[hydroweb]

I installed single WP. Then bbpress with data copied from wp-config. Then plugged buddypress in. Opted for external bbpress, then got this message

“Forums were set up correctly using your existing bbPress install!

BuddyPress will now use its internal copy of bbPress to run the forums on your site. If you wish, you can remove your old bbPress installation files, as long as you keep the bb-config.php file in the same location.”

Why does BP say it will now use internal copy, when it just said it will use my existing install????

[r-a-y]

It’s an external install.

Download bbpress @ bbpress.org/download.

Integrate with WP. Find a guide on the bbpress.org/forums to integrate.

[hydroweb]

How does this site run a forum without requiring you to join a group? Is it an external install? The default forum in Buddypress requires that you join a group to post. I do not want that feature.

Thanks, Roger

[r-a-y]

@Peter

True, a lot of the threads on the forum have been about bbPress.

I agree that it could be made clearer.

[r-a-y]

Are you talking about the default forums in BuddyPress?

eg. testbp.org/forums

This is the preferred method and will not cause you any headaches

If you’re talking about integrating an external install of bbPress, this is doable as well.

Requires a bit of time to setup, but it can be done.

[peterverkooijen]

Don’t like forums? Disable it!

I already have, but half the posts on this forum these days are about BBpress/forums. Buddypress needs to make clear what it is. The growing emphasis on forums pulls it in a schizophrenic direction imho.

BBpress forum.

[peterverkooijen]

I am aiming at persons over 60, who don’t know diddly squat about social networking. … Get your parents onto Facebook and watch confusion reign

Why then use a social networking script? Why ask Buddypress to be like a forum?

BBpress forum.

[r-a-y]

Re: step 2 … rename “bbpress” to “forums”.

[r-a-y]

Don’t upload bbPress to the /forums/ directory… remove that right now.

A copy of bbPress should already reside in /plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/

Login to the WP dashboard, navigate to “BuddyPress > Forums setup” and set it up!

[IPA]

I found the answer with:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/forum-user-roles-and-moderator-ability-bp-12-rc2-wp-291#post-36543

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/forum-user-roles-and-moderator-ability-bp-12-rc2-wp-291#post-36543

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-disable-members-from-creating-groups

This is how it goes.

You ned to edit your child template.

Using the “BuddyPress Template Pack” plugin, or using the instruction in http://irishpinkadoptions.com/wp-content/themes/dkret3/readme.html#filters you have created a child theme.

You can find the files in: /site/wp-content/themes/<your theme>/groups/

You can edit 2 files:

– index.php to remove the button to create group

– create.php so peopel cannot just go and use the goup/create shortcut.

The idea is that you need to be logged in and “&& current_user_can(‘level_10’)” to be allowed to do soemthimg.

INDEX.PHP before the modif:

<form action="" method="post" id="groups-directory-form" class="dir-form">

<h3><?php _e( 'Groups Directory', 'buddypress' ) ?><?php if ( is_user_logged_in()) : ?>  <a class="button" href="<?php echo bp_get_root_domain() . '/' . BP_GROUPS_SLUG . '/create/' ?>"><?php _e( 'Create a Group', 'buddypress' ) ?></a><?php endif; ?></h3>

INDEX.PHP after the modif:

<form action="" method="post" id="groups-directory-form" class="dir-form">

<h3><?php _e( 'Groups Directory', 'buddypress' ) ?><?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can('level_10')) : ?>  <a class="button" href="<?php echo bp_get_root_domain() . '/' . BP_GROUPS_SLUG . '/create/' ?>"><?php _e( 'Create a Group', 'buddypress' ) ?></a><?php endif; ?></h3>

CREATE.PHP before

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

<form action="<?php bp_group_creation_form_action() ?>" method="post" id="create-group-form" class="standard-form" enctype="multipart/form-data">



......

...very long form...

......



<?php do_action( 'bp_after_create_group' ) ?>



</form>



<?php endif; ?>

CREATE.PHP after

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can('level_10')) : ?>

<form action="<?php bp_group_creation_form_action() ?>" method="post" id="create-group-form" class="standard-form" enctype="multipart/form-data">



......

...very long form...

......



<?php do_action( 'bp_after_create_group' ) ?>



</form>



<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && !current_user_can('level_10')) : ?>

<?php echo '<h3>You do not have authority. And it is not nice to trying to break into the code... it makes the code cry.<h3>'; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

[r-a-y]

@snark

Ability to “Favorite” a topic and get recurring updates doesn’t work right now. It’s something I mentioned in the past on testbp.org. It’s probably a bbPress thing. I’m not sure if anyone outside the BP dev team has even looked into this issue. I might look into it myself sometime in the future.

@Peter

Don’t like forums? Disable it!

[peterverkooijen]

I use this bit of javascript. The example is for blogname (url) from Blog Title, but you can also use it for username from Full Name – or the other way around.

[rohit4all]

i already explored these options. But this is not problem.

I can access following

http://example.com/blogs

http://example.com/blogs/activity/

http://example.com/blogs/groups/

http://example.com/blogs/forums/

http://example.com/blogs/about/

I can access blog invidually but when I try to access this I get error.

http://example.com/blogs/blogs/

Please let me know what I need to do now. I will be very thankful for any help.

