And what are the so called: “kinks” ?
Wow that’s a fancy idea.
Does each item need to be added manually, or are they imported from Amazon into your database?
Since there are no admins for those items, technically who can edit them and create forums, etc? Basically just the main admin, correct?
It’s ideas like this that make me love BuddyPress more everyday. Good work!
Hey John, irc.freenode.net #buddypress
When you do, please pick a handle shorter than your username. May I suggest ‘jjj’? 
I didn’t know that. Surprised me. Now watch, it won’t be the solution.
Since John exhausted all other possibilities. I dove into the source code.
Do you have the file plugin-template.php in your directory /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member ?
It loads that as the template for the settings screen. If it’s missing (I renamed mine as a test) it give that error.
wp-recapcha won’t have any idea how to hook into the BuddyPress registration page, you’ll have to tell it how.
I haven’t used this plugin myself, but I’m sure that it only hooks into a normal WordPress registration page, and not the new BuddyPress one.
Trent, the part I glossed over was
>>1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster
Reading it now, it is obvious, but before – I was not creating a second user and giving him administrator rights. I was using my first “admin/keymaster” account as the main one.
Once I created that second account and followed the rest of your directions, the xmlrpc worked fine.
The other part was
6) …and go to the groups admin page.
It is actually the “bbPress Forums” page. Maybe the terms changed at some point.
As far as cookie integration, this seems to be the definitive resource so far
http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu,_BuddyPress,_and_bbPress
But I just can’t seem to make it happen yet.
Thanks for all the help Trent. I appreciate it.
I think this is an essential request! Instead of adding tons of new features the focus should be on the basic features again; to build a tool that connects people and allows communitation! Everyone who wants to use Buddypress for an international purpose needs multi-language support for the frontend. It would be great to have language filters for the contents like on wordpress.com or facebook.com. If the user prefers swedish instead of english for instance he should only get blog posts/groups and forums in his choosen language. This is definitely one point that should be considered in future development.
Whats your thoughts about this?
Alright, got xmlrpc all worked out. I was make an assumtion in Trents directions that was not correct. I found this doc and it answered a few questions I had.
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt (btw – this link should be made much clearer in the BP install docs. Maybe make is a sidebar nav link)
Still trying to integrate cookies. Anyone got any words of wisdom on that one?
I was working on the same problem. Have a look at this thread. I’m not sure how secure my solution is, but it was quick and if you come up with some better coding to handle it, then let us know. See:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1508
test.racingnewsdigest.com
test
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Also I noticed in IE6 it goes to IE’s “404 The page cannot be found” page. While in FF3 is nicely displays the page but has PERMISSIONS DENIED etc but in the BuddyPress page.
What version of BuddyPress are you using? It is also possible this could be a _nonce key issue if you’re not using RC1, or if you’re using a hybrid of files or file versions from partial upgrades.
The files that this uses are actually part of the BuddyPress core plugin (in mu-plugins/bp-core/), so next on the list of things would be to totally delete the bp-core directory, and reupload them from the RC1 zip, to make sure they are all up to date and valid uploads that aren’t corrupted somehow.
To answer your question, the file specifically that “Settings” uses is bp-core-settings.php. Permissions on the server should be the same as the others, set to 644.
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?
