[Ann Christine]

Unfortunately I have the same problem as the two of you. I am running fresh installations – newest WPMU and BP.

It was running all fine.

Now I (admin) get no email notifications at all – users do not receive any either. The activation emails are not being sent. The WPMU ones are not sent out either.

I am using a catch-all email on my email host to be able to sign up with different emails on the same domain.

First thing I was thinking was whether BP or WP was thinking all this signup from the same email domain was SPAM and therefore closing down signups from my IP or whatever.

I have searched for answers and found this: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13039

Apparently some hosts do not allow automated emails to be sent out.

(However, if my host do not allow this, how come it worked fine for two weeks?)

Only plugin I have installed is the cets-blog-defaults. I have tried to deactivate it, but it does not help.

This is really frustrating

[David Lewis]

The only plugin I want is an Events plugin. Not very creative… I know. LOL.

p.s. BTW Peter… Facebook actually does have regular old fashioned linear forums.

[r-a-y]

@lpegram

Are you using WPMU or standard WP?

If you’re using WPMU, read what I just wrote here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-vs-wordpress-mu#post-41890

[peterverkooijen]

I meant maybe someone could take code from Buddypress and turn it into a BBpress plugin, instead of trying to force Buddypress to fit within BBpress. Half the posts on here are about BBpress these days. Buddypress is not supposed to be a forum script.

[hydroweb]

No luck finding social network plugin for bbpress! But thanks anyway!

[peterverkooijen]

This sounds more like you need a very basic social networking plugin for BBpress. Why not approach it from that end?

I’d hate to see Buddypress reduced to a BBpress appendage.

[paulhastings0]

I believe this is a similar issue: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bug-recent-site-wide-posts-widget

[hydroweb]

I need a developer to make a version of BP with no groups, only a forum, where someone can compose a posting, and when it is submitted be asked to login or register, if not logged in already. It is very important that login/register take place at the backend. I am willing to shell out. Thanks, Roger

[hydroweb]

Meant to say localhost on local machine (xampp).

[Hugo Ashmore]

Media Temple are not bad , have one of their Dedicated virtual servers, possibly a bit pricier than the others, but excellent fast support, very good KB, good active forum, server performs well has plenty of bandwidth, memory and disk space, plesk panel plus licences not that I like control panels that much. Full SSH root access, do what you like with the server etc.

As for memory required to run something like WPMU and Buddypress it really all depends on how busy the site is we have on this particular server 1.5GB which is plenty. WP/BP should run fairly well in less, min I would want though is 512MB. More important I would have thought is having a full set of resources to dedicate to the site so wouldn’t consider running on any form of shared hosting only VPS or Dedicated especially when things start to get busy.

All of the hosts mentioned are good and all I think are recommended on wordpress.org so should be fairly safe whichever you choose.

[rich! @ etiviti]

since i use bbPress as an external install (on a subdomain and within bp) – want to carry over some of the basic plugins. So, I’m working on bb-signatures, bb-code, bb-smiles into the BP group forums section (maybe ajaxed quote – not sure yet)

also, i have company directory app (standard address, contact, members, deals, reviews, tagging) that runs on a hybrid wordpress based site – i’m thinking about converting this into a bp component (based on groups?)

[infution]

Yes… Totally a blank page… But the post already posted…When I go back to the forum page the post is there no problem for that, any way to solve this problem

[dainismichel]

…waiting to hear from someone on price, or for someone to share the appropriate code here at the forum…

[dainismichel]

I’ve done step 1 and 3, and maybe step 4, however, I am stuck on what code to put into the file that displays the forums to make the main themes show up (step 2 most likely, and that forum post is a billion pages long and has lots of out of date stuff).

My code attempts are here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-access-to-bbpress-admin-from-buddypress

and here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/whats-the-code-for-the-way-buddypressorg-displays-its-forums

Basically, my request has come down to: please share the code that can make this work and let me know what files to put it in.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

If you get a totally blank page, check your web server error log as it’s usually a PHP error. What does it say?

