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Done that, been there. Works brilliantly.

1. Install WPMU.

2. Install Buddypress.

3. Change your keys in wp-config.php.

4. Install bbPress with intergrated settings (make sure you use the new keys you made). Make sure you install it in /forums and not in /forum because buddypress will nicely redirect his own /forums to your newly made bbPress install.

5. When everything works good, use this plugin.

Edit: Btw, if you wanna use buddypress login/profiles you can just use redirects.

Worked a charm for me.

Looks okay. All I’d say (as far as things that really stick out at first glance)… is that the logo is kind of a disaster. It’s kind of ugly and about 200% bigger than it needs to be. I think you could clean things up a lot simply by setting it on white and making it smaller.

Also… you probably have this on your radar anyway… but the banner ads are sticking out to the right. You probably want those contained within your header area.

No, you have to make a lot of plugins yourself if you want to fetch most data from buddypress, you would also have to make a bbpress theme that fits your current buddypress theme and after that make redirects from the bbpress profile to your buddypress profile.

It’s a tough road, but the end is worth it.

Very nice! How did you get the Feature Content Gallery Working with WordPress MU?

as per your information, here is a product that answer your needs: http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/03/limit-number-of-blogs-per-user-for-wordpress-mu-and-buddypress-websiteblog-network/

and a quick blog post: http://dev.benoitgreant.be/2009/11/24/buddypress-quickpress/ … working perfect…

no need to require something important when it is already created.

Closing this thread as people can send the original poster a message if they are interested.

I wish I could but unfortunately it will take some times for me and my guys to get other customized plugin to work with the new release as we all have been playing with the current version which we had going in to for quite some time.

Yeah, I know the latest version has the solution but I really hope for a technical solution (hacking the core files i guess?) which will solve the problem logically.

Anyway, the variable $topic which I debugged through in the bp-groups.php file was not holding any value which I might suspected to be the source of the problem:

function groups_new_group_forum_topic( $topic_title, $topic_text, $topic_tags, $forum_id ) {

global $group_obj, $bp;



if ( $topic = bp_forums_new_topic( $topic_title, $topic_text, $topic_tags, $forum_id ) ) {

bp_core_add_message( __( 'Topic posted successfully!', 'buddypress') );



/* Record in activity streams */

groups_record_activity( array( 'item_id' => $group_obj->id, 'component_name' => $bp->groups->slug, 'component_action' => 'new_forum_topic', 'is_private' => 0, 'secondary_item_id' => $topic['topic_id'] ) );



do_action( 'groups_new_forum_topic', $group_obj->id, $topic );



return $topic;

}

bp_core_add_message( __( 'There was an error posting that topic.', 'buddypress'), 'error' );

return false;

}

Anyone have ideas what the $topic variable does?

I have had total cessation for the last two weeks without using plugins, using the procedure I outlined here.

@ tajulsharby: Update to the the latest WPMU (2.8.6) and Buddypress (1.1.2)?

Yeah, mine has the same problem too…Ive tested the xmlrpc and the additional “$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true” code in bb-config.php file, added the bp-group plugin but still no luck in getting rid off the “There was an error posting that topic” message. It seem to be happening with all the sudden..or it may be a side effect of me activating certain plugins which I may not realize the effect of it.

Anyway i think my xmlrpc communicates well with the class.ixr file by using a plugin named xmlrpc – Say hello from bbPress. The expected output produces successfully which I think the source of the problem may not be from the xmlrpc thing.

I’m using bbpress 1.01, WordPress MU 2.8.1 and Buddypress 1.0.3.

Really appreciate if someone could provide me suggestions.

You guys rock!!!

Ahh gotcha… wasn’t thinking of modding the Supporter plugin

Long day!

Well for a programmer it’s probably easier to start off that plugin, it already got almost everything, several tweaks to it and done.

While if a programmer would have to start from scratch, it would take more time and time is money.

Doesn’t the Supporter plugin only support one level of membership?

I might be wrong…

It’s the multiple level permissioning that’s the big obstacle with this project.

If your willing to pay, I believe you can already come pretty far with this plugin.

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/supporter

Hey jj_75,

Thanks for posting, however job offers should be posted on the BP Job Board Group:

https://buddypress.org/groups/buddypress-job-board

When you thought you’ve seen it all.. you get suprised by a buddypress site for cleaners!

Looks like a nice rewrite of the “BuddyPress Corporate Theme”. Still not 100% done though, like the menu (unless you did it on purpose like that).

Forums in buddypress are coupled to a group, so create a group and use the forum in that.

(I personally just use a seperate bbpress install, since I dont like the group forums.)

Would be good if you could post ideas and solutions here too: https://buddypress.org/groups/fighting-spam-splogs

There’s already a few plugins etc mentioned there that might help you out too.

ALT tags and title tags of the images that appear on the home page and sub pages of buddypress sites should be taken into to consideration for an SEO plugin, or future core development. Currently my BP site rank far below other sites when you google for the actual dot com, which is also in the title in big letters with the new default bp theme. Unfortuanelty google sees a majority of my site as

“home” and “group avatar”

there should be a way to change / add title and alt tag to the large site title, and the small title in admin bar. I would also experiment with appending the site tite to some of hte other images.. it would be better for me to have:

my-dot-com-home

my-dot-com-group avatar

my-dot-com-groups

my-dot-com-blogs

etc

right now if type in my dot com into google, another site shows number one result, and that site is completely blank – just an empty dot com folder – that’s my first clue that bpress seo is in need of help –

Svenl77 – even with poor english translation – you are very right about all of that – you have certainly done your seo homework!

I know some of the issue is the text content showing in recent sitewide posts is not helping, but pretty much everything else on the page is gravatar images and others that are not helping the front page to rank for it’s keywords – I could take groups and recent active members off the front page and see the effects.

I would love to know where in the theme or code it is controlling the “home” as title of my site title, and group avatar, and blogs, etc – To those alt and title tags are the second biggest seo mistake with buddypress right now –

All, thanks for the guide — got the integration finally working with WPMU+BP+BB.

I do have a question related to BP Group — how do i create a group that can be linked directly with existing forum in BP (BP is integrated with existing forum + topics) ?

At the moment, when i created a group in BP, the group will appear as a new forum in BB.

When I created a forum in BB, this is not automatically created as new Group in BP..?

Andy, the username/email gets randomly made with every signup, so that won’t work.

Maybe this’ll help too: http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/03/16/the-perishable-press-4g-blacklist/

Also – make sure you are marking the users as spam not deleting them. This will block the username/email from logging in and/or signing up again.