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Ok thanks. So now I have JJJ’s workaround and I was able to activate the plugin.

There is clearly something wrong with my xmlrpc. I am unable to bring over any data and so this goes back to the fact that my forums won’t sync. When I go to my XMLRPC page(http://phoenix.fanster.com/xmlrpc.php) I am getting this error:

XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.

Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

OK. Trying to sort out the issues here. We got what I think we should try and solve first and that may make the rest of the issues go away.

Users in wp can’t login to bbpress. If you have user integration configured correctly then that can’t happen. When wp and bbpress share the same user table, which is what user integration is, then bbpress’s users ARE wp users. Same user table and passwords.

Do you have wp/bbpress user integration?

It’s possible to create a standalone wp and standalone bbpress. Create the utility user for group forums on both sides and be able create forums through bp group forums. Never thought of it before but you can. Without user integration it would explain the symptoms you are experiencing.

Take two asprins, install bbpress with wp user integration and call me in the morning.

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Or you can simply use a 301 redirect to redirect your forum to your sites groups page

Sounds like a user switching/authentication problem. When bp talks to bbpress it uses xmlrpc and then uses the logged in (in bp) user’s credentials to work in bbpress. Only for creating posts and topics. Creation of forums and reading topics, posts goes under the utility user that gets setup in config.

Do you have the var: $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true; declared in bb-config.php? If somehow bp/mu is confused about the var: $current_user->user_login then it will have problems authenticating your normal users on the bbpress side.

Don’t use the LDAP plugin and don’t know what the implications for authentication are in xmlrpc. This does sound like it’s related to that. Your users can’t authenticate on the bbpress side so, failure.

The bpGroups plugin doesn’t support deep integration. It wasn’t designed with that in mind. jjj has developed a work around to get things running.

Yeah I have to for my theme…Am I not supposed to do that?

Ok so I guess the next question is, can I do something to fix it?

@egerrits

The problem is that it is very hard to keep track of topics in bbPress – if you make a good suggestion at the wrong time, it can get pushed off the “front page” before anyone has a chance to write a response and get a discussion going.

Also, because there is no email notification of replies, people tend to return less often than other types of forum, meaning that some people who might love your idea simply don’t visit the forum on the day you post it.

I think the trick is to keep an eye on topics as they emerge and, if someone posts an idea that chimes with one you have already posted, reply as I have above, linking to your original thread. I have successfully used this technique in the past to resuscitate threads that were initially ignored but ended up being lively discussions.

BP group forums require a seperate working install of BBPress.

You’re using deep integration aren’t you…

Ok update. I finally got an error!

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class ixr_value in /var/www/forums/bb-includes/backpress/class.ixr.php on line 24

Damn Kunkel, that’s one nice theme. Did you make it yourself or did someone else make it for you?

I’m actually looking for someone who can customize a theme for me and integrate Buddypress and bbPress in it.

Thanks Burtadsit!

Yeah so I had that current version of the plugin and am still having errors. Any reason why this would not activate in BBpress? Is there something it checks for? I have been having other issues with my forums, but I still cant see a reason why it wouldn’t activate!

Just started and definitely still a long way to go!!!

After three days of fiddling around I finally managed to fully integrate bbPress, so now I have to figure out how to add “Forum” to the menu and include all the header section into bbPress. The design will also be custon when I’m finished.

The site: http://domainelements.com/

I’ll jump on the wagon here – has there been any progress since this series of posts?

This support forum looks great, and as all I’m using is a modified buddypress theme whatever this site uses would be perfect.

Anything around that could do the job?

The prospect of starting from scratch isn’t something I’m particularly keen on to be honest.

bobman024, I’m kinda lost here. What plugin are we talking about? bpGroups? Download the latest at: http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/02/14/buddypress-group-forums-for-bbpress/

I just downloaded that ver and set it up again. Activates and operates.

Hey Burtadsit….I can’t seem to get this plugin to activate. Any reasons why that would happen. Everything is set up properly and I can activate all other plugins…

Not sure if I’m late to the game on this one, but I followed the instructions in the bp-forums directory (https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt) and the install went easily and quickly using the latest bbPress (checked out via SVN from trunk).

I was prepared for a fight after reading this thread, but was pleasantly surprised that it worked the first time with no problems.

I use bbSync and bbPress integration but i don’t think that either of them sync up the avatar images, so will take a look at this – would there be any conflict with these plugins and bbGroups?

You can currently use the bbGroups plugin by BurtAdsit to do this with group forums. He’s paused integration for other Extended Profile fields and non-group forums for now, but that is the closest integration available currently.

Take a look over at http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/

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The problem with doing it any other way right now, is that without grabbing and caching forum specific BuddyPress profile info and putting it into a convenient user_meta array, it would require an additional query into the database for each user that you want each piece of info for. So lets say you not only want the avatar, but their fullname, and another piece of profile info that you’ve made up. That’s three queries a person, per post, per page. A page with 10 posts just gave you 30 extra queries. The bbGroups plugin works great to counter act this, but I’ve been the primary beta tester experiencing hiccups and Burt has patiently been trouble shooting with me to figure out why. The past week life has sort-of halted my ability to test, but it is a priority for me to address.

I’d be interested to integrate this as well

unfortunately this did not work for me, i’d also like to use one wpmu install and run multiple separate domains with buddypress on a subdomain and bbpress, using the inove theme.

see my post on wpmu forum

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=11695#post-70149