[John James Jacoby]

I’ve got 1 guess…

Go to your wp_sitemeta table and find the meta_key “bb-config-location” and tell us what you see.

I got $5 that says it’s pointing to your old location that is long since deleted. If I’m correct, delete that from the DB and re-run the one-click integration again.

[Jeff Sayre]

Michael-

Based on the fact that you’ve been struggling with this issue for 3 weeks without blowing a gasket, I think it is safe to say that you have already demonstrated patience!

[Jeff Sayre]

This is a free, open source project primarily powered by volunteers’ efforts. So don’t expect to get instant results.

As r-a-y has stated, there used to be several pre-built fields and site developers also had the option to create their own pre-built fields by importing their list via a .cvs file. But, as Andy states in this thread, that feature is no longer available:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/making-prebuilt-profile-fields

So, you either have to code a solution yourself or hire a developer to do it.

By the way, up until two-weeks ago, there was only one official BuddyPress developer. Now there are two. The rest of us are unpaid volunteers–some of us with coding experience, some of us with design experience, and some of us just interested in running social networking sites.

You can ask for additonal insights on the #buddypress-dev IRC channel. But even there, it is simply a group of developers with their own projects and responsibilities. Only Andy and jjj are the official voices of BuddyPress development.

[pivey]

Hmm… i thought i subscribe to the forum in order to get help.

No developer here to help?

How can a application be written to ignore such a important function?

First time i see this and first time no one cares about

Well, of course this makes me not happy.

[5348648]

I guess it would be important to note that I DID have previous install. Due to some BBpress forum issues during upgrade, I decided to go with a fresh install.

I have copied in the WP theme to /wp-content/themes/Essence-Silver in hopes I can apply it to the main page.

Advice from here?

[Jeff Sayre]

This is truly a question for the WPMU forums. But look at discover_pingback_server_uri() in the WPMU file comment.php for perhaps a little more insight.

[Michael Berra]

Thanks alot! I will try to be patient!

[Jeff Sayre]

Michael-

I’ve contacted jjj to ask for his insight regarding your issue. Between his bug-fixing work and upcoming travel to NY this weekend to participate in WordCamp, I’m not too sure whether he will have any time until next week.

[Michael Berra]

Thanks Jeff for all your hard forum-sherlock-holmes-work.

Would be great if triple-j (as far as I remember he messed alot with the “Old-ways” ) could jump in or some other gurus…

[Jeff Sayre]

Unfortunately, I do not have any dev sites that have meta data from the old, deep-integration bbPress forum days. I blow out everything (data and files) when I upgrade. I want a clean install for all dev work. Old test data is worthless to me.

Perhaps jjj or someone else can chime in and help Michael work through the possible issue of orphaned bbPress meta data.

[Jeff Sayre]

Which version of WordPress MU and BuddyPress are you using? From where did you download the Avenue K9 theme?

Have you seen this BP thread?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-avenue-k9-bp-11-theme-released

[Michael Berra]

Yes: Deep integration, killed the old data and chose “new bbPress Installation” (if I would have known what you just mentioned with “using an existing install”, I guess I would have done this, because I understud that wrong).

Sadly I don’t have the old bb-config.php anymore (from deep integration), so I cannot do this. Besides the old config-file I tried that reinstall option a couple times (as far as I can see, this just creates a new bb-config.php in the root).

Some thoughts/questions:

1. Why does it after the upgrade not work at all. with BP 1.1.1. and WMPU 2.8.4 at least the newer groups which never had any forum-data from the depp-integration-time had in them worked…

2. When my Test-Install on the same server works it seems to me that there must be somewhere any leftover data from the deep-integration-times that confuses the new forum-setup. So wouldn’t it help to find out where (in files, db, etc) is ANY information regarding the forums stored (like my question above about the wp_bp_groups_groupmeta table). That way we could work our way through…

Ps: In the process I already deactivated ANY Plugins (not only BP-related) – but it did not change anything. So it seems it’s not a plugin conflict…

[Jeff Sayre]

Okay, we can rule out some strange server configuration issue.

If I remember correctly, you used to have bbPress running via deep integration but did not need any of that old data. The very first time you tried using the new one-click forum setup, did you choose the “Existing bbPress Installation” or the “New bbPress Installation” option?

Do you still have a backup copy of your old bb-config file? If so, then delete the current bb-config.php file by replacing it with your old bb-config.php file. Then go to the WPMU backend and visit “BuddyPress > Forums Setup” and click the “re-install” link. At this stage, it is worth a try.

