giving a user his own blog – why not also give a user his own forum ?
Great idea……
@ Anointed: That has more to do with buddypress than bbpress, and why would you want a bbpress install for every group? That would only cludder the database even more.
Does anyone know if bbpress ever got to the point where we could give each blog their own bbpress like we do with groups?
I’ve asked on their forums, done the google thing, but never could get an answer.
my opinion?… offer both solutions as plugins…
bbPress can be integrated to WPMU, we already have examples of that… why not offer a complete solution for the integration instead of two HowTo and a plugin…
and the BP forum version is quite different from bbPress, i don’t know why it is still named bbPress… why not having it as a plugin as well?
so when we decide to offer forums for groups we use one version, and if we want a global forum, we use bbPress, and if we want both, we use both…
because right now we can not use both versions at the same time… i would.
Already working on two plugin which will enable buddypress/wpmu to take data from the bbpress table’s and vice versa.
I personally like the idea that all automattic software can be used as one (like modules), but at the same time, if you just need bbpress, that you can use it without wordpress.
Agree with you on the option.
Rather than using “forums” slug for group forums directory, I will rather use it for external forums. Instead, I will consider using group-forums slug for that.
Again, why use two copies of bbpress if you want external forums, why not use a single copy but with the tighter integration.
Well, why I said It should not be Integrated.
Currently,Is there anyway for the site admin to manage all the forums on a buddypress at one place.No.
Can You manage all the topics from one place, no , you have to visit individual groups to manage it.
bbpress has been in existence ,before even the conception of buddypress,so how about the people who are already using it as a standalone software,or on their wordpress/wpmu site.We may not force them to install buddypress for using/keep using forum.
I hope ,There are other various reasons why It should not be merged.
But again,I too wish ,there should be more better integration. 
There should be a option at the admin site, to select standard forum view,or buddypress groups view.
For many people I think the bbpress integration into wordpress (make bbpress look the same as wp) is just to heave. So they jump to some other forum software.
In the and most of them are missing forum community features.
In the moment you have to rewrite bbpress plugins to use them in the puddypress bbpress installation. Or have two install with two admin sites.
I seriously believe ,these pieces of software should never merge.
Personally,I prefer external forums much more than the internal integration.Again, for people who are looking for easy install(the internal integration is well done by Andy, Kudos to him) internal integration is good, but in most of the circumstances we are going to need an external forum, as it is much more clean and easy to use rather than the group associated forum.
I believe, the integration of bbpress with buddypress will get better in future, as buddypress grows. But considering current situations, It is not a good idea to merge both the pieces of software.
no offenses, my personal thoughts only
Well you can auto join members to a group, so that you can use that groups forum as a main, but this hasn’t been done before, so can’t say how well this will work.
I personally also have bbpress as a seperate install and used it’s deep integration.
Forums are now linked with your groups, so you first need to make a group and that group wil contain a forum. It’s as easy as that. Unfortunately if you want a standard (classic) forum, you will have to install bbpress seperately and just use deep integration with that.
In the Dashboard there is a “Forums Setup” link under the “BuddyPress” menu. Should be a simple two click process assuming you’re running a stable version (i.e. 1.1.3. I don’t believe the bbPress files are included in the trunk versions).
the css is not worring me that much, i know how to handle it… it’s just a detail…
anyway, i decided to keep the BP forums/Groups for a time… no biggy… 
If it’s just the CSS you’re worried about, why not just call the CSS file directly into the bbPress theme and see what happens?
thanks r-a-y, i tried jjj’s technique but had a flaw… not loading a css for the adminbar style, so in all the styles i have for the bbpress, nowhere the adminbar is looking where it is supposed to or with the style needed… i will explode, sadly bbpress is not integrating the style, and i may simply drop it from the original plans… but i need a real forum, the version in BP is just hectic
This works ok if you are not using bbpress: if you are, the date posted in group forum will be reflected as “Posted -1 years ago” in bbpress post! With this, the whole post navigation in bbpress will start with earliest first, and first post at the last page (which is 1yr in future).
Arghh.. can someone help.
thanks
hi all, was experimenting with my new integrated bp/bb site and have this question. I created a group in bp with forum/wire enabled; and i could see this being created in bbpress as well.
In bbpress admin, i deleted a forum and moved all its contents (topics and posts) to the newly created forum (and group in bp). All the posts were moved fine and I can read/edit/post them in bbpress. However, in bp group forum; i can only see the topics (with information that the topic has x posts etc etc); but these topics are really not linked to any posts i.e. the link is just pointing to http://mysite.com/groups/groupname/topic// ?? No links.
It this a bp limitation (not properly converting topics/posts moved from bbpress to the newly created bp groups? )? How to fix this?
thanks
Re; forum. I had bbpress already installed and pointed buddypress to bb-config.php. After doing the upgrade to 1.1.3 buddypress lost that information and was looking for the forum in plugins/budypress/bp-forums/. I copied bbpress manually to this folder and things are OK now, I hope.
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Re: User Rights. I use LDAP and if I add LDAP users via Admin area, changing their rights works OK. However if I let a user account be created as soon as the user logins for the first time via LDAP that sets the user lever to Author. When I change this user lever to Editor it goes back to Author after user logs in and attempts to do some editing (blog post/page).
So I give ldapUser1 Edit rights to blog123. ldapUser1 logs in and goes to edit a page in the blog. ‘Edit this entry’ message shows up. User clicks on it and gets a message ‘You are not allowed to edit this page.’ at the same time user rights reset back to Author.
This might be a bug with LDAP plugin?! Will test it with WPMU + LDAP only.
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Re: disabling buddypress. Well that screwed up my whole site . Lucky me it was a test one.
Ajdin
Don’t forget that for the forums to work you need the bbpress folder in bp-forums. I was pretty puzzled when installing from trac the other day.
Ok see what you’re saying now. Xevo // Brajesh Singh
Its not exactly what I want, but it will work fine for a long while.
Thanks!
no,the forum(the one which you have not installed externally) is associated with groups.
When you create a group and allow associating forums with it, you can manage that forum from the Group admin screen.
That’s what Xevo pointed.
Hope It helps.
From frontend I assume you mean that I simple login as admin and browse to domain.com/forums ? And there should be “edit” links in there somewhere? Not seeing that.
You administrate it from the front-end, not with a backend like bbpress had.
opps.. i dropped in a fresh copy of bbpress in that dir, and it’s ok now.. seems like bp checks if its own copy of bbpress is in place — ok, new things for me today.
@sidianmsjones
I think you’re looking at this from the wrong perspective. BP is not so much about forums as it is about groups….that happen to have forums. That’s on purpose. If you want to crate a site that’s just a big forum with some sub-categorization then you already have the tools (style your own bbPress) to do that. BP lets a community of users create topically organized “groups” and aggregate content and activity around that group. The forum part is just one component of that. Soon, media, events – you name it – will all be a part of that group collective. With activity stream commenting, Andy is merely opening up avenues to add to those topical constructs from all over the site. The forums view that was added recently, imo, is more of a throwback to traditional bb styling that appeased the old way of interacting and helped make the transition smoother for some. On our site, users love the fact that engagement is silo’d when it needs to be and aggregated when it should be. Hope this helps.
