[newpress]

What you recommend?
should I uninstall buddypress’s default installation and go for bbpress 2? And also another thing noteworthy is if you use bbpress as group’s forums you can simply import and export forums, topics and replies easily

[Hugo Ashmore]

@newpress We’ve discussed you pushing this app newpress and I stated that it wasn’t really appropriate on this support forum. On this thread the OP is asking about BP themes and others have responded with some ideas, Oxwall is NOT a BP theme it is not even related to BP or WP so please stop mentioning it on this forum, thanks.

[modemlooper]

Change profile name field to something other than login name. Then read this https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/how-to-see-your-own-forum-topics/

[Asynaptic]

@frank13 I followed the instructions of @mercime and changed my “Name (required)” to Asynaptic (from Synaptic)… ??! nothing changed

I still can’t find a way to see all my posts or replies – the link still just 301’s

to clarify, going here to attempt to view the topics you’ve started (once logged in):

https://buddypress.org/community/members/synaptic/forums/topics

301’s to this URL
https://buddypress.org/community/members/synaptic/forums/

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

EDIT: apparently you can see a list of yours and others posts/replies here

https://buddypress.org/community/members/frank13/

or

https://buddypress.org/community/members/USERNAME

But there are 2 caveats, the previous link I provided should show you this since that is what the menu selection says “Forum>Topics Started/Replies/Favorite Topics” but for some reason it doesn’t, go figure (dogfood)

Second, only the posts and replies that you made after making the “Name (required)” change are shown, anything you may have written previous to the change will not be shown

[Asynaptic]

I asked this exact same question – this is obviously an important issue for people, who knows how many other times it has been brought up (and ignored) – can the developers please address it?!

one of the best ways to develop something is “eating your own dogfood” but the corollary to that idea is the continuous improvement of the “dogfood” because you are being forced to eat it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food

for some weird reason that just doesn’t apply to buddypress! we’re stuck eating dogfood… lol

can we please combine testbp.org and buddypress.org and implement these “dogfood” improvements please?

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120713_2S_3T0/1/details/

another VERY annoying factor is the horrible hosting for buddypress.org – the load time is horrendous! throw on a caching plugin, I dunno, heard of varnish? use a CDN or maybe just switch hosts? there are many affordable hosting solutions that would provide for much faster load times

thank you

[AustinPowWow]

Maybe by user id?

[AustinPowWow]

nothing?..

[edgarestradac]

sorry if I’m bothering,

I’m asking about mistakes, because I inserted the code that gave me in this forum, and may have the solution. I know they are PHP errors, but I wanted to tell you how is running my problem that I have been helping to solve.

Thank you very much.
And sorry for my english

[Jason]

Attention anyone please? I maybe new to the forums, but I’ve been a lurker for a long time. I would help more if I knew more about buddypress, but with the lack of community response It’s kind of a turn off.

I’m not trying to be rude, but I’m a little perplexed by this community. Any suggestions for me at all?

[frank tredici]

Ok @mercime … I went to Edit My Profile and changed my profile name to “test” Now what do I need to do to see all the posts I have made?

[@mercime]

@workingman you’re welcome. Marking this topic as resolved

[@mercime]

@gyoo if https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/admired is the Admired theme you’re referring to, we already have instructions for BP compatibility process at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddy-press-not-working-with-my-current-theme/

[@mercime]

@frank13 @neononcon just go to your profile here at buddypress.org and change “Name (required)” profile field to something other than your username.

[@mercime]

@jomjom No wonder the instructions for compatibility for instyle theme last year was not working for you, the code from instyle’s page.php from last year has changed a lot (see http://pastebin.com/1PcjiXK9 from original poster)

Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your instyle theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

Since you’ve revised the BP template files, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders transferred to your theme’s folder in server during the compatibility process -> /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run dashboard Appearance > BP Compatibility.

Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive.

A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
`

`

with the following:
`

<?php if (get_option('instyle_integration_single_top') ” && get_option(‘instyle_integrate_singletop_enable’) == ‘on’) echo(get_option(‘instyle_integration_single_top’)); ?>

`

Save files.

[@mercime]

closing this. answered in https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-install-buddypress-along-side-running-blog-1/

[modemlooper]

The activity stream here is really non essential as its a support forum

[Tammie Lister]

Do you mean this: http://www.artisteer.com/? If so I’m not seeing that it is designed to create a BuddyPress theme which may be the hurdle you’re encountering. I would suggest if you want an easier route to look at BuddyPress themes and / or the template pack for BuddyPress. I know it’s not a perfect answer but you could just find the task to fix too big for a support forum like this and tackling the root a better method.

