[@mercime]

@alanfolkard You’re in luck. In upcoming BuddyPress 1.7, theme compatibility is made easy in addition to other new features http://wpmu.org/7-exciting-new-features-in-buddypress-1-7/

I suggest setting up a test installation with WP 3.5.1 and download BP 1.7 beta 1 . If you want forums, download bbPress beta 2. Activate your theme and check it out.

[Brajesh Singh]

Ok, forum does not allow me to post the html code.

After including the above code, you can use this function bp_custom_get_send_private_message_link to get the appropriate url.

[Brajesh Singh]

Hi Jeff,
There are many ways to do it.
here is one way.
You can put the following code in your bp-custom.php

`
add_filter(‘bp_groups_default_extension’,’my_custom_group_default_tab’);
function my_custom_group_default_tab($default_tab){

$group=groups_get_current_group();//get the current group

if(empty($group))
return $default_tab;

//otherwise, you may create a switch/if else to default to some other tab based on group slug of id what ever you prefer
//here I am testing agains slug
switch($group->slug){

case ‘awesome-group’:
$default_tab=’forum’;
break;

case ‘study-group’:
$default_tab=’members’;
break;

default:

$default_tab=’home’;//
break;

}

return $default_tab;
}
`

You can modify it for anything you want. Hope that helps.

[Kevin M. Schafer]

I should just probably put ads on the sidebars. All the activity is inside  the Activity Stream where it belongs and also in the forums and groups. I think I’ll consider putting other content in the sidebars.

It would, however, be useful to try to at least get the comments connected to the site admin posts for informative reasons. Even if I don’t display the Recent Comments on the sidebar, at least I can interact with the members without having to jump into the Activity Stream.

Any thoughts would be welcome.

–Kevin

[harlemS]

Thanks Paul! You the man sir!

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Yes. See https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

[Hugo Ashmore]

I’ve raised this issue off site and consider it frankly bizarre, that setting was and is for adding a entry to the robots.txt file and as the descriptive text explicitly suggests is for discouraging search engines from indexing so what on earth has that to do with the ability of ones site to display data across the site(s) to members/users –  this also affects other activity on site iirc such as forum post activity stream display.

imho this behaviour is badly wrong and a trac ticket needs opening to discuss this.

[Kevin M. Schafer]

I’m sorry, I thought I put this comment in the Idea forum. I apologize for this.

[Norm]

I’m looking into this too. I think the problem is that bbpress is adding that forum tab and not buddypress. Did you figure it out?

Otherwise this is a good reference.
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16223/add-buddypress-profile-menu-item

[dasped]

Thanks for the responses,

I have just disabled discussion forums in buddypress and group forums also are now working.

The bit I don’t get from that is, you are surely supposed to have this feature enabled so that your installation allows the forums to co-exist? As the line states: ‘Site-wide and Group forums allow for focused, bulletin-board style conversations.’ Are we therefore not just simply masking a deeper routed issue, or is this normal practice? One I’ve certainly never come across before.

I’m also failing to see public group forums within the set page /group-forums/ Instead, group forums are showing up just fine on and just below my sitewide forum page categories. (This is perhaps just another issue I should really address in another post, after a little more research) – Not send this thread off on a different tangent. Mentioned it here just in case it is a related issue.

[Chris Collins]

Yes I have solved it.  I still had discussion forums still enabled in buddypress.  If you uncheck that option the problem with topics in bbpress group forums was gone.

[modemlooper]

sounds like the bbPress files are missing from BuddyPress or the bbPress plugin isn’t installed

[cao4873]

Usually, with this type of error it will be a misspelled function. What you’ll need to do is look at the function where it’s defined. Look at $this->, You will find that sometimes the variable has been improperly defined. Also, it may be that the programmer failed to define the method Instance Correctly. For Example, reusing Instance Methods, but failing to call on them properly. Methods are not stand alone. I would bet its one of these errors

Joshua

[dasped]

I’m having this exact same issue @chrchcol did you have any joy resolving the matter? 0300Hrs (Nightmare) !!

[@mercime]

@zcthorn many variables concerned here. Did you follow instructions at https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[FlipFl0p]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I will give the Honeypot Trap plugin a try as I believe you are all correct and it’s spam.

Think I’m going to go to BBpress forums only at first and then reintegrate Buddypress later as there’s a few too many complications with BP right now.

[@mercime]

@patrykos360
1. deactivate the BP Template Pack plugin.

2. delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your Continuum theme folder in server i.e. wp-content/themes/continuum namely: /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, /registration

3. clear cache and check out your BP pages again.

[@mercime]

I want to assign my Site Tracking to a different page.

@km-schafer-1
1. wp-admin Pages > Add New and title it “Sites” then click Publish
2. wp-admin Settings > BuddyPress > Pages and assign the new Sites page to site tracking

Also, every time I create a new site, when I click on it, I am taken to another installation of WordPress.

Something’s gone awry with your multisite installation. Did you follow instructions at https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network ?

At this stage, deactivate BuddyPress then create a subsite. If you are still being redirected to another WP install, please post the issue at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

Please make sure that your multisite issue is resolved before re-activating BuddyPress.

[Asynaptic]

related to this, when you do login it takes you to a screen that strangely says: “You are already logged in.”

 

??!?!?

 

wouldn’t it make more sense to send the user to the frontpage? or the support forums? or anywhere more useful than a blank page with the befuddling message that they are ‘already’ logged in?

[wpmirwin]

@mercime

Hello Mercime,

Hopefully you some time to look a this.

I already have a process that registers new users, sends out the welcome email, etc. So, I don’t really want to install the Welcome Pack plugin. What I really need to change is the prefix of all BP email subjects to look like all the other emails that get sent from WP and elsewhere.

Currently BP emails looks like:

[Blog name]

For example:

[example.com] New message from user01

What I would like to do is change all subject prefixes to something fixed. eg.

fixed-string-1-here [fixed-string-2-here]:

For example:

Example [BuddyPress]: New message from user01

I found the topic below in the BP forums which suggest adding a filter, but it’s almost 2 years old, and doesn’t seem to work. I added the function to my bp-custom.php, but it had no effect.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/blogname-at-the-beginning-of-subject-lines/

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks!
Mike.

[macbort]

Thanks for the reply, @ubernaut.

Your hunch seems to be correct – It saved correctly when I temporarily switched to the bp-default theme.

The regular theme I’m working with is a Genesis child theme w/ the Genesis Connect plugin to hook-up with BuddyPress. There appears to be an issue with that, however.

I’ll pursue my troubleshooting further in that direction.

Cheers!

[Ben Hansen]

have you confirmed this isn’t a theme issue? does this also happen with the bp-default theme? i would think if you disabled the group forum option that link shouldn’t even show up.

[brisrocket]

that’s dissapointing to hear.

I’ll start hunting this support forum now to see if I can take the ‘register to continue’ widget from the top sidebar, as this appears to be the primary call to action, but I think what people really want is the news feed from my Subscribe2 widget (I think this because after registering they are not doing anything. Probably because they don’t see any of my new posts… annoying).

[@mercime]

`[bbp-topic-index] `

For other bbPress shortcodes – https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
For bbPress support – https://bbpress.org/forums/

[@mercime]

@thomasboerre yes, something’s missing in your multisite installation. Deactivate BuddyPress. Please resolve the multisite issue before activating BuddyPress again.

Follow precisely the instructions written https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Based on what you’ve posted above at the very least – a) define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); should be above “/* That’s all, stop editing! …” not just below DB information and b) you’re missing Step 4 – Enabling the Network – wherein you’re suppposed to add more in wp-config.php

For more assistance, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite