[bp-help]

@haies
This blocks BP pages from logged out visitors. See the readme.txt in the plugin for forums.
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp

[@mercime]

Yeah I got group forums right now

@thapharm were these group forums set up in previous version of BuddyPress (1.6.5 below) or were your group forums set up per instructions in link provided by Chouf1? If set up in BP 1.6.5 below using the old internal forums, then you have the option to keep it as is and then install bbPress plugin for the sitewide forums or port over the group forums into the bbPress plugin forums per https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/ Whatever option you take, always backup database and server files so that you can always revert if something goes awry.

[billy-not-happy]

For those wishing to make enhancements to your theme and/or forum Group section I recommend you try out some of the CSS editors. I just bought it so I’m biased, but Stylizer 5 is heads and shoulders above the pack and lets you see IN REAL TIME changes you make and you literally can change almost anything. One problem, especially with more advanced themes is their CSS can span multiple CSS style sheets and the main one like the one I’m using is over 1,100 lines. Trying to manually wade through that forest of code, even if you know CSS and what you’re looking for is sure to make you reach for Tums or some similar product! 🙂

Your pages are presented in one pane while extensive controls to make adjustments are presented in the other. If you love playing what-if like I do, you’ll love this tool. A bit pricy at $80, but well worth it in all the saved time and avoiding frustration.

You can simply make color changes, change size, placement of elements, that sort of simple thing or add elements and instantly see the results. Its a tweaker’s dream.

[thapharm]

Yeah I got group forums right now….Wonder how I can install over the top without messing with those forums

[danbpfr]

@thapharm

you have different choices to set up forums.
Sitewide forum (like bp.org)
Group forum
or both

Read here how to achieve this: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[ravey]

For anyone wanting to do this I figured it out.
Step 1: Go to your child theme and find /groups/groups-loop.php find the code that says

<div class="item-avatar">
				<a href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>"><?php bp_group_avatar( 'type=thumb&width=45&height=45' ); ?></a>
			</div>

Step 2:
You will replace that code with “group-header” code found here(groups/single/group-header.php)

<div id="item-header-avatar">
	<a href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php bp_group_name(); ?>">

		<?php bp_group_avatar(); ?>

	</a>
</div><!-- #item-header-avatar -->

That worked for me. Probably not the best route to altering it if you want to do a lot of CSS modifications to the “Group Forum Listing.” But if you want to just change the size to something larger this works.

[Peter Hardy-vanDoorn]

Sorry, should have said first time round – I’m using a self-developed child of Buddypress Default theme. I only made a child theme because I needed some custom page templates for some non-BP related stuff. Everything BP-related is handled by BP Default.

I have tried it with the BP Default theme, and I have turned off all other plugins. I have even reinstalled the BP plugin.

I have now found the thing to turn the group forums (legacy) back on, but it makes no difference.

Thanks. Any thoughts or insights would be much appreciated.

[danbpfr]

@buidinh1803
do you have already WP in vietnamese ?
Even if the page seems to be abandonned, read here for some advice about vi_VI po/mo

Home

WP translations are here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp
3.5.x in vietnamese is not translated for the moment, so you probably have to search for previous version. And 3.4 is only 79% translated

No luck too for bp vietnamese translation: nothing !
See here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/1.7.x

So you have to translate BP in your language, (read codex if you don’t know how to do that or search on this forum) then you have to add buddypress-vi_VI.mo into wp-content/languages/ folder

[@mercime]

@tomraff as of BuddyPress 1.7, BuddyPress Pages are rendered automagically in nearly all WordPress themes.

If you have activated the BP Template Pack plugin, deactivate it and delete the plugin.
If you already went through the Appearance > BP Compatibility process, you also need to delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your flare theme in server, i.e., delete /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members and /registration folders

[@mercime]

@petervandoorn did you upgrade from older BP version? What theme are you using?

