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will that bring my topics over when i go to import it through buddypress?

No it won’t.

The integration guide above has nothing to do with BuddyPress. It allows you to integrate WordPress with an external install of bbPress (users, single sign-on).

If you want to integrate your external bbPress install with BuddyPress. Login to the WP backend, under “BuddyPress > Forum Setup”, choose existing install.
Then, you’d have to create a group and enable a forum for that group. Next, you’d have to manually bring in those topics via PHPMyAdmin.

Read the beginning and end of this post for more details:
http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/12/06/upgrading-from-buddypress-1-0-to-1-1/

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i kinda want it working like this site does, i want to integrate my external bbpress into my wp blog, and make them work together

This site doesn’t use an external bbPress install anymore.

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If i have to convert to wpmu, i will, if that’s the only way to get this working, and have all my categories/sub-forums, integrated into wp, through bp…..

Like I said above, it doesn’t make a difference what version of WordPress you are using.

All of BuddyPress and WordPress is under the GPL license. You can sell your themes without issue, as long as you comply with the terms of the GPL license. There are plenty of resources around the web which will help you understand.

Currently there is no facility to sell themes from this website, so you will need to find somewhere to do that, perhaps on your website.

@Paul Gibbs, the problem is beyond UI. Buddypress/Automattic needs to make some real architectural choices, stop piling on functionality on existing functionality that partly overlaps, looks all very similar to the end user, but isn’t synchronized/streamlined. Your explanation of the differences between groups, forums, comments etc. in #post-51655 is irrelevant to the end user.

Mixing old-fashioned forums + WordPress classic blogs/comments + newer forms of social networking/activity wires is a recipe for disaster imho. Unless perhaps if you rethink and restructure the whole thing from the bottom up, but if Automattic is not doing that it is not going to happen and will only get worse.

Mr Maz (?) API discussion was a definite step in the right direction!

Exactly. As an example, say you wanted the SVN for “Welcome Pack” —

The WordPress plugin page is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/
and the SVN path is http://svn.wp-plugins.org/welcome-pack/

Do non-BuddyPress specific emails get sent OK from your WordPress install? i.e. disable BuddyPress and get WordPress to send you a password reset email, or something.

Use this guide to integrate an external install of bbPress with WordPress:
http://www.wpmods.com/integrate-wordpress-bbpress

Many BuddyPress developers use the WordPress Plugin Repository to host their BP-based plugins. Just make sure that you include the tag “buddypress” as one of the tags in your plugins header section.

wordpress will load page.php for every page you create so you cant really customize it..

Not necessarily.

Echoing modemlooper, you don’t need any of that code above. If you want Pages you create in WP to have different layouts, create a template file (https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates), upload it to the root of your theme, and when you add the new page in WP, just select the template you wish to use. Arbitrary PHP, HTML, stylesheets, whatever.

You don’t need any of that code above. You can easily create a page using WP page templates.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

@holgria – Try reading each plugin’s documentation or their corresponding support forum to find out more.
eg. Posthaste FAQ – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posthaste/faq/

You might have to change the user role to “Author” in order for those plugins to work.

“Bumping a post” means replying to your own post in an attempt to get a response.

add this to your bp-custom.php or functions.php file:

/*Define slugs*/
define(‘BP_EXAMPLE_SLUG’, ‘example’); /* this will show up as http://yourdomain.com/example */

/*Add slug as a root component*/
function page_setup_root_component()
{
bp_core_add_root_component( BP_EXAMPLE_SLUG );
}
add_action( ‘plugins_loaded’, ‘page_setup_root_component’, 2 );

/*Show defined slug*/
function bp_show_page() {
global $bp, $current_blog;

if ( $bp->current_component == BP_EXAMPLE_SLUG && $bp->current_action == ” ) {
bp_core_load_template( ‘example’, true ); /*replace example with the name that of the template you upload*/
}
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_show_page’, 2 );

/*For extra functionality you can add a title for that page*/
function page_titles( $title, $b ) {
global $bp;

if ( $bp->current_component == BP_Example_SLUG && $bp->current_action == ” ) {
$title = __( ‘Example’, ‘buddypress’ ); /*change Example with what you want the title of your page to be*/
}
return $title;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_page_title’, ‘page_titles’, 10, 2 );

now create an example.php file and add this to it:

get the header with the get_header() bp function

Hello im an example page

testing to see if this works

get the footer with the get_footer() bp function

then upload it to the root of the bp-default theme, it should be at the same level as where the header.php, footer.php files etc.. are
now go to http://yourdomain.com/example and see if it shows..

