HELP!
Could this all be an issue with the way I installed my network?………….
I have noticed further issues with buddypress & bbpress, sign up not performing or functioning, no bbpress mails being sent and the complete inability to edit etc ‘any sitewide forums. There may be more issues I have just not checked.
I installed network under sub-directories ‘then’ added domain mapping!
Should I have in fact installed the network sites via sub domains and then added domain mapping?
ie. BuddyPress does not work on installations where you give WordPress its own directory ?
Could this be my issue?
@manojhl123 could you be more specific about what topic info? Group Forums or Sitewide Forums? bbPress has topics widget you can add to sidebar. WordPress/BuddyPress/bbPress versions?
Yes you need to make your wordpress a multisite install buddypress has additional features which are multisite dependent.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
I am using DeTube (http://themeforest.net/item/detube-professional-video-wordpress-theme/2664497) which supports BuddyPress.
However, when I activate the BuddyPress theme it breaks two features – a video scroll box and gridview.
If I deactivate the BuddyPress plugin both features work again.
I am looking for some assistance in troubleshooting and fixing this problem. Is there anyone else who is using this theme perhaps with BuddyPress?
If anyone wants to see an example I can send you to my website. BuddyPress is currently disabled – you can see the two features work. Then, once I enable BuddyPress you will see both features no longer work.
Hugo,
There are many areas but the title and descriptions are not unique for each member or group. It does not take much understanding to see if one builds even a small community of say 5K members if every profile title says Members and every group says Groups that SEO is very bad and Google will spit this out in a heart beat and not value the site very well in rankings. Good SEO practice has got to be unique titles and descriptions old or new days.
I built sites that have over 20K unique visitors per day and been around online full time since 2001. I am new to Buddpress and only been working with WordPress a little under a year. I know this for sure SEO to be as important today as years ago. Also if Buddy is going to be fully integrated with WP it in simple terms it needs to work just as WP does or then its not fulling integrated. Instead it is partially integrated. Like it or not 80% of all internet traffic today begins with a search and if SEO is not a big part of ones marketing plan success is probably not going to be found easily.
Now don’t get me wrong I do admire and appreciate all the hard work done here on this project. I am very detailed and experienced traffic and IM guy that just simply trying to bring these things to front to make better product. I am however no programmer.
WordPress 3.5.1 and BuddyPress 1.7 Beta1
http://www.gumpolen.com
In the middle of the night someone registered a new account and created a new site — all in the same minute. They sure are fast! I don’t know what’s typical about web robots and such, so I thought I would mention this to see what others think.
The username is a woman’s name, but the site is “Absolutely Free Shipping And Delivery [on a product of sorts].
Is this spam? I don’t have a problem with new accounts whatsoever, but I don’t know what’s real or not.
–Kevin
So nobody here knows how to get SEO to work properly with Buddypress? This is kind of crazy as as popular as buddpress is nobody knows how to make SEO work with Yoast. SEO is an important part of any internet venture. Without it its pointless today online unless your going to pay for all your advertisement or do affiliate marketing.
I am completely disappointed so far as I spent so much time researching this information and nobody either has the correct and complete information or cares to respond with it. I thought Buddpress was a very well supported compatible community for wordpress.
I may have to find another product all together for this project possibly even outside wordpress as it just does not make sense to build something without SEO in mind.
Zorro…
@mercime
Hard ticket to find:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4639
While hunting remembered that Paul’s guide had been linked to on that ticket originally, perhaps we can give it a little more prominence?
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/template-hierarchy/
If that is the page existed??!! seems the page has been removed entirely @DJPaul ?
That’s correct, a blog post. My WordPress was set to default to a role called “Member”. I’m not sure how or why. I changed it back to “Subscriber” all seems well now. The blog post option no longer appears in the top bar. 🙂
Thank you two for your help.
@nicholas-ritson Windows server? Did you add index.php to the permalink structure for pretty permalinks? It won’t work with BuddyPress. Use the first example posted in https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite or contact webhost for assistance
HI @mercime, thank you for your reply.
The set up is as follows;
New install: WordPress 3.5.1 MU joint Network with x7 Mapped domains
New install: Buddypress 1.6.4 Running all sites on Dynamix WP/BP theme
New install: BBPress 2.2.4 With Network & Group forums configured.
Buddypress has been installed ‘without’ the discussion forums tab enabled.
