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I finally made up a solution adding some meta fields (blog_id, blog_path, blog_name) to groups on creation:

`function bp_group_meta_save ( $group_id ) {
$blog = get_blog_details( get_current_blog_id(), true );

$fields = array(
‘blog_id’ => $blog->blog_id,
‘blog_path’ => $blog->path,
‘blog_name’ => $blog->blogname
);

foreach ( $fields as $field => $value ) {
groups_update_groupmeta( $group_id, $field, $value );
}
}
add_action( ‘groups_created_group’, ‘bp_group_meta_save’ )`

When showing the list of groups for the current blog, I build a list with the groups with the blog_id value that matches the blog:

`function get_groups_by_meta ( $field, $meta_key, $meta_value ) {
global $wpdb;

if ( is_string( $meta_value) ) $meta_value = “‘” . $meta_value . “‘”;

$sql = $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT $field from {$wpdb->base_prefix}bp_groups_groupmeta WHERE meta_key=’$meta_key’ AND meta_value=$meta_value”, OBJECT );
$res = $wpdb->get_results( $sql );

return $res;
}

function get_groups_by_blogid ( $blog_id = 1 ) {
$list = get_groups_by_meta( ‘group_id’, ‘blog_id’, $blog_id );

if ( count( $list ) ) {
$res = ”;
foreach ( $list as $item ) {
$res .= $item->group_id . ‘,’;
}
return substr( $res, 0, -1);
} else {
return FALSE;
}
}`

And finally, in the groups-loop.php template:

`$current_blogid = get_current_blog_id();
if ( $current_blogid > 1) {
$groups_set = get_groups_by_blogid( $current_blogid );
( $groups_set !== FALSE ) ? $extra_args = ‘&include=’ . $groups_set : $extra_args = ‘&include=-1’;
}

if ( bp_has_groups( bp_ajax_querystring( ‘groups’ ) . $extra_args ) ) : ?>`

In my wp-config.php, I have defined BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG as true, and also a common place to upload user avatars:

`//Buddypress multi-sitio
define( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );

//Avatares de usuario comunes a toda la red multisitio
define( ‘BP_AVATAR_URL’, “http://mainblog/wp-content/uploads” );
define( ‘BP_AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH’, ‘F:/xampp/www/mainblog/wp-content/uploads’ );`

I don’t know if this is a overly complicated solution. I suspect Buddypess 1.6 can deal with this situation (segregated groups, activity, forums but common user base) in a far more simple way, but I have no idea how.

Any clues?

@mercime Thanks so much for replying. I am using a theme Supermassive by themeforest and this theme is BP compatible. Was working fine with BP1.5.7. Plugins Installed (all at their latest versions)

bbpress,
jw player,
members (for tweaking user roles),
akismet,
BP Group Email Subscription,
Subscribe2,
Buddypress Group forum extras(deactivating this didn’t work),
enhanced Buddypress widgets,
WP Super Cache
YARRP

Site Wide Forum settings – I have checked “Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums”
and Group Forums Parent as “Forum Root”. The pages assigned under Buddypress – Settings have not changed, nor I made any changes to the Site Wide Forum Settings after upgrading to version 1.6. There are only 2 options for me at Buddypress->Settings-> Forums
1. Uninstall Group Forums
2. Configure Site Wide Forums

Thanks and would really appreciate all advise.

Just to update, I have now solved this problem.

I removed the code that shares the users and roles with the buddypress sub-site, so the wp-config.php and capabilities.php are back to the wordpress originals. Then I logged in with the admin account (the only user that was created when the wordpress was installed) and i managed to run the update wizard.

Then I changed the wp-config.php and capabilities.php files back to include the code used to share the users from my main wordpress site.

All is back to normal

Before this, I’ve some limited knowledge about web hosting. I used try and error method. I think I did live testing to use BuddyPress 2 or 3 times within one month. The best assistants are online support itself. Some local bloggers also help me.

Thanks paul for the link, Glad to know that, it will be fixed by next week, expecting it to be resolved by next week. I also am waiting for buddypress mobile version, though plugins like verve mobile, dudamobile are good, but activity page doesnt work smoothly with it. either it give white page or some error.

Thanks paul, it was so nice of you

@ mercime

Ok I followed your steps however there is one slight issue.
Steps #1-4 works fine. However Im unable to sync it with buddypress.

According to this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-integration-where-is-bb-config-php-in-bbpress-v-2-0-2/

If that thread is right… I wont be able to because 2.x versions of bbpress dont use bb-config.php.
Of course there is no way to install a 1x series of bbpress in wordpress (or at least I couldnt figure out how its possible).

my bbpress works great, so… am I basically sol until the Buddypress people do the merging expected in v1.7?

EDIT: As explained, I have installed Buddypress but since I couldnt figure out how to integrate the existing bbpress install I turned off the forums option inside buddypress (I didnt want any conflicts). my BBpress forum still works fine.

After digging around for a while I noticed a few things.
1) If I open up a user profile in Buddypress I can see the topics the user created in the forum.
2) If I create a group it asks me if I want to create a forum for that group. In my phpbb3 forum I created forums for groups of people. After converting over to bbpress I have a forum for a ‘group of people’. When creating the group I did NOT create a forum for the group because I didnt want it to overwrite or mess up the existing forum in bbpress (the old forum and new group name are the same).
Without syncing buddypress and bbpress (as I explained above), is there anyway to link a group with an existing forum?
Ideally I want group forums, I just dont want to loose any posts already existing.

Thanks paul, I am using custom community theme version 1.8.9.1, I used my site from mobile wap operamini seamlessly from same version, before i upgrade 1.6 version of buddypress, It worked on previous version 1.5.7 Most of my buddypress powered community members like to use it from mobile, It would be highly appreciated if someone help me to fix it.