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Same problem here .. pretty annoying, to be honest:

NSFW: http://scaffies.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BuddyPress-Links-gone.png

“☠ [16:50 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] Through the BuddyPress Update the page “Links Elsewhere” was broken – all Links disappeared. Hmph! Removed t from the menu.”

We had lots (!) of links entered on the page(s) under “Links” and many ‘up’ and ‘down’ votes. ALL are lost, it is now completely empty and I had to remove the page from the menu.

When I stated on our change log I had upgraded Buddypress to the latest version, I added “let’s see what it fixed and what it broke” .. something always seems to go wrong, and with over 260,000 users, it is a bummer.
NSFW: http://scaffies.nl/change-log-2015/
Sadly, I was proven right 🙁

This is a bad day for open source development.

We (all the admins) are clueless about “classes” and “skeleton components” – we just use the software, pay / donate for what we do use, and hope it works … and does not render the work and efforts of thousands worthless in a single, badly tested software update.

I am afraid to install updates – the last one required some code changes do be done manually to fix something else which was broken – yet have to, in order to avoid security problems.

We are not using Multi-Site (i.e. single site, WP 4.1, and all plugins in their latest revisions).

Brandon, London

Hi,

Could you describe your configuration :
– Multisite ?
– WordPress version 4.1 ?
– Any BuddyPress plugin activated ?

hi @venutius

Sorry something went wrong with BuddyPress Links.

It appears this plugin has a specific way to build its component. It’s actually not using the BP_Component class.

I’ve run some test with branch 1.7 of the BuddyPress skeleton component (https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-skeleton-component/tree/1.7) which is using the BP_Component class to set its example component. With this plugin, the directory page issue is not happening.

So i’d recommand the author of the plugin to use the BP_Component class making sure the Links component is set as active using this kind of code https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-skeleton-component/blob/1.7/includes/bp-example-loader.php#L64

In 2.2 we’ve introduced a bp_is_active() check in the function bp_core_get_directory_page_ids(), i think it’s the reason why this problem has occured with this plugin. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.2.0/src/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php#L439

Hi @mrjarbenne

Using Twenty Fifteen with just BuddyPress and BuddyPress follow activated, I can’t seem to reproduce the problem. Can you provide some details of your set-up and open a Trac ticket so that it can be investigated? With the default theme and no plugins things should work so I’m a little puzzled. The core dev team will know more.

Hi @tranny

I’m sorry to read about the problem you’re having when activating BuddyPress. From what you’ve described it looks like a plugin or a theme is checking for a capacity very early in the process, well at least before the BuddyPress members component has been fully loaded.

BuddyPress hooks ‘plugins_loaded’ at a 10 priority and define its components a little while after. So your target is a plugin, a theme, or a specific code direclty loaded in global scope that is doing a current_user_can() before the action ‘plugins_loaded’ has been fired.

If you look at this page, you’ll see there are 3 actions fired before ‘plugins_loaded’ : https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference#Actions_Run_During_an_Admin_Page_Request

Searching the cause of the problem won’t be easy, if i were you i’d do a back up of your entire site and would do some tests on a local server making sure the local server environment contains a x-debug client so that it would display the different functions called before the error appears.

Hi @alexmoon

I’ve not seen a plugin that can do this but you may have some luck searching in the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Hi @shouldyourent

Unfortunately, this isn’t currently possible. You’d need to either a) find a plugin or b) write some custom code to do the job for you.

/wp-content/plugin/buddypress/bp-activity/activity-template.php is a core file and you are indeed right to think that any changes you make will be overwritten when you upgrade the plugin.

As I mentioned earlier, you should modify your activity template (sorry for not being clearer). The link I provided (to the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy) explains how you can create your own templates.

To explain what I meant about bp_activity_add(), you’d write your own function which contains a call to bp_activity_add(). bp_activity_add() will add an item to the activity stream for you. Hooks are a feature of WordPress, you can read more about them here. You’d hook your custom function to a particular action which will result in bp_activity_add() executing at exactly the time you need it to.

Hooks take a bit of getting your head around at first, but once you master them you’ll see how powerful they can be.

PS – When I crack it, is there any way I can contribute to the codex so other newbies like me have access to the stuff? How?

Sure you can! See the Participate and Contribute article for info on how you can help improve BP documentation.

Hope all this info helps! Give me a shout if you need any further help

It sounds like a bug.
Please create a ticket on trac.
Use the same user / password you use here.