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@Peter

True, a lot of the threads on the forum have been about bbPress.

I agree that it could be made clearer.

Are you talking about the default forums in BuddyPress?

eg. testbp.org/forums

This is the preferred method and will not cause you any headaches

If you’re talking about integrating an external install of bbPress, this is doable as well.

Requires a bit of time to setup, but it can be done.

Don’t like forums? Disable it!

I already have, but half the posts on this forum these days are about BBpress/forums. Buddypress needs to make clear what it is. The growing emphasis on forums pulls it in a schizophrenic direction imho.

BBpress forum.

I am aiming at persons over 60, who don’t know diddly squat about social networking. … Get your parents onto Facebook and watch confusion reign

Why then use a social networking script? Why ask Buddypress to be like a forum?

BBpress forum.

Ray – thanks for the input. I managed to get that far myself (after trying every other combination) and seein another of your posts. Very helpful.

My remaining problem is this, everything is redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

1. Which version of WP/MU are you running?

WP 2.9.2

2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install?

directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

sub-directory

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version?

no, not on MU

5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.

yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?

plugin – Version 1.2.1

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

no – fresh install

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

yes, but it doesn’t matter, I deactivated every plugin except Buddy Press, same behavior

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

I have tried using custom themes as well as the default BuddyPress themes

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

no

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

no

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?

it came with it built in, but I haven’t turned it one yet…

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

no errors

14. Which company provides your hosting?

HostGator

I have installed BuddyPress in a development environment so that I can test its functionality. It is located at this address http://www.irreia.org/dev (which is a copy of my live blog.

I can successfully navigate to the several pages that are created by BuddyPress:

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/activity/

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/groups/

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/members/

But if I try to use the admin bar, I can’t get to any page – all pages are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

I have two members Admin and Carl Chapman, who show up as listed on the main member page, but the hyperlinks to their individual pages are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

It is the same for any other ‘sub-page’… all are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

I’m completely stumped. What am I doing wrong? What’s happening and how do I fix it?

I think I am having the same problem or at lease very similar.

1. Which version of WP/MU are you running?

WP 2.9.2

2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install?

directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

sub-directory

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version?

no, not on MU

5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.

yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?

plugin – Version 1.2.1

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

no – fresh install

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

yes, but it doesn’t matter, I deactivated every plugin except Buddy Press, same behavior

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

I have tried using custom themes as well as the default BuddyPress themes

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

no

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

no

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?

it came with it built in, but I haven’t turned it one yet…

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

no errors

14. Which company provides your hosting?

HostGator

I have installed BuddyPress in a development environment so that I can test its functionality. It is located at this address http://www.irreia.org/dev (which is a copy of my live blog.

I can successfully navigate to the several pages that are created by BuddyPress:

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/activity/

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/groups/

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/members/

But if I try to use the admin bar, I can’t get to any page – all pages are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

I have two members Admin and Carl Chapman, who show up as listed on the main member page, but the hyperlinks to their individual pages are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

It is the same for any other ‘sub-page’… all are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

I’m completely stumped.What am I doing wrong? What’s happening and how do I fix it?

Re: step 2 … rename “bbpress” to “forums”.

Don’t upload bbPress to the /forums/ directory… remove that right now.

A copy of bbPress should already reside in /plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/

Login to the WP dashboard, navigate to “BuddyPress > Forums setup” and set it up!

You can integrate with single WP.

@snark

Ability to “Favorite” a topic and get recurring updates doesn’t work right now. It’s something I mentioned in the past on testbp.org. It’s probably a bbPress thing. I’m not sure if anyone outside the BP dev team has even looked into this issue. I might look into it myself sometime in the future.

@Peter

Don’t like forums? Disable it!

Yesterday I had a problem accessing bbpress dashboard, It directsd me to the main forum page again

deleted bb-config, droped all bb_ tables and install it again & worked with me.

I donno is it related to the same problem or Not

I don’t particularly want to install bbpress separately. I’d quite like to extend the functionality for ‘standard’ buddypress setup.

The setup on http://help.deanjrobinson.com is good, but with various group extensions you may not want the group itself being visible to general site users. I can imagine that this will become even more of an issue now that the activty stream functionality is starting to outstrip the forum functionality – I’m finding lots of users aren’t bothering with their group forums anymore and are instead using activity stream to hold discussions.

I’m having the exact same issue. I have buddy Press full integrated into my site and all parts of it are functioning. I figured the next step would be to add forums. With that in mind, I uploaded the bbpress files into my /forums/ directory and followed the installation instructions from the site (I have tried it 3 times using integration and once without)

I used the Forums Setup from Buddy Press each time to create the bb-config.php file. Each time the installer found the file and thing seemed to go OK. When I was using integration at the end of the install it found and suggested that I use the wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums directory for the location of my forum… each time I said yes.

While using integration it would report a small error that the bb-config.php file was not writeable so I would have to create the key entries myself. Even though I made the bb-config.phhp file (in the root) writeable, this made not difference in the installation error message. (My guess is that the installer is looking at the ‘fake’ bb-config.php file in the forum location directory.

The installation without integration completed successfully with now error messages.

Every time I try to log in, or visit the forum, or visit the admin page all I get is a blank screen… view source shows no source at all. If I examine the directories on the server, the forum files are located there.

Anyone have an idea of what I’m doing wrong? Or what might be going wrong.

Hello! I had the same problem until I increased the memory limit of my PHP pages via php.ini – then I retried the one-click forum setup and it worked perfectly.

In any regard I see the “forums setup” option inside buddypress, I choose “set up a new bbpress installation” and it said “All done! Configuration settings have been saved to the file..” but where are my forums? No new forum menu options appeared, are they supposed to?

No. In BP, Forums are part of Groups. Create a group, and you’ll notice it will have a forum section. Once you make a post, the forum directory will appear on the main nav.

There is a way to integrate a forums install in the more traditional way, but I suggest you have a look at the default first

I know the bbPress team (incl. Matt Mullenweg) are working on a point release to fix bugs, so it’s not dead.

you can use plugins in existing bbpress

You’ll need to install bbPress as an external install.

Download bbPress @ bbpress.org/download.

Find integration guides @ bbpress.org/forums or this link:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

Omit the BP integration steps in that guide.

Why don’t you just use WPMU + BBpress as your starting point?

Buddypress is next generation social networking. It offers features that end-users have come to expect via Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Groups are an integral part of that; forums are an awkward add-on imho.

If you have BP installed on connect.idotter.ch, you should be able to access your group forums at connect.idotter.ch/forums.

How are you trying to install the forums component? It should be as easy as going to “BuddyPress > Forums setup” in the WP admin backend.