[newpress]

“Group forums will be scripted to use the Sitewide Forums pretty soon”
music to my ears!.
But even then there are few hitchs.

Can we start sub forums or categories within a group forum?
what about buddypress group forum specific plugins? Will they become incompatible?

[Presence Films]

Thanks for this. I found it and deleted a group. This process needs simplification and user consideration. If each step is exceptionally time consuming and complex, using Buddypress is not possible. I appreciate it is free. We cannot complain but it really isn’t free if you are spending weeks of time to achieve patch it temporary solutions that fall apart, one update or plug in later. We still cannot solve our posts, forum or basic search issues. Once again, it is free and we should appreciate that but….

[stuffwelike]

Figured it out it was the Forum Prefix that I had to uncheck.

[wpbpadmin]

My clients are currently also interested in threaded replies in the Group Forums. Any luck in finding a solution @Matt and @energynet?

btw. @mercime Do you know when the Group Forums are going to be scripted to use the Sitewide Forums from bbPress?

[faospark]

make google chase your content and not the other way around: Translation: build your content for users and not for search engines. there are gazillion of web sites and communities out there that spreads rumors and myths about search rankings or SEO… some even go to the extreme that they brand seo as a science where in the reality is that SEO is just an abstraction. more often than not those ‘seo people’are not even children/enthusiast of the web but rather people/marketers who are just interested on other people’s money to earn a profit and im sick of them.

[Bruce Hazard]

OK. Site is back. Upgraded WordPress. “Restore” did bring back BP 1.5.6. per above Not sure at this point if I will attempt BP upgrade to 1.6.1. But at least the site is working again.

Good guidance from portion of this forum focused on installation problems which reminded me to “activate” BP and then gave access to BP default theme!

Again, thanks for help.

[k12onos]

Hi @Chouf1,

that actually works very well! Since now there isn’t any redirection the page loads without a redirection delay too. Thanks a lot for pointing that page out!

(Edit)

After using
`
define( ‘BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION’, ‘forum’ );
`

I found this repeating over and over again in my error log:
`
[20-Aug-2012 18:56:13] PHP Warning: call_user_func_array(): First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘redirect_to_forum’ was given in /home2/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 484
`

I’m not sure what I should do now.. any clue?

Edit:

Sorry, this was caused by my silly mistake of forgetting to delete
`
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘redirect_to_forum’ );
`

[k12onos]

I came up with this on WP 3.4.1 and BP 1.6:
`

function redirect_to_forum() {
global $bp;

$path = esc_url( $_SERVER );

$gpath = esc_url( bp_get_group_permalink( $bp->groups->current_group ));

if ( bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $gpath ) === false ) {
bp_core_redirect( bp_get_group_permalink( $bp->groups->current_group ) . ‘/forum/’ );

}
}

add_action( ‘wp’, ‘redirect_to_forum’ );
`

I’m not sure whether this is an optimal/efficient code, I just wrote what works..

Is there anyone here that knows how to improve it? Does this redirect code burdens the server at all? I’m concerned with how the redirect will heighten the server load when multiple users open group pages. I’m on a shared hosting so this is something that needs to be considered..

[@mercime]

This issue could be related to your other topic https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/whats-new-textbox-is-a-hyperlink-from-the-activity-page-to-the-activity-page-cycle-wierd/

Since your layout in 2nd install on a test domain is working fine, have you tried re-uploading the Modular_BuddyPress_Child_Theme folder/files to your server manually wp-content/themes/modular/

[Presence Films]

Yes, we all seem to have experienced the same problem. I tend to be very critical re these things but I guess being free and a community we should hold back and let the community and site grow. Still a search would save a lot of time

[Good in Today]

As a last ditch effort to determine the problem I left all of my plugins and scripts in place, switched the theme I’m using to the default BuddyPress theme, and behold it works! So I now have a post on the Aquoid Forums to see why Suffusion is stopping autocomplete from functioning. I would still welcome any answers here, if you have any ideas… But the problem does appear to be with the Suffusion Theme.

[EndlessRange]

That is pretty lame. I’m surprised they haven’t found it. Its very hard to find my questions on here. But thanks for the tip

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

newpress: Calling out moderators, especially in the way you have to me in the first post, which I take offence to, is impolite. Put effort into improving your behaviour on this forum.

