I too am experienceing this problem.
buddypress Stylesheet is missing.
using WordPress 3.01 and BuddyPress 1.2.6
oh yeah, what Paul said. I may attempt a plug-in. Not a full fledged blog posting plug-in but more a notes type thing like on facebook.
Or, yes, you can just change their permission from subscriber to an author so that they can post in the backend.
Best way to do this is use the premium plugin ‘Gravity Forms’. It will enable you to set up a submissions form for a post that they can fill in, write their article, attach a picture and then post. It will automatically publish or you can set it so you have to publish it once submitted. I use it and it works GREAT! One of the best plugins for WP in my opinion!
What if I just want them to be able to add posts and then have the buddy press features? Could that be done by changing their permissions from being a subscriber to an author and then also using buddypress?
THANKS so much! Yes, the directory does exist. I did the DB backup, removed the bb_ tables, ran the forum installer. Returning to the forum setup I see this:
bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install
NOTE: The forums directory will only work if your bbPress tables are in the same database as your WordPress tables. If you are not using an existing bbPress install you can ignore this message.
I also see the new tables in my database. What I don’t see is any forum control panel on my admin side or how to include a link to it in my site navigation. I’m looking around in the WordPress admin and on the visible site itself. What am I missing?
No, if you want users to have a blog you will need to enable multisite
I do see a possible problem here but don’t know enough about databases. I could get myself in way more trouble.
I see in the bb-config.php file that my Table prefix is ‘bb_’ but in the bbPress installer log I see that the table prefix is ‘lh_’ (my wordpress table prefixes are set to ‘lh_’). This is what the log says:
`>>> User database table prefix: lh_`
Looking at my database I see that the prefix is bb_ could this be the problem and if so how would I fix it? I don’t see how i can rename those tables. or change the prefix. I’m just guessing here. Thanks.
Are you trying to integrate an existing bbPress install with BP group’s? Or, is this a brand new bbPress install with no data?
If the latter, there is no reason to do a separate install of bbPress. BuddyPress comes with a barebones version of bbPress already. It allows BP Groups to each have their own forums. However, it does not allow for the creation of a sitewide forum.
If you have an existing bbPress forum that you’re trying to associate with BP, then the bbPress tables must be installed into the same database as your WordPress tables. Make sure that you have read this BP Codex article: https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/using-an-existing-bbpress-installation/
Finally, if you’re trying to have a standalone, global bbPress forum on your site, and not just have BP Group forums, then read this: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-do-i-create-a-non-group-specific-forum
Hmmm, I see that bb-config.php is currently set to: 666 What should it be? I tried 644 didn’t work. I see the directory is set to 705. I tried 755 as per most WordPress logic. Tried it with the document inside being both 666 and 644.
When you say absolute path do you mean literally to the system? it comes up with a path with all the directories up to the root of the server which I was surprised to see rather than the domain. But yes I tried all the possible paths I could think of .
The admin bar is basically a WordPress thing. It’s getting an overhaul soon to look like the wordpress.com admin bar. You can disable admin bar and use the wordpress menus and create your own sidebar menu widget.
@modemlooper well I really do not like the bar on top and for the life of me I can not find a way to put it on the footer. If I could move it to the footer I think I would use that then for the navigation features. I also looked for an option for a facebook type footer bar and found a plug in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-foot-panel/ but it does not really do much.
BTW the main reason for not having the bar on the top is it does not look good on my site with my header style.
Multisite is if you want to allow users to create their own blogs like on wordpress.com otherwise BP functions just the same on single WP.
If you want to put BP on a secondary blog here’s how. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/
Thanks for this plugin! Though I haven’t had a chance to try it since when I try to send a message I get the “An error occurred, please try again” This happens every time and I’m quite confused since it seems to work for most people. My question then is, is there some setting (in buddypress or wordpress) that I haven’t found? been looking 
@nahummadrid
Maybe @MrMaz can tell you something about the performance of the plugin in more detail, but the feeds are cached and only checked once an hour or on a direct profile visit. So far the plugin has been performing great, and I have not noticed any performance issues with it. It is a lot less heavy on resources as a dedicated RSS feed importer plugin for WordPress, that’s for sure.
You do have to remember that the posts are not stored anywhere other then the activity stream itself. You can filter the stream for external blog posts but it does not save it as a regular post or anything. Excluding them from the Stream would mean that the entries are not stored anywhere basically making the plugin useless
If you feature requests just leave a comment on the blogpost on BP-Tricks itself so we can keep track of them!
In case anyone stumbles across this thread also looking for a progress bar, it looks like somebody created one.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-progression/
i saw this briefly on your site a couple weeks ago. I am looking forward to working with it. I have been doing the same thing but in a round about way. On multisite i just have users add their rss feed url to a subblog setup on something like feedwordpress/wpomatic. It works well but I’m having performance issues.
How will this plugin stand up as far as performance?
I like the way I’m doing it now because of the expanse of what can be done with wordpress posts. You can manage and manipulate the posts.
How will external member blogs allow us to handle the activity items for external posts? Is it possible to call them seperately something like (type=external_post) ? Is it easy enough to exclude them from the general activity feed?
Tags, Categories? How does it handle images?
I remember when the groups external feed plugin came out, this was one the first things I asked about doing…for members. I look forward to the future development of this plugin. Thanks for it.
I am running WordPress 3.01 with Buddypress 1.2.6 (just installed). My problem appears to be similar. Details follow.
The first time a user goes to the profile of the user requesting the friendship, the Accept and Reject buttons appear. However, if they do not click one of the buttons, then a greyed out “Friendship requested” button appears in all places where the “Accept” button would have appeared.
I have quite a few plugins installed, but none of the ones mentioned in this thread.
Sorry to jump in on this older thread but I just wanted to know if there was an easy way to get this filtering of table names to work to allow me to create a separate instance of buddypress on a wordpress multisite?
I am using the multi-network plugin to create networks and all that is working fine but each time I activate the buddypress plugin on a network it uses the same database as the all of the other networks and therefore it is the same as the normal wordpress multisite setup.
As a workaround I changed the code in bp_core_get_table_prefix() in bp-core.php to append the id of the network. That works fine and creates a new set of tables but obviously not ideal.
Thanks
That’s not possible with BuddyPress at this time. See this: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/
In fact, I don’t see this ever being an option in BP–even when the new bbPress plugin becomes available. Both BP and the upcoming plugin version of bbP are software layers that sit on top of WordPress. So each is responsible for their own sets of data access functions. Even with BP Group-based forums, the bbP functions are being hijacked to work within BP but only barely.
To have a standalone install of bbPress functioning in WordPress (which is what would give you a site-wide forum) requires a process called deep integration. For more information on integrating bbPress with WordPress, search the WP or bbP forums. Or better yet, just wait until the pluginitized version of bbPress is available!
Adding in the link too that would rock like it does in forums / streams.
Hi All,
Does anyone know if you (as an admin) can tag a post with an @mention that will automatically mention all users, instead of having to mention each one individually?
Thanks
Jonathan
Do you have a link to the website?
What versions of BuddyPress and WordPress are installed?
What theme are you using? Have you tried the default theme?