Please note, using an “Existing bbPress Installation” does not really mean using the old bbPress files. It means use an existing bb-config file to setup bbPress with the bbPress files located in the new location. You will see this text at some point in the process:

BuddyPress will now use its internal copy of bbPress to run the forums on your site. If you wish, you can remove your old bbPress installation files, as long as you keep the bb-config.php file in the same location.

[Michael Berra]

Ok.

I already did this. It was a fresh install where the old-bbpress-forums never had been installed. There it works without any troubles… Same server.

Could the table wp_bp_groups_groupmeta have something to do with it. There I find a couple entrances like with the meta-key “forum_id”…

[Jeff Sayre]

As this issue is quite perplexing, perhaps we should keep the discussion here instead of via PM. That way, others can benefit as well.

You mentioned in one of your PMs that both your BP installations are active. This means that you cannot start over with a clean MySQL table.

However, for purposes of isolating this problem, can you create a third installation on your live server. This way, we will know whether or not an absolutely clean, vanilla install (new MySQL DB, new WPMU and BP install using the default BP theme with no 3rd-party plugins) works on your server environment, works on the server your web host has provided to you.

[Michael Berra]

I did step by step everything mentioned above (that was a WPMU & BP Upgrade for me too). The error is not only still there, now I cannot post any topic in any group. Always that red error. Very strange.

Any more ideas or experiences from anybody?

[Jeff Sayre]

@hardseatsleeper

Have you enabled bbPress in WPMU’s backend as Site Admin? You go to “BuddyPress > Forums Setup” and click the appropriate button.

[Jeff Sayre]

I installed via SimpleScripts on my website’s Control Panel

This is more than likely the issue. Read this post (and follow its link) for more insight:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/404-error-in-front-page-please-help#post-16777

[5069396]

I’m also experimenting with this today. As an admin I tried to start a new group with a new forum but was given a warning on the group creation screen, saying I needed to configure forums correctly at:

/wp-admin/admin.php?page=buddypress/bp-forums.php

but that page doesn’t exist. I might not have these forums configured correctly, as I can’t see where I’m supposed to start a thread or create a new forum, as I did in bbpress.

[Jeff Sayre]

@Lriggle

Forums integrate into groups. Therefore, if bbPress has been activated and a given group has enabled forums, then you need to navigate to a group that you belong to and click the “Forum” menu. You can then see and respond to existing threads or create a new thread.

[Jean-Pierre Michaud]

oh, btw, do you think most of the tweaks here could be added to the next version?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions

[Lriggle]

I can’t even find where you create a forum topic in the new integrated BBPress.

[abcde666]

any solution to this ?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/avatar-image-size-automatic-scaling-results-blear-image#post-26717

[Scotm]

Andy et al

It appears this issue has been resolved here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/can-i-run-non-bp-theme-on-tld-and-bp-theme-on-subdomain-all-on-same-wpmu-install

The code must be dropped at or near the top of your wp-config file.

Thx

[5283373]

@tcesco

The best way is to create a file in the plugin directory (/wp-content/plugins), call it as you want (mine is custom.php) and put the code in it.

Here is mine (with a bonus code to modify the admin bar, removing the blog menu and the visit menu):

<?php

function my_alter_bp_adminbar(){

remove_action(‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_blogs_menu’, 6);

remove_action(‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_random_menu’, 100);

}

add_action(‘wp_footer’,’my_alter_bp_adminbar’,1);

function gs_bp_forums_add_allowed_tags( $allowedtags ) {

if ( bp_is_group_forum_topic() ) {

$allowedtags[‘img’] = array( ‘src’ => array() );

$allowedtags[‘del’] = array();

$allowedtags[‘p’] = array();

$allowedtags[‘br’] = array();

$allowedtags[‘cite’] = array();

$allowedtags[‘blockquote’] = array();

$allowedtags[‘h3’] = array();

$allowedtags[‘strong’] = array();

$allowedtags[’em’] = array();

}

return $allowedtags;

}

add_action( ‘plugins_loaded’, ‘gs_configure_forum_filters’ );

function gs_configure_forum_filters() {

remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_topic_post_content’, ‘attribute_escape’ );

remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_topic_post_content’, ‘convert_smilies’ );

remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_topic_post_content’, ‘convert_chars’ );

add_filter( ‘edit_allowedtags’, ‘gs_bp_forums_add_allowed_tags’ );

}

?>