[Jeff Sayre]

r-a-y

I suggest pasting your solution into this thread for the time being. Otherwise, it will get pushed down into the the large, deep-thread morass.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions

A few months from now after all BP installs have hopefully switched to the parent/child theme architecture, it can then be removed.

[grosbouff]

Hi JJJ, thanks for your explantions.

I think this is something you could put it the documentation…

And for you guys, you can check the plugin I wrote.

My BuddyPress installation will be only for french people so i don’t need “international names”…

[5069396]

Thanks for the help, Ray.

Adding the tables from my forum to my wp db shouldn’t be too hard. It seems to be a prerequisite for integration in bp 1.1

But i really want my old forum users to be buddypress users, seeing how they have years of forum posts in there. I’d hate to cut them off and make them start all over again.

[Don Elliott]

Thanks r-a-y, I did look into that – I have everything enabled except Blog Tracking and bbPress Forums. My only other options (all of which are enabled) are as follows:

Activity Streams

Groups

Private Messaging

Comment Wire

Extended Profiles

Status Updates

…..

[r-a-y]

Is your WP+bb already integrated? If it is, you can probably easily migrate to BP!

I’d probably upgrade your bbPress install to 1.0.2.

Then convert the WP site to WPMU. Here’s a guide I’ve used in the past that might help:

http://welcome.totheinter.net/2008/10/04/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-wordpress-mu/

At this point, I’d make sure to see if bbPress integration is properly integrated with your new WPMU setup. The bbPress integration plugin will help here.

I’d then install BuddyPress and try to use your existing bbPress setup.

—

EDIT: Just read this:

but my bbpress and my wp are 2 different databases, so with bp 1.1 if I combine these, it sounds like it will be easier to integrate these?

Since your bbPress db does not use the same database as your WP install, I don’t think this is going to work.

More info here:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/

You could probably use BuddyPress’ internal bbPress setup, but then your original bbPress will be separate from BP.

Hopefully someone else can jump in with more info.

[5320203]

Third time trying to post. Trying the logout/login work-around posted by Andy. Guess cookies?

I am new to this forum and to MU/BP but not to wordpress. I am flying into NYC from Fort Lauderdale on my way to Calgary, and so even though I am on a tight schedule, I would love to meetup with MU/BP developers as my next several ventures are set to explore using MU/BP extensively, developing multiple themes and plugins.

I arrive at LGA at 8:45 so I will be rolling in late, but if my cameras arrive on time I would be happy to document 1 or more sessions (as requested on this thread). Has anyone volunteered for this yet? If so/not, lets co-ordinate priorities for recording, and who is willing and able.

Lastly, since I am arriving the day-of, I will have my luggage with me. Does anyone know if the venue has a place for me to keep a few bags until the end of the first day?

Really looking forward to meeting all these bright minds working towards solutions on common problems.

[arghagain]

After looking through global db, I saw the buddypress did not installed any bbpress table at all. After looking into defaults.bb-schema.php, I recreated the bbpress tables as follow:

CREATE TABLE mydb_global.wp_bb_forums (

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_name varchar(150) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_desc text NOT NULL,

forum_parent int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

forum_order int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

topics bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (forum_id),

KEY forum_slug (forum_slug)

);

CREATE TABLE mydb_global.wp_bb_meta (

meta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

object_type varchar(16) NOT NULL default ‘bb_option’,

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,

meta_value longtext default NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),

KEY object_type__meta_key (object_type, meta_key),

KEY object_type__object_id__meta_key (object_type, object_id, meta_key)

);

CREATE TABLE mydb_global.wp_bb_posts (

post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,

poster_id int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

post_text text NOT NULL,

post_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

poster_ip varchar(15) NOT NULL default ”,

post_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

post_position bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (post_id),

KEY topic_time (topic_id, post_time),

KEY poster_time (poster_id, post_time),

KEY post_time (post_time),

FULLTEXT KEY post_text (post_text)

) TYPE = MYISAM;

CREATE TABLE mydb_global.wp_bb_terms (

term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

name varchar(55) NOT NULL default ”,

slug varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”,

term_group bigint(10) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (term_id),

UNIQUE KEY slug (slug),

KEY name (name)

);

CREATE TABLE mydb_global.wp_bb_term_relationships (

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

term_order int(11) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (object_id, term_taxonomy_id),

