BuddyPress.org

You MUST share the database for them to be able to share users. bbpress will create some tables in your wordpress mu database and share the users table. If you keep separate databases, deep integration will never work.

It actually doesn’t matter if you do it during installation or after… it turns out to be the same.

Have you seen this article:

http://bavatuesdays.com/integrating-wpmu-buddypress-and-bbpress/

It was extremely helpful with my setup and includes the video you mentioned, with some additional pointers. Also read the comment section for some addtional info.

Just make sure you have the latest versions of both and start off fresh. Follow the article I quoted and give that sigh of relief when you switch from WordPress MU to bbpress and see “Welcome admin!” on top instead of “Login”….

My admin_bar at admin wordpress mu dashboard doesn’t translated, only de admin bar at buddypress area is translated.

./wordpress-mu-root-dirctory/whatever-you-want

Mine is at delsolownersclub.com/discussions/

You just need to make sure you reference that directory everyplace you need to within BuddyPress and bbPress to make sure they see each other.

SWEEET SUCCESSSSS!

Okay… For those of that might be using “deep integration” namely using your BuddyPress/MU functions in bbPress, at the time of this writing at the top of your bb-config.php file, put…

if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST')) {

include_once( 'absolute/path/to/your/wordpressmu-directory/wp-blog-header.php' );

}

This way, it only tries to include the MU/BP functions if they haven’t already been defined and if it’s NOT a xmlrpc request!

DUH! Yay! Burt, haha you rule…

I am attempting to install the forum myself now. Ok so what I did first was to go ahead and in the root dirctory created a folder called forums. Next, what I did was to go ahead and download from wordpress the bp press forum module. Is this correct so far?

Regards,

Charles Pisano

Question about step 1.

You say that the user has to be created on the “bbPress” side. Does this refer to a user that is registered through register.php via the forums? What if my forums were integrated from day 1 with WordPress? Is it okay to just use the “admin” keymaster account?

Question about permalinks and .htaccess.

I am using pretty permalinks on the bbPress side, and there is an .htaccess file on the root of the bbpress install folder. What would I want to look out for to prevent this from causing a problem?

Question about “deep integration”

I am currently including my wp-blog-header.php file inside my bb-config.php file. Will this cause conflicts?

Question about what to do if I swear I’ve followed the steps the way they are written and the ways everyone else has said, and it isn’t working.

ok I guess I spoke too soon. Had this in red with 4040 not found after it:

http://twitterfic.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-ajax-handler.php

then the other code:

Date

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:16:47 GMT

Server

Apache

Cache-Control

no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0

Expires

Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT

Pragma

no-cache

X-Pingback

http://twitterfic.com/xmlrpc.php

Last-Modified

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:16:47 GMT

Keep-Alive

timeout=15, max=99

Connection

Keep-Alive

Transfer-Encoding

chunked

Content-Type

text/html; charset=UTF-8

Request Headers

Host

twitterfic.com

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5

Accept

*/*

Accept-Language

en-us,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding

gzip,deflate

Accept-Charset

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Keep-Alive

300

Connection

keep-alive

Content-Type

application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

X-Requested-With

XMLHttpRequest

Referer

http://twitterfic.com/members

Content-Length

888

Cookie

wp-settings-time-1=1234978735; wp-settings-1=m0%3Do%26m1%3Dc%26m2%3Dc%26m3%3Dc%26m4%3Dc%26m5%3Do%26m6

%3Dc%26m7%3Do%26m8%3Dc%26m9%3Dc%26m10%3Dc%26m11%3Dc; wp-settings-time-2=1234896835; __utma=253961357

.2322033939621672000.1234866299.1235007210.1235014438.11; __utmz=253961357.1234900041.3.2.utmcsr=trueblood

.twitterfic.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/groups; wp-settings-2=m0%3Dc%26m1%3Dc; wp-settings-time-5

=1234989991; __utmb=253961357.60.10.1235014438; PHPSESSID=4bv8ld7abk3iutqqhht3jo9d06; __utmc=253961357

; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_=kitchenbitch%7C1235188924%7C7aa68ef091

4f0885b507970bff70071e

_wpnonce

f149be8ca2

action

addremove_friend

cookie

wp-settings-time-1%3D1234978735%3B%20wp-settings-1%3Dm0%253Do%2526m1%253Dc%2526m2%253Dc%2526m3%253Dc

%2526m4%253Dc%2526m5%253Do%2526m6%253Dc%2526m7%253Do%2526m8%253Dc%2526m9%253Dc%2526m10%253Dc%2526m11

%253Dc%3B%20wp-settings-time-2%3D1234896835%3B%20__utma%3D253961357.2322033939621672000.1234866299.1235007210

