Roger CoathupMembers don’t show in the members directory until they’ve logged in to the site. After they’ve logged in for the first time, you will start seeing them in the directory.
I suggest you ask your other questions about confirmation links as a separate thread, or they will likely be missed by forum visitors.
neononconMakes no sense and is preventing the community from pushing forward!
Paul Wong-GibbsAnd yes, it’s pretty wet here — though very dry compared to the rest of the country, where flash floods keep happening.
newpressA good riddance. Disable Group Forums within buddypress and uninstall the installation. Use bbpress 2 for group forums. At least Posts and topics will ever remain untouched
Paul Wong-GibbsBoth bbPress + BuddyPress dev teams wanted to do more integration, but basically ran out of time to get into the 2.1/1.6 releases, respectively. I think multiple forums, or sharing the same forum across multiple groups, and updating the BuddyPress admin screens to remove mention to the old ‘group forums’, are examples of this thing. We’ll get them in future versions.
If you’re asking why bbPress 2 hasn’t been integrated into Groups until now, but that bbPress 1.x was, it’s simply because bbPresss 2 is a new plugin. We’ve had the old bbPress 1.x integration into Groups for at least 3 years now. 
@mercimeClosing this topic. OP has changed to Mingle forums plugin.
@mercime@dailyblog https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/ for bbPress 2.+ plugin aka Sitewide Forums.
There’s no updated plugin for the BP Group Forums.
@mercime@lakhlu late as this may be … Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your collection theme folder in server during the compatibility process.
If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder in server, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run 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:
`
Then, in each of 16 files, you’d like to change the BP Templates’ page title’s header tag from `
` or `
` to `
`, AND move tag and title to above `
Save files.
@mercimeB. COPY your theme’s sidebar.php file and Save As > sidebar-buddypress.php
Open up sidebar-buddypress.php and at the TOP of the file, before all other code, add the following:
``
Then at the very BOTTOM of the same file, below all other code, add the following
`
jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});
`
Save file.
C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/avenue/ in the same directory where your regular header.php and sidebar.php files are
D. Final note: Copy the style modifications for some BP elements https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste those at the bottom of your theme’s stylesheet, then adjust to taste.
@mercime@workingman Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you will be only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make the BP templates compatible with your theme.
If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your avenue theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.
A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php
Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add this:
`
Save file.
newpressAnd also all the bbpress plugins like bbpress topic location and bbcode are well served within groups. I wonder why these buddypress guys dont cater it at first place (bbpress 2.0) without tweaking an old version. Burgess Hills must be under heavy rain or bbpress raining on buddypress’s parade?
newpressMarvelous. This thing is going to keep me stuck with bbpress+buddypress (for how long? I have no clue). bbpress new version is deeply integrated into buddypress provided Buddypress group forums is disabled and uninstalled.
go to bbpress forums and creat a new forum or category and in the bbpress settings select it as the group forums base. At the moment you cannot have more than one forum or a category for a group. I hope things will change.
And also it promises changing things wont erase previously owned stuff. (Dont forget to check whether “Forums” in the “Settings” or “Component” tab (I dont remember where it is) of Buddypress is unchecked)
modemlooperDeactivate BuddyPress by deleting the BuddyPress folder so you can get too site.
The correct steps to update a BuddyPress site are
1. place your site into a maintenance mode. How you do this is up to you. There are many WP plugins for this.
2. switch your theme to bp-default.
3. deactivate every plugin including BuddyPress.
4. upgrade the BuddyPress plugin.
5. If you need to re-activate bp-default do so.
6. Check your site now to see if the upgrade was successful by going to the front end. log out and in, post activity and forum posts, check avatar uploads. And any other things to check.
7. if you are using a custom theme then test your custom theme the same way you did with bp-default.
8. if custom theme checks out test plugins one by one using the same method. After checking a plugin and its ok deactivate it.
9. if you find an error with a certain plugin then deactivate it. move on to next plugin.
10. post in this forum the error you may have found with a certain plugin. the developer may have not updated a plugin and your findings can help them. It’s the least you can do to give back when using FREE open source software.
