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Hi Pisanojm,

“looks like some of users are reporting some cache issues…. That is groups that they’ve joined that they have to “rejoin”

What kind of issues? Do you have the WordPress plugin installed? Or mod_cloudflare? I’m wondering if this is because our IPs would be reflected until you made the modifications to get original visitor IP again.

Lumenbeing, the answer is yes, in my experience. I am testing WordPress MultiSite with BuddyPress on a Dreamhost setup. I did install by uploading via FTP, not via the one click, but for whatever reason, none of the BB Press tables were created in my database. I tried applying the patch in Paul’s post above, but that wasn’t enough and uninstalling and re-installing the forums via the Web still didn’t help.

I went through the MySQL statements in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/defaults.bb-schema.php and was able to create the tables manually in the SQL dialog box in phpMyAdmin. You do need to make sure you fill in the database names for the variable $bbdb in each statement
ie: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `$bbdb->forums
needed to become
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tablename_bb_forums`
But I am now able to use the forums for public/private/hidden groups as I expected they would work.
I do suspect this is a server issue and perhaps a MySQL version issue as well. I can’t imagine why none of the tables would be created, otherwise.
Hope this helps further the conversation.

@JunVette Glad you resolved it and thanks for sharing your solution.

@mercime Thank you!!! It was my .htaccess file.

I had to add the following line to the end of my .htaccess file. This tells the webserver to user PHP5 instead of PHP4 (for anyone that doesn’t know). I had to do this with my other 1and1 hosted sites, including my Joomla sites.

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

There have been many issues of WP plugins/custom theme incompatibility with WP 3.1 due to many changes in core. Btw, what theme are you using? WP 3.0.5 upgrade to WP 3.1 has broken “some stuff” along the way. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-31-master-list?replies=11

On each plugin’s homepage in WP repo, look to the lower portion of the right sidebar which links to forum topics where people give feedback – report problems.

– Re Smooth slider – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-smooth-slider-needs-upgrading-for-wp-31?replies=2

– As for multilevel navigation plugin – unfortunately, the plugin developer doesn’t seem to provide support in WP repo or his website, and it supports WP version up to WP 3.0.5 only, while BP 1.2.8 is compatible with WP 3.1. In other words, this is not a BuddyPress issue at all. Suggest that you look for alternative plugin

1. Before installing any plugin – BP or WP – double-check the compatibility of the plugin with the version of BP/WP you have installed. If the compatibility is not there and you choose to install the plugin, be prepared for errors and to tackle it. In other words, the safe bet for a novice is not to install plugins which are not compatible with your installation.

2. One way is via https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/ I recommend reading through the documentation http://www.primothemes.com/post/product/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/

3. Something like this – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/ and redirect visitors who are not logged in to the login page

To enable wp-admin have you tried disabling the bp-code-snippets plugin by using ftp to delete or change name of the plugin directory causing wordpress to deactivate that plugin?

I’m one of the ones who installed WordPress with one click on Dreamhost. I can’t downgrade my MySQL and even if I could, we have a production server running membership site now (just without forums) so manual wordress install from scratch is not an option. Can I just manually create missing tables using phpmyadmin or something?

Presume that you actually mean – “so they *can* blog” ?

Can you not simply set the ‘new user default role’ to ‘Contributor’ or ‘Author’ in general settings then all your users can post to the main blog.

If that isn’t what you’re after then you’ll need to elaborate a little on what you are actually wanting to do i.e allow them to post from the front end of the blog without having to use the dashboard?

=== Is it possible to display complete details and add additional fields tabout the member including a photo? ===
Yes. The avatar upload will be the photo of the member.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

=== and I’d really not want them to be a member of WordPress. ===
BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin that uses WP functions in many cases including being added in the wp_users table. If you don’t want the members to be WP “users” in the main site, go multisite and install BuddyPress in secondary blog.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

I found this thread and it looks like exactly what I need to stop users real names from displaying in there profile. the problem is I cannot find the file /members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
can someone point me in the right direction. is it in buddypress pluggin or in wordpress main files?
Alice.

I’m going to install this tonight: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-firewall-2/

Wordpress firewall. I would consider it on your install as well.

@dharmen99

Go to your WordPress backend and click “Users”. If you’re running WP-single, you’ll find it under the “Plugins” menu; if you’re running multisite, you can find the link in the “Super Admin” menu.
Check each user you want to delete, then in the “Bulk Actions” dropdown at top-left, select “Delete”.
Click “Apply”. You’re done.

Well it was just for one group essentially, the others I would have used the Group Hierarchy to have a slug anyways. So for the one group that is not like the others, I just made a page template with a full page iframe of the source group. It sucks because the urls don’t change as you navigate within the group but I think it makes more sense.

I hope to see this toggle introduced in future versions of wordpress.

In addition to what @hnla said above, if you cannot log in your WP installation
https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin

I’m trying this now… cloudflare… I’ll let you know what it what… do you also use the wordpress cloudflare plugin with buddypress?

Back that press up!

https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

[ edit ] In addition to what @hnla said above [ /edit ]

https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
http://ocaoimh.ie/did-your-wordpress-site-get-hacked/
http://ottopress.com/2011/how-to-cope-with-a-hacked-site/

[ edit ] https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress [ /edit ]

Find resolution in WordPress.org Forums before installing BuddyPress

[RESOLVED] Root cause was meta_value in table wp_bb_meta remain unchanged after migration to other site.
Scenario: I had similar problem on forum. I tried removing and re-installing many times. Re-installing means copying my complete wordpress with plugin buddypress folder still didn’t worked. Sometimes i used to get HTTP Error 403 Forbidden while accessing forums. This was error was esp when i used existing installation option from admin page in forums setup under buddypress.
But when I click on setup new bbpress installation I could post on forums but could not see topics.
REASON: I checked the database for table wp_bb_forums and it had entry of new topic, then I checked wp_bb_meta in that incorrect meta value was setup for field meta_value where meta_key is uri , I corrected the url stored in meta_value it was url of my previous website name. I had done migration to new site so the problem. If you face similar conditions just check these values.

Category pages as in- your theme?

If so, I would say this isn’t a buddypress issue.

Use the wordpress forums, or Twenty-Ten Theme Forums if possible.

Paul already mentioned this. It’s possible, but requires some workarounds.

You’d need to unhook how BuddyPress catches URI requests and route them to groups.

The comments below are for people who know their way around WordPress:

– The catch URI function in BP is the bp_core_set_uri_globals() function located in /bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php.
– You can unhook this from the “bp_loaded” action. Then write your own function to catch URI requests. Would be good to duplicate the function and look at the BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES section of the code to modify it to read groups.

Hope that gives you some pointers!