<code>define( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );</code> Is located in wp-config.
Set up for stewide & group forums from: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/ followed to the last note.
After further examination, it appears that I can edit group forums with no issues whatsoever, it is the sitewide forums that have the blocked actions, I literally can’t do anything with them. Page just refreshes.
Tried disabling all network enabled plugins which are; WP SEO (Yoast), WPMU Domain Mapping, Ultimate coming soon page & Join my multisite, to no avail.
It has me well and truly stumped ! The site is locked down under maintenance at the moment, but I’m happy to PM access to any moderator here if they felt it may help to see the issue first hand.
Regards,
I posted in his forum for the plugin on wordpress.org. That is where they tell you to ask for support. https://yoast.com/contact/
Posted something days ago off another post that had been there for a while. Created a new post today.
I was hoping there would be some Buddypress pros here that would maybe know the answer to this. I am completely new to BP and only been working with WordPress for about a year. Although been in tech online for sometime. But I am no developer for sure. But a good IM and web strategy guy.,
I actually like Yoast SEO plugin very much and know it also to be the best today. But it seems to not work out of the box with BP. I done a tone of searches on the net and appears I am not the only one trying to figure this out. Have even tried a few tweaks that others in forums suggested but with no luck and it also appears that no one for whatever reason is giving a real solution to working with Yoast on the BP site. Things like titles and descriptions for group, profile’ activity feeds ect are not optimized properly for Buddypress like they are in regular WordPress.
I see the test buddy website does seem to have clean SEO all the way through. Not sure how that was accomplished.
Any help would be appreciated as without having good SEO solution I am going to have to find another way to build this community I am working on but really want to stay with Buddy.
This is actually not an issue, if you want to understand the nature of this read this ticket:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4344#comment:4
I have intermediate experience with WordPress. Using version 3.5.1 and BuddyPress 1.6.3.
I am having a difficult time understanding the capabilities of the role labeled “Members”. I say this because members are apparently able to create posts; it is listed on the grey toolbar for any new BuddyPress user. They can even choose post categories I don’t want them to have access to.
How do I manage the Member role so that it doesn’t even give them the option to create a WordPress post? They may post freely within the BuddyPress components, but not create WordPress posts.
Thanks.
Sorry…
Buddypress Version 1.6.2
Wordpress Version 3.5
it uses the default theme
but it can not be a reason the theme continum, because the previous version of the BP nothing has doubled
It’s a theme issue. Continuum author has rewritten the way the default WordPress templates are scripted. Change to Twenty Twelve, and you’ll see that there’s no group duplication.
BuddyPress 1.7 does its best to integrate with any WordPress theme. It doesn’t matter whether you activate the theme before or after you activate the plugin 🙂
Hi
Wordpress 3.5.1; BP 1.7 Beta1, Commons in a Box [and so bbPress 2.2]; dev2.consumersfederation.org.au
I followed this guide: http://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
I am attempting to set up Sitewide and Group Forums.
Sitewide forums are successfully working.
Group forums are not working. The forum menu DOES appear (no problem). But
a. cannot create a new topic within the forum [error message “There was an error when creating the topic”
b. Can create a new topic from Dashboard/Forums/Group Forums/Forum name – but this topic is not listed as a topic under Group name/Forum on the front end.
I wondered if it was the setting at BuddyPress pages – Forums: It is [now] set to the same page as bbPress ie the page Forums which has the bbPRess forum index shortcode
I have checked this support forum response: http://buddypress.org/support/topic/error-in-creating-topic/ and can advise in relation to the three suggested checks/actions
1. Yes bb-Config.php has been created
2. There is no (longer?) an information about 7 xxx tables as per that thread. Instead the referenced page ( http://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/#bbpress-forums-tables-in-database ) resolves to http://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/#b-set-up-group-and-sitewide-forums
3. I didn’t quite get all the suggestions at the links provided but I did
“Go to Group->Admin->settings and disable the forum, then save and then re-enable it, does that help ?” which didn’t fix it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
how to modify the admin bar
@ebizdude That’s too wide an area to cover. What specifically do you want to change in the admin bar?
– If it’s WordPress-related, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting
– If it’s related to BuddyPress links to profile menus https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-custom-profile-menu/
also when people registerting the activation email is not coming. how does one recticfy that
You have to find out through some tests whether email is not being sent from your installation or whether the email just goes to user’s spam folder.
