[José M. Villar]

Is this the same reason forum posts do not appear on my site-wide activity stream/widget ?

Or my problem is a totally different issue ? Using 2.8.1, 1.0.3 and 1.0

[mattlay]

I managed to fix it using this thread and advice from the venerable Trent.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/forum-install-some-helping-hints-2/page/2#post-4804

[Korhan Ekinci]

Read these, I am sure they will help you.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/forum-install-some-helping-hints-2

http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu,_BuddyPress,_and_bbPress

[Korhan Ekinci]

JJJ, sorry, my mistake, I had done something else just before that and that messed the adminbar. I am so sorry everyone!

But, yes, creating a page “forum” did not work. Problem is still there.

[r-a-y]

Hey ajiao,

Check out this thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/plugin-to-show-components-to-registered-users-only#post-17981

[diossabot]

I have the same error. I am using the same versions.

On your dashboard look for buddypress, then go to “components setup” and disable any of the options listed there. Afterthat you are not able to activate that component anymore, if you activate a component and click save, aparently it is saved but no. just click anywhere an click again on components setup and you will see that is not activated. Playing a little bit with this you will realize that at least 1 option will not be actitvated ever.

[John James Jacoby]

I don’t see what creating the page could do to interfere with the admin bar in bbPress…

That post has nothing to do with bbPress.

Something else is gumming this up for you… Hmm…

[John James Jacoby]

It might just be lack of sleep, but I still don’t understand exactly what you’re saying.

If the forums aren’t enabled when you go to create a group, then something isn’t installed/configured correctly. I promise you that when all is done correctly, it works perfectly fine.

[David Lewis]

Thanks J3! Very cool.

[Korhan Ekinci]

like dateboxes? See this:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/datebox-problems-in-profiles

[Korhan Ekinci]

JJJ, thanks for your reply. Tried it and did not work. It also messed the admin bar in bbpress. This is maybe because I am using Burt’s hack:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/only-one-blog-for-user

Is there a way to hack .htaccess file, to solve this forum front page login problem?

[mattlay]

Alright.

Let me expand on what is happening as others may run in to it. I basically have one component that stays dissabled. I can turn any number of them on or off but the last one, regardless of which one it is stays disabled. So it is not just related to the forum component it is something else. That ‘else’ I have not determined yet.

[John James Jacoby]

David Lewis,

Give the BuddyBar for bbPress plugin a try.

[John James Jacoby]

Create a page in your MU root blog called “forum” and leave it empty. Right now when the WordPress .htaccess file see’s a redirect to domain.com/forum/ it denies it saying the page doesn’t exist. Creating the page on your MU root blog will satisfy the .htaccess file, and still route to your bbPress installation.

Tricky eh?

[Korhan Ekinci]

JJJ, I don’t have “forum” mu blog in the root. Yes, my links go /forum/forum/name-of-forum. The problem is only on the main page of the forum (domain.com/forum) and redirected to “page not found”, other pages in the forum work normal.

Is there a hack possible, so that when I login on the “domain.com/forum” page, I am redirected to “domain.com/forum”? (as it should be)

[John James Jacoby]

The pages you’re getting are 404’s from the forums, from using deep integration without tricking the header into submission.

The bp.org site will get some more TLC in the coming months, but for now we’re focusing efforts on BP fixes and patches.

Thanks for the heads up though!

[John James Jacoby]

Have you created a page in your root MU blog called “forum” by chance? Also, it kind of sucks but because bbPress pretty permalinks use “forum” to tell the URL that you’re clicking a forum, having your URL be domain.com/forum/forum/name-of-forum is the reason why most people install bbPress in “/forums/” or something else like “/support/” or “/discussion/”

What I’m saying is that it might just be that bbPress or WordPress are getting tripped up on what the redirect is, and maybe conflicting somehow?

[John James Jacoby]

Basically, you need to bang your head against it for a few more hours and figure out what exactly isn’t perfect. Something is out of alignment, and we can’t really tell you what without looking at it for you…

[John James Jacoby]

Burt Adsit made a plugin called bpGroups that was able to consolidate the essential user data, but with recent changes to XMLRPC, BP, and bbPress, my guess is that plugin no longer works as expected.

To be honest, WordPress has never really been “light” if you know what I mean, at least not like bbPress is. If you’re using the BuddyPress Group Forums, then you probably have a lot of userdata already available from previous queries in the loop. If you’re using bbPress only and trying to get specific userdata or xprofile data, that’s going to usually require some expensive queries to pull off; I would look at how bbPress already does it with userdata per post, and see how it’s able to to do it. Chances are it’s already been called or that the userdata has already been grabbed previously. If you don’t use an IDE like netbeans to trace variable values, then try a print_r or var_dump of the user variable in the loop, and see what it gives you.

[John James Jacoby]

Yep that’s exactly the problem with subdirectory installations, and why MU is best left as the center of your entire website. The /blogs/ url is hijacked by BuddyPress, so nothing else can live inside of it; same with /members, /groups, and probably eventually /forums too, once there’s a directory for them also.

kengary, if you plan on having another site at the root of your installation, have you considered using another MU blog as your root blog, and using BP on something other than the root? Or, having your root site not center itself around the BP installation or theme, and just page-out the specific BP pages that you want/need?

[Greg]

Thanks JJJ. Let’s use a forum topic page as a specific example. For each post in the thread I will call get_userdata() at least once.

Is there another way I can access each post author’s user_login?

[Rohan Kapoor]

I can show you a few tricks that will make coding your nav bar seem like the long way of doing things. There is a faster way.

Email me: rohan@rohan-kapoor.com

I’ll walk you through it.

[Korhan Ekinci]

I will be glad and thankful if you can help me Rohan. My site:

http://fenerbook.com

[David Lewis]

Looks good Rohan. It’s kind of a pain that we have to create three themes for a consistent look… a BP home theme… BP member theme… and bbPress theme… but I guess there’s really no way around that.

How did you get the BuddyPress bar to show up on the forums page? Copy/Paste? I haven’t played with that yet. I found that I had to hard code my main nav bar in the forums header template as well. Which kinda bugs me… but that nav will rarely (if ever) change.

Thanks for the answer about the account. I was pretty confused about that.

[David Carson]

There’s currently no sub-blog theme, available to your users, that looks and functions like the default BuddyPress themes (bphome and bpmember).

But see https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/theme-authors-take-note-templates-and-loops-are-not-just-for-the-member-theme#post-13065

It would not be too difficult to make one on your own.