[Sabuntu]

Yesterday I had a problem accessing bbpress dashboard, It directsd me to the main forum page again

deleted bb-config, droped all bb_ tables and install it again & worked with me.

I donno is it related to the same problem or Not

[rohit4all]

My WPMU & BP is working fine. Even I am able to browse everything like forums, groups, activity with ease. I can create individual blogs as well & further I can post new topic. I am able to access those posts & blogs. But when I click on “Blog” icon on header I will get message like this

“Page Not Found

The page you were looking for was not found.”

I changed nothing except in control panel for dns entry for a “/” for subdomain.

1. Which version of WPMU are you running? WordPress MU 2.9.1.1

2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install? directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? subdirectory

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version? fresh install

5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress? Yes, sure it was i even created a blog and was reading the posts normally.

6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running? BP1.2.1

7. Did you upgrad from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? No

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? no

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? standard

10. Have you modified the core files in any way? no

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? no

12. If running bbPress, which version? NO

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

Please help me solve this, I have struggled a lot with it. Thank you!

[hydroweb]

Followed

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

instructions exactly.

Clean install of WP 2.9.2. Installed Buddypress 1.2.1 as plugin and activated. Also activated BuddyPress Default 1.2.1 theme. All seems to be working ok.

Now from theeasybutton link above:

1. Download bbPress 1.0.1 (I downloaded 1.0.2)

2. Unzip it and upload the entire bbpress folder to your root directory.

I uploaded bbpress-1.0.2.zip to root and extracted. I am at Hostgator.

3. Change the name of the directory from bbpress to forums and chmod it to 777 if it isn’t already.

Did that.

4. Go to yoursite.com/forums. “Go to step 1″

Went to wonowon.com/forums and nothing happened. There is no “Go to step 1″

[D Cartwright]

I don’t particularly want to install bbpress separately. I’d quite like to extend the functionality for ‘standard’ buddypress setup.

The setup on http://help.deanjrobinson.com is good, but with various group extensions you may not want the group itself being visible to general site users. I can imagine that this will become even more of an issue now that the activty stream functionality is starting to outstrip the forum functionality – I’m finding lots of users aren’t bothering with their group forums anymore and are instead using activity stream to hold discussions.

[hydroweb]

see this

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/wp-with-bp-plugin-how-do-i-get-rid-of-groups-and-keep-forum#post-39818

[mlovelock]

Nice layout on the Dean Robinson site (linked above). I think that’s probably a large part of the answer, it’s about how we present groups / forums to our users. A lot of usability is tied up in the presentation – something I’m having to work on for my own site.

@D Cartwright do you need to completely hide the groups, or could you just remove them from the menu(s) if you only want users to use the forums? Or turn groups / forums off and install stand-alone forum even?

[Andy Peatling]

I don’t think this is something to worry about. It’s not a security problem as far as I can tell. You can do this with any website, it’s simply just adding an extra GET param to a URL.

[Carl Chapman]

I’m having the exact same issue. I have buddy Press full integrated into my site and all parts of it are functioning. I figured the next step would be to add forums. With that in mind, I uploaded the bbpress files into my /forums/ directory and followed the installation instructions from the site (I have tried it 3 times using integration and once without)

I used the Forums Setup from Buddy Press each time to create the bb-config.php file. Each time the installer found the file and thing seemed to go OK. When I was using integration at the end of the install it found and suggested that I use the wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums directory for the location of my forum… each time I said yes.

While using integration it would report a small error that the bb-config.php file was not writeable so I would have to create the key entries myself. Even though I made the bb-config.phhp file (in the root) writeable, this made not difference in the installation error message. (My guess is that the installer is looking at the ‘fake’ bb-config.php file in the forum location directory.

The installation without integration completed successfully with now error messages.

Every time I try to log in, or visit the forum, or visit the admin page all I get is a blank screen… view source shows no source at all. If I examine the directories on the server, the forum files are located there.

Anyone have an idea of what I’m doing wrong? Or what might be going wrong.

[Devrim]

Thanks Andy, but this link is on Buddypress.org,

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/kodingencom-install-any-web-app-in-2-minutes-from-your-browser-and-code-online

[D Cartwright]

I do agree with the way you are making things work/want things to work but a lot of users (myself included) find it a bit difficult to adjust to. It would be nice if there was a simple way to make certain groups be excluded from most of the display filters and/or make their forum appear to be ‘sticky’ at the top of the forum directory. I was planning on writing a plugin to this effect actually.

It would be nice to make it so the groups are hidden to everyone but site admins (or users with some kind of global forum moderation cap) so it would also be possible for these admins/mods to ban people from specific forums…

I’m getting a bit carried away with myself here. I’ll look at making a small/simple plugin first I guess.

[Andy Peatling]

This is the sort of thing I’m talking about: http://help.deanjrobinson.com/

[Andy Peatling]

Also — you DO NOT need to join a group to post in a public group forum. If you post, you join automatically.