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Oh my head hurts. *laughs*

I’ve still not been able to do this from scratch. I think there’s either a file that BP is looking for or something in the database that’s been omitted from the newest release of bbPress.

But for now, hopefully this solution will work.

I just posted the steps that I’ve been taking to install the latest releases of WPMU, BuddyPress & bbPress. You can find it here.

One thing that might help is to put the following code on bb-config.

$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

I’ve tried to do this install from scratch for almost a week and have failed every time. But here are the steps I’ve been taking to get all of the newest releases to work together.

As always – get backups before making any changes!!

After you get wpmu & bp installed, install bbPress alpha 6 using my tutorial

Steps 24-28 deal with cookies. Ignore those and instead, use the bbPress integration plugin to get the codes for all of that. Then, delete the plugin.

After you get alpha 6 working correctly (group discussion works & login integration works), rename your bb-config file. Then overwrite the alpha 6 files with bbPress 1.0.1 Don’t delete the files!!! Overwrite them!! I think there’s a file being left behind that bp looks for & it isn’t included in the new version.

After overwriting the files, navigate to your forums. (i.e. domain.com/forums) and you’ll be presented with an install screen. Enter your database info & on the next page it will tell you that the database is already there & you probably want to use the upgrade script. Go through & do that part.

When finished with the database upgrade, open your old (renamed) bb-config file and copy all of your manually added codes over to your new bb-config file. Save & upload & all that good stuff.

At this point, group discussion should work. If not, check your xml settings & make sure they’re still on. The buddypress enable plugin (found in forum settings) doesn’t need to be activated.

*fingers crossed*

Back from the dead, looks like this topic has resparked some interest. I suspect this will be less of a BuddyPress thing and more of a WPMU thing as it comes down the pipeline.

@Donnacha, looks like someone changed the status for you. Marking topics as resolved serves multiple purposes, and at that time it was fair to say development had begun and the request was resolved. Now that it’s not, it’s not. We’ll be sure to take your perpsective into account going forward though as it makes sense to approach feature requests like you suggest.

First of all i would say search this forum,There will be many posts regarding it.

There are lot of tutorials over the internet.Hope these helps

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

External Links

http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

Should be one useful plugin for Buddypress.

Hi Jeff,

My external membership script that passes user information to Buddypress is handling this very well. I just add an underscore to the username in the external membership db and it passes the updated information via the plugin to Buddypress. Very nice!

What a relief! Thanks for your inputs.

– Brian

Are your theme files in wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember? It sounds like they are in some other place. These are template related errors, usually the template files are in the wrong directory (they have to be OUT of buddypress dir), or the permissions are set wrong.

+1

And integrated across the whole Buddypress structure, including forums.

Karma levels/points/awards should be customizable.

Ok, using John’s deep integration method loses the forums functionality between BuddyPress and bbPress. Why would that happen?

Thank you…

The abs.php file returned a different path I wasn’t considering.

When I put that path into bb-config.php I lose the integration between BuddyPress and bbPress.

So, I’m thinking I’m doing something else wrong in the integration between WPMU, BP, and BB.

I’ll dig in to check settings, any suggestions on where to start?

@Russell

Use the official instructions from the readme.txt.

http://svn.wp-plugins.org/buddybar-in-bbpress/trunk/readme.txt

Swap out the include_once line for this:

include_once($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’].’/wp-blog-header.php’);

In most cases that will work, but let us know what happens!

Tried that and forums would not work with BuddyPress.

The only way I can keep the forums working with BuddyPress is to keep that line in bb-config.php as:

include_once( 'http://mydomain.com/wp-blog-header.php' );

Now leaving that line in bb-config I can post from BuddyPress groups into the forums.

AND I can now activate the BuddyBar in bbPress plugin, BUT I don’t see the BuddyBar in bbPress!

Now, could this be an issue somewhere else in bb-config.php?

I have the integration working and everything, but I’m wondering if I have set something somewhere that is throwing this off…

Thanks for the help!

Ok, the fix I posted about earlier fixed the issue with BuddyBar…

However, it breaks the BuddyPress to forums functionality.

I just checked and switching out that one line of code in bb-config.php will make the “Enable discussion forum” button in a group’s settings and I can’t post to the forum from a group page in BuddyPress.

I’m pasting verbatim into bb-config.php:

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-blog-header.php');

Is that correct? Or do $_SERVER and DOCUMENT_ROOT need to be filled in with different items?

When I migrated my site over from WordPress.org, I ran a loop through the users and just copied over the nicename for each one of them.

I know of a few people working on a full-on tutorial for fresh installs for the entire package (BP 1.0.2, bbPress 1.0.1, WPMU 2.71).

TheEasyButton was working furiously on a walkthrough. John also stated he was working on one.

Patience! Something will pop up soon!

Thanks Jeff Sayre! The plugin claims to be compatible up to 2.7.1 and explicitly mentions Buddypress, so that looks promising.

@paulrostorp-1, don’t count on me to write a plugin anytime soon! I’m not a PHP coder. I want to look into this, but have some other issues higher on the to do list.

@r-a-y

BuddyPress and bbPress Integration

Here’s a start to get you part way there:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-blogs-per-user/

Note: I have no idea whether this plugin works with newer versions of WPMU and BP

Also, you could modify the code found here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/limit-amount-of-blogs-a-user-can-register

I’m getting the same error as matthijsv, fatal error at line 37 of the plugin file.

I have deep integration working as I can post from BuddyPress or bbPress.

WPMU 2.7.1

BuddyPress 1.0.2

bbPress 1.0.1

Any suggestions?