[miguelaqp]

It took me 5 days, but finally found the answer, on wordpress.org forums. I share it with you. Since BuddyPress is a Plugin, and it causes the bad function of my blog, I just went to my site by FTP, and rename the BuddyPress plugin file by something like oldplugin. And that was all. I could then enter to my site. Now I will try to install again this plugin which suppose to be so easy that even my mom should install it.

[modemlooper]

Install the sitemap for buddypress plugin. The regular WP sitemap plugin only scours the blogs. This other one does the groups, profiles and forums.

[oracleappscommunity]

changing the bp-loader.php resolved the issue.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/plugin-could-not-be-activated-because-it-triggered-a-fatal-error-2#post-41418

[joshsadler]

As you guessed it, it would likely be hit and miss since you can’t control the content that users post. If you have activity on your front page I’d recommend not including more than 5 entries and having very short excerpts. From an SEO standpoint, you should have your headings set as your major keywords and include relevant content under your headings.

You want to choose about 10 keywords for each page and be sure to try to include them in your meta description which should be about 150 characters.

The internal links from your activity won’t do much for you, but they are important as long as the search engines can determine your sites structure. Try getting more external links to your posts, groups and forums. That will help you more than anything.

[Hugo Ashmore]

To re-iterate but in the forum as good form dictates:

It looks as though you are missing the rules that style these elements and which are contained in default.css they start from the line:

/* > Data Tables

There is a good chance, as they appear to specify in percentage widths and are not descendant selector dependent, that they should drop in to whatever stylesheets you have, but you may need to play around a bit with them.

[Dwenaus]

sounds good to me. I’ll make that change and post an update.

I’m working heavily on the group email notifications plugin now, so this change may not happen for a bit. but it will be exactly as you describe in the second example.

[deejaywoody]

While WPMU is optional, would you recommend using it as opposed to “plain jane” WP? Since the BP/bbPress installation is bundled, do I really have the option of changing it’s database/prefix options?

[sms1962]

IMHO WPMU, BuddyPress and bbPress works well if:

– You set a wildcard domain (in my test site subdirectory based instalation doesn’t work)

– BbPress table is in the same database as BuddyPress, WPMU and i. ..

– BbPress has the same prefix as WPMU. For example, if you use a standard prefix to the WordPress table (for example wp_) then for bbPress give wp_bb_

[deejaywoody]

Interesting… I’m getting no additional entries in access nor error logs when the 404 occurs. Where else do you suggest I look?

[enzyad]

up

[rspowers]

reinstalled it and it was working. so im assuming your plugin was working. however, i hadnt done any modifications at all to BP so im not sure why i was getting the error. it could have been that i hadnt posted to the forums yet maybe.

[deejaywoody]

It goes straight to a 404. Just a moment…, I’ll pull up the logs

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

How exactly does it “Fail”? There must be an error message on screen or in your web server’s log.

[deejaywoody]

Paul/R-A-Y-

Thanks for the quick attention. Yes, the Forums setup completes, stating that it was able to take all the necessary actions, etc. I can run through the repair and it claims to have fixed it as well. If I go into a group and attempt to ‘enable’ forums, it will bomb just as it does when you attempt to hit /forums from the browser. Thoughts?

[nickrita]

liveview, boone found a solution! Look here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-can-i-set-show-newblogposts-as-default-on-acitivity-stream

[rich! @ etiviti]

sorry for the triple post but found the root problem.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare checked() (previously declared in D:xampplitehtdocsbuddypresswp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-forumsbbpressbb-adminincludesfunctions.bb-admin.php:1261) in D:xampplitehtdocsbuddypresswp-adminincludestemplate.php on line 387

and the fix…

function adminfix_adminfix_bbpress_init() {

global $bbdb, $bb_roles, $wp_roles;



if ( is_object( $bbdb ) && is_object( $bb_roles ) ) {

return;

}

if ( is_object( $bbdb ) ) {

$bb_roles =& $wp_roles;

bb_init_roles( $bb_roles );

return;

}



do_action( 'bbpress_init');



}



function bp_forums_extras_setup_globals() {



adminfix_adminfix_bbpress_init();



do_action('bp_forums_extras_init');



}



if (WP_ADMIN) {

add_action( 'admin_init', 'bp_forums_extras_setup_globals', 500 );

} else {

add_action( 'bp_init', 'bp_forums_extras_setup_globals', 5 );

}

[rich! @ etiviti]

ok, so i narrowed the issue down to just /wp-admin/ only

function bp_forums_extras_setup_globals() {

do_action( 'bbpress_init');

}

add_action( 'bp_init', 'bp_forums_extras_setup_globals');

if i comment out do_action then /wp-admin/ loads up – otherwise WSOD. The action completes (calls function bp_forums_load_bbpress() ) but I guess something within WP conflicts?

[rich! @ etiviti]

did you have the ability to create new topics in whatever group forum prior to the plugin install? maybe a fluke due to the deactivate issue – since i’m not touching anything on the forum side.

I’ll take a look and see if there is anything else though.

[rspowers]

yea im fairly certain the error was from your plugin but not 100%…at least thats the only thing i believe it could have been since it was the only plugin i had or tried to install. i am using WP and BP latest versions. and i am using the default BP theme. I had no mods or plugins installed except that one.

it worked fine doing what it was supposed to be doing not letting users create a group…however i couldnt create a topic in my forums. i would try to and i would get an error saying something like: ‘There was an error creating this topic’ in a red box. I tried as the admin and a user with the same result. deactivating it did not help so i reinstalled WP and BP and now my forums work and i can create topics.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

I’ve really got no idea where your <!– m –> is coming from. is this an artifact introduced by the phpBB exporter?

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Beat you by about 7 seconds there, r-a-y. Getting slow in your old age

[r-a-y]

Did you setup forums properly?

Login to the WP backend, navigate to “BuddyPress > Forums setup”, what does it say?

[EDIT]

Looks like my moderating buddy already answered your Q

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Hm, this is a fairly obviously question, so just to get it out of the way — have you gone into your /wp-admin/ -> “Forums Setup” under the BuddyPress menu, and selected the “Set up a new bbPress installation” button?

[r-a-y]

You shouldn’t need to require anything since BP already loads it (if you have forums enabled).

You should be able to just grab the meta using one of the bbPress meta calls.

eg.

bb_get_postmeta(bp_get_the_topic_post_id(), $cachekey)

Make sure when grabbing the meta that you do a check to see if you’re on a forum post.

[r-a-y]

@Dwenaus

I recently came across a problem similar to @etiviti (rich!)’s.

In rate.php on line 3, you believe that bb-config.php will always reside in the root directory, but if you’re using an external bbPress integration, this won’t be the case.

The easy way to fix this is to grab the bb config location using:

get_site_option('bb-config-location');

This would be for MU, not sure where the bb-config-location will be in standard WP.

[EDIT]

etiviti (rich!) already provided the solution!

Declare the global $bp and use $bp->site_options[‘bb-config-location’];

global $bp;

require_once($bp->site_options['bb-config-location']);