I have spent a long time and created a general forums plugin. I will not be releasing it, as it requires additional modifications to the core of buddypress, but you cen see it working at:
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/forums
There is a modification request which I submitted, to remove the error in the core, but I don’t believe it has been resolved yet.
Brad
That’s actually kind of neat, and it would be a good starting point to port over to BuddyPress. The fact that it’s a “premium” theme however probably doesn’t put it under the GPL, so a new method might need to be arranged.
Sorry for the confusion. I’m juggling a few ideas so I’m probably not communicating in a straight line right now.
Check out http://delsolownersclub.com/discussions/topic/great-job-john for an example…
Basically some of the people logged in and posting in my forums were converted over from a wordpress.org install, and they have yet to update their buddypress profiles with real name info, so using this plugin, their names don’t show up at all, and neither do their avatars as they haven’t uploaded one yet either. Make sense?
And yes about your template… If you look at the front-page.php or forum.php files, you’ll see that the usernames still fall back on the bbPress username of ‘admin’ instead of your name as ‘Site Admin’ if that makes sense? Striving for uniformity, I’d like to get all of the names displayed the same.
Hi John. Glad it’s working for you.
I’m kinda confused. You’re talking about bbGroups plugin, the bbpress template that runs on my forums now or bp?
We’ve got several things you are mentioning:
username, nicename and full name
avatars
If you are talking about my template for bbpress then what you see is what I got at the moment. Nothing held back. That bbpress template was really just a toy to get some bp goodies showing in bbpress. Just an experiment. I was and still am using it to test code and ideas.
I may be late to the party on this thread, but thanks for the simple non-core hacking solution!
Is there any chance that a simple plugin like this could be used for replacing the “Social Network” image as well?
Installed and working. Yay! 
Since I converted my db from a wordpress.org install, not all of my users have converted their information, i.e. real names, etc… Is there any way to have a fall back and use the nicename in the event no real name exists? Also, if there is no avatar uploaded, it doesn’t seem to use the generated avatar for me. The idea would be to have everyone use an avatar eventually, but alas my user base can be slow to adapt…
Do you have a way to do the user names in forum.php, functions that are usually topic_last_poster() and $topic->topic_poster_name? I suppose if the user->ID of those people is within $topic then it’s pretty straight forward eh…
Read the second post in this thread:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1223
Specifically the part about “_wpnonce” support.
Er, I meant “white matte” duh… Ha ha! I could just make my own… I would just rather not totally reinvent the wheel…
I just wish I knew how to get bbPress to stop wiping out all the BuddyPress/WPMU filters and hooks. Incorporating them together is so easy, but making them play nice together isn’t… 
Oh boy am I getting milage out of this link today.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/using-the-buddypress-themes/
wuhudo, your confusion is absolutely normal. You should have been involved near the beginning of all this BP stuff. It took a week for the ‘non-blogcentric nature’ headache of BP to wear off slightly.
We just aren’t in Kansas anymore Toto. 
Andy, I deleted the 9 bb_ rows from the database, reinstalled skipping the integration step and that worked. Thank you!
Martin, thanks for the tip, but there was no “Auth Salt” value in my wp-config.php file.
Andy, even if I try to skip the cookie integration it still seeks out the salt values and says “Forum could not be created!”
Maybe I need to delete all the bb_ tables in the database?
you don’t need the cookie integration for forums to work. Check the new readme file.
Read the sticky by Trent on how to do this but read the entire thread as the first post hsan’t got all the answers.
I manually opened the wp-config.php file and copied the salts to the bb-config.php file, changing the names of the variables in the process.
I’ve been trying for two weeks to figure out how to install the Forums and can’t even get BBpress to install, much less integrate it. No help on their forums, so I’m hoping someone might have a hint here.
None of the salt values appear in the WPMU 2.7 admin options menu
I have the exact same issues at marcbrzeau and get these errors at end of install:
>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt not set.
>>>>>> Could not fetch “auth” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.
>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “auth” cookie salt in your database.
>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.
>>>>>> Could not fetch “logged in” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.
>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “logged in” cookie salt in your database.
Forum could not be created!
Andy wrote: “You may find some activity stream items around blog posts will take some time to re-cache and update properly. Give it a few days.”
I’ve waited a couple of days now and no old blog posts show up in my site wide activity widget, only new blog posts and other activities.
Should I wait longer or give an update to the latest trunk a shot?
It seems that I also have some internal errors. I can’t get subdomain blog created for users. Back to the drawing board!
No worries, it’s always better to ask and learn than to be silent and stay uneducated.
And yes, you need to look at a members profile in order to see the BuddyPress member theme.
The individual blogs are not managed by BuddyPress but by WordPress MU and because of that the themes are standard WordPress themes.
Hi,
And one more… In France we have the same problem on the BP demo.
http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo
Setting default language to english resolved the problem, but the site has to be in french. Huh ?
Admin-bar on wpmu admin is also in english now…
And plenty of post information as “on” by” “at” also.
Feb. 15th, the black sunday for non english buddy sites 
MartinNr5
Thanks for coming back on this.
I have actually now deleted the whole Mu and BuddyPress set-up (as it is new) and downloaded the latest. I have gone through the install guide again and…same problem.
I fiddling around last time, I forgot to mention that when the Member theme is installed in wp-content it does not show up at all in themes control panels. It is only when it is put in themes directory that it registers in the themes admin but it does not show in Ajax preview and results in blank page if installed.
The last time, I recursively changed all permissions to 777 of every file in desperation, but still no joy.
For what I want to do, a constant theme across all blogs and sites is the ideal, so I want to get this to work. It allows the BuddyPress Home theme OK, by the way.
Hope there might be a clue there somewhere.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Well, you can always post a feature request in the trac. 
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket
I activated it for community.domain.com but the links kept going back to domain.com not community.domain.com within its own theme. I cant find anything to insert the static links to keep buddypress theme within its own subdomain itself.
