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I like waking up when things have magically happened.

Wow me too. Great work Sam.

This theme on buddypress.org website and the forums is not going to be released publicly. There are several posts on the forum stating this, and this answer’s been given several times.

If this situation ever changes, I am sure that we will all find out at the same time – but don’t hold your breath.

I would love the theme too. It would be really really cool if bbPress was a plugin. That way you could integrate it with any theme right? How hard would it be to do this?

If you have any other BuddyPress-dependent plugins installed and activated, you must deactivate those before upgrading and reactivating BuddyPress. Once BP is upgraded and reactivated, you can then go back and reactivate the other BP-dependent plugins.

Also, move the default themes outside of /BuddyPress/ before upgrading. Keeping the themes directory within BP should not cause issues in and of itself, but it is a good idea to move it out before reactivating BP.

I have the same type of problem. I downloaded the latest versions of both WPMU and BP and installed WPMU with no problem. I uploaded all of the BP files to the ‘plugins’ directory. When I try to activate it, I get this message:

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/mmallory/public_html/greenworldzone.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/mmallory/public_html/greenworldzone.com/wp-content/plugins/bp-loader.php on line 19

Any thoughts?

Michael

When I go to the link you provided, a member theme does show up. It is just not properly formatted.

1. Which version of BuddyPress are you running?
2. Did you update the default themes when you upgraded BP the last time?
3. Or, is this the first time you’ve intsalled BP?

Hum. Interesting. That error message is often associated with someone trying to run BuddyPress with the single-version WP. It would have made this issue a lot easier to resolve had that been the case!

Okay, here are some additional questions (besides the ones asked by DJPaul):

1. How (and from where) did you download WPMU?
2. How did you install it?
3. Was WPMU functioning properly before trying to install BuddyPress?
4. Have you checked your server’s error logs for other errors? If there are errors, what are they?
5. Do you have any other WPMU plugins installed and activated?

I’ve written a complete integration for MediaWiki in BuddyPress (activity, groups, user page, buddybar included)

On september i’ll release it, i hope you can wait and try it

You are running the single-user version of WordPress–most likely WP 2.8. BuddyPress will not work with single-user WP.

You must run WordPress Multiuser (aka WPMU or WordPress Mu) which can be downloaded from this link: https://mu.wordpress.org/download/

I like waking up when things have magically happened.

When you upgraded bbpress, did you remember to put all of your extra codes back into bb-config? And again, for bbpress, when you upgraded did you overwrite the files or did you remove them all and then upload the new ones? Did you go back into bbpress admin & make sure xml was still enabled? Did you check buddypress forums setup to make sure the info was still there? If you try to create a new group, are discussions enabled?

Me too, see here…: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/group-message-mail-not-sending

This is very bad! Any of the gurus having a solution/answer for this?

1) Is your web root actually /www/www?

2) And is Buddypress installed here? /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/

Here’s the code I use in the current version of my site – Kunal17 asked about it:

// Include the SimplePie library

require_once 'simplepie.inc';

require_once 'shorten.php';



// Because we're using multiple feeds, let's just set the headers here.

header('Content-type:text/html; charset=utf-8');



// These are the feeds we want to use

mysql_connect(localhost,$db_username,$db_password);

@mysql_select_db($db_name) or die( "Unable to select database");



$query = "SELECT id, email, firstname, surname, rssfeed FROM members WHERE rssfeed != ''";

$result = mysql_query($query);



$feeds = array();

$id_array = array();

$first = array();

$user = array();



$userinfo = array();



while ($cur_feed = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))

{

$feeds[] = $cur_feed['rssfeed'];

$userinfo[$cur_feed['rssfeed']] = $cur_feed;

}



// This array will hold the items we'll be grabbing.

$first_items = array();



// Let's go through the array, feed by feed, and store the items we want.

$ix = 0;



foreach ($feeds as $url)

{

$user_id = $id_array[$ix];

$firstname = $first[$ix];

$surname = $sur[$ix];

$email = $user[$ix];

$ix++;



// Use the long syntax

$feed = new SimplePie();

$feed->set_feed_url($url);

$feed->init();



// How many items per feed should we try to grab?

