@mercime@infodebroekriemnl Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your esplanade theme folder in server during the compatibility process.
If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your esplanade theme folder in server, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility.
Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive.
A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
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with the following:
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Then, in each of 16 files, you’d like to change the BP Templates’ page title’s header tag from `
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where applicable, then move this to above `
Save files.
@mercimeIf it’s just the link at the menu item, you can just edit the page name and slug in page edit panel, then go to Settings> Pages and choose the new blog menu name from select box and click on Save. You know you’d also have to change title of the Blogs Directory page in yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/yourthemename/blogs/index.php in this line
@mercimeRe Events Manager plugin -> please go to https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager then click on the Support link and post the errors showing up when you activate Events Manager with BP on. Do provide more information about your installation for the plugin dev
Re “join group” link -> is this issue related to Events Manager? If not, have you checked whether this is a theme issue (change to bp-default) or another plugin conflict?
WP/BP versions? Single/multisite? where are you hosted? Windows/Linux?
villnoweric@mercime I unistaled it all off my server and re installed and it did… NOTHING. I did that about 2 hours ago. i made a new page and all it did was change /activity to /activity-2 and i still get the same “not found” message!
@mercimeStrange.
Try Pages > Add New –> Activity (in title and nothing in text area) then publish. Then go to Settings > BuddyPress > Pages panel and choose the newly created Activity page and click on Save. See if that works.
villnoweric@mercime I went through the wizard already. on the page part i clicked create page at mysite.com/wordpress/activity/ but it never created one!
@mercime@villnoweric After activating BuddyPress, you need to go through the Installation Wizard https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/
Also, double-check Settings > Permalinks, it should be set to other than default permalink structure. BP requires “pretty permalinks”
@mercimeYou can use a responsive WordPress theme and install the BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress. We have a list of “template-packed” WP themes at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes. This is the route you should take if you’re planning to launch your site this month or early next month. There’s still BP 1.6.2 coming out sometime December https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap and no set schedule as to when BP 1.7 is coming out yet.
@mercime @ant01 BP Codex is your friend
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
I suggest that you use BP Default theme while you’re setting up BuddyPress and test driving to see if everything is working as expected. If all’s well, then you focus on the theme:
– create a child theme of BP Default theme OR
– choose a WP theme and install BP Template pack plugin and go through BP compatibility process. We have a list of “template-packed” WP themes at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes OR
– choose a free or paid ready-made BP child theme OR
– choose a free or paid BP-ready/compatible WordPress theme
dassoubarnaI have found a plugin that can do so. But it will work upto wordpress version 3.2.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.9 or higher. You may try that.
rickkumar@modemlooper Thank you for your response.
Any idea about when BP 1.7 is coming?
Actually I am in a hurry and want to have the site(s) online within a week or so.
The sites don’t have to be fancy but need to be launched soon. I thought of choosing social theme because I am afraid of making lots of changes again if I choose a different theme later.
“BuddyPress 1.7 is coming soon and will work on any WordPress theme. If you are not in a hurry you might want to choose a responsive WordPress theme”
Are you saying that all the regular wordpress themes will work fine with buddypress/multisite/multi-network environment when BP 1.7 comes?
Are there any BP responsive themes that I can choose from at this moment?
Please advise. Thank you.
modemlooperBuddyPress 1.7 is coming soon and will work on any WordPress theme. If you are not in a hurry you might want to choose a responsive WordPress theme
BlogurpHey guys,
@modemlooper
@mercime
I found the solution to the problem here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddypress-cant-post-update-in-activity-stream. It turns out the button was always there, but in the bp.css file in wp-content/plugins/bp-template-pack, around line 60, the button has a height of 0. you have to manually change the height to 40 or whatever you want.
It worked for me and my button is now there.
Later 
@mercimeCheck out this tutorial http://wpmu.org/how-to-build-a-facebook-style-members-only-wordpress-buddypress-site/
mbrutschIf I create a new page ‘New Activity’ from Plugins -> Buddypress -> Settings -> Pages, it seems to create the page, but if I click ‘view’ from there, it goes to the non-existant /wordpress/new-activity
mbrutschLooking under ‘Pages’ in the dashboard, I see that it created pages named Activity, Forums, Members, etc. However, clicking on the ‘view’ link takes me to an undefined URL like ‘/wordpress/activate’. I can edit the page from there; it’s blank. If I add some text, like ‘test’, it saves it, but when I click ‘view’, it takes me to the same ‘not found’ url /wordpress/activate.
