[bollocks187]

I think the “Fourms” code is buggy. I have an install with WP MU multisite and when I try and activate the Forums groups it says I don not have permissions. Works on my local machine but not on my hosted machine. it could be an access user permissions issue.

If you look at this sites “forums” it too suffers from lack of functionality and the BBpress authors developers cannot fix it or refuse to. This is an indication of bugs in the code.

[TC.K]

Seriously, no one??

[LavishDhand]

HELLO!

I need help regarding my New BuddyPress Installation. I’ve been trying to post a topic to address the same at BuddyPress.org Support forum.

Clicking to “post new topic” on support tab redirects me to community tab where all I can do is reading others’ posts.

Kindly help me know how can I request help regarding my BuddyPress site.

Thank you.

[charlz]

OK. I seem to have found a solution, so I’m gonna share it here:

First, I replaced the groups_screen_group_admin_delete_group with a slightly changed version where I call a custom function after this line:
`do_action( ‘groups_before_group_deleted’, $bp->groups->current_group->id );`

Remember to register this correctly! In my case:
`
remove_action( ‘bp_screens’, ‘groups_screen_group_admin_delete_group’ );
add_action( ‘bp_screens’, ‘myplugin_groups_screen_group_admin_delete_group’ );
`

where ‘myplugin_groups_screen_group_admin_delete_group’ is the name of the function.

The function I call makes use of groups_delete_group_forum_topic( $topic_id ) and bb_delete_forum( $forum_id ). This way, you delete the group and keep the db tidy!
`
$forum_id_array = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare(“
SELECT forum_id FROM wp_bb_forums
WHERE forum_id = (
SELECT meta_value
FROM wp_bp_groups_groupmeta
WHERE meta_key = ‘forum_id’
AND group_id = %s
) ;”
, $group_id));
$forum_id = $forum_id_array[0]->forum_id;
$topic_id_array = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare(“
SELECT topic_id FROM wp_bb_posts
WHERE forum_id = %s;”
, $forum_id));

foreach ($topic_id_array as $value) {
groups_delete_group_forum_topic( $value->topic_id );
}
bb_delete_forum( $forum_id );
`

[abysshorror]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/remove-are-now-friends-from-activity-stream/#post-94301

[illicit007]

I’m having this exact same problem…. Any solutions?

[@mercime]

@inweb thank you for sharing your solution to current WP 3.3 and BP 1.5.2 forums. However, this thread is more than a year old and solution was different. Closing this thread.

[@mercime]

@tjherman
== Says it’s already installed. Is there another solution I’m missing? ==
Go to Settings > Forums and check the Archives Base, if you have group forums running change the slug from “forums” to something else e.g. sitewide-forums or discussions

@zaphod_b are you trying to install sitewide forums?

[@mercime]

== it gets stuck at the step where it says that I have to manually upload to …/bp-themes. ==
This means that for some reason, you server prevented the automatic transfer of the required BP folders into the folder of your activated WP theme.

1. Download a copy of BuddyPress to your computer hard drive – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/

2. Unzip, and upload the following folders from the BuddyPress folder to your server’s wp-content/themes/name-of-your-WP-theme via FTP/cpanel/FileManager:
– activity
– blogs (if you’re on multisite)
– forums
– groups
– members
– registration

3. Proceed with Step 3 of the BP Compatibility Process

[@mercime]

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

[Xevo]

I recall this problem popping up a lot when having the stand-alone version of bbpress working with WordPress which was always a pain. Maybe this is the same problem?

Always fixed the problem by fixing the permissions between bbpress and wordpress.

[zaphod_b]

I got this problem too. I did a fresh install of WordPress MU today, installed Buddypress and then tried to enable forums. No go. Tried a lot of things, nothing works. Also tried with bbpress, no go.

I really hope this gets fixed really really soon! This is a very serious bug.

[illicit007]

I also have a VERY similar issue. I’m WP 3.3 BP 1.52.

I’ve renamed my old plugin folder, created a new plugin folder, installed BP and then went to activate Forums for Groups and I’m also getting the..

Error Message : “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”….

Any idea?

[peeld]

This was working great for me til today, for some reason it just stopped working – the button to attach a file is there but nothing happens on click. Didn’t see any script errors when I ran it in Google Chrome – help!

Thanks

[aces]

@princehemo10

It’s really difficult to help as I don’t understand arabic and google translate isn’t much use in this situation.

It’s also unhelpful that there doesn’t seem to be an official arabic translation of buddypress ( or here or here )….

( https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/ )

Does it work with bp-default theme?

If it’s the premium theme from http://www.theme-junkie.com/themes/freshlife/ then they might provide support for it on their forum: http://www.theme-junkie.com/forum/

[inweb]

I had this problem and have finally solved it.

