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I’ve finally gotten a test site up to try out 12.0.0-beta2. It looks (so far) like I can run without BP Classic. I am seeing a lot of Deprecated notices for things like bp_core_get_user_domain and bp_get_group_permalink, but maybe those just haven’t been cleaned up yet.

I do see something else, which is not new in BP 12, but I hope it’s OK if I just mention it here. It seems to be an interaction between BP and bbPress. When my site is set to UTC the BP notifications for bbP posts have the right times. But if, for example, I set my WordPress time to UTC+4, then the times of mention notifications look right, but the times of reply notifications are four hours off.

I don’t *think* there’s anything weird on my site that would cause this.

Hi @imath, Thanks, I will have to see what is causing it to be missing; time for a trawl through my plugins again! If I find a culprit I’ll report it here and to the author.

Hi @david00116,
Can I assume that by quoting my earlier post that you are experiencing the same issues and agreeing with my point/question about the Customizer?
As regards the main menu link for Profile etc, this was solved for me by deactivating the BP Classic plugin. But the other points are still valid.

Some feedback on BP 12.0.0-beta2 though please treat with caution!

Local Install – Local, php 8.2.10 – MySQL 8.0.16 – WP 6.3.1 – BP Version 12.0.0-beta2

a lot of plugins!!

Buddyx theme NouveaU template only or Thaim theme i use Legacy template.

Not a coder or developer.

Just a general interest in BuddyPress
Not in any way dependent. a hobby!

1) Bottom line – With BP Classic all appears good.

2) When BP Classic is not active plugins like buddydrive, buddypress-group-calendar, buddypress-group-email-subscription and bp-idea-stream no longer appear in Group Navigation.

However Q&A from Anspress still appears in Group Nav & works when BP Classic is not active

https://imgur.com/P6gKRWq no-bp classic not active

https://imgur.com/b8yu3fi yes-bp classic active

3) The plugins (with exception of BuddyPress Group Calendar) do appear in the Group Nav —> Manage. (see https://imgur.com/DCYvcOT)

4) Also another (non-buddypress plugin) that interests me a reasonably popular (codecanyon) directory plugin ‘Sabai’ – well, essentially all its data vanishes when bp-attachments is active in BP 12.0.0-beta2 without BP Classic. The message is “it seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.”

5) If bp-attachments is not active (say replaced with mediapress or with mediatheque) in BP 12.0.0-beta2 the Sabai data is unaffected but the non updated plugins (mentioned in 2 above) are ineffective

6) In wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-settings options–attachments the last two choices (see pic https://imgur.com/00yZYna) if clicked to include the choice is NOT saved. Also buddydrive appears in p-admin/admin.php?page=bp-settings options

However everything INCLUDING bp-attachments appears to work safely & pristine with BP Classic active

bp-attachments not used with legacy template

Many Thanks for all the work on BuddyPress.

Hi @imath,
I have written an extensive reply but it must be stuck in moderation as it includes several image links. Suffice to say after deactivating everything and with a virtually vanilla installation, the reply button still is not there.

Also, even after using BP Tools to restore the slugs to their default values, I’m unable to view the directory pages in staging. I’m using WP Staging Pro, which means that the Activity Directory page should be visibile on my website at https://gaelquest.com/stg/activity

However, the directory page is not being found and instead BP is treating it as if it were a blog post.

Sorry! I feel like I’m missing something really obvious.

Hi @imath,
Thanks for your response – I’m sure you are very busy. The problem I have is that the BP Classic plugin causes a problem with the menu, as noted earlier in this thread – https://buddypress.org/support/topic/lets-prepare-the-buddypress-12-0-0-next-major-release/#post-331198 – and acknowledged by you – https://buddypress.org/support/topic/lets-prepare-the-buddypress-12-0-0-next-major-release/#post-331239 – but I haven’t seen any more mention of it. It isn’t really an issue until those deprecated functions stop working, but it is an extremely tedious task to trace where they are being used if it is a plugin as the debug log gives no clues at all except when the function was used. I will have a look at the list (thank you) to see if that is any help. If the issue with the BP Classic plugin can be looked at and fixed in the meantime I would be grateful – this could be another Blocksy issue so again, if you can speak to them it would be most appreciated, as they don’t want me to tell them until the non-beta version of BP is released, whereas you will have a clear idea what is and isn’t going to be in the final version and can raise it with them to look at – they may highlight something you are not aware of that needs doing before final release that might be something that affects many other themes. Can you also let me know what has happened to my post regarding the comment reply link? It still hasn’t appeared.

@imath Using BP Classic with 12.0.0, the child URL paths are supported.

Hi @imath,
I have set up a second staging site to test because of the issues I was having with my first one, to see if any are replicated; the good news is that the Reply button on activity comments is visible on this new stage, so it must be some weird anomaly with the first one which I doubt I will ever be able to figure out, much like my missing post that showed in detail the problem there.

However there is one issue that is still apparent, which is that, in Blocksy I have it set so that the main site menu highlights whichever page you are currently on (a fairly common feature on most sites), and if you are on a page that is a dropdown menu item, it highlights the parent menu item that it drops down from, as well as itself when the dropdown is visible. Unfortunately it seems that the new BP doesn’t play well with this setup (as I tried to explain earlier in this thread), so I had parent menu links to Activity (with Members and Groups as child menu items) and Profile (with several other child menu items such as Friends etc); when I visit the Profile page, the Profile parent item is not highlighted, but Activity is, and when I visit a child menu item of profile, both Profile and Activity are highlighted. If I move the Members child item to be a parent item, this is the one highlighted instead of Activity.
I looked more deeply, and discovered that in my setup, Activity, Members and Groups all have distinct page id numbers when you examine the html body class, while all pages connected to the Profile and associated links have the same page id as Members (logical as they are sub pages of Members in the BP urls), and individual groups have the same page id as Groups etc. Is there any way to have Profile separated from Members so that it has its own page id and distinct url? I think this is probably where my menu issue stems from, and I would assume this would be the case for others as well. There doesn’t seem to be any way (yet?) to create my own Profile pages using blocks which might be another way around this, or even a custom Members page (the blocks currently available don’t have an option to show an alphabetical or sortable list/grid). I’m sure I’m not alone in wanting a main menu link to the registered users individual pages, a dashboard, and having the menu show them where they are.

@imath, another problem with BP Classic active is that the Profile parent menu item and children disappear from the menu when you move to any other parent menu item. I did raise this before but this is now happening on the second staging site as well.

@imath,
Thank you for your response and apologies for my tardiness – I had no idea that the Discussion settings had any impact on Buddypress Activity but you are correct, this was what was causing the issue. Is this documented anywhere in the Buddypress docs/codex? I made the mistake of assuming that Buddypress activity was a separate entity to the blog posts and comments but obviously it isn’t, so do all the other Discussion settings impact it as well? I can obviously test myself but if there is any resource on this that would be very useful.

Regarding the BP Classic issue, thank you, although I have now made a significant design change and workaround so I don’t think it will impact me any more, and that also applies to the issue I reported with the nav menu highlighting, although that will impact others. Basically I have created a custom Members directory page on a WP page so that when that is a sub menu item of Activity any visit to a Profile page does not highlight the Activity menu item as was happening with the standard Member directory. Also from my testing I have not encountered any issues that will require BP Classic to be activated, and if I do I will probably devise another workaround.

Good luck with preparing to launch the release of BP 12!