Using a clean install of WP 3.1 and BP 1.2.8, my BuddyBar works fine while looking at the site pages, but in the dashboard section, it appears below everything as an unstyled list of links. It looks like none of the BuddyPress style sheets are applying when I’m in the dashboard. Is this normal? What’s the best way to get around this?
It’s probably an old question, but I searched around for a good bit here and couldn’t find anything specifically related. Any thoughts? Thanks!
OK updating WP and BP was a bit awfull this time.
but i want to say that a standard BP multisite works correctly AFTER these updates. http://bp-fr.net
Many WP plugins don’t work from now on ?
i would say it’s more than time that some old bad coded stuff is now out of the sky. I hope that the the plugin repo will be cleaned promptly.
If you encounter some problems after uptade, here is a good starting point:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-31-master-list
@skwc the bp-album plugin works. I still have 0.1.8 and it works well: http://bp-fr.net/members/admin/album/pictures/
To sort by date in the userlist, simply click on the date col. You can do the same to sort by all the other columns. And you can click again to sort back or forward.
This change is not idiotic !
This change is logic beacause users have names and names are generally sorted alphabetically.
Understand also that this list works like a DB table, and as is, such a table is usally sorted by id’s. Unfortunately, numbers are rarely comprehensive to human admins. Names are !
Most people don’t like changes because they don’t like being changed. Reality or perception ? You have to decide…. 
Hello all,
I would like to know what lines of codes should I insert in order to stop Activity-Stream data from displaying on my community webpages.
But I need to do it without disabling the functionality of the Activity-Stream feature. I need it working under the hood since I am using a plugin called “Buddypress Group Email Subscription”. This plugin sends out email notifications of group & forum activity to all related users. This plugin is based on the Activity Stream feeds. So, if I turn off the Activity Stream functionality, this plugin will not work. And I need it working since I want related users to receive email updates of group and forum activities.
So to recap, I need to stop Activity Stream data from displaying on all of my community pages, but without disabling the functionality of it under the hood.
I would like to know from you my firends:
What the are the lines of code I need to insert, and where exactly should I insert them in order to accomplish my goal?
If there are several methods to accomplish this, I would appreciate if you give an example for all of them.
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What should I do if I would like to use a graphic theme for Buddypress/Wordpress which is different from the default Buddypress theme? for instance, if I would like to use the WPMUdev.org Buddypress “Daily Theme”… Will I then need to insert the code modifications you gave me here in files which are different from the ones you mentioned ?
Thanks in advance,
Moses.
this time the 3.1 hit us hard… all things go haywired…
I also have some issues with the new version too! I have 2 sites and I dont know what happen but when people register in the site it doesnt included in the mainsite like it used to. I tried registering myself and it get me registered in the Network but not in the 1 site/ main site which I want all registration will be stored. Is anyone experiencing the same thing? How can I fix this?
@travel-junkie – if you are a hoarder it might make sense. it’s disorganized. should be able to click on plug-ins as an admin and see everything. but you have to go to another section of admin. how many admin pages really need to be there? only one. if it’s not broke don’t fix it. it only adds more time to your administrative duties on your site. back and forth and back and forth and back and forth again. this is actually the worst wordpress update i’ve ever experienced. it seems rushed and untested. with over 60 million people depending on it you’d think… well, that’s the problem… i thought. nevermind.
@DJPaul – well, people ought to know that if they are running plug-ins (any plug-ins including spam plug-ins) that most of their installed plug-ins are going to get killed. Including Welcome Pack. And I did comment on the WordPress site. Not happy. There is no way there was enough testing on this. On Buddypress side, things are working fine. It’s WordPress. All my major plug-ins… dead. Now I’m going to have to revert back to the previous versions. I really shouldn’t have hit the update button. But… you’d think that you should be safe to do so.
Feedback on WordPress should go on the wordpress.org forums, so the community directly involved with that product can see it.
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Wouldn’t it be easier if all the plug-in developers, BuddyPress, and WordPress somehow got on the same page so that all updates could be easily streamlined so that we didn’t need to go through this every time?
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BuddyPress had a same-day compatibility release for the next version of WordPress. We had planned it for months. It couldn’t have happened quicker 
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Plugin developers are able to test their code against the development version. How do you imagine a centralized test ground would look like?
Network admin is actually a really good thing. It moves everything to do with the multisite part of your installation onto a separate page. Less confusion, but I guess you can’t get it right for everyone.
WP really irritates. I’m going to refrain from using foul language because everyone who commented was able to.
It’s broken lots of the plug-ins I was using. Welcome Pack – doesn’t work. BP Album + – doesn’t work, although I spoke with the plug-in developer and he is currently working on a fix. I don’t know who the Welcome Pack developer is so I don’t know if he is aware that it is broken. The BP Album + developer didn’t know that their plug-in wasn’t working. So maybe the other plug-in developers don’t know that their plug-ins don’t work either. Who knows?
Wouldn’t it be easier if all the plug-in developers, BuddyPress, and WordPress somehow got on the same page so that all updates could be easily streamlined so that we didn’t need to go through this every time? If the plug-in developers were able to test their plug-ins before the updates were integrated that could save EVERYONE lots of headaches. Is it possible for this simple streamlining of events to happen? Can’t there be a centralized place where things are actually tested first?
Not only did WP break certain plug-ins but they’ve also changed the way “users” and “sites” are listed in the dashboard. They are all alphabetical now. If anyone knows about spammers and how OFTEN we have to mark them as spam on the fly or delete them, they will know that an alphabetical listing is not efficient. This is an IDIOTIC change. Having users and sites listed as first joined or created and last joined or created was better as deleting spam took 1 minute. Now it takes an hour. You have to click through each page or copy and paste the spammers user name into search users in order to delete or edit or whatever.
And what’s up with “network admin” and who thought that was a good idea? What’s going on WordPress? I know this isn’t a Buddypress issue, but a cook is a better designer of a kitchen than an architect. Just sayin’. UGH.
Where can I find a list of files that has been changed (and those untouched) via a comparison between BP 1.2.8 and 1,2,7? I am sure it was somewhere but not finding that currently.
following up on John David Smith’s comment. It seems that his bbpress folder went missing during the upgrade to WP 3.1 and then BP 1.2.8. Very strange. I uploaded the folder again to where it belongs and went through the manual install and it was fine.
If I understand you correctly, you are trying to set up a forum from the wordpress admin.
Whearas you need to go to the ‘groups’ section on your site and add a new group from there – Then you can add a forum to the group in the same process….
After I installed BP, I went to Forums Setup and did the auto install. But when I go to create new forums, I get this message:
“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.”
There’s nothing else on the page with it. Did I do something wrong and how do I fix it? Thanks!
See the comment from mercime three comments up.
Found my Answer.
http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/updating-your-buddypress-plugins-for-1-2-8/
The BuddyBar and the WP Admin Bar Additional logic has been added to the BuddyBar loader (bp_core_load_admin_bar()) to account for the introduction of a similar admin bar in WP 3.1. (There are plans to integrate the core version BuddyBar into the WP admin bar in the future, but for now you have to choose.) By default, the BuddyBar is shown. Site admins can disable the BuddyBar in favor of the WP admin bar by defining define( ‘BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR’, true ); in wp-config.php. BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR continues to disable *all* admin bars, and takes precedence over BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR. If your plugin or your site has made modifications to the way that the BuddyBar loads, you might want to verify compatibility with BP 1.2.8.
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' );
I have buddypress enabled in a secondary blog, and wordpress in the primary for my news site. Nor the news I post, nor the comments of my users are shown in the Activity stream, how can I solve it? Help
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… ****!
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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
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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
