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As per the instructions, you must be running WordPress MU 2.8.1 for BuddyPress 1.0.3 to work.

Hi, I want to integrate IPB 3 with wordpress too. My thing may be a bit different though. What I want to do is instead of using bbpress for the group forums, I would love for it to use ipb 3 instead. Is there any way of supporting ipb with buddypress? I have been looking for a while a way to do that.

I have finally been able to duplicate the installation.

Here’s a relatively complete set of steps for guidance. This took me several hours to prepare and it can be easy to make a stupid error along the way. Just take it slow.

These steps are for WordPress MU 2.8.1, bbPress 1.0.1 and buddyPress 1.0.3.

1. Download and install WordPress MU 2.8.1

2. Install the “bbPress Integration” plugin version 1.0 via the “Plugins” -> “Add New” menu of your wordpress mu installation.

In the search box enter ‘bbPress Integration” and click “Search Plugins”.

Click the “Install” link for the “bbPress Integration” version 1.0 plugin.

Click the orange “Install Now” button.

Click the “Activate Plugin” link.

3. Download and install bbPress 1.0.1 in a sub-directory of your wordpress installation.

I chose the sub-directory “/forums/”.

4. Load up the bbPress installation script by going to http://<yourdomain>/forums/

5. Click “Go to step 1”.

6. Enter the database name, database user and database password that you used for your wordpress installation.

You will not usually need to click “Show advanced settings”.

7. Click “Save database configuration file”.

You should see a message “Your settings have been saved to the file bb-config.php. You can now continue to the next step.”

8. Click “Go to step 2”.

9. Next you add the integration settings. This is the important part!

– click “Add integration settings”

– click “Add cookie integration settings”

– you will be presented with a list of eight text entry fields

– the first two are for your wordpress and blog url. For each of these enter your exact urls. I just used the same value for each. They need to commence with http://

– for all the cookie values just enter “COMMENT OUT”. These will become reference points in the bbpress config file for later.

10. Click “Add user database integration settings”. This step is also important!

Leave the existing value in the “User database table prefix” field.

Enter the WordPress Primary blog id value “1” – THIS IS IMPORTANT.

11. Click “Save WordPress integration settings”

If all is well you should see this message.

Your WordPress integration cookie and database settings have been successfully validated. They will be saved after the next step.

Once you have finished installing, you should visit the WordPress integration section of the bbPress admin area for further options and integration instructions, including user mapping and the correct cookie settings to add to your WordPress configuration file.

12. Click “Go to step 3”.

– enter your site name

– enter your site url. I entered the url to the forums including the http://

e.g. http://bp.dev/forums/

– select the “admin” user for your wordpress installation

– enter a name for your first forum e.g. “Announcements”

13. Click the “Save site settings” button

14. Click the “Complete the installation” button

15. You should see a screen indicating installation has completed.

– click the “Show installation messages” option. Scroll through and see of any errors are reported.

16. At this point you should be able to login to your bbpress installation with your wordpress admin username and password.

17. Login to bbPress

18. Click the “Admin” link to go to the admin screen

19. Go to “Settings” -> “Writing” and enable XML-RPC publishing protocol (this is needed by buddyPress)

20. Go to “Settings” -> “Discussion” and enable pingbacks (I think this is needed by buddyPress ….?)

21. Go to “Users”

22. Go to “Settings” -> “WordPress Integration”

Set the mapping of bbPress roles to WordPress users roles

For the WordPress Administrator role select “bbPress Key Master”.

For all the others select “bbPress Member”.

Click “Save Changes”

23. Login to WordPress MU as the admin.

24. Go to “Plugins -> Add New”

25. Enter “bbPress Integration” and click “Search Plugins”.

– you should see “bbPress Integration” 1.0 listed

– click “install”

– click the orange “Install Now” button

– click “Acrivate Plugin”

26. Go to “Settings” -> “bbPress Integration”

Ensure there is a full url for the bbPress forums entered.

Select WordPress type “WordPress MU”

Click “Save Changes”

Copy the values listed in the dark grey box at the bottom of your page into your clipboard. There will be four lines that look something like this:

define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘da4672dda66fd60a6b80e420d32ef26c’ );

define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.bp.dev’ );

define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

Don’t worry – these values will be different for your installation.

