I have
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_group_link() in /home/shaunch/public_html/aaw/wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/directories/forums/index.php on line 26
Is this linked, and how do I stop it?
http://1stangel.co.uk/aaw/forums
There was a new blunt solution here. Apparently having a couple of required custom profile fields also cuts down spam.
I am waiting for a response on his forum too but I am sure someone else have changed this search bar to contain something other than just the default.
I use this as temporary solution:
function js_restrict_access(){
global $bp, $bp_unfiltered_uri;
if (!is_user_logged_in() &&
(BP_MEMBERS_SLUG == $bp_unfiltered_uri[0] ||
BP_GROUPS_SLUG == $bp->current_component ||
BP_BLOGS_SLUG == $bp->current_component)){
bp_core_redirect( get_option('home') . "/register" );
}
}
add_action( 'wp', 'js_restrict_access', 3 );
It closes the members, groups and blogs sections for non-registered users. You have to put it in bp-custom.php.
Privacy is planned for a later version, maybe, or maybe not.
I was able to get what I wanted by using the following code. It’s a link and not a button, but it also detects whether the user is logged in and displays a different message if they are not, so you can send them to the sign up page.
<?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<p>Don’t see a group you like? < href=”../register”>Login or Sign Up to create a new group.</p>
<?php else : ?>
<p>Don’t see a group that can help you? < href=”../members/<?php global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); echo $current_user->user_login; ?>/groups/create/step/group-details”>Create a new group.</p>
<?php endif; ?>
Apparently there’s a get_currentuserinfo() function somewhere that lets you grab info, just like in WordPress. Go figure.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_current_user
(Note: I took the “a”s out of the code because this forum is making them into links and the backticks are inexplicably not working)
Thanks, I’m still not seeing a bbpress admin panel, and actually there are bb-config.php files in
root
root/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
root/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/
The one in bp-forums was automatic.
The one in bbpress I put there as per the suggestions…
I’d like to comment for anyone who comes across this thread, if you do this just to get into the bbpress admin panel, *none* of the changes will carry across into BuddyPress -> Groups -> Forums views. You have to run an external bbPress installation for that to happen.
Copied the file as you recommended and still can’t find an admin panel for bbpress. Where do I go after copying the file?
Also, I took the bb-config.php file from the root, but there’s bb-config-sample.php in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/ are those the same?
Anyway…where’s the bbpress admin panel?
Best,
Dainis
PS: Is it because I installed buddypress first and then used the one click thing to install bbpress? I really don’t feel like wiping everything out and starting over just to re-order the installs…
@windhamdavid: thanks for your reply, I have no problems of integration with a standalone version of bbpress, or use certain features of BP on bbPress, but simply show the activity time of a user’s like “active 2minutes, 4seconds ago” in bbpress just as it is on this forum.
now what I want to do is clear? i know, my english is bad… 
Thanks Brajesh. Saving me here on the bp forums too 
I found the link. Didn’t realize you couldn’t manage them from site admin anymore.
OK, to bring the thread back to the original subject, in the current version of my site I use Burt Adsit’s solution for the most immediate privacy problem, making members sections members-only:
function js_restrict_access(){
global $bp, $bp_unfiltered_uri;
if (!is_user_logged_in() &&
(BP_MEMBERS_SLUG == $bp_unfiltered_uri[0] ||
BP_GROUPS_SLUG == $bp->current_component ||
BP_BLOGS_SLUG == $bp->current_component)){
bp_core_redirect( get_option('home') . "/register" );
}
}
add_action( 'wp', 'js_restrict_access', 3 );
Put that in bp-custom.php and it works pretty painlessly. It doesn’t have a built-in message to let the user know why he’s being redirected though.
Haven’t tried Jeff Sayre solution yet, but apparently it has some problems. I’ll try that one in my next upgrade to BP 1.2 and WP 3.0.
Also commercial membership plugins apparently have built-in privacy features, so that could be a solution. Haven’t gotten that far yet…
Good to know that it’s not just me. Wanted to test some deep integration things with group forums but can’t since I can’t create groups. I’ll wait to see what’s going on.
