[Johanhorak]

Hi I you read this please know that this is the only way for me to communicate with Buddypress forum. I am cannot create any new post. I must be banded. I am not sure what I did wrong. You may be connected and tell the powers that. I have emailed Andy Peatling at his web contact form and I have had no response.

Just to show you: I created this post https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2092#post-11239 and it\’s non-existent as I create it. See if you can find it. It\’s an amazing shit feeling to be ignored even if buddypress is free.

[mypop]

This is how I did it.

I modified header.php in the buddypress theme AND the member theme.

There is probably a better way since the forums location is included as part of the integration, however it works, and you can use this principle to include a hard coded link to anywhere.

Find the bit of code that starts <div id="header">

The first bit is the routine to run the blogs page, the second opens up bbPress in a seperate tab.

`<?php if ( function_exists( ‘bp_blogs_install’ ) ) { ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_BLOGS_SLUG ) ) {?> class=”selected”<?php } ?>><a href=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’) ?>/<?php echo BP_BLOGS_SLUG ?>” title=”<?php _e( ‘Blogs’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Blogs’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?></a></li>

<?php } ?>

<li><a href=”http://www.mypartyonparty.biz/forums&#8221; target=”_blank” title=”<?php _e( ‘Support’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Support’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?></a></li>

<?php do_action( ‘bp_nav_items’ ); ?>`

What I’d like to do is present the forums in the same way that is done on here (BuddyPress.org, ) that just needs a bit of thinking about…

Hope that helps

[halfpint]

I still cant get this to work I have installed simple forums and want a link/ button to show up in the top members theme so they can go straight to the forum when the members are logged in

thanks

[vito687]

I am running MAMP on a mac OS, I followed andys instuctions in a former post, I have a custom theme that I used so I copied the functions files to the members theme as per the instuctions as well as the functions from the home theme to my home theme.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994

It is not a cache issue or cookies or anything, it physically was not loading the style sheet which is stored in bp-themes/bp-members/css/directories.css, I got it working by putting the name into the loader.php file which is stored in the same place.

what I need now though is the header.php that is called within the groups/index.php and members/index.php because they are now stored in bp-themes/bp-members it calls the wrong header

[John James Jacoby]

The only way to do this, is with “deep integration.”

You will want to scour the bbpress.org forums for some more information about how to do this.

I’m going to assist Trent in including deep integration as part of his revised integration write-up that’s coming next. BuddyPress.org uses deep integration, but it’s still tricky and still has pro’s and con’s, particularly on a shared host and also with xmlrpc requests.

By the time that bbpress turns 1.0, most of the integration issues should be resolved, but you’re still loading ALL of WordPress + bbPress to make things go.

[John James Jacoby]

Not necessary to open a second topic.

You can add your link to this post if you’d like.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=185

We appreciate your contributions, but you’re going against the grain here.

[nicolagreco]

If you mean that in wires and group creations it’s not integrated yet, akismet will work anyway against forums & comments spams

[felix2009]

The forum need indeed some more work, indeed more margins and stuff) .. But that’s a job for tomorrow

And about the domain name, there are many website’s out on the net with: “wordpress” in their name. And it is not a protected name by law

And .. I dont see the problem actually …

[John James Jacoby]

May want to read this…

Domain Policy

Same goes with WordPress as well.

In response, good job modifying the theme colors. In my opinion the forums could still use some work (margins on the sides need 20px), and the missing BuddyBar at the top urks me.

[Erwin Gerrits]

There hasn’t been much progress made with this, I’m afraid. I ended up making a “fake” buddybar, loading the buddypress style sheets and (omitting the “My Account” menu) just having “<- Back to <buddypress>” links, and “fake” tabs (again, linking to the buddypress stylesheets) with hard coded tabs linking straight back to the buddypress pages (“Home”, “Groups”, “Members”, “Forums” etc..) Works… but every time you install a custom component, you’d have to add the tab manually.

