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Hey Vividbreeze,

What are you trying to do?

I’m guessing you want to use BuddyPress’ embedded bbPress forums like this:

http://testbp.org/forums

If so, go into your WPMU admin area, and under “BuddyPress > Forums setup” and select ““Set up a new bbPress installation”.

If you’re trying to integrate a separate bbPress install, reply back and let us know.

Well if I use the bbopress in buddypress for new installation, HOW do I add forum sections?

You can’t add forum sections.

BuddyPress forums are tied to groups. So you’ll have to create new groups with forums in order to emulate forum sections.

If you’re trying to setup BuddyPress forums to be like this:

http://testbp.org/forums

Remove bbPress and reinstall BuddyPress. This time, follow these instructions:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/

Specifically the “Setting Up Forums” section.

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If you plan on using a separate install of bbPress, you’ll need to theme it.

No way around this I’m afraid.

You could use Manoj Kumar’s BuddyPress theme for bbPress to get a similar looking BP feel:

http://manojkumar.org/buddypress-theme-for-bbpress/

Hope that helps!

Hi Kunal,

I’m using both on my test environment right now (still undecided if I want to go with embedded bbPress or external!).

You should be able to use BP’s internal bbPress forums by going straight to the BP forums slug.

By default, this is:

http://YOURBPINSTALL.com/forums/

If your external bbPress install is the same as this slug, you’ll need to modify your BP forums slug to something else.

You can do this by adding this line in your wp-config.php:

define( 'BP_FORUMS_SLUG', 'somedifferentslug' );

It’s really just about reading the instructions. if you read the instructions step by step then it’s not hard at all.