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Hey jimmiejo,

Use TheEasyButton’s most recent tutorial:

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

This worked for me.

Is there a error of some sort or does it just do nothing? I just did those 5 steps and I had a integrated bbpress and shared user database.

Done that, been there. Works brilliantly.

1. Install WPMU.

2. Install Buddypress.

3. Change your keys in wp-config.php.

4. Install bbPress with intergrated settings (make sure you use the new keys you made). Make sure you install it in /forums and not in /forum because buddypress will nicely redirect his own /forums to your newly made bbPress install.

5. When everything works good, use this plugin.

Edit: Btw, if you wanna use buddypress login/profiles you can just use redirects.

Worked a charm for me.

No, you have to make a lot of plugins yourself if you want to fetch most data from buddypress, you would also have to make a bbpress theme that fits your current buddypress theme and after that make redirects from the bbpress profile to your buddypress profile.

It’s a tough road, but the end is worth it.

@Xevo: Installing BBPress apart gives you all the power of BBPress perfectly integrated with BP users?.

Can you tell me a BP community using forums this way?

Thanks in advance.

I wish I could but unfortunately it will take some times for me and my guys to get other customized plugin to work with the new release as we all have been playing with the current version which we had going in to for quite some time.

Yeah, I know the latest version has the solution but I really hope for a technical solution (hacking the core files i guess?) which will solve the problem logically.

Anyway, the variable $topic which I debugged through in the bp-groups.php file was not holding any value which I might suspected to be the source of the problem:

function groups_new_group_forum_topic( $topic_title, $topic_text, $topic_tags, $forum_id ) {

global $group_obj, $bp;



if ( $topic = bp_forums_new_topic( $topic_title, $topic_text, $topic_tags, $forum_id ) ) {

bp_core_add_message( __( 'Topic posted successfully!', 'buddypress') );



/* Record in activity streams */

groups_record_activity( array( 'item_id' => $group_obj->id, 'component_name' => $bp->groups->slug, 'component_action' => 'new_forum_topic', 'is_private' => 0, 'secondary_item_id' => $topic['topic_id'] ) );



do_action( 'groups_new_forum_topic', $group_obj->id, $topic );



return $topic;

}

bp_core_add_message( __( 'There was an error posting that topic.', 'buddypress'), 'error' );

return false;

}

Anyone have ideas what the $topic variable does?

@ tajulsharby: Update to the the latest WPMU (2.8.6) and Buddypress (1.1.2)?

Yeah, mine has the same problem too…Ive tested the xmlrpc and the additional “$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true” code in bb-config.php file, added the bp-group plugin but still no luck in getting rid off the “There was an error posting that topic” message. It seem to be happening with all the sudden..or it may be a side effect of me activating certain plugins which I may not realize the effect of it.

Anyway i think my xmlrpc communicates well with the class.ixr file by using a plugin named xmlrpc – Say hello from bbPress. The expected output produces successfully which I think the source of the problem may not be from the xmlrpc thing.

I’m using bbpress 1.01, WordPress MU 2.8.1 and Buddypress 1.0.3.

Really appreciate if someone could provide me suggestions.

You guys rock!!!

Forums in buddypress are coupled to a group, so create a group and use the forum in that.

(I personally just use a seperate bbpress install, since I dont like the group forums.)

They should just use activation mail again, works the best.

There already exists a topic concerning these spam sign-ups. Haven’t had any problem with this yet, but that’s most likely because I have my wpmu/buddypress/bbpress in dutch..

Silly questions…

• Are you 100% there’s no deep integration?
• Maybe put some echo’s in the original bbPress files and see how and when they’re getting included?
• Is there a widget or plugin that’s preloading bbPress before BuddyPress?
• Do you have the old integration plugins disabled?
• Can you confirm in wp_sitemeta that “bb-config-location” is pointing to the new bb-config.php and not the old one?

Just a few things to look at and consider…

BuddyPress, as it stands will work perfect for a single domain setup, like 99% of the typical audience will predictably use it for, and for wp.com if bits and pieces of it are used for that purpose.

@anointed, this isn’t a “flaw” in the software so much as it is BP floating on top of MU’s infrastructure. With any of the multi-site plugins, when I look at my site-wide users, I still see ALL users registered from ALL domains/blogs/etc… When I look at a particular blogs users, then of course all that exists there are the users of that blog. Because a “site” is just another “blog” the terms here mean the same thing. 1 central user base, and all users rotate around them.

There might be a few hacks and methods to counter this behavior, but they involve checking user-meta for a list of blogs that user “belongs” to above and beyond roles and caps, or adding additional tables to route users around… It just is a strange setup and something that needs to be built custom for that particular need.

Think of how all the *press.org sites work. One central user base, yet you can login to all of bbpress.org, wordpress.org/com, buddypress.org, and all of their respective tracs and blogs, etc… That’s the same thing that BuddyPress does. The MU multi-site plugin does something a little extra, that none of the other platforms really do, and that’s allow multiple domains to use the same installation… bbPress has the power to do something similar, but no one has really explored how to do it yet, but even in that case you’re probably still sharing user tables and just mapping roles and caps again…

Am I making sense yet? haha

Try reverting to the default theme and see if it works.

Just completed new installation of BuddyPress and activated new bbPress. Settings show that the Forums are installed correctly. I have a couple of groups that are “Public” that have at least one topic. I am incorrect in thinking that these topics should be visible on this page:

http://worsttofirstcampus.org/forums

It seems like it just defaults to http://worsttofirstcampus.org

Does it have anything to do with the theme I have selected for BuddyPress pages?

Hi Kunal,

I’m using both on my test environment right now (still undecided if I want to go with embedded bbPress or external!).

You should be able to use BP’s internal bbPress forums by going straight to the BP forums slug.

By default, this is:

http://YOURBPINSTALL.com/forums/

If your external bbPress install is the same as this slug, you’ll need to modify your BP forums slug to something else.

You can do this by adding this line in your wp-config.php:

define( 'BP_FORUMS_SLUG', 'somedifferentslug' );

I upgraded from Bp 1.0.3 to 1.1.2 yesterday and I went ahead and activated the external bbpress forum I had earlier. I would like to instead use the built in forums now so that I can have a forums dashboard like that on testbp.

Is there any way that I can now switch without losing my forum posts?

Catherine-

Are looking to have a sitewide forum instead of group-based forums? If so, read my response in this thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/cannot-add-topic-in-bbpress-forum#post-29032

Read my thread response here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/cannot-add-topic-in-bbpress-forum#post-29032

Well if I use the bbopress in buddypress for new installation, HOW do I add forum sections?

You can’t add forum sections.

BuddyPress forums are tied to groups. So you’ll have to create new groups with forums in order to emulate forum sections.

If you’re trying to setup BuddyPress forums to be like this:

http://testbp.org/forums

Remove bbPress and reinstall BuddyPress. This time, follow these instructions:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/

Specifically the “Setting Up Forums” section.

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If you plan on using a separate install of bbPress, you’ll need to theme it.

No way around this I’m afraid.

You could use Manoj Kumar’s BuddyPress theme for bbPress to get a similar looking BP feel:

http://manojkumar.org/buddypress-theme-for-bbpress/

Hope that helps!