Topic: bbPress Integration · BuddyPress.org

bbPress Integration

jd.hartley
Participant

@jdhartley

4 years, 8 months ago

I read somewhere that you were planning on this, Andy, but I just wanted to throw this out onto the new forums for further discussion.

If I remember correctly (better not quote me on this) that you were planning on having a generic forum for the entire site, as well as group specific ones. Great idea–kind of like Facebook.

I just had a few questions on how this would work, exactly. Would there be two or three installations, one for the “site forum”, and one with a bunch of categories for the different groups? Or would be it be on one forum with some others hidden?

Really looking forward to the release. Good luck!

-JD

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Andy Peatling
Keymaster

@apeatling

4 years, 8 months ago

I’ve talked with Sam a bit about this, and it seems the best way to do it would be to include one installation with every BuddyPress install.

With one installation, a single forum could be generated for each new group created. I’m not sure about a “global” forum yet, but I assume the same could be done for that too.

Matt Kern
Participant

@mattkern

4 years, 8 months ago

Also, will the bbpress dashboard be in the buddypress dashboard? Meaning, not 2 seperate installations?

Thanks a bunch.

Matt

gogoplata
Participant

@gogoplata

4 years, 8 months ago

Until the bbPress integration is fully done with BuddyPress I just integrated bbPress with WPMU. I’d speculate that the global forum should actually be the easiest to implement since bbPress can already integrate with MU’s user tables.

Mike Pratt
Participant

@mikepratt

4 years, 6 months ago

I am new to bbPress but not WP and have BuddyPress moving along nicely. If BP already has forums for each group then why do we need bbPress? Added forum functionality vis a vis a replacement of the BP forums or do both coexist side by side in BP?

Burt Adsit
Participant

@burtadsit

4 years, 6 months ago

wpmu/bp and bbpress exist together side-by-side. wpmu/bp doesn’t have a forum. Well, it does: bbpress.

Mike Pratt
Participant

@mikepratt

4 years, 5 months ago

If this insatll scheme that Andy speaks of is done…an included insatll with a forum generated for each group, is it safe to think that existing forums and post data will not be rendered moot and will nicely transfer over…if need be?