[Prometheus Fire]

This is something near and dear to my heart, and I hope others will pick up on this thread. Social intranets are something that I’ve been investigating for organizations that go beyond a simple few people. I’ve done a ton of research into this and to start off, I think you need to read this book: The Collaborative Organization by Jacob Morgan. I’m not associated with the book or the author, but when it comes to doing what you are attempting, understanding beyond the software capabilities is something that we should all be living and breathing.

I’m in the very early stages of a project in which I want to deploy WP/BP as an SaaS for organizations while allowing those organizations to take advantage of the iteration quickness and overall flexibility that WordPress offers when compared to SharePoint, Yammer, Basecamp, SocialText and Mango Apps.

After reading the Morgan book, which I cannot recommend enough to anyone who is considering BP as an intranet solution, you begin to realize that there are things that go beyond BP. You need to not only know BP and WP, but you need to know about all the available plugins out there, both premium and repository. I’ve been living and breathing this stuff for the last 6 months as I researched and studied.

What you are talking about is emergent collaboration, and it goes beyond micro-blogging, activity streams, forums and rich profiles. It might mean document management, relevance-based searching and more. More importantly, the Morgan book talks about how IT deployments work in organizations. Understanding how to deploy a setup like this, even in a small organization of ten people, goes beyond understanding how to build templates and hack BP.

What you are doing can certainly be done, but don’t go any further until you’ve read the book. It’ll help yo understand better the impact of what you are working on once it gets past novelty. That book will also help excite you about your project, it will help you think big, even if you don’t need to (because your organization might be small). The main thing you have to remember is that when using you WP/BP as the platform for an intranet, you are not building a website, you are building a communications platform. Having your mindset right along those lines will help guide you as you build and test because you will be asking yourself, “How does this impact communications?” It’s different than a website, because everything about it is about communications and information discovery.

Also, don’t bother reading any tutorial currently on the internet about BP as a Intranet. I’ve read them all, and they are all woefully inadequate. A 1000-word blog post doesn’t do the concept justice – even you are only building a platform for 10 people. There is so much more to the discussion than the existing content about this topic provides and the overall conversation about BP as an intranet solution is only just beginning in the larger community.

[rgkeenan]

I haven’t tried either yet.. try uploading the files now.. and try twenty twelve this evening (is a live site need to find a quiet time to do it).

Thanks for the tip.. should have tried this first.

[msdoble]

I have been having the exact same issue. Clean install of both WordPress 3.5.1 and BuddyPress 1.7. Presuming you have checked the box “anyone can register” in Settings > General it’s a mystery.

I did consider it might be a permalink issue, but have tried all combinations thereof. No joy. You might however want to try this perhaps. Also, it’s worth checking which pages are assigned to your registration and activation in BuddyPress settings.

There are various threads on the same topic in this support forum, everybody experiencing exactly what you have mentioned, but none of them are resolved (so far as I can tell).

Leads me to think that this is a SERIOUS bug in an otherwise fantastic plugin. It’d be nice for some of clarification on this though, even if the answer is ‘it’s a bug’.

[valuser]

+ 1

Ditto – same experience as bp-help

There is now a reasonable body of tools to allow truly excellent (possibly superior to any other networking platform) “privacy/moderation”

This plugin is one such tool

and then there is

http://www.philopress.com/products/buddyblock/ (premium – but great! -gives your members the power to decide who can see and interact with them)

and also possibly

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-moderation/ (though you do need to consult the WordPress Forum to add up-to-date tweaks to get it working properly!)

[smartmwp]

Hi bp-help,

Thanks so much for replying! My default setting was contributor (roles – add/edit posts, participate in forums, and BP activity). Because of spams I changed it to Subscriber (Only BP activity, no adding posts). The profile fields I am talking about are in the base/primary field only. Even the base fields are not showing up – even name and email! Nothing, just blank. I had to add my own sign-up form using a shortcode to that page to at least show the name and email fields, and that is not working either.