[Tammie Lister]

You can do a user check in the template file if you want using this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in

Maybe that would be a good starting point for you?

Adding a sidebar would require you to change the width of the content div and then also add in another get_sidebar call. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/buddypress-default-theme-12-add-more-sidebar-column/ is a good starting point.

As for changing the header – do you just want to change the header or the entire content area as it’s set to the full width of the site?

[frostdawn]

(side note- the server installation was built manually so the earlier potential solution from a past forum post wouldn’t have worked for that environment anyway).

SO glad this is finally working. Just about doing the ‘Snoopy dance’ over here.

[frostdawn]

Update: this worked on my copy on the server:
http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-fix-for-buddypress-group-forums-error-when-creating-a-new-topic/

[frostdawn]

Thanks for the response newpress. I tried it, but unfortunately, that didn’t work either.

So to recap, I’ve tried the following:
uninstalled and removed both bbPress and BuddyPress
renamed bb-config.php (in order to try and trick BuddyPress for the purposes of re-initializing the group forum install)
downloaded BuddyPress and bbPress and reinstalled each
changed forum slugs in WP > Settings > Forums (multiple times)
made sure group forums were allowed in WP > Settings > Forums
I’ve set a brand new page at least 3 times as the assigned page for group forums under BP > Pages
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve saved out Permalinks (WP > Settings > Permalinks)
enabled, disabled and re-enabled group forums from within the Groups as the admin (Admin Options > Group Settings) on about 7 different groups that were created, deleted and re-created multiple times
I’ve changed themes back and forth repeatedly between bp default and bp corporate (had no effect either way)

I’ve followed advice from several different posts in these forums:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/this-group-does-not-have-a-forum-setup-yet-1/?topic_page=1&num=15
and
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/this-group-does-not-have-a-forum-setup-yet-1/?topic_page=1&num=15
I’ve followed the BP Codex here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

I’ve looked online for other resources, and they are also ineffective (though problems with the BuddyPress group forums seems like a very common problem, and there seems to be quite a bit of confusion between the default forums provided via BuddyPress versus the forums provided by the bbPress plugin- albeit mostly attributed to older posts on other forums)

I’m testing now in 2 different places- a server and a local installation- neither instance works.

Multisite and single site- neither works.

The only thing I have left is this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/forums-posting-problems-the-definitive-post/?topic_page=2&num=15

I guess I’ll give this a go, although I am NOT using Dreamhost, so I’m not even sure how applicable this will be for me.

I really don’t know where to go from here, and am also really, REALLY curious what use groups are supposed to serve in BuddyPress?
There is no support for PMs to group members.
There is no content that can be created or flagged specifically for different groups (‘BuddyPress Groups Extras’ plugin sort of solves this, but generates an array error everytime I open a group up- other plugins don’t seem to work properly and I’ve searched PAGES of plugins results for this functionality). This seems integral to the whole point of having hidden groups.

Group forums don’t seem to work reliably/consistently or in some cases (like mine) at all.

I apologize if that sounds snarky- that’s not my intent at all. I’m 100% honestly curious what purpose groups are supposed to serve within BuddyPress since I can’t seem to find anything that points to how they work or what purpose they serve due to the issues listed above. They sound like they have great potential, but I’m trying to find out what that potential is.

If there is a change or hack required to whatever database tables or PHP files or system files associated with any part of WP, BP, etc, I’ll be glad to try it and attempt to get group forums working.

[@mercime]

@raminjan more info needed – e.g. BP/WP versions? What plugins are activated? What theme are you using, etc – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

[@mercime]

@maggieymae forums page at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Favorites are user picks for posts, forum topics ,et al which show up in Activity Streams and listed in your profile’s “My Favorites” tab

[workingman]

Thanks so much for the help, my site looks great now! check it out when you have the time: applarynx.com I really appreciate your time.

[Hugo Ashmore]

@newpress why on earth have you posted this site here? This is a forum for Buddypress this app you are trying to promote is not even WordPress based, and thus entirely inappropriate to posts here, please do not do so again.

If you do not want people messing around too much then really you should think about posting an admin loggin on a public forum. I feel you haven’t learnt much from the other post where you blindly downloaded a script and uploaded to your live site? If your Host is troubled then it is firmly your responsibility and you must think about that before leaving links like this.

I am removing the link as not appropriate to this forum.