Groups Issue

[Rene]

Hi everyone,

I recently installed the new Boss Theme (version 1.1.5) on my homepage and it is a great new experience. I’m using Buddypress (version 2.2.3.1) but unfortunately, all the groups in my community are displayed but I’m not able to go to the single group pages as well as create a new group. In both cases the error 404 is presented. I tried to run the former theme ( buddyboss version 4.1.9) but the same problem, although it was working before installation of the new Boss theme.

Don’t know if this information helps: posts in specific groups are presented in the activity stream. So I think, the groups still exists.

kind regards, René

[Alyssa]

@rene-streber Welcome to the BuddyBoss community! Please verify you are not using the default permalinks. They need to be changed to anything but default. This is a BuddyPress issue.

[Rene]

the permalink structure is based on the post name

it is like https://sport-und-ms.phil.fau.de/community/gruppen/sherlock-holmes/

“sherlock-holmes” as an example 😉

René

[Alyssa]

@rene-streber I’m not quite sure the issue, could be a slug issue or another hierarchical issue. Either way this is a BuddyPress issue so you will need to ask for further support here: https://buddypress.org/support/

[Rene]

Nevertheless, thanks for your help. I’ll try it with buddypress.

[Alyssa]

Sorry I couldn’t be more help, please let us know what the issue ends up being once it is resolved.

[Rene]

I#M bakc from the buddypress support forum

just one thing before I post the conversation with the buddypress support forum:

I saw that the german mo file is missing in the

theme/boss/languages folder

can you tell me where I can find it and could this be the reason?

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may be another hint to resolve this issue

Boss theme activitated:
when I’m on the group component (directory) page
the firefox tab shows me “group” but the url is community/gruppen (in german)
it doesn’t fit

another Wordpess Theme activated:
when I’m on the group component (directory) page
the firefox tab shows me “gruppen” but the url is community/gruppen (in german)
it does fit
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Apparently the issue is clearly related to Boss theme, no ?
You have to ask on the theme support, support is included in the licence price and we haven’t free access, so it’s difficult to help you. Sorry.

I suspect the theme to not use some very recent modification around localization. Since BP 2.0 many strings where enhanced with translators ready comments and somme other little details, like points or comas.

As example, my groups (x) is coded My Groups <span>%s</span> in BP 2.2
As you say it’s not translated, this means that the original (theme) code is wrong.
Could be My groups <span>%s</span> or my groups <span>%</span> (lower case, missing ‘s’)…
Verify this for each string.
Compare the result between buddypress.pot and what you see in theme’s source.

Other common issue example. Groups is not translated on My Profile sub nav menu.

Actually, BP use this in bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php
‘title’ => _x( ‘Groups’, ‘My Account Activity sub nav’, ‘buddypress’ )

Not so long in the past, it was
‘title’ => __( ‘Groups’, ‘buddypress’ )

The important thing for gettext to work, is the difference between _x and __ !

Updating a theme or plugin to fetch those kind of details is a time consuming detail work. An the devil is in details… and custom themes use custom functions or complex template overloads.

But at least, you know where and what to control now. 😉
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I saw that some of these things are already considered.

So how can we move on?

René

[Rene]

ups, sorry I forgot to post the first part of the conversation

start of the conversation in the bussypress support forum:

First of, i would recommend that you revert to a basic WP install using 2014 or 2015 theme and the WP’s german language activated and all plugins deactivated.

If you have a local install, suggest you do your test on it instead of the prod site.

Once this is done, you activate BuddyPress. German language will automatically be uploaded to the right folder (wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-de_DE.mo)
The original translation is here. It is complete to 100%. (and also the official translation).
FYI deckerweb provides a translation for bp 1.9 & 1.9.1. So seems to me it is outdated now.

Check if anything is correctly übersetzt. Theoretish sollte es jetzt funktionnieren.

If ok, you activate the main theme. Recheck everything. If ok, reactivate your plugins one by one and check each step to isolate an issue, if ever.

If everything is correct again, you can handle the specifics for your homepage. But remind one thing: BuddyPress components use a page system which is only in for internal purpose. This means that you can’t apply a page model like for an usual WP page. And if you use a special template just for the homepage, you have to adjust it to work with BuddyPress.

Each activated BP component should have a page assigned. And this page must be unique and empty, whithout any template or model settings, just a title.

I see that you have some issue with page names in your menu. Button show community2 and the permalink contains community-4. Check this too, to get community only everywhere. And probably clear your trash as it may contain some duplicates from previous attempts.

Once this is cleaned, und mit klarer aussicht, simply resave your permalinks to reinitialize all links.
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my answer:

Hi,
I deactivated all plugins,
I checked all permalinks,
activated the twenty four theme from wordpress instead of the Boss theme (language looked fine),
activated buddypress (language looked fine, everything is correctly translated)

activated the BOSS Theme (language is not 100% translated:
examples: active, all groups, my groups, group has xx members, newly created etc. is not translated
although we installed the newest german translation (mo/po in wp-content/languages/plugins)

The same translation problem exists with sidewide activity as well as member directory (here all members, my friends in English)

For groups (..community/gruppen; parent is community, template is default)
For members (..community/mitglieder; parent is community, template is default)

404 error if I try to open any group with wordpress or with the boss theme

I did not run the last steps, because the issue is still present.

Ps Every buddypress component has its own unique page

Rene
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[Alyssa]

@rene-streber I do not believe we have had anyone submit a German translation of BuddyBoss yet. You may want to search the forums to see if you can request a file from a user.

I think you need to step back for your results BEFORE you active the boss theme.
1) Revert back to WordPress 2014/2015 theme
2) Activate BuddyPress
3) Check if groups work, if they do not work this is a BuddyPress issue
I believe it is a buddypress issue because you have groups under the community page. This is not a normal setup. You may want to try making groups under their own structure, typically root.

Let me know how that goes.

[Rene]

I did all steps and the step that worked was to create a new page without a parent. So I leave it this way.
Afterwards, I activated all the other plugins and it still worked.

I hope it is ok to ask you for another question:

regarding translation (two files uploaded)
There some translation problems for sidewide activity, members and for the groups page.
We installed the latest version of the buddypress translation in german language. Right now it is located under the folder: wp-content/languages/plugins (should I remove it? or as you suggested, I ask for a translation in the community)

Thanks a lot for your support!

[Rene]

As I tried it with the wordpress theme Twenty Fourteen, everything was correctly translated.

[Anonymous]

Hi @rene-streber, at present we do not have de.po and de.mo file you can generate them for yourself, rename en_US.po to de.po and open it inside the poedit ( https://poedit.net/download ) and there you can find all the possible translation strings for the German, and save it , it will generate the de.mo file as well, keep both files in same language folder

Regards
Varun Dubey