I must be exhausted. I don’t see the link for download.
Working with John and Josh to put up a community based around church/worship multimedia and graphic design. The site is using the basic BP theme for now but we have added BBpress, the WP ecommerce plugin, and next we are working on finding an IM plugin that we can use: http://worshipinhd.com
Murphy, check out deep integration. I know it’s possible to get your bbpress theme to match your buddypress theme but it’s something I haven’t attempted yet. But a search for something along the lines of “deep integration bbpress buddypress themes” might do the trick.
I would love the theme too. It would be really really cool if bbPress was a plugin. That way you could integrate it with any theme right? How hard would it be to do this?
bb-config was untouched by the update. I deleted the old bbpress and then uploaded the new one. xmprpc is still enabled in bbpress admin. Everything looks normal in buddypress forums setup. When I create a new group, both wire and forum are activated by default.
BUT: When I create a new group, everything works smoothly. A new forum is created and I can post topics.
I also just managed to sucessfully create a group forum for an old group. It seems that just the one group that I originally used for testing did not work and still does not.
For me that makes things “good enough”, because I can just delete this one old group. It was a test group anyway. I’m just wondering whether I should mark this thread as resolved, although the original problem is not resolved, just less troublesome. 
When you upgraded bbpress, did you remember to put all of your extra codes back into bb-config? And again, for bbpress, when you upgraded did you overwrite the files or did you remove them all and then upload the new ones? Did you go back into bbpress admin & make sure xml was still enabled? Did you check buddypress forums setup to make sure the info was still there? If you try to create a new group, are discussions enabled?
Funny, I have followed the steps in the integration – and I could not make the Forums appear in Buddypress Groups. I tried a lot but the only solution to my problem (and perhaps NOTME31’s problem also) is just to go to DASHBOARD > Buddypress > Component Setup > and “disable” Buddypress BBForums option, save it and then “enable” it again.
Voila! It worked! No need to use the BBPress Integration plugin nor modify WP-CONFIG and BB-CONFIG.
I am using the latest release of Buddypress, and BBpress rel 1. “Bechet”. My site is at http://www.animejoints.com, although I cared not to go into “deep integration” this time. I am already happy with the BBPress Forum sharing same login as with the Buddypress and Forums are working.
HINT: Simply follow the steps outlined on the first post of this thread.
bbPress Side (First):
1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster
2) you copy the “buddypress-enable.php” plugin out of the bp-forums folders and copy it into your /my-plugins/ folder (create if it doesn’t exist) so it is /my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php ****People ask about /bb-plugins/ versus /my-plugins/ and put it in /my-plugins/
3) Enable the plugin through your bbPress administration side for plugins
4) Edit “settings” to enable xmlrpc and pingbacks (both)
5) edit your bb-config.php and just before the closing php call at the bottom of the page put:
$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;
buddypress Side (Second):
6) Go into your main blog dashboard as the “site-admin” and go to the “bbPress Forums” page. Put in the URL of your forum like http://yoursite.com/forums/ and make sure you have the ending slash on that one.
7) Put in the user that you created in step 1 with the bbPress “administration” rights and their password. I never changed the password, just used the random one it sent me, but it is up to you. I usually save it a couple of times to ensure it was entered due to a refreshing bug at time of writing this.
Before you go to your Group Admin Setting to enable Forum, go to BuddyPress> Component Setup > and disable – save – enable BBPress Forums.
Hi guys
Just to say I had the same problem, it was because I’d changed my admin password. I’d figured I needed to go in to bbpress and also change the admin password there but I hadn’t also made the change in the forums intergration part. Not sure if this applies for anyone else….
Those experiencing difficulty with posting should find their problems are now gone.
This generally only happened to people who had registered elsewhere (like bbPress.org or WordPress.org) and were trying to post on these forums for the first time.
Yeah – I’m back… meh……
Has anyone installed bbpress 1.0 from scratch and got group discussions to work? After another 20 or 30 installs, I’ve decided that there’s gotta be something in alpha 6 that buddypress is looking for. Something that bbpress 1 doesn’t have. I say this because I can get all of this stuff to work together but ONLY if I upgrade from alpha 6. I don’t dare try the RC versions.
When doing the upgrade, the database is updated & gives the following info
Beginning upgrade…
>>> Modifying database: monday3 (localhost)
>>>>>> Table: bb_term_taxonomy
>>>>>>>>> Adding index: taxonomy
>>>>>>>>>>>> Done
Making plugin directory at C:\wamp\www\monday3\forums/my-plugins/: bb_upgrade_1110
Making theme directory at C:\wamp\www\monday3\forums/my-templates/: bb_upgrade_1120
Is it something in that update that does it or is there a specific file that’s left over from alpha 6 that has data that buddypress needs? It seems like if I delete the forum files & then upload the new version’s files, it still doesn’t work. But if I just rename the bb-config file & do an overwrite, the upgrade works fine.
Yay – and back to Boo!!! Why the heck won’t this stuff install fresh?
Recap — I upgraded from bbpress alpha 6 to bbpress 1 – all works
Upgraded from BP1 to BP1.0.2 and all works
But now, (fresh install) I install bbpress 1 & BP1.0.2 and discussion just refuse to work.
I checked both config files vs the working install & everything matches up.
Checked all xml settings and they’re on.
Checked all forums settings pages & they match with the working install.