Many Thanks
Sonia

[@mercime]

@mamasaywhat this codex instruction for sitewide and group forums? https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Btw, you mentioned that you’ve been working on the BuddyPress project over and over for around a year, did you by any change install the old BuddyPress group forums then? If so, that’s what is causing the warnings. You’d need to read this https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

As for the BP pages, I see no glaring issue at http://www.mamasaywhat.com/members/coreyp/

[@mercime]

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

[@mercime]

@rgkeenan sure, you should post at the bbPress forums. Check first if it’s not a theme issue. If you change to twenty twelve theme, is issue resolved? Have you tried re-uploading bbPress manually, to make sure that all bbPress files are in your server?

[bp-help]

Sounds like your theme is throwing an error not the plugin as I have double checked that there is no whitespace. You need to check your theme for any whitespace lines before and after the opening and closing php tags and remove it. As far as modifying the plugin see line 24 in private-community-for-bp.php and change it from this:

if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() || bp_is_group_forum() /*|| bbp_is_single_forum() || bbp_is_single_topic()*/|| bp_is_forums_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) || bp_is_profile_component() ) {

To this:

if ( || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {

[bp-help]

See my response here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/terms-of-agreement-checkbox-for-registration/
You will need to write a page of your Terms Of Service and you can add a link in the profile field description that would link to that page. After you create the page just copy the permalink under the Title and then paste it into the field description. For example:

<a href="http://your-site/terms-of-service/">By checking the Terms Of Service Box you have read and agree to all the Policies set forth in this sites Terms Of Service</a>

Of course this is just an example. As far as making buddypress only visible after they register you can use the technique above in combination with this plugin:
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp
Make you to read the readme.txt in this plugins folder as it has some info regarding forums.
Cheers!

[rgkeenan]

I did notice the following

So I create a topic in a group forum called promotion. Title=test-1.. Content=testing.. new topic created at groups/promotion/forum/topic/test-1/

Clicking Edit.. takes me to a 404 page /groups/promotion/forum/topic/edit?_wpnonce=4974b44a09 however, if I amend the URL to /groups/promotion/forum/topic/test-1/edit?_wpnonce=4974b44a09 voila.. there is the editing screen as expected.

Same test holds true for deleting etc.. the rest of the buttons at the top of the topics screen. The slug to the topic (in this case /test-1/) is not getting added into the edit/delete/sticky link so the system can do what its designed to do..

Anyone have any thoughts how or where to rectify this little misstep.. truth is everything works, it seems to be just a simple slip-up in constructing the link the Edit Topic/Sticky Topic/Open/Delete Topic/Mute this Topic buttons/links are calling.

Anyone smarter than me have some guidance here.. ?

[rgkeenan]

Hey Guys..

Am having the exact same problem. Just did an update to BBpress this morning and situation did not improve at all. Should we be having this convo over on BBPress forums maybe.

[ebraxton30]

ok, i have asked several questions on this support forum and this is the first time i was directed to this site. here you go…

1. i am up to date on wordpress, 3.5.1
2. WordPress was installed as a directory, not a subdomain
3. Root
4. WordPress was installed at 3.5.1, not upgraded
5. yes
6. 1.7.1
7. I did not upgrade Buddypress, I installed this version
8. Bowe Codes, ADJE Event Cal, Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields, Gravity Forms, Gravity Forms user Registration Add-on, Members, Uber Login Logo, WordPress Font Uploader, WordPress Uploader
9. I am using the Salutation theme
10. No
11. no
12. n/a
13. none
14. bluehost
15. Linux

Again…the test profiles are working. Just not the ones filled in.
i am using buddypress 1.7
it was a direct install, not an upgrade

[Pierre J]

thanks aces.
did update – same result.
tried commenting out – same result
trying their forum now.

thanks again.

[Pierre J]

meant to add that I don’t get the error if I leave the Home page template on Default, but it also does not then show the homepage, just directly displays the forum.