BuddyPress.org

Think of something like Usenet, which was basically just a group of people talking back and forth inside their own little forum. Since BuddyPress is a community centric, user centric plugin for WordPress, the focus is on the interaction between people inside their respective groups. Forums are currently a feature of groups, but forums could be a feature of other things later too if plugins choose to support them, since bbPress is included and a great example of an API exists within BuddyPress.

Events could have their own discussion forums, blogs, users, activity feed items could be topics, etc…

The key to streamlining the forums = groups = forums path is to remove the groups metaphor, at least for users. There are two BP metaphors that get the most user attention: profiles and forums. From profiles, people can interact with other users: friending and joining groups. From forums, people can interact with other users: reading and writing topical posts. Having groups as a separate metaphor, which is sort of like forums and sort of like profiles creates confusion.

A quick solution would be creating a separate bbpress installation, integrating it with the bp forums and deactivating the bp groups.

Please usehttps://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-create-a-forum-that-isnt-associated-with-a-group/ to continue this

discussion

I’ve been thinking about using the integrated forums with 1.1 and rebuild the groups to only mean forum categories. Strip the groups feature of everything that’s not forums. Also make it easier to read. The layout of a forum in groups is a bit simplistic. Perfect for groups but not for stand alone forums.

Can’t do it right now, perhaps on saturday. Will love to test it! This is extremely interesting in my opinion! Great work!

Try this plugin (works with 1.1)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

number of post and forums can be set in plugin option

Forums are are now fully integrated and attached to groups that can be created and controlled by any registered user.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/

By default, there is no need to be registered in a (public) group to post. You must only be on the group page to access to his forum.

If you are admin, you can create a hidden group of course and invite all members you want.

@ The thing is I want a site wide forum like this site has. I you want you have to create it. This iste use a custom page as far as i know.

@ So does that mean I have to create a group and add everyone to it ?

i think you’re going to do things twice if you don’t read this forum first before asking

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@david lewis

it’s not hard: the plugin still exist.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

And works with 1.1 new forum integration. Even if not necessary because latest post appearing in the side wide activity. So the plugin is only interesting if you don’t use SWA or if you use a custom homepage or an external bbpress install…

If you use it, don’t forget to set the right DB table prefix in the plugin option (default is bb_, but now it’s wp_bb_)

select the forum you want to exclude, enter connection infos and that’s it !

Have fun !

Hello,

over here i encountered this problem too.

I am using wpmu 2.8.4 with Buddypress 1.1.1 and an BBPress Forum (not the integrated version, cause i want to use it as standard forum too).

So since i changed from the old “Two-Theme” system to the new one where the member theme is inside my wp-maintheme, i have this Problem and cant get rid of it.

Step 1:

Everything is in DB and seems correct

Step 2:

after clicking “Next Step” there is another group created without base data but with status.

There is no new groupforum created.

Step 3:

Sometimes i get here and if so i have a correct group(or so it seems in database), but after choosing the avatar i get another error saying “try again”.

Step 4:

Long time no see ^^ I have not seen this step since i changed the theme -.-

Hopefully someone will find out what causes this error

Funny I was talking about assumptions and I assumed that your bbPress install was sharing the same DB

Boone:

These lines will fix the problem I was having in the bbPress trigger plugin:

$con = mysql_connect("localhost",constant("BBDB_USER"),constant("BBDB_PASSWORD"));

mysql_select_db(constant("BBDB_NAME"), $con) or die(mysql_error());

This will work for all bbPress installs; no more assumptions

To be safe, you could probably switch out “localhost” for constant(“BBDB_HOST”).

Perhaps we should join forces, Boone but my partner in crime Brent Layman (westpointer) and I have a working plugin that does the same thing (albeit w/o the elegant options you have)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypressbbpress-email-notification/

Are you aware and maybe we can share code.

Hey Boone,

Just trying out the bbPress companion trigger plugin and I’m encountering this problem when creating new topics:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user ‘www-data’@’localhost’ (using password: NO) in /var/www/example.com/forums/my-plugins/bb-group-forum-subscription.php on line 22

Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /var/www/example.com/forums/my-plugins/bb-group-forum-subscription.php on line 24

Replying to already created topics works fine.

There’s also a noticeable delay when posting with the bbPress plugin; I’m guessing it’s the database queries that the plugin is doing.

Make sure the “bbPress Forums” is enabled in “BuddyPress > Component Setup”. Also, make sure that you have bbPress 1.0.2 installed in /buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/

Well. My version is this: WPMU 2.8.4a bp 1.1, no bbPress.

The installation is in the root directory site.com/

No updates, installation made from the latest versions.

No plugin installed now, and use the default theme.

No changes to the files.

No errors reported in the file.

I would like to ask if I can use simple press instead of bbpress? if so how would I be able to configure it?

Thanks?

Sounds like your MySQL database connection details aren’t proper. However, if the rest of your WPMU site works…

Was your previous bbpress install in a seperate database? (i.e. not in the same one as wpmu/buddypress)

I recommend reading https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/ if you haven’t already…

Peterkirn, did you choose a new installation or an existing one when you updated?

Here’s what’s happening, and how to fix it.

Since you picked new installation, your existing groups forums won’t work, because the forum_id’s they want to post to don’t exist in your new installation.

Basically, New installation = New database tables

If your old forums don’t have any important or relevent topics, or any at all, go back and forth between your “wp_bp_groups” table and your “wp_bp_groups_groupmeta” table, and remove the groupmeta entries with the group_id’s of your existing groups, that have any forum_id.

When you disable and enable the forums, it isn’t creating a new forum for them, it’s just turning off the ability. If you created a forum for an old group, and then create a new installation, the new database tables will be empty and your BuddyPress forums will look at those tables for data. If you use an existing installation, then BuddyPress will continue to use the old bbPress tables and allow an external bbPress installation to access them on its own, while letting the bbPress included with BuddyPress use it for its own purposes.