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I decided to do the same thing. Since it will be too confusing to have both working at the same time and having a millions users creating their own forum category. I create the forums I need and deleted all the groups and let the users have their group fun.

Do what gerikg said.

Login to your WPMU backend and navigate to “BuddyPress > Component Setup”.

Check “Disabled” for “bbPress forums” and you should be good to go!

*The one thing that probably has you confused is you need to login to your bbPress admin area and manually delete your existing group forums.

Hey gerikg,

If you’re using forums separately, I would suggest using the following plugin to output your latest forum discussions:

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

Why not cut off the link between BB forum & BP Groups.

DISABLE

bbPress Forums

Activates bbPress forum support within BuddyPress groups or any other custom component.

The only thing is the groups that you created will still be on the sitewide activity until something else replaces it.

Admin section -> Buddypress -> Component Setup -> Disabled ( Groups Let users create, join and participate in groups.)

I used Burt Adsit’s BPGroups plugin to achieve this a few months ago. It helped to pull all user data over and transfer the XProfile data into a deeply integrated bbPress installation.

In future versions of BuddyPress this will be much, much easier.

if you did the deep integration you just need to put

<?php echo bp_core_get_avatar( get_post_author_id() ); ?>

without editing core files (you might forget you edit them when you upgrade.)

WP 2.8.4a + BB 1.0.3 + BP 1.0.2

Stuff to add to the instruction:

38. Open bbpress’ bb-config.php

put this right before ?> at the end

$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

put this right after <?php (replace .bp.dev with your info see step #26 leave out the hash part)

define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.bp.dev’ );

define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

40. install “WPMU Enable bbPress Capabilities” plugin in WPMU and enable it.

As of now they can have their own group that translate to their own topics/forum and they can be the admin of their “discussion” You can just have the groups only and no link to the bbpress section. The forums will be under groups. make sense?

El_Terko, I am not sure but you might have a problem with Gigya on the bbpress side and especially with member blogs. Please share your experience with both Gigya and IntenseDebate.

BP 1.0.2 is the last version compatible with MU 2.7.1.

If I were you, I’d wait for the next version of BuddyPress – version 1.1 scheduled to be released next week.

You would need to upgrade WPMU to 2.8.4.

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When you upgrade, make sure you backup everything! (database, wp-content directory)

Deactivate all plugins, rename “mu-plugins” folder (if you use mu-plugins) and then install WPMU over your existing install.

Next, install new version of BuddyPress, reactivate plugins and everything should be good (I say should because each case is different!).

Since you didn’t mention bbPress, I presume you don’t have to worry about it, which is good, since that takes out one main item out of the equation!

Re: comments… you don’t have to worry because WPMU takes care of everything.

One username will be able to comment on all blogs (provided they’re logged in).

Installing bbPress and integrating it with WPMU will also take care of single sign-on.

FYI, I would install in the following order: WPMU > BP > bbPress.

Also, I’ve never used Gigya.

they haven’t create it yet “BBpressMU” or I think it’s called “Talkpress”.

and https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-i-renamed-my-bbpress-file-directory-name