If I look in the wp_posts table, I see the ‘activate’ page, with a guid of /wordpress/?page_id=9
Loading that url redirects to /wordpress/activate, which does not exist.
modemlooperDid you by chance load your own jquery? Sometimes plugins block WP and load their own jquery. .on works if you are using the right version of jquery loaded from WordPress
@mercime
dainismichelthis relates http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/custom-post-types-comments-and-the-activity-stream-in-bp-1-5/
but i’m not sure how to code the fix.
it’s probably a tiny little ‘false’ changed to ‘true’ somewhere — but where?
(or something like that)
best,
dainis
dainismichelthis relates but i can’t put it together — http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/custom-post-types-comments-and-the-activity-stream-in-bp-1-5/
Paul Wong-GibbsRegarding the WP_DEBUG errors. Have you recently upgraded to BuddyPress 1.6+? There was a schema change, and we added the is_spam column in the wp_bp_activity table, and your error message says that it doesn’t exist.
Can you look inside your WordPress admin area, and check that you’ve not got some pending update action? https://i.imgur.com/MseHC.png
Paul Wong-GibbsIn your WordPress admin area, there’s a “Activity” item in the main menu list. On this page, there’s a button to filter to view only spam posts, and if any have been marked as akismet, there’s a little label nearby that says “marked as spam by akismet” etc.
dainismichelhuh, i just tried the “private buddypress” plugin — using the latest WP BP for nov 2 2012 (plz lookup the versions if you need to), and the plugin works just fine.
i am quite grateful to the creator of the private buddypress plugin. it does everything i need it to do.
life’s hard enough as it is — when you catch a “break” like this with code that works as promised without hassles and even without payment — you just really have to say thanks.
thanks to dennis at: https://profiles.wordpress.org/GIGALinux/ seriously — thanks!
JPAres1@mercime, thank you for your response. We were getting ready to try your suggestion when this happened:
As you know, the registration emails going out from our site were working but then weren’t working. See previous email. Since then, we went into something we never before went into: Membership, Communications and created a test Welcome message. We registered as a new user and wouldn’t you know we received the registration activation email as that new user, the test Welcome message for the new user and the admin new user notification email. Then we deactivated the test Welcome message and went through the process again. It worked! We received two emails now (just like before the mysterious site-rendered email disappearance); the registration activation email as that new user and the admin new user notification email. We then completely deleted the test Welcome message so that the Membership, Communications was the same as before we started and again, we received the same two emails. Whatever did we reactivate?
So, for whatever reason, the emails seem to be working again. However, this is a huge concern to us. This could happen again and we would have no idea why the emails stopped working and why it suddenly reset itself. We have repeatedly read in our research of this matter that WordPress uses PHPMail Sendmail. It has been mentioned more than once that making the emails go SMTP is better and more stable. We are of the belief that this may be the core issue here. Can anyone give input on this and guide us in the right direction? Is there anyone out there that can explain to us what may have happened and is there something we need to hard code so that it doesn’t happen again?
Many thanks for your help and advice.
marcycapron@megainfo @djpaul i can’t post updates to groups *or* my profile.
this is what i get with debug on (mind you no errors in chrome dev tools)
`WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘a.is_spam’ in ‘where clause’]
SELECT a.*, u.user_email, u.user_nicename, u.user_login, u.display_name FROM wp_bp_activity a LEFT JOIN wp_users u ON a.user_id = u.ID WHERE a.is_spam = 0 AND a.user_id IN ( 25 ) ORDER BY a.date_recorded DESC LIMIT 0, 20
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘a.is_spam’ in ‘where clause’]
SELECT count(a.id) FROM wp_bp_activity a USE INDEX (user_id) WHERE a.is_spam = 0 AND a.user_id IN ( 25 ) ORDER BY a.date_recorded DESC
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘is_spam’ in ‘field list’]
INSERT INTO wp_bp_activity ( user_id, component, type, action, content, primary_link, date_recorded, item_id, secondary_item_id, hide_sitewide, is_spam ) VALUES ( 25, ‘activity’, ‘activity_update’, ‘wec posted an update’, ‘ajax 2’, ‘http://tier1alumni.com/members/wec/’, ‘2012-11-02 00:53:15’, ”, ”, 0, 0 )
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