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You’ve to do another bbpress installation (change directory name sure! like http://buddypressdev.org /bp-groups/ for integrated bp-groups and /forums/ for the main forums).

Intregrate this one with wordpress and you’ve done

Nicola

Wardeh, I’ve looked at bbpress, simple:press and phpbb3. I installed, configured and toyed with all of them. IMHO bbpress is the best of the lot. It has user integration with mu, it’s fairly easy to learn and skin and it is going to be more and more tightly integrated with mu.

simple:press is just that, simple. If all you want is a quick forum component that integrates tightly with mu, it’s great. I just don’t see it going anywhere. My forums are extremely important to my site. I’m going to spend a lot of time and effort configuring and extending that component. My users are going to get used to whatever forum I hook up. I’d like the software that I’m working with to be around next year and have some kind of future.

phpbb3 is very powerful. It’s the top of the line when it comes to configuration options and sheer volume of features. If phpbb3 don’t got it, it doesn’t exist as an option or feature anywhere. It is possible to integrate with mu. I had it running that way. It’s main drawback is that it has so many options and features that it’s confusing for the end user. It’s daunting to visit a phpbb3 forum and see all the little buttons, options, links, notifications, doodads, geegaws and flashy things. I get confused, lost and frustrated myself on those. My experience has been that normal people who aren’t whiz bang computer geeks are frightened and confused by it.

bbpress also has the concept of plugins to extend it’s feature set and change it’s behavior. If I want to add or change a feature in phpbb3 then I have to modify the source code to get it.

lol. This ‘buddybar’ thing I started is catching on. With all the right people it seems. I’m never gonna live this one down.

The buddybar(tm) relies on lots of mu specific stuff. It gets generated on each page load in mu. We ain’t in mu no more when we get to bbpress. I’ve been thinking about this issue also. A quick think tells me I might pass a global var from mu to bbpress that holds all the menu items that are useful to me over at bbpress. Then create a bbpress menu bar that builds a menu from that global. Same look, same items just not dynamicly built for each page load. Just gens it from the global each bbpress page load.

Just a quick think.

PHP var space is PHP var space. bbpress is just another hunk of code in PHP var space. Gotta go do some research on this php session stuff.

Wardeh! I keep yelling your name don’t I? Not sure why. Must be because you are far away. My girlfriend thinks that the farther away she is, the louder she has to be on the phone. Perhaps it’s related to that.

The bbpress theme integration issue is one we all face. I have to do it too. I just haven’t had the time yet. I agree that the group forums aren’t the easiest place to get to if I wanna talk or listen to what is going on there in my groups. I view the group forums at the moment to be a convenience.

A convenience to me in that I don’t have to create a forum for each group that wants one. Or forget to do that. Or don’t get around to doing that in a timely fashion.

You didn’t leave your contact info ehegwer.

Nice integration of bp into your theme. Then there is the evil bbpress side of look and feel that I haven’t had time to face either. Just make it go away please Santa.

Hi Trent,

I finally gave up on cookie integration and went with just the wordpress integration. I got farther along in that I can post topics now with no errors, but adding a reply gives the dreaded red “There was an error posting that reply.” Looking over your last post gave me pause though. Are you saying to install only wpmu and bbpress, get them working, then install buddypress? Maybe I’m just tired, but the instructions from bp-forums/installation-readme.txt dont’ seen to follow that route. Makes sense though. I keep saying I’ve attempted this for the last time and moving on, but I find myself pulled back in once more with a faint glimmer of hope. I hope this isn’t the definition of insanity (always expecting different results).

Thanks for all your time in helping us.

Good Job, works fine. Thank you.

Trent, its doesn’t work for me. I’m sure that I did everything right. Thу result is:

I can’t create any topics via Group forum.

I can’t post in already existing topics (I created them manually in bbPress).

I’ve read all topics in this forum – nothing helped me. Any ideas?

Ideally, not using bp-groups will disable groups (take it out of mu-plugins). Not sure if the other components are dependent on it anymore. At one point, Andy was recommending we use all of them. I think since he’s released the Beta that they will work independently.

If you want to integrate bbPress with WPMU, the best place to get info on that is at bbpress.org.

as i said..

use feed or seach for bbpress plugins, as trent plugin..

but i think that creating a plugin to include in user/group a feed box that shows last item published on a feed is useful, for example, inserting a twitter account feed will shows last twits on profile,

yes i think tomorrow i will work for it..

There is a WP plugin that pulls latest bbPress discussions that will work on the main blog as well as any other blog on the system now.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp/#post-133

Trent

can you develope in php?

if yes, you could develope a php script that add an action : when a user post someting, it has to be stored in the db,

or searching for a function in bbpress documentation that shows last articles..

i believe that if you knows a bit of php you can do the second one..

Tomorrow i will open http://buddypressdev.org forums and there i will post some lines, if i can with time!

The forum activity IS showing in Site Wide Activity. At least it does for me.

You don’t want to use the RSS widget, because those links take you right to your bbPress install instead of to the forum of your group page.

Media Temple here as well and I have nothing but good things to say about them and haven’t had any problems with WPMU/bbPress/BuddyPress.

You are running on windows right? Just a guess. Before installing bp you need to get mu running properly. It’s a pain on windows. What package are you using? WAMP?

To get your subdomains to work you have to edit the ‘hosts’ file in windows for *each* blog you want to have running on your windows box. The hosts file is in:

Windows 95/98/Me c:windowshosts

Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:winntsystem32driversetchosts

Windows XP and Vista c:windowssystem32driversetchosts

Once you find it you have to create a line for each blog so:

127.0.0.1 ourcommoninterest.dev

127.0.0.1 adminstoy.ourcommoninterest.dev

That’s a sample from my laptop which I use to play with new things in mu, buddypress and bbpress. This is only the beginning of your problems on windows. I know I went thru *all* of them.

However, for now, you should replace the domain name with your chosen domain name. Replace the subdomain name with any blog subdomain name you’ve chosen. ‘trial’ in your case.

Try reading up on what it takes to install mu. Then what it takes to install mu on windows. Google finds lots of things related to mu. Here’s a start:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=4624

You also need to follow the directions in the mu readme.txt file as it relates to apache.

Boy are you *not* living in reality wardeh. I’m a noob with a text editor and the desire to know how bp, mu and bbpress work.

Lemme go look at that hack you mentioned.

You might get a little more mileage for this one if you post over in the bbPress forums at https://bbpress.org/forums/ with more eyes for errors

I prob have mult posts up there. bbpress flaking out this morn.

I thank you all and the Sports Racers, who have been without a home for almost a year, thank you all for BuddyPress. In the not-too-distant future you will find a gleaming new install of BuddyPress+WordPressµ+bbPress at http://bevvy.org