BuddyPress

Has anyone written a plugin to do this yet? I’ve done a few searches for this but have come up with nothing.

I guess you want to have a “standalone” bbPress install ?
Forum without Groups ?

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp_last_activity-in-bbpress-standalone-deep-integrated/

I’m familiar with bbPress, but I’m looking to setup a forum integrated with Buddypress.

@alanchrishughes

Login to dashboard, go to Buddypress and then Forums Setup to install. Once it’s configured, create a group called Support or whatever you want to call it and then you have a forum inside.

If you’re looking for just a forum, install bbPress by itself and integrate your userbase from WP/BP.

If you’re looking for a one-click install of forums not attached to groups for BuddyPress, Brajesh Singh has a solution. I should note that I haven’t tested this myself since it’s a premium plugin, but you might be interested, which is why I’m listing it here.

hmm…I quite don´t understand what you are trying to do, but it sounds interesting.
Could you please explain or show how this looks like ? A Forum integrated with BuddyPress….?

I am curious to understand…

That kind of works but it still doesn’t eliminate all the groups confusion, when someone starts a new topic you still gotta tell it which group to go to, which will confuse people, the urls would so screwed up too, /groups/forum/forum/topic/theactualtopicname. Then there is probably a lot of other garbage still in the system that we are missing.

@r-a-y: how do you integrate the user bases

@alanchrishughes – Here’s such a tutorial to integrate Wordpress and standalone bbPress:

http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2009/12/bbpress-installation-and-deep-integration-with-wordpress/

I’m not sure if I would be able to follow all of that, but would that work the same integrating Buddypress and bbPress?

I’m really surprised nobody has written a plugin for this or the buddypress people haven’t worked it directly into the system yet, I’ve read so many complaints about this over the last 6 months or so.

There is a Global Sitewide Forums plugin for BP still in beta and working in 1.2.4.1 …

@alanchrishughes – i’m working on an activity based solution now but waiting on 1.2.5 with some hook fixes

What is the idea even behind this “groups” concept? I have been trying to understand it and figure out a way to just work with it, but it just doesn’t make sense, it’s backwards. Traditionally you have a message board which is then divided into different groups, but here we got groups with a bunch of message boards inside them. Instead of narrowing down and organizing discussion subjects, it opens it up and scatters everything all over.

It’s like facebook fan pages. Why do people find this concept so strange?