activating BuddyPress and BBPress, i found that this doubled the site queries which i’m just monitoring very closely as i’m trying to keep everything as efficient as possible. The site will be on a dedicated server with the database on a separate dedicated database server so i think we should be OK if we keep queries down as small as possible.

Sorry @synaptic, i was aware that BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress, it was more the approach i was questioning – ie when you’re starting off with a site, do you think that the site is going to be a community site everything focused on BuddyPress or is safe to say that you could have a large active non community site and simply append a community with BuddyPress as secondary and have the site still run efficiently. I see in some sites that the community element is on a separate sub domain site – for example see http://www.babycentre.co.uk – they community element of this is on a separate install (possibly WP multi site?) at http://community.babycentre.co.uk/. I’m sort of wondering is there any reason why they do this? Is it because its physically easier to manage? Is it because the load of a community may affect the normal running of the website? I’m just wondering what the general convention is?

If the convention is to separate say – then why would it make sense to have a multi site install as the community BuddyPress tables are still in the same database? You get waht i mean? Actually why use multi site at all? (http://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/06/06/how-to-integrate-buddypress-with-wordpress-multi-site-seamlessly/)

Thanks for all your help everyone! Appreciate it!

[htrev]

Also when this problem occurs, the update doesn’t get emailed via GES as GES gets its content from the activity stream.

The topic/reply DOES appear in the all members activity stream, just not the My groups one or on the group’s Home tab. So looks like the association between the item and the group is being lost somewhere. The item appears in the forum OK.

[htrev]

Update: I’m running W3 Total Cache with Xcache. Turned off W3TC but left XCache on – problem still occuring.

[bp-help]

@sushmitha
Sorry, I forgot to add the link to it. Here you go:

BP Jobs Board

[pmcreations]

I am using the old buddypress forum. Is there a way to bring all my current topics to bbpress? I’d rather keep my current set up with buddypress. I just want my users to be abl to get email notices when somebody responds. I guess I have two questions.
1. Does buddypress offer email responses built in?
2. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

[@mercime]

@pmcreations WP/BP versions? If you’re using the bbPress plugin (not the internal group forums of old BP versions), go to Settings > Forums – Forum Features, and check “Allow users to subscribe to topics”

[@mercime]

@richardicanie BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress. Hence, you need WordPress installed in order to install BuddyPress. For the forums, you install bbPress plugin in WordPress installation. You may install BuddyPress as well, but it is not necessary if you only want forums in your WP install.

If you already have a large membership in your WordPress site, then I suggest that you upgrade to at least VPS or better yet a dedicated server before activating BuddyPress.