[r-a-y]

The bbPress plugin integrates into BuddyPress, not the other way around.

So your question is best suited on the bbPress forums:
https://bbpress.org/forums

I can tell you that multiple group forums are not officially supported in bbPress at the moment though.

You’ll want to keep your eye on this ticket:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2191

[danbp]

bbPress related questions can be asked on bbPress support forum.

Please, read here:

How to add "View Who's Online" and "View Statistics"?

[Vignesh M]

Thank You ! i have an another doubt how can i show bbpress forum counts,topic counts,replies for individual user without login in buddypress members page below username.

[andreawalford]

Whoops. Sorry – ended up in wrong forum and didn’t even realize it – it was a bbpress question I had. Please disregard the question

[Mickey]

ah I created forums through groups I have to edit them now to change that.
Thanks again!

[caniwigirl]

Hi @minglonaire,

The forum part is easy because that is built into bbPress in the first place. If you read the “Getting Started with bbPress” page https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ you will note that there are three settings for forum visibility:

Public – Anyone can see these forums
Private – Only logged in registered users can see these forums
Hidden: Only Moderators/Admins can see these forums

I made my base forum (which is actually a category) Private, and the majority of sub-forums Public – but tied into the BuddyPress groups so you required membership to each particular group to access each of the forums. This only works if BuddyPress is hidden from logged out users.

If you don’t want to use BuddyPress groups… just make all your forums Private.

Note that BuddyPress defines Public, Private and Hidden slightly differently than bbPress

I had issues with my theme not displaying Hidden Groups to the people it should… If this is an issue for you, check out another thread… https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hidden-groups-and-forums-not-showing-for-members-of-them/

All the best! 🙂

[Mickey]

Hi, this is amazing, I have been looking for something like this for a long time.
How would I block forums for guests as well however?

I added this code… || bp_is_forums_component()

but forums are still visible to non-logged in users, any ideas?
Thanks!

[Klosurdo]

These are the errors I receive when trying to activate buddypress

Strict Standards: Declaration of BBP_Forums_Group_Extension::display() should be compatible with BP_Group_Extension::display($group_id = NULL) in /home1/cmpgorg/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/groups.php on line 28

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare kleo_bp_replace_placeholders() (previously declared in /home1/cmpgorg/public_html/wp-content/themes/kleo/lib/theme-functions.php:1894) in /home1/cmpgorg/public_html/wp-content/themes/kleo/lib/plugin-buddypress/config.php on line 105

[danbp]

You’re using kleo theme.
Many related topics related to it are avaible on this forum.
One of the latest:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-activities-overlaps-on-post-click/

And about third party premium themes, read here
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

[r-a-y]

At the moment, you can’t.

This is handled in the bbPress plugin:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/extend/buddypress/groups.php#L55

You could try overriding those variables on the 'bp_include' hook. See where bbPress initializes BuddyPress:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/core/actions.php#L132
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/core/extend.php#L38

So in theory, you could overload those slugs on the bbpress()->extend->buddypress object on the 'bp_include' hook after priority 10.

Untested, but see if that works. This will also break all your old forum links in the activity stream if you did this.

[Rene Streber]

So back to buddypress forum 😉

First of, it is working again but I created a new page without a parent (first level) and allocated the group component to that new page.

The old page was at a second level and as I told you, had the same issue to open the single groups with another theme.

Now it is also working with new Boss Theme!

Thanks for your quick support!

[jreeve]

@danbp, changing the parent forum name doesn’t have any effect on the slug.

[danbp]

it feels like “Groups” are one of the biggest draws to BuddyPress that makes it more social

It’s one of the interrest of BuddyPress, indeed !

Yes, you can remove status from the template. Search this forum, the’re many topics about this subject.

You could remove this from groups/single/home.php – needs just a template overload.

<div id="message" class="info">
<p><?php bp_group_status_message(); ?></p>
</div>

[Vignesh M]

hi there !! i want to show specific user for forums count, replies counts, and topic counts in this page http://test06.aachicargo.com/members/ without logged on

Anyone kindly help me….

Thanks in Advance

[fmckinnon]

Dan,
Thanks so much for your help. I’ve enlisted some people in our existing forums to signup in our staging area and poke around a few days and see what they think as well.

The main aim of my site: to make it more inclusive to the members .. meaning, right now, we have thousands of people who read the articles but never engage. The only people we get added to our mailing list are forum members, so yes – one of main aims is to grow the mailing list and membership base.

Time to manage? not a problem, we have lots of devoted forum members who are happy to volunteer as mods/admins.

As you pointed out, we do have the global forum currently (via vBulletin) so initially, the “sitewide forums” would make the most sense. If we did that, I’m not sure we even need to bother with creating groups. But, on the surface, to me — it feels like “Groups” are one of the biggest draws to BuddyPress that makes it more social …

When you say “you can remove this feature in some places” – can you elaborate? Can the status updates/comments inside of Groups be turned off, only allowing discussion via the group forum?

