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Since my opinion counts too, I’m going to jump into the fray…

The reason why people like WordPress, is because it unknowingly found the PERFECT balance of challenge, and ease of use. In order to become proficient at using WordPress as a development tool, you have to go through a rigorous 6 month hazing period of being totally lost in the code. Not because it’s badly written, or sloppy, but because it’s just a lot to learn.

You know why people that join fraternities rarely ever leave? Because once you’ve gone through the hazing, you’re more likely to stay. You know how businesses earn repeat clients? They charge MORE money, because people are more likely to go back to a place they’ve already invested money into, rather than a place that gave them a $15 oil change. Strange eh? Make things too easy, and people won’t go back. Make it too hard, and they won’t even try it in the first place. There’s a balance, and WordPress, bbPress, and BuddyPress found it.

Once you learn it though, it’s like driving a 6 speed manual trans; you just glide through the gears without really even thinking about it. It’s like learning to juggle; or play baseball; or ride a bike. You just do it naturally.

My experience with things written with strict coding standards is that no one ever appreciates the time spent adhering to those standards anyways, and the codebase is basically ignored. phpBB is a great example, because the code is dead simple to use and understand, but how many people do you hear about using it to its full potential?

I used to code every single website I did to section 508 compliance. You know how many clients cared? 0. So, now I don’t. Haha!

WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress make you earn your keep. They are investments in time, energy, and they actually can give you back what you put in. Not EVERYONE can sit down and develop a good plugin for any of the platforms, but LOTS of awesome plugins are possible and with a little time, anyone can sit down and write one. Anyone can develop a theme with a little effort. WordPress works for everyone, not just newbies and not just professionals.

I can’t predict what tomorrow will bring. Maybe something will come along and totally blow the doors off of anything we could develop ourselves. That’s okay. But for right now, I don’t think there’s anything better than what WordPress, bbPress, and BuddyPress bring to the table.

Thanks for the warning …. haha … … I did not want to go down the wrong path and waste a lot of time.

If I were you Brian Katz, I’d avoid the wpmu 2.8.1 release for the moment. Have you seen all the issues floating through trac and svn for that ver? It’s not exactly ready for prime time yet. Soon, but not yet.

Question regarding integration of bbPress 1.01 + WPMU 2.8.1 beta + BuddyPress 1.0.2

Will there be any steps that can be eliminated with the above integration steps with new release of 2.8.1 beta?

I’ve installed WPMU trunk via SVN and all is well.

Then I install BuddyPress via the shell ‘wget’ method, and placed the plugin and theme files in the correct locations:

/wp-content/plugins/buddypress

/wp-content/themes/bphome

/wp-content/bp-themes

I can activate BuddyPress, but when I go to the /members page for example, I am given:

You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes/” and refresh this page. You can download more themes here.

When I visit the wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-core.php page, the dropdown of themes to select gives me the default WPMU themes – not the BP themes.

Here are some details about my setup:

1. Which version of WPMU are you running?

– 2.8.1-RC1

2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?

– Subdomain

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

– NA

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version?

– No, fresh install

5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress?

– Yes

6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?

– 1.0.2

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

– No, fresh install

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

– No

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

– Standard, for now

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

– No

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

– No

12. If running bbPress, which version?

– Not running, yet

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

– No errors

Hi

I got mine to work with removing the call for the logo in bp-buddybar.php

http://community.echo360.com/forums/

function bp_buddybar_for_bbpress() {

echo '<div id="wp-admin-bar">';

//bp_adminbar_logo();

Oh my head hurts. *laughs*

I’ve still not been able to do this from scratch. I think there’s either a file that BP is looking for or something in the database that’s been omitted from the newest release of bbPress.

But for now, hopefully this solution will work.

I just posted the steps that I’ve been taking to install the latest releases of WPMU, BuddyPress & bbPress. You can find it here.

One thing that might help is to put the following code on bb-config.

$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

I’ve tried to do this install from scratch for almost a week and have failed every time. But here are the steps I’ve been taking to get all of the newest releases to work together.

As always – get backups before making any changes!!

After you get wpmu & bp installed, install bbPress alpha 6 using my tutorial

Steps 24-28 deal with cookies. Ignore those and instead, use the bbPress integration plugin to get the codes for all of that. Then, delete the plugin.

