[fishbowl81]

Well, as the developer for http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/ I figured I should answer this question.

I have 2 instances running of bbpress, 1 is .com/beta/forum/ and the other is in a different location. Currently it is not safe to combine them, as private groups would be visible to all members, which is still an issue but would be harder to find these hidden forums.

The menu bar, which lists the general forum is actually as simple as uncommenting the code in the header.php file in home theme.

I’m still not sure if I should theme bbpress to match the site, or modify a copy of the groups forum tools to allow general discussion. This wouldn’t be a quick development, but would be easier down the road as the theme develops.

Thanks,

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

[dyzine]

thanks slaFFik, but i searched through trac.mu.wordpress.org for quite a while and still came up short. is there not a zip download offered somewhere?

[Mike Pratt]

Just did a test. BP is adding escape characters all over the place somewhere in the process. forum posts done in bbPress directly are just fine.

Andy, Burt, Nicola – Does BP do any additional text filtering along the way?

[yu]

1. you could create your one specific intro page with login/pass/reg only form and make this page as home in options of wp mu. i think.

2. there is flickr plugin live allready (hope gallery will be added lately to host photos inside BP too)

3. you can use phpbb or other forums insteed. i think it’s even better )

4. i think there is invite system live in BP, but i didn’t use it by now )

[Wardee]

Burt, no blank screen! Yay!

But what I don’t know now is what I can do with that bit of code. What are my possibilities?

[Wardee]

Good morning, Burt. Thanks for that bit of code. I’ll try it and hope for no blank screens!

Will you keep me informed as to your experiments?

So do you think I should undo my cookies and sessions part of the integration?

I’ve got the hidden-forums plugin waiting in the wings because I want admin and moderator only forums hidden from members. I haven’t had time to figure out how to set it up yet.

I’m really glad for you that you’re finding a solution.

[Burt Adsit]

Mornin’ wardeh! I’ve just started playing with the deep stuff. I’m gonna do some serious testing today. I can get mu and bp vars and bp functions. I just tried a couple of quick things.

My setup is to put a couple of things into bb-config.php:

---

$bb->WP_BB = true;

if (file_exists('../wp-blog-header.php'))

require_once('../wp-blog-header.php');

else

if (file_exists('../../wp-blog-header.php'))

require_once('../../wp-blog-header.php');

---

That’s it. Well ya gotta have user integration done. Cookies and sessions no. I changed stuff around so many times I just stopped doing the session integration. It’s not important now and evidently there are still major problems when going deep and sessions, nonces, cookies.

I haven’t tried doing anything major yet. I’ve created my own little bbpressBar. Then I found this deep stuff. Gonna do it though. Some things like ‘blog authors’ wont translate to running on bbpress.

This is gonna be fun. I found two plugins that I’m gonna adapt for getting group forums running better on bbpress. hidden-forums.php and read-only-forums.php and they look like they’ll work well with what I have in mind.

I played around using get_header() and get_footer() on the bbpress side to load the mu header and footer for look-and-feel. I just dropped it. I’ve already got the forums looking and feeling kinda the way I want them.

[Wardee]

Burt, I would love your help with deep integration. Are you putting some code in bb-config.php? What? The net has all sorts of examples and every one of them gives me a blank screen.

If you’re getting it working, does this mean you can load the BuddyBar with your bbPress forum?

Can you load the sidebar, with widgets?

I’m having trouble just with users being able to login at MU and then be logged in at my forums.

[Slava Abakumov]

trac.mu.wordpress.org – here you can find 2,7

Trent, nothing helped.

I installed or did:

1) WPMU (r1585);

2) bbPress Alpha 4;

3) integrate them properly;

4) edit bb-config.php and config.php;

5) install BuddyPress;

6) install bp-forum-enabled.php;

7) create a new admin user in bbPress;

write his login/pass to option page in WPMU;

9) create group in BP;

10) nothing changed.

What happened? Why can’t I launch forum?

[Burt Adsit]

I just found out that this ‘deep integration’ stuff where you load mu in your bb-config.php actually works. Well, maybe. Evidently the actions and filters in mu are gone when you do this. I have access to all sorts of bp and mu goodies now.

