Interesting. I guess that would essentially accomplish the same thing. It would be smoother/prettier, if when you click forum, the sub forums were listed on the bar beneath it. I guess I can suggest it as an upgrade, if hasn’t already been suggested. Thanks for the work-around!
Have you assigned your forums to a specific page in the settings yet?
I have this problem as well
I love diamond widgets…the shortcodes are it!
thanks again for the reply. this is the most activity I’ve had on forums in quite some time. 
@mercime thanks again. I decided not to go the sitewide forums. I’ve not gone there in a while either.
Anyway here’s what I got so far, anyone welcome to help edit it. I figure If i’m able to get the image, we can also get the latest_post’s real author since blog-avatar doesn’t make much since on sites with multiple authors.
` <?php
global $blogs_template;
global $post;
switch_to_blog($blogs_template->blog->blog_id); ?>
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1&order=DSC');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
<a href="” rel=”bookmark”>
ID, ‘image’, array(‘class’ => ‘alignleft’)); */ ?>
`
I just fashioned this up “quickly” (took me all morning) to show images. I have to figure out how to find the right image as in fallback from a woo_image to a featured image to an inserted content image. So i’ve got my work cut out.
I don’t know how “expensive” this all is as well, so I figure I get something to work first then we can see if it’s worth it or not or if there is a better way to do it.
I think this is a bug. I have been facing this issue for a very long time and raised it on this forum and reported to buddypress as well but with no solution as yet. If you try creating a topic under the forum as an non admin user, you might get an error as well.
I think this is a bug. I have been facing this issue for a very long time and raised it on this forum and reported to buddypress as well but with no solution as yet. If you try creating a topic under the forum as an non admin user, you might get an error as well.
Deactivate the buddypress-group-forum-extras plugin manually via FTP/SSH/File Manager by renaming it to e.g. buddypress-group-forum-extras-xxx
After many tests I found that if you have not previously installed the old version BP 1.2.10 Forum groups will not work ..
With me not working because I installed 1.5.5 on a clean database and forums so groups do not work. But when I delete the database and installed 1.2.10 and Forum work groups. Then upgraded to 1.5.5 and forum groups continue to work … I think something is missing to be added to the database when you first install it BP and the latest versions from 1.5 up!
I am not a programmer and I can not say exactly what is omitted is added to the database but I hope to investigate this and fix the problem. Many people have this problem … write “There was an error when creating the topic” google and look at yourself.
For all who have this problem the solution is very simple …
1. You must install the 1.2.10 version of the BP .. To create a forum topic group and see if everything is okay.
2. To upgrade to BP 1.5.5
So everything will be fine.
After doing a little more reading, what we are trying to create is a multisite install that allows for multi-network BuddyPress networks (x2) that segregates BuddyPress social networks in the multi network WordPress install so that each WP network has a different social network. The user base is still shared across the WP install and the root is NOT a buddypress site, rather a straight up wp site. (Not sure if used all the correct language there …
Question 1: First of all, is this possible?
So it seems like we might want to use BP Multi Network plugin by @wpmuguru & @johnjamesjacoby.
see: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/
However, a little more reading and it seems that the WP Multi Network plugin by @johnjamesjacoby is a good candidate too.
see: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/
Question 2: Might it be that using both of these plugins is in order? Multi Network to Create Domain/Subdomain/Subsubdomain then BP Multi Network to segregate the buddypress newtorks Subdomain from Subsubdomain? Or would BP Mulit Network suffice?
Thoughts?
As we sort this out, we are also wanting each network to have its own extended/custom profile and its own groups and forums.
As I read on I am seeing that we need to have a good understanding about how sharing a database for these discrete networks, that will also have groups & forums, could be a bit tricky.
Are there any buddypress elves out there who could provide some guidance on this issue?
@mrlobaloba remember that solving this involved changing to bp-default theme and deactivating other plugins except BuddyPress beforehand and assigning the new Page Attivita to the Activity stream in BuddyPress > Pages and clicking save.
This was what I did in that specific installation – simple really:
1. Go to Network Admin dashboard menu BuddyPress > Components – deactivate activity stream component, click button to save/update.
2. Go to lavori.italianproplayers.com/wp-admin (where you defined BP i.e., where BP is installed) and dashboard menu Settings > Permalinks and click on Save button.
3. Go back to Network Admin dashboard menu BuddyPress > Components – Activate activity stream component, click button to save/update
4. Check that the page Attivita is selected for the Activity stream in BuddyPress > Pages and click save.
5. Go back to lavori.italianproplayers.com/wp-admin dashboard menu Settings > Permalinks and click on Save button.
Note that the above might or might not work for other installations.
I suggest that you set up BP components, pages, forums, etc. and adding BP plugins using the bp-default theme. Test if BP components and plugins work using bp-default theme as well. Change to BP-compatible or BP-ready theme if you’re satisfied that your default installation is working well.
@nahummadrid Yeah, I was kinda surprised you asked about a blog’s post thumbnail since I’ve seen you doing more advanced stuff. Thanks for adding “in blogs-loop” to the topic title now lol.
Re: Thumbnails for latest posts per blog in Blogs Directory
– last time I did this was early 2011, I installed https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/ and it supported post thumbnails. Best place to ask advice and support re this plugin is at the WP Multisite forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite and just add tag wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags on the sidebar
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== Note! Now I noticed that even in your demo site has this problem http://testbp.org ==
Posting in testbp.org two ways were successful:
1. Via Group BuddyPress Features and Usability > Forums > Add New – then posted topic – see http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-features-and-usability-632843827/forum/topic/testing-group-forum-topic-create/
2. Via Forums > Create Topic > Post in Group Forum – BuddyPress Testers – see http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248/forum/topic/2nd-testing-of-group-forum-topic-create/
Two successful tests are recorded in
http://testbp.org/members/mercime/
http://testbp.org/members/mercime/forums/
Not sure why it’s not working for you even at testbp.org
Note! Now I noticed that even in your demo site has this problem http://testbp.org
For those wondering, Full-integration for BBpress is coming in 1.6 (next major release) . https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/
@ktrojan Sorry, missed your reply.
With BBpress site-wide forums (bbpress 2.0 – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/) within the forums menu (settings/forums) you can choose to allow “anonymous posting” which will allow non-members to post in it.
But, that wont allow anonymous postings within a group, to do that is slightly harder (you’ll need to hire a developer) as it has an extra requirement of being a group member.
@mrlobaloba Please do not post admin login in these forums. That username and password have been compromised and I deleted it from your posts in this thread. I recommend that you delete that user in your installation now.
It might just be a theme issue. Change theme of http://lavori.italianproplayers.com/ to bp-default theme and check if issue is corrected. If not, deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress.
@DJPaul you have helped me in the past and I wanted to ping you to see if you maybe you could help me with this?
Thanks for any help,
Chris
OK thanks @djpaul — i’ll make a note of it, I can’t believe I’ve only really used the admin quickpress once in 3 years. I tried it in the real world and I got a mini-activity as a result. Not a big deal but just thought I’d make note of it here on the forums too, in case anyone else uses Quickpress and notices it.
Are you using bbPress 2.0 (“sitewide forums”), and are trying to post in a forum inside a group (“group forums”)?
