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This is what is called “deep integration” over on the bbPress side of things. It is often times shied upon but I feel is very much a requirement for making things look all nice and pretty.

I know for sure it is possible on the WordPress.org side of things as I’ve done it several times, but I am going through my first MU/BuddyPress attempt tonight and tomorrow.

I’ll do my best to see if there are any differences, and report back with what I find.

My only fix was to run bbpress 1.0-Alpha-6. Please read the most important topic in this forum @ https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471 (about installing buddypress and integrating bbpress).

Read the first post, you’ll find that everything you need to know is there

Also http://bavatuesdays.com/integrating-wpmu-buddypress-and-bbpress/ is an excellent tutorial.

At the moment yes. Things are as you describe. I’ve got a little plugin coming out when bp goes 1.0 that integrates bp group forums and bbpress. bp Public groups will be readonly in bbpress except for group members. Private and Hidden groups will have their forums hidden in bbpress except for group members. Group admins and moderators will have forum moderation capabilities in bbpress.

All users in bp/mu can post to any forum in bbpress with user integration.

MartinNr5.

Clear your cookies, then after logging in both places, view your cookies in like Firefox. I am assuming that they should be named something like wordpress_ and wordpress_f5433ed3c296d4543 (where the letters after the underscore is a hash).

In both your wordpress and bbpress config files, add the following:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.example.org');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIEHASH', 'f5433ed3c296d4543');

Log out, clear cookies, and it should work.

john it isn’t built-in you should install bbpress in another directory and integrate that with wpmu

Check the sticky from Trent on how to integrate bbPress with BuddyPress – that’s the only option right now for an “integrated” (as it’s not all that integrated) forum.

Almost everything works for me, the only problem I have is that when a user browses to the forum they aren’t automatically logged in and need to log in specifically to the forum despite being logged in to my BP site. I’ve gone over the cookie integration twice and still no luck.

BP group integration works like a charm though.

I’m running latest BP and bbPress version 1.0-alpha-6.

Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting?

Hmmm…that does sound strange. Sorry I couldn’t be more help. I’m not completely in the same boat as I don’t have BBPress installed.

Anyone else know where he can start troubleshooting?

Thanks for this guide, very helpful!

I was trying to get this working myself before i found this.

2 things that were a must for me…

Alpha version on bbpress was the only version that worked

Don’t touch the cookie integration, skip that bit and just do the DB integration.

Oh and there is a problem with duplicate content if you care about google spidering it if users find the default forum and link to it.

There just add a robots.txt file with

User-agent: *

Disallow: /bbpress/

You could probably put a header redirect on it too to stop people using it and only using the bp side.

I will go out on a limb to say that what looks like a bug at first is often times just normal user error.

I consider myself a seasoned PHP/SQL/Linux/WordPress/bbPress veteran, and to be honest it took me installing and reinstalling MU/BuddyPress 4 times before I was able to follow the instructions correctly. Each time I would have sworn on my undead mothers grave that I did everything right, but alas…

So a tip to you all, if it isn’t working, it just might be because of something you don’t know you didn’t do…

Hi.

What error do you get when you try and create the groups?

There’s a sticky that details the BBPress integration (https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471).

You configure how you want new blogs to be created in the admin tool of WPMU (IIRC).

I’ve renamed my admin account to get around this. However, i’d like to get a way of hiding the bbpress forum user account for the user listing on the home page. Andy could we get a filter added in for this?

I also would like to know this. Any tips? Thanks in advance!

I have a Hungarian language install at http://unitarsalgo.unitarius-halo.net/ . I used BuddyPress 1.0b1 with WordPress MU 2.7 and bbPress 1.0 alpha. Hungarian language file is about 90% complete; I’ll make it available when its 100%. I’d say 1.0b1 was about 98% ready for use with other languages: I had to go through the files line by line to add missing get-text tags. Since I’m just finishing my 1.0b1 install, I think I’ll wait a bit before upgrading to beta 2. When I do I’ll be comparing my tweaked files to 1.0b2 files in ExamDiff to find changes I need to carry over; This time I’ll try to keep some notes so I can’t point the developers toward any remaining problems.

Amazing what a lunch break and a sanity check can do for an oldskool internet guy…. I found that by installing the BBPRESS aplpha version onto my wpmu 2.7 and latest BB SVN as of Feb 4th 09 build it all works nicely..

thank you to everyone on this thread and to trent for a great write up, would never have got it working without it… I mixed a bit with the video followed the details and then downloaded the alpha version as the latest BBPRESS 0.9.0.4 didn’t work for me but the latest alpha build does…..

I can actually go and finalise my house renovation without any issues now.. THANK YOU everyone involved with BP big thumbs up

THANKS MAN!!! YOU DON’T KNOW HOW EXCITED I FELT WHEN I THE NAVBAR APPEARED!!

i’M SO HAPPY!!

THANKS A LOT!!

BTW im the same who posted the question, i created another user because i had problems with bbpress

Under issue is my mistake.

I activated “Name based” permalinks in bbPress but didn’t make .htaccess file for it. Sorry.

p.s. How to deal with “User Role Map” in bbPress admin interface, ignore it?

In bbpress, When I Hit the “edit” link would like set the “User Type” of the user to “Administrator”, I get “Sorry, that page was not found” in “buddypress-home” theme.

bbPress: bbpress-1.0-alpha-6

BuddyPress: 1.0b2

Wordpress MU: 2.7

All are releases not SVN

Help…

Hi Guys,

Has anyone done anything more with this bug? I’m not getting anything when I click the rss link on any page – it takes me to a blank page e.g. http://sitename.org/activity/feed

I’m using the beta 2 download of buddy press and have it integrated with MU 2.7 svn. I updated everything (from scratch) on Friday as I broke my integration with BBpress for the forums on the first install.

BTW, RSS didn’t work the last time I installed it either – i was running the last version of MU 2.6.5 and god knows what svn of BP – I’m using both firefox 3 and IE7 if that makes any diff? I also have gears installed.

I just tried this in Safari and it returned this error:

‘Safari can’t open the page “http://sitename.org/members/membername/activity/feed”. The error was: “unknown error” (CFURLErrorDomain:302)’

I hope that helps?

Cheers (and thanks for an AWESOME piece of kit!)

Phil