[akukskuks]

Thanks for your help, bphelp. I noticed that I don’t have the “Forum Setup” tab in Settings > BP (only Components, Pages, and Settings).

I’ve got tons of 404 errors as well, especially when I try to access any of the links under the main page menu (under “Howdy, <user>!” – Activity, Groups, Settings, Profile, and Forums are all dead ends). James, does yours look the same?

[Tammie Lister]

My first suggestion would be to do some user research. If you work there you can probably brain storm what you’d want from the site as a starting point. If you don’t then select 3-4 user types from the range of users that use them. A type can be gender, age, role, capability – something that makes them unique from other types. A simple format would be to interview / survey what they want from a site. Face to face for this rocks but you may need to do remotely depending on your situation.

Once you have these user types you can see the paths through your site and the user journeys needed. You can even create fake profiles for these user types – make them real in your mind. Think about what tools/ components will enable those journeys – what they need and want to accomplish. Write a list. That’s what should form the site.

Once you have this ‘shopping list’ you could even run it past your user group from the test (if you have one). Nothing like checking usefulness. I usually at this point create a site map using something like Balsamiq or another visualisation tool. This is setting the foundation and giving you an overview before you move onto fun stuff like wireframes.

From this list you probably will also get a list of functionality that you need plugins for (if you do). Do they want to upload documents (a common intranet request)? And so on…

That’s just a starting point but will create a picture for you.

A few other questions worth asking:
– Do you want a social network or do you want a community? A social network is purely connections and whilst can be part of a community isn’t one by itself. A community has deeper relationships and activities such as forums, working towards goals, a whole range of other actions beyond just a stream and friending. Do you want this to become their company home? Do you want this to be a full blown intranet or simply a social network?
– Do you need groups? Are there going to be enough people to create groups (nothing as sad as lots of 1-2 people groups fragmented just to use groups).
– How/who is going to maintain this? If you want a community it needs curation. Whatever format you go with you need moderation, encouragement.

Just a point, when you say editing won’t work. You can in your theme create templates and those won’t get overwritten. This would be the recommended way. I’d say you should be doing this if you want a custom site not just the theme compatibility default version.

[jhulianni]

Help me!

Error: Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/36/10763236/html/wp-content/themes/OneCommunity/forums/index.php:12) in /home/content/36/10763236/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876

Codigo:

function nonreg_visitor_redirect() {
global $bp;
if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() /*|| bbp_is_single_forum()*/ || bp_is_forums_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) || bp_is_profile_component() ) {
/* enter the component name to be blocked to visitors in the above line */
if(!is_user_logged_in()) { //just a visitor and not logged in
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/register’ );
}

Solved error?????

[jhulianni]

Help me, please.

function nonreg_visitor_redirect() {
global $bp;
if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() /*|| bbp_is_single_forum()*/ || bp_is_forums_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) || bp_is_profile_component() ) {
/* enter the component name to be blocked to visitors in the above line */
if(!is_user_logged_in()) { //just a visitor and not logged in
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/register’ );
}

Error in aplications in forums!

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/36/10763236/html/wp-content/themes/OneCommunity/forums/index.php:12) in /home/content/36/10763236/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876

Help me! Thanks

[danbpfr]

Hi all, @djpaul, @mercime, @hnla, @r-a-y, @boonebgorges

that’s now possible with BP 1.7 and bbP 2.3.1 as standalone forum.
https://github.com/imath/activity-sticker
Video demo: http://vimeo.com/65053701

[Anton Naydenoff]

@mercime

Not sure what you mean. First of all, you wouldn’t have been able to select Group Forums page as the parent for all group forums if you didn’t create the page.

No, no… not ‘group-forums’ as a page. I have forum (type: category) named ‘group-forums’ and it is pointed to be the parental forum for all my group forums. I have a page with the same slug but I don’t know for what to use it. Think it is even meaningless…

The good news is that I resolved the problem with the installation of my group forums. It seems that my settings were good ones, but simply they didn’t work… I just did deactivate bbPress plugin and delete it. Then I did upload and install again and everything is just fine at now. I already have my forums in my groups. But this is a bit of strange, because I didn’t set anything new. It worked by itself. 😀

[kukac7]

I have a similar problem.
Last vanilla WP / BuddyPress / bbPress.
Hostgator is a repository of the problem.
Specifically it:
http://cyberdurer.com/sotephd/groups/csoport/forum/topic/teszt/

Thanks for your help.

