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Hi Kunal17. When I upgraded my site from BP 1.0.x to BP 1.1.x, I had to go through the process of migrating from an external bbPress install to the internal one. Here’s the blog post I wrote on the subject: http://teleogistic.net/2009/12/upgrading-from-buddypress-1-0-to-1-1/

As far as advantages/disadvantages, to the best of my knowledge BP uses the most recent release of bbPress for its internal forum workings, and will continue to do so. Thus, as long as you keep your external bbPress installation up to date, it is unlikely that they will stop working together (granted that you have done the work to make them work together in the first place). When you move to the internal forums, you lose some of the extensibility of the external bbPress, as many of the plugins have not been ported to (or replicated for) BuddyPress yet. But not having to worry about the consistent look, shared userbase, etc was very much worth it for me.

Hmm..

The BuddyPress Group forum system is actually powered by bbpress so it should be able to handle anything bbpress can. It is up to you whether you want to use the group forums system or work on integrating a standalone bbpress install into wordpress.

I love this thread. There should be a way to vote on these. I’ll add my “votes” as text here:

1. Forum plugins – Every key bbpress plugin should be ported to buddypress. rich! has done some amazing work with forum extras and I hope he continues.

2. Events – was a really nice emerging implementation of that in progress, but I haven’t seen much on it lately; I think it “broke” at one point due to BP version incompatibilities.

3. Privacy, of course.

An update to my situation in the post above..

I deactivated buddypress. Deleted all files in the buddypress foldder. Uploaded fresh 1.2.2.1 buddypress files. Reactivated buddypress. Then my forums tab disappeared from the public home page. So I went into the dashboard, clicked don forums setup, and it said I could install, etc… So I clicked to install a fresh bbpress.

It said it could not write a bb-config file and gave me the code to create one manaully.

I copied the code and put it in the root of my wordpressmu install as it said.

Forums tab now shows. I went to add a forum post, and the same thing happens – it just disappears.. like it is not saving any forum posts…

Any ideas?

I am having a similar issue.

Wpmu 2.9.2, Bp 1.2.2.1

When I click on forums, then post a new topic, enter in everything. It goes back to the screen showing All topics (0) – and says “sorry there were no topics found”

I checked on the buddypress / forums setup tab in the backend, and it says:

bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install

Should I try to reinstall the forums / bbpress? and if so which option would I choose?

Set up a new bbPress installation Use an existing bbPress installation

SOLVED!

After reading a different post about bbpress tables not installing, it turns out to be a memory issue.

I upped my memory limit in php.ini and all installed perfectly.

Hope this helps someone else.

Matt

One quick note –

I noticed that there doesn’t seem to be any bbpress related tables in the database…. there are bp_ and wp_ but I thought that bbpress would be bb_

If the tables are missing, what’s a guy to do? (I thought that the install was too quick!)

Matt

I also am having strange happenings using WP-O_Matic.

The campaigns show up in my forums. I use bbpress intergration for forums.

Still waiting for a solution to this also, as I prefer WP-OMatic over Feedwordpress.

at this time it seems like the only way to do it is to do it yourself/hire a programmer. i would like to do the same thing but have not found anything that can migrate or bridge them that works well with phpbb3.

andrea_r – there is a way to hook BP up to an existing bbPress install, but I think rspowers is talking about phpbb. If you’ve got a lot of activity in an existing phpbb forum community, you really have two options:

1) Build a bridge between phpbb and bp (which will make them share users, group info, and activity data) and skin them to look alike

2) Find a script that will translate phpbb threads into bbpress compatible ones (like https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-phpbb-to-bbpress-database-converter) and then do a normal bbpress install inside of BP

(2) seems way, way easier, especially in the long run. The only downside is that the BP-native version of bbPress isn’t as feature-rich as dedicated forum software like phpbb.

“as far as the forum, many people have well established forums with 1000s of posts and members so they cant just ditch them. “

Isn’t there a way in the backend of BP to hitch it up to an exisiting forum? I’ve always set up a new one, but the choice is definitely there to use an existing bbpress install.

@Peterverkooijen

as has been said to you many times before. if you don’t want to use forums, then turn them off. and please don’t spam the forums every chance you get with your comments about forums and bbpress. by now we’re all well aware of your opinion. cheers!

2. there’s already integration with BBpress

Why does everybody want to use Buddypress as a forum? What’s the point of having a blogs and groups-based social network if you’re still going to put an old-fashioned forum at the center?

Can someone (Auttommatttic?) please write a basic social networking plugin for BBpress, expanding the user account pages in BBpress a bit, so people don’t have to come over here asking to turn Buddypress into something lame?

I also tried M’s “hidden installation” method and can’t get plugins to work.

I was able to open the new installation without a problem, but I cannot figure out how to activate plugins. I uploaded plugins to both the buddypress bbpress directory and the new “hidden installation” plugin directory. They obviously work fine on the hidden installation pages, but I just get “function not found” errors in the buddypress forum pages. Any ideas?

Has anyone actually got M’s backdoor admin method (copy bb-config.php to the buddypress/bbpress directory to work and activate plugins?

I copied my bb-config.php file from the WPMU root dir into the /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress directory. Then I tried opening this page:

http://mysite.com/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ” for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/mysite/public_html/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 45

I also tried opening this page and got the same error:

http://mysite.com/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/

Someone please build it so that I can stop seeing this argument recur on these forums every few weeks. If I didn’t have seven thousand other things to do I’d do it myself but hey – I just took all the thinking out of it by drawing a map

i’m wrapping up a buddypress group forum extras plugin which brings in some bbpress plugins to the bp-group forums (sigs, bbcode or shortcode, quote)… this might be tempting; especially the support forum plugin. i’ll look into it.

or just install BBpress on WP

Bug alert!

Tweetstream conflicts with Forum (bbpress). Specifically, users cannot edit their forum posts/comments (or at least comments) when tweetstream is active.

Peter, I set up a vanilla WPMU/BP setup that duplicates the error; contact me for private link.

This site uses “Deep integration” with a standalone bbPress install. In the near future, this website will change and forums/groups will follow the regular BuddyPress model. The only reason this is like it is currently is because of historical reasons and the fact that the site’s theme hasn’t been updated for a long time.

If you want a site wide forum, just create a group and call it “site wide discussion”. Easy as that.

Try again.