== If you choose Sitewide Forum as your forum option, you do not get a menu link to your forum. ==
You create one in custom menu. What theme are you using?.
== If I select to install Sitewide Forums for Buddypress, it presents a popup window to install bbPress as a plugin in wordpress. ==
That’s the way it’s done.
Have you read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
Hi @r-a-y
I checked my bp-custom.php, which looks like this: http://pastebin.com/Tp861Dy9
And your code was already in there.However autocomplete still doesnt work.
Im using the bp-default theme.
@davidveldt -This sounds like something that I have yet to do… what exactly should I be changing these things to? This is where my ‘newbie’ status’ comes into play. I have deactivated all plugins and went to the default theme, and still recieved the ‘forum not setup’ error again for the groups…
I am thinking that this may be exactly what I need to update, but don’t know what I should update my wp-config.php file to exactly? (as in my BBDB_NAME, BBDB_USER, BBDB_PASSWORD and BBDB_HOST files).
Your help is damn appreciated with all of this!
Should I be putting my own information or is there something special that goes here? 
Thank you all!
If you use default BP theme just replace that line after class=”comment-meta” to:
http://pastebin.com/LMbh4mwQ
However, I don’t know how to do same with group forums. Any ideas?
When you first installed BP, did you have any issue posting to activity stream? What changed between the time posting to stream worked and the time it stopped working or redirecting to 404? Deactivate the other plugins you added and go back to bp-default theme.
Looks like extra divs were added to some templates and/or some missing divs in others.
To see where you need to make adjustments, open up your theme’s header.php file, copy source, go to pastebin.com, paste copied source, click submit, and paste the generated URL here. Do the same for your theme’s index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php
@mercime, so without making any changes to any files directly, I simply added your “BuddyPress Compatibility Style Mods” to my style.css and bam it fixed the alignment issues I was encountering but I would now like to start customizing buddy press. Without asking for too much, I would like to change the general backgrounds of the profile pages and really any page associated with buddy press to white. I was hoping you might no the name of the tag to call upon in order to do this. thanks again for the your assistance already, it’s been extremely helpful.
Customizations in one theme will not work in another theme, whether it be a WordPress theme or a BuddyPress one. It’s not chaos, it’s just a part of reality that anyone who has installed a basic WP site without BP would know.
If you’re going to develop a community with BP, you’d have to learn how to cope with the changes in code. Not to put you off BP or anything, but have you tried https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-symposium/ ?
Please change to bp-default theme to see if issue is resolved. It might just be that your custom theme needs to be be updated and you’d have to get assistance there from the theme developer.
Hi Mercime.
Genesis is the theme I’ve had running for six months since I first launched kairoscanada.org.
I’ll check in at StudioPress (who make Genesis) re. problems installing BuddyPress.
They’ve been good in providing support.
Will let forum know if they have any answers.
Thanks for the tips.
NIk
Wordpress is installed at the root domain.
I went through the upgrade process.
It’s a multi-site install.
It’s not the default theme; although the default theme has the same problems.
The /membership-information/ URLs are all pages.
I’ve tried changing the members page, slug, resaving permalinks, and so far nothing has worked. This only affects the members page. The activity, forums, and other buddypress features don’t show content on inappropriate pages.
The URLs load fine; but the content is always the buddypress membership information.
If you’re having trouble with autocomplete even with the friends component enabled, then there’s something wrong. I’m guessing you’re not using the bp-default theme?
Regarding the old snippet I posted, you don’t need that any more to get autocomplete working without the friends component.
Just add the following to your theme’s functions.php or /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:
`define( ‘BP_MESSAGES_AUTOCOMPLETE_ALL’, true );`
thanks for your time and help. I appreciate it.
Hi,
I am currently using the striking theme with all updates and wp current etc. It seems that when i was replacing some of the buddypress template files (the ones that bp 3 step was referring for me to change) with the ‘page.php’ code, then replacing the page.php content with the buddypress templates content, some of the pages work and others don’t. i have currently reverted the .php files back to the regular buddypress template coding so that the buddypress plugins will work.
When i change all the required files to match the content from buddypress templates within my striking theme’s page,php content, some of the pages, for example the create group, just shows up blank – but within my template lol – just blank. It’s like the plugin pages don’t like me replacing the code. please help
website is: http://www.naturallyyouskincare.com
look under social media for the buddypress content.
I’m having this same problem and I have disabled all plugins and reverted to the bp-default theme – no luck. I also can’t find a solution to this anywhere.
Everything works fine on my localhost version, but things went haywire when I transferred the site and my database to the server. All my bugs up until now have been database-related, and considering my admin panel no longer had Forums for Groups activated at first (even though it was prior to transfer, and all my other settings were saved just fine), I think this might be as well.
Also, I only receive the “This group does not have a forum” error when I try to post a new topic to a new group I create, post-migration. If I try to post a new topic to an existing group, that I previously set up while on my localhost, I receive the error “There was an error when creating the topic.”
Deactivate the genesis plugins, change theme to Twenty Eleven, then activate BuddyPress, and change theme to bp-default theme. And if everything’s working well, activate your new theme (genesis i presume) and the other genesis plugins.
I did install into the root, not the folder members.
I did go through the install process.
I did not change the page slug for members.
Yes I am using the default buddypress theme.
Just to clarify, where did you install WordPress, at domain root http://yoursite.com/ or elsewhere?
If you did not install in root, did you install in subdirectory named members?
Did you go through the installation process?
Did you change the page slug for members?
Are you using the bp-default theme?
Have you gone through basic troubleshooting like changing to bp-default theme and deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress?
It got moved/merged into other files. You shouldn’t be needing to include it directly. The registration theme template is in /[theme]/registration/register.php, which might be what you’re after?
What WP theme are you attempting to make compatible with BuddyPress?
I am in your same boat, I can understand what changes need to be made but not how to go about finding the correct files, making the appropriate changes or where to reupload the files once I’m done. The BP Compatibility steps just leave out a few minor yet important details that are holding me back. Any insight into this would be fantastic.
