[yadigit]

Buddypress is always the right way to go.
I do suggest buddypress.

In your case I would use a plugin that allows users to pick a group to join during registering.
1) Employer
2)Job seeker

From there you can enable forums in the group that will act as posting for employers.

That’s just a quick though off the top of my head.
Buddypress if the quickest and fastest way to do something like that.
I wouldn’t suggest any other way.

[@mercime]

Coming up sometime soon https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3598 so if you have numerous postings already in your group forums, you might want to use group forums first and wait for the official way to safely move group forums (BP internal bbPress) to sitewide forums (bbPress the plugin)

[Hugo Ashmore]

The other thread is here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/new-user-is-listed-fifteen-times-in-member-directory/

But you confirm it’s NOT a theme issue, so there is larger issue at work here

.htaccess checks out as ok, permalinks re-freshed, no plugins running that might possibly affect things even if remotely so.

[dianeinatlanta]

The site address is atlantagardeningforum.com. I have an additional problem now, in that when I try to create a new group it creates multiple groups – then when I try to delete the groups, they won’t delete.

The problem seems similar.

[piccollopete]

there were no forums in the old database, just user info…and I’m pretty sure the table was built pre web 2.0 – thanks for the tips, I will play around with it and check back here.

[shanebp]

>point bp to the existing database

You mean point BP to some forum tables in another database? But get everything else from the new site database?
You don’t want to do that.

You’ll want to export/import your forum tables to the new site.
Do you have access to phpmyadmin ?
If you don’t know, ask your hosting company.

You want to copy over the forum tables to the new site database.

Using a browser interface like phpmyadmin, it’s easy to export / import.
tip: export as gzip

Since you are working on a new site, it’s okay if you screw-up the first try or two.
You’ll find out if there is any structural difference in the tables – hopefully not.

[starship87]

Have any of you found a solution to this? I’ve had the same issue and there is no help what-so-ever on this online. Its driving me mad.

[sharonmiranda]

I certainly agree that this forum needs a search feature. I often find answers on other sites due to this.

[aces]

See reply on https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-activation-email/

[aces]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-activation-email/#post-123597 ?

[dannyjimmy]

It’s certainly an issue of concern. There are workarounds but they’re not always easy:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/admin-approval-required-for-new-users

[@mercime]

@benstacey Please give info per my post at WP forums

[Andrew Chapman]

Thanks, @aces, for the workaround — I forget the ability to do that in Google.

However, I really think this problem needs to be addressed. It was first raised over 2 months ago, with the last reply by @JohnJamesJacoby a month ago. It’s so bleeping impractical to have to wade through all the posts. I’ve posted my issue, but what a waste to have to do that if it’s already been resolved elsewhere.

I truly appreciate BuddyPress, but really can’t make much use of it as long as this is an issue. It would also be good to have paid support available. (And yes, I did post all this on the feedback forum.)

[zeshan87]

@mercime thnx for the info, i didnt enable group forums in each group setting, thnx again.. its work now

[Unit9]

Hi again Paul, here is the forum post on the site:

http://buddypress.p-h1.com/community/topic/this-is-my-first-topic/

And here is the admin activity page:

http://buddypress.p-h1.com/members/admin/

I did change the url that was /forums/ to /community/ in bbPress, because that was already taken up by Buddypress, even though the forums weren’t completely set up.

[@mercime]

If BuddyPress is activated and if you have BP-compatible theme, then default landing page when you click on member’s link is activity. You can add code so that default landing page for member’s link is something else. See how to. Btw, what do you mean by “dashboard”? wp-admin?

[aces]

or is it https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/ ?

[ludu]

Hi,
Hope someone can help me out. My BuddyPress works perfectly . Everything works fine. Except the reply on my Activity stream. I am able to make new comment or new post on the Activity (mysitie.com/activity/) . But whenever i reply to a comment . it responds. to 404 page. (mysite.com/activity/reply) .

what i have done so far:
edited my bp-activity-template.php ; line 1797 ( ` return apply_filters( ‘bp_get_activity_comment_form_action’, home_url( bp_get_activity_root_slug() . ‘/reply/’ ) );
} `. )

my .htaccess file works fine.

I have upgraded and used version 1.2 – 1.5.4
all gave the same response whenever i reply a comment on my activity stream. ( 404 error Page Not found.)

Please help.

[@mercime]

You can attach images to Sitewide Forums (bbPress plugin) via https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

As for attachments for Group Forums, old plugin has not been updated for BP 1.5

[Crystal Phoenix]

I’m new to the forum – how do I send you a screenshot?

[Crystal Phoenix]

Hi Shawn
I have the issue on IE9 – instead of a horizontal menu I get a vertical menu, with the button text at the left, and the button extending all the way to the right of the header image.
When I upload a custom header, the image is repeated – one below the other. I can attach a screenshot if you can tell me how I do that on this forum.
I haven’t changed anything, in fact I had developed a whole website with groups etc and when a friend checked it in IE, he reported the issue. So I tried a whole new install and had the same problem…
Thanks for your time!

[@mercime]

WP/BP versions? I’ve seen this happen with an old custom theme which was not updated for latest WP/BP versions. Have you done basic troubleshooting like changing to bp-default theme and deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress?

[Unit9]

Hi Paul – thanks for the reply!

Yep it does – works for everything: Posting new stories in the blog. Commenting on other people’s profiles. Making groups, etc. The only thing it doesn’t work for is the forum.

If it helps, I literally installed Buddypress from within the latest version of WordPress and I installed the stand-alone bbPress forums from within the Buddypress forum settings.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

It should work. Does your activity stream work for content generated in BuddyPress?

[@mercime]

@udotorg Based on initial scan, to make your theme compatible with BuddyPress, you only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php

If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your evolution theme folder during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your denizen 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 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:
`<?php
$sidebar_layout=get_post_meta($post->ID,’kaya_pagesidebar’,true);
$img_width=kaya_image_width($post->ID);
//sidebar class
$aside_class=($sidebar_layout== “leftsidebar” ) ? ‘one_third’ : ‘one_third_last’;
?>

<div ID); ?>>
<div id="post-” >

`

Save file.