BuddyPress.org

Just for future reference, here’s the best post I’ve found there:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/simple-integration-tip-for-new-registration#post-17359

Ricardo

take a look at those plugins:

http://bp-dev.org/plugins/registered-users-only-2/

http://bp-dev.org/plugins/bbpress-force-login/

http://bp-dev.org/plugins/force-member-login/

you may find what you want…

I’m revisiting this issue again. Hello everybody. It seems that php 4.x has problems in the area we are discussing. Specificly with the exact functions that are used to encode and decode data between bp and bbpress. martinnr5 suggested this and it seems to be true.

The solution is to upgrade to php 5.x

What versions of php is everyone running?

Just discovered this one: after integrating bbPress, my tech guy and I first found that all of the existing blog entires an account had created no longer showed up on the profile activity streams or the site wide activity streams. The entries though were still there.

I don’t understand that part above.

New blog creation doesn’t show in activity stream.

I’m guessing that your bp prob was solved by upgrading to latest trunk. The bbpress issue can be solved by upgrading to the latest of that as well. Sam fixed that.

Fix for bb-config.php when using “deep integration”

How to currently, correctly include WordPress within bbPress and NOT throw a 404 in IE.

Add to beginning of bb-config.php:

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

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);

include_once( '/absolute/path/to/yourdomain.com/wp-blog-header.php' );

header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");

header("Status: 200 All rosy");

}

@Matt, I think that if it’s partially working, than chances are something is amiss somewhere. Are you using deep integration or no?

John, I am using the VERSIONS of software that you suggested already and thought I had it working and was pretty excited until I ran into point 2.

Point 1 : The same exact thing is happening when I ONLY use the forum part. I can create as many forums as I want, but any topic I post goes straight to a “This topic has been closed >> Back to …” no other message.

I suppose this also addresses point #2.

When you say that there will be a lot of action in the bbpress and buddypress realm, do you know this for a fact? Is this insider information? I want to use this for another client project that just came up, but cant do so until all bugs are worked out and the installation is more integrated.

Thanks John and Burt for thinking about this one.

I’m actually a bit fuzzy on what you mean by Deep integration Burt.

I think we’re saying the same thing in two different ways.

Colors, yes. bbPress, yes. BuddyPress integration, No.

They don’t. Not one that’s meant for BuddyPress anyhow.

Remember this website, while orange, isn’t using BuddyPress.

No I understand, and I would certainly reshape my theme to match the orange one of BuddyPress also. Seamless integration is the goal.

Haha I used one of my three wishes to make it work, so I’ve got two left. Burt is my genie.

First things first. You need to use WPMU 2.7, BuddyPress RC1, and bbPress 1.0alpha6. Any other combination will result in a giant stress headache on your behalf for at least a few days.

To address part 1: When you say that you haven’t gotten the forums to work flawlessly, are you speaking of integration, or alone? Obviously the first thing we need to have is a fully functioning bbPress installation before we can attempt to integrate them together.

To address part 2: That is bizarre. When you say closed, do you mean the topic is marked as closed, or that when you submit the post that it just refreshes the page immediately back to the main front page?

The BuddyPress forums are currently running the most stable version of bbPress in the 0.9 branch. The alpha’s have gone through some growing pains in the past few months, mostly due to pressure to make integration work with the rapidly changing WordPress.org updates. bbPress and BuddyPress are both going to get some major super mega awesome momentum this year however, so the next few weeks are going to be pretty fun.

Alright, I am on to my next install and having a few different problems.

“There was an error posting that reply.” is the group error message after posting, BUT the post is still made. Meaning, all my test users can post to the group forum as expected (and no data is lost), but I get the ugly red bar saying it didn’t work out.

IF I disable buddypress-enable.php in bbpress plugins, then I don’t get the error message – I get the green success message – and everyone can post accurately.

Thoughts?

This sucks.

PART 1 : I am installing this for a client on WAMP and have had no luck in getting the forums to work flawlessly. I can get the forum to be created though the group’s setup page, but the group cant post new topics to the forum. (or can they?)

PART 2 : When I post something to the forum, it is closed instantly before I can view it. So the main page shows 5 posts, but none are actually in the forum when I click on it, it just gives me the main post a new topic.

