I really just want a forum with categories. It seems that in the native BP settings you have to create a Group first, which then gets its own forum? Is this correct?
Yes, you have to create a group first. Think of Facebook’s fan page / group discussions page. That’s what it is modeled after (I believe!).
If you want a forum with categories, I would suggest installing a WordPress forum plugin like Simple:Press or Mingle Forum.
If you’re comfortable working with another forum script, you can try installing the standalone version of bbPress and integrating WordPress and bbPress together. I list this as another option.
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Or, how do I get something similar to what BuddyPress.org has? I notice that at the bottom of the forum topic listing, it says: “You will auto join this group when you start a new topic.” How did u get that functionality?
The auto-joining is default with BuddyPress. When you’re logged in and you are on a forum post that you are not a group member of, that message will be displayed. Visit the test install of BP – http://testbp.org – for an example.
There is a learning curve. I recommend you start reading up and getting involved in BuddyPress and WordPress forums. Remember Google/search is your friend.
References:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
WordPress TV how-to’s
WordPress – http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/05/the-wordpresscom-dashboard-introduction/
BuddyPress – http://wordpress.tv/2010/01/23/boone-gorges-buddypress-boston10/
I am a complete novice to both Buddypress and WordPress. Neither me nor my friends are skilled in web site development. I am an R&D analyst creating financial products. I am also an amature graphic artist. Of our group of friends, I was chosen for this task because I am the least unskilled. I have built an HTML web site before. Bluehost is hosting our domain, lolfriends.net and they have installed both WordPress and Buddypress. I have set up a partially completed html based web site there and the WP/BP is loaded into a subfolder. My hope has been to link that site to the WP/BP portion of the site where a visitor would have to sign in before they could comment or otherwise engage in dialog with the members,
WP/BP has been installed for a week. I just look at it> I have no idea what must be done first. Set up login criteria, create a page -but what whould be on it? How do I control what is on the page or where it is displayed on a page. How can I control the page size or the background color or the number of columns on the page? How do I place phots on a page and put an opportunity to place a caption and comment with them.
At some future time we would like to place ads for local small business on our site so that we can support our neighbors. How do I do that?
Mostly I just need help in knowing what to do to get started and the order in which those tasks must be done. I have read portions of the Codex (there are a lot of pages there). It didn’t tell me an order of tasks or how to make the pages look like the rest of my site. I did learn that PHP is dramatically different from HTML and that what little I though I knew is worthless.
Can anyone give me some suggestions on how I can get going with this? What should I do first. Right now I am afraid to do anything for frear that it will turn out that I should have set something else up first. My friends are depending on me. I don’t want to let them down. Thank you for any help you can give.
@ronio, I wish 
But no, it’s not possible yet. There are developer/s who might be rolling out plugin/s for BP in different multisites but probably not until after BP 1.3 stable is out.
ok, i have wordpress 3.0 and buddypress 1.2.5
i can activate the plugin, but firts the “event” tab, does’t appear, i fixed this with the code of the page 2.
later, the options in the profile don’t show.
so i read i found this.
in the line 278 of bp-events.php said:
add_action( ‘plugins_loaded’, ‘events_setup_nav’ );
add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘events_setup_nav’ );
ADD THIS in the last line:
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘events_setup_nav’ );
BUT when i go to “my events” or “invite” or “create an event” the page goes to the home.
any ideas?
Hello ppl ,
I have searched this community for this problem got lots of ppl who are facing same problem but didn’t got any answer. We must be doing very stupid because most of you have already implemented it. Even this community has implemented it.
I have created my site with WordPress + buddy press kept a registration page now when a new user is registered user should get a confirmation mail at his mailID so that when he confirms then only he is able to login.
Now my problem is the site i have created is not sending any confirmation mails and hence new user is not able to confirm himself resulting into being not able to log In.
Please help me…most of the guys have already implemented this..so please tell me where m wrong…
Shouldn’t this be possible if Buddypress is not network activated but just plain activated ?
ok finally got it working, only problem now is my activity feed…
when I try to post an update on it it says, There was a problem posting your update, please try again.
After installing wordpress 3.0 and installing buddypress, after logging out and logging back into my admin panel, im getting white pages… nothing works on the backend unless I rename or move the buddypress directory inside my ftp.
however the front end of the site seems to work smoothy… any suggestions here?
Hi Work,
I am using WordPress Version 3.0 and BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 at the moment.
This method works like a charm.
Lovely and thank you for the assistance
@alanchrishughes
Haha! Thanks for keeping the discussion in this thread.
