@Roger Coathup – sorry didn’t realized that I should have posted seperately, will do and ash other questions on the wordpress forums, thanks

Well… mixed results. Replacing the 1.2.8 files with those from 1.5.6 blanked everything, including wp-admin. I tried putting them both in the plugins directory, de-activated 1.2.8, then tried to activate 1.5.6 but it wouldn’t activate.

So essentially the upgrade so far has been a failure. On the other hand it is, as I mentioned, a temporary measure so that isn’t a catastrophe. In the process, though, I discovered that the files we’d been sent originally had been on a mac at some point, and the file system was littered [sic] with mac resource forks. I used ‘find’ to delete those, and we seem to be in a much, much better state than previously! Apparently WordPress tries to load and execute the resource forks where they’re present.

There are still egregious problems with the site, but I’m inclined to think that most of them are to do with the corruption in the db data we were given initially, e.g. existing comments seem to have become disassociated from their original posts, whereas new comments are working properly.

Thanks very much, everyone, for your help. I’m not marking this as resolved since my original problem hasn’t been solved, but I think we’re probably going to leave BuddyPress alone for the moment. WordPress is great when it works, but I’ve found it pretty opaque to debug; thanks again for helping me out!

Cheers,
Ben

Thanks everyone! I don’t have a convenient test environment available, but I have backed up the entire database and all the files, so I think I’ll cross my fingers and try stwc’s method, as the easiest – assuming it works!

If it doesn’t then I’ll revert and we’ll try a different approach. Ultimately we’re planning to move all the functionality off the WordPress installation and onto our own system anyway, so there’s a limit to the amount of time I want to put into making it work properly.

Thanks again everyone, I’ll report back!

problem solved!
I’ve installed Display Widgets https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets/
Everything works perfectly now.
@r-a-y Thanks again!

@shawn38, The site was using a blog from wordpress and the theme was well liked and buddypress was just a test at first. It seemed to work out pretty well for what the site needs. I will keep this in mind for any other future buddypress projects. The !important seemed to work. Thanks.

@karmatosed, Thanks for your input and will be using that as well.

@mercime, Thanks but, the way I aligned it isn’t proper. I added styles to each element because when I use the .bpcontent div it was only fixing the Members Directory page. The rest of the pages ended up still being out of alignment. Your post makes sense and I should have noticed that but, I didn’t. Thanks for that one. The sidebar-buddypress,php is no longer in use or shouldn’t be. I am using or planning on using my themes sidebar.php. This made it much easier when making the theme compatible. I am going to go back and fix the css and see if my alignment issue works out a little easier.

Thanks for everyones input, I am sure I’ll be back.

Hi. I am using a custom theme…. I am using a template pack for my (Elegantthemes) WordPress theme.

@ r-a-y yes, it is installed in it’s own directory “wordpress” http://mdacintranet/wordpress, the problem is when I install bp the additional sub-directories that (I’m assuming) are suppose to be written under the wordpress directory are not appearing. Thus causing the page not found error, it’s not possible to display a page when the directory the page is suppose to be in is not even there. Maybe I’m suppose to manually create each of the first? I have literally re-installed from scratch about 7+ times. The wp site installs and runs flawlessly until I try to install bp. Once BuddyPress is installed the only thing that works properly is the dashboard and in order for me to then fix the site I have to do a complete re-install of wp. If I try to deactivate the bp plugin, it cripples the entire site. I have been trying this on multiple systems all running Linux (ubuntu 12.04 server) and all in virtual machines. Any help will be greatly appreciated as this seems like the perfect solution if only I can get it to actually work. Thanks.

I found the problem. When I change the theme to bp-default and the link in the Group Directory is working. But oh boy, it is not theme it was the function.php that I add @boonebgorges codes is not working:

What’s the easiest way to change the default landing page for BuddyPress groups?

It was working in BP 1.6 but not BP 1.6.1. I deleted it. It works.

function bbg_set_new_group_default_subnav() {
global $bp;

if ( bp_is_group() ) {
// Set up your new default
$new_screen_function = 'groups_screen_group_forum';
$new_default_slug = 'forum';

$parent_slug = bp_get_current_group_slug();

if ( $function = $bp->bp_nav[$parent_slug] ) {
if ( !is_object( $function[0] ) )
remove_action( 'bp_screens', $function, 3 );
else
remove_action( 'bp_screens', array( &$function[0], $function[1] ), 3 );
}

$bp->bp_nav[$parent_slug] = &$new_screen_function;

if ( bp_is_groups_component() && !bp_current_action() ) {
if ( !is_object( $new_screen_function[0] ) ) {
add_action( 'bp_screens', $new_screen_function );

} else {
add_action( 'bp_screens', array( &$new_screen_function[0], $new_screen_function[1] ) );
}

$bp->current_action = $new_default_slug;
}
}
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bbg_set_new_group_default_subnav', 999 );

function bbg_set_new_group_default_action() {
global $bp;

if ( bp_is_group() && !bp_current_action() ) {
$bp->current_action = 'forum';
}
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_globals', 'bbg_set_new_group_default_action', 999 );

Mikey3D

@mercime, ok thanks! But “honor” is too much i opened a ticket witch probably would be considered as “not important” yet…. There are other more important tasks to do first

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4506