I’m closer to figuring this out. I originally created the “wp_users” users table by copying in the table from a bbPress install (i.e. from “bb_users”).
In “bb_users” the user_login field can have caps, but the “user_nicename” is all lowercase.
It seems that users who had no caps in their user_login field can post. But a user with names like…
– user_login = RebootNow
– user_nicename = rebootnow
..can’t post.
I previously had BP integrated with bbPress 0.9.0.5 and this wasn’t the case. All users could post.
Does anyone have any idea whether this was an intentional change?
At this point I am questioning everything. Following Burt’s updated integration instructions there is only one point where I have the slightest doubt. In the bbPress admin page for WP integration, it says the following about the SALTs:
This must match the value of the WordPress setting named “auth_salt” in your WordPress site. Look for the option labeled “auth_salt” in this WordPress admin page.
There are no SALT values in “/wp-admin/options.php”. So I put values like the following in wp-config.php:
define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘XXX’);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘XXX’);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘XXX’);
…where the XXX values came from “https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/”. I have corresponding “BB_” entries in “bb-config.php”.
Need more info, Reboot Now.
Can the user log into WordPress? But not into bbPress?
Okay, here’s another check:
Double-check that your uploaded bbPress files are actually the same as the files from the distribution package! This one killed me a couple of days ago.
Have you used the bbPress Integration plugin?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/
And copied the config lines verbatim?
You probably have just double-checking!
What are you using in your bbPress .htaccess, ipstenu?
I wouldn’t mind checking that out as well!
As enthusiastic as you are about WordPress, most of us are about BuddyPress, so without speaking for anyone else, my opinion is biased towards using BuddyPress for every website. My moms knitting website will use BuddyPress. 
If you want users to be able to blog about their own stuff without moderation, then you want WordPressMU, because each user gets their own blog to talk about whatever they want; WHATEVER they want. That means even though your site is about fashion, that doesn’t stop them from talking about puppies.
If you want these users to be able to interact with each other, and have personalities, then you want BuddyPress.BP will allow your users to talk to each other privately, form groups to talk about things with each other, and comment on each others profiles.
The reasons NOT to use BuddyPress? At the moment there’s very little restrictive control over what people do. You can’t stop someone from putting profanity in their profile. You can’t block a user from messaging you or others. Also, the platform is still evolving as much as WordPress and bbPress are. That means that if you like to keep your website on the cutting edge, you’ll find it hard to install everything and leave it alone, as enhancements and improvements are coming through at least monthly, and so far upgrading isn’t a one click thing yet (almost though)
Those is my opinionses… Not sure how helpful they is, but if you like WordPress, you will probably see the potential of BuddyPress for what you want your website to be.
I’ve used this website before as an example and I hope he doesn’t mind, but check out leadpress.com as an example.
You’re not running BuddyPress in a sub directory, but actually just stopping it from taking over the root and /blog URLs, and instead using the normal WordPress way of assigning pages.
Rename home.php to community.php.
Use the Page Template method to name that page template “Community.”
In the blog admin, Make a page for your home, a page for your blog, and a page for your community, all with similar slugs.
The community page will use the “Community” page template.
Goto your blog settings and assign the front page to be the page you made for home, and make the index/blog page the one you made for your blog.
Then, you will want to install bbPress in a folder called “/community/forums/” and be sure to create a page with the slug “forums” as a sub page of “community”
That should do it?
just noticed you commented on this thread:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration
Do I understand that it doesn’t prevent new users, it just prevents registering from the mysite/forums/registration.php process and still allows auto joining via the BP process?
Sorry, I was away camping! Yes, that’s exactly what it does.
@hempsworth – I expanded on the previous tutorials here:
http://www.dougdaulton.com/2009/06/26/complete-bbpress-integration-for-buddypress/
This was done with SVN checkouts just before the most current stable builds, so there may be conflicts, but it steps you through a things that were unclear in previous walkthroughs.
Let me know if it helps.
Doug
PS: Upon reread, I just realized that the Easy Button tut is newer and probably more accurate than mine. Will need to do an update. 