$items_per_feed = 1;



// As long as we're not trying to grab more items than the feed has, go through them one by one and add them to the array.

for ($x = 0; $x < $feed->get_item_quantity($items_per_feed); $x++)

{

$first_items[] = $feed->get_item($x);

}



// We're done with this feed, so let's release some memory.

unset($feed);

}



// We need to sort the items by date with a user-defined sorting function.  Since usort() won't accept "SimplePie::sort_items", we need to wrap it in a new function.

function sort_items($a, $b)

{

return SimplePie::sort_items($a, $b);

}



// Now we can sort $first_items with our custom sorting function.

usort($first_items, "sort_items");



$counter=0;

foreach($first_items as $item)

{

$feed = $item->get_feed();

$info = $userinfo[$item->feed->feed_url];



$counter++;

if($counter >= 7)

break;



if ($img_size = @getimagesize('members/img/avatars/'.$info['id'].'.jpg'))

$avatar_field = '<img src="members/img/avatars/'.$info['id'].'.jpg" alt="" />';

else

$avatar_field = '<img src="members/img/avatars/nopicture.png" alt="" />';



$picture = '<div id="feedpicture"><a href="members/member.php?id='.$info['id'].'" title="'.$info['firstname'].'\'s Member Page">'.$avatar_field.'</a></div>';



// Begin the (X)HTML page.

?>



<h3><?php echo $picture; ?><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo html_entity_decode($item->get_title(), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?></a></h3>



<!-- get_content() prefers full content over summaries -->

<? echo trim(substr((str_replace("\n", ' ', str_replace("\r", ' ', strip_tags($item->get_description())))),0,300)); ?>

... <i>more</i></a><br />



<p class="info"><a href="members/member.php?id=<?php echo $info['id']; ?>" title="<?php echo $info['firstname'].'\'s Member Page'; ?>"><?php echo $info['firstname'].' '.$info['surname']; ?></a> | <a href="<?php echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a> | <?php echo $item->get_date('M j, Y | g:i a'); ?></p>

<br />



<?php

}

?>

It shows the latest blog posts from members on a page, if they have an RSS feed in the database. It uses SimplePie. The code above is customized from regular SimplePie feed code. Member management in my current site is based on PunBB, not WordPress.

I’d have no clue how to modify this code for Buddypress. Can’t figure out member management in Buddypress for starters, with x-profile vs wpmu and similar data stored in different places. It all looks kinda messy and inconsistent to me.

Doubtful you should take this as starting point. I’ll wait for the integrated solution.

What? Just when I had figured out how to decode the old permalink structure you go and make it better.

This is a very welcome improvement!

Funny, I have followed the steps in the integration – and I could not make the Forums appear in Buddypress Groups. I tried a lot but the only solution to my problem (and perhaps NOTME31’s problem also) is just to go to DASHBOARD > Buddypress > Component Setup > and “disable” Buddypress BBForums option, save it and then “enable” it again.

Voila! It worked! No need to use the BBPress Integration plugin nor modify WP-CONFIG and BB-CONFIG.

I am using the latest release of Buddypress, and BBpress rel 1. “Bechet”. My site is at http://www.animejoints.com, although I cared not to go into “deep integration” this time. I am already happy with the BBPress Forum sharing same login as with the Buddypress and Forums are working.

HINT: Simply follow the steps outlined on the first post of this thread.

bbPress Side (First):

1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster

2) you copy the “buddypress-enable.php” plugin out of the bp-forums folders and copy it into your /my-plugins/ folder (create if it doesn’t exist) so it is /my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php ****People ask about /bb-plugins/ versus /my-plugins/ and put it in /my-plugins/

3) Enable the plugin through your bbPress administration side for plugins

4) Edit “settings” to enable xmlrpc and pingbacks (both)

5) edit your bb-config.php and just before the closing php call at the bottom of the page put:

$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

buddypress Side (Second):

6) Go into your main blog dashboard as the “site-admin” and go to the “bbPress Forums” page. Put in the URL of your forum like http://yoursite.com/forums/ and make sure you have the ending slash on that one.

7) Put in the user that you created in step 1 with the bbPress “administration” rights and their password. I never changed the password, just used the random one it sent me, but it is up to you. I usually save it a couple of times to ensure it was entered due to a refreshing bug at time of writing this.

Before you go to your Group Admin Setting to enable Forum, go to BuddyPress> Component Setup > and disable – save – enable BBPress Forums.

@Tracedef, Are you starting the plugin or what?

Nice work Sam!