This forum, the BP trac, WPMU and bbPress forums are having “caching” issues it seems as things are slow to show up at times when people post. Strange…I reported it the powers that be…
In terms of answering, your answer was more detail anyways! 
Trent
I’ve just posted this to the WPMU forums, but it’s just as relevant here: Regarding dsader’s more privacy options plugin…
“I’m testing this plugin on a WPMU 2.7 and BuddyPress (both from SVN) installation. It can turn BuddyPress into a private social network quite simply by making the main/first blog private. However, there’s one issue I can see:
the ../activity/feed RSS feed is private when the ‘main’ blog is private.
But, member’s activity feeds i.e. ../members/josswinn/activity/feed remains public.
Any way to fix this? I appreciate that the plugin wasn’t written to support BuddyPress, but it’s so close to working well on BuddyPress that it would be good to look at this and provide a way to create truely close BuddyPress networks.
Thanks!”
I’ve since found that this is happening to me on a site installed in a sub-dir but not on an install using wildcard DNS/sub-domain. Can anyone verify this?
I don’t believe too !
Instead of the 3 topics, i got “the are no active topics …”, while there are many on this group forum…
I don’t believe there is a setting option in the admin for this. It is only designated in that function right now.
Trent
@MartinNr5 you need to start a new thread for this as not to hijack the thread. There are quite a few topics in this forum on adding them. Any WPMU plugin that does it will do.
Search or look at the sticky posts before you post:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=962
Andy has intentions of making the privacy components at some point. Right now, there is no privacy without plugins. I have a little plugin created already that makes it so member pages cannot be seen without being logged in, but it only covers member profiles and not groups yet. If you are interested, it is over at http://buddypressdev.org as well as in the ‘Plugins and Extending’ forum here at these forums.
trent
Hi folks !
The WPMU pot file exist !
You can found it here:
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/pot/mu/trunk/wordpress.pot
The file contains all the lines for wp, but also for wpmu.
I translated it in french for 2.7 beta without problems; Just take care off many plural forms who need to be translated too…
I’m looking for a bbPress translation who works. Actually, the forums are only half translated. If somebody has a solution ?
Hello.
maybe a hint.
after the update of the files the umlauts in the title of the message are ok. So if i write öäüßÖÄÜ in the title they appear.
If i write the same umlauts öäüßÖÄÜ? in the textbox, they totally disappear now. So if i write only this small chain of umlauts, the textbox is empty. This happening also with the lates fixes i get from the trunk.
Best,
Karl
ps. btw. If i edit an entry in this forum here and send it, i get the message “Topic not found.”, but the edited text appears.
Did you previously have group forums installed and operating correctly?
See: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471
sorry double post
forum said i ‘move to fast slow down’ lol
@gpo1
Due to all communication of buddypress and bbpress being done over xmlrpc, the normal plugins most likely won’t work. I have been looking at ones like a view counter and they require massive modification of buddypress. Because of caching, the forums are not always pulled from bbpress. So it would produce falsely low view count.
Also, group forums, are just a single forum in bbpress, this changes the administration and moderation of the forums and topics. If someone is a moderator on bbpress, they can moderate the whole site I believe, with buddypress a moderator is only a moderator of that group forum.
Hope this helps,
Brad
Can’t we use bbpress forum plugins to do the job,and also can we use bbpress plugins in the forum in groups?
Yes, but e-mail notification is a great way to keep members interested (and coming back) – and not everyone uses RSS.
In bp_forums_filter_encode() line 42 should read: $content = htmlentities( $content, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8" ); What does yours say?
“Can you also then have BP post the most recent -forum- posts from a users blog” should have read “**blog** posts…”
No need to be unduly confusing.
If you enter umlaut chars in the content of a forum post from bp and they are displayed correctly in bbpress then the problem isn’t the ‘encoding’ filter. It’s the ‘decoding’ filter which has an extra step in it.
On the decoding site in bp when the content comes back from bbpress we also call another filter inside the decode filter. This one is called: wp_filter_kses() and it gets called from the bp filter bp_forums_filter_decode() in bp-forums-filters.php.
If commenting out the line in my previous message doesn’t solve the problem then uncomment the line in the above message and try commenting out line 53 which reads $content = stripslashes( wp_filter_kses( $content ) );.
I can’t reproduce the problem you are describing.
In bp the title of a post going from bp group forums to bbpress goes through all the same filtering as the content except the following:
wpautop
make_clickable
bp_forums_filter_encode / bp_forums_filter_decode filters. The content gets that treatment.
Are your umlaut chars showing ok in bbpress if you enter them from bp forums?
Just to narrow things down. Can you temporarily comment out line 4 in bp-forums-filters.php which reads: add_filter( ‘bp_forums_new_post_text’, ‘bp_forums_filter_encode’ );
Then try adding a new post with umlaut chars. This filter needs to be there but let’s see if it is the problem.
Hello,
i have installed the latest version. Now in Buddypress the umlauts in the Title of the forum message are ok. but the umlauts in the textfield are filtered completly out. That means if i put umlauts like öäüÖÄÜß there, then send it and list it, i just see an empty textfield.
Best,
Karl
See this topic for help getting group forums up and running https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471
I agree completely that we need some help text that guides the users. I like the idea of hooks that allow template authors and site admins to modify the text that is presented to a user. Or that add a ‘help’/’see here for details’ hook.
Andy is usually pretty good about adding filters and actions. He’s a filter and action happy kinda guy. If you gather up all the spots that need a help action or don’t have a filter already, I’m sure he’d be happy to add them.
Post your requirements in trac. Things like this in the forums just get lost in the general mayhem of it all.
Lemme go look at this. I was just in that area about a week ago.
(later) Works for me. Lots of u-umlaut chars going to and from bp group forums, to bbpress and back again. Showing up as proper u-umlaut chars. Andy just installed some fixes lately in this area. Try upgrading to the latest bp trunk.
The fixes include an upgrade to the buddypress-enable.php plugin that runs in bbpress. Don’t forget that.
Howdy. Your bbpress install is probably in a subdirectory under your document root. Looks like in /groupforum. In that subdir you put your bbpress .htaccess file that bbpress recommends for you. In your document root goes your wpmu .htaccess file that wpmu generates for you. bbpress doesn’t generate one. You have to copy/paste it to an editor and then put it in your bbpress install directory.
I am all messed up. I have an htaccess in my main Buddy…do I need one also in BBpress? I put one in BBpress with “Options +MultiViews”, but that didn’t work. Then I put in the output from “http://maxbrawn.com/groupforum/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php” and that didn’t work.
I am lost. When I put in an htacess in the BBpress directory with the output from rewrite rules it can’t find the forum.
Update…now I can find the forum…but it does not post from Buddy to forum…this is a train wreck
My BBpress first topic reads…
http://maxbrawn.com/groupforum/topic/your-first-topic
Should I change the custom structure in Buddy, or change the pretty permalink in BBpress? I am lost on this.
I changed both to numeric, but nothing happened. And how does this relate to the htaccess? I don’t see the link…
EDIT…I think I found a thread on this…working on it as we speak. Thanks for the help.