Any help with this sort of issue would be a blessing. John, how the hell did you get the forum working on yours.

And BuddyPress people, do you use bbpress for this site as well??

I’ve been thinking about this also. I was planning on creating a group/personal blog component for bp. Andy convinced me that something like the project he talked me into would be more beneficial. I have plans to allow bpContents http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/03/05/bpcontents-tags-everywhere-for-everything/ to have content types that are external to a bp/wpmu install.

bbPress topics are external to the install. bp group forums use xmlrpc to communicate with bbPress. It’s an external resource for bp. My plans are to create some standard content types that exist within the bp site such as blog posts, wp pages and the wp links table.

I always thought it was important to be able to relate external resources and treat them as if they were ‘just another resouce’. When I found out that the bp-bbpress communications mechanism was xmlrpc and exactly what that implied I jumped at learning and developing for that comm method.

Practically all blogs, no matter what type they are, have an xmlrpc interface. Gonna make it another content type in bpContents. It’ll provide the ability to get the external posts into bp, inside tags.

Ok so…integration for me is working between BBpress Alpha 1.6, Buddypress RC1 and WPMU 2.7. I can seamlessly switch between platforms while logged in. Everything is installed properly…However when I go to activate/enable any forum for a group i get this:

Are you sure you want to do this?



Please try again.

Hi Everyone

I am familiar with WordPress Mu however new to Buddypress and one of my clients wanted a ning.com type site however using ning, you do not own the system and there are many limitations.

So I dived into buddypress in the last week and on my 4th install sorted out all the requirements to get a nice smooth WP Mu + Buddpress + bbpress system integrated.

The system is still in development as the social networking aspect is only one part of this sport coaches membership site. I am still trying to get YM Membership plugin to work on it as it needs to be a paid membership site.

Here is the site: http://networkofcoaches.com/noc

I learned several important lessons:

1. If an existing wordpress install is present 1 level down such as in the root folder then WP Mu will not install until you temp disable wp-config.php and wp-blog-headers.php in that existing installation

2. When installed WP Mu in a sub folder as I have it ./noc you cannot use the sub-domain installation and must install WP Mu using the sub folder option. If your WP Mu is in the root of your domain then you can use sub domains.

3. WP Mu and Buddypress are relatively simple however integrating bbpress is a mission. I used these resources and it works now perfectly: http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

and

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

4. Now going to use bp-test to add extra top level menu options

My wishlist:

1. A themes upgrader system to modify WP themes for buddypress

2. Top level menu built in editor

3. Paid membership script integration and/or JV Manager2 (Fantasos) integration

4. Video integration especially All-In-One-Video

5. RSS and Twitter feeds

6. Easier homepage and widget editing (so far I can only add widget to the left column, even if I add one to one of the other columns, the system then adds it to the left column?

7. When a user request is received, unless you are already logged in you get a forbidden page, this should rather go to a login page and then process the friend request. My very 1st test user was very concerned over this forbidden page

Overall, I am very impressed. It is a little technical but once you have one successful install it is much easier.

I have a large free WP Mu system that I will be adding WP Premium plugins to and will market with Buddypress and bbpress installed. Keep an eye on http://besteportal.com

In fact I will have Buddypress integrated in a week and feel free to grab an account, in fact you will be helping me test the load on the system if you signup and play around as there are only 4000 blogs currently. I will be adding many additional functions to this site and it will effectively be a wordpress.com type offering however with Buddypress social networking and a few of my tricks.

A question I have is if I use the WP Premium multi db plugin which can split the WP Mu database into as many databases as you want to vastly improve efficiency and performance, then how will Buddpress+bbpress respond as it shares the same database. Perhaps I should have used a seperate database for bbpress?

Keep up the great work BuddPress!

Best Regards

Mark

Felix, the kinks are that I have a few pages that need incorporating, and I’d like to find something better to do with the bbPress login, registration, and profile pages, like redirect them cleanly to the BuddyPress equivalent.

You can check out where it’s at right now at my live test platform but do me a favor and don’t register unless you’re actually a Honda del Sol owner.

http://delsolownersclub.com/discussions/

Note to self: Setup actual test platform soon.