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The BB forum is for the people who installed Buddypress to get into this newfangled social networking thing and then decide they need something more familiar looking.

To my eyes the discussion beneath an item from the activity stream looks the same as the discussion in a forum.

Group Blog with front-end posting and threaded comments via P2 will do everything you can do with a forum, but in a much more native WordPress/Buddypress way.

+1 to having forum categories on a per group basis.

I already run a number of vb sites with hundreds of thousands of users and would love to someday bring that platform to wordpress/bp.

The problem is that my forums are huge (millions of posts) and without separation, it would be impossible using group forums.

I’d rather not have to create a separate group just to have a separate forum, as then I would end up with hundreds of groups (one forum I run has about a hundred or so subforums all are very active). That would only diminish the value of using groups imho.

I just don’t see the feasibility of doing it this way.

For instance, how in the world would you convert a site like vbulletin.org forums over to bp groups?

Even with very fancy templating it would still not work properly

(Yes, I know, groups are really just uber powerful forum categories… for a lack of a better way of putting it)

Dreamhost all the way,

Been with them for 4 years now. Their servers are optimized to work with WordPress (and WPMU if you get a dedicated server), therefore Buddypress is a piece of cake. Their shared servers are really good actually, you get the best plans (seriously the stuff you can do is a lot more than the usual hosting package), and really good prices.

I may experience about 2-3 downtimes a year, which are usually for maintenance, seldom for hardware failure.

Plus, the guys at support really know what they’re doing and they can fix about anything really quickly, or even move you instantly to another server if it’s not working… and you dont have to do anything!

thank you

ticket created https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12569

my first time posting ticket, hope the info is what is needed.

Hey gang,

Just moderated my first thread; removed some sentences due to topic irrelevancy, but the main gist is still there.

Going back to stwc’s initial post:

– forum inline attachments – Boone has a port of _ck_’s old plugin working for the most part

– quote – i’ll take a look at this one when i have some time

– forum whispers – not really interested in this one… maybe someone else can take a look at this?

– gui for textarea – Boone has a TinyMCE plugin for this

Peter, as you well know, you can disable forum integration. Privacy is an issue, yes. There’s no complete solution right now (patiently waiting for Jeff’s plugin), but one solution I’ve tried is Jehy’s Registered Users Only 2 plugin. Though, I did modify it a tiny bit for BP needs. I can post the modified code if anyone’s interested.

@ if I can find the ticket system for mu I will report it as well.

is merged into wp trac !

https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/wiki

I actually do run my business from the root domain.

1.customer goes to root.com to register and signup for a site.

2. customer is given a subdomain.root.com blog which I domain mapp to their own domain

That is normal wp operation.

Where it gets sticky:

1. customer whose site is actually subdomain.root.com turns on group blogs and tries to create one…. that creates subdomain.subdomain.root.com

see the problem?

It’s pretty much the exact same type of situation that wordpress.com does.

1. I go to wp.com and register my site, subdomain.wordpress.com

2. If they had group blogs, I would go in and create one, it would create subdomain.subdomain.wordpress.com

I hope this makes it clearer, how I am actually doing what wpmu was intended to do. I run everything off of the root domain, so every customer is subdomain.root.com

The only ‘solution’ I see without having wpmu fixed, would be to give complete fresh installs of wpmu to each client, so they are actually on a root.com instead of a subdomain.

That completely kills the entire concept of wpmu (one codebase for me to maintain). I would have to maintain all the installs separately, which would suck bigtime.

Anyhow, it is not an error with your plugin, but rather an error with wpmu core. I posted question in their forums, and if I can find the ticket system for mu I will report it as well.

Hi DJ Paul, upgraded wordpress and now the default theme is working fine. Still having the same trouble with buddymatic, but i’ll tool around with the CSS in default and get myself something similar.

Cheers mate.

I tested out Kaltura but one thing to caution you about that I saw was that the last updated date was almost 6 months ago and it shows compatibility with 1.0.x and 1.1.x, NOT 1.2. It didn’t seem to be very actively worked on so I started looking at different options. Here’s their wordpress repo link for you to decide on your own.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/

Hm, no real instruction manual as such. And no question is a noob question

With regards to features, you can read this page https://buddypress.org/, find some BuddyPress introduction videos from WordCamp conferences at http://wordpress.tv/category/buddypress/. I’ve just got back from WordCamp Ireland where I did an introduction to BP session; slides are at http://slideshare.net/DJPaul/wordcamp-ireland-2010-introduction-to-buddypress

If you can ask us a specific question about BuddyPress, we can come up with a more specific answer (hopefully!)

The issue isn’t with BuddyPress, its an issue with your WP environment. when you were told to change your Permalink Settings wordpress created a .htaccess file. this probably broke your access to get in, it did mine.

I updated the file so that the rewriter worked correctly and all is better. Enable rewriter and you’ll probably be good.

Sec7

You’re looking for a WordPress <-> phpBB bridge.

Have you tried WP-United?

http://www.wp-united.com/get-wp-united/

I don’t know how to integrate the others into wordpress/buddypress, but you could still disable the forum component in buddypress and use the other features.

It sounds like this plugin will help you:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-geo/

Haven’t tested it though.

BuddyPress utilizes bbPress only for the groups component.

This doesn’t limit you from using using phpBB or vBulletin!

There are a few scripts out there that can integrate phpBB and vBulletin into WordPress.

I’d suggest checking those out.

Are you able to receive emails regularly in WordPress?

eg. when someone posts a comment on your blog or when a new user registers for your site?

The groupblog_blog_id should hold a single value. If this isn’t the case it is misfiring somewhere. Did the following post help at all? Please follow the instructions there and see if you can clean up the meta table. This should not be a problem in 1.4.4, but 1.4.3 causes issues.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/371370?replies=6#post-1427856

Thanks everyone for the tips and tricks, I’ll be checking this page again!

It’s strange but the moment I upgraded to WP2.9.2 and BP 1.2 spam started again.

Previously, I just added SI Captcha and I went from getting 10-20+ spam registrations to none. I added WP-hashcash now and I’ve only had one registration since.

I’ve just disabled the blog registration on the signup page, hopefully that’ll help too.

By the way, there’s also a meta tag in the header of many templates :

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.9.2" />

Removing that may help too….

My registration link is broken too. I’m using the latest versions of everything (WPMU), no active plugins except BuddyPress and WordPress.com Stats, no custom language, and the default theme. Any ideas?