[John James Jacoby]

WPMU 2.8.1 and BuddyPress 1.0.3 have a few issues at the moment. Would be best to use WPMU 2.7.1, or wait until 1.0.4 is released.

If you need to use 2.8.1, then as much as I usually never like to say so, you might be better off using the latest trunk version. I’ve been running it for a few days now fully integrated with no issues that are obvious or apparent.

My recommending to use the trunk always comes with the assortment of warnings that it might be broken in some places or unfinished in others, so be careful of that too. Trunk versions aren’t really meant for public use, but it seems everyone is becoming more comfortable doing it recently.

Also, for group forums to work, your hosting package must allow for XMLRPC, as well as having them both turned on in each *press platform. More than likely something is out of alignment somewhere and even though you swear it’s not, it really is.

[José M. Villar]

To begin with, I would start by following these tutorials:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-103-and-bbpress-which-version-plugins-cookies

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

BTW, regarding user mapping, the only setting I changed was WP Admin one, mapped to bbPress Key Master. The other four settings remain untouched.

[thebloghouse]

I am still on 2.71 and 1.01 so can’t help directly with version issues but have you definitely put the correct details in the Forums Setup within the BuddyPress dashboard area?

[Alex]

The same happens even when I haven’t mapped any user roles by the way

[thebloghouse]

Just launched a new BuddyPress based site for a client who was running a normal WordPress based site before hand:

http://sharemyplaylists.com/

The site has been set up as a music community site for people who use the music service Spotify and want to do more than ‘just’ submitting their playlists.

Lots of issues and things we have learnt about BuddyPress, WordPress MU etc during the delelopment and hopefully now the site is launched we might have more time to get involved answering questions on these forums rather than asking them

[peterverkooijen]

There have been several threads about this, including some useful code, but also lots of loose ends and confusion:

Securing components from non logged in users

Make access members/groups sections members-only

Plugin to show components to registered Users only

Apparently a “full-featured privacy (authorization) component for BuddyPress” is in the works for a future release.

[Mike Pratt]

just noticed you commented on this thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration

Do I understand that it doesn’t prevent new users, it just prevents registering from the mysite/forums/registration.php process and still allows auto joining via the BP process?

[Mike Pratt]

ipstenu – well thx for the suggestion. so far no go. What is see mr “mail.ru” dude doing is back door registering for the bbPress forum section. He then shows up as a new user in BP having bypassed the normal process. Looking for ban plugins for that if avail.

[Jeff Sayre]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/the-theme-for-this-site#post-13460

[Jeff Sayre]

Do not install WPMU using SimpleScripts. Instead, you should manually install WPMU.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/404-error-in-front-page-please-help#post-16777

[Jeff Sayre]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/404-error-in-front-page-please-help#post-16777

[Rohan Kapoor]

@Trekkiemelissa: At this point, it’s impossible to do. You would have to hard code it in with another plugin or modify the core files.

[peterverkooijen]

The cleanest way to get separate firstname and lastname into the database seems to be to

1. split the input from Buddypress’ fullname field using xprofile_sync_wp_profile()

2. make a two or more part name in fullname required

How would I do that? Can someone please help, because this would solve a major structural problem in Buddypress imho.

I need to come up with a solution, because integration with most mailing lists depends on having firstname and lastname stored somewhere.

Alternatively I have to use fullname for firstname and create a second custom xprofile field for lastname. That solution will problably cause lots of problems further down the line.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

If anyone uses trunk BuddyPress, they should be prepared for errors and for things to be broken.

[Jason Giedymin]

I can confirm i have a similar issue, but ONLY with trunk (with no XMLRPC errors).

1.0.3 works fine for me.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

You can’t. It’s private for this site only, mainly because BuddyPress’ lead developer, Andy Peatling, doesn’t want every site to look like the official BuddyPress site.

This has been asked and answered several times on this forum before; doing a search before posting your question doesn’t hurt!

[Trekkiemelissa]

Hi, I want to integrate IPB 3 with wordpress too. My thing may be a bit different though. What I want to do is instead of using bbpress for the group forums, I would love for it to use ipb 3 instead. Is there any way of supporting ipb with buddypress? I have been looking for a while a way to do that.

[r-a-y]

Update:

-I used Burt’s XMLRPC debugger to see if it was an XMLRPC problem and it seems like it is as I’m getting the following error:

-32700 >> parse error. not well formed

Now I need to know how to solve this problem.

The thing is though when I try to make a BP group forum post, the forum shows up in bbPress, just no topic. So XMLRPC has to be working to some extent right?

Hopefully either one of the mods or someone can answer the following question:

I have a bunch of bbpress_live_cache entries in the db from when group forums were actually working.

Should I clear the bbpress_live entries in the db?

[Graeme]

I have finally been able to duplicate the installation.

Here’s a relatively complete set of steps for guidance. This took me several hours to prepare and it can be easy to make a stupid error along the way. Just take it slow.

