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This works almost fine for me.

When I try to go to Admin in bbpress I get the white screen.

Help Please!

If you are asking if can you use some other forum software instead of bbPress as a sitewide forum, then the answer is yes. If you are asking if can you use some other forum software instead of bbPress that will share user credentials or function as a group-based forum component, then the answer is no–not without doing a lot of custom coding.

However, I believe that Simple:Press does share WP user credentials, but I am not positive about this as I do not use it.

are you sure you installed latest bbpress ?

THe same happens with bbPress. At this point there is no solution.

Does anyone know how much (server) memory is used by a single user visiting an integrated bbPress+BuddyPress installation (assuming standard installs and themes)? This could be a big impact on the ability of the system to scale to many users and lots of traffic.

I remember _ck_ (moderator on the bbPress forum) saying that it would be about 1MB, but that was before BackPress integrated a lot of the overlapping functionality.

How would one measure something like this?

Hey John,

Regarding the spam comment, do you know if these forums are using the bbPress Akismet plugin?

Here is my first Buddypress-run site: ecofuture.

Runs on MU 2.8.2, BuddyPress 1.0.2, bbPress 1.0.

I was afraid of upgrading to 1.0.3 after reading through the forums and after finally getting the three-way integration to work.

Buddypress pages are worked up fromt he skeleton theme. Homepage blog is based on the Thematic Theme. I got the two to closely resemble each other.

The idea with the included bphome/bpmember themes is to be a skeleton framework to build off of. It shows how to use all of the included functions and loops in a way that makes the output of each element clear and concise.

It might not be the cleanest theme available, but it’s a great start if you’re learning BP or you need to understand what files do what for what reasons.

In my opinion, an experienced BP developer should be able to create a unique template starting from the bphome/bpmember themes and working outwards, within a few days. There’s no doubt that BP themes are extremely involved, but that’s likely to change as the platform matures and WordPress better supports theme locations and child themes.

Long story short, you’re probably right, but don’t expect the included theme to get much fancier. (Look at WordPress and bbPress for example. Both included original themes are very primitive in their designs.)

A custom loop is the most direct way, instead of a widget

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/custom-loops-for-forum-topics#post-17240

Okay… so what might be some example of server recommendations for different installations? For instance… I have a dedicated server but it’s not exactly high-powered. The specs are:

– 3.06 Ghz Celeron

– 80GB HDD

– 512 MB RAM

– 1000 GB Traffic

– 10Mbps uplink

Nothing fancy! But I’m only serving half a dozen small blog sites now with very low traffic. Mostly just small personal sites. It’s awesome for that and being dedicated allows me total control and I don’t have to worry about my ‘neighbours’ getting my IP blacklisted… etc.

Now… let’s say I launch a public BuddyPress site with 250 registered users, pretty low traffic from non-registered users, the bpPicture plugin, chat plugin, bbPress and NO personal blogs allowed (just the main blog). Is it gonna go boom? This client can probably afford to pay more for hosting if needed.

I have another potential BP project which would probably also be a low traffic site… but where the client wants users to be able to create blogs. It will be a true community site. It could have… let’s say 20-30 blogs. It would also have forums, photos and chat. This client is a friend. It’s a simple pro bono thing with no custom theming or coding. Problem is, she has no money for more ‘iron’. Not a cent.

I know this is all very hypothetical and hard to judge… but even a rough idea of server recommendations for a few different scenarios would be extremely helpful.

Glad to help. Shame it’s so hackish, but at least it works!

OK, found that if I comment out

//require_once( BACKPRESS_PATH . ‘/class.ixr.php’ );

in oci_bb_group_forums.php it all works happily together…!!!!

Jeff,

I don’t agree that this is just a WPMU question. Getting bbpress and buddypress to ‘talk’ to one another to use the groups plugin is an issue for shared hosting, which may not be resolved in the WPMU forums. A few hosts have been mentioned on this site but it would still be good for this issue to be aired with those not using dedicated servers.

Perhaps, in terms of scalability it is different but for those starting out how far shared hosting will take you before shelling out for better hosting is valid.

Buddypress will be picked up and used by a lot of ‘hobbyists’ (I use the term in quotes not to offend) and shared experiences in this forum is surely what it’s all about.

As for me, I’ll be starting out using shared hosting, but am still at the testing on home server stage so not yet positive enough to say how it will pan out.

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are these powered by bbPress????? forums??? and SimpleScripts make no difference manual installations have same problems

didn’t knew they released it i mean bbPress 1.0.2

http://graduatebuddy.com/ uses WordPress MU 2.8.2, BuddyPress 1.0.3, bbPress 1.0

comment system needs to be improved, had to go to 9th page to post this comment, there should be a link somewhere of the top of first page, and the from should be at the bottom of every page intensedebate if could be made compatible would be a great plus

now the BuddyPress install:

http://graduatebuddy.com/

it uses a wordpress MU 2.8.2 , BuddyPress 1.0.3, bbPress 1.0

Thanks for the heads-up el_terko! I’ve just upgraded to 1.0.2 and nothing obvious is immediately broken.