The only plugins on the working install are BP and bbpress-integration. Same on non-working fresh install.
Could there be a file missing from one of the installs that would remain during an upgrade but wouldn’t be there if I’m installing fresh? (I’m not this stupid dangit lol It shouldn’t be this hard)
As always, thank you for your help.
Yes r-a-y. I’ve done that. Tried bp1.0.1 also. I’ve seriously tried like every combo I can think of. I shall return with news of new installs. LOL
Alright — I now have the most recent version of everything running via upgrading from bp1 & from bbpress alpha 6. So that means it does work on my computer & now I have all of the settings. Now to see if I can get it to all install fresh. *sigh*
Hey Chris,
Have you tried just installing BP 1.0.2, bbPress 1.0 and WPMU?
Instead of starting from BP 1.0 and then upgrading?
Update — Used localhost.localdomain when installing wpmu. I’m now running BuddyPress 1.0 & bbPress 1.0 Integration is perfect & group discussion is enabled.
As stated in my first post, whenever I go to BuddyPress 1.0.2, everything goes all stupid with group discussion. Automatic upgrade won’t work for me so am I just suppose to overwrite the buddypress folder with the new version? Thanks for all of your help!!
I’m running on localhost.localdomain and I don’t get that weird COOKIE_DOMAIN localhost IP when I go to the bbPress Integration settings in WPMU.
I’ll be watching for your reply. 
Can anyone fix this for running on localhost – I know these settings are wrong but it’s what the bbpress integration plugin kicks out. It’s all in a directory called monday (as I’m sure you can tell)
define( 'COOKIEHASH', '519146fcc733b211cc72c7312b84bd28' );
define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.127.0.0.1' );
define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/monday/' );
define( 'ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH', '/monday' );
define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/monday/' );
Hello everyone!
First of all, thank you for your responses. The problem is now solved. However, I don’t know how! I wrote to the web host describing the problem and to the best of my guess, they changed few PHP.INI settings [Don’t know how it got messed?]
The system did not have bbpress. I’ve upgraded buddypress to latest stable and everything seems to be working fine now.
To answer the questions :-
1. Are you running WPMU 2.7.1 or WordPress 2.8? You mention that you were running WPMU before. Did you upgrade to the beta version of WPMU 2.8 from trunk? Or, did you accidentally upgrade to WP 2.8? WPMU 2.8 is not yet in public release.
-> I did not upgrade accidently. In fact, one of the members reported that there was an error. The system was running fine with WPMU 2.7.1 and BP 1.0 (the first stable release) and then suddenly the error popped up.
2. What other plugins besides BP do you have activated? Have you tried removing them all except BP and see if you can get back to the plugins page?
-> I do not have any other plugin than BP.
3. Have you tried removing BP and then seeing if the plugins page returns? If it does, then deactivate all other plugins and reinstall BP. What happens?
-> No, I didn’t try that. I could not deactivate any plugins, because I couldn’t see the plugins in the admin panel!
From the overall experience, it looks like the issue was with me signing in as site-admin but ending up in blog admin panel (anyone knows why this happened?)
On that particular install, all I did was remove everything from the bbPress folder except the bp-config. Then I pasted everything from the new version of bbPress in there and it just went crazy. LOL It started off with a wp-header error which I figured out & fixed (can’t remember how) but then this error came up about not being able to open the core signup page so I just started over.
@TheEasyButton
Did this behavior occur after installing the bbPress Integration plugin? Or, was it some other aspect of the overall bbPress integration?
Did you recently upgrade bbPress? That was the exact error I got the other day when doing the bbPress upgrade. It made absolutely zero sense to me because the file was obviously there. It also deleted all abilities to see plugins & BuddyPress in admin. I know you said you didn’t do any upgrades or tweaks but maybe this one didn’t come to mind.
Would I be a pain in the butt if I asked someone to post all of the extras that were placed in wp-config & bb-config. Also a list of plugins that are enabled would be dandy.
I seriously don’t know what the deal is but I just can’t get anything above BP 1.0 to work. I’ve tried on WAMP and GoDaddy (stop laughing) and it’s just not working. I’ve tried every combination of cookie codes & defines that I could find & plugins & bbPress versions. I kid you not, I have at least 20 installs & 500 groups created. It’s sad really. LOL
Also, you can email the codes to admin at theeasybutton dot com if that works better for you.
Again, I appreciate any help that all ya’ll can and have offered.
Lots of subtle cookie things mostly. I haven’t tried WPMU trunk yet, but integrating WPMU 2.7.1, BP 1.0.2, and bbPress 1.0 should be the same as your tutorial.
I have got user integration to work fine (wpmu 2.7.1, bp 1.0.2, bbpress 1.0) but see the same problem you describe above with the Attention Admin message when creating groups in bp. Cannot get topic posts to work from within bp either.
q1. do i need the buddypress enable.php activated?
q2. what settings do i have to make for xml-rpc?
You could try using v1.0 of BBPress (random guess)
Sorry about that – You didn’t mention what version of bbPress you were using and I assumed that since you were in an old post, you were using the old version. I’m working on a tutorial (or will be the second I get this sucker to work) My suggestion at this moment would be to follow my tutorial for installing the alpha 6 version. And then upgrade it using r-a-y’s instructions at this post. I know it’s not the greatest answer but for now, it’s all I can personally offer. Hopefully someone will have a tutorial up shortly. LOL
