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You have to use the separate bbPress plugin. It’s better.

BP is bundled with an old out of date version of bbPress, which we’re removing in the future.

there are plugins for bbpress not sure what else to say

Hi guys,

I think I have the same problem, just tried and tried many times to solve it, but it won’t work… I got this message:

Warning: require() [function.require]: Filename cannot be empty in /home/prima430/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-sa.php on line 42

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ” (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/prima430/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-sa.php on line 42

And the on config tab I got this:

Forums Settings
bbPress Configuration
Repair File does not exist
Absolute path to your bbPress configuration file.

I have bb-config at the root and just tried “/”, “/home/username/publica_html/” and nothing works…

Even if I deactivate bbpress and ask buddypress to uninstall group forums, the system reinstall it and the problem continues…

Any tip? Thanks and regards,

Thanks, Felipe

not sure why you say bbpress is not traditional it has plugins and works basically the same as any other forum. i have not had much luck in the past (granted it was 2 years ago) integrating other site wide forum software with buddypress

you didn’t actually include the buddypress version you have bbpress version listed anyway if you create the site in network admin (under 1.6.4 anyway) and do not set a site title in the creation screen it will never be added to the directory maybe thats whats going on?

hi@km-schafer-1,

will I have trouble upgrading down the road when the stable version of 1.7 is released?
No, normally not, but only if your upgradable install is working correctly.

Seems to me that isn’t the case actually. 🙁

You deleted the bp tables, ok, but what about wp_options, wp_postmeta, wp_usermeta ? These tables contains also some BP, bbp related infos.  Did you wipped them out too ? Probably not !

For example, a BP 1.6.x install with group forums activated use 7 tables for bbPress.
if you upgrade to 1.7 with the bbPress 2.2.4 plugin, these tables are no more used. All topics are then stored in wp_posts, and associated to usermeta, postmeta…. If you downgrade as you did, you only bring some confusion into the Core management. Some ables are here, some there, other are missed and the existing don’t know what to do…. Ennoying isn’t it ?

So you “hard” downgraded to 1.6.4 and you encounter some trouble. That’s quite “normal” in fact. 😀

So what ?

If you have nothing important on your DB/site, i would recommand that you erase the whole DB (make a dump to save your post evtl.) and start a fresh new install of WP and BP. 3.5.1 and BP 1.6.4 if you go to production or 1.7 beta and bbPress 2.3 beta2 if you only want to play on a test site. (with all the inconvenients coming with a beta install 😉 )

A little tip: once your install is created on the DB, if you encounter some trouble with themes or plugins or any other changes you did, there’s no need to erase tables if you (absolutly) want to re-install.

In this case, you deactivate first (to cut DB dependencies) the theme, the plugin or anything else witch you think is affected by something going wrong. And you delete via FTP wp-config.php if you want to reinstall wp. bb-config.php if you want to reinstall bbPress, and delete or rename the concerned plugin or theme folder.

Commonly, when something is going wrong:
– check first PBCK ! (we’re all only humans….) and read the codex and some precious other source such this forum or google around to see if you’re the only one on this planet to have this trouble. Generally you’re not alone. 😉
– rewind what you did before the desease and go back to the point where things went well.
– keep in mind that the first install only create a DB structure and less content.
– keep in mind that config files adding some important settings informations in various tables.
– then YOU create the first DB content: generally some settings, later some posts, pages, categories,etc.
– plugins sometimes create their own tables, but their settings are mostly written in other tables too.(especially in wp_options, and on a netowrk, in each concerned blog wp_blogID_options)
– MySql is a relational database. Deleting a table by ignoring the others is rarely the best solution…

Apologize for this long answer.

Whoa – great question/post @mcgrafx!

I’ve spent the better part of the past ~ 14 months doing:

1. Customized, professional child theme designs for Buddypress (The design takes the most time) √
2. Many levels of membership (some paid, some free) √
3. Many++ sleepless nights to do points 1 & 2 (on WordPress multisite + Buddypress + bbPress)

Many of the issues you’ve mentioned, particularly the contracts/fees/maintenance are issues I’ve struggled with in the past, and to a certain extent still do with some clients/projects. I’ll re-read this closer next week, but one thing, only based on my own experience working with buddypress & bbPress w/ clients is that anything involving buddypress (particularly with any full-design customization w/ child themes &/or custom plugin/functionality development as you’ve mentioned) is a ‘significant’ commitment of time + resources on both sides of the table. In my experience, very little happens along the path to ‘outside-the-box-customization’ auto-magically with buddypress! If it were me, I’d ask for 1. a retainer 2. a monthly or yearly mutually-binding contract (depending on the scope/scale – with separate parts for developing the site + future-maintenance ). You could also think about 3. a percentage of future revenue, but that might be more closely tied with being a co-founder & could basically dilute the potential for points 1 & 2.

Still, a great & difficult question – good luck!

-Jeff

Or, if you want tot test the latest beta versions:
download BuddyPress 1.7 beta 1 – https://buddypress.org/2013/02/buddypress-1-7-beta-1/
download bbPress 2.3 beta 2 – https://bbpress.org/blog/2013/02/bbpress-2-3-beta-2/

1) https://bbpress.org/download/

2) https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Great minds… 🙂

I think we should be de-emphasing a difference between group and site; BuddyPress supports just forums, and we add that if people want to add a tab to their groups, that they need to click a button inside bbPress.

@djpaul I have updated the forums info last Jan 3, 2013 using bbPress plugin only -> see forums component listed at https://codex.buddypress.org/component/forums/ onto the page https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/ Just need to complete Group Forums only section – have some questions there.

Your site is in maintenance mode, so we can’t see it. Further more, your question is best posted to bbPress.org as this element is part of bbPress, not BuddyPress 🙂

Does one enable define ( ‘bp_enable_multiblog’ true ) prior to BP installation or directly afterward, or does it not matter.

Doesn’t matter. BP is a plugin who went on a single or on a network enabled WP install. bbPress also.

Should one network enable BP & bbPress upon installation or not?

see previous answer. If your network is activated, you see under each installed plugin in your network admin the activation link who says “network activate”. Remeber also that with network activated, you have two dashboard as super-admin. One is your main blog and a single WP admin, the other one is the network admin where your BP and bbPress plugins are/should be installed.

I have followed The Definitive Guide To BuddyPress & bbPress Configuration

This (good) tutorial was updated for bbPress 2.2+ and BuddyPress 1.6.1+ But time and things changes rapidly on the WP Planet….

Actually we have 1.6.4 and we are close to 1.7 ! It’s better you read here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
Be aware with the group forum page slug and the bbP plugin forum page slug – this is really important.

Before you came accross with new questions, can you please indicate your BP/WP version and your main blog theme name & version ? Or much better, your site url ?

We are aware of the issue. The person in charge is busy working on the upcoming BP 1.7. Thank you for your patience.

@ekine I pointed this out about a week ago:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-org-link-error/

rather simple to fix, hopefully the person in charge of the website will see this and change the a href to buddypress from bbpress

@gordonre @wrowlands

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.