Thanks.
@auturo Since I see you and others are posting some new questions in the forum about bbpress integration. perhaps ya’ll should follow Boones’ lead on it regarding (whether to maintain an external installation of bbPress or migrate over). https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-after-bp-upgrade I believe the groundwork for what you need to know is here.
You’ll need to add a bb-config.php file to the bp-forums directory in order to access it. You can take a look at this thread.
Tried navigating over here…
…/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/admin.php
and didn’t get any kind of admin panel…
There’s no need to worry about privacy features in BuddyPress. As I have stated previously on these forums and on my blog, I am committed to bringing my current Privacy Component up to code to work with BP 1.2. With the 1.2-beta coming out very soon, I plan to use that to finalize the new privacy codebase.
As it has been discussed before, it will be up to the community to decide the fate of my BP privacy solution. If it is deemed sufficiently useful, valuable, and robust, it will be considered for eventual inclusion into the core.
But, I’ll stress once more, that this is not my decision. Going forward, I fully expect some form of privacy to make it into core down the road—whether it is my code, part of my code, or new code.
Did you create a child theme? If you did, then you should have no problems. It looks to me like you do not have any of the javascript, which means nothing is loading properly.
You should be doing this:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/child-themes-12-bp-default#post-34501
Okay I replaced my functions.php and I’m not getting the errors anymore. However, it doesn’t let me update statuses, create groups, forum topics or anything like that.
BuddyPress’s standard “forums” links are created with the assumption that BP is using the standard integrated version of bbPress. Since your installation is elsewhere, you’ll have to redirect those links. It should only be in one place:
In header.php of your BP theme, replace <a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_FORUMS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Forums', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Forums', 'buddypress' ) ?></a> with <a href="http://www.australianracinggreyhound.com/forums/" title="<?php _e( 'Forums', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Forums', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>
As for your more general question, I faced the same issue with a project of mine (whether to maintain an external installation of bbPress or migrate over). I decided that, in the long run, it would be best to move to the standard, integrated version of bbPress. I described the process here: http://teleogistic.net/2009/12/upgrading-from-buddypress-1-0-to-1-1/
Not sure what’s causing your login issue, but it might be fixable by hardcoding the link into your theme’s header.php file. Replace <?php echo site_url( 'wp-login.php' ) ?> with the correct path to the login page.
Also, posting status updates and new topics in the forums don’t work, as well.
@mercime
1. Glad that is working okay. It’s something that I only implemented on Friday so it may need some tweaking
2. At the moment there is no facility to delete revisions. Something to look at in future I guess. For now, we want pretty much everything saved as it’s all student work. If we were to put something in there I’d imagine it would be an admin function to clear individual revisions/all revisions older than x amount of time or ‘all’ revisions.
3. That sounds great Our project finishes in a week or so, so we can chat about this after that.
4. (The alert) – I’m not sure what you mean here. Please can you explain further?
@mikepratt
1. Thanks
2 + 3. I definitely see your point here. We have tried to make it as accessible as possible to people that are non-technical. I’m sure there are things that can be improved upon on that front though. One thing that might be quite nice (suggested by one of the other developers, Ryo) is to make it so that by default the wiki pages are created with some kind of basic instructions – perhaps an instructional video. Not something we’ll be doing now but having a backend admin function that lets you control that might be good.
@windhamdavid
Thanks for the link. We originally looked at using mediawiki for this project but it turned out to be a big of a nightmare to integrate the systems nicely. See this post for a few more details: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/group-wiki-plugin-not-a-release-but-in-progress
@DCCartwright – i think it’s a winner. I think you’ll find a lot of interest in this… Folks have hacked it (mediawiki) together in various ways..and you might benefit from a team effort with some of these guys that have done so.
@alexmaximo How many members? My site is pretty active and we built the forum notification plugin (which was trumped by Boone’s much better version!) which sends out emails on every single forum post and reply and we aren’t stressing any servers.