[kukac7]

I have a similar problem.
Last vanilla WP / BuddyPress / bbPress.
Hostgator is a repository of the problem.
Specifically it:
http://cyberdurer.com/sotephd/groups/csoport/forum/topic/teszt/

Thanks for your help.

[kukac7]

I have a similar problem.
Last vanilla WP / BuddyPress / bbPress.
Hostgator is a repository of the problem.
Specifically it:
http://cyberdurer.com/sotephd/groups/csoport/forum/topic/teszt/

Thanks for your help.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Not sure. Suggest looking on bbpress.org forums in case anyone else has posted similar.

[@mercime]

Should I have real pages named after these slugs or not?

@anton-naydenoff you create only one page for the Archive Slug per A.3 and B.3 in the link I gave and add the forum shortcode. The inside forum pages will be automatically generated. If you want your Sitewide Forums link to be e.g. Discussions, then you should make your Archive Slug -> discussions

Group Forums Parent: [[group-forums]] is the parent for all group forums. …. Is this correct or not?

Not sure what you mean. First of all, you wouldn’t have been able to select Group Forums page as the parent for all group forums if you didn’t create the page.

[Anton Naydenoff]

I don’t understand this part (Settings -> Forums):

Archive Slugs
Custom root slugs to prefix your forums and topics with. These can be partnered with WordPress pages to allow more flexibility.
Forums base: forums
Topics base: topics

Should I have real pages named after these slugs or not?
I mean, to create pages by myself or it is not necessary?

BuddyPress
Forum settings for BuddyPress
Enable Group Forums: [[checked]] Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums
Group Forums Parent: [[group-forums]] is the parent for all group forums

Is this correct or not? And should I have a real page named after the slug ‘group-pages’ or it conflicts with my forum (type: category) named same way ‘group-forums’ and parental of all the Group Forums? Maybe sth like this ‘pg-group-forums’ and ‘ctg-group-forums’ to destinguish them…??? I am totally messed. 🙁

And should I then have a new page for each my group forum where to display or it’s wrong way?

[@mercime]

@anton-naydenoff installing group and/sitewide forums with BuddyPress – https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

As for possible conflicts with BP Group Hierarchy plugin, I haven’t used the plugin so maybe someone else can chime in or you might want to check it out yourself and post your findings here.

[bp-help]

Try this plugin to see if it fits your requirement just understand it makes all BP pages private but line 24 in private-community-for-bp.php can be edited and commented out the components you don’t wish to protect there is an example built in the plugin for sitewide forums to see how to comment certain components out:
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp

[Hugo Ashmore]

Edit the template then and remove the markup. Also turn off activity posting on blogs & forums in bp settings.

[@mercime]

@ggsalas to prevent confusion, go to Settings > BuddyPress > Settings -> Activity Settings and make sure that “Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts” is unchecked. That way, if someone wants to read/comment, they either go to the forum topic or the blog post page.

[danbpfr]

here’s a untested function. Would perhaps output the member name and the Class he belongs

function bpfr_member_class($myinfo) {
global $bp;

$user_id = bp_get_member_user_id();

$membername = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Name’, $user_id );
$data = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Class’, $user_id );

if( $data )
$myinfo = ‘<div class=”myinfo”>’. $membername.’ CLASS: ‘. $data .'</div>’;

return $myinfo;
}

I’m a newbie to php (me also) – this is not an excuse especially when you’re going to code on the fly without reading documentation and forum topics.

What you doing wrong 😉
– You’re coding directly into your theme
– You don’t read the answers you receive and you don’t answer the questions.

[jskehill]

I have posted on my theme developers support forum and in the comments section on the themes theme forest page. No response yet. Thank you for your help with this so far. Really appreciate you spending time to help out 🙂 Hopefully someone can figure it out? 🙂

[akukskuks]

Fee,

Can’t access it that way either. I’m pretty ignorant as far as hosting/servers are concerned, but could that be the problem? The IT guys for the company I work at put up this test site on our server and I’ve noticed that the error I get from your method (appending /create/ to the URL) is the same that I get when I try to access any of the links in the upper right-hand corner menu from the site itself (where it says “Howdy, Andy!”) – Activity, Groups, Settings, etc. I immediately get an HTTP 404 Error “The page cannot be found.” Additionally, I noticed there is no fourth “Forums” tab in my Settings –> BP menu.

My IT guys keep telling me that I need to run some “more trials” before they’ll get involved, but I can’t really do much while I can’t even figure out how to create a group!!