remember to replace ‘example’ throughout the code with what you want your slug/page to be, the template (example.php or whatever you will call it) that you upload to the theme should be the same as what you call on this line above>> bp_core_load_template( ‘example’, true );

if its working, go ahead and customize as ud like
hope this helps, it works for me, dont know a way to do it through wordpress though as wordpress will load page.php for every page you create so you cant really customize it..

That means you’re using standard WordPress. So you won’t see a link to blogs.

If you set up your new users with the role of “contributor” or higher, they can post.
Login to the WP backend and navigate to “Settings > General” and select “Contributor”.

Then download a plugin like:

Posthaste:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posthaste/

or Quick Post Widget:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-post-widget/

Also please refrain from bumping your own post every hour. Bumping your thread every 24 hours is enough.

@r-a-y I need a little bit of help with this. My site is officialmancard.com and I’ve got wordpress running in a folder (officialmancard.com/omc/). Same issue as everyone else, all of my BP related links (My Profile, activity stream, etc) all have the /omc/ folder.

I’ve put your code into a bp-custom.php as well as my child themes function.php but I’ve had no luck. Can you offer any suggestions?

BP Quickpress is a possibility:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-quickpress/

If you’re using WPMU, you could also try BP Groupblog:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

Though you need to create a group before you can enable a blog.

This thread is quite interesting to me, and I do appreciate everyone’s thoughtful posts.

I may sound silly asking some of these questions so I would like to beg your forgiveness in advance,

1) Is WPMU still a base requirement for BuddyPress?
2) When a membership site is using BuddyPress, WordPress or WPMU (if required), 1ShoppingCart, and Wishlist Member, is the login seamless?

I guess further questions are relatd to the answers to these. Thanks in advance for your responses!

hi try this plugin for redirecting to profile page after login
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/
It should work with single wp too, if it does not, please let me know, I will update the plugin.

For clicking on home link, please create a child theme, copy the header.php from bp-default to your child theme and modify it.
Change the line which says Home in the navigation, It’s anchor url to bp_loggedin_user_domain() from site_url().

Hope that helps.

It took me a while to think about this.

I mostly like it, but the ‘faded’ quality of the colors is weirding me out.

• Text in the forums is a little … small. Compare it to wordpress.org and notice how their text is a little darker and larger. That is much easier to read for the majority of people, I’d think.
• The blue for links should be darker
• The grey for alternate posts is a great background color. Don’t change.
• The TEXT in the post-reply form is too light.
• The text in the Post Reply button is similarly too light.

The other thought I have is hard to quantify, but I’m going to say it anyway. Something about the GROUPS makes it feel like a hobby site, rather than a serious ‘business’ site (yeah, I said it). I’m not sure if it’s the rounded corners missing, or the general paleness of the site, but something feels off. Casual.

Yeah, that were crap feedback. Sorry.

(Oh and the fact that HTML isn’t working? Like I put LI and UL in this post and it’s borked? Is frustrating.)

I did it with just a template. Copy and paste the members, groups, forums, and activity loops into a new template file. Add the parameter ‘search_terms=’ . esc_html( $_GET ) to each of the loops and then create a new WordPress page called search and assign the template file to it. Then just pass ?f=searchterms to the URL and bob’s your uncle.

@techguy The philosophy for wide-spread adoption is to not create any additional tables, and use meta whenever possible. This way you can rely on the internal functions of WordPress and BuddyPress to get and set that data, and you don’t have an upset site admin that needs to figure out where to put that table, how to cache it, how to serve it across multiple servers, etc…

I also think it depends on the scope that you need to achieve. The Groups API works really well for just about anything that you would want to plug into the groups component, but at the same time there can also be a need for totally 100% custom jobs where even the built in functionality doesn’t work for your application, in which case a totally custom theme might be in order.

All in all, I usually start with a custom plugin, that relies on the Groups API and group meta, and only use wp_sitemeta/wp_options if it’s a blanket default setting for all groups that can be changed by the site administrator.