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I haven’t done a thorough check, but what about BBPress Direct Access (as pointed out by Andy) and BBPress plugins?

In the current theme setup, no… So you’re not missing anything. There is no general “New Topic” page mostly because the number of forums that people can create by being able to create their own groups can grow to be pretty enormous.

It’s the difference between http://testbp.org/forums and http://testbp.org/bbpress/

The first link is obviously the familiar look of forums in BP1.1, the second link is what the TestBP sites’ bbPress looks like without any taming or control. There are 11,100 groups on that site alone, most of which have test forums. If there was a general “New Topic” page (like http://testbp.org/bbpress/?new=1) you’ll see you just have a select drop down list of 10,000 forums to place your topic in, which isn’t really an effective way to categorize the discussions when displayed in that way.

I think when people adapt to this method of user/group/topic centric forums versus a top-down categorical list of forums, we’ll see some unique and interesting setups.

copy all the files of bbpress (1.0.2) in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/ and not in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/

have you any other plugin? disable all the plugins but not buddypress and try if works

Just upgraded to buddypress 1.1 beta and I can say that it is really great! With the 1 click integration with bbpress, it is really good! But 1 question, can I use this 1-click integration to create a site wide forum just like here in buddypress.org, wherein the forum is not just a collection of all forum posts from the different forums used in buddypress components (primarily in Groups). Hope you could help me out on how to do this. Thanks in advance!

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Yeah, if you’ve installed from the .zip, you need to upload bbpress into place manually.

You are talking about the saving of forum threads. This should be asked/suggested in the bbPress support forums. Even though bbPress is utilized by BuddyPress, it still is its own, separate plugin.

Yes, both testbp.org and BuddyPress.org use bbPress. You need to customize your bbPress theme. Search the forums here for “bbPress theme”.

did you make sure you put the buddypress-enable.php in bbpress my-plugin folder?

“Provide Version Numbers & Steps

When asking a support question, please provide your WPMU & BuddyPress version numbers. Be sure to explain exactly what the problem is, and the steps you can take to reproduce the problem.”

@Jeff. That’s cool. I can just use a simple plug-in to block out groups, etc. wholesale. Like that code Burt did… just using is_user_logged_in(). It’ll do for now.

The issue is, I want to use BP as a kind of simple, lightweight “Intranet”/communication tool for our local Search & Rescue group. We’ll mostly use groups and/or bbPress to discuss fundraising, training, recent searches… etc. As well as look up members in the directory. Etc. All that stuff should be just for members. Some of it can be sensitive info. But we still need a public face for news, events and static info (faq, about, photos, etc.)

Two sites (a WordPress site for the public and a BuddyPress site for members) might make sense… but there’s overlap. All that public stuff needs to be available to members as well (pages, posts, events). So having two sites would be kind of a nightmare.

But I digress!!! As I say… I’m sure I can hack something together. Since I’m just hiding entire classes wholesale… it should be simple enough with a bit of PHP. Not sure how events will work though.

Anyway… very much looking forward to the privacy component as designed. Even thought it’s not what I thought it would be… and won’t do what I had in mind… it sounds like it’s actually a lot more impressive than that.

Interesting question. I have not heard of an way to do this, but it should be possible with some behind the scenes coding.

Have you checked the WPMU or bbPress plugin repositories to see if such a plugin exists?

I’m betting you installed via the zip file. You need to download bbpress and put it in /plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/

(not /plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bbpress/ !)

And do you have a /plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/class.bb-query.php?

@diegorodrigues,

I was seeing the same errors as yourself. I solved it by placing the bbpress installation in buddypress/bp-forums and then running the one-click forums install. BuddyPress then creates a bp-config.php file in your WPMU root.

The key is having the bbpress installation in the bp-forums directory.

The 1.1 forums installation is light years ahead of the witch doctor moves you had to endure to get buddypress and bp-press to talk to each other.

updated all the files mu 2.8.4a, bp 1.1-beta and bbpress 1.0.2 all works fine and configured without a problem but forums directory give me a white screen…

the forum for the groups works fine.

any idea about this problem? thanks

wah… forums aren’t working for me running the latest versions on everything — bp 1.1beta, wpmu 2.8.4a, bbpress 1.0.2. everything else is spot on though. wpmu/bp is in the root with directory install. fresh install for everything at michaelkuhlmann.com … no mods, just testing everything before i theme it. any takers? eh? eh?