KEY term_taxonomy_id (term_taxonomy_id)

);

CREATE TABLE mydb_global.wp_bb_term_taxonomy (

term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

taxonomy varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,

description longtext NOT NULL,

parent bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (term_taxonomy_id),

UNIQUE KEY term_id_taxonomy (term_id, taxonomy),

KEY taxonomy (taxonomy)

);

CREATE TABLE mydb_global.wp_bb_topics (

topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

topic_title varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_poster bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_poster_name varchar(40) NOT NULL default ‘Anonymous’,

topic_last_poster bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_last_poster_name varchar(40) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_start_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

topic_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_open tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_last_post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_sticky tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

tag_count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (topic_id),

KEY topic_slug (topic_slug),

KEY forum_time (forum_id, topic_time),

KEY user_start_time (topic_poster, topic_start_time),

KEY stickies (topic_status, topic_sticky, topic_time)

);

CREATE TABLE mydb_global.wp_bb_users (

ID bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,

user_login varchar(60) NOT NULL default ”,

user_pass varchar(64) NOT NULL default ”,

user_nicename varchar(50) NOT NULL default ”,

user_email varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”,

user_url varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”,

user_registered datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

user_status int(11) NOT NULL default 0,

display_name varchar(250) NOT NULL default ”,

PRIMARY KEY (ID),

UNIQUE KEY user_login (user_login),

UNIQUE KEY user_nicename (user_nicename),

KEY user_registered (user_registered)

);

CREATE TABLE mydb_global.wp_bb_usermeta (

umeta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

meta_key varchar(255),

meta_value longtext,

PRIMARY KEY (umeta_id),

KEY user_id (user_id),

KEY meta_key (meta_key)

);

Unfortunately, test user is still cannot create topic. BBpress forum is essentially broken.

[arghagain]

John, yes it say it did it successfully. I’m looking into defaults.bb-schema.php right now to see if I can find anything. I’m clueless now. Funny thing is that this file is not in buddypress plugin before, but I downloaded the buddypress again from buddypress.org and found it. This file supposed to be gone after buddypress got upgraded or installed?

[John James Jacoby]

When you try the one click installation, does it say it did it successfully?

[arghagain]

I did not use bbpress for buddypress 1.0.0, but after upgrade to buddypress 1.1.2, I use the one click install bbpress mode. No existing bbpress before that.

[John James Jacoby]

Was this a fresh installation or did you have bbPress installed previously?

[r-a-y]

Hey glittereyes,

Check out this post by Andy:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/disallow-ordinary-users-to-create-groups#post-28404

With this code, only site admins can create groups.

[Tore]

@ Andy:

I’ve tried to do just this before but then the BP-forums (www.website.com/forums) wouldn’t display correctly. It seemed like the primary blog had to have a theme from which it could get the forum theming.

[circuit]

Hey Xevo, how far did you get with this? I think my problem may be related.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/members-who-create-blogs-lose-all-permissions-on-main-blog

[Xevo]

Anything related to a theme which is not the buddypress default theme should be discussed with the creator. We can’t help you and since they are premium themes, I bet they would gladly help you on their forums.

Btw, Andy already closed your other topic.

[jamesyeah]

Hi again everyone, thanks for all your pointers. I eventually ended up spending all day yesterday writing it by myself which took a very long tme! Here is the code in case it might help anyone else, it might not be prefect, I also had to do some editing in the userbar.php file to make it format how I wanted.

/*** User Navigation Bar *****************************************************/



#userbar {

width: 970px;

background: #FFFFFF;

-moz-border-radius: 8px;

-webkit-border-radius: 8px;

text-decoration: none;

padding: 3px 5px 5px 5px;

margin-bottom:5px;

height: 33px;



}

#userbar a { text-decoration: none; }



#userbar ul li {

margin-right: 0;

list-style: none;

float:left;

}



#userbar h3 {

font: normal 1em "Arial", Times, serif;

text-align: left;

padding: 0px 0 0px 0;

}



#userbar p.avatar {

text-align: left !important;

float: left;

margin-right: 1px;

}



#userbar img.avatar {

margin: 0;

width: 30px;

height: 30px;

float: none;



}



#userbar p#login-text {



margin-top:7px;

float: left;

vertical-align: middle

}



#userbar p#stuff {

margin-top:7px;



padding: 10px;

float: right;

