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hi there,

Integration was smooth for me, except for one thing

here is the site in question: http://www.waapsols.com

Its running Buddypress.

These are the steps I followed to integrate BB and BP… https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-103-and-bbpress-which-version-plugins-cookies#post-20006

WPMU, BP, and BB is working good. But I just can’t get the logins to work, I mean when I login into WPMU, I am not automatically logged into BBPress Forum.

I am guessing thats the reason why in my BuddyPress, the forum is working fine, but who ever posts, there is no gravtar or name is seen

Can someone help, what might have gone wrong.?

I think I can simplify my question from a few days ago. To recap- I believe my bp and bbpress integration is working properly, but I’m not sure because of two issues:

1. Forum posts deleted from the bp group forums are removed from the bp group but remain in the bbpress forums.

2. Tags can be added to forum topics in bp groups but the tags don’t serve a purpose in bp. Tags are only accessible/searchable when directly using bbpress.

Is this how integration presently works? If not, any suggestions?

Thanks for your feedback. wpmu 2.8.2, bp 1.0.3, bbpress 1.0.2, subdomains

And it’s actually not working. When I activate the plugin, the group forums disappear in all BP groups.

I have the same problem.

Some ideas?

This is great I am sure it will be much used. Perhaps it should be cut and pasted into a post entitled WP 2.8.1/BP 1.01/bbPress 1.0.3 (or something) Integration and made sticky.

I have read several people say they are on hold or gave up due to the difficulty in integrating these pieces. It is a shame it is difficult because all three are top of class work. Our forums are faster and cleaner than anything we have used in the past.

If only integrating cookies, users, and looks was a button click I think 90% of the frustration would be gone IMHO.

Hey there,

All the steps posted are just great and simple to follow

Thanks for it Graeme

WPMU, BP, and BB is working good. But I just can’t get the logins to work, I mean when I login into WPMU, I am not automatically logged into BBPress Forum.

I am guessing thats the reason why in my BuddyPress, the forum is working fine, but who ever posts, there is no gravtar or name is seen

Can someone help, what might have gone wrong.?

Thanks, mariusooms, for your reaction. I updated to the latest trunk with svn this morning. I’m using sub-domains and wpmu is located in my root. WPMU and BuddyPress both work as expected. I’ve activated forum setup and got the message “bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install”. HOWEVER, no bb-config.php file has been placed at my root (or anywhere else except the dummy default location as far as I can tell).

When I try to create a group, the screen goes completely blank at “/members/admin/groups/create/step/group-settings” and I see a “”POST /members/admin/groups/create/step/group-settings HTTP/1.1″ 403” in my Apache log file. Is that a problem of access rights? As I said, I temporarily set my root to 777 before setting up the bbPress integration in BuddyPress.

Just reporting back. I seem to be the only one with this particular problem, and I’ll try to investigate some more.

Re #3 – Your blogs will stay intact. Buddypress will create a few components called groups and forums (if you have bbPress installed). Groups can be configured by users or admins. BP forums are a part of groups.

Re #5 – There’s a few forum threads about integration and a couple of guides floating around the net.

The next version of Buddypress is scheduled to be released next week (August 11), but I won’t be surprised if they push it back a few weeks since there’s a lot of new stuff being implemented.

Right now, if you want a tight integration, you’ll have to theme WPMU and BuddyPress at the very least. There’s no way around it.

Re #6:

Groupblog plugin – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-groupblog-plugin#post-19344

– It’s still in development… I would just test this for now

Community Blogs for BuddyPress – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/

– A revision was made by Boone Gorges available here – hxxp://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2009/07/bp-community-blogs.zip (change hxxp to http)

– I’ve been meaning to test this, but haven’t yet

Keep in mind that these plugins would give a group a blog, but not a forum for each blog like you want… both have a different way of achieving this method.

The groupblog plugin would be more tightly integrated, whereas the “Community Blogs” plugin provisions group members to an existing WPMU blog.

Nope, not available.

This question has been mentioned many times.

As for the second question, right now, you can’t have one forum per blog (unless you manually set it up in bbPress). Sounds like a future plugin to me!

1) With WPMU and a user account, you can comment on any blog (provided you’re logged in)

2) This is possible… that page is a template file, so you could customize that with whatever you want.

3) If you already have users blogging on WPMU, BuddyPress will detect these user’s blogs (I’m quite sure BP detects them!). BP groups and forums build off of WPMU’s userbase; groups being a BP thing and forums being a BP/bbPress thing. So when you install BP, your users will have to configure their groups and forums from scratch.

