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It’s not obvious to me how any of the BP plugins you’ve got installed would affect group creation (as far as I know, Invite Anyone, BP Links, and oEmbed all keep their hands off of the group creation process) but your best best for testing is to disable those plugins one by one to identify the problem.

Have you made theme changes recently? Are you inheriting the group creation pages from bp-default? The “are you sure you want to do this?” message often means that there is a nonce issue, which could result from missing security keys in your theme files.

I suggest switching back for a moment to bp-default to see if the problem is theme-related. If so we can troubleshoot from there.

Are you having other problems creating content? Can you post new forum topics? New activity updates?

I’m having the same issue. Did you resolve this?

I’ve upgraded and still having the problem… I couldn’t solve it. I’m using WP 3.0 and befor I upgrade to WP 3.0, same error was with me. BP: 1.2.4.1

Any suggestions?

I found the same problem for activity updates and messages:

“There was a problem posting your update, please try again.”
“There was an error sending that message, please try again”

@thosch @alierkurt @k33n

I have just tried another (different) theme: Gradient 1.0.1 by Sandeep Hegde
and I still cannot Create a Group and cannot do any other function which requires groups.

Normally this problem is a result of a plugin including AJAX or other JavaScript which breaks group creation.

@djpaul: this problem arises regardless of whether i’m using a default theme or a modified theme with the buddypress template pack. is there a trick i could use to identify the source of the problem… perhaps a tool to troubleshoot javascript performance with buddypress activated?

Okay. Issue resolved. This time I deleted everything and activated buddypress and selected the default theme. No additionals plugins at all. And it works okay. All the group/forums capabilities work as expected.
Now, I’m going to install one pluging at a time and re-check if functionality remains the same, till I find out which of the plugins is causing the malfunctioning.
I had installed several plugins including: tweetstream, facestream, SEO for buddypress, bp like, bp friends, etc, etc. One of those is crashing the group/forums feature in buddypress.

I’ll let you know which one is causing it after I finish testing.

Regards.

Martin

Here is the result.
In my case it was face stream the plugin causing the groups/forums problem.

I’ve re-installed and tested the following plugins/themes and everything works as it should. With the exception of FaceStream.

My advice is once you have the base installation up and running with the groups and forums. Go step by step activating one plugin at a time and testing the group/forum functionality.

Regards.

Martin

TwettStream – OK
FaceStream – Failed It corrupted the group functionality. (If you uninstall and delete the plugin
group and forums start to work normally)
BuddyPress Like – OK
oEmbed for BuddyPress – OK
BuddyPress Classifieds – OK
BuddyPress Rate Forum Posts – OK
BuddyPress Links – OK
BuddyPress Album+ – OK
BuddyPress Group Forum Extras – OK
BuddyPress Site Wide Activity Widget – OK
BuddyPress Community Stats 0.2.0 – OK

-Themes.
Installed Default Buddy Press theme – ok.
Installed Fishbook – ok

Hey gang,

I had this problem also. The reason it is so hard to pin down is because there are two steps to fixing it.

1. Once the BP is installed ok, the db tables don’t actually get created until you visit the Forums tab.

2. Deactivate the buddypress plug-in and then Activate it again.

That’s it. All the rest of it is unnecessary (removing Ajax plugins and so on).