You’re not alone. The current version and the way to combine buddypress with forum is difficult as I found out with several people new to wordpress+buddypress.
In my testing, the next version of buddypress and bbpress is much easier.
For anyone that bump into the same issue when creating a new group:
It appears that this issue is fixed in the next release so if you can wait, you can avoid the problem.
Since the current release (1.6.4) still have this problem, the only way around it is to go back into the group, click on admin and then enable the forum again.
Good to hear the styling can be passed over from the current groups forum into the new bbpress plugin. Thought it would be stuck with the site wide forums style. Thanks @mercime
We were able to go through the installation of groups forum with no problem since the doc is clear on that part. Any help from your end is appreciated. Thanks for your reply @karmatosed
We went through the steps again and same confusion. My suggestion to them was to skip the instructions here on buddypress for the time being until I can clear it up in this post.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but from what you are saying it should be something like this:
Drat! Another plugin that may not work for group forums. I guess it’s time to plan on converting off group forum. For future reference, is there a list of which plugin topic should be posted on wordpress.org and which should remain in the forums here on buddypress.org?
It just seems many functions can be somewhat duplicated without buddypress so eventually it’ll be a decision if full social features from buddypress is actually needed or not. Thanks for each of your response.
bbpress plugin that can be used for buddypress groups or just forums would be great. As it is right now, very confusing since each version don’t have the same support for plugins.
I believe it allows anyone to browse any group without joining but after their first post, they will auto join the group. Seems to work that way with the latest version for both wordpress + buddypress.
I’m testing it in a LAN environment with activity and members link so that anyone that is not logged in, they are unable to see those section and it redirects to registration page. Just one suggestion but maybe other suggestions easier.
Since I bumped into it, I thought it was better to post it as per Andrew Nacin so that @boonebgorges can review it.
… you may be exposing your users to a possible SQL injection vulnerability … Just be sure to send a link to this post to the developer of the theme or plugin referenced in the error. …
I’ve been testing and decided to go with buddypress group forums for now. Although it doesn’t have all the functionality of the bbpress plugin, it seems more natural and part of the buddypress site.
