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i  don’t understand why there haven’t been any additional comments on this.
Probably because they have nothing to say about such a multi debate subject on this forum.

Much like @pdillon809 I installed fresh install of BuddyPress
Much like ? He gave some details. Not you !
Which version do you use ?
What is your theme ?
Which plugins do you use ?

We don’t read in chicken guts here nore in cristal bowls !

and found absolutely no links to create either a group or forum (form the admin bar profile links).

To create a group you have to activate the group component in the BP settings. Maybe also allow your members to create groups.
Then you go on the group directory page and you’ll find logically a create button on that page. Have you your kitchen light button in your bedroom ? No ! Same for BP: each thing at his place. And a place for each thing.

I finally a create group button if you go to /groups
Very impressive ! But code is poetry isn’t it ?  You did a unecessary work i guess: this button is a 100% part of buddypress.

but still nothing for creating a forum topic (even as admin).
Have you installed bbPress ? Depending your BP version, have you allowed the group forum in the bbpress settings ?
Do you use the integrated group forum shipped with BP (1.xx.x) ?
Do you now understand why it’s important to give some details ?

I’ve used bbPress countless times, but can’t find any documentation for how it integrates with BP Groups, and there is no “Forums” on the backend even.

Did you take a look at the upper part of this support forum dedicated to BuddyPress ?
1) it’s written BuddyPress
2) it’s written Codex
3) it’s written Blog (sometimes reading a blog helps to understand what’s going on)

FYI, the codex contains also some precious informations about how to setup a group forum, a standalone forum or both group AND single forum. Did you read the codex page mentionned above by @mercime ?

Doing some searching I found dozens and dozens of people trying to create forums and groups – most have no answers.
Wow ! You have pretty much time to loose !!!
Depends where they ask, what they ask and what they understand when be answered. I can find you hundreds of users who created groups and forums without any difficulty ! What else ?

This post was better at stating the actual issue – links in BP menus vs. the user-based links in the profile menu.
Especially since you came into the discussion with a very constructive attitude ?!!!

But still no answers and severe lack of documentation.
Do you mean you have some time to contribute to the codex documentation ? That would be very much appreciated. You said you have several bbPress install behind you. Beautiful coincidence, some user claiming here about the lack of documentation ! Feel free to write, it’s a wiki ! Use the same credentials as here to access. If you are over inspired, you can also publish on the bbPress codex or ask for help on their support forum.

http://wprealm.com/blog/its-time-to-stop-kicking-the-buddypress-puppy

Ok, you can disable sending activation email to new registrant in WP multisite + BP installation by adding code below into your theme/child theme functions.php

`
// Change the text on the signup page
add_filter( ‘bp_registration_needs_activation’, ‘__return_false’ );

function my_disable_activation( $user, $user_email, $key, $meta = ” ) {
// Activate the user
bp_core_activate_signup( $key );

// Return false so no email sent
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘my_disable_activation’, 10, 4 );

//Disable new blog notification email for multisite
remove_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_blog_notification’, 1, 7 );
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘__return_false’ );

// disable sending activation emails for multisite
remove_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification’, 1, 4 );
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘__return_false’, 1, 4 );
`

Cheers! 😀

The last function has a bug, it activate the user after registration, but it’s still sending the activation key email using WP multisite, so it can be very confusing for the users, because they’re already active.

Any ideas to stop sending the activation key email?

Thanks

Hi!

If somebody still need to disable activation email, the following function works fine for me:

`
// Change the text on the signup page
add_filter( ‘bp_registration_needs_activation’, ‘__return_false’ );

function my_disable_activation( $user, $user_email, $key, $meta = ” ) {
// Activate the user
bp_core_activate_signup( $key );

// Return false so no email sent
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘my_disable_activation’, 10, 4 );
remove_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_blog_notification’, 1, 7 );
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘__return_false’ );
`

Thanks to @cnorris23 for it! https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3443

Hope it helps to someone 🙂

Yes I made a plugin that does that its been tested up to WP 3.5.1 and BP 1.7 beta 1. Its pretty simple so far, as its still in development. All you need to do is read the readme.txt for instructions about sitewide forums if that is what your using then activate it. Here is the link:
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp

Hi @jcangler,

you have to activate BP only once, on the main site.

