@slaFFik I would check that you saved the right information in your WPMU admin for the forum user and that you have pingbacks and xmlrpc checkboxes on in bbPress. As well, you can’t have .htaccess blocking of your forums or it will not work. You can’t use the original force login plugin for bbPress (not mine) or it will not work.
You also have to make sure that you disable the forum for a group and then enable it after each and every change you make to try and get this working. If you enable it and then change more things it will not work. So basically, if it isn’t working, check over and change things to make sure it has the ability to work and then disable/enable the forum for a group. If you enable it and it isn’t working and then you change a setting so that it would work, but don’t disable forum posting and then re-enable, it still won’t work.
Hopefully that isn’t too confusing, but as long as all the settings are there and your WPMU install has access to the bbPress xmlrpc.php file, it should work. There is no doubt that Andy will eventually be doing more for the forums side of things, but it might be a couple of months.
Wish I had a magic wand to get everyone’s forums working, but really it boils down to triple checking all the settings and keep disabling/enabling forums for a group until it works.
As for the WPMU 2.7 download (before it is released), go to the bottom of the following page for the link to the zip.
https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/trunk
Trent
Those “steps” are for using the buddypress code, ie xml-rpc communication inside of groups. If you theme the general bbpress install to match your buddypress site then you won’t need to enable xmlrpc on the general site, just do the intergration.
I think someone will develop a modification of the groups, to be a general group pretty soon. If this is the case, then you would need to do those steps for both bbpress installs.
Hope that makes sense,
Brad
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta
Thanks Brad,
I is still not clear in my mind the difference for buddypress in group forum and site wide forum configuration
Should i still do these steps?
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
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;
Do you still do these steps? Or skip these steps and just installed the bbpress and do common wordpress integration like cookie and user integration?
Thank you
Well, as the developer for http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/ I figured I should answer this question.
I have 2 instances running of bbpress, 1 is .com/beta/forum/ and the other is in a different location. Currently it is not safe to combine them, as private groups would be visible to all members, which is still an issue but would be harder to find these hidden forums.
The menu bar, which lists the general forum is actually as simple as uncommenting the code in the header.php file in home theme.
I’m still not sure if I should theme bbpress to match the site, or modify a copy of the groups forum tools to allow general discussion. This wouldn’t be a quick development, but would be easier down the road as the theme develops.
Thanks,
Brad
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/
Just did a test. BP is adding escape characters all over the place somewhere in the process. forum posts done in bbPress directly are just fine.
Andy, Burt, Nicola – Does BP do any additional text filtering along the way?
Mornin’ wardeh! I’ve just started playing with the deep stuff. I’m gonna do some serious testing today. I can get mu and bp vars and bp functions. I just tried a couple of quick things.
My setup is to put a couple of things into bb-config.php:
$bb->WP_BB = true;
if (file_exists('../wp-blog-header.php'))
require_once('../wp-blog-header.php');
else
if (file_exists('../../wp-blog-header.php'))
require_once('../../wp-blog-header.php');
That’s it. Well ya gotta have user integration done. Cookies and sessions no. I changed stuff around so many times I just stopped doing the session integration. It’s not important now and evidently there are still major problems when going deep and sessions, nonces, cookies.
I haven’t tried doing anything major yet. I’ve created my own little bbpressBar. Then I found this deep stuff. Gonna do it though. Some things like ‘blog authors’ wont translate to running on bbpress.
This is gonna be fun. I found two plugins that I’m gonna adapt for getting group forums running better on bbpress. hidden-forums.php and read-only-forums.php and they look like they’ll work well with what I have in mind.
I played around using get_header() and get_footer() on the bbpress side to load the mu header and footer for look-and-feel. I just dropped it. I’ve already got the forums looking and feeling kinda the way I want them.
Burt, I would love your help with deep integration. Are you putting some code in bb-config.php? What? The net has all sorts of examples and every one of them gives me a blank screen.
If you’re getting it working, does this mean you can load the BuddyBar with your bbPress forum?
Can you load the sidebar, with widgets?
I’m having trouble just with users being able to login at MU and then be logged in at my forums.
trac.mu.wordpress.org – here you can find 2,7
Trent, nothing helped.
I installed or did:
1) WPMU (r1585);
2) bbPress Alpha 4;
3) integrate them properly;
4) edit bb-config.php and config.php;
5) install BuddyPress;
6) install bp-forum-enabled.php;
7) create a new admin user in bbPress;
write his login/pass to option page in WPMU;
9) create group in BP;
10) nothing changed.
What happened? Why can’t I launch forum?
without running the risk of sounding ignorant, where can i get a copy of 2.7 so that i too can attempt this install of bbpress? from the mu.wordpress site only 2.6.5 is available and i’ve googled the 2.7 but im not finding anythign anywhere. where are you guys getting your 2.7 copies? thanks
I tried all of this, did it no problem. However, it did not work, I managed to install bbpress 1.0 Alpha, wpmu 2.7SVN, integration works, cookies and databases. The problem is that whenever a user tried to make a post, I get this mistake:
“There was an error posting that topic.”
Also, step 9 never came true, no forums where created, but when I physically go to my forum’s address I can cerate forums and post and everything.
