Yes, no.
Assuming you mean the newest versions of bbPress (2.x), you won’t get group forums at the moment. You can continue to use bbPress for site-wide forums.
You can either install bbPress 1.x as well (included within BP) or you can wait a bit longer for BuddyPress 1.6 and bbPress 2.1, where you’ll be able to have group forums with bbPress 2.
Thank’s Paul!
Yeah, we have 2.0.2 installed already and don’t want to loose what has already been posted.
The way I see it, I have about 3 options:
– I’m not sure what group forums is.. and if site wide is available, we may just be able to get away with that for now.
– If we use bbPress 1.x that is included with BP.. When the 1.6 and 2.1 come out, can we upgrade and merge it with our current 2.x version we have now? (maybe the question is how complicated would that be).
– Or is there a way to downgrade 2.x?
Paul,
We have buddypress 1.2.8 installed for a university research project. I want to upgrade the site to buddypress 1.5 so that we can use you Achievements plugin. However, doing so I realized I cannot get the bp groups forums to work and reading the above post made me realize (after days of trying to figure this out) that bp groups forums are no longer supported. Am I correct?
Will there be a fix for this in buddypress 1.6? If so, when is buddypress 1.6 projected to be released(approx.)? Thank you very much.
Group Forums still work fine. We’re using them on this very site, for example. I don’t have a date for 1.6 yet. Beta soon.
Paul,
Thanks for your reply.
When I upgrade the BuddyPress this is the error I receive in the groups forum section:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function groups_total_forum_topic_count() in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-template.php on line 157
Also, the gravatars in the members section also stop to display anymore. We’re using WordPress 3.1.2, I don’t want to upgrade WordPress due to compatibility issues with other things that are running.
Thanks for your help.
To add to that, when I use the normal/default BP template the groups section does display however the groups forums don’t display and are inaccessible via direct URL, clicking on new topic etc. doesn’t work either.
Scratch that even with the default bp template files still get the same error, @djpaul any thoughts?
