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Hopefully someone else will chime in, but the only thing you may lose by not importing the bb_usermeta would be any customisation a user has done to their “display name” or “nice name”; it’d default back to that person’s username. They’d have to just type their preferred display name back in to WordPress or bbPress, so nothing tricky. So, I don’t think you need to.. probably.

I get the feeling you’re aware of this, but I’d suggest having a test-run of this to find out how well it works (or doesn’t) before doing it on your live database. Also, check that bb_usermeta and wp_usermeta have the same columns, you may need to massage the import a bit.

Once you get the users into WordPress, and you can log in as one of them, we can see about associating existing bbPress forum posts with a particular BuddyPress Group’s forum. I’ve not done that myself so hopefully someone who has can guide.

Hmm it depends how you want your site to work. At the moment, it’s a one group to forum mapping. That means, for each forum (or sub-forum), you’re going to need a group.

How many (sub)forums on your existing site? If you have more forums than you want BuddyPress Groups created, we need to do some more work to configure your setup to integrate your WordPress into an external bbPress installation. This is not technically easy, and would involve you creating a separate theme for the bbPress site itself.
A benefit of this approach is that you have full access to a traditional forum look-and-feel (bbPress’).

If, however, you’re happy with how the one forum to group mapping works with BuddyPress, you’ve already done the installation (i.e. clicked the button that said “use an existing bbPress installation”). What you’ll need to do next is move your users from the bb_users table into wp_users (and usermeta too if you want, but be careful and consider if you need to do that), create some groups and then edit their database entries to point to the existing bbPress tables.

@jenyus

Yes. In WP3, create your menus in “Appearance” > “Menus”.

Then copy the menu names to the appropriate fields in “Settings” > “BP-WP-Navbar”.
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Give me about an hour to upload the latest version of the plugin to the repository, and then update. The new V2.1 handles the menu insertion automatically (you still have to create your menus yourself though). Plus, you get all the other cool options to play with too!

Buddypress theme as social bookmarking.

I am interested in the concept of the pressmark theme. I try to modify to make it as a child theme on BuddyPress, But so far not been successful . It would be great if anyone can do it. Maybe you, @modemlooper, . Not necessarily adopt the Pressmark theme . The point is to make a Buddypress theme for social bookmarking.

Probably header.php? Depends which nav bar

I assume there’s nothing useful in your server’s log files? 500 is usually a misconfiguration of some type. Have you tried to upload a copy of the BuddyPress files rather than the automatic download?

Also, fyi, https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/iis7-web-config/ which may be of some help once you get the plugin activated

@acousins –

you can write your own custom blog loop, see: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-blogs-loop/

and make use of some of the functions in bp-blogs-templatetags.php to check for blog name, etc. and exclude as appropriate.

Hmm. So, you’re saying, if I have a non-English version of WordPress (maybe MS subdomain specific), and I try to activate the BuddyPress plugin, it’ll fail and give me the “are you cheatin'” message?

The problem goes away if you removed your localisation? You changed nothing else?

BuddyPress doesn’t use bb_users at all, only wp_users.

You have a standalone installation of bbPress which is where your users database is (because you mentioned bb_users, I expect)? Can we just clarify that you’ve installed WordPress, and activated BuddyPress?

Have you integrated your standalone bbPress install at all? If so, how? Via the “Use an existing bbPress installation” button in the BuddyPress Forums Setup page?

The default view for the member directory is “active members”. This will only show users who have logged in since you activated BuddyPress, and are therefore considered active (last_activity meta is present). If you change the ordering to something else, the members will show.

Technically this comes down to if a user’s “last_activity” record is present in wp_usermeta. I suppose you could pre-prime the last_activity record by something like this: http://buddypress.pastebin.com/USrLFAFH It’s not tested, but I think you could put it in your functions.php. Remember to remove it after one execution, however(!)

@peterreiser Good to hear, it won’t work for all circumstances but is worth trying before hunting further. thanks for reporting back on it

@hnla – I followed your instructions and it works ! Thanks !

Actually, I would create a custom language file. In the end it’s much simpler in my opinion. We did basically what you’re talking about.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

@footybible – have a look for a block with p id=”nav” . Replace the line in that block with the link to register

If you go to the main BuddyPress settings screen, you can rename it