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It looks like there is a bug in bbPress’ repair tool 🙁

If you grab the bbPress forum ID e.g. 25

Open up wp_bp_groups_groupmeta

You should see something similar to this:

id	group_id	meta_key	meta_value	
1	1	total_member_count	2
2	1	last_activity	2014-06-26 00:37:33
3	1	invite_status	members
4	2	total_member_count	1
5	2	last_activity	2013-11-03 10:35:12
6	2	invite_status	members
7	3	total_member_count	1
8	3	last_activity	2013-11-03 10:37:53
9	3	invite_status	members
10	1	forum_id	a:1:{i:0;i:25;}
11	2	forum_id	a:1:{i:0;i:27;}
12	3	forum_id	a:1:{i:0;i:29;}

So for group group ID 1 the bbPress forum ID 25 is stored as a:1:{i:0;i:25;} (serialized array), thus change the 25 to the correct bbPress forum ID you need.

I’ll go write up a fix for bbPress repair tools for the next release 🙂

Also did you try updating via the ‘Group Forums’ Edit Screen UI?

It should be correctly updating the bbPress Forum there for your BuddyPress Group, did it? did you try?

There are two locations you can edit the bbPress Group forum associated with a BP Group:

Frontend:
http://example.com/groups/buddypress-public-group/admin/forum/
Navigate to the groups ‘home page’ -> Admin -> Forum
(Where ‘buddypress-public-group’ is the name of the group forum)

Backend:
http://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-groups&gid=1&action=edit
Wp-Admin Dashboard -> Groups -> ‘BuddyPress Public Group’ -> Edit
(Where ‘gid=1’ is the group forum ID)

Each of those screens should show both a checkbox and a dropdown menu showing the available bbPress Forums to associate with that particular BuddyPress Group.

Do both show the correct/expected bbPress forum selected?
(If you think any of the forum names in these dropdowns is ambiguous view the HTML source of the dropdown and each forum should also have a value= form field and that will be the ID of the bbPress forum)

However I do note that on the forums page although the ‘Edit’ button shows the correct forums_id values for each forum, the ‘View’ button shows an incorrect link for the problematic forum.

Hmmm… To continue using my same examples I have thus far, the bbPress Forum I am using has an ID of 25 and it’s edit link is http://example.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=25&action=edit, it’s view link is http://example.com/groups/buddypress-public-group/forum/. Because BuddyPress is activated we add some redirection bits and pieces so we cannot directly modify the bbPress forum permalink whilst BuddyPress is activated.

If you deactivate BuddyPress for a moment and check the view link of the same bbPress forum it should be similar to http://example.com/forums/forum/buddypress-forums-category/buddypress-public-group-forum/ where in my case buddypress-forums-category is the bbPress parent forum category that all by BuddyPress group forums are located under and buddypress-public-group-forum is the bbPress forum.

So comparing my examples above do you see anything in your config that differs that matches up with your URL mismatch somewhere….

Clear as mud all of the above 😉

Ok, we’re closer, looks like the correct bbPress forum ID is correctly associated with the BuddyPress Group 🙂

It looks like the slug/permalink is broken 🙁

Before looking at a fix, a clarification if I could

Here is my bbPress Forums Hierarchy Structure Layout

 
BuddyPress Forums Category (Top Level Category)
— BuddyPress Public Group Forum (Forum)
— BuddyPress Hidden Group Forum (Forum)
— BuddyPress Private Group Forum (Forum)

In bbPress Settings (Settings -> bbPress) (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress)

 
“BuddyPress Integration” -> “Group Forums Parent” is set as “BuddyPress Forums Category”

My bbPress settings for forum slugs are:

 
– Forum Root Slug -> forums
– Forum Prefix -> Check/Tick
– Single Forum Slugs -> Forum -> forum

So my URL’s are build with the “forum root slug” then the “forum single slug” then “BuddyPress Forums Category” and lastly the actual forum “BuddyPress Public Group Forum” which results in:

/forums/forum/buddypress-forums-category/buddypress-public-group-forum/

Now onto your URL’s:

Yours with bbPress forum ID 127650

 
/forums/forum/forums-2/f1/correct-group-name/

Yours with bbPress forum ID 127628

 
/forums/forum/forums-2/name-of-another-group/

These infer the following:

 
forums-2
— f1
— — correct-group-name
— name of another group

With your settings:

 
“BuddyPress Integration” -> “Group Forums Parent” is set as “forums-2”
– Forum Root Slug -> forums
– Forum Prefix -> Check/Tick
– Single Forum Slugs -> Forum -> forum

As long as the quote/code formatting displays as expected is this what your bbPress forums layout hierarchy looks like?

EDIT: Tweaked the formatting above and just trying to digest where the forums-2 comes from and why it is there, the f1 no doubt is part of the incorrect forum slug that we can get to with the fix, I’ve got to go dig through some source code of bbPress & BuddyPress to workout where things are broken and how to fix it.

Ok, so are both the forums that you want to use for both groups you added the URL’s to above ‘sub-forums’ of the f1 forum?

e.g.

 
f1
— correct-group-name
— name of another group