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Not right now. Although, WP is now working on the post by email for WordPress posts/comments. Once they refine that process, I’ll be very surprised if someone doesn’t build this type of functionality on the backs of that work.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jet-quickpress/
Which, even if you do not allow creation of sub-blogs will allow users to post to main blog – in effect making the single blog a multi-author site. You either set all new users as Contributors at least (you need to approve each post before it gets published) or as Authors (users get to publish asap).

Why not just use a standalone installation of bbPress with a matching theme? bbPress is also coming up as a plugin for WordPress but not anytime soon. So I would suggest you to use bbPress 0.9 and theme it to match with your site
By bbPress 0.9 you get better performance, more plugins working and you can anytime upgrade it to later version 1.0+ or the upcoming bbPress WP-plugin.

You can also look at simple:press – some work has been done integrating that with BuddyPress

@lisa – I share your frustration with the BuddyPress approach to forums; every client we have worked with (6 in total now) has asked for standard forums to be integrated, and not the BuddyPress Group / Forum approach.

The BuddyPress Group / Forum idea might be an interesting technical approach (and logical from a data modelling point of view), but unfortunately doesn’t seem to have been an end user requirements driven decision.

The best approach to get full functioning standards forums (working with a BuddyPress site) is to disable the BuddyPress forums (a simple checkbox in the admin system), and install your forum solution separately – you’ll then want to ensure you have single sign on, and integration with the activity stream – there is some work documented already to do this with simple:press and bbPress (search on their community forums), but I’m not aware of an out of the box fully functioning solution.

Of course, you’ll also want to design your theme to seamlessly integrate the forums.

[aside: I noticed an announcement re: bbPress being moved into WordPress as a plugin. The announcement also said it was being coded by @jjj, one of the core BuddyPress deveIopers. I don’t know how this will affect the functionality of bbPress (more or less featured?), or whether it will integrate a standalone forums solution into BuddyPress by default. Any more info on this @djpaul or @jjj?]

The default BuddyPress theme, under bp-themes, is the correct place. Any other themes go into wp-content/themes/ as usual. There’s code-magic that makes the WordPress theme page look in the bp-theme folders for the default theme.

I believe your problem is your install path. To quote, “WP installed as a subdirectory (mainsite.com/members).” BuddyPress uses the url “/members/” for its members component. BuddyPress gets confused when you install it in a directory with the same name as one if its components (it can’t parse the URL).

To fix: either reinstall WordPress into the root of your site, or in another directory that’s not called “members”, or try putting this into your wp-config:

define ( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘users’ );

This will change BuddyPress’ “members” URL to “users”, so http://example.com/members/members will look like http://example.com/members/users

You may be able to ‘bridge’ phpBB, etc, into WordPress, but you’d have to probably rewrite all of the BuddyPress forum integration code. It’s non-trivial.

@intimez I tested https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jet-quickpress/ on WPMU 2.9.2 and WP 3.0 with BP 1.2.5.2 and it’s working as advertised, it is BP compatible. In addition, if blog creation is enabled, there is a dropdown for which blog/subblog you want your post to be published in. I haven’t tried One Quick Post yet.

How do I get the Home page link to point to my site address instead of the wordpress address? I reset my wordpress address and site address on Settings>General. I think I have a very simple question for someone with a little experience.

You might want to check out Richard Venable’s Biblefox plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/biblefox-for-wordpress/

It’s not exactly a prayer request module, but might be related to what you want.

Two things come to mind:

1. Create a new plugin for a customized Prayer component
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/
or
2. Why not create a Group called e.g. “Prayers” or “Prayer Requests” instead so that way you rely only on native BP group creation.
You could change the design/layout of your Prayer Group Pages via a plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-css/ or by adding custom body_class to your Prayer Group Pages and then tweak CSS in your theme’s style.css file

should be wordpress>.htaccess

Did you setup pretty permalinks in the WordPress settings?

They do, but only for registered users.

If you have unregistered users posting comments, try BP Include Non-member Comments

BP Include Non-Member Comments

i wrote an experimental plugin that will replace (or tack on) activity comments to a blog post – (only tested it on the main blog)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-as-blog-comments/
(example: http://etivite.com/2010/04/what-does-it-mean/ )