Yeah haha I noticed that too, thanks! Fixed. 
Thanks for giving me a direction, I’ll totally check that out and report back what I figure out.
Yeah that’s what I’d expect for it to be anyhow. I wasn’t exactly sure who to talk to, and I didn’t want to bother anyone specifically.
I would maybe think a good utility would be to hook into the visibility of the forum in buddypress, and simply hide the forum on disable, and show it on enable. Then again, since that is a core BP function, it wouldn’t really know how to do that without your plugin. Hmm…
About the ‘original admin user,’ when you first install wpmu, the user with the name ‘admin’ is created. Then when you integrate bbPress into it, you typically use that same ‘admin’ as your key master user.
Is there an easy way to follow the path that creating a group forum topic takes? For some reason right now they’re not communicating because even if I create a topic in bbPress, BuddyPress doesn’t load it.
Original bp theme file? If you are talking about some kinda original Photoshop images then you’d have to talk to Andy about that.
If bp group forums posts aren’t showing then ya gotta take a look at why.
If you just ‘disable’ the forum then all you are doing is hiding the forum interface in the group from group members. No, it doesn’t do anything on the bbpress side either. The forum is still there. I’m not sure what the utility is for having the enable/disable ability.
The buddypress user in Site Admin > bbPress Forums area is talking about the user that you create for bp/bbpress integration. The purpose of that user is to have a valid user on the bbpress side that has ‘forum creation’ rights. So it has to be an administrator role in bbpress.
I’m not sure who the ‘original admin user’ you are talking about is.
Howdy, that logo seems to live in css and you can override it by changing this:
#header h1 a {
text-indent: -999em;
background: url(../images/logo.gif) top left no-repeat;
overflow: hidden;
width: 214px;
height: 35px;
display: block;
float: left;
}
line in /themes/buddypress-home/css/base.css. You really don’t want to change it, you really want to create a file in that same directory as base.css and call it site-wide.css
Make your override mods there. There’s a file in there called site-wide-sample.css that explains it.
Yes, it is certainly not working correctly for me then. Crud. Yeah even when I try to post in the group forum through buddy press, it doesn’t work… Hmms… I’m going to need to retrace my steps this evening and see what is amiss…
I understand what you’re saying about non-group forums, and that makes perfect sense. I may eventually migrate all of my forums to be group forums, but we’ll see how things go…
Question. If I edit the group and disable the forum all together, what should happen? Currently, it seems to do nothing. It doesn’t delete the forum, and it doesn’t hide it from the view of bbPress. It just hides it from the BP group forum area.
This may be a silly question to ask at this point in the game but in the bbPress forums area of the site admin where it says “The username for the user (with admin rights) that you created for BuddyPress integration” is it safe to assume that this is the original admin user?
I see your problem with the avs and names. Only suggestion I have is to write a little script that stuffs default names and avs for your users. bp just uses the gravatar’esqe identicons, wavatars and such for non uploaded avs.
This function here might help you out: bp_core_get_avatar() in /bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php
These lines in that fn do the default av for a user:
$ud = get_userdata($user);
$grav_option = get_site_option('user-avatar-default');
if ( empty( $grav_option ) ) {
$default_grav = 'wavatar';
} else if ( 'mystery' == $grav_option ) {
$default_grav = site_url( MUPLUGINDIR . '/bp-core/images/mystery-man.jpg');
} else {
$default_grav = $grav_option;
}
$gravatar = 'https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/' . md5( $ud->user_email ) . '?d=' . $default_grav . '&s=';
One little thing I noticed on your site. I have some debug info in the forum list that appends the forum_id. It’s still in there. 
My Favorite Forum (9)
Where (9) is the forum_id.
It’s in line 110 of oci_bb_custom.php
<?php forum_name(); echo ' (' . $forum->forum_id . ')'; ?></a><br />
You can take out the echo ‘ (‘. $forum->forum_id . ‘) ‘; stuff if you want.
One thing. The new post info and event only gets sent over to bp if the group forum is a ‘public’ group forum. Non group forum activity is ignored as is private and hidden group forums. Sitewide activity doesn’t get updated for the private and hidden stuff in bp.
Can’t send over the ‘open’/’community’ forum posts because the sitewide activity has to be associated with a group.
John, the posts in bbpress should show in sitewide activity. If they are not then something isn’t working right. I did hook the bbpress topic and post creation and send them over to bp and stuff them in activity. I see such things showing in my sitewide activity. So should you.
Lemme know.
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.