.1235014438.11%3B%20__utmz%3D253961357.1234900041.3.2.utmcsr%3Dtrueblood.twitterfic.com%7Cutmccn%3D(referral

)%7Cutmcmd%3Dreferral%7Cutmcct%3D%2Fgroups%3B%20wp-settings-2%3Dm0%253Dc%2526m1%253Dc%3B%20wp-settings-time-5

%3D1234989991%3B%20__utmb%3D253961357.60.10.1235014438%3B%20PHPSESSID%3D4bv8ld7abk3iutqqhht3jo9d06%3B

%20__utmc%3D253961357%3B%20wordpress_test_cookie%3DWP%2BCookie%2Bcheck

fid

5

I think this makes perfect sense, but I think the word “tag” needs to be used carefully, because WordPress has sort of defined the use of “tags and a “tag cloud” as a specific function, and this does not sound like that.

This just sounds like a collective list of links that the group can add things to, more like relative content than tags in my mind. Similar to the “blog this” part of WordPress that lets you be on any web page and via a bookmark, create a blog about it, this would allow members of a group to be on either 1.) a page/post/attachment within your site, or 2.) any site on the web, and add it as a relative link for your specific group.

Am I making sense, or going off in the wrong direction maybe?

as i said, i made that same think you’v planned to do

not using wires but integrating buddypress membertheme with wordpress loops

BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU plugins.

Andy, about _wpnonce, the problem with “WordPress failure notice” the theme is the default home/member theme, and the problem is with the email… how i resolve this? thanks!

edit: i’ve read in the svn the fixing in #1126. Thanks.

Sorry for the confusion. I’m juggling a few ideas so I’m probably not communicating in a straight line right now.

Check out http://delsolownersclub.com/discussions/topic/great-job-john for an example…

Basically some of the people logged in and posting in my forums were converted over from a wordpress.org install, and they have yet to update their buddypress profiles with real name info, so using this plugin, their names don’t show up at all, and neither do their avatars as they haven’t uploaded one yet either. Make sense?

And yes about your template… If you look at the front-page.php or forum.php files, you’ll see that the usernames still fall back on the bbPress username of ‘admin’ instead of your name as ‘Site Admin’ if that makes sense? Striving for uniformity, I’d like to get all of the names displayed the same.

Installed and working. Yay!

Since I converted my db from a wordpress.org install, not all of my users have converted their information, i.e. real names, etc… Is there any way to have a fall back and use the nicename in the event no real name exists? Also, if there is no avatar uploaded, it doesn’t seem to use the generated avatar for me. The idea would be to have everyone use an avatar eventually, but alas my user base can be slow to adapt…

Do you have a way to do the user names in forum.php, functions that are usually topic_last_poster() and $topic->topic_poster_name? I suppose if the user->ID of those people is within $topic then it’s pretty straight forward eh…

RSS widget is a WordPress widget, so if it is a problem, make sure you file it on the WordPress trac.

If you are a complete beginner to WordPress then you need to head on over to their documentation for a beginner crash course as it’s more or less impossible to guide you through it all.

Try your luck here for a starter: https://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start

I’ve been trying for two weeks to figure out how to install the Forums and can’t even get BBpress to install, much less integrate it. No help on their forums, so I’m hoping someone might have a hint here.

None of the salt values appear in the WPMU 2.7 admin options menu

I have the exact same issues at marcbrzeau and get these errors at end of install:

>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch “auth” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “auth” cookie salt in your database.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch “logged in” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “logged in” cookie salt in your database.

Forum could not be created!

No worries, it’s always better to ask and learn than to be silent and stay uneducated.

And yes, you need to look at a members profile in order to see the BuddyPress member theme.

The individual blogs are not managed by BuddyPress but by WordPress MU and because of that the themes are standard WordPress themes.

@mikepratt, Burt nailed it on the head, but I’d like to add that I think many people are still stuck in the forum world, and haven’t peeked their heads out to see that social networking has evolved in the past 5 years or so. I know on lots of car or video game forums, it’s basically just a free for all chat fest, and trying to convert those minds into using BuddyPress or WordPress alone is too big of a change; I’ve tried it twice now with little success. Having a dedicated familiar looking forum but using BuddyPress to emphasize the social atmosphere helps those stubborn users transition a little easier and allow them to fallback on the features of a dedicated forum in the event it doesn’t work out.

@burt, I noticed on your Common Interest site that you have the forums separated between public and group. I would like to do something similar, and am curious as to how you did so. Also, is there an easy way to tap into the profile fields/user information from BuddyPress and display it as post author information in bbPress?

Hi all.

I had an issue with widgets when I first translated BP to Swedish.

Try this: after you upload your translation file go into the admin panel and remove all widgets from the site.

After this, re-add them the same way as they were before.

Andy mentioned that WordPress registers widgets in a “wierd” way that translation can screw up.