Here’s what I did:

1. deactivate all plugins except buddypress
2. change theme to default
3. backup your bb-config.php file
4. delete bb-config.php
5. backup /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
6. rename /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
7. download the latest version of Buddypress
8. upload new version of /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
9. upload rest of the latest version buddypress files
10. go to your dashboard >Buddypress > components >forums click to install group forums and it will create a new bb-config.php file
11. create a new group – DO NOT SELECT ENABLE DISCUSSION FORUM
12. save the group
13. go back into the group and select enable discussion forum
14. create a new topic for your new forum
15. If it works – check the other groups.
16 If the other groups don’t work – de-select enable discussion forum and save – then select discussion forum and save again – see if that helped.
17. change to your custom theme – double check again. You may need to redo step 16 for some of your groups
18. reactivate your plugins and check again – you may need to redo step 16

I know that seems like a lot of steps – and possible you could skip some of them – but that’s the exact process I used and it worked… woot!!

Good luck

Stef

[inweb]

I had this problem and have finally solved it.

Here’s what I did:

1. deactivate all plugins except buddypress
2. change theme to default
3. backup your bb-config.php file
4. delete bb-config.php
5. backup /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
6. rename /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
7. download the latest version of Buddypress
8. upload new version of /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
9. upload rest of the latest version buddypress files
10. go to your dashboard >Buddypress > components >forums click to install group forums and it will create a new bb-config.php file
11. create a new group – DO NOT SELECT ENABLE DISCUSSION FORUM
12. save the group
13. go back into the group and select enable discussion forum
14. create a new topic for your new forum
15. If it works – check the other groups.
16 If the other groups don’t work – de-select enable discussion forum and save – then select discussion forum and save again – see if that helped.
17. change to your custom theme – double check again. You may need to redo step 16 for some of your groups
18. reactivate your plugins and check again – you may need to redo step 16

I know that seems like a lot of steps – and possible you could skip some of them – but that’s the exact process I used and it worked… woot!!

Good luck

Stef

[inweb]

I had this problem and have finally solved it.

Here’s what I did:

1. deactivate all plugins except buddypress
2. change theme to default
3. backup your bb-config.php file
4. delete bb-config.php
5. backup /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
6. rename /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
7. download the latest version of Buddypress
8. upload new version of /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
9. upload rest of the latest version buddypress files
10. go to your dashboard >Buddypress > components >forums click to install group forums and it will create a new bb-config.php file
11. create a new group – DO NOT SELECT ENABLE DISCUSSION FORUM
12. save the group
13. go back into the group and select enable discussion forum
14. create a new topic for your new forum
15. If it works – check the other groups.
16 If the other groups don’t work – de-select enable discussion forum and save – then select discussion forum and save again – see if that helped.
17. change to your custom theme – double check again. You may need to redo step 16 for some of your groups
18. reactivate your plugins and check again – you may need to redo step 16

I know that seems like a lot of steps – and possible you could skip some of them – but that’s the exact process I used and it worked… woot!!

Good luck

Stef

[inweb]

I had this problem and have finally solved it.

Here’s what I did:

1. deactivate all plugins except buddypress
2. change theme to default
3. backup your bb-config.php file
4. delete bb-config.php
5. backup /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
6. rename /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
7. download the latest version of Buddypress
8. upload new version of /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
9. upload rest of the latest version buddypress files
10. go to your dashboard >Buddypress > components >forums click to install group forums and it will create a new bb-config.php file
11. create a new group – DO NOT SELECT ENABLE DISCUSSION FORUM
12. save the group
13. go back into the group and select enable discussion forum
14. create a new topic for your new forum
15. If it works – check the other groups.
16 If the other groups don’t work – de-select enable discussion forum and save – then select discussion forum and save again – see if that helped.
17. change to your custom theme – double check again. You may need to redo step 16 for some of your groups
18. reactivate your plugins and check again – you may need to redo step 16

I know that seems like a lot of steps – and possible you could skip some of them – but that’s the exact process I used and it worked… woot!!

Good luck

Stef

[jordash]

@aces That way you would have to add each page 1 at a time, is there a way to do it automatically. (My Forum’s have thousands of pages so adding them individually is pretty much impossible.)

[abysshorror]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/activity-feed-default-set-to-friends/#post-118121

Hope it helps !

[abysshorror]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/activity-feed-default-set-to-friends/#post-118121

Hope it helps !

[modemlooper]

1) users can edit their own profile link is below the profile tab
2) post this topic in the followers plugin forum
3) when you create a user it bypasses the WordPress activation sequence. You will need to create a custom solution. An easy way is to use the BuddyPress notification system and send a site wide message telling all users to change their password.

[@mercime]

Creating a network whether in subdomain or subdirectory structure won’t affect your permalinks per se. As per https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network it’s how your subsites’ URL’s will show up online. Remember, these are virtual subdomains, i.e., even with a network subdomain set up like http://subsite1.mysite.com, it will be set up in server with folder structure wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/year-etc. unlike that of physical subdomains /subsite1.mysite.com/

Network title is the title of Main site. As for subsites in subdomain/subdirectory it will be what you title each one and the default description would be something like “Just another [title of main site] site.”

For more assistance re multisite installations, please post at the WP multisite forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

For regular multisite advice, you’re best to post on the WordPress.org multisite forums for expert advice. As far as BuddyPress goes, I’d worry about getting WordPress sorted first, and then seeing what state BuddyPress is in.