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What if I just want them to be able to add posts and then have the buddy press features? Could that be done by changing their permissions from being a subscriber to an author and then also using buddypress?

Thanks again Jeff. I have a feeling that my audience won’t use this forum because it is a bit of a thinker for the uninitiated but at least its in place and I know its working. I had hoped to put the link to the forum in my nav bar and offer text links throughout the site but with this group mentality not sure how to proceed. Do you have any links to sites that might be good examples to emulate? My site is an alumni site not that the example needs to be an alumni site. Thanks again you saved my bacon!

THANKS so much! Yes, the directory does exist. I did the DB backup, removed the bb_ tables, ran the forum installer. Returning to the forum setup I see this:

bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install

NOTE: The forums directory will only work if your bbPress tables are in the same database as your WordPress tables. If you are not using an existing bbPress install you can ignore this message.

I also see the new tables in my database. What I don’t see is any forum control panel on my admin side or how to include a link to it in my site navigation. I’m looking around in the WordPress admin and on the visible site itself. What am I missing?

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Hi Jeff, I didn’t see your post before I made my last reply. OMG! I was over thinking this one.

I didn’t realize that Buddypress had a copy of bbPress included in it. There is sort of a good reason for that but I won’t go into that part of my situation.

Yes, I was thinking that I had to install the forum manually and then hook it up. My site is a BuddyPress site that I simply wanted to add a forum too much like this site. I wanted people who sign up for the site to have one login for a sitewide use including the forum.

Sounds like I need to uninstall the forum–it has no data in it. If I uninstall this bbPress forum and remove those bb_ tables from my site database. Do I simply point the BuddyPress forum setup to my location? Thanks.

I do see a possible problem here but don’t know enough about databases. I could get myself in way more trouble.

I see in the bb-config.php file that my Table prefix is ‘bb_’ but in the bbPress installer log I see that the table prefix is ‘lh_’ (my wordpress table prefixes are set to ‘lh_’). This is what the log says:

`>>> User database table prefix: lh_`

Looking at my database I see that the prefix is bb_ could this be the problem and if so how would I fix it? I don’t see how i can rename those tables. or change the prefix. I’m just guessing here. Thanks.

Hmmm, I see that bb-config.php is currently set to: 666 What should it be? I tried 644 didn’t work. I see the directory is set to 705. I tried 755 as per most WordPress logic. Tried it with the document inside being both 666 and 644.
When you say absolute path do you mean literally to the system? it comes up with a path with all the directories up to the root of the server which I was surprised to see rather than the domain. But yes I tried all the possible paths I could think of .

Just saw the other posts, should have scanned the forum first

@modemlooper well I really do not like the bar on top and for the life of me I can not find a way to put it on the footer. If I could move it to the footer I think I would use that then for the navigation features. I also looked for an option for a facebook type footer bar and found a plug in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-foot-panel/ but it does not really do much.

BTW the main reason for not having the bar on the top is it does not look good on my site with my header style.

@boonebgorges thanks for the help! My php skills have increased a notch from just playing with this….not to mention of having a better understanding of BP. I used the trick above, but put a major twist on it. I took it to a new level and created new tables within the database so I can organize all the extra setting I am adding to groups. Thanks again. Just wanted to ask however….I am including the functions in my child theme as the bg-custom.php in the plugins did not work for what ever reason. Is it ok to use the functions.php in the child theme? Do you know why the bg-custom.php would not work in the plugins folder?

@hnla // @r-a-y maybe you can help???

I know that I have to change something here :
`if (!is_user_logged_in() && (BP_REGISTER_SLUG != $bp->current_component )) {`
but I’m not that good with BP :S

Well I guess I’m looking for some insight on what you guys think is the best thing for me to do. I just don’t want to take a chance and disrupt or screw up my current install of 3.0.

I have no problem using buddypress on the current install if it can function fully with all the usability of a proper buddypress theme. I know about the template pack but I feel there is something missing when that is done.

The community portion of my site is not going to be the main focus. its somewhat of a secondary concern. I guess thats why I considered using a secondary install.

Let me know what you think is best.

Thanks everyone,
Dan

@hnla: yep, my plan is actually to leave the features area where it is now (where the green “I recycle” logo is), and replace the news block with thumbnails of the latest shop items, similar to what is seen at the bottom of Etsy’s main page: http://www.etsy.com. My “features” area is actually meant to show 2 linked graphics at a time, which lead to site news posts that will be about cool events RC vendors might be holding, or a product giveaway that one of them might want to do through the site. Those will not be “paid” ads, but stuff that is written about to highlight sellers that are helping the entire site out with something they’re doing, KWIM?

@modemlooper: I see what you mean about Shopfly, but I’m going for a setup more like Etsy’s site (also check out http://www.hyenacart.com, though the styling doesn’t particularly appeal to me at all)…less a hosting sales page and more of a shopping portal. To clarify, RC doesn’t actually involve blogging (at least posted to the main site) by the WAHM vendors. The system I’ve got set up DOES use WP blog posts on the child sites for the posting of items, so in “our” vocabulary, blog post = item. The profiles on the main site are for anyone who wants to sign up, whether they’re vendors or not, and is mainly for the purpose of keeping their personal wishlists of items across all RC vendor shops (child sites) The personal activity streams and profile update abilities are just icing on the cake, and there for anyone who wants to kind of hang out with like minded people while they shop. That’s definitely something I’ll ask my users about, though (whether they’d like to get rid of that stuff as well).

ETA: and I’ve made progress on the sidebar! I think I’m happy, except for the avatar area for logged in users and the form area for logged out users. Not quite sure yet what I’m doing to those.

Thanks guys.. I’ve quite a few new Tricks coming up, some submitted by you

Also if you want to receive new plugins directly in your stream, just follow BPUpdates on BP-Tricks: http://bit.ly/bEN7om.

I also made a special Twitter account which let’s you know when a new tricks is published: http://www.twitter.com/bptricks. Finally we also have a RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/bp-tricks