The main site is the WP declared as network. In the network admin you install BP as plugin. And BP would only be managable from within the network admin. And that’s right so !
Now this site is network enabled and  is using BP. If you want install other blogs, do so from your network admin. Those blogs are all included into BP activities. There is no need to install BP on each secondary blog. This cannot work.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/

When you use BuddyPress you use a  special registration form.

buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php

you can copy this file into your theme to create a custom registration form.

your-theme/registration/register.php

As for logging in, if you added a new user from the WP admin all the user has to do is login once and then they show in the members list. Are you just wanting to force them to show in the members list?

This plugin will allow you to auto activate users https://github.com/boonebgorges/unconfirmed

@shanebp I deleted the old BP Member Notes which I had to rename to get wp-admin back and uploaded the new version via wp-admin and activated it. Deactivated BuddyPress plugin and no more fatal error. BP Member Notes is still activated in plugins installed page yet no more Users > BP Member Notes as is rightly so.

P.S. I did get the issue notice from github. I was looking in my other email account 🙂

P.P.S. Do I still need to do the bug test? Never seen this before:

Plugin Name: A Bug Test
This is for mercime only.

🙂

Hi, I resolve (ubuntu server 12.04, apache2) this problem as follow:

1) Execute the setup wizar of BuddyPress after the plugin activate

Tip from https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/

2) Move the plugins\buddypress\bp-themes to wp-content/themes and set the pretty permalink. I’am using the month + name.

Tip from http://wpmu.org/buddypress-now-supports-wordpress-single-user-no-wpmu-required/

3) Set the Apache2 mod_rewrite with

# sudo a2enmod rewrite

and change the option AllowOverride of None to all in the file /etc/apache2/sites-avaliable/default

…
`
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all`
…

Tip from http://www.lavluda.com/2007/07/15/how-to-enable-mod_rewrite-in-apache22-debian/

Hi guys,

I think I have the same problem, just tried and tried many times to solve it, but it won’t work… I got this message:

Warning: require() [function.require]: Filename cannot be empty in /home/prima430/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-sa.php on line 42

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ” (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/prima430/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-sa.php on line 42

And the on config tab I got this:

Forums Settings
bbPress Configuration
Repair File does not exist
Absolute path to your bbPress configuration file.

I have bb-config at the root and just tried “/”, “/home/username/publica_html/” and nothing works…

Even if I deactivate bbpress and ask buddypress to uninstall group forums, the system reinstall it and the problem continues…

Any tip? Thanks and regards,

Thanks, Felipe

hi@km-schafer-1,

will I have trouble upgrading down the road when the stable version of 1.7 is released?
No, normally not, but only if your upgradable install is working correctly.

Seems to me that isn’t the case actually. 🙁

You deleted the bp tables, ok, but what about wp_options, wp_postmeta, wp_usermeta ? These tables contains also some BP, bbp related infos.  Did you wipped them out too ? Probably not !

For example, a BP 1.6.x install with group forums activated use 7 tables for bbPress.
if you upgrade to 1.7 with the bbPress 2.2.4 plugin, these tables are no more used. All topics are then stored in wp_posts, and associated to usermeta, postmeta…. If you downgrade as you did, you only bring some confusion into the Core management. Some ables are here, some there, other are missed and the existing don’t know what to do…. Ennoying isn’t it ?

So you “hard” downgraded to 1.6.4 and you encounter some trouble. That’s quite “normal” in fact. 😀

So what ?

If you have nothing important on your DB/site, i would recommand that you erase the whole DB (make a dump to save your post evtl.) and start a fresh new install of WP and BP. 3.5.1 and BP 1.6.4 if you go to production or 1.7 beta and bbPress 2.3 beta2 if you only want to play on a test site. (with all the inconvenients coming with a beta install 😉 )

A little tip: once your install is created on the DB, if you encounter some trouble with themes or plugins or any other changes you did, there’s no need to erase tables if you (absolutly) want to re-install.

In this case, you deactivate first (to cut DB dependencies) the theme, the plugin or anything else witch you think is affected by something going wrong. And you delete via FTP wp-config.php if you want to reinstall wp. bb-config.php if you want to reinstall bbPress, and delete or rename the concerned plugin or theme folder.