[snark]

I just tested this on a dev site with WP2.9.1 single user and BP 1.2 and confirmed the error is still happening. If Activity Streams are disabled, the Groups still open by default to a “Home” tab that thinks there should be a Group Activity Stream displayed:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bp_activity_post_form_action() in /var/www/vhosts/.../httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/post-form.php on line 1

And a follow-up question I have on this is, if the Group Activity Stream is turned off, what should be dispayed on the Home tab? I would argue in favor of having the Group Forum list be the default Group home page if Activity Streams are disabled, just as I think there should be a way to fairly easily choose the Forum list as the Group home page even if the Activity Streams are NOT disabled, just as site-wide you have the option of having the blog or the Activity Stream on the home page of the site. (This latter bit is the crux of a trac ticket I filed: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2144 )

@johnjamesjacoby — I couldn’t find evidence of this having been submitted to Trac yet, so I just filed a ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2163

[stwc]

For what it’s worth, the site that I’m currently working on (but may not end up) porting to Buddypress is basically a Vanilla forum with a bunch of stuff bolted on, and my 1000-or-so users would kill me if the forum model were not the centerpiece of any new home I put together, although they’re excited about all the shiny new toys that the socialnetworking hoohah can offer.

[PJ]

@all. Yeah, you’re all correct about a few proprietary drag and drop widgets being not that valuable in the long run. The limitations are much greater than BP and don’t have the remarkable benefits of this forum. It’s great to see people post a problem/question and have it resolved anywhere from an hour to a day for free.

They’re customization package is a one time $350 fee that yields a product in 6-8 weeks. Yuck.

Again, open source has a wealth of benefits and value that SG couldn’t compete with. Thank you for the helpful feedback!

[stwc]

An activity stream is just that, a stream. Once something goes below the fold, it’s gone forever. It’s evanescent. It’s a nightclub.

A blog, even themed with P2 (which is basically where we got the activity stream from, right down to the ‘What’s new, username?’), is still a blog, and once a post-and-comment-thread is off the index page, it’s much less likely to be seen or engaged with by users (despite the fact that you can try and surface activity with new comments widgets in the sidebar and such). It’s a busy bar.

A forum and its threads are more static. New comments bump threads back to the top, so it is a place where people can continue to return to discussions. It’s the comfy chair at the pub with a newspaper.

Each model has its own purposes, and different sorts of sites will focus on different aspects, because they will all have different requirements and userbases.

But yeah, docflo and 3sixty are right about the ability to comment on a forum post activity item in the stream and not have the comment appear in the corresponding forum thread is counterintuitive. Rather than turn it off, I’ve edited the language files to change some of the verbiage associated with activity items to make it clearer that they are different actions. But I might end up turning it off entirely.

[peterverkooijen]

The BB forum is for the people who installed Buddypress to get into this newfangled social networking thing and then decide they need something more familiar looking.

To my eyes the discussion beneath an item from the activity stream looks the same as the discussion in a forum.

Group Blog with front-end posting and threaded comments via P2 will do everything you can do with a forum, but in a much more native WordPress/Buddypress way.

[3sixty]

This is a good question. Here is my take on it.

bb forums are enclosed, stand-alone, old-school discussion boards that are traditionally organized according to “freshness” (ie, who commented last), which is supposed to tell you what threads are most active.

The activity stream is where it gets confusing. It is supposed to capture activity chronologically, regardless of where it happens in the group. So in the activity stream you will see forum posts, forum replies, group wire posts, and status notifications like “so-and-so just joined this group.” It gets blurry because you can also comment on activity stream items… so it’s not just a stream of activity, but another method for interacting.

In my limited experience, it is a little confusing to have both the activity stream and forum running at the same time. It’s especially confusing because by default, you can have a forum discussions ongoing, and have a parallel but completely separate discussion on the SAME posts in the activity stream. This can be disabled in the BuddyPress settings, but in my opinion, this should be off by default.

[r-a-y]

Your theory is correct.

Sorry for sounding like a broken record, but do any errors show up in your server log?

[modemlooper]

Thats weird. It should not give an error if the structure is intact.

[paulhastings0]

In order of preference:

• Privacy: I’m guess I’m patiently waiting on Jeff too. I’m really looking forward to the multiple options that it’ll provide for each user</i>
• Galleries: Yes, I know that I could purchase the plugin from Rajeesh… but college students are notorious for being cheap, eh?</i>
• Facebook synchronization: I’m really liking the new Tweetstream plugin. If only we had a compatible Facebook plugin again.

[arnonel]

yeah, child theme is working great http://spoint.me

all ive done to date has been a few changes to header, footer, styles, etc

so, its not the child theme….

would you mind telling me…. in theory,…. is my understanding correct?

even if groups, forums, etc have loads of files, if i only want to change one, i only copy 1 ? (yes, and keep directory structure in tact)