Integrating bbPress with WordPress is not easy. In fact, it can be a real pain. I have not tried integrating bbP and WP since BuddyPress offered a different solution — group forums.
That being said, have you seen this article? More than likely it is out of date with WordPress 3.0, but I suggest posting a comment in that article and see if @theeasybutton can offer you any additional insights.
@jeffsayre I appreciate everyone’s help.
I am getting 404 page not found errors during the group creation process and profile edit process. I note several others are experiencing this as well. The community appears silent on a solution at this time. I have the latest versions of buddy press and wordpress and am using godaddy for hosting.
Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on how to get this working. I am happy to try anything anyone suggests (Aside from barking like a dog)
Thanks!
The same problem here. Any solution?
Hi! You should create pages in dashboard and name theme : Activity, Groups, Forums, Members, Register,.
Be sure You have PERMALIKS ON , theme folder include BuddypressTemplate Pack files and on editing page below title is right url (example: [ Permalink: http://natfriends.com/site/members/%5D )
Now i trying this at localhost. Is working (WordPress 3.1alpha BuddyPress 1.3-bleeding )
Thank you for the info. It’s a pity it’s not normally possible. I’ll try the Virtual Multiblog solution.
I really did not wanna create a new thread as my problem is very similar to this current thread.
The only issue I can’t wrap my head around is all I have is a plain vanilla WP 3.0 install. I got to the plugin page, searched for BuddyPress and installed it. All’s well till this point. The moment I activate the BP plugin, I lose the control panel. The default theme for WP 3.0 is the 2010 theme. Is there something else I’m missing?
For now, I moved the BP plugin outta the plugin dir; so got the control panel back. Any hints/thought?
Thanks.
This is not currently possible. Read the first post in the link on this thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/allow-for-multiple-buddypress-instances-on-one-wordpress-mu-install/
As far as your current BuddyPress install, it seems like you do have an issue. If you want to figure that out, please start a new thread focused on that topic as the topic of this thread is Multiple BP installs on one WP network.
@alanchrishughes
I took it a little off topic to provide you with some help. I knew that you were having issues with bbPress and WordPress integration (as you have posted on several threads stating as much). So I was politely trying to provide a little help while asking to not turn this into a bbPress integration discussion. I should not have used the word “anymore” in the last sentence of my previous post.
Since your assertion was that bbPress does not integrate with BuddyPress, and whereas that is technically true, I knew that you really meant WordPress. Therefore, your assertion is not true. bbPress integrates with WordPress, it is just a tedious, difficult process.
Yes, this thread is about bbPress but it is also about SimplePress. I did not want it to turn into another “bbPress does not integrate” thread. Let’s compare bbPress and SimplePress integration with WordPress. In fact, I have changed the title of the post to better reflect the true subject.
@Jeff Sayre are you saying I am taking it off topic? I wrote one sentence about integrating bbpress and buddypress in a thread about integrating bbpress and buddypress.
Hello,
I’m fighting with a serious issue. I want to create a site with separate social network for each user. Example:
http://www.domain.com/user1
http://www.domain.com/user2
I want both users to have separate BuddyPress sites, only accessible by them and their invited friends.
I have installed WordPress 3.0, activated the Network feature, installed latest BuddyPress and Network Activated it.
No I have BuddyPress websites for every user, but when I login on each of them, the main BuddyPress menu is not working. Those links point to, for example, http://www.domain.com/user1/members, but when I click them, I get a message, that such page doesn’t exist.
However, when I login on a main site http://www.domain.com, links point to http://www.domain.com/members and are working, but I get a list of all blogs instead of members of current user’s blog.
Is it possible to separate BuddyPress systems from each another without having to install them physically in different folders and on different databases?
@rogercoathup I just checked their forums some weeks ago or so to look over simplepress as an alternative and found this post. I have not tested this as I opted to go with global forums. Other BP related topics in their forums as well.
That is, of course, an option, but I’m moving a community over from a site that was in Movable Type and Elgg into a new WordPress / Buddypress system and users are obviously attached to having the same username they had before and that people already know them by.
Sorry, that is what I meant. I am using WordPress 3.0 with multisite activated. That is the exact code. I am running WordPress 3.0 and Buddypress 1.2.5. I have this code installed in my bp-custom.php file and it activates the avatars across the whole domain. Are you absolutely sure you have this all in the right place? Did you put wrapped around the code I provided?
Have you tried with all plugins disabled by BP? Are you using Current versions of plugins/BP/WordPress?