}



#userbar form input#userbar_rememberme { width: auto; }

#userbar form input#wp-submit { width: auto; }



#userbar ul#bp-nav {

z-index: 0;



}

#userbar ul#bp-nav li.current {

background-color:#DDDDDD;

}

#userbar ul#bp-nav li a {

font-size:small;

color: #555;

padding: 0.55em 3em 0.55em 0;

display: block;

text-align: right;

margin-right: 1px;

font-family: Arial !important;

letter-spacing:-1px;

margin-left: 17px;



}

#userbar ul#bp-nav li.current a {

font-size:small;

margin-left: 17px;

color: #D6007F;

font-weight:bold;

font-family: Arial !important;

letter-spacing:-1px;



}



li a#user-profile, li a#my-profile {

background: url(../images/profile_bullet.gif) 67% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#user-messages, li a#my-messages {

background: url(../images/messages_bullet.gif) 85% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#user-blogs, li a#my-blogs {

background: url(../images/blog_bullet.gif) 64% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#user-friends, li a#my-friends {

background: url(../images/friends_bullet.gif) 68% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#user-groups, li a#my-groups {

background: url(../images/groups_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#user-wire, li a#my-wire {

background: url(../images/wire_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#user-activity, li a#my-activity {

background: url(../images/activity_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#user-settings, li a#my-settings {

background: url(../images/settings_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#wp-logout {

background: url(../images/logout_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#group-home, li a#group-wire, li a#group-photos, li a#group-forum,

li a#group-members, li a#group-invite, li a#group-leave, li a#group-admin

li a#request-membership, li a#group-admin {

background: url(../images/groups_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}

li a#group-forum {

background: url(../images/forum_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#group-members {

background: url(../images/friends_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#group-invite {

background: url(../images/invite_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#group-leave {

background: url(../images/cross_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#group-wire {

background: url(../images/wire_bullet.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#group-admin {

background: url(../images/blogadmin_icon.gif) 70% 52% no-repeat;

}



li a#request-membership {

background: url(../images/request_bullet.gif) 70% 25% no-repeat;

}

James

[Andy Peatling]

Ask in their forums, this isn’t a support forum for premium themes.

[Andy Peatling]

The theme you are using is not a BuddyPress enabled theme, that’s probably why. They also have support forums, you should probably ask them why their themes are broken.

[Jeff Sayre]

Michael-

You state above that you do not need the old bbPress data. If that is the case, then I recommend that you do a clean install of BuddyPress.

Follow this procedure:

• Make a backup copy of your MySQL DB just in case
• Deactivate all BP-dependant plugins
• Deactivate BP
• Delete all the bbPress-specific tables in your DB
• Delete the old BP files located in the /buddypress/ directory
• Upload a fresh copy of BP 1.1.2, move the contents of /bp-themes/ into their proper place
• Reactivate BP
• Go to the forums setup submenu under the BuddyPress menu and select the “Set up a new bbPress installation” option

Does that solve the issue?

[grosbouff]

I wrote a plugin :

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-plugin-buddypress-real-names

[takuya]

Looks like you have the same error as:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/fatal-error-in-upgrade-to-112-113

Try manually updating bp files.

[squarefeet]

Workaround (logging out, find forum, logging in etc) worked for me.

Thanks!

[takuya]

You need to read this first.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

[Twittrblog]

with the latest build of buddypress I don’t recall having to add bbpress config files at all… it is all integrated within the buddypress plugin now… (unless you want to have a seperate backend for your forums.

[PH (porsche)]

SocialPreneur,

I get the fact that resources such as moderators time and community time is scarce and thus should be treated properly.

As you said:

**Buddypress doesn’t provide blog functions, it doesn’t provide user management**

How do I know if something is an intended effect of the software or a glitch. *..ask a question…* Like they say: “There are no stupid questions”

* I realize that you are an “Expert”, but many are not.

* I realize that you have self appointed yourself as the adjudicator of all things relevant in this forum.

I dont understand why ‘you’ dont understand:

…The question was asked.

…The answer and guidance was given by a simple link.

… I appreciate Xevo for it, and Im a little wiser.

Im frustrated not by the process, Im frustrated by your curt attitude and unhelpful response. (Simply stated, its unproductive)

It is exactly your response of “go somewhere else attitude” that has given buddypress the reputation of having poor support.

Get over it! The question was asked and an answer was given! Move-on!