you were activated already….i saw you as a users in dashboard. another issue i suffer from. people are registering and are being approved without having to use the activation code. but i get a lot of messages saying the link doesnt work. when i check my “users” in dashboard they are listed as approved?
i will post now
dont have a BP groups index.php file
i see a BP index.php but not one in groups
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is there a “real” and “fake” default theme? i have activated the
Yes and that is the point I was trying to make earlier there is only THE bp default theme all it’s files live in /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default any other theme is what is referred to as a child theme and may have any number of custom changes that can cause issues. To trouble shoot it is essential that the defaults are used i.e the default theme is activated and no plugins other than BP are running.
wow…are you serious.
so i can not use my suffusion theme with BP or any plugins?
well i cant use BP with my suffusion theme or any plugins i shouldve said…???
wow…are you serious.
so i can not use my suffusion theme with BP or any plugins?
I did NOT say that, this is a basic step in troubleshooting we have to establish whether it’s BP at fault or a custom theme. I believe that people do successfully use this Suffusion theme for BP, so you need to persevere and perhaps try the sufffusion support as it does sound like a custom theme issue rather thn BP one.
yeah i also thought maybe it was the theme until i saw that even with BP default i couldnt see the create a group link or button…..
Tekuan, something is either disabled, or files are missing in your directories, because as I am logged in, on your site, typing in the /groups/create/step/group-details/ redirects to your homepage, which means that it’s not even there or disabled, so your site has no-where to go but the homepage.
Previously saying that you have no “index.php” file on your groups??? Is this correct?
Hello all, I have been trying for over a month to get my “create a group” button to appear and work. NO LUCK…even with all the help.
if i type the “www.mysite.com/groups” in the address bar i can find this section. however, it is not on my site or groups section.
then in BP compatibility it say – “You may want to add new navigation tabs or links to your theme to link to BuddyPress directory pages. The default set of links are:”
how can i do this?
sorry savannah…didnt notice your post as this has been a topic for so long im almost giving up….dont really understand why it is so dificult or whats going on tried everything i know and have been instructed…….anyway thanks for all your help and responses……
yes it is correct there is no index.php file in the group folder of my BP plugin folder
Please follow this step once more: disable whatever child theme is running and activate the bp-default theme from the dashboard/themes page, now running the default buddypress theme you should have a directory named ‘Groups’, on that page is a button next to the primary page heading which creates a new group (assuming that create new groups is enabled in the BP settings in the dashboard – components settings > ‘Let users create, join and participate in groups’).
If not then you have a defective install of the default theme and perhaps need to re-upload a fresh copy.
If you do have the create group button as expected then you have an issue withthe suffusion child theme not set up correctly but this is something that is harder to help with, this support site is primarily support for the core BP app and theme, third party themes and configurations are harder to help with unless someone has direct experience with those custom elements.
Thank you…im sure i tried that and had the same issue with the default bp theme. however, i will go back now and try again.
using the “page theme” plugin can i assign all my BP pages to just the bp default theme. and use suffusion for my site
should i have index.php anywhere in my BP plugin (bp=core, bp-goups etc)
when using the bp default theme i can access “create a group” in the main nav bar. however it acts the same if i try accessing it in the “bp-admin bar” (no group creation button.) could there be a problem with just the bp admin bar
I simply don’t get what you are trying to do here and you seem to be over complicating things.
Simply click the link to ‘groups’ in the main set of menu links this is the groups directory view and on that page should be seen a clickable link ‘create a group’
This isn’t anything to do with adminbar, nor do you access this via a url which actually would be http://example.com/groups/create/
Your bp default theme either shows this or it’s a defective incomplete install your other questions are related to third party plugins and / or themes and at this stage we are simply trying to establish that bp-default works before moving on.