Can you give me some ammo here? Do I need to push these IT guys around to get an IP address set up or something? I really just need to start studying here, don’t I? 😛 I have no idea what I’m doing here so any advice would be great. And like Ron, I definitely won’t forget to return the favor someday. 🙂

[m1000]

Weird, I posted yesterday but forum says this topic is 4 days old.

[RB2108]

Thanks Fee … I will certainly look into writing something for newbies like myself (although maybe by the time I get to understand BP then I’ll have forgotten how I feel right now !)

If I’m being too much of a pain with my stupid questions, please ignore me! But otherwise, I’m very grateful for you spending your valuable time helping me out.

So .. Following your latest suggestions, I’m making some progress.

Things I don’t understand are:

1) On the main home page, I now see four menu items .. My own menu, Members, Activities and Groups. The first should be a link to my ‘Group Forum’ and I’ve set the URL to http://localhost:8888/forums/forum/Group Forum (I’m using MAMP on the iMac) .. but I get URL Not Found.

2) (and this may be connected to 1) … When I edit my forum page from wp-admin, I get a message at the top saying that I need to update my permalinks to something other than the default for BP to work. What should I set this to ?

3) For the other three menu items (Members, Activities, Groups), if I click on all of these I just get put into the WP page editor. What do I do next please ?

I’m sure that sometime in the near future I will suddenly see the light and understand all of this. At the moment it seems like a bit of a steep learning curve.

Thanks
Ron

[Fee]

Hi Ron,

first of all thanks for the compliment including me into ‘BP Folks’. So, I’m not part of the BP team (not yet…), I’m just an advanced user and dev for my own clients.

There were big changes in the last development versions (both bbPress and BP) and the documentation is not up to date. The devs put most of their time in developing the features – it would be great if some volunteers would come up, advanced users, to complete the documentation (that’s a lot of work, too). Everything you find here is done by the devs and the community (including folks like you) and offered for free. Maybe you can keep this in mind when you are more experienced in a few month to please come back and contribute something to the community as well. Like answering here in the forums, writing documentation and so on 😉

To answer your question: On the bbPress settings page you can change the slug for the forums. If you didn’t change it, it’s ‘forums’ – e.g. yourdomain.com/forums/
So go to your menus, set up an own menu, include a Link to Forums, save this menu to your primary navigation.

all I see on the nav bar is Home, Activities, Members, Sample Page. Nothing about groups or forums.

Did you activate ‘User Groups’ in the BuddyPress settings?

[RB2108]

Thanks Fee … that worked up to a point. I’m using WP 3.51 immediately after a fresh install and so the default theme Twenty Twelve is being used. So, after your instructions (with a small uncertainly at the end) all I see on the nav bar is Home, Activities, Members, Sample Page. Nothing about groups or forums.

Your instructions mentioned ‘Activate group forums for BuddyPress’ which I couldn’t see on the page. What I got was

BuddyPress Forum settings for BuddyPress
Enable Group Forums Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums
Group Forums Parent is the parent for all group forums
Using the Forum Root is not recommended. Changing this does not move existing forums.

The first box was ticked by default (which I left alone) and as instructed, I set the Group Furums Root to ‘Group Forum’.

So, why are there no Forums on the home page ?

Apologies if I’m being stupid here. I think you BP folks have done a great job .. however, I find the available docs not very user-friendly i.e. if I click on ‘documentation’ from the BP home page, I get a list of extremely esoteric items where I would expect to see a few idiot’s guides on installation, configuration etc etc. I reckon that I’m quite knowledgeable about WordPress having created and supported 3 sites, but I’ve found bbPress and BuddyPress very confusing.

Thanks
Ron

[akukskuks]

Thanks fee, this helps!!

My problem is that in the Group front end directory there’s no button to create a new group (nor is there one anywhere on the actual site)! I’ve been combing the forums trying to find a way to solve this but just can’t figure it out – tried uninstalling and reinstalling BP, enabling and unenabling groups, all other plug-ins, changing themes, etc etc. Any ideas??

[dreamdimples]

@modemlooper, I did the admin settings as directed. I had to go in and change in bp-share-it.php file to direct everything from buddypress-share-it to just buddypress….at least it got my icons to finally show.

In Forums – it works, it expands and drops, but drops vertically
In Groups – The Share Group Button works and it works horizontally like it suppose too
In Activity – It shows outside the share button, but shows vertically.

I just can’t get the activity to work, which sucks for me because that’s what everybody will be using. I just wish I can get this wonderful script to work for me so I can move on to the next task….. I REFUSE to Give up on this….. 😀