[Lance Willett]

Here are the instructions from Burt to test your host/server setup for XML-RPC support.

Follow this link to download the XML-RPC test that Burt created: http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/xmlrpc-sayhello.zip

The test consists of two files. The first file is a bbPress plugin that you activate in the bbPress plugins area that acts as a XML-RPC server and responds to a simple “say hello” type call. The second file goes in the root of your MU setup.

This test bypasses all the “bbpress_live/discover_pingback_server_uri()” stuff that might be giving you problems. If this works then the issue is most likely in that area and could be a host/server problem.

To load the test, first install the “oci-bb-sayhello.php” file to your bbPress install root in a folder called “my-plugins” (create the folder if it doesn’t exist). Then log into bbPress and activate the plugin. Next, drop the “oci-bp-sayhello.php” file into the root of our MU install so that you can navigate to it easily. Then load “your-site/oci-bp-sayhello.php” in a browser and see what the output is.

There are several possible points of failure if the test fails to authenticate the BuddyPress user that is created for the connection between BuddyPress and bbPress.

1) The BuddyPress connection username/password isn’t the same as the username/password that exists in bbPress. That username/password is stored in “wp_site_meta”.

2) The bbPress user is not an administrator.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Not yet, not yet and maybe. I think I’ve seen an event plugin in beta around these forums – that might be what you want

[icuddy]

Hi Gordon

Good to see you’ve now got it to work.

I’m having the same problems you had – to the letter – with getting forums to work. Am using shared hosting in the UK. Forums are not being created on the bbpress side and I’m getting the “There was an error posting that topic.” message on Buddypress.

Has anyone got the link to the xml-rpc testing files?

Thanks!

[felix2009]

I’am currently working on a matching bbPress theme for BuddyPress … But, it only fit my (tweaked) theme for BuddyPress

The forum is up and running, but the theme is still in development

The color scheme i use can be seen over here:

http://wordpress-blog.nl

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

This isn’t possible with the level of integration that buddypress has with the forum component, bbpress. Maybe in future.

[Robert]

I had the same problem after updating BP. Everything works fine now.

Check this post:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994#post-10705

[talk2manoj]

You can upload it on your site and provide a link here.

[Jeff Sayre]

Actually, those instructions apply even if you have customized just the home theme or the member theme. Even though it does not explicitly say so, if you have customized your home theme, you should copy over the new functions.php file from the buddypress-home theme folder in RC2.

There are also some changes to the code in the header.php file that you may want to make in your custom header.php file. In fact, for good measure, you should copy over any of the files from the new theme directory that you have not hacked in your custom theme.

Finally, just in case, have you read this thread?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1661

[Seobrien]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1109#post-5165

[Jeff Sayre]

At this point in development, will i need to develop one theme for my buddypress and one theme for my bbpress? so that there will be no difference between the two?

In short, yes.

If you want your site-wide forum theme to look like your BuddyPress theme, you’ll have to customize both themes.

[Jeff Sayre]

Scotm-

Did you follow the instructions for custom themes at the very end of Andy’s first post here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994#post-10557 ?

As others started the upgrade process, and had certain issues, he made changes to the instructions. Depending on when you upgraded, you may have missed this.

[Jeff Sayre]

Read this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1661#post-8547

[Jeff Sayre]

First, we need some basic information:

1. What version of WPMU and BuddyPress are you running?

Until we have that information, perhaps this thread will help: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1661#post-8547

[evilchicken]

I currently use vbulletin and a regular wordpress blog and find that the bridge is so nice. I agree that an MU/VB bridge would set things perfect for me. However, seeing that we can’t have the bets of both worlds just yet, can anyone give me a good reason why I should more to bbPress? I understand that it is a young forum but does anyone really see it getting better? And if so, soon?

[Trent Adams]

A little thing like that is enough to drive us to drink @Gordon Bunker! Glad to hear you sorted it out. I am actually working on “yet another” revision of this post and will make sure that I add that in. Appreciate you telling us.

Trent