[charlietech]

I’m having the same problem. Everything was working and now the activity stream keep duplicating a post that happen 2 days ago. I deactivated all plugins as well. I dont think its hosting problem.Im assuming its a activity loop php problem.

[miguelcortereal]

Again concerning this issue and commenting on @djpaul

It might be a bbPress bug. You should start a discussion on the bbPress forums at bbpress.org,

I guess this is a Buddypress issue too. Not saying that its original cause isn’t related with how bbPress handles buddypress integration but the fact is once you install sitewide forums you don’t get sitewide forums activity integration as promised, only groups forum integration.

You should go deep on this and make sure someone fix it.

I’ve just made a new install in a new subdomain with no plugins, default theme, only WP, BP and BBP and it just doesn’t update sitewide forums at activity stream.

Unless my hosting is causing this, there’s an important bug around.

[edinchez]

Try working something around these two:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/

[@mercime]

@tommycopeland BuddyPress Like has not been updated since BP 1.2. Deactivate that plugin, log out, then log in again. Then check if you can create group forum topics.

[Hugo Ashmore]

Drupal and ‘Commons’ is not intended or aimed at non developers so the comparison is somewhat null and void, it’s a developers platform.

This thread isn’t really suitable for this forum and it has been mentioned to newpress before.

[miguelcortereal]

I’m not getting any answer on this at bbpress forums.

I’ve Already tried to disable all plugins, switch to default theme, reset buddypress and bbpress installation, review all settings, everything looks fine, even members profile have the forums tab with the topics list correct and no updates from forums at activity stream.

Is it just me or there’s more people with the same problem ?

I’m using sitewide forums after had disable groups forums

[briancostea]

thanks for the response. unfortunately, codex.bbpress.org is pretty much useless. here’s where i am so far in case it helps anyone else.

`if ( bbp_has_topics( array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘_bbp_reply_count’, ‘meta_value’ => ‘1’, ‘meta_compare’ => ‘ ‘date’, ‘show_stickies’ => false ) ) ) {
while ( bbp_topics() ) {
bbp_the_topic(); ?>
<a href="” title=””>

’14’ ) ) ); ?>
<?php if ( !bbp_is_forum() || ( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() != bbp_get_forum_id() ) ) printf( __( 'in: %2$s‘, ‘bbpress’ ), bbp_get_forum_permalink( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() ), bbp_get_forum_title( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() ) ); ?>

<?php
}
}`

i am still researching to see what parameters i can pass the bbp_has_topics since there doesn’t seem to be documentation readily available. who would need documentation, right?

[genuinesmile29]

Went into the plugin code and found the lines relevant to auto joining (lines 29-30 of bp-forums-screens.php and I don’t see anything regarding BP_DISABLE_AUTO_GROUP_JOIN so I’m guessing it was removed some time in the last 11 months. I commented out those two lines and my test users no longer auto join when posting new topics or replying. I realize I may have to redo this if BuddyPress gets updated in the future…

[genuinesmile29]

I’ve done some more testing and it looks like the super admin for the blog can post to groups without becoming a member but no one else can. As soon as I use a test account to post to a forum that account gets auto added to the group.

It seems like a major assumption on BuddyPress’ part that people will always want to auto join groups….why didn’t they even think to make this an option?

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

For sitewide, you need to use bbPress’ template API. I don’t have the specifics to hand, but I suggest you start by lookin at codex.bbpress.org or ask on the bbPress.org forums.

[@mercime]

== ok, I managed to fix it, so proud of myself ==

@kooba and you should be proud of yourself for doing a good job

== maybe suggest some changes, i’d appreciate it…. I’m sure You could make it even nicer ==

Flattery will get you everywhere Kidding aside, you should copy over the style changes I mentioned in (D) above to fix the alignment of the other elements as well as remove the list background in the BP template files.

[@mercime]

@theonlytexaspete did you activate sitewide forums (bbPress plugin) only or did you also activate the Forums for Groups?

@nwweavers you have a different situation altogether. please start a new topic and include basic info about your installation like WP/BP versions, new/updated installation, single/multisite, and the like