You are right Hugo, I am looking for something else. The plugin you suggest does not have the capability of group email integration; that only supports the email subscription.
I can see there is an option in wordpress where I can post by sending an email and assign to a category, similarly we can have an option to post in form as well.
You should search through BP plugins list before requesting really 
or perhaps that wasn’t sort of thing you were after?:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-email-subscription/home/
Hey snowlas – I AM running Membership. I’ll check out the forum over at WPMU Dev – thanks for the heads up!
I am having a very similar issue. Mine came about as a result of forum installation as well. I’ve got to run right now – will check back in a bit to see if there has been any light shed.
@Dope-Sheet as was mentioned on another thread please start a new topic on your issue it’s not good forum nettiquette to tag onto other peoples unrelated posts.
Closing this thread.
To add to that, when I use the normal/default BP template the groups section does display however the groups forums don’t display and are inaccessible via direct URL, clicking on new topic etc. doesn’t work either.
Paul,
Thanks for your reply.
When I upgrade the BuddyPress this is the error I receive in the groups forum section:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function groups_total_forum_topic_count() in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-template.php on line 157
Also, the gravatars in the members section also stop to display anymore. We’re using WordPress 3.1.2, I don’t want to upgrade WordPress due to compatibility issues with other things that are running.
Thanks for your help.
Firstly, As Modemlooper (the author of BP mobile) stated here
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/using-bp-content-api-to-create-an-iphone-app/
“BuddyPress has no API for external communication. It was created before the mobile scene took off and now apps have become the norm. You could load web pages in a native app that were optimized but it wouldn’t be 100% like a native app. You could also create your own json API.”
Secondly, since when has StatusNet supported SMS’? SMS’ are very difficult to do and will need to be done on a site-by-site basis by yourself… it really is impossible to do properly as an opensource thing as you will need to have mobile address’ in all sorts of weird countries and some way to distinguish between sites.
eg. i sms 0445493509485 with what i’m doing, but where does it go? I cant see how sms would work in an opensource project. Even twitter has trouble supporting every carrier…
RE “StatusNet (and kin) has excellent client support – could it be used as a middleware to BP? Or could Twitter be used?”
Nothings around for statusnet, is their license even compatible with wordpress’ gpl? but you could use twitter via https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddystream/
Here’s the code I used; It worked somehwat, but was giving me the same view count for each topic post. I got the sense that buddypress topics all have the same post id… that’s probably why it was giving me the same count for all… any thoughts?
THIS WENT IN FUNCTIONS.PHP
function getPostViews($postID){
$count_key = ‘post_views_count’;
$count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
if($count==”){
delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’);
return “0 View”;
}
return $count.’ Views’;
}
function setPostViews($postID) {
$count_key = ‘post_views_count’;
$count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
if($count==”){
$count = 0;
delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’);
}else{
$count++;
update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);
}
}
THIS WENT IN THE INDIVIDUAL FORUM-TOPIC FILE
Note that I put open/close bracket for triangular brackets:
open bracket
?php
setPostViews(get_the_ID());
?
close bracket
AND THIS GOES WHERE I WANT THE NUMBER OF VIEWS TO SHOW:
open bracket
?php
echo getPostViews(get_the_ID());
?
close bracket
You may have updated wp-config.php, but group forums uses bb-config.php.
Hi Hugo! Thanks heaps for the answer!
(I posted the question to WP forums, but then thought that may be it is something in Buddypress files that uses the old prefix. When I said “db prefix”, I meant “db table prefix”, sorry.)
It was “WSD Security” (Wp database Security) plugin.
I agree it’s not difficult to change prefixes when you know what to do Looks like the plugin worked, but something else is missing… somewhere..
> you may have to copy the new tables that now have data to the old ones so any new posts are preserved then delete the newer table and rename the old one with the new prefix.
Thanks for the advice. I have never done this before, I can try. Luckily I have not got any valuable topics, so I can easily ignore them. I.e. it’s ok if new topics created (that went to “wp_” table) will be lost.
> In this situation perhaps the first thing I would ensure is that I had a working DB and would create a new empty DB and restore a sql dump to it that way I could simply switch to that DB in wp-config and get back to original state in seconds.
I will try this.
In wp-config I see db name and a user with an encrypted password.
How can I get the password encrypted? I know it non-crypted as I enter it to phpMyAdmin.
Thanks heaps again!
