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@wtfman

You are linking to a thread that is three months old. Much has changed since then. For instance, BuddyPress now runs in /plugins/– not /mu-plugins.

Also, as r-a-y has pointed out, once you activate BP site wide, there is a new menu grouping in WPMU admin called “BuddyPress”. It is located at the very bottom of then menu grouping column.

@catincoach

The ability to promote a group member to admin is in the works for version 1.1!

See the BP roadmap: https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

Hi eyci,

Read the section under “Slugs” on this link:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

BuddyPress is site-wide.

The BuddyPress menu does not reside under the “Site Admin” menu, it is a top-level menu.

Don’t let the placement of the menus fool you.

Hey wftman,

It really depends on the developer of the BP plugin in question.

The readme.txt that comes with the plugin is usually the best indicator of where to place the plugin.

There is a BuddyPress menu in the WPMU admin area, but it would be good to know what you mean by “and it sucks that I have to make changes every time there is a blog”.

Re: Pressbox theme… check out the default “bphome” theme, especially the functions.php file. You’ll probably want to copy over some of the functions into the Pressbox theme functions.php file.

Hope that helps in some way!

https://buddypress.org/blog/how-to/installing-buddypress-locally-on-a-mac/

the image files are in /bp-core/images in your buddypress plugin directory.I will recommend you to edit these files rather messing with css. If you wanna edit css its also in bp-core directory.

Sorry about that – You didn’t mention what version of bbPress you were using and I assumed that since you were in an old post, you were using the old version. I’m working on a tutorial (or will be the second I get this sucker to work) My suggestion at this moment would be to follow my tutorial for installing the alpha 6 version. And then upgrade it using r-a-y’s instructions at this post. I know it’s not the greatest answer but for now, it’s all I can personally offer. Hopefully someone will have a tutorial up shortly. LOL

Burt, good stuff!

boonika, I’m glad Burt was able to get your site working again.

Hi mohitkro5,

It sounds like you’re trying to use WordPress shortcodes in Buddypress fields.

Where are you trying to embed your videos?

BuddyPress doesn’t allow WordPress shortcodes to work in profile fields, wire posts and group forum posts.

bbPress has a few plugins to parse videos.

Hi, thanks. Tried this, Still same problem. I activated plugin (tried both locations).

The thread https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3444 imply that no buddypress support plugin is required.

All this a bit confusing. Isn’t there a full install/integration tutorial available for ver 1?

One of the things I noticed about his site is that group forums aren’t turned on. That means that he’s running the default wp-config.php settings for cookies and not the altered settings that bbpress integration creates.

Hmmm…

Perhaps the bp setcookie() calls were written just assuming some wp-config.php defines for cookies that aren’t present on his site.

Ilya is correct about not having the ability to delegate.admin powers to a moderator. This is a very crucial issue. In a large community, people come and go. Their interests and time change. So say someone creates a group. They by default become an administrator. That means they are the only one to have the following powers in a group:

• Group Settings
  Group Avatar
  Manage Members (i.e. bump them to moderators)
  Delete Group

So if we play out this scenario, and the administrator has fallen off the radar, the group settings from public to private to hidden cannot be changed except by the Buddypress site admin. The Buddypress site admin can elevate members to moderators but they CANNOT add an adminstrator, as far as I can determine. The Buddypress site admin can delete the group but the only way to “delegate” administrator powers would be to follow this scenario:
Appoint a moderator willing to take over. Have them create a new group, and then do a mass invite to join that new group via a news post or a friends invite.

Can a administrator be changed at the db level? Not sure.

What about asking the group administrator to exercise their option to ‘leave a group?’ I have no idea what that would do to the db and the Buddypress system. I’m hoping Andy or Jeff might chime in here on this odd possible outcome.

Cheers,
Brian

I just went through all that with him Jeff. We did all the above and he still has the issue. This is the same thing that bp was doing with the multiple signup from the same computer consecutively problem. It doesn’t seem to be clearing the group id cookie.

This works ok on my windows dev box. This is just not working on his site. I logged in and watched it happen. Second group creation just adopts the first group’s group id and goes on it’s merry way. The cookie wasn’t cleared as it should have been.

The code says clear it at the beginning of a group creation process and clear it at the end. It’s not obviously. All the cookie paths and domains for the setcookie() calls are all the same.

I’m up and running on bbPress 1.0 as well!

Integration appears to work!

FYI, I was on bbPress 1.0 alpha 6 with BP 1.0.2.

Here’s what I did:

-Thanks to Burt and Sam (over at bbPress) for their instructions

1) Backup database

2) Backup bbPress forum plugins and themes

3) Deactivate all bbPress plugins from the bbPress admin area.

4) Comment out only the cookie-related lines in wp-config.php (Do not remove your defined KEYS or SALTS)

5) Manually upgrade bbPress to 1.0 (basically download bbPress 1.0 and overwrite the old bbPress files).

6) Download bbPress Integration plugin into your WPMU plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

7) Log in to WPMU and activate the bbPress Integration plugin.

In WPMU admin area, go to “Settings > bbPress Integration”.

Enter in your bbPress URL (eg. http://example.com/forums/) and for WordPress type, select “WordPress MU”.

Hit “Save Changes”.

9) Copy the now-generated “Manual Cookie Settings” to line 2 of your wp-config.php file.

Copy the bbPress define line into your bb-config.php file.

10) Log into your bbPress admin area.

At this point, a bbPress message should pop up asking you to upgrade the database. Do so.

Hopefully, bbPress should have upgraded successfully at this point.

11) Now login into the bbPress admin area, go to “Settings > WordPress Integration”.

Everything should already be set (if you used TheEasyButton’s tutorial for 1.0 alpha 6 that was the case for me!).

Hit “Save Changes”.

12) Reactivate all bbPress plugins.

13) Clear your browser cookies and attempt to login to WPMU and head to your bbPress forums URL. If you’re logged in to bbPress, mission accomplished!

14) If you have BuddyPress group forums enabled, login to your BuddyPress Groups (eg. http://example.com/members/YOURUSERNAME/groups/).

Go into each group’s admin settings area, and uncheck “Enable Discussion Forum” and “Save Changes”. Then re-check “Enable Discussion Forum” again and “Save Changes”.

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This is what worked for me… can’t say it will work in all cases though!

Step #11 will probably differ for some depending on what they did before.

Now I got to update my custom bbPress theme for all the new changes made since 1.0 alpha 6!

Since BuddyPress requires WPMU, this is really a WPMU question. Search their forums.

Here are a few threads to get you started, but do a more thorough search than just relying on the few posts I’ve linked below:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/10028

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13072

I read your posts in this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2657

What caught my eye was your statement:

I have a lot of plugins for MU but I didn’t include any extra BP plugins.

To trouble shoot, please read my post in that thread just above your first post.

Deactivating plugins does not mean just “BuddyPress plugins”. Why? Because BP is itself a plugin. What others may call “BuddyPress plugins” are actually WPMU plugins that extend the BuddyPress plugin in some way.

When we ask people what other plugins they have running and advise them to deactivate all plugins except BP, we mean all WPMU plugins except BP!

Furthermore as I detail in my linked-to post, to effectively troubleshoot, you need to be running the default BP themes. Basically, you need to remove as many variables as possible.

Read these two threads:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1623

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2688

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-profile-data-loop-bp_has_profile/