[Karin Johansson]

Since I brought it up here: I found the problem. I upgraded from 1.0.3 to 1.1.1 the easy button-clicking way. It did not delete the old theme-files. When I deleted them, my forums started working like they should.

[Michael Berra]

thanks – I will try that, after I am back from vacation … I will report then…

[sacom]

Ok… I see, thank you very much to all for the help

[tcesco]

@Detective: After inserting your code in /wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/functions.php I get a white page Sorry for my ignorance but is this the right place? I’m just using the standard Buddypress theme

@Boone Gorges: Thanks for your comment, that’s probably the next step, but first I need to see the images in the forum-posts I’ll have a look at your plugin

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Suggest you get the forums working before you start adding a custom theme. Site Admin -> BuddyPress -> Forums Setup.

[andrewliebchen]

I’m having the same problem. I will provide as MUCH information as I can per the list.

Website here: http://test.risdarchitecture.net

I’ve moved the BP themes to the wp-content/themes directory.

This is the third clean install of WPMU and BP (including new SQL database, etc).

I host with 1and1, so I’ve had to add a .htaccess file to the root directory to change to php5.

1. Which version of WPMU are you running? WordPress MU 2.8.4

2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install? Directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? It is in the root, however the root URL itself is a subdirectory.

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version? No.

5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress? Yes.

6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running? Version 1.1.2

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? No.

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? No.

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? Yes.

10. Have you modified the core files in any way? No.

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? No.

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? BP came with an install of bbPress installed (I think).

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. My site is hosted by 1and1. I don’t think they provide log files.

Please help! I’ve read and read this forum and there doesn’t seem to be a definitive solution anywhere.

[podictionary]

I’ve at least dug back through the fiddles I’ve done and I suspect the “force member login” but haven’t tried to fix it yet.

Here are the candidates for my woes

BP Events 0.59 was formerly manually added to the MU Plugins folder, not with BP1.1x and events 1.1

I see in mu plugins also force member login which I think I added for security purposes it’s from here https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/plugin-force-login-for-member-pages

The facebook connect needed a twiddle as at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-fbconnect-missing-argument-5-for-fbc_get_avatar#post-20801

BUT I think that isn’t a problem for the revised FB connect

[quetzalcoatl]

Brajesh – sorry for being “stupid” but I did “use existing bbpress installation” and I got the message that it worked but BuddyPress would now use its own version of bbPress so I could delete everything except bb-config.php.

In addition my forums are now at mysite.com/blogs/forums

[Brajesh Singh]

hi

You can use the existing/stand alone bbpress instllation.

from the backend buddypress->forum setup->use existing bbpress installtion.

Now if you have installed the buddypress on the root domain,and you want the url

yoursite.com/forums for standalone bbpress forum,You will have to make some changes.

Since with bp 1.1 yoursite.com/forums is used as the forum directory, you need to change that forum slug or install bbpress at some other url,say yoursite.com/some-forum

[podictionary]

Well, I have managed to step back to BP 1.0.3 at least and all is working as it was a 2 hours ago. (I populated a 2nd mysql table with the backup and pointed back there)

I think that’s enough excitement for today.

I did note Michael Berra’s comment here

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/trouble-upgrading#post-25605

saying he had some special file added in. This reminded me that I’ve made little mods too. When I return to this I’ll document them and see if I can uncover the problem (and report it here)

[podictionary]

andrea_r in a similar situation over at MU forum recommended deleting the plugin and reinstalling it. This I tried. I used the Plugin control panel and clicked “delete” and got this error:

Warning: require_once(…wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-loader.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in …/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-events.php on line 36

in all cases above I’ve replaced my actual root file names with “…”

[r-a-y]

@Erich:

This is kind of diverting from the original topic, but what I meant in your ticket is BuddyPress forums are powered by BuddyPress groups.

So you can’t really have “threaded forums” without having “threaded groups” or some way to organize and categorize groups, which currently doesn’t exist.

If you’re just talking about displaying the forums vertically, that’s possible via CSS.

Hope that makes sense…

[abcde666]

Yes, it is on the roadmap:

BuddyPress 1.3 (TBD) / Wire: “In-line replies to messages”.

I have asked for “threaded” items many times in this Forum, but it seems WP-guys do not like “threaded” things (besides P2-theme)……

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1068

@RAY

I do not understand the comments you have made within above mentioned TRAC-ticket.

Just have a look at the link within this TRAC-ticket; there you will see a threaded Forum which works very nice and intuitive…..

[r-a-y]

If I set a forum in a hiddend BuddyPress group it will be hidden in BBPress too?.

@sacom, not necessarily.

Look into Burt Adsit’s bp Groups plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bpgroups/

This is what I’m using on BP < 1.1 (yeah I know I got to play catch-up!)

I’m not sure how compatible it is with BP 1.1+…

[r-a-y]

Hey Marcus,

Check out a cool plugin by Sandra Petronic that does what you want it to do:

http://devbox.computec.de/2009/09/buddypress-activity-comments-plugin/

Discussion thread here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/activity-comments-plugin

Hope that helps!

[sacom]

Thank you Brajesh for your reply.

One question more… so If I do that, installing a separate BBPress, the group forums of BuddyPress will be available in my standalone BBPress?

If I set a forum in a hiddend BuddyPress group it will be hidden in BBPress too?.

Thanks in advance

[Boone Gorges]

tcesco, I recently ported over a version of the more general bbPress attachments plugin by _ck_: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forum-attachments-for-buddypress/. The downside is that I haven’t yet gotten inline images to work, which means that people can upload and download images but they don’t appear as images in the posts (just downloadable file links). Thus it might not work for your purpose, but it’s worth a look.

[Detective]

You can add it to your theme’s functions.php.

[Brajesh Singh]

Yes, you are right.

Buddypress allows you to integrate an standalone bbpress installation.To have full control,Install bbpress separately and Integrate it to buddypress.

You will have your buddypress groups with forums enabled with bbpress,as well as the standalone bbpress forum accessible.

[tcesco]

Thanks a lot for your code Detective!

Do I have to place this code in a specific file (allow-images.php ?) and where do I have to place this file? Or do I have to change the code in bp-forums-filters.php?

Thanks for your help!!

[sacom]

Thanks DJPaul.

So if I like to have more control over forums, maybe I must install a separate BBPress and then integrate it?, or it makes no difference and BuddyPress forums and BBPress will go separately each on his side?

[Detective]

This is what I use in my forums:

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' );

}

[tcesco]

Thanks for the tip DJPaul!

With the Skeleton Component Plugin I could allready write a simple plugin. But it seems now I have to look how to rewrite this BBPress plugin… I’ll try

[Catherine]

i got it –

i had to copy the directories folder into my active theme from the buddypress parent theme

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

This site works a bit differently.

Buddypress Forums are created when you create a group. If you have an existing group, go to that group’s admin panel and enable its forum.

Assuming you are using the default theme or a child theme, you should also have a forum navigation item on the main menu.