Commonly, when something is going wrong:
– check first PBCK ! (we’re all only humans….) and read the codex and some precious other source such this forum or google around to see if you’re the only one on this planet to have this trouble. Generally you’re not alone. 😉
– rewind what you did before the desease and go back to the point where things went well.
– keep in mind that the first install only create a DB structure and less content.
– keep in mind that config files adding some important settings informations in various tables.
– then YOU create the first DB content: generally some settings, later some posts, pages, categories,etc.
– plugins sometimes create their own tables, but their settings are mostly written in other tables too.(especially in wp_options, and on a netowrk, in each concerned blog wp_blogID_options)
– MySql is a relational database. Deleting a table by ignoring the others is rarely the best solution…

Apologize for this long answer.

Does one enable define ( ‘bp_enable_multiblog’ true ) prior to BP installation or directly afterward, or does it not matter.

Doesn’t matter. BP is a plugin who went on a single or on a network enabled WP install. bbPress also.

Should one network enable BP & bbPress upon installation or not?

see previous answer. If your network is activated, you see under each installed plugin in your network admin the activation link who says “network activate”. Remeber also that with network activated, you have two dashboard as super-admin. One is your main blog and a single WP admin, the other one is the network admin where your BP and bbPress plugins are/should be installed.

I have followed The Definitive Guide To BuddyPress & bbPress Configuration

This (good) tutorial was updated for bbPress 2.2+ and BuddyPress 1.6.1+ But time and things changes rapidly on the WP Planet….

Actually we have 1.6.4 and we are close to 1.7 ! It’s better you read here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
Be aware with the group forum page slug and the bbP plugin forum page slug – this is really important.

Before you came accross with new questions, can you please indicate your BP/WP version and your main blog theme name & version ? Or much better, your site url ?

I am having the same problem. I get a page error after user fills in details. I can register them from the Admin side, but they cant register at all.

Error:

Server error
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.thissabbath.com/register/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this web page later.
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfil the request.

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BP – 1.6.4
WP – 3.5.1

What theme are you using? Have you tried changing to BP Default theme to see if issue is resolved?

What plugins are installed? Have you tried deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress to check if wp-admin shows up as expected? If that works, activate plugins one by one to check which is causing the mystery of the missing toolbar.

@b2550 the forums page is the tip of the iceberg.
#.URZ6pmf_34E is appended to the URL’s of many of your pages including WP’s archive pages and BP’s user profiles, and I find xxx/index.php/xxx in one of your site URL’s.

I can only conclude that you are on a Windows server and something went awry with additions to the site’s .htaccess file in addition to using the option of adding index.php to your permalinks for pretty permalinks. That is not going to work with BuddyPress.

Please deactivate BuddyPress and resolve permalinks before activating it again.
– https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite
– http://www.cypressnorth.com/blog/web-programming-and-development/setting-up-url-rewrites-for-wordpress-under-iis-on-a-windows-server/
– For more assistance in resolving the pretty permalinks issue, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting

@mindyjoy do you have access to the database, eg through your Control Panel and phpMyAdmin?

It might help to look in there to see what is going on.

In the wp_users table there is a ‘user_status’ column. I don’t think WordPress uses it but BuddyPress does and so do these plugins (I believe). Active Users are ‘0’ unactivated are ‘2’.

There is a ‘user_activation_key’ column but I think the relevant keys are found in the wp_usermeta table. Search the ‘meta_key’ column in that table for ‘activation_key’ and the keys will appear in the ‘meta_value’ column.

Hopefully those tables should tally with what is shown by the plugins. Or else you could email your users with the keys…

Neither of these plugins are working for me. Both plugins provide a screen that shows “all” my unconfirmed users, when actually it only shows a portion of the unconfirmed users. Several users who never got emails do not show up on the unconfirmed screen, so I still have no way to send them another email or manually activate them (unless I’m missing something). Very frustrating, and it seems like it’s a common issue and it’s disappointing BP hasn’t fixed this yet.

Beautiful
I installed trunk and have been having a blast with it. It is not immediately obvious that you have to install BBPress. Maybe put something in the setup wizard about recommending the install?
Other than that, havent found any bugs except activating accounts doesnt seem to work. I had to WP Activate Users to manually activate my userbase