In trying to find the definitive process for integrating bbPress and BuddyPress to create a forum, with sophisticated user profiles.

bbPress is a fantastic forum application, but falls a little short when it comes to plugins and features (compared to WordPress). Having it work hand-in-hand with BuddyPress (WPMU) is a fantastic premise, but I can’t seem to find a definitive guide to doing this.

The best I’ve found is nearly a year old:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/30/integrating-buddypress-10-wpmu-and-bbpress/

And fails to achieve synchronized logins or true integration with the latest versions.

So I was wondering, if we could collectively lay out the steps to integrating the latest versions of each of the big 3 apps:

• WordPress MU 2.8.6
• BuddyPress 1.1.2
• bbPress 1.0.2

My goal is to have WPMU and BuddyPress as the root install (www.domain.com), bbPress in a /forums/ sub-directory (www.domain.com/forums), and have the users and logins synced between the two.

BuddyPress.org has essentially done this already, and I’d love to know how

I should say, I’m not looking to use the Groups or Forums functionality of BuddyPress, just primarily the profiles. Private messaging would be nice, but that’s just icing on the WP-Buddy-BB cake

[@xevo Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Done that, been there. Works brilliantly.

1. Install WPMU.

2. Install Buddypress.

3. Change your keys in wp-config.php.

4. Install bbPress with intergrated settings (make sure you use the new keys you made). Make sure you install it in /forums and not in /forum because buddypress will nicely redirect his own /forums to your newly made bbPress install.

5. When everything works good, use this plugin.

Edit: Btw, if you wanna use buddypress login/profiles you can just use redirects.

Worked a charm for me.

[@jimmiejo Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks Xevo.

I tried your process, but it just doesn’t seem to work for me. I’ll give it another shot this evening, but think there might be a few more steps (details) to your instructions, that I’m overlooking.

[@xevo Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Is there a error of some sort or does it just do nothing? I just did those 5 steps and I had a integrated bbpress and shared user database.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 15 years, 11 months ago]

Hey jimmiejo,

Use TheEasyButton’s most recent tutorial:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

This worked for me.

[@jimmiejo Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks for the updated link, r-a-y.

That step-by-step guide worked like a charm.

Really appreciate your help. Cheers!