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My website has traditionally been a bulletin-board style forum, and I’m reimplementing it in WordPress with BuddyPress.

The typical next step would be to recreate the forums using bbPress, however when I look at bbPress, and forums like the one I’m posting in right now, it reminds me of… the past. UBB, vBulletin, all that stuff…

I want something different now, something I would consider more modern. Looking at what goes on, out there, on the Internet – there are two sites in particular that I feel encourage a lot of participation; Facebook and YouTube.

So it strikes me that what I would really like to do is just re-use WordPress’ blog post (and comments) functionality to create the ‘forum’. Then it wouldn’t look like a forum, but I could start reintroducing some of the forumy concepts.

Does anyone have any thoughts on that, or is using their BuddyPress site like that already?

There are some hurdles to this visually and regarding the workflow of reading/writing in WordPress, particularly regarding a lack of ajax, but I’m slowly finding plugins to improve this and perhaps I’ll have to write some of my own to fill in the gaps.

Another issue I can think of right off the bat is post ordering. I’m not aware of any simple way to, for example, bump certain posts up – such as based on activity (which is what happens on forums). But I guess I can work on that.

There is also the user role concern. To create posts registered users have to all be Authors. I haven’t found any issues with that so far, but if anyone can think of any I would appreciate the feedback.

I had a crack at using bbPress with a view to restyle it to look more like posts/comments, and perhaps that’s the approach I should be using. Now I’m not sure.

I’ve added Buddypress menu items (e.g. messages, notifications etc.) in my main WordPress menu. Is there anyway I can have the notification counters next to each of them, as they are in the standard Buddypress menu bar?

Hi,

Is there any way to activate existing WordPress users as BuddyPress users? I found an old thread on the topic but it was years old – wondering if there is more recent functionality.

Thanks!

I am running the lastest version of WP and BP on an IIS 8.5 server. Last week I updated WP to Multisite and I am still using BP on the main site. I tried adding a new user today to the sub-site, but I cannot activate this person. The only when I can even see that I tried creating a new user is under Manage Signups from the Network Admin menu. If I click anything under that user’s name, i am shown a permissions page. I have tried THIS SOLUTION already, but when adding this code, it disables the dashboard for my main site.

Again, I only have BP enabled on the main site, and BP is not network activated. I am assuming the permissions error has to do with BP and not WPMU. since there is similar issues regarding BP. Please help me fix this?

Hello,

I just installed BuddyPress on my new WordPress Multisite network (v4.4.2) configured for subdomains and it doesn’t appear to have been installed correctly, or I am missing a critical configuration setting.

After installing BuddyPress on my Multisite network through “Plugins > Add New” the following menu items were added to my “Users” menu:

1) Manage Signups
2) Profile Fields

The issue is, when selecting Manage Signups, I am taken to an empty “Users > Add New” interface where it indicates (directly under the interface title) 2 total users and 1 Super Admin (I’m setting this up for the first time).

When clicking the “Registration is disabled. Edit settings” link in the “Manage Signups” window, I am taken to my Multisite Network Settings where I have the following selections saved:

• Logged in users may register new sites

• Send the network admin an email notification every time someone registers a site or user account.

When linking to “Users > Add New” through the original Multisite Users menu (“Users > All Users) the two current users are listed as expected. At this point, the function of “Manage Signups” is not clear.

Thank you for your assistance,
Don

Hi there,

What is the best way to go about setting up BuddyPress/bbPress to work seamlessly with a Network Install of WordPress?

I have one main site that will serve as the parent site and then we have about 10 or so child sites underneath. I want each of the sites to share social activities with the parent, including their main forums. When I try to create a new site, it doesn’t seem to share BuddyPress/bbPress with the main site as I cannot see anything on the widgets. 🙁

Is there a better way to do this?