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i think the loop we are looking for is:

bp_has_forum_topics

Here’s a writeup I made awhile back:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-admin-bar-on-bbpress-front-page-1#post-18626

For the require_once line, if that line doesn’t work change it to the absolute file path.

If you’re using single WP, delete these lines:

bp_adminbar_blogs_menu();

bp_adminbar_authors_menu();

I’m in the same boat as you nig3d except all i want is additional forums, not necessarily plugins. I would “think” that it wouldn’t be hard for bp to hook in and add a forum in the same way that it creates a group forum to create a forum with generic permissions but I’m definitely not an expert.

I like the forum to be used inside the group as they are. I’d love more to have plugin support though. I wonder if it’s possible to adapt easily the interface.

copy your bb-config.php file from your root to /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/. It worked for me, but your account has to be the keymaster, and I set up BBPress first, and then BuddyPress, syncd, and then integrated. Not everything will work… which is what I am trying to find out how now.

just make sure bb-config.php is in both places….

Wonder if you could use this to create extra forums like a Miscellaneous or a General forum? I want to use the default install because I like the way it all integrated with the group forums, but I wanted to have some general forums for random stuff that I really don’t want to have to force people to sign up to that group just to post there. Right now, having to skin and deal with external bbpress installation seems more of a hassle than dealing with the random forum for me.

Using trunk + single wp; I’m set up on an external installs of bbPress + BuddyPress/internal install for groups

I use the bpGroups plugins (“forums” subdomain of the BP site) but the plug-in required some updating to get everything working smooth (activity notifications, public/private/hidden/ready only stuff)

Obviously this method won’t enable plugins on the buddypress/internal groups but this allows me to provide an advanced forum interface while creating outside forums (support, help, testing, etc) not associated with groups (group forums can be added to a specific forum category – i think default is “1”).

… i have re-theme’d bbPress to somewhat match the new default BP theme (well somewhat)

(screenshots:

http://files.etiviti.com/misc/bbpress-vwg-main.gif

http://files.etiviti.com/misc/bbpress-vwg-forum.gif

)

By any chance did you test adding other forums through the back end and seeing if they show up on the forums page? I think if you could have the best of both world (the easy integration of the default install with the ability to add other forums) I think that would be a HUGE feature.

the one hacking the bb-config.php, that was something that I already noticed. Just I think, if the developers don’t want us to access to the admin panel there must be a valid reason.

Anyway it works properly, it’s just that the buddypress can’t handle the plugin frontend

Thanks John, this might be a good plugin idea (a forum not attached to a specific group) or something to think about adding support for back into the core post 1.2?

The backpat plugin is only going to support the 1.1 branch of code, and not the dual theme massive integration headache that came before it.

To have the activity stream update when you post a topic or post a reply, bbPress would need a special plugin to be made, and/or bbPress would need to be “deeply” integrated with WordPress/BuddyPress to have those functions natively available.

The other thing you could do is look into previous versions of BuddyPress that included that kind of support. In BP 1.0 it was assumed that if you wanted forums, that you were using the voo-doo magic method of integrating things.

I don’t think there was anything special you had to do back in the BP 1.0 days. User authentication/cookies was a bit of a pickle, and there were a pair of plugins which hid forums you didn’t belong to (or similar).

I am not sure specifically with regards to the forum component, but all the deprecated code is being moved to a seperate plugin. I wonder if this method of forum installation would use some of that deprecated code (and it not being in trunk anyway, which would explain why it doesn’t work for you). I’ll ping a couple of guys and see if we can figure it.

@nig3d, “I installed the support plugin using the admin of the default installation”

– just to clarify, you mean you used the 2nd method posted by M?

I installed the support plugin using the admin of the default installation as you suggested, but there is no point to do that, since the buddypress interface doesn’t support it.

I would gear my videos to the WP masses that will now start using BP

What Buddypress is and is not?

Theming and Theme Frameworks

Integration with WP, bbPress

Hardware/Hosting considerations

Extensive examples of creating child theme and components

Just to clarify you have BuddyPress (latest trunk) running with a standalone WordPress 2.9.1 (NOT MU) and BBPress 1.0.2?

I am looking at doing this. Just need to know.

Any advice?

Thanks!

Does the “use existing install” button on the BuddyPress wp-admin backend (under ‘forum setup’, or something), not do the job?

hi Arturo,

I don’t see a link to your example. Can you post it?

Just to clarify you have BuddyPress (latest trunk) running with a standalone WordPress 2.9.1 (NOT MU) and BBPress 1.0.2?

Thanks.

Thanks for that info, M.

Will test this out when I have some time and experiment!

If that would be possible that would be very handy! Is that possible?