My problem was with our host blocking XML-RPC calls. We switched host, and have everything working now.
This be a six month old thread before your post. Here there be dragons. Please start a new thread.
can someone explain in “dumb” people talk how site activity works? Does the action send the information to site activity or does the site activity pull from somewhere…
innovatively amazing!!! Great andy
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Also feel free to create new topics for suggestions or issues in the appropriate forum, since this thread is getting less and less specific.
Founded it. I didn’t copy one of two screen.css files.
btw, 1 in 5 times I get HTTP 404 error accessing this forum. What’s wrong with the server?
Thanks JJJ, Andrea.
Andrea, I was remiss in not giving props to the mu forum. You’ve helped me out several times over there.
First of all, since you are installing a premium, 3rd-party DB sharding tool, you need to contact the people at WPMU DEV Premium and ask them for support. It seems like all was fine with your standard WPMU + BP install until you switched to using their multi-db plugin.
Secondly, in case you are not aware, there is a free sharding tool–HyperDB. In fact, this site (BP.org) is using it. Also, there is a great two-part article on how to use HyperDB written by Trent Adams, one of the moderators on this and other WP product forums.
Click on FORUMS on the top. Scroll down to Latest Discussion, look under “FAQ: How To, Code Snippets and Solutions” the solution is there.
@allenweiss – The lack of stickies (as well as a directory) on the forum’s front page does need attention in future updates. I understand both items could create a cluttered forums area, but they should be options (perhaps in the forums setup area) available to site administrators.
Currently, forums appear to be an after-thought tacked onto groups, when actually, user behavior makes me think the focus should be reversed; the majority of users, once logged in, head to the forums area, not a group.
My response from the other topic:
That’s the way it is working currently. Stickies are basically excluded from the directory loop at the moment while Andy figures a way to handle them properly. There’s nothing wrong with your installation.
I have the exact same problem…sticky posts don’t show in the forum
@allenweiss: That’s the way it is working currently. Stickies are basically excluded from the directory loop at the moment while Andy figures a way to handle them properly. There’s nothing wrong with your installation. 
ok…the only way I know to make this work for my site, is to have a sticky subject that people see when they first enter the forum. Right now, however, when I make a post (in a public forum) sticky, it won’t show up in the forum (that’s strange) but will when I don’t make it sticky. Is this the way it’s supposed to work?
With the integrated version you won’t have access to the bbPress admin panel to turn them on or off, so external only.
bbPress being included with BuddyPress is like TinyMCE being included with WordPress. Yes they are applications all their own, but they also live together in a very symbiotic way (without being alive of course.)
Will bbpress plug-ins work with the integrated version or external only?
Thank you, John James Jacob. I know it is small, but it would be akin to a coder seeing a missing “endif” or an absent “;” — stands out like a sore thumb.
@stwc — I use the Welcome Pack to automatically add new members to an “Announcements” group. This group includes topics such as system rules, FAQs and other information new members need to know. My first “sticky” subject: how the forums work.
Great thinking stwc. There will be great solutions, will just have to come p with it first…
The solution I’m thinking about when I get 1.1 installed is to use the Welcome Pack plugin which you can use to have new users automatically added to a Group, and have a Group called “Everyone” or something of the kind.
But I’m still wrapping my brain around the way this will work, and the best way to make sure it’s all intuitive for less technically-minded users who are used to the standard bulletin-board way of doing things.
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