Jamie and I ended up talking about this on Twitter. For anyone who finds this later, bbPress 1.x adds custom roles and capabilities to WordPress. BuddyPress doesn’t use these, but when you install BP 1.0-1.2.9 and activate group forums, it installs a version of bbPress for you.

BuddyPress has no externally accessible APIs. You’d have to create your own bridge, which may or may not be very complicated depending on what exactly you need out of it.

I’m having the same problem. When I enable W3 Total Cache if I click log out it still shows me as being logged in. It takes a couple of refreshes to change it. Likewise when I log in it still shows me as being logged out.

Wordpress 3.2.1
Buddypress 1.2.9
W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.3

Clearing cookies has no effect on the problem. If anyone can suggest a fix, please do.

You mean wall == the wire (old BP) or activity updates (current BP)? What versions of WordPress and BuddyPress are you using?

second test after deactivating Group Extras was the same, so It doesn’t memorize all fields below the field “phone number” which sometimes doesn’t work too because after the saving it change the value into the value of the field above (WEBSITE), @modemlooper or @boonebgeorges if you want admin access to my testing site (www.stripunity.com – untouched brand new clean installation (latest wordpress & buddypress versions with 3 plugins in it) for your plugin testing purposes , I would gladly send you an password.

jad117 –
something similar happened to me. I was editing the wrong file that was supposed to be the right file.
there are a few different ways to find other versions of the same file.

my preferred method:
if you have your site backed up to your local machine:
if you have Notepad++ (which is a free text editor program found here ->http://notepad-plus-plus.org/) you can use the “find in files” function. enter the phrase you are looking for (in this instance “public groups”). on the Directory section, select the wordpress folder. I tend to go to the highest directory possible so that I know for sure I’m not missing something.
the results will show you all instances where that phrase is. you can click on the phrase and it will open the file for you!
edit it there and then ftp/upload it to the same file path it came from (the file path is listed in the search results)

other places to look for the file you need to edit:
if you don’t have your site backed up on your local server
sometimes, the files are not on the Appearance tab. sometimes, they are in the plugins folder. (that was the case for one of the profile files I wanted to edit)
yoursite.comwp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-themesbp-default
go to the plugins page
select buddypress from the drop down menu
edit the file there

hopefully, one of these two suggestion will help.
good luck.

@foxly and others – Just wanted to drop a note about a recent commit https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4977 where I made a minor adjustment to the new load order that should help a lot with plugin backward compatibility. In particular, plugins that are using the (old and incorrect but functional in 1.2.x) method of hooking their global and nav setup routines to ‘wp’ and ‘admin_menu’, which wasn’t working in earlier revs of BP trunk, should now be working. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3476 for more explanation.

That said, you should do the right thing and update your plugin so that it does it correctly: set up your globals at bp_setup_globals and your nav at bp_setup_nav!

esploded; we need at the very least a link to your site, BuddyPress and WordPress version numbers, whether you’re using multisite, and whether you’re on IIS or not

Hey buddy – I was running into permalink issues and learned that there are good and bad ways to go about it. I’d suggest reading this article to make your final decision: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

If you’re wondering I decided to use: /%category%/%postname%

Sorry I can’t edit my post. I get a page not found .. but I have another plugin that’s not working with BuddyPress 1.5 Beta. It’s a fairly simple plugin though. But not sure why it’s not working.

BuddyPress Activity Stream Bar

Different strokes for different dropdown plugins. At this stage, recommend that you contact plugin author and/or post at WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks where you’d need to be clear which dropdown plugin you’re using.

I will presume you’ve gone through this https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ and only need to adjust code in BP template pack files as follows:

Open up the first file, activity/index.php and change
`

`

The do the same with the remaining template files

Note that you would have to change the

or

tags wrapped around page titles in BP template pack files as needed to

per your theme’s page titles.

Check out this trac ticket. Know however, that in upcoming BP 1.5, the bp_page_title has been deprecated and WP’s wp_title will be used instead.

Here is another good plugin for opening external links in new windows.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/open-external-links-in-a-new-window/

== As far as the coding goes, am I supposed to start from scratch or copy over all the files from the plugin / bp-default directory? ==
Depends on what modifications you’d like to implement and how you want to go about it.

Create a child theme of bp-default – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ – you can import the bp-default default.css in your style.css and make the revisions as well as copy over one or more template files/s from bp-default theme if needed

or use a WP Theme and install the BP Template Pack plugin and go through the process
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Just as a sanity check have you got the setting turned on to allow groups?

Under components have you turned enabled Groups: Let users create, join and participate in groups.

Are you signed in as admin or signed in as a user and does it make a difference to seeing group creation?

If you have a little more information would be great such as what version of BuddyPress / WordPress you are using and also the theme you are using? Does the problem happen with all plugins turned off (I know it can be a pain but it’s good to sanity check them)? Also maybe you can provide a link to your site?

In IIS Manager, go to the virtual directory and click right / properties, there you can go to the documents tabs and set up the “enable default content page” to index.php

IMHO Apache runs circles around IIS, on our win2k8 server we’re running apache and php instead.

This article might also help you translate .htaccess to an IIS webconfig, too (if needed) :http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/557/translate-htaccess-content-to-iis-webconfig/

As an M$ engineer IIS is not something I would rather rely on for production sites unless you have M$’s budget to just throw more servers at the load and be able to deal with a few coming off the rails while you sort things out (yes even in IIS7). That’s why I’m a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) admin when it comes to things I own and care about.

If you’re not planning to be working with ASP or need active directory integration with desktop PCs, and that sort of thing there’s no need for it. I say let WordPress run on it’s native environment.

@RPD If you mean this theme, https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/animass, then we’ll use the WP page.php file as guide in the transformation.

Open up the activity/index.php file transferred to your anIMass folder in server. At the top, replace:
`

There is this plugin, however its out dated. I’m going to create something similar in the future. No date set but it’s on my list of plugins to create

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-quickpress