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@peterverkooijen – But did I write that? Also that’s not a strong citation for your argument.

@r-a-y if you want to work together on an activity stream only based forum – i would be more than happy to join in. An idea that has been pestering me for a while now.

IMHO – I really see no need for bbPress within BP – I’m not arguing against why it is there now but the activity stream has more potential (i think it leads to more confusion anyways)

@r-a-y, this sounds pretty parasitic to me:

“… it should be possible (and rather effortless at that) to mold BuddyPress into a more forum-like environment …”

BuddyPress might very well be used first and foremost as a forum by those of us who want WordPress+bbPress without any fuzz (because BuddyPress delivers).

But BP isn’t a forum. Just use bbPress if you want a forum; it’s less overhead as well. Plus you get access to all the existing plugins without needing to tweak them for BP.

FYI, there are signs that bbPress is coming back to life.

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To some extent, I agree with Peter (but not his tone!). We should be taking advantage of the existing activity stream coupled with some activitymeta (title, tags). I think this could potentially be used as a very nice “forum alternative”; we also wouldn’t have to worry about forking discussions from the activity stream. Also, I think this new enhanced activity stream should only be used for groups. Just a thought.

I’ll see if I can get a proof of concept going.

Btw, @peterverkooijen – I’m not sugarcoating anything; I understand the rationale used for incorporating bbPress up to version 1.1. I definitely don’t believe it’s a “parasite” like you do.

bbPress is a parasite that is killing Buddypress from within. Buddypress should have been a next-generation social network, instead it is becoming a messy backward forum/social network hybrid.

@r-a-y (“but not his tone!”), sugarcoating is what got Buddypress to this point. Noone (at Automattic) is making any hard choices. BP tries to be all things to all people.

@tinabeans – Try this:

Avatar sharing between buddypress and bbpress

@andrea_r You say BuddyPress is not a forum. Before it integrated bbPress into the core, I would agree. Now, BP better put that script to excellent use, or else it’s just bloat. The fact that bbPress is ‘in between places’ these days has made many of us bbP enthusiasts turn to BP as it’s successor, since it is clearly actively developed and seems able to use bbP in ways never before possible!

Until bbPress comes back to life, in whichever form that might be; and BuddyPress integration comes with it, BuddyPress might very well be used first and foremost as a forum by those of us who want WordPress+bbPress without any fuzz (because BuddyPress delivers).

By all means, I think it should be possible (and rather effortless at that) to mold BuddyPress into a more forum-like environment. After all, forums is the ‘light’ social network most of us low-tech people know as a do-it-yourself collaboration platform. Remember all of those free-install forums on a sub-domain, usually with nasty ads forced on users? Millions used those; it’s the platform we’ve come to know better than any other, as a social administrator.

Also, sign up at http://testbp.org/ which is a test BuddyPress site, so you can literally go and post content and learn how it works, to decide if it’s for you.

Also check out the BP showcase:
https://buddypress.org/showcase/

BuddyPress is a great idea if you want to migrate from Ning, though we might be a bit biased on this site
You can use this plugin http://teleogistic.net/2010/04/more-import-to-ning-goodness/ to help import your Ning users onto your BuddyPress site.

This site is obviously one such network. Some of my other favourites are:

http://irrationalgames.com/
http://www.h-mag.com/
http://rideoregonride.com/
http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/

ok so yours worked grouping the 2 together but mine wouldn’t work having them seperate, why is that?

It depends on where you placed the CSS snippets. I hope you created a child theme to make your changes. Creating a child theme allows you to make changes to the default BP theme easily.

Ahh okay, try this plugin by Rich:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/

This extends the functionality of the group forums. One of the features is a group forum index.

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Also make sure you have enabled the discussion forum for each group.

Just stepping in with a recent observation that I am not sure how to address.

in looking aroudn and watching tweets & blog posts elsewhere about newcomers to the platform, someone somewhere started referring to it as a FORUM.

It is not.

And newcomers expecting a forum-like interface and usage are the ones I see struggling the most. Whether it’s being confused with bbpress (the name) in general, I dunno. But it might make a bit more sense and be less painful to regulars if we could start stressing that is is not a forum, it’s a social networking add-on for WordPress. Not separate (man, I am not impressed with the auto-install script…), and outside of anything that’s been done before.

@r-a-y oh sorry i pasted the wrong thing i used this and it didn’t work
#groups-dir-list .item-list li {clear:both;margin:0 0 2em 0;padding:10px 0;
i am in the process of trying to learn some but not really sure of how to go about it. i have just been looking through alot of the files and trying to determine what each thing is doing and then i try to use it somewhere and see what happens.
what does the firebug plugin do?

To get BuddyPress integrated to your WP theme – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
where you would have to make some tweaks with some div classes/ID’s and tweaking style.css

As for BP users commenting on videos, it’s the WP thing, just go to dashboard Discussion > and allow only logged in users to comment if you want to set some limits

I think Famous means the default theme isn’t default blog-friendly.

I’ve read a thread by Famous asking for this before:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/enable-theme-12-sitewide/

Has anyone made any progress on this one? I’ve a XAMPP setup running on XP Service Pack 3 behind a corporate firewall. WordPress seems to work fine – I can configure, add BuddyPress, activate plug in and themes, etc. I have a .htaccess sitting in C:xampphtdocswordpress-mu which looks like the htaccess.dist file but with modifications.

Clicking on http://computername.corporatedomainname.com/wordpress-mu/ (where I am installed) lets me go to the BuddyPress home page (and very exciting it is too). Then clicking on the “Members” tab give me a http://computername.corporeatedomainname.com/wordpress-mu/members/ and

“Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404″

@kippnkatie – I would strongly recommend learning some elementary CSS. Using the Firebug plugin with Firefox also helps immensely.

Replace your following snippet above with:
#members-dir-list .item-list li, #groups-dir-list .item-list li {clear:both;margin:0 0 2em 0;padding:10px 0;}

This should fix both your members and groups directory.

Ok, i have found a theme i want, Deerawan – Cloudy 1.4.2, but how would i make it so it was buddypress compatible?

This theme appears to be a WordPress theme. Use the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin in conjuction with your WP theme:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

And how do i display my groups in the forums i have on my site? I have posted several things but not showing up in the actual forums, but in the groups forums.

Not sure what you mean here. Are you talking about showing the group avatar or a list of groups in your external bbPress setup? Being specific really helps!

I think i really need help with getting these groups set up to run the right way…..

It all depends on what you mean by “the right way”.

@r-a-y i was having the same problem with my members list and this fixed it but i am also having the same problem with my group directory and and when I view the groups and friends list under my profile page. Is there something that i can add to fix that too. after i fixed the members page with this
#members-dir-list .item-list li {clear:both;margin:0 0 2em 0;padding:10px 0;}
i thought i would try this for the groups directory but no go
#members-dir-list .item-list li {clear:both;margin:0 0 2em 0;padding:10px 0;}
any ideas???

Could you be more specific? BuddyPress’ bp-default theme has all necessary files for a blog – index, style.css, archive, comments, 404, etc.
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.3/bp-themes/bp-default