[danbp]

Guess you have to think global at first.
– what is the aim of my site ?
– have i time to manage the community ?
– which tools are already on hand to achieve my goal ?
– Do i need more plugins ?

With BP, anything can be commented by default.
In regard of this, a forum is not necessary. But if your members are leaded to discuss, you need a forum, not a comment system.

Actually you use a global forum. Why would you modify this, as your members are probably used to using it….

You’re right, commenting or publishing messages to all in a group is a bit confusing. But on other, you’re not obligated to use anything shipped by default. You can remove this feature on some places.
At least this depends of what you really need and want to do.

[Henry Wright]

Hi @vignesh-m

The bbPress forum will be the best place to ask:

https://bbpress.org/forums/

[fmckinnon]

Hey Dan,
Yeah – I understand that – spent a lot of time reading, and have installed BuddyPress and bbPress on my staging domain.

I’ve experimented around w/ the Groups features (including allowing a Group to have a forum, etc). At this point, I realize I’m getting into personal preference …so with that being understood, here’s my question:

What’s the real point of Status Update/Activity Streams in the individual groups in BuddyPress if you are going to be also having forums via bbPress? It seemed and felt cluttered and redundant to me.

Like I created a group called “Songwriters” and linked it to the “Songwriters” forum. But, members of the Group can post status updates in the Group, that don’t show up in the forum. And if a member of the group posts in the forum, it does show up in the “forum” section of the group, but doesn’t show up in the activity feed for the group.

It almost feels like the two spaces are competing, I’m not sure I follow the rationale. Again, I realize it’s preference, but in your opinion, if you are going to utilize bbPress forums, is it best to just turn groups off?

What I’m trying to prevent is having the “group” discussions having in two separate areas. I can see how you’d have some discussion happening in the forum, and then someone else may post a topic as a “status update” in the group, and start getting comments there.

Does this make sense?

[Marcella]

@danbp yeah I have it setup for both groups and stand-alone.

The bp_is_user_forums, no matter what I try returns false and never matches. The plugin template is then used to render the templates BBPress uses.

I’ll try a fresh install at some point, there’s always something new to deal with.

[danbp]

Anything about this is explained here

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

and also on bbpress site.

[danbp]

See in bbp forum settings and modify the group forum(parent) name.

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

[danbp]

hi @fmckinnon,

Should we also use BuddyPress?

bbPress is a separate WP forum plugin. You can use it on any WordPress install.

BuddyPress is a separate WP members community plugin. You can use on any WordPress install.

Confused by the difference between “Groups” in Buddypress and the forums … and “Group” forums.

BP groups are members activities grouped under a same hood: the group. So it’s a typical BP behave. A group is not a forum, even if group discussion can be followed with help of a minimalistic publishing tool, the what’s new ? form aka notice editor. A kind of wall discussion retrained to each group, without any usual forum tool.

If you use bbPress AND buddyPress, you have the ability to categorize the forum into groups. In other words, you can assign a forum to any group of your choice.

As you can read on Codex, you have the option for a global forum only, or group forums only or if you have time and many mods, group and global forums.

For the last question, you already know that vbulltetin can be imported. For the user i have no answer because i never used this, but one thing is sure, WP use only one user table, no matter the other used plugin.

BuddyPress “shows” users, but doesn’t manage them. bbPress “shows” topics, but doesn’t manage user. That’s WP stuff.

I don’t know if you should use BP and bbPress together simply in regards of these technical explanation. So far i already experimented with BP, they are many other points to take in consideration if you want to built a community site.

[danbp]

bp_is_user_forums(), check if forums component is active.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6484

Which type of forum do you use ? Standalone or group, or both ?

In bbPress you have a folder called extend containing the BP specific templates. Should you use them depends the forum type.

If bbPress is standalone, the plugin is totally independant of BuddyPress in regards of templates at least.

[Marcella]

@danbp

members/single/index.php does exist, I created it. It also takes as a valid template. If you use home.php erroneous p tags are placed throughout the page.
bp_is_user_forums() doesn’t seem to work.

I think the template names were all changed, https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/#single-member-pages

/members/member/forums/ doesn’t list anything, returns nothing.
/members/member/forums/replies – lists the topics, although they aren’t replies they are topics started.

Thanks for reply.

p.s.

[fabwintle]

Thanks again @danbp.

Unfortunately, I think what I am experiencing is described here: http://www.tourismtribe.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=plugin-information&plugin=bbp-signature&TB_iframe=true&width=600&height=550. My signature doesn’t appear at the bottom of my forum post (even if I add a standard one). So I think the plugin isn’t working.

Do you have any other trick up your sleeve?