Looks like I got it dialed in. I started from scratch and reinstalled WPMU and double checked the chmod permissions. Everything seems to be working, next is to tackle the bbpress forum install.
If this insatll scheme that Andy speaks of is done…an included insatll with a forum generated for each group, is it safe to think that existing forums and post data will not be rendered moot and will nicely transfer over…if need be?
Thanks Nicola. Can’t wait to add it once I get bbPress re-installed. Major issues getting back to where I was
Am dealing with an entirely different mysterious monster here: After running for weeks, I somehow corrupted my db and felt a fresh db was the only way to go (only test data to worry about) Currently running 2.7, BP latest trunk and a bbPress 1.0a4.
After getting all the way to bbPress/Wordpress integration menu (and seeing all the properly entered cookies/salts) when I enter the “wp_” prefix and click “Save settings” I am kicked out to the bbPress forum login screen and upon login of the keymaster or any other account, I am returned the error message “user does not exist” and thus completely locked out of the install. This happens whether I clear cookies or not at various stages in the process. Please help!
Ya. ya. uhuh. Well, gotta lie to bbpress_live. Alot.
Why does mu care what my bb_capabilities are? Why does mu know about them at all? It’s obvious they are on the mu side of the fence and for some reason they have to be but why?
My role in bbpress should be represented in bbpress. I guess it is. The meta data just happens to be in a mu table. I don’t have a user table in bbpress when integrated with mu.
My role on blog ‘a’ has nothing to do with my role on blog ‘b’. Why can’t we treat a bbpress install as a blog? wp_1_capabilities, bb_1_capabilities.
Just thinking out loud.
Back to your comment. Yes. That’s what I would have to do. ‘bb_capabilities’ is for single connection to mu/bbpress. Then I need code to sit between the ‘get user capabilities’ request from bbpress and the ‘deliver bbpress connection params’ bp uses to fire up bbpress_live and start talking.
Gotta go look at the code.
@burtadsit
Another alternative instead of separating WPMU & bbpress capabilities: you can assign specific user meta for each users. Say, the meta value is an array containing all forum ID that specific user belongs to. Of course you need to write some hack to the bbPress side as well. That way you can share both public & private forums in a single bbpress install.
Just an idea. I haven’t look into the code too 
That’s good to know, Trent. I won’t frequent the bbPress forums, and almost relying on my BuddyPress community here for any bbPress+BuddyPress tips. Nice to know we have a bbPress pro in the house. <end kissing butt>
Don’t fear. Just change the register.php form in your bbPress template to not have the registration form in it and replace it with a link to your register form on your WPMU install. There are quite a few threads on the bbPress forums about this. If you use the default theme, copy folder to /my-plugins/ and then adjust the theme. That way it won’t break when you upgrade.
Trent
You know, this was happening to me the other day. I was pulling RSS feeds from bbPress forums and one of them would not work. I scrapped the whole idea. Sorry I can’t help!
Figured anything out?
Yes, graphic integration.
I read yesterday on bbpress forums about “deep” integration where you include wp with the loading of bbpress: https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func
But all I get is a blank screen when I try to do that. I’m not sure I’m adding the right code to bb-config.php.
Do you means a graphic integration ?
Have you seen this?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forum/
Turns a forum into a support forum.
@wardeh – I haven’t actually tried that plugin with a custom member theme, but it might not be working for 2 reasons.
First might be because the plugin is calling $is_member_page, it might not work unless you have all the functions included with the normal buddypress-member theme.
Second reason might be because the header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/register'); is calling the register page on the main theme that doesn’t exist? Maybe change that line to header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-signup.php'); and see if that works?
The bbPress plugin should work if you are calling it out of /my-plugins/ but I am pretty sure you have to have the <?php bb_head(); ?> in your template header as well as <?php do_action('bb_foot'); ?> in your template footer.php.
Let me know, as the bbPress plugin is just a “redesign” of the force login plugin found in the bbPress forums.
Trent
If you look at the method that I used in the bbPress Force Login plugin (in plugins forum here) and combine it with the member-login plugin I wrote, it would be quite possible to combine the 2 into a complete site solution with excluding the login and register pages. I don’t have time to look at it now, but it is possible.
Trent
Nicola, I don’t need help with that part. Got that figured out. 
See, I don’t want to use the group forums at all. I just want a general forum. So I installed it at /forums and I integrated it. My question was if css styling/adding page navigation was my best bet for making it “look” integrated. I think the answer is “yes”.
Burt, I hear ya. I need a forum to take over for a currently vibrant and active Invision Power Board installation. I and the other admins are so used to all the features, privacy, levels of privacy, user moderation, terms of service, etc. that bbPress seems lacking. Simple:press delivers on some of those things, but I’m not happy with the cluttered, busy look of it.
But, this decision does not just come down to styling. I think I’ve managed to make my forums (bbPress) look just like my main site (though could use the BuddyBar there 
). It is more the features that I need right now.
I am leaning toward going with bbPress and working on/waiting for those features. But I’m not sure.
Thanks for the input.
Let me ask you another question? When I log in on my main site, then go to my forums, it does not show me as logged in. However, if I do a Ctrl-F5 complete refresh, then I am logged in. So is this a cache issue? Do you know how I can fix it?