Give us a link to your site running bp-default please
Sorry if im aggravating or this topic is frustrating…..this has been on going and i’ve been dealing with this stress for a long time. my determination is only because i truly like BP.
http://www.sob-s.com
Now as a logged in user and with – as I mentioned earlier: (assuming that create new groups is enabled in the BP settings in the dashboard – components settings > ‘Let users create, join and participate in groups’)
You should see the create group link to the right of the directory heading
yeah… this is no issue with bp default theme (except for the fact that if you click “groups” in the “adminbar” you wont see the create group link).
so basically i can only use bp with a bp default theme.
everything with BP works fine on my site using my child theme for suffusion except (group creation). using BP default was never an issue i just mention the “admin bar” issu because you suggested i switch theme to bp default.
can you please look @ my site without using the BP default them and see if you can recognize a possible issue.
http://www.sob-s.com
yeah… this is no issue with bp default theme (except for the fact that if you click “groups” in the “adminbar” you wont see the create group link).
As I’ve said adminbar is irrelevant adminbar does not have links to the groups page it does have a user account list of links and a group option for ‘My Groups’ so what you have is a modification or plugin running.
So the issue is with your child/custom theme Quite what the issue is is hard to say it’s a third party customisation, I would hazard a guess that the groups/index page if one is copied over to you child theme is not complete, running something like the template pack plugin does require additional manual steps and you might need to compare the bp-default groups index file with the one that exists in child theme and ensure that it has this pice of code sitting in the heading tag:
` <a class="button" href="”>`
thank you for everything. although i am a noob i have been able t do almost anything i was instructed with ease. this create a group issue is to much. for now i have just created a custom menu for creating a group with the permalink “http://sob-s.com/groups/create/step/group-details/” in this case it works fine on my site. im just wondering whats missing that i can create a custom menu and it works…………..i will figure a way to tweak this or eventually someone will understand “what im asking”……..again sorry for all the frustration from the “noob”…….i just wanted my users to be able to create a group and they nor i couldnt. thanks again for everything
You are using a custom theme as soon as you do that you enter a new realm and need to know what you are doing, this particular theme Suffusion uses a custom menu of some description and BP directory menu items will not be included by default. BP hard codes these menus links in header.php (soon to change to WP nav menus)
You! have to do a little manual work in getting things to work and need to understand how both Suffusion and BP work, this act of trying to get BP to use any old WP theme is not a natural one.
In all honesty you have simply asked this question in entirely the wrong place – and perhaps I should have said this much earlier – The correct place to have addressed these issues would have been to the theme home, Suffusion has it’s own support and if you had asked there would probably have had this wrapped up and solved in no time. Strictly speaking this site supports BP and BP default theme it can’t be expected to support digressions and third party implementations – other than the plugins that have a group support home on the site.
I looked through suffusion support for you and quickly got an impression of what may be wrong however this is not something I ought to be doing for anyone 
http://www.aquoid.com/forum/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=buddypress
i think you for that and have been @ the support there as well…i didnt just assume this to be an issue with BP i was coovering all possible realms. when posted this to the support there i recieved this message from the theme creator them self. i dont want i to be assumed that i am throwing this weight on BP.
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Re: Some of Bp tools and menus doesnt work with suffusion
Postby sayontan » 02 Jan 2011, 22:58
BP issues are a lot tougher to address for me, because it is a part of a separate plugin, and because I don’t use BP myself. I am currently in the middle of a big release of Suffusion itself and I will pick up BP issues after that.
Sorry, but that is the best I can do.
after this message i felt lost or rather abandonded. so i returned to BP just to see if anyone could possibly be of help…i also went to word press forum….now i understand that i have exhausted all my possible areas of help. and still im stuck here….i apologize if this whole thing has become an issue i just wanted you to see i havent just been @ BP for help…..
sorry for the typos/miss spelling
Thank you for taking the time to help resolve this
i will just tell people it’s down for now till i find a solution
thanks again
Why abandoned? Didn’t the owner say he would pick up the bp issues after that?
Buddypress was designed for only one theme to be guaranteed to work on, (or maybe more themes now) but buddypress does not guarantee complete 100% comparability to all themes, you have to make it and tweak it to work on your theme. And some themes just were not built for buddypress, so if buddypress is an absolute need, maybe a theme change wouldn’t hurt.
it isnt absolutely needed i just think it’s a great plugin and suffusion was a great theme. the fact i spent so much time on suffusion is what made me reluctant to change theme. but i see options are limited. i do now need to keep the BP as people are use to it now….so i guess my problem is solved.
