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@dog0012 try with this plugin https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wangguard/

@henrypwmoulton Doesn’t look to be compatible with BP and it looks more like a forum custom post type. Reminds me of a premium theme http://wordpressqa.com/
Having said that, the best way to find out if that plugin is compatible with BP would be to ask the plugin devs at http://wp-answers.com/contact

@dcaccavo thanks for sharing. Is this for latest versions – WordPress 3.1.1, BuddyPress 1.2.8 and bbPress 1.0.3?

The last time I did an external bbPress install for BP was more than a year ago and it took me about 38++ steps If I recall well, that was bbPress 1.0.2 with WPMU 2.8.4a and BP 1.1.2 or something I think…

How’s the external forum working so far for you? Does posting to forum show up in sitewide Activity Stream and in member’s activity stream?

bbPress is being converted to a WP Plugin https://trac.bbpress.org/roadmap by JJJacoby, Lead Dev of both bbPress plugin and BuddyPress plugin.

Currently, there’s a “Global Forums Plugin” ($30 membership) by at BuddyDev.com that works as a standalone forum on top of the bbPress internal Forum set up and/or works with existing BP Group Forums. I believe it’s scheduled to be updated soon as Brajesh is also looking at the roadmap for bbPress.

EDIT – there’s an interesting post by someone who seems to have integrated an external bbPress with BuddyPress, don’t know how it’s working so far though – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-my-forums/?topic_page=2&num=15&_wpnonce=46d45d8861#post-95884

Just posted this for another guy. I actually read this forum when having my issue…just resolved, hope it works for you too. took about 10 mins with this technique, hope it works.
1. First delete the bb-config.php from you server (in root wordpress folder, if you used the buddypress bbpress installer).
2. download the zip of bbpress from their site. -> extract all -> and ftp to a new directory (foooorum was mine)
3. go to http://yourawsomedomain.com/fooooorum it should open their installer.
4. ftp your wp-config.php from your server to computer and open it.
5. follow instructions on the installer first is db info: dbhost db user, user password. all this is in the wp-config.php file you just opened. Use this same info -> click advanced settings, and make sure the host is right mine needed to be changed from localhost to mysql.mydomain.com
6. click to step two, click wordpress integration. Now you need to log onto you phpmyadmin. you can often do this by mysql.yourdomain.com then use the login details for the db that you used again, the dbuser and user password. Once in there click the database, you will see a lot of files that look like wp_daks_bpetc This is important. you need the wp_daks (the daks signify random letters from your actual one). So just where it asks for the tables of wp files give it to them in “wp_daks_” format. click next, and install i think. ALMOST THERE!
7. go to your wp dashboard click on the buddypress area, click on forums setup. it will say you already did it, but click reinstall.
8. Select use an outside install.
9. Enter the path of the other install for me it already said /user/domain/ so i just changed it to /user/domain/foooorum. Click complete and you are good to go. no it should all work. Please let me know if it doesn’t, cause it worked for me easily when nothing else would.

Hello, not sure if this is your exact problem, but I was not able to post anything in my forum. I looked and had no tables. the fix I used after trying everything I could find:
1. First delete the bb-config.php from you server.
2. download the zip of bbpress from their site. -> extract all -> and ftp to a new directory (foooorum was mine)
3. go to http://yourawsomedomain.com/fooooorum it should open their installer.
4. ftp your wp-config.php from your server to computer and open it.
5. follow instructions on the installer first is db info: dbhost db user, user password. all this is in the wp-config.php file you just opened. Use this same info -> click advanced settings, and make sure the host is right mine needed to be changed from localhost to mysql.mydomain.com
6. click to step two, click wordpress integration. Now you need to log onto you phpmyadmin. you can often do this by mysql.yourdomain.com then use the login details for the db that you used again, the dbuser and user password. Once in there click the database, you will see a lot of files that look like wp_daks_bpetc This is important. you need the wp_daks (the daks signify random letters from your actual one). So just where it asks for the tables of wp files give it to them in “wp_daks_” format. click next, and install i think. ALMOST THERE!
7. go to your wp dashboard click on the buddypress area, click on forums setup. it will say you already did it, but click reinstall.
8. Select use an outside install.
9. Enter the path of the other install for me it already said /user/domain/ so i just changed it to /user/domain/foooorum. Click complete and you are good to go. no it should all work. Please let me know if it doesn’t, cause it worked for me easily when nothing else would.

Wow that’s weird I was just coming onto the site to request a review for this premium plug in:

http://wp-answers.com/

I was wondering if it was fully compatible with BuddyPress?

Thanks Boone, I didn’t even realize there was an issue with the plugin. I did update it to correct for this problem.

@leoplaw – apologies for the late heads up – BP builds / stores all the activity records when the activity happens, not when you want to display them. So, all old activity will be as per the software you had running when the activity happened.

If you want to process old activity and update them, you will need to write an activity loop, finding all relevant entries (e.g. user and / or activity type) and replacing the activity record appropriately. Perhaps something you’d write as a plugin, and trigger manually from wp-admin backend.

@ghostrose333 BP/WP versions?
– Change theme to bp-default and deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress. See if same behavior applies.
– Did you go to dashboard > BuddyPress > Forums Setup and install the forum?
– Check your database if tables for forums were created.

@miklamx Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and change theme to bp-default.

You’ll need to turn off debug mode; buddypress prints lots of those at the minute and probably breaks itself. I’m not sure why the menu isn’t appearing.

I’m having the same issue as well. Not sure when it appeared though.

@r-a-y I second everything. Thanks

If someone puts together a good patch, there’s no reason — at this moment in time — why it couldn’t be put in. It’s just of the 50-odd tickets currently in 1.3, and with three core developers, we only have so much time. Because we haven’t started on it, it would be a pretty big change at this stage of the release cycle and so is not a development priority. Patches welcome however

Looks like there should be filters in bp_update_is_item_admin() that you could use to sort of hack in roles or custom permissions maybe

The wp-reCAPTCHA plugin is marked as broken! Please fix asap

Gotcha. I was thinking of a color-picker ala twitter. Of course most would probably use images anyway. Sounds great @r-a-y

@djpaul I saw you all moved the roles adaption to BP back to 1.4 in the trac.

Is there any quick fix to give somebody the ability to edit all groups/activity yet not make them an admin? This is the biggest issue for us. We need a way to make a couple of users moderate everything as well as be able to edit activity items, etc.

I don’t think so, because BuddyPress doesn’t make use of WordPress roles or capabilities yet