It does not work to use a standalone forum because then you lose all the group making aspects of Buddypress.
• BBpress does not skin to match Buddypress easily or well
• They do not integrate together deeply.
• You end up with two admin backends.
• Plugins do not work across the board etc.
In short, the skin approach is just faking it. It is not real. It is just a facade. I know because I have done it for years and it goes against my sense of integrity. It looks like a real website but it isn’t. And it is just all held by rubber bands behind the scenes.
There are numerous threads on this.
The basic steps are:
1) install an external version of bbPress
2) integrate it with WP(MU)
3) setup your forum categories in this external bbPress
3) theme it to match your site
… or sell them them something they know they don’t want.
Yes, I think you need to do more idiot testing … you are forgetting that as a techie you see and get things newcomers dont.
• Its about clarity and simplicity.
We plan to use Buddypress for a national NPO. It has local ‘groups’. Fine, a forum for each local group work well.
People think of “groups” as ‘Groups’.
We make a group for “tech support” … everyone wanting tech support has to join it where it would make more sense for only the ‘tech support group’ to be members giving advice to others (like groups or ranks in most forums).
A non-tech person just wants to post to a general forum … you start forcing them to have to decide one forum or another and then they don’t know where to post when they have something that does not fit.
We make a group for “newcomers” … people make their first post and then get stuck with the label for the rest of their membership.
Each time any activity happens, it all pops up in the ‘activity’.
Why does the limitation need to exist?
Yes, partly it is nomenclature. But, partly, it is an unnecessary rigidity or encumbrance. Being forced to do it this way.
Yes, it may not be a problem for developers to get but, yes, it is a problem for non-techie users. I know that. I have tested it. They don’t get it. it puts them off.
As with the removal of the admin interface and plugin ability, effort has gone in to *downgrade* BBpress not enhance it and that goes against the grain.
“Groups” are groups … not sub-forums.
I’m going to paraphrase a line out of the iPhone ads:
“There’s a plugin for that!”
Check out this plugin by Brajesh Singh:
http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/10/autoactivate-users-and-blogs-at-buddypress-signup/
I think it needs to be updated for BP 1.2 though.
Add this as a bug on Trac:
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket
Login with the same info you use here.
Paid version removes the ads.
AFAIK, this chat plugin is the only one to support BP groups as well.
Some people like the look and feel of Facebook’s chat; there’s a whole thread dedicated to this here (if you’re interested):
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/facebook-like-chat-plugin-for-buddypress
You can use this setting in wp-config.php
define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 3 ); <– 3 should be your blog id that you want it to run on.
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, false ); <– this will prevent the bp functions from trying to attach to the theme of a blog that doens’t have a bp enabled blog
Here’s the codex link:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
Idotter do you really think that server support has to do with human behaviour ?
I’m not sure that a system manager will applause when he read, for example, wp-settings.php file !
Also i’m not sure too, that a UNIX admin who read wp-admin/class-ftp.php would speak of “a big potential”… when he sees 0777…
This is WP stuff, ok, but BP depends on it.
For me, a good project, is not made of perfect future expectations, but is first constructed on solid realistic present.
This is in the buddypress admin
….wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-general-settings
ciao !
It installs like a plugin but will take over your site theme as you need to active the BP theme to get the functionality. If you want to use your own theme please read this.
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
Basically, Yes. Buddypress is plugin for an existing WordPress install. You can’t just install it by itself in a sub-folder. Also, Buddypress is not like a “blog posts” page that you can assign somewhere on your site. You can’t fit it into a couple pages. It’s an entire social networking platform. It will add groups, profiles, messaging, activity, and more to your site.
Sounds good 
Looking forward to it.
My #1 request for BuddyPress is that I be able to link two separate installs – on two different domains. What I want to do is to allow users registered on one install/domain have full access on the other install/domain. I would NOT want universal login. The preferred method would have an option to include trusted domains. Once that was done on both sites, the logins/functions of both sites would be available to all registered users of either site.
Is that what you had in mind? If so, I would like to help with the testing. At present, I have two full MU/BP installs on two separate domains that are both in testing mode. Neither has production blogs or users. Both can be dumped and rebuilt without any loss of data. So, is that a valid sandbox? I can keep one of the domains in test mode for a month (or even more if it is really necessary.) I would like to open the other domain for production within a couple of weeks.
Contact me at webmaster (at) btloc (dot) net if I can be of help.
It’s broken til Andy switches this site to 1.2
hello ladies and gentleman, that’s me again…
I was working really hard to solve this problem with sidebar and i think i found the solution. But i still have no clue how to to move this photos on the left side just few cm to the right?
Here is style css of my wordpress theme with added bp style css (starts at line 2055)…
http://wklej.org/id/290756/
Can you please give my some small hint?
this may help a bit although it doesn’t give a clear answer to the problem apart from pointing the finger at an outdated plugin –> http://alwayswordpress.com/blogging/the-menacing-white-screen-of-death-with-wordpress
Then you may probably have to follow versluis’s advice above… that is to activate your other plugins one by one to find the culprit
Hi… Good idea. I will ask tech for the log file and go from there. This is annoying to say the least.. Oh, I also had no problem installing BP on another WP site with the same ISP.. weird or what!!!
Rod
@ Chouf1 I see your concerns in terms of access rights os some directories (safety) but what you mentioned below that isn’t a technical “problem”, it’s more a human behaviour … In my opinion there’s a big potential in Social Networks in enterprises …
I too could install it in my local system.
Did you try getting server logs from your hosting provider?
I got mine after requesting it from the tech support.
Hi all,
asked by nexia, a pot file for the welcome pack plugin is ready here:
http://bp-fr.net/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/documents/1267797907-i18n-dwp.zip
in the zip you will also find a french translation.
i haven’t installed it so i’m not sure of the path and the file name.
i suppose dwp-xx_XX.mo in the i18n folder ?
Anyway the pot file is done
@bpinspire
Probably still at least a week away from a 0.4 beta. If you want to download the development version and play with it most of the group integration is done. Please don’t post any feedback on this thread though, I don’t want any confusion between the versions.
An addendum to my other post. I just installed BP on my local machine with no trouble. What could be going wrong with my hosting service I wonder?