Natalie
Firstly moral of this story is do not mess with Databases unless you really know what you are doing, plugins that suggest doing things to alter db conditions should have a lot of red warning text and detailed guidance on what the various options mean and will do.
I’m tempted to suggest you should really roll back as I’m not sure how you have arrived at a mixture of tables within your db and that is not a good thing. In theory a change such as this is not rocket science and to be honest doesn’t require a plugin, manually changing the table prefix in something such as phpMyAdmin, knowing what other fields may also need changing and then changing the wp-config constant that sets the prefix should be all that’s required.
You now, have in effect two DB in one (part of the reason one can add the prefix to tables) how you reconcile which you are using or how you merge those duplicate tables is going to be the issue, you may have to copy the new tables that now have data to the old ones so any new posts are preserved then delete the newer table and rename the old one with the new prefix.
In this situation perhaps the first thing I would ensure is that I had a working DB and would create a new empty DB and restore a sql dump to it that way I could simply switch to that DB in wp-config and get back to original state in seconds.
I would set up a db you can restore to I would also ensure that I wasn’t allowing further data to be created while I worked on a database.
Some of the others may have further suggestions to help you along in the meantime do set up a new DB with a sql dump restored to it so you have a fallback while you try and sort things out, then at least you can get back to a working site easily and start over if necessary.
One last thing this is probably more a topic suited to the main WP forums rather than BP support
Looking over your theme, you will need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your duotive theme in server during the compatibility process.
If you’ve changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder, replace all of them by deleting the 6 BP folders in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility
Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive. The changes we’ll be making are using the default layout (right sidebar) for the duotive theme.
A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
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Not sure what you mean by ‘group requirements’?
Group Forums still work fine. We’re using them on this very site, for example. I don’t have a date for 1.6 yet. Beta soon.
I did that. No go. At this point, with a clean install and importing the prior database, I can create new groups and those can have forum topics., But existing groups that have no prior topics – I cannot create topics in those. Any advice? Thanks very much!
Paul,
We have buddypress 1.2.8 installed for a university research project. I want to upgrade the site to buddypress 1.5 so that we can use you Achievements plugin. However, doing so I realized I cannot get the bp groups forums to work and reading the above post made me realize (after days of trying to figure this out) that bp groups forums are no longer supported. Am I correct?
Will there be a fix for this in buddypress 1.6? If so, when is buddypress 1.6 projected to be released(approx.)? Thank you very much.
Change to bp-default theme and deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress plugin. Then enable forums for each group via that group’s > Admin panel https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/4/#forums-faqs
Well, I spoke to soon. This is my first experience with Child Themes, but I referenced this: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
Seems like it couldn’t be simpler… I created a new director in wp-content/themes, added the required comments to the style.css file, plus the new css mod to hide the search form.
When I “preview” the child theme in WP, it looks good as it should, search form gone, all other styles and settings in tact.
But when I activate it, the entire theme goes back to the default BP Default, with the exception of the CSS change I made.
When using a child theme, do I need to essentially “re-configure” all of my theme settings, or is something simply not working here? Hmm… maybe this needs a new post.
Edit: New post for this topic: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/child-theme-not-working/
Thank’s Paul!
Yeah, we have 2.0.2 installed already and don’t want to loose what has already been posted.
The way I see it, I have about 3 options:
– I’m not sure what group forums is.. and if site wide is available, we may just be able to get away with that for now.
– If we use bbPress 1.x that is included with BP.. When the 1.6 and 2.1 come out, can we upgrade and merge it with our current 2.x version we have now? (maybe the question is how complicated would that be).
– Or is there a way to downgrade 2.x?
It is the regular WordPress version 3.3.1 using a new install of Buddypress 1.5.4. This issue occurs even with the default theme activated and with all other plugins deactivated.
It’s not a common error. Something went wrong with the installation of your group forums or a conflict with some plugin or theme.
>>> Also, in the “Forums for Groups” section of the admin, when I select “Use existing installation” it asks for the location of the bb-config.
Did you just upgrade your BP site? Did you set up your groups forum in your old installation? If so, what Archive slug did you use for your sitewide forums?
If this is a new installation and it’s the first time you’re going to install the Forums for Groups, choose “Install Group Forums”
WP/BP versions? Is this an old upgraded installation or a new installation? Have you tried basic troubleshooting like changing to bp-default theme and deactivating all plugins except BuddyPres to see if issue is corrected?