Gonna play. I’ll be awake for the next 2 or 3 days now. I should have access to all sorts of stuff from bp to get this forum issue out of the way.

[realfam]

i found the post you are talking about on buddypressdev.org/forums. anyway the way the post reads it looks like using version 0.92 is the fix for everything…..thats what I am using and still getting the error…..now what?

[mrmarkwatson]

hi

not necessarily any help, but I’m using the same host as you, and I’m trying to sort out a 404/BlankScreenof Death on my Groups page as per long thread on the forum, and it’s not clear what’s happening as it working fine on my localhost on windoze 2000 and it’s a bogstandard install.

M

[nicolagreco]

have you installed bpdev-simplepie, on buddypressdeorg/forums there is a topic that solves your problem

[gogoplata]

Try changing default role here (domain.com/wp-admin/wpmu-blogs.php?action=editblog&id=1) and here (domain.com/wp-admin/options.php) to “contributor” then do a test registration to see if the new user is a contributor or subscriber.

If that doesn’t work in wp-includeswpmu-functions.php change this:

add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘subscriber’);

to this:

add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘author’);

That should take care of all future signups, however existing users will be unchanged. If you don’t have too many users yet you can simply manually change them to authors, however, if you have a lot of signups check out this thread for a way to mass add users as authors.

[nicolagreco]

i’ll add it as soon as possible,

now i’ve a problem with bpdev-flickr 0.91 it doesn’t update user meta :S

(SOLVED)

Nicola,

BP Guru

[Mike Pratt]

who is better than you , Nicola? Many Thanks

[nicolagreco]

@mikepratt i developed a plugin that cut the excerpt BPDEV-FORUM-EXCERPT. Look it working here:

http://buddypressdev.org/groups/plugins-extendings/forum/

as you can see, it shows only the first 140 word without cutting them and adding 3 consecutive fullstop..

Trying BPDEV-FORUM-EXCERPT - 1 post

updated 50 seconds ago

Latest by Nicola Greco: Mike i developed for you this plugin that cut the excerpt of the last post forum!

You can set how long must the excerpt be. I'm writing...

if you click on it it shows the entire content look here http://buddypressdev.org/groups/plugins-extendings/forum/topic/13

BP Guru

[nicolagreco]

Here the solution, change this lines http://buddypressdev.org/forums/topic.php?id=15#post-58

or Download the new 0.91 version

[nicolagreco]

hyerxx it does that because you’ve already installed light-box and bpdev-flickr load that for the second time,

if you look the code, there is the error that appear when you’ve not installed or turned on simplepie..

In BPDEV-ADMIN-MENU try to turn off and turn off these plugins update me if you can on bpdev forums

[dyzine]

without running the risk of sounding ignorant, where can i get a copy of 2.7 so that i too can attempt this install of bbpress? from the mu.wordpress site only 2.6.5 is available and i’ve googled the 2.7 but im not finding anythign anywhere. where are you guys getting your 2.7 copies? thanks

[gogoplata]

Go to the AccountCenter and enable root access then login to plesk as root using the password you set and then there will be a file manager in Virtuozo.

[iamzaks]

I tried all of this, did it no problem. However, it did not work, I managed to install bbpress 1.0 Alpha, wpmu 2.7SVN, integration works, cookies and databases. The problem is that whenever a user tried to make a post, I get this mistake:

“There was an error posting that topic.”

Also, step 9 never came true, no forums where created, but when I physically go to my forum’s address I can cerate forums and post and everything.

[parkcityxj]

Looks like I got it dialed in. I started from scratch and reinstalled WPMU and double checked the chmod permissions. Everything seems to be working, next is to tackle the bbpress forum install.

[Burt Adsit]

root. login as root with telnet.

[Burt Adsit]

Yep. You’re right gogoplata. It just ignores it. I set default_role to contributor and new user gets ‘no role’. Looked in mu Trac and the mu forums. Lots of confusion and noise over this issue. You’d think it would be simple, direct and unconfused by now. It isn’t.

I see devs posting patches and reports in trac and donncha replying something to the effect of:

‘this is a patch to patch the patch for a bug in rXXXXX so that the bug patch can be fixed on fix #XXX on patch of the fix for #XXX’

I’m just walking away from this one and if I had to care about this myself I’d do things your way.