Open wp-config.php in an editor and insert these lines immediately after the opening “<?php” line.

Whilst you have wp-config.php open, copy the authentication keys to your clipboard. They look like this:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘800345c011dfad9261cedec0a3d914ffa1b40d67b23b66e4809797ce728f0b80’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘5d6d3f657c9fb496e3f5488044fc174c238554a1b5347eb633ea8baecf0dcc7c’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘6749832494719d8217e06c233326cb86da9ec040b16f705156660e1642a5f0e8’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ’87a5b149e95e0a13020541040353548eaf65b68452be91c685e96a7fbab685bc’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘8ff197cc15f311c975bd14ce131e7872eb390706bd316f72435c081836d14f34’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘642683992ae38da46082bf9850ab90273deb7d5d1034baf80a3fd32871b5e04a’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘7c066b9c14bd558737b74b76c77f928e3612935832a6a47bd70842e118c947fa’);

They will be different for your installation.

Save wp-config.php

27. Open bb-config.php

Find the lines containing the Authentication Unique Keys. They will have the values “COMMENT OUT” if you followed the instructions above. Comment these lines out!

Insert the lines from your clipboard into bb-config.php below the lines you commented out.

You need to edit each line you inserted and prefix the name of each constant with “BB_”

After doing that, the lines will be something like:

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘800345c011dfad9261cedec0a3d914ffa1b40d67b23b66e4809797ce728f0b80’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘5d6d3f657c9fb496e3f5488044fc174c238554a1b5347eb633ea8baecf0dcc7c’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘6749832494719d8217e06c233326cb86da9ec040b16f705156660e1642a5f0e8’);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ’87a5b149e95e0a13020541040353548eaf65b68452be91c685e96a7fbab685bc’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘8ff197cc15f311c975bd14ce131e7872eb390706bd316f72435c081836d14f34’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘642683992ae38da46082bf9850ab90273deb7d5d1034baf80a3fd32871b5e04a’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘7c066b9c14bd558737b74b76c77f928e3612935832a6a47bd70842e118c947fa’);

Save the file and exit.

28. Clear cookies and Refresh for your domain. In Firefox you can clear cookies for a specific domain pattern.

29. Login to your wordpress installation as the wordpress admin user.

30. Assuming you managed to follow the setps above, If you go to your bbPress page you should find that you are logged in!

31. From WordPress Admin go to “Plugins” -> “Add New”

– in the search box enter “BuddyPress” and click “Search Plugins”

– find BuddyPress 1.0.3 in the list

– click “Install”

– click the orange “Install Now” button

– click “Activate Plugin”

32. BuddyPress is now installed. Follow the BuddyPress instructions for installing the themes to the correct locations and activate them.

33. In wp-admin go to “BuddyPress” -> “Component Setup” and check that the “bbPress Forums” component is enabled.

34. In wp-admin go tp “BuddyPress” -> “Forums Setup”

– ensure that the URL for the forums is entered

– ensure that the bbPress username and password details have been setup

– click “Save Settings”

35. Create a group with option selected for a forum.

36. Check that you can post topics in the group forum!

37. Take a break!

Unfortunately, I’m having trouble duplicating the installation.

For my sucessful installation, bbPress presented me with a “dropdown” list allowing me to select the keymaster user. I then picked my WordPress admin user. It all worked well from there.

For the duplicate installation the bbPress installer shows text fields for entering the “keymaster” user details.

This process is painful!

I have been able to successfully install and configure the following as a clean installation:

WordPress MU 2.8.1

bbPress 1.0.1

BuddyPress 1.0.3

I will post a *rough* outline of the steps for the installation. My installation is on a test server (Mac running php 5.3.0 under xampp ??? beta)

You need to get WordPress 2.8.1 and bbPress login integration working successfully first.

I’ll try and duplicate the installation and then post instructions. It should be relatively straightforward once you know the tricks.

Using $() in wordpress will call Prototype’s implementation, so you gotta use jQuery yeah or call that noconflict function (don’t know if doing it this way has an other implementation issues).

It is my experience that using deep integration can cause some issues with duplicate jQuery inclusions, but this is usually only on the bbPress side, not on the BuddyPress side.