4) Not sure on this one. There’s an option in WPMU to disable blog registration, but if you do that I think it will disable blog registration sitewide. This would be a better question for the WPMU forums.

5) BuddyPress does indeed utilize bbPress for forum functionality. The next version of BP will make it easy to integrate with. Right now, it still requires some grunt work.

You say want a forum for each blog? That’s a little overkill… but something like this can be accomplished with groups and a BP plugin (Marius Ooms’ groupblog plugin or Burt Adsit’s BP Community Blog plugin)

6) Yes you can list all blogs on a page using a WPMU function.

Hope that helps!

wpmu 2.8.2, bp 1.0.3, bbpress 1.0.2

I believe my integration is working as advertised but… when I delete a forum topic from a buddypress group it is removed from the group forum but not deleted from bbpress. Over time the bbpress forum will have a growing number of topics/posts that group admins think they have deleted (from buddypress) but actually live on in bbpress.

I’m not sure if tags within buddypress group forums are working. Tags can be added but I only find them available when directly accessing bbpress. While on the buddypress side, I’m not able to search groups for tags in the group forum.

Are these issues of a bad integration on my part or just limits of the current versions?

RebootNow is correct.

You can temporarily fix this by swapping out the html_entity_decode() function for utf8_decode().

Change

$content = @html_entity_decode( $content, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8" );

to:

$content = utf8_decode( $content);

I think that warning may be associated with a php4 incompatibility. Is your server currently supporting php5? If not, you may want to try switching to php5 to see whether the message goes away.

John,

I think you are right, the integration used by BPGroups becomes redundant when further integration is used, as it seems to want to double up. The forums, and posts work fine for me with that line commented out so fingers crossed I’ve got it working OK.

I think to find any white screen issues with the buddybar plugin everyone should start from a zero plugin count and then work forwards after activating the buddybar plugin to see which plugins are intefering with it. Perhaps in the future a full deep integration plug in can be set up to resolve these issues.

You did, input the deep integration code properly? Check your apache error logs as well.

WPMU 2.8.2

Buddypress 1.0.3

bbPress 1.0.2

That is the only problem, white screen in bbpress admin.

The thing is that bbPress doesn’t know that the user “nbsmrt” has BP Name “murat”.

UPDATE: Scratch that – your display names should actually be working, and in fact I see that they are for users other than “nbsmrt”. The bit I put below is necessary if you want the author link to go back to their BP profile instead of the bbPress profile page.

I wanted the name to be consistent everywhere, so I have a bit of common code that displays the user’s details in forum posts, blog comments, etc. Note that it requires deep integration because I am accessing BP variables inside bbPress.

For example, here is what I do in the forum…

First, in post.php I get the author’s details like so:

$author_id = get_post_author_id( $post_id );

$author = get_userdata( $author_id );

$author_loginname = $author->user_login;

$author_displayname = get_post_author();

Then I call a function to display the user link, avatar and other things. Part of this function does the following:

<?php

$author_url = _profile_url( $author_loginname );

?>



<div class="username">

<a href="<?php echo $author_url ?>"><?php echo $author_displayname ?></a>

</div>

And here is the code for the _profile_url() function:

function _profile_url( $login_name=0 ) {

global $bp;



/* if no login name is specified, use logged in user */

if ($login_name) {

$url = $bp->root_domain . '/members/' . $login_name . '/profile';

} else {

$url = $bp->loggedin_user->domain . 'profile';

}



return $url;

}

So the user’s BP Name is always used, and it always links to their BP profile.

My one concern about all this is that get_userdata() does a SQL query, adding one query for each author in a topic thread.

List version numbers of buddypress, wordpress mu, and bbpress.

If your database is messed up now, just drop all of the tables that go wp_bp_

The wp_ is your prefix from your bb-config.php and the bp_ is the prefix from the buddypress. just drop all tables with the wp_bp_ and you should be fine to reinstall.

“bumping” will not help you. It is only annoying. If noone replies, it is because noone reading the forums knows the answer. (I’m reading this after having been away – I would have done so even without your “bump”.) Please do not do it again – anywhere on the internet.

I have no idea why the component returns to it’s “disabled” state, try re-installing – either just it or the entire setup.

A “forum” tab will never appear on your BuddyPress site, unless you apply specific code. You can put something like this in a file called bp-custom.php in your wp-content/plugins folder:

function add_forum_to_main_menu() {

?><li><a href="http://example.org/forum/" title="Forum">Forum</a></li><?php

}

add_action( 'bp_nav_items', 'add_forum_to_main_menu' );