After you get alpha 6 working correctly (group discussion works & login integration works), rename your bb-config file. Then overwrite the alpha 6 files with bbPress 1.0.1 Don’t delete the files!!! Overwrite them!! I think there’s a file being left behind that bp looks for & it isn’t included in the new version.

After overwriting the files, navigate to your forums. (i.e. domain.com/forums) and you’ll be presented with an install screen. Enter your database info & on the next page it will tell you that the database is already there & you probably want to use the upgrade script. Go through & do that part.

When finished with the database upgrade, open your old (renamed) bb-config file and copy all of your manually added codes over to your new bb-config file. Save & upload & all that good stuff.

At this point, group discussion should work. If not, check your xml settings & make sure they’re still on. The buddypress enable plugin (found in forum settings) doesn’t need to be activated.

*fingers crossed*

First of all i would say search this forum,There will be many posts regarding it.

There are lot of tutorials over the internet.Hope these helps

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

External Links

http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

Hey cozzie,

For bbPress meta keywords / description, I use a modified version of a bbPress plugin called SEO Tools:

http://www.finalwebsites.com/forums/topic/new-plugin-bbpress-seo-tools

Oh, and be sure to set the topic to “resolved” if your question has been answered.

@ipstenu

No, the deep integration lines shouldn’t be deleted as stated in the readme.txt.

That needs to be changed… John?

Using a URL in the include_once doesn’t work, period.

Using a URL in the include_once does not give you deep integration.

Deactivate the BuddyBar in the bbPress admin area.

Remove all lines you put in bb-config.php.

Let’s start again… fresh!

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First thing you want to do is deep integration between WPMU and bbPress, then you enable the plugin in bbPress.

Put the following in bb-config.php:

It should be something similar to this:

<php

if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) & !defined( 'XMLRPC_REQUEST' )) {

define( 'WP_USE_THEMES', false );

include_once( 'YOURABSPATH_HERE/wp-blog-header.php' );

header( "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" );

header( "Status: 200 All rosy" );

}

the rest of bb-config here...

For YOURABSPATH_HERE… either use the path that John’s “abs.php” spits out or use

include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-blog-header.php');

Save bb-config.php.

Head on over to your bbPress forums.

Do you get any errors?

If everything is good, go to your bbPress admin area and enable the Buddybar plugin.

What happens?

Ok, using John’s deep integration method loses the forums functionality between BuddyPress and bbPress. Why would that happen?

Thank you…

The abs.php file returned a different path I wasn’t considering.

When I put that path into bb-config.php I lose the integration between BuddyPress and bbPress.

So, I’m thinking I’m doing something else wrong in the integration between WPMU, BP, and BB.

I’ll dig in to check settings, any suggestions on where to start?

Using an actual website address is different than using the $_SERVER[‘document_root’].

Next step is to use John’s utility “abs.php” file:

http://svn.wp-plugins.org/buddybar-in-bbpress/trunk/

Download the “abs.php” file, upload it to your sever and go to the URL:

eg. ht*p://example.com/abs.php

It should output the correct directory path that you can put in the include_once line.

In the readme it says to use:

include_once( '/homepages/8/d149961498/htdocs/codeismusic/wp-blog-header.php' );

Is that different from:

include_once( 'http://mydomain.com/wp-blog-header.php' ); ?

Should I leave out http://mydomain.com?

Appreciate the help, just not sure what I should change or look into…

@Russell

Use the official instructions from the readme.txt.

http://svn.wp-plugins.org/buddybar-in-bbpress/trunk/readme.txt

Swap out the include_once line for this:

include_once($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’].’/wp-blog-header.php’);

In most cases that will work, but let us know what happens!

Tried that and forums would not work with BuddyPress.

The only way I can keep the forums working with BuddyPress is to keep that line in bb-config.php as:

include_once( 'http://mydomain.com/wp-blog-header.php' );

Now leaving that line in bb-config I can post from BuddyPress groups into the forums.

AND I can now activate the BuddyBar in bbPress plugin, BUT I don’t see the BuddyBar in bbPress!

Now, could this be an issue somewhere else in bb-config.php?

I have the integration working and everything, but I’m wondering if I have set something somewhere that is throwing this off…

Thanks for the help!

The read me says to delete that when you’re done … won’t doing that disable deep-integration?

@Russell

Use the official instructions from the readme.txt.

http://svn.wp-plugins.org/buddybar-in-bbpress/trunk/readme.txt

Swap out the include_once line for this:

include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-blog-header.php');

In most cases that will work, but let us know what happens!