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I upgraded to both BP 1.2.8 and WP 3.1

I Have completely lost my BuddyPress section of the dashboard unless I navigate to http://mysite/wp-admin/network/ and then (as others have reported) all the BP plugin links are missing. Other than that so far so good.

Our forums seem to be working fine.

I blithely upgraded WP to 3.1 and now find the following problems with forums:

New BP groups don’t have a “forum” link on their home page. BP groups created before the WP 3.1 upgrade have the “forum” link but it generates a “URL not found” message.

That’s actually the WordPress Admin Bar and it resembles the Buddypress Admin Bar.
To disable it add this to functions.php:

add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );

It has broke my bbpress forums…. and even when I’ve made some changes to have bbpress ready to install, it throws me to dashboard when trying to install bbpres… ****!

// edited for language – hnla

Easy way is to modify `/activity/entry.php` in your child theme.

The other (and better) way — if you know your way around WordPress filters — is to hook into the “bp_get_activity_css_class” filter located in bp-activity-templatetags.php.

I have one solution here for you, although it’ll be up to you to deal with cross browser compatibility as far as the css goes. If the second sidebar is not going to be present on every page, you are going to have problems using this code. ….. be warned!!!

If you are doing this on a live site, make sure you have full backups of your template files. I set this up on an install that I’m playing around with. Its not a live site, it is a place for me to muck around with wordpress and buddypress.

This is just a starting point, but if you know your css you should be just fine

Step 1.

We’ll start with single.php here. this file is found in the bp-default theme folder

around line 57, find this code:

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Copy that, and paste it a second time right below itself. Add a 2 to the part that says sidebar.php so your two lines now look like this:
“
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move those two lines to lines 2 and 3, right below
“

Step 2.

Now copy and save sidebar.php as a second file called sidebar2.php. Put that file in the bp-default theme folder so that now you have sidebar.php and sidebar2.php both in there. Open sidebar2.php in a text editor and change the first div at the top from `

== a comprehensive online listing of all buddypress plugins and their compatibility issues – with WP 3.x and among each others ==

That would a great BP community project if members could/would submit their lists of compatible/incompatible BP plugins. Also would be great if someone could check code of current BP plugins if these were updated to meet this http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/updating-your-buddypress-plugins-for-1-2-8/

it would be cool if at the very least, something like what Andy Peatling came up with before for previously released BP plugins when BP 1.2 rolled out.

WP.org Forums has some Troubleshooting Tips for those who have issues after upgrading to WP 3.1
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-31-master-list

To enable multisite on WordPress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

To install BuddyPress:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/

Check out codex.buddypress.org for more articles.

Looks like you’re on single WP. Are you on Linux or Windows server? Have you checked out this Codex info – https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks?

Deactivate BuddyPress and resolve permalink structure first.

Open up your site’s .htaccess file and compare it to example in article above. If different, then save a copy of your .htaccess file to a safe place, and replace what’s in .htaccess file in your server with what’s posted in article above related to your server setup.

If that doesn’t resolve your issue, you can get more assistance at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

My aproach seems to be a little too systematic – however I would like to ask if there is a comprehensive online listing of all buddypress plugins and their compatibility issues – with WP 3.x and among each others? This could be just one big table, however I could not find anything like this. I am not talking about the “works / work not” thing at the WP plugin site – it should be something more overviewable and it would be great to have an API so plugins could check for dependencies and compatibility issues. Is there anything like this?

I made the upgrade for test and the menu didn’t show the plugins configs.
Also, the home just didn’t show anything, I think ir really better waiting for some days/weeks to make a safe upgrade

If you have BP installed already, and you want to enable multisite https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network :

1. You need to deactivate all WP/BP plugins and change to default theme (twentyten) first.
2. Note, that if you have had single WP for some time, you can only go multisite in subdomain structure i.e. http://newsite1.example.com. Make sure that your server is set up for that.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Step_2:_Setting_Wildcard_Subdomains
3. You only add `define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);` to wp-config.php to get `Tools > Network` in your dashboard to start the process. If your server is up to the task, follow dashboard message to enable multisite in your install.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Step_3:_Allow_Multisite
= If you encounter multisite creation problems, resolve that first in WP forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite before re-activating BP/WP plugins.

If you can’t see the menu links, if you’re using multisite, you’ll need to be sure that you’re looking at the network dashboard.

Reporting same issue as Andrés Richero on my localhost with 3.1 and BP 1.28. Missing Buddypress dashboard menu items for BP plugins. Site works, but.

Those links should come back when the plugin authors update their plugins to be compatible with 3.1

If a user is logged into WordPress in the same browser there is no way to have a user register another account. Try this on any site on the web an I guarantee you can not.

Just updated my site to 3.1 and 1.2.8. The only thing i can notice up to now is that i´ve lost the plugin config links that appeared under the buddypress menu tab. Any idea on how to fix this?
Thanks all.

I just upgraded my wordpress site, and my site turned up no problems so far ya-hoo!

Thanks for the step by step, albill. We’re still trying to straighten out the problems with the wordpress.org repository, and we’ll have a real fix soon. Sorry for the inconvenience, all.

So, the fix that worked for me was:

1. Go to https://bbpress.org/download/ and download current bbpress zip or tar file.
2. Unzip or untar it, which will give you a “bbpress” directory
3. Ftp to your site. Rename bb-config.php to something else in your root directory.
4. go to “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/
5. In that directory, upload the bbpress directory (not the contents of it but the actual bbpress directory including its contents)
6. Rename bb-config.php back to bb-config.php in your root directory for your wordpress site
7. Go to *yoursite*/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bb-forums-setup
8. Tell it to reinstall bbpress using the existing file (and make sure it is pointing to the right path to find bb-config.php)

This fixed my site and everything is working again.

There is a problem with the way that wordpress.org created the zip file. We’re looking into it.

No, don’t do that. The developers are aware of this and the 1.2.8 fix is out.

I got 99 problems.