@aphrodite @DJPaul theasybutton.com had a great tutorial (July 2009 – 42 steps in my notes) integrating bbPress 1.0.2, WPMU 2.8.4a, BuddyPress 1.0.3 which worked perfectly in old testbed but the link goes to 404 page now. I wouldn’t know if the integration would have held up with the code changes in current BP and WP versions.
There’s an older tutorial http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu,_BuddyPress,_and_bbPress which I never tried before but might help you.
As it is, you might want to wait till bbPress-the-plugin version rolls out after bbPress 1.0.3 is released – https://trac.bbpress.org/roadmap.
There’s a premium BuddyPress Global Forums plugin which I am using right now. You have a sitewide forum which integrates with BP’s group forum component or not depending on preference.
Good luck.
@mark211 rather than resurrect old posts (bad) please have a hunt through the support forum threads as the issue has been covered in some detail, if those still don’t help you please start a new post with a detailed explanation of your problem.
the @alienjackhammer solution worked for me, using the Configure SMTP plug in.
i will check that FAQ as well, thanks for pointing that out.
bbPress has been/is being re-written for its next big release; I imagine there will be a stable release out soon next year.
It is possible to use bbPress plugins, but they will need an external integration of bbPress, rather than the two-click install in the BuddyPress admin settings. This requires a degree of technical knowledge to get working properly; I don’t have a link to instructions myself, but hopefully someone will come along and share a link 
@djpaul so I was basically completely wrong with the above then! that will teach me I’ll keep my mouth shut in future. 
I think we fixed this (or something similar) in trunk. @chestnut_jp you could always make a bug report on https://trac.buddypress.org/ so we remember to double-check it.
First of all, it’s not a database version. CSS in WordPress and BuddyPress has those “get” parameters in the URL as a means of forcing browsers to refetch the file rather than use its cached version. For example, when BuddyPress is upgraded in v1.3, you don’t want people to be loading the browser cache version of the CSS for v1.2. This is exactly what hnla told you above four weeks ago.
Secondly, if your theme is trying to load two versions of that file, it’s because in your child theme (or customised version thereof) is calling it twice. I can’t comment where or how this could be happening as we can’t see any custom script you’ve put into your theme.
Finally, you should be safe to copy and paste the php snippet r-a-y gave you two weeks ago into your functions.php; just be sure to paste it before the “?>” line at the bottom of the file.
@mercime. I’m having that problem again. I’m using Linux server, Buddypress 1.2.6, WordPress MU 3.01, Apache version 2..2.9 and PHP version 5.2.6. My sql 5.0.51a-community. I’m using a VPS. My traffic isn’t that high at this time so it shouldn’t be an issue with traffic spikes.
I’ve increased the memory limit in the wp-config.php file by adding define (‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’);
I’ve increased it in .htaccess by adding php_value memory_limit 256M
I’ve also increased it in my Php.ini file.
Any other ideas?
The “My Blogs” list will only show the blog that user has *admin access* on. Not any other blog they happen to be a member of.
Thanks for your reply. I’d rather not touch the functions.php file due to a lack of knowledge of PHP.
The problem is that Buddypress is loading 2 different CSS files for the admin bar. They are:
/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css
and
/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css?ver=3.0.3
On the adminbar.css file I made changes so the admin bar stretches across the whole page.
When visiting a sub-domain blog it loads the second file called adminbar.css?ver=3.0.3 so my admin bar doesn’t stretch across the whole screen anymore. I can’t edit this file as it doesn’t exist and is inserted via a line of PHP in the header.php file.
Honestly I’m very close to giving up with Buddypress completely as I’ve been trying to resolve this issue for over a month now. No one knows why Buddypress is adding this database version of the adminbar.css file and I don’t see why it’s doing it either.
I can edit /buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css?ver=3.0.3 via Firebug and change the 1 line of code to fix the admin bar but I can’t reach that file as it doesn’t exist at all.
Jack
Amazing @herostrat, thank you. I appreciate your (relative) code-savviness!
WordPress 3.0.3
BuddyPress 1.2.6
BP Group Documents 0.3.5
Plus a custom functions.php file which makes the autocomplete pick up all members not just friends, but this bug was happening before I created this file.
please list all buddypress related plugins first.
Hi guys, I am having the same problem.
Found this but I think as it’s for an older version of Buddypress I can’t get it to work for me.
Perhaps it will help someone a little more code-savvy?
Thank you so much @r-a-y , worked for me too!
Now I just need to get the autocomplete to stop pulling in random html… Found this but I think as it’s for an older version of Buddypress I can’t get it to work for me.
These people are having the same problem too.
I am newbie, 2 weeks using WP …
I’m thinking that the problem is the installation of bbpress …
I tried to install another WordPress, in another directory, with BP, and bbpress (and created one more problem) and does not work … I have to change table_prefix….???
OK,
I made a custom “Dashboard” button in admin bar until the best solution is found.
For people who want to add the custom dashboard, seeing the same trouble:
1) make bp-custom.php in /wp-content/plugins/
2) write the folowing in bp-custom.php:
function custom_adminbar_dashboard_button() {
if (is_user_logged_in()) {
echo '<li><a href="/wp-admin/">' . __('Dashboard', 'buddypress') . '</a>';
echo '<ul>';
echo '<li><a href="/wp-admin/">' . __('Dashboard', 'buddypress') . '</a></li>';
echo '<li><a href="/wp-admin/post-new.php">' . __('New Post', 'buddypress') . '</a></li>';
echo '<li><a href="/wp-admin/edit.php">' . __('Manage Posts', 'buddypress') . '</a></li>';
echo '<li><a href="/wp-admin/edit-comments.php">' . __('Manage Comments', 'buddypress') . '</a></li>';
echo '</ul>';
echo '</li>';
}
}
add_action('bp_adminbar_menus', 'custom_adminbar_dashboard_button', 1);
Nevertheless, “Blog Directory” does not show the site blog, so I have to re-activate the buddypress plugin anyway.
Umm..
It seems that the following phenomenon revives:
Version 1.2.4.1 – May 23, 2010
Fixed bug with WPMU installs where the blog directory would show no blogs. No change for standard WordPress installs.
@Paul gibbs, thanks for your reply. I will like to see the options tab, widget tab and quick post in buddypress page. Am using wpmu with buddypress. Thanks
@alienjackhammer do you have your recruitment form posting directly to the forums or is the widget separate from the form
@jeffcgreiner I see your BP adminbar at the top of your pages – FF, Safari, Chrome. I see it styled but placed below your footer in IE6
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Considering you posted the exact same rude comment on the wpml site, it’s no wonder you don’t get any support. Yelling at people has that effect. Also, you have to realize that people do have to put food on the table, so paid work usually gets done before any ‘pro-bono’ work.
@campesinos
Whatever gave you the impression that open source equals free of charge? It doesn’t actually. It just happens to be like that for a lot of projects.
I would also like to know how this works,. I’ve been wrecking my brain on it for some time now. I think its a lot easier for the user to have everything in one place.
@boone i read where you said they wuld hve to go thrugh the same html form, but what if you tabbed the pages so that you could still use the appropriate forms? Maybe a ajax call to load the static form
@patrik, hey let me know if you come up with anything. I’ll do the same 
i know im late on this post lol, but still
I don’t believe Giving WordPress its own directory works with BuddyPress showing up in the root when your WP is actually in the directory. Much like WP Multisite won’t work when you give WP its own directory. Calling on devs @DJPaul @boonebgorges @johnjamesjacoby. Is this a warning we should also add in Codex?
