[brevica]

As I’m creating a new BP site, I want to create a single, global forums with sub-forums: the typical forum experience. I don’t have any use for Groups and am disabling them, but I still need to integrate bbPress. I’ve read topics on the matter (http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/is-this-the-way-forums-are-supposed-to-work) and I understand the concept, it just doesn’t fit the needs of my site.

Preferably, I’d like an integrated option for a Global Forum instead of the group-based model, especially with things like most recent forum posts in the user profiles, but that might not be an option. I’m running the most recent builds of WPMU, BP, and a standalone bbPress.

At the very least, is there a way to sync logins with the software?

[r-a-y]

This tutorial worked for me:

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

It’s a little old, but the basic premise is the same.

[brevica]

I went through that this morning, and everything was fine up until I had to go to “Forums Setup” — there’s no longer an option to enter URLs, name, password, etc on a Forum Setting page on the current version of BP.

[r-a-y]

Integrate bbPress with WPMU first. Then disable groups and forums in BuddyPress. No need to go through BuddyPress’ Forums setup.

[brevica]

I did that first, to no avail. I’ll retrace my steps and see if I did something wrong. What was the latest version of bbP & WPMU you were able to sync?

[r-a-y]

Omit steps 38-41 in the tutorial above.

Your issue is really a WPMU<->bbPress integration and has nothing to do with BuddyPress.

It is definitely doable to integrate.

Last time I did it, I used WPMU 2.8.6 (i believe) and latest bbPress (1.0.2).

Might I suggest heading over to the bbPress forums?

https://bbpress.org/forums