[doxaliber]

@karmatosed, thank you for your response.

I’ve tried the default theme without translation on my development site, here:
http://devel.escrivere.com

No way, notifications doesn’t work. 🙁

I’ve also another problem (but is less important, than the ones above).
Users can’t edit their own forum posts, also if I’ve setup editing time to 15 minutes.

Other ideas?

[bp-help]

@flixya4gabby
Unfortunately your going to have to use the process of elimination by activating each plugin individually and testing against it until you narrow it down to find the plugin that is the culprit. Once you find the plugin that is causing the issue the go to the plugin authors support forum and report your findings.

[praisehim]

@bphelp

I ended up not using the plugin, however, I did make a post in their support forum asking them to resolve it. It seemed like the default profile fields sufficed for me anyway.

Thank you for your help!

[bp-help]

@praisehim
I suggest you ask the plugins author on their support forum why it conflicts with this function. Request that they add a class to the plugin. A lot of times that helps with conflicting functions. If that doesn’t work then simply don’t use the plugin. For now that is the best advise I can give you.

[valuser]

An aside – it may or may not be relevant to tweaking your plugin

I had previously experimented with other plugins

pagerestrict at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagerestrict/ is effective BUT has no effect on /forums/ !!!!!

while

path access at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/path-access/ is effective but just goes to a page not found -it lacks the elegant redirect!!

[valuser]

Without removal of comments (as per readme file ) —– no change for either of my pages 1) /forum-topics/ and 2) /forums/forum/group-forums/

When comments removed /forums/forum/group-forums/ is now protected and redirected (great! )

but the page /forum-topics/ (a page with [bbp-topic-index] in it ) is still available tonon-logged in users but all links on the page lead to the redirect (great! )

and

while the page /forums/ is also available to non-logged in users all links on the page lead to the redirect (great! )

so, while its not 110% lock-down essentially, as far as I am concerned, you have done it. Thanks!

[Hugo Ashmore]

‘We’ the forum regulars and contributors core or otherwise do acknowledge the need for better docs but everyone does need to bear in mind it’s a time factor issue, few of us have the time to go and edit docs, update them where necessary, what time is available tends to be prioritised towards code where time and resources are limited.

On that note I’ll close this thread now as it’s run it’s course.

[linkinp]

Thank you for responding.
What is confusing is that I have two local installations of WordPress and two local websites.
In one of the installation’s WordPress Admin I can see Forums panel in Buddypress config, on the other one I cannot.

Anyway the only reason I wanted to access Forums Panel was to be able to enable Site-wide Forums.

With no Forums panel how do I do it ?

on the Forums panel I had two options Forums for group and New! Site Wide Forums.

[billy-not-happy]

For starters, for the last couple days I get this on logging into THIS site:

“There is a problem with this website’s security certificate.
The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website’s address.
Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server. ”

While I’m sure the volunteers try hard, such “security” messages leaves one to wonder, who if anyone is minding the store.

I’m not interesting in attempts to “shoot the messenger”. The FACT is and curiously we all seem to agree, the instructions at times, especially in primary set-up issues leave much to be desired which of course causes much frustration.

Rule # 1 if you’re going to post in a forum, newsgroup, whatever. GET A THICKER SKIN.

Rule # 2 Don’t take things personal.

Rule # 3 Don’t appoint yourself judge, jury and executioner.

After your uncalled for, self-serving and amateurish lecture it will be a cold day in hell before I offer any tips or advice. You need to get a life if you got nothing better to do than scold somebody you don’t know, never met. Don’t bother replying, I won’t be commenting further in this thread.

[Tammie Lister]

I’m not aware you can use it twice but perhaps you don’t have to. What about having types of groups?

You can do a custom field to indicate type using maybe: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-groups-extras/

Then you can check for type and load a different template, style differently, change language and name.

I’m not sure about forums but you could do something similar using forums and topics.

[Anton Naydenoff]

You could see this component in Settings just under Components:

Components – Pages – Settings
All (9) – Active (9) – Innactive (0) – Must-use (2) – Retired (1)

Look this (1) in Retired and you’ll find what you want. 😉

It’s also written this:

Group Forums: BuddyPress Forums are retired. Use bbPress.