Okay I got forums up and working and again!
This was the weirdest thing… the bbPress forums – xmlrpc.php – was somehow larger in filesize than the release version.
I overwrote the /forums/xmlrpc.php from the one in the bbPress 1.0.1 package and now group forums are working again!
Jeez louise!
Bumping this thread again.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
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Should I just reinstall bbPress 1.01?
If each developer is running their own version of WPMU locally and then committing changes to a central repository, then there really isn’t any other way I know of.
If you’re doing it as often as you say, I bet you can trim that 8 hours down pretty substantially. I’ve got it down to about an hour or so, fully integrated with bbPress, subversion, using Netbeans as my IDE in a XP or Vista environment.
To begin with, I would start by following these tutorials:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-103-and-bbpress-which-version-plugins-cookies
http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/
BTW, regarding user mapping, the only setting I changed was WP Admin one, mapped to bbPress Key Master. The other four settings remain untouched.
Hi cozzie,
As Andy has stated above, the Dashboard is just a few BP loops on one page (with exception to the bbPress favorites section!).
Read up on BP loops here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/
I actually started building my own dashboard-like page for members (kind of mirroring BP’s) and I really dig the BP loops, especially the documentation – that really helped.
just noticed you commented on this thread:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration
Do I understand that it doesn’t prevent new users, it just prevents registering from the mysite/forums/registration.php process and still allows auto joining via the BP process?
ipstenu – well thx for the suggestion. so far no go. What is see mr “mail.ru” dude doing is back door registering for the bbPress forum section. He then shows up as a new user in BP having bypassed the normal process. Looking for ban plugins for that if avail.
Not sure Nicholaszen. Since there’s a lot of activity going on with BuddyPress patches and MU changes, I’m going to hold off chasing any ghosts on this plugin until the next stable versions come out.
I’m keeping an eye on this daily so I’m still supporting it, but there won’t be a new version until the next versions of MU and BP come out, unless any major flaws or bugs are uncovered.
I’m happy to hear it helped. I put an updated version on earlier yesterday (after I finally slept for a few hours). It was nice to be able to cut some steps out vs the alpha 6 version.
@TheEasyButton … the instructions on your site for 2.7.1 really helped me with this. I must have spent several days trying to work out the correct steps.
Hi, I want to integrate IPB 3 with wordpress too. My thing may be a bit different though. What I want to do is instead of using bbpress for the group forums, I would love for it to use ipb 3 instead. Is there any way of supporting ipb with buddypress? I have been looking for a while a way to do that.
Update:
-I used Burt’s XMLRPC debugger to see if it was an XMLRPC problem and it seems like it is as I’m getting the following error:
-32700 >> parse error. not well formed
Now I need to know how to solve this problem.
The thing is though when I try to make a BP group forum post, the forum shows up in bbPress, just no topic. So XMLRPC has to be working to some extent right?
Hopefully either one of the mods or someone can answer the following question:
I have a bunch of bbpress_live_cache entries in the db from when group forums were actually working.
Should I clear the bbpress_live entries in the db?
Thanks Graeme! I spent the last 2 days trying to get a fresh MU2.8.1/BP1.03/BB1.01 build going, but it just wasn’t clicking. This did it for me.
Okay — So the answer to my last question was no. The user switch code is not needed.
Got everything up & going. Not sure what the deal was this morning. I guess that’s what I get for trying to do work at 5am when I’ve been up for 2 days straight. *laughs*
As an addition to the steps that Graeme so graciously outlined for us:
1. It’s alright to install BuddyPress first just in case you were wondering.
2. After you get the cookie settings from the bbPress integration plugin, it’s okay to deactivate & delete it. It works great for getting the settings but isn’t required to keep everything running & every extra plugin (even if deactivated) adds load time to pages.
3. On my own install, I have an extra cookie setting that needs added. It comes up with the plugin & it’s the admin_cookie_path. (Running via localhost – in case that matters)
Thanks to Graeme for the tutorial and to Chris for showing us the light…
