[r-a-y]

Using a URL in the include_once doesn’t work, period.

Using a URL in the include_once does not give you deep integration.

Deactivate the BuddyBar in the bbPress admin area.

Remove all lines you put in bb-config.php.

Let’s start again… fresh!

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First thing you want to do is deep integration between WPMU and bbPress, then you enable the plugin in bbPress.

Put the following in bb-config.php:

It should be something similar to this:

<php

if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) & !defined( 'XMLRPC_REQUEST' )) {

define( 'WP_USE_THEMES', false );

include_once( 'YOURABSPATH_HERE/wp-blog-header.php' );

header( "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" );

header( "Status: 200 All rosy" );

}

the rest of bb-config here...

For YOURABSPATH_HERE… either use the path that John’s “abs.php” spits out or use

include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-blog-header.php');

Save bb-config.php.

Head on over to your bbPress forums.

Do you get any errors?

If everything is good, go to your bbPress admin area and enable the Buddybar plugin.

What happens?

[russell-crosswy]

Ok, using John’s deep integration method loses the forums functionality between BuddyPress and bbPress. Why would that happen?

[Kieran]

thanks Jeff!

[John James Jacoby]

The reason why it’s not working is because you’re not using the method included in the plugin.

The groups posting ability relies on XMLRPC, which cannot be re-included when bbPress is loaded via the BuddyPress installation. Using my included method of deep integration will still allow for this functionality to work.

Science!

When you go to create a group forum, WordPress is loaded, BuddyPress is loaded, bbPress gets loaded through XMLRPC, which without my deep integration method will try to reload WordPress again, over-writing or clearing all of the bbPress functions/variables/hooks/filters, killing the XMLRPC ability to transmit data through the pipe.

Just bumped to 1.0.3. The plugin now does enhanced checking for the visibility of the BuddyBar/AdminBar as it would previously fail if the bar was hidden in bp-custom.php or wp-config.php.

If you are receiving errors regarding BP_Roles in your BuddyBar, apply patch #1032 to your WPMU trunk installation.

[russell-crosswy]

@Russell

Use the official instructions from the readme.txt.

http://svn.wp-plugins.org/buddybar-in-bbpress/trunk/readme.txt

Swap out the include_once line for this:

include_once($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’].’/wp-blog-header.php’);

In most cases that will work, but let us know what happens!

Tried that and forums would not work with BuddyPress.

The only way I can keep the forums working with BuddyPress is to keep that line in bb-config.php as:

include_once( 'http://mydomain.com/wp-blog-header.php' );

Now leaving that line in bb-config I can post from BuddyPress groups into the forums.

AND I can now activate the BuddyBar in bbPress plugin, BUT I don’t see the BuddyBar in bbPress!

Now, could this be an issue somewhere else in bb-config.php?

I have the integration working and everything, but I’m wondering if I have set something somewhere that is throwing this off…

Thanks for the help!

[russell-crosswy]

Ok, the fix I posted about earlier fixed the issue with BuddyBar…

However, it breaks the BuddyPress to forums functionality.

I just checked and switching out that one line of code in bb-config.php will make the “Enable discussion forum” button in a group’s settings and I can’t post to the forum from a group page in BuddyPress.

I’m pasting verbatim into bb-config.php:

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-blog-header.php');

Is that correct? Or do $_SERVER and DOCUMENT_ROOT need to be filled in with different items?

[John James Jacoby]

Delete all of your the cookies for your website.

Login through WordPress.

Check that you are logged in on bbPress side.

Attempt to access both administration panels.

Check your sites cookies.

Verify that the domain and/or site for the cookies are all identical.

Logout.

Login through bbPress.

Check that you are logged in on WordPress side.

Attempt to access both administration panels.

Check your sites cookies.

Verify that the domain and/or site for the cookies are all identical.

Logout.

If at any point through-out that process your sites cookies are NOT identical, it’s time to start fussing around with the cookie settings, and get them to line up.

