Burt (one of the other moderators here) and myself are both working on similar (but separate) projects, and I’m sure we’ll collaborate at one point to come up with a workable solution. Burt is much more knowledgeable on the backend subject of how these two speak to each other, so he’s the brains behind the operation. 
Mine requires “deep integration” and Burt’s bbGroups plugin to work as expected, and in my opinion it shouldn’t be any other way right now.
To my knowledge there isn’t a bbPress/BuddyPress theme available for download yet, but it will be my pleasure to release mine once I have worked out all the kinks.
No Todd, you’re actually right on point, and these are suggestions that have been mentioned before so you can bet that these will be addressed in future updates.
I’m going to close this topic and route further discussion to the previous topic below.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1236
Thanks Jeffca for adding that to the trac.
I have added suggestion #2 to a trac ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/574
That would be great if there was one
@burkie,
make sure you have the latest trunk version of buddypress (or at least 1164 I believe) installed, particularly bp-core-templatetags.php.
Interesting point John, thanks.
After spending a few hours with little success, it seems I am having difficulties on 2 fronts: wpmu and bbpress integration and buddypress xmlrpc integration.
I am at times not sure which one I am troubleshooting.
hi there…
i’ve been running my forums on bbpress for some time, and would like to move over to buddypress.. is there a way to import bbpress including profiles into buddy?
i’d like that very much (and so would my users)
They’ve allready developed a buddypress theme for bbpress, take a look at their own forum 
They just have to realese it …
Check out this discussion here…
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=367#post-1453
Gonna close this topic to lure everyone over to the other party.
I would recommend installing WPMU in the root directory, and modifying home.php in your buddypress-home theme to best match your existing site while still incorporating most of the typical, familiar BuddyPress links.
To answer your questions, WPMU gets installed in the root directory, and BuddyPress is installed in the wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory. (Check codex.buddypress.org for install help.)
The BuddyPress homepage is the home.php file I mentioned above. The files in your root directory are just functionary place holders to help tell WPMU/BuddyPress what content to get from the database and then to tell them which theme files to display that data with.
Really, take this a step further to say that anything that is a plugin to BuddyPress could be a content type automatically, that could be turned on or off in the admin panel.
Groups, Blogs, and Members so far. Later on the Gallery could be part of it, so when the gallery is dropped into mu-plugins, it automatically populates new content types.
This is where the member theme gets tricky and throws a curve ball…
Check out /mu-plugins/bp-groups/directories/bp-groups-directory-groups.php
Those files technically aren’t part of the member theme, because they’re not really displaying any specific member or group info; they’re part of the BuddyPress Groups Directory page, and they are meant to be styled site wide using the home themes header and footer files, not the member themes.
Tricky eh?
@bmg1227, looks good. Anyone familiar with your previous work is probably expecting pretty fabulous things for BuddyPress from you in the future.
A quick note of thanks to everyone for sharing your sites with everyone else. 
I am closing this topic, as it has been addressed also in “RC-1 – admin-bar-menu acting weird?.”
oldskoo1! Howdy partner.
Ok. in bp we have the ability to search blogs, groups and members.
/mu-plugins/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-classes.php search_blogs()
/mu-plugins/bp-groups/bp-groups-classes.php search_groups()
/mu-plugins/bp-friends/bp-friends-classes.php search_users()
In all cases you’ll probably have to uppercase or lowercase the search term $filter and the field(s) in the sql statement itself.
strtolower($filter) then something like:
WHERE LOWER(value) LIKE $filter
I don’t think I’ve ever used the bp search stuff. Thanks for finding this. I created a ticket on this: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/570
Search should be case insensitive.
I’ve just started with BuddyPress at:
http://wordpress-blog.nl/
It’s all in the Dutch language
OK, I am starting to realize my next wrong turn. This is my first dive into BBpress and when the topic of this post said “assuming you have wpmu and bbpress all set up” – I thought I did, but I didn’t.
BBPress Newbs FYI:
There is a whole cookie/hash integration that has to happen that I have not looked at yet. Here are 2 great resources on the topic
http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu,_BuddyPress,_and_bbPress
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast
Well I’ll be… I think tiny url’s are fine, and probably for the best really…
You know, to Andy’s credit, it’s really kind of fun to find little bits of creative genius in BuddyPress… Stuff like this, and the Groups Template idea, and just little prethoughts of the future, they’re just really cool…
No sweat. I ask because lets say I make a “Signature” field, it’s a textarea, and it’s going to be used for their forum signature.
If their signature is "<a href="bob" style='color: red;'>Bob</a>, is amazing!" is BuddyPress going to parse the crap out of it, and is this going to understand that?
if (the group is XBOX) add_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘your style hook’)
i made a good set of functions in bpdev theme to add stylesheet with condition, look here:
http://trac.bp-dev.org/plugins/browser/trunk/bpdev-theme/bpdev-theme-extra.php
look line 9:
function bpdev_theme_register_style( $slug, $name, $callback, $default = 'off', $admin_show = 'on', $condition = true, $priority = 1 ) {
it means that with this function you will be able to add styles in wordpress/buddypress integrating them in the bpdev admin interface to activate or deactivate them,
in your example you need a plugin like that called for example my-styles-bpdev.php
<?php
/*
Author: Nicola Greco
Author URI: http://nicolagreco.com
*/
require_once( 'bp-core.php' );
require_once( 'bpdev-core.php' );
function bpdev_search_css() {
global $group_obj;
bpdev_theme_register_style(
'my-styles', // your style slug name
'XBOX Styles', // your style name
'xbox_styles_function', // callback
'on', // status "on" on default
'off', // off will not display it in admin interface
$group_obj->id = 1; // the group ID
);
}
function xbox_styles_function() { // example of css content
?>
#header {
background: #FFF;
}
<?php
}
add_action( 'bpdev_theme_extra_setup_globals', 'bpdev_search_css' ); // it will add the style
?>
How I can add buddypress tag? Where on readme file
You should use the .htaccess.dist file that comes with BuddyPress if BuddyPress does not create or cannot edit the existing one that’s there.
What you have above will not be enough for all of BuddyPress/WPMU to function correctly.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase BASE/
#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>
It has additional lines for handling multiple upload directories, blogs, etc…
You will have to have a separate theme for your subdomain, and hard-code the links to go back to your root domain.
The way I did this, was to have a “buddypress-home” theme, and a “buddypress-sub” theme. The sub theme is basically a copy of all of the files from the “buddypress-home” theme, but without home.php, an edited style.css to change the name of the style, and a modified header.php which I will explain below.
The home theme is activated only for the root blog, the sub theme for all others.
In the header.php file for the sub blogs, I used $bp->root_domain as the destination for each link, plus whatever slug was appropriate (MEMBERS_SLUG, BP_GROUPS_SLUG, BP_BLOGS_SLUG).
I also went ahead and made the BP_BLOGS_SLOG link class="selected" right away, that way when you’re in a sub blog, the appropriate tab is always shown as selected.