These steps are for WordPress MU 2.8.1, bbPress 1.0.1 and buddyPress 1.0.3.

1. Download and install WordPress MU 2.8.1

2. Install the “bbPress Integration” plugin version 1.0 via the “Plugins” -> “Add New” menu of your wordpress mu installation.

In the search box enter ‘bbPress Integration” and click “Search Plugins”.

Click the “Install” link for the “bbPress Integration” version 1.0 plugin.

Click the orange “Install Now” button.

Click the “Activate Plugin” link.

3. Download and install bbPress 1.0.1 in a sub-directory of your wordpress installation.

I chose the sub-directory “/forums/”.

4. Load up the bbPress installation script by going to http://<yourdomain>/forums/

5. Click “Go to step 1”.

6. Enter the database name, database user and database password that you used for your wordpress installation.

You will not usually need to click “Show advanced settings”.

7. Click “Save database configuration file”.

You should see a message “Your settings have been saved to the file bb-config.php. You can now continue to the next step.”

8. Click “Go to step 2”.

9. Next you add the integration settings. This is the important part!

– click “Add integration settings”

– click “Add cookie integration settings”

– you will be presented with a list of eight text entry fields

– the first two are for your wordpress and blog url. For each of these enter your exact urls. I just used the same value for each. They need to commence with http://

– for all the cookie values just enter “COMMENT OUT”. These will become reference points in the bbpress config file for later.

10. Click “Add user database integration settings”. This step is also important!

Leave the existing value in the “User database table prefix” field.

Enter the WordPress Primary blog id value “1” – THIS IS IMPORTANT.

11. Click “Save WordPress integration settings”

If all is well you should see this message.

Your WordPress integration cookie and database settings have been successfully validated. They will be saved after the next step.

Once you have finished installing, you should visit the WordPress integration section of the bbPress admin area for further options and integration instructions, including user mapping and the correct cookie settings to add to your WordPress configuration file.

12. Click “Go to step 3”.

– enter your site name

– enter your site url. I entered the url to the forums including the http://

e.g. http://bp.dev/forums/

– select the “admin” user for your wordpress installation

– enter a name for your first forum e.g. “Announcements”

13. Click the “Save site settings” button

14. Click the “Complete the installation” button

15. You should see a screen indicating installation has completed.

– click the “Show installation messages” option. Scroll through and see of any errors are reported.

16. At this point you should be able to login to your bbpress installation with your wordpress admin username and password.

17. Login to bbPress

18. Click the “Admin” link to go to the admin screen

19. Go to “Settings” -> “Writing” and enable XML-RPC publishing protocol (this is needed by buddyPress)

20. Go to “Settings” -> “Discussion” and enable pingbacks (I think this is needed by buddyPress ….?)

21. Go to “Users”

22. Go to “Settings” -> “WordPress Integration”

Set the mapping of bbPress roles to WordPress users roles

For the WordPress Administrator role select “bbPress Key Master”.

For all the others select “bbPress Member”.

Click “Save Changes”

23. Login to WordPress MU as the admin.

24. Go to “Plugins -> Add New”

25. Enter “bbPress Integration” and click “Search Plugins”.

– you should see “bbPress Integration” 1.0 listed

– click “install”

– click the orange “Install Now” button

– click “Acrivate Plugin”

26. Go to “Settings” -> “bbPress Integration”

Ensure there is a full url for the bbPress forums entered.

Select WordPress type “WordPress MU”

Click “Save Changes”

Copy the values listed in the dark grey box at the bottom of your page into your clipboard. There will be four lines that look something like this:

define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘da4672dda66fd60a6b80e420d32ef26c’ );

define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.bp.dev’ );

define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

Don’t worry – these values will be different for your installation.

Open wp-config.php in an editor and insert these lines immediately after the opening “<?php” line.

Whilst you have wp-config.php open, copy the authentication keys to your clipboard. They look like this:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘800345c011dfad9261cedec0a3d914ffa1b40d67b23b66e4809797ce728f0b80’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘5d6d3f657c9fb496e3f5488044fc174c238554a1b5347eb633ea8baecf0dcc7c’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘6749832494719d8217e06c233326cb86da9ec040b16f705156660e1642a5f0e8’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ’87a5b149e95e0a13020541040353548eaf65b68452be91c685e96a7fbab685bc’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘8ff197cc15f311c975bd14ce131e7872eb390706bd316f72435c081836d14f34’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘642683992ae38da46082bf9850ab90273deb7d5d1034baf80a3fd32871b5e04a’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘7c066b9c14bd558737b74b76c77f928e3612935832a6a47bd70842e118c947fa’);

They will be different for your installation.

Save wp-config.php

27. Open bb-config.php

Find the lines containing the Authentication Unique Keys. They will have the values “COMMENT OUT” if you followed the instructions above. Comment these lines out!

Insert the lines from your clipboard into bb-config.php below the lines you commented out.