[flynn]

… Yeah, all that stuff he said.

Seriously though, I’ve run out of ideas here too. I suppose we’re jumping the gun a bit using 1.01 before it is announced to work. But it seems like it should work ok.

Any ideas?

[carinallc]

Has anyone done a completely new install of the latest wpmu, buddypress and bbpress successfully? I’m not getting the integration between buddypress and bbpress, nor the ability to create forums in bbpress.

Just seems that every success thread I read relates to upgrading from alpha/rc for one or more components, and I’m wondering if by doing so there’s something that was overlooked in the (now missing) documentation for new installs.

Appreciate any help on this – it’s a test install that thus far has been great, but now I’m wishing there was full-on documentation available

[Jeff Sayre]

Here’s a start to get you part way there:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-blogs-per-user/

Note: I have no idea whether this plugin works with newer versions of WPMU and BP

Also, you could modify the code found here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/limit-amount-of-blogs-a-user-can-register

[carinallc]

Thanks again el_terko. I have another queestion.

I ‘think’ everything is working – I confirmed that I can log into both using both my admin and user username/pword combinations. And, when I look at the list of users for the bbpress they are the same as those listed in buddpress.

However, should I still have to log into the forum? when I go to \forums it asks me to login, and I thought that it would automatically do this.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Props to r-a-y and John James Jacoby (the latter of whom put up with my self-inflicted stupidity that made me … whinge)

My layout is pretty much what I want, and everything appears to be working, so it’s time to look at the non-essential, but gosh that’s weird problem.

If you go to my forums, the ‘BuddyPress’ link on the top left is vertically weirded. Which is the only way I can describe it. Should I just beat it into submission with css, and assume it’s a css conflict of names?

[Jeff Sayre]

Brian-

You should ask this question as well in the WPMU forums as it is the WPMU registration functions that allow usernames to be created with a space in them and it is the authentication functions (when a user logs in) that then has an issue with the space.

I do not know if this has already been addressed in a newer version of WPMU, but Andy is aware of this issue and I assume that he has communicated it to Donncha.

You are limited in what you can do, but deleting the username is not advisable.

You could manually edit each user account that has this issue. If you do so, you’ll of course first want to make sure you have a backup of your database. But, if you go this route, you’ll need to tell each of those affected users that you have changed their login credentials. Otherwise, they will not be able to log in.

As far as changing the display name, that will have no affect on the username. Those are two different pieces of data.

[Jeff Sayre]

Since this relates to bbPress specifically, I would ask this question in the bbPress forum.

To have the topic title as the page tittle, the topic first post as the meta description and the tags as the keyword would be ideal and really boost the seo of the forum posts.

You should first focus on all the other things that have the greatest SEO impact (like creating quality content).

Since you cannot control the content of your forums–it is generated by all your users after all–I think the best SEO booster for bbPress was just implemented by Sam. See this link: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-forums-now-use-pretty-permalinks

[takuya]

@paulrostorp-1

You’ll need 3 different wpmu installs to run 3 different bp installs.

If the first install uses http://*.example.com then others can’t use this type of urls. But make sure you search and/or ask this question at wpmu forum about installing multiple wpmu.

[lokers]

thanks Burt, just upgraded the forum and all these tricks are working now!

Now I have to integrate it with buddypress groups, I guess I will lose another hours/days as I can already see an error message “There was an error posting that topic.” when I try to submit new topic via bp

Thanks anyway for the hint in the wpmu/bbpress integration part.

[matthijsv]

@transposh:

Problem seems to be with the output buffering.

Output is getting buffered on initialization and my guess is that it is somehow never flushed.

init_global_vars();



if (isset($_POST['translation_posted'])) {

update_translation();

}

elseif (isset($_GET['tr_token_hist'])) {

get_translation_history($_GET['tr_token_hist'], $_GET['lang']);

}

elseif (isset($_GET['tp_gif'])) {

$trans_gif_64 = "R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw=";

header("Content-type: image/gif");

print(base64_decode($trans_gif_64));

exit;

}

else {

//set the callback for translating the page when it's done

ob_start("process_page");

}

}

When I comment out the ob_start line forums are working. Will test Transposh in a bit.