All of the above should be done on separate install just for testing. This is to avoid the horror of updating only to find your killer site feature (plugin) completely broken. I usually do a BuddyPress install on the same server so it has similar configurations to get realistic tests.
I usually do it on a sub domain: mytest.url.com
This test site is for you only so you can test away. Just make sure you block sign ups and block it from search bots etc. I run a maintenance mode full time on my test install.
Since you already updated just get to the backend and then deactivate all plugins. Reinstall BuddyPress and activate. Then do the one by one test stated above. It’s most likely a plugin conflict.
kraiggOkay, I was able to fix it. If anyone else is having problems integrating bbPress 2.1 and Buddypress 1.6, and getting the group forums to work, here is what I did.
– Install Buddypress 1.6
– Enable all the components of Buddypress EXCEPT ‘Discussion Forums’
– Install bbPress 2.1
– Go into the bbPress settings (in Admin dashboard > Settings > Forums) and tick the box “Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums”. And then select the Group Forums Parent from the dropdown list. If you don’t already have an existing forum, create a new one (in Admin dashboard > Forums > New Forum).
– Your group forums should now be operational.
– If you go into your group forum, and you see a message that no forums exist for this group, and it doesn’t allow you to create a new forum, you may have to recreate your group by clicking the Create Group button on the group page. I had to recreate all my groups, fortunately it is still a new site so not many posts were lost.
– If your group forum posts don’t appear in the activity stream, make sure that the privacy settings (in Admin dashboard > Settings > Privacy) for “Allow search engines to index this site” is ticked
Roger CoathupYes, significant chunks of this site don’t work. Particularly those relating to forums. It used to work somewhat better, but a new design was introduced which reduced the functionality.
However, try not to let that put you off BuddyPress though — the sites you can build with the platform are far more impressive and consistent. It also integrates well with the new bbPress plugin, allowing you to deliver standard forum behaviour.
AsynapticCompare:
https://buddypress.org/community/members/mercime/
(list of activity…………………..)
https://buddypress.org/community/members/synaptic/
(Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter.)
why?
Roger CoathupThese forums don’t notify people of follow up comments — so, no surprise that Boone didn’t pick up on a further question several months later.
You can try the @username approach in your comment to notify them
candy2012the guys who programmed BP seem to need a “how to use” tutorial for their own site 
frank trediciYeah, it’s very annoying, discouraging and a deterrent to want to use it. Thanks @RogerCoathup
Roger Coathup@frank13 — unfortunately those standard forum features aren’t available on this site, so it’s very difficult to track anything, and questions often get re-asked, and re-answered.
Not sure why the site hasn’t been updated to use e.g. the bbPress plugin @johnjamesjacoby
Paul Wong-GibbsTechnically, it’s the other way around: bbPress 2.1 supports BuddyPress for Group Forums (but **only** if you deactivate the Group Forums component).
You can use the bbPress 1.1 convertor that comes with bbPress 2 (it’s under the Tools menu) to move your content from old bbPress to new bbPress.
If the forum doesn’t appear in the BuddyPress group, it’s probably best to feed this back to the bbPress team on the bbpress.org forums.
newpressI resolved it long ago
Alternatively you can go to bbpress->setting-> change forum slug from forums to anything else. I think it works though didnt try it myself
kraiggSorry, I’ve tried using bbPress 2.1, but it is not integrating well with my group forums and Buddypress 1.5 in general.
What I’ve found:
– Buddypress activity stream not updating when making bbPress forum posts
– Creating a ‘new topic’ in bbPress doesn’t always work. Sometimes I get an error message that no forums exist for a particular group, but doesn’t give me the option of creating a new forum topic from the front-end. I have to go into the WordPress backend to create new topics.
How I installed it:
– Disable ‘Discussion Forums’ component from Buddypress setup
– Uninstall ‘Group Forums’ from Buddypress forum setup
– Delete the WordPress page (“My group forums”) I previously created and linked to Buddypress discussion forum to
– Install bbPress 2.1 and activate
Can you let me know if this looks correct?
Roger CoathupThis comment sounds like a general WordPress / User Role Editor plugin issue, and not anything to do with BuddyPress – Have you asked on their forums?
maggieymaeThanks for the tip I will try it.
