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Ok can anyone tell me where to install the bbpress is it

wp-content plugins?

mu-plugins?

maybe it is mu-plugins/bbpress hmmmmm

Where does one put the my-plugin folder hmmm

Regards Charles Pisano

SWEEET SUCCESSSSS!

Okay… For those of that might be using “deep integration” namely using your BuddyPress/MU functions in bbPress, at the time of this writing at the top of your bb-config.php file, put…

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

include_once( 'absolute/path/to/your/wordpressmu-directory/wp-blog-header.php' );

}

This way, it only tries to include the MU/BP functions if they haven’t already been defined and if it’s NOT a xmlrpc request!

DUH! Yay! Burt, haha you rule…

John, the user you use for group forums just has to have an ‘Administrator’ role or better. Keymaster should work. You should be aware that the password for that user is stored on the wpmu side in plain text in the blog 1 meta data table. Gotta have access to phpmyadmin to get it but..

Your permalinks on the bbpress side don’t have anything to do with it at all. XMLRPC is used and the only query for any type of asset by URL is to the xmlrpc.php file. Permalinks don’t come into play at all. As long as the wpmu side can find your site’s root url and the xmlrpc.php file that is supposed to live there all is well.

Don’t know about the deep integration question.

I followed all the steps and it still wasn’t working. I was doing everything right. I did everything right about 10 times. Still wasn’t working. This thread is me finding out why: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=426

Question about step 1.

You say that the user has to be created on the “bbPress” side. Does this refer to a user that is registered through register.php via the forums? What if my forums were integrated from day 1 with WordPress? Is it okay to just use the “admin” keymaster account?

Question about permalinks and .htaccess.

I am using pretty permalinks on the bbPress side, and there is an .htaccess file on the root of the bbpress install folder. What would I want to look out for to prevent this from causing a problem?

Question about “deep integration”

I am currently including my wp-blog-header.php file inside my bb-config.php file. Will this cause conflicts?

Question about what to do if I swear I’ve followed the steps the way they are written and the ways everyone else has said, and it isn’t working.

ozpoker, if you are using the bbGroups plugin the avatar is available to you. See the readme.txt for some info on the template tags that are included. One is oci_user_avatar(). It comes across and gets put in bbpress user meta data.

With all due respect, your attitude makes me want to help you less, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

First of all, this is pre-release software, if you were not prepared or did not expect potential headaches, then you should not have installed BuddyPress.

The community around this project is coming on leaps and bounds, usually all threads will eventually get an answer which is almost unheard of for something so new. There have been caching issues with the forums, nothing to do with bbPress, and it has been temperamental with all forums on Automattic servers. This should be cleared up now.

Your problem sounds like perhaps something in a post is breaking the blogs widget, which would explain why it sometimes works, and sometimes does not.

If you can somehow monitor which post was the newest when the widget stopped working, that would help a great deal to address what it is in the post that is breaking the widget.

If anyone else has experienced this issue – please post a reply here.

Ok so…I have successfully installed bbpress, WPMU and buddypress via the instructions here…Still getting this when trying to create forum: “Attention Site Admin: Group forums require correct setup and configuration of a bbPress installation.”

I have ran through the steps 10 times and have MU 2.7, bbpress 1.0-alpha-6 & Buddypress beta 2.

I also should know that in dev, I followed all the same steps and had success. Would there be any reason why cookies work, duplicate log-ins work and yet no forum sync up?

Correction to the above code, this is tested:

add_filter(‘get_user_profile_link’, ‘bppro_user_profile_link’, 10, 2);

function bppro_user_profile_link($link, $uid) {

$user = bb_get_user($uid);

return(bb_get_option(‘wp_siteurl’).’/members/’.$user->user_login);

}

Terry

You could write your own simple plug-in for this as well; whenever you call user_profile_link it applies the filter ‘user_profile_link’. So you could create a plug-in with the following:

bb_add_filter(‘user_profile_link’, ‘bppro_user_profile_link’);

function bppro_user_profile_link($link, $uid) {

return(bb_get_option(‘wp_siteurl’).’/members/’.bb_get_user($uid));

}

This is of the top of my head but I think that’s right.

Hope this helps,

Terry

I have written a general forum plugin, which takes the group forum plugin, and initialize it to a second bbpress install, which is a general forums. It is very rough, and needs some work before I might release it. It has the advantage over doing a bbpress theme, that is uses the buddypress theme. The downside is it uses the xmlrpc for all communication to the bbpress install.

You can see it here, I’m waiting for a ticket I opened in trac for the error to go away, but you get an idea how it works:

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/forums/

Enjoy,

Brad

I am using the “Post Counts Plus” plug in for bbPress in conjunction with the new Group Forums BuddyPress plug in, and they seem to play nice together to do what you’re asking about.

TDAC

With blogs and Friends turned off and bbPress not quite integrated yet…

Howdy. You can access the bp group forums from Groups > My Groups > <pick a group> > Forums. The bbpress theme doesn’t get changed by doing user integration with wpmu.

It sounds like you have one more step to take and that is to configure bp group forums. That is detailed in the file /mu-plugins/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt

There is also an extremely helpful topic by Trent located here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471

@Vladeta: If you follow all the instructions in Trents thread then it will work.

I had problems as well until I did /exactly/ what the thread told me to do.

Just make sure you read the entire thread as the first post lacks some information.

Is it possible to have buddypress and bbpress integrated in a way that once user is registered in buddypress, he/she doesn’t need to register again in bbpress and vice-versa? I have followed instructions here on how to integrate them but with no luck. Is there any way of telling (debug) what is wrong?

Thanks,

Vladeta

Well, sorry for the above post. I uploaded all the theme files and re-modified the necessary files and the problem was fixed. Thank you for bbPress!

bp isn’t seeing group forum topics created in bbpress? It should. If you can create a topic in a group forum from the bp side it should show in the bbpress side. If you create a topic in that same forum on the bbpress side it should show in the group forum as a new topic on the bp side.

This is just standard bp/bbpress. Has nothing to do with bbGroups plugin. That’s not happening?