[Warwick Booth]

Hi There

I have installed the buddypress bar for the forums . But i am not getting any link displaying, just the css, the actual buddypress menus are not there.

Click here for the forums

Click here for the wordpress install

We have used the deep integration and i have added the lines to my bb-config.php, the path to the file is correct.

I have added the two functions ie

add_action( 'bb_head', 'bp_core_add_js' );

add_action( 'bb_admin_head', 'bp_core_add_js');

You can ignore the “invite new member” link on the top right hand side, its just a div postioned as absolute.

[lokers]

I forgot to mention my installation details:

1) wpmu 2.7.1

2) buddypress 1.0

3) bbpress 0.9.0.4

Also, I think this might be very important thing. When I am loged in to forum as an forumadmin and I go in another tab to wp-admin page, I’ve got this message straight away on my screen: “Please log in again.”. Even before I type something………

[PANIC]

[lokers]

heh, this is insane, I’ve been trying different methods all the time and still cannot get everything done properly. I think I am having issues only with cookies now. Single sign on doesn’t work but I can properly log-in on forum and wpmu with my username I registered on wpmu. I’ve been checking cookies array and after loging to forum 1 more appears that’s why I think I have a problem with this part. Also, when I log-in as an admin to wpmu and in another tab as and forumadmin to bbpress – I cannot access forum admin section for some reason. Please note these are 2 different users in database.

Could you guys point me into the right direction where something can be wrong? I am running out of all permutations where should I change something

I am nearly there, I know it, it must be something simple I am missing. Please help, it’s 3rd day I cannot crack it!

[Florian]

@r-a-y: Yes, I did.

@TheEasyButton: That’s a bit too complicated. I could just remove the buggy group and I think that would solve the problem. I’m merely leaving it out of curiosity to see if there is a real fixable bug behind it. Down-/Upgrading to alpha 6 would also just be a workaround and I think the group-deleting would be the easier workaround in this case.

I also did not have any trouble with the update otherwise. Everything (except this one group) works smoothly and bbPress does not complain about anything. So I guess the update worked.

But thanks for the input.

[Jeff Sayre]

This may shed some light: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-logged-in-to-buddypressorg-some-links-do-not-work

[TheEasyButton]

This might sound silly but, here’s what I would do (after backing everything up). Leave your bb-config file. Delete everything else in the forums directory. Upload alpha 6. Then, upload bbPress 1. Don’t DELETE alpha 6. Just overwrite it. I’ve been messing with this upgrade for a couple of days now and if I delete/replace, the update doesn’t work. If I overwrite, it does work. Seems as though there’s a file that’s been removed from the new version that buddypress looks for.

If that doesn’t work…..

I’m wondering if your upgrade actually upgraded. The way I do the update is, I rename bb-config to something like bb-config2. Then I replace the files in the forums directory & navigate to /forums. It asks for your database info & then says “oh. There’s already a database. Maybe you want to use the upgrade script” You click the upgrade link and it does a couple changes and says it’s done. Then, I open up the newly created bb-config & (using the OLD bb-config) I put back any of the custom codes that I need such as the cookies & defines.

I hope something in there helps.

[r-a-y]

As far as I know, there isn’t such a plugin for BP, however there are some for MU.

Did a quick Google search; here’s two promising solutions:

1) https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/1659

2) http://plugins.paidtoblog.com/wpmu-power-tools/

Just wanted to reiterate that none of these take care of BP though… so you might want to keep this under consideration.

[matthijsv]

No, I can only activate the plugin without adding the deep integration code.

Conclusion: problem is with the including wp-blog-header.php in bb-config, not specifically in the plugin.

Without the deep integration code the forum is working perfectly.