[bp-help]

@naturalworldstm
Do you have a link to the particular plugin version as there has been confusion over which bp-media plugin is being used in previous forum topics which is not your fault. Its just the name conflict by the developers is confusing to others so please supply @ludachrisgsx with the link to the plugin you are suggesting. Thank you for your help! 🙂

[bp-help]

@rrhyox
This is a third party plugin that has not been updated in a while so you may want to request support on the WPMU DEV forums as well. When WP 3.6 comes out It is supposed to support native audio and video support but I am not sure how or if that will be integrated within the buddypress activity post. If so it will be awesome! Hopefully someone else may shed some light on this. 🙂

[bp-help]

@billy-not-happy
As @hnla already explained thoroughly and @mercime has bent over backwards to accommodate more than I would have given your demeanor, you still refuse to see this community is made up of volunteers and not discounting the need for better codex documentation on certain issues but the bottom line is there is lots of people that had to work their butts off and learn some degree of coding trying to figure it out and they gained more knowledge by doing so. Most of these volunteers have families and other obligations to tend too and your sense of entitlement for a priceless piece of software is very disrespectful to all the hard work these folks put in with no compensation especially with the comments:

Respect is EARNED
&
While I’m new to Word Press, Buddy Press, bbPress I am a seasoned computer user, programmer, with over 30 years experience

Well let me tell you earning respect is mutual and condescending remarks like that will gain little resolve. I have maybe 5 months experience and I figured a lot of it out because I did my home work, and when I could not find the answer I needed I asked this wonderful community in a respectful manner for help and was welcomed with open arms! Demanding things from volunteers is not a proper way to approach a request for support so put your 30 years aside for a minute and humble yourself. Also there is no one stopping you from adding to the codex unless something has changed recently so you can start taking strides forward by contributing to the documentation in your spare time with no pressure. You can also contribute @anton-naydenoff if you choose to do so. Please keep your composure and don’t worry be happy! 🙂

[Anton Naydenoff]

Not my business, but I was really confused with these bbPress <-> BuddyPress forums, too.
It’s not necessary to write that ‘Group Forums’ are some kind of a component of BP when they are actually not. It bears only unneeded confusion for users. ‘Group Forums’ are just an option to connect some group with a particular forum from all the forums in a site, but all forums are bbPress forums at the end. BP doesn’t have any forums in it!
I think you should better leave the settings for people to chose if they want their groups to have forums or not while they are creating these groups. That’s enough – no more explanations are needed then. To write articles about ‘Group-forums’are really confusing for all the newbies. ‘Group forums’ or whatever the name is, are another yet forum in bbPress parental for other forums.
This part with these shortcodes is another big mess too – people DON’T UNDERSTAND this – I’m 99,99% sure that I am not the only one who think this way.
Some details in BP are quite well explained (UNNECESSARY) while other ones (IMPORTANT ones) are totally ignored. There is almost none info for shortcodes for example – how they work, where to write them, how to make them work, lists of them, etc… 🙁

[tobiasandersen]

Are you developing locally or on a host?

You probably just need to increase the PHP memory limit.

[storyaday]

It has changed. I just went through this step by step guide this morning and it worked like a charm. I was nervous, but needn’t have been.

https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

[kraigg]

Thanks Hugo, I tested it with all plugins deactivated except for BuddyPress and bbPress, and the problem persists. I’ll need to test it with the default theme as well, and possibly revert back to BuddyPress 1.6 to see if it still happens.

The only change I made recently was update to BuddyPress 1.7 and change from sitewide forums to group forms.

I’ll have another test and see what I can find. Thanks for putting me on the right path

[Hugo Ashmore]

Yep you can’t really copy bp-default theme index.php to a theme compat file. Your buddypress.php needs to be page.php complete with the WP loop (perhaps copying 2012 not a good choice as it calls a separate file for the WP loop) With a buddypress.php file complete with WP loop you’ll then need to replicate in it your themes essential parts that grab the site header and footer as seen in your themes page.php and any html markup that your theme uses.

This may be something you need to approach the theme author about, explain you’re trying to use BuddyPress but that you need a page.php with a structure that both supports the theme and uses a standard WP loop, or use pastebin to copy the contents of your themes page.php to and someone may be able to suggest how to modify.

But support for third party themes is going to be somewhat limited as it’s not the primary purpose of the forum.

[danbpfr]

hi @kukac7 !

with BP 1.6.5 some settings have changed while using forums and bbpres 2.2
Read here for specifics about this version and bbpress migration:
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

[Ben Hansen]

thanks @hnla is there a way to make it add new users to main site automatically? i’ve noticed certain things aren’t working quite right such as new users ability to view forums (have no role) and display of usernames on the profile page when the user is only a network user.

[msdoble]

UPDATE: I managed to solve my issue by using bp_profile_field_data

There is a similar forum post here that is helpful: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/using-bp-member-profile-data-outside-members-section/

[feeldesign]

No – there’s no forum, but i’m using bbpress (which it recommended)

[akukskuks]

Thanks for all the help everyone.

James, are you now able to see the “Forum Setup” tab in Settings > BuddyPress? Was this part of the server problem or was it an issue with not having bbPress enabled?

[feeldesign]

loads of 404s – I have no forum option so installed bbpress (currently deactivated)
I’m not sure what’s meant to be in there – but it looks like I have bits missing !