You need to edit each line you inserted and prefix the name of each constant with “BB_”

After doing that, the lines will be something like:

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘800345c011dfad9261cedec0a3d914ffa1b40d67b23b66e4809797ce728f0b80’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘5d6d3f657c9fb496e3f5488044fc174c238554a1b5347eb633ea8baecf0dcc7c’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘6749832494719d8217e06c233326cb86da9ec040b16f705156660e1642a5f0e8’);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ’87a5b149e95e0a13020541040353548eaf65b68452be91c685e96a7fbab685bc’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘8ff197cc15f311c975bd14ce131e7872eb390706bd316f72435c081836d14f34’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘642683992ae38da46082bf9850ab90273deb7d5d1034baf80a3fd32871b5e04a’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘7c066b9c14bd558737b74b76c77f928e3612935832a6a47bd70842e118c947fa’);

Save the file and exit.

28. Clear cookies and Refresh for your domain. In Firefox you can clear cookies for a specific domain pattern.

29. Login to your wordpress installation as the wordpress admin user.

30. Assuming you managed to follow the setps above, If you go to your bbPress page you should find that you are logged in!

31. From WordPress Admin go to “Plugins” -> “Add New”

– in the search box enter “BuddyPress” and click “Search Plugins”

– find BuddyPress 1.0.3 in the list

– click “Install”

– click the orange “Install Now” button

– click “Activate Plugin”

32. BuddyPress is now installed. Follow the BuddyPress instructions for installing the themes to the correct locations and activate them.

33. In wp-admin go to “BuddyPress” -> “Component Setup” and check that the “bbPress Forums” component is enabled.

34. In wp-admin go tp “BuddyPress” -> “Forums Setup”

– ensure that the URL for the forums is entered

– ensure that the bbPress username and password details have been setup

– click “Save Settings”

35. Create a group with option selected for a forum.

36. Check that you can post topics in the group forum!

37. Take a break!

[schaeffer]

I found the php.ini installation for my slicehost account at /etc/php5/apache/, and changed the 16M allocation to 48M to 96M, and still got a fatal memory error on plugin installation. I discovered this thread, and defined the wp_memory_limit to be 96M as well, and the plugins loaded. Now to sort through the themes issue since the default MU homepage is not a bp theme. From a new user standpoint, it seems like more attention needs to be directed towards the wp-config.php file when updating a buddypress or any install.

[Mohit Kumar]

I am aggregating some good questions to make UI better , which have already been asked so that you dont need to ask again..

How to remove excerpts from site wide activity?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/can-i-remove-excerpts-from-the-site-wide-activity-widget

[3510307]

I should do what?

Post the plug to trac? What the hell does that mean?

I’ve posted a detailed error description and the solution in the german wp mu forum.

[danbpfr]

wpmu 2.8.1

bp 1.0.3 trunk version

bbpress 1.0.1

here is my bug list. I read the trac message mentionned above and made my own change. Anyway all i listed here is already not working.

I suggest you go to the site and terst yourself (it’s a test site straigth out of the box)

May this help.

Group page – main content

http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/groups/groupe-de-tests/home/

Topic list is showing well.

This is a link from one of the topic. When click on it, it brings me to the homepage.

http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/groups/groupe-de-tests/forum/topic/25

Same thing with the “view all topics” link

http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/groups/groupe-de-tests/forum

Group page – Forum button

http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/groups/groupe-de-tests/group-forum/

Menu is ok, but when i click on “forum”, the right col “main content” becames blank.

The admin bar disapear also

Group page – Wire

http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/groups/groupe-de-tests/group-wire/

“view all” brings me to the homepage

Group page – create a group

http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/members/admin/groups/create/step/group-details

The 4 menu options (details, settings,…)in maincontent are no more translated

After the group is created, when i go to the new group admin, the options are translated.

on step 2, the forum option is deactivated.

The permanent warning message about configuration is not necessary for ordinary user, because they can’t never install bbPress, even if they are blog admin or there own group forum master.

Anyway, this means to create a group first, then finish the whole register process, saving and to come back to the group to activate the forum. Not sure if this is a bug, but it’s anoying.

Once the group is created, the forum option is not appearing at all.

Group page – wire

unable to create a message. When posting, i flip to the homepage without any error message.

Group page – change group avatar

This is impossible ! I load a new image, loader is turning a little, and… nothing happens.

*****

I uploaded the 1.0.3 latest release version and changed the whole bp-theme/group folder from trunk to latest release.

Now, i can change group avatar.

Also, can you explain me the difference between the two folder, the trunk version has a very different content.

[nicholaszen]

@JJJ: This is the only thing I see in my logs.. If I loop it up, it says that it is ‘moved permanently’.. Does this mean I did something wrong?

[17/Jul/2009:10:44:31 +0200] “GET /my/forum HTTP/1.1” 301 236

[17/Jul/2009:10:44:31 +0200] “GET /my/forum/ HTTP/1.1” 200 –

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

This is also not a BuddyPress-related question and you’d have been better of taking it to the WordPress forum and searching for similar topics.