If you really need a social network on wordpress stand alone, try the plugin “mingle”, it isn’t as advanced as buddypress, but it has the basics.
@ DJPaul: Not really farmiliar with trac, but I’ll see what I can do. 
Edit: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1426
Looks like a nice design, and a great way to show what you can do with buddypress by extending it with some other software.
I believe you can make a login form outside of wordpress, just direct the action to the wordpress login page. And make the method post. You can even use this to redirect to the page your on right now.
<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"/>
Hi Kevin
In BuddyPress, Forums are an element of a Group, rather than standalone. You *can* install a standalone forum but it requires more work.
Anyway, once the forum has been set up (via the admin pages in the /wp-admin/ backend), you go into a Group, there should be a Forum tab. You can create threads from this page.
Hello giast
No, BuddyPress needs WPMU at the moment. It will work in regular WordPress when WordPress and WPMU merge; last I knew, that was probably going to be in WordPress v3.0.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/help-us-help-you
Specifically, do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress running? Also, I’m not sure if that’s your browser settings theming the page, or whether you’re running a custom theme. Revert to the default if you’ve customised the theme as a test.
Is it only the BuddyPress bar not maintaing state being the problem, or is it the rest of the site as well (i.e. creating a group or something you need to be logged in for)?
I do hope you both mean buddypress 1.1.3, going back in time is really bad..
Steps for bugs.
1. Make sure you run the latest stable versions (wpmu/buddypress).
2. See if problem is already fixed in trac or in the forums.
3. If everything else fails, make a ticket on the trac and wait.
If no one else got this problem, it most likely means that there’s something different in your install.
Exactly what I needed, thanks Xevo.
my opinion?… offer both solutions as plugins…
bbPress can be integrated to WPMU, we already have examples of that… why not offer a complete solution for the integration instead of two HowTo and a plugin…
and the BP forum version is quite different from bbPress, i don’t know why it is still named bbPress… why not having it as a plugin as well?
so when we decide to offer forums for groups we use one version, and if we want a global forum, we use bbPress, and if we want both, we use both…
because right now we can not use both versions at the same time… i would.
Is it possible to use this for making an extra profile page? For example, “…/members/admin/profile/newpage/”.
Already working on two plugin which will enable buddypress/wpmu to take data from the bbpress table’s and vice versa.
I personally like the idea that all automattic software can be used as one (like modules), but at the same time, if you just need bbpress, that you can use it without wordpress.
Agree with you on the option.
Rather than using “forums” slug for group forums directory, I will rather use it for external forums. Instead, I will consider using group-forums slug for that.
Again, why use two copies of bbpress if you want external forums, why not use a single copy but with the tighter integration.
Well, why I said It should not be Integrated.
Currently,Is there anyway for the site admin to manage all the forums on a buddypress at one place.No.
Can You manage all the topics from one place, no , you have to visit individual groups to manage it.
bbpress has been in existence ,before even the conception of buddypress,so how about the people who are already using it as a standalone software,or on their wordpress/wpmu site.We may not force them to install buddypress for using/keep using forum.
I hope ,There are other various reasons why It should not be merged.
But again,I too wish ,there should be more better integration.
There should be a option at the admin site, to select standard forum view,or buddypress groups view.
For many people I think the bbpress integration into wordpress (make bbpress look the same as wp) is just to heave. So they jump to some other forum software.
In the and most of them are missing forum community features.
In the moment you have to rewrite bbpress plugins to use them in the puddypress bbpress installation. Or have two install with two admin sites.
I seriously believe ,these pieces of software should never merge.
Personally,I prefer external forums much more than the internal integration.Again, for people who are looking for easy install(the internal integration is well done by Andy, Kudos to him) internal integration is good, but in most of the circumstances we are going to need an external forum, as it is much more clean and easy to use rather than the group associated forum.
I believe, the integration of bbpress with buddypress will get better in future, as buddypress grows. But considering current situations, It is not a good idea to merge both the pieces of software.
no offenses, my personal thoughts only
If this is a bug please post a ticket on https://trac.buddypress.org/. You can use the username and password that you do on this site.
many thanks for your feedback Ray !
I think the page “textbp.org/forums” does not bring much value to the website. Also for the average user it is difficult to understand what the purpose of that specific page is.
Therefore I suggested a re-design of that specific page:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1389
Maybe this helps to utilize the forums and also get the user to better understand what is the idea behind a “Group-forum” ?
We are all more or less “living” within the Internet – we are programmers, designers, WP-experts, Professional Bloggers, etc. , but lets put ourselves in the shoes of the average internet-user – would he be able to understand and also use the service which we are trying to offer ?
Erich, I replied to your ticket on Trac about this, but thought I’d post my response here as well.
In practice, Forums are for focused discussion. Forum posts are not threaded and you must visit the actual forum post to reply.
Activity updates are freeform and have no real structure, but are threaded and can be replied to without having to visit the actual activity permalink.
However, I’m guessing (like you) that most people will reply to activity comments, instead of the forum topic.
The creation of activity comments have made the forums component somewhat less relevant now.
This is kind of related to a ticket I opened about the usability factor of having too many ways to communicate:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1419
For the benefit of anyone who finds this post via Google, you can view the current Roadmap here: https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/
@Erich73
I have no idea where you are getting “standard WP-behaviour”. As you can see from the https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/, xprofile improvements are scheduled for BuddyPress 1.3.
