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It’s not as simple as that. One thing you will need to tackle is getting bbPress and BuddyPress sharing the same cookies for user authentication. You need to select the ‘use existing install’ option on the BuddyPress admin to configure BuddyPress; if you have previously selected the new install option, I don’t know what the impact will be if you then tell it to use an existing install.

What you need to do is find a tutorial or guide for how to install BuddyPress forums (previous to version 1.1, you had to do it manually and it was very complicated). You could start by reading backwards on https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/forum-install-some-helping-hints-2

the latest bp1.1.3 should resolve this. the only issue now is that forum post from bp forum now shows up as “Posted -1 year ago” in bbpress. any hint to resolve this?

I put something together along these lines today. I used the version of TinyMCE that ships with WP. Have a look, and please feel free to build on it or tell me what I’m doing wrong : http://teleogistic.net/2009/12/tinymce-in-buddypress/

Ehm.. I can’t read your reply trevorscottcarpenter.. it’s all white..

Hi everybody!

I’m quite new here.. I’ve read many topics in the last months, but I never reply.

Sorry for my bad English..

I’m asking if there is a simpler way to duplicate bbpress installations, so there can be a standard one and an external one.

I’ve merged successfully 3 different installation of BP with very low coding, using config.php file and default user tables.. until now I only shared the user database and profile base, but isn’t theoretically similar to share user in BP with bbpress, so someone can use external forums?

Did you install it on a local server/pc? I have wpmu + buddypress + bbpress running on my pc here and it’s working great. Perhaps your router blocks outgoing connections?

@trevorscottcarpenter, there’s three ways I can immediately think to do this…

1. Create a custom group component that isn’t a “forum.” Extend out the Group API to include a new sub component specifically that does what you want it to.

2. Create a plugin for BP forums to allow for “private” forum topics. Have it hook into the activity filters and actions and stop those processes from happening so they don’t appear in the site wide activity. This doesn’t prevent non-group members from interacting with the topic however.

3. If you’re okay with having the entire group forum be “private” but need the groups to be “public” then check if a user is a group member before displaying the forum. If not, create a message and redirect them to group root.

When you say you want a seperate forum install, what *exactly* do you mean/want as a result?

Do you want a different theme or user interface to access the forums? Do you want it to be like a traditional forum site rather than BuddyPress’ group interface?

No, running two forums within buddypress and use one as a native bbpress install and the other one for the group forums, is impossible (unless you want to code a lot). If you want them inside the activity for example, you’ll have to write a code to let it send it’s activity to the buddypress activity db.

@Trevor:

Use this guide to install an external version of bbPress:

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

Install bbpress and intergrate it the old fashion way with wpmu. You can have both group forums and a standard forum this way.

Um. I think we’re missing why you need to run two bbPress installs?

You probably were marked, or at least your post was marked, as spam, as coming from a bozo. This is not an insult. It is the actual term that bbPress applies to suspected spammers. This has happened to me twice in the past.

If this happens again, or seems permanent, you should contact Andy or jjj as whenever I log into bbPress admin, it does not show me the “bozo” members. So, I have no way of changing the status.

But, since you are obviously posting right now, the issue was more than likely the system marking that particular post as probable spam. This is just a hunch.

Agreed on all counts. But I see the activity stream as a separate, isolated module of discussion that doesn’t belong in blog comments or post replies. Since that’s my view, the topic of sync’ing them together doesn’t appeal to me. Nevermind the fact that bbPress doesn’t support threaded topics and post replies out of the box in the first place.

Maybe I should just leave this topic and never look back.

And if I could reply to only Jeff right now, I would say T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM!

But since I can’t I just forked this conversation in a totally new direction! How’s that for activity.

I think Jeff is right, but it isn’t feasible since the queries it would take to pull that off would be astronomical. The reason this is an activity cache table is because it is where activity is stored in an easier to gather fashion. Maybe cache is the wrong word, but it’s doing what it says by being an easier way to combine other queries into one easy to get, light on its feet query of site wide activity.

The only other solution would be to branch activity comments off into a separate table, but that would require a query for each group of comments, instead of just grabbing all of what’s relevant and dumping it out.

Back to the original topic I suppose, but I think the talking back and forth between the components isn’t really the job of the core to do. The activity stream is a functional component of BuddyPress, and BuddyPress can exist without blogs, comments, and forums. In that scenario activity commenting doesn’t matter because there’s nothing to sync with. If someone needs to sync that data, they can make a plugin to do it, just like someone made a plugin to sync bbPress replies to blog posts and vice versa.

@Midwestbonsai

Why don’t you use the original version of the plugin for bbPress?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/

Will this work with an external install of bbpress?