WordPress 2.8.1 uses a new version of jQuery. I’ve ran into this as an issue mostly when there is either a JS error, or a conflict of some kind in the files. Can you verify for me that the jQuery file itself is being included correctly in the head area when viewing the directory page?

If u want social networking funtion within the dashboard, there’re wpmu plugins to enable friends and messages rather than using buddypress.

What is this plugin , i can’t find this plugin in wordpress.org

@Mohit Kumar: you are missing the cookie hash, etc. in your wp-config.php in addition to the lines I told you to add to your bb-config.php. Install the plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

to wpmu and add the code it tells you to to your wp-config.

@Nicholaszen: is your wpmu site disappearing or your bbpress site? or both?

This is also not a BuddyPress-related question and you’d have been better of taking it to the WordPress forum and searching for similar topics.

It was the memory limit. I set it to 96M, reinstalled buddypress and it now works fine. Thanks Burt. Will this also improve performance overall? Another thing…if I get mad traffic as I build my community will I need to continue to up this memory value? For the buddypress.org community or the upcoming wordpress.org migration to buddypress, will this be a huge number? Or is this just a memory value for the installation of plugins?

What a great community of experts here!

Thanks,

Jeff Lee

Jeff, others have had WSOD issues and in many cases they are related to the php memory limit set on your host. Check your error logs and if it’s running out of mem then check this codex article:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

This is the file you need to download and install.

@Mohit Kumar: I know this has to do with cookie integration but I have found that sometimes the buddybar doesn’t work if this code isn’t in your bb-config.php file if you are using WPMU 2.7.1:

//WordPress MU Cookie Integration

define( 'WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1 );

If you could also post you WPMU wp-config.php file without the passwords and usernames it would be helpful as well.

@Nicholaszen: When I made that upgrade, I ended up having the same problem. I moved all of the plugins from /my-plugins/ to /bb-plugins/ and the themes from /my-themes/ to /bb-themes/. That managed to reset the site enough so that I could access the forum’s admin and from there I could re-activate the theme. Try that and let us know.

If you are getting that error then it seems very likely you are not running WordPress MU, and instead regular WordPress.

Try this?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ban-hammer/

John James Jacoby wrote:
I haven’t tried this with 1.0.3 yet myself, but I’ll be sure to give it a spin tomorrow.

Just upgraded WPMU to 2.8.1 and also upgraded BP to 1.0.3 and applied the __init / __construct fix to wpmu-functions.php (https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/changeset/1875).

And I’m up and running with the BuddyBar.

Man upgrading isn’t fun!

Mike, it’s a bug with WPMU 2.8.1.

There’s a fix in the trac:

https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/1037

The template files for custom pages as per WordPress only work on the blog(s) on your WPMU site. If you want a custom page or area under the members page – i.e. http://myblog_url/members/y2khjh/something_here – then yes, you do need to create a custom component as the members page is part of BuddyPress.

You could probably get away with a single install of bbPress, but you would need a plugin or some theme work.

After installing and integrating bbPress with WordPress MU, I installed BuddyPress and got the group forums working. I created a group and saw that the forum created for that group was a child of the forum that had been created during the install of bbPress. I changed that forum to be a category, so that no topics could be posted in it.

It is entirely possible that you could filter out content that belongs to that category for the main forums. So when using BuddyPress groups, you can see group forums, but when viewing the bbPress forums, the BuddyPress forums are filtered out.

I am also using the hidden and read-only plugins with the BuddyPress Groups for bbPress plugin, and that is working well. However, you could suppress the content rather than marking it up.

So has anyone seen Gigya Socialize yet? http://www.gigya.com/public/Content/GS/Home.aspx

Same idea/principle as RPX, only a little more integrated. They have a WordPress plugin, but I can’t seem to get it working on MU, at least not my local copy (which may be the problem).

BuddyPress *really* ought to have the implementation of the “social stack” as high priority, even though much of the specs on what that all entails is still being ironed out.

But with Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo, etc. all embracing OpenID, you can see where this is all headed. (Joseph Smarr calls it a “sea change”: http://therealmccrea.com/2009/04/10/surviving-thriving-in-the-online-identity-wars-joseph-smarr-at-web-20-expo/

Anyway, I’m going to be trying to implement one of these OpenID signin authenticators, and get it working from the main page. I’ll try and remember to report if I learn anything or get it working.