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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?

Props to r-a-y and John James Jacoby (the latter of whom put up with my self-inflicted stupidity that made me … whinge)

My layout is pretty much what I want, and everything appears to be working, so it’s time to look at the non-essential, but gosh that’s weird problem.

If you go to my forums, the ‘BuddyPress’ link on the top left is vertically weirded. Which is the only way I can describe it. Should I just beat it into submission with css, and assume it’s a css conflict of names?

I used http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/30/integrating-buddypress-10-wpmu-and-bbpress/

But I do not know which versions U R intending to install & integrate.

Brian-

You should ask this question as well in the WPMU forums as it is the WPMU registration functions that allow usernames to be created with a space in them and it is the authentication functions (when a user logs in) that then has an issue with the space.

I do not know if this has already been addressed in a newer version of WPMU, but Andy is aware of this issue and I assume that he has communicated it to Donncha.

You are limited in what you can do, but deleting the username is not advisable.

You could manually edit each user account that has this issue. If you do so, you’ll of course first want to make sure you have a backup of your database. But, if you go this route, you’ll need to tell each of those affected users that you have changed their login credentials. Otherwise, they will not be able to log in.

As far as changing the display name, that will have no affect on the username. Those are two different pieces of data.

Since this relates to bbPress specifically, I would ask this question in the bbPress forum.

To have the topic title as the page tittle, the topic first post as the meta description and the tags as the keyword would be ideal and really boost the seo of the forum posts.

You should first focus on all the other things that have the greatest SEO impact (like creating quality content).

Since you cannot control the content of your forums–it is generated by all your users after all–I think the best SEO booster for bbPress was just implemented by Sam. See this link: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-forums-now-use-pretty-permalinks

Hey, I didn’t receive a spam message. I guess I’m just not popular. ;(

@socialpreneur-

The BuddyPress Privacy component will allow users the ability to decide who can send them PMs.

thanks Burt, just upgraded the forum and all these tricks are working now!

Now I have to integrate it with buddypress groups, I guess I will lose another hours/days as I can already see an error message “There was an error posting that topic.” when I try to submit new topic via bp

Thanks anyway for the hint in the wpmu/bbpress integration part.

https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/ – v1.1 apparently August 17, 2009.

Hi There

I have installed the buddypress bar for the forums . But i am not getting any link displaying, just the css, the actual buddypress menus are not there.

Click here for the forums

Click here for the wordpress install

We have used the deep integration and i have added the lines to my bb-config.php, the path to the file is correct.

I have added the two functions ie

add_action( 'bb_head', 'bp_core_add_js' );

add_action( 'bb_admin_head', 'bp_core_add_js');

You can ignore the “invite new member” link on the top right hand side, its just a div postioned as absolute.

I forgot to mention my installation details:

1) wpmu 2.7.1

2) buddypress 1.0

3) bbpress 0.9.0.4

Also, I think this might be very important thing. When I am loged in to forum as an forumadmin and I go in another tab to wp-admin page, I’ve got this message straight away on my screen: “Please log in again.”. Even before I type something………

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