BuddyPress.org

There are numerous threads on this.

The basic steps are:

1) install an external version of bbPress

2) integrate it with WP(MU)

3) setup your forum categories in this external bbPress

3) theme it to match your site

(can’t see the elance site – login required – so i don’t know what exactly the request is)

As @r-a-y mentioned – a theme’d “external” bbPress to match BuddyPress is how this current site works.

FWIW: BuddyPress wraps the “internal” bbPress and is pared-down down for group-only interaction. Even though you may see the fullset bbPress files and such (ie getting to the bb-admin via hacks, etc) many of those features/functions are disabled inside the BuddyPress context. Obviously making any sort of “backdoor” changes to the internal bbPress will not have any impact on the BuddyPress group forums. This includes adding new nongroup forums, categories, parents, bb-admin settings, etc…

In theory it is possible to display nongroup forums – just a plugin/component/themes files need to be built with that functionality.

Its working here: https://buddypress.org/forums/ <- how did they do that? Its exactly what iam searching for

Answered twice in this thread already:

As @r-a-y mentioned – a theme’d “external” bbPress to match BuddyPress is how this current site works.

I still think you’re confusing the internal bbPress version bundled with BP with external bbPress:

https://bbpress.org/download

Because you want to use an external version of bbPress, you would not configure bbPress through the BuddyPress admin area.

You would install an external version of bbPress and then create your forum categories there.

You also need to theme external bbPress to match your BP install.

Also, you need to create a nav button somewhere on your BP theme so people know where your external forums reside.

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Btw, I edited the topic title to be more clear.

Working on this already, got avatars and some other things inside bbpress already, working on getting bbpress into buddypress’ activity stream.

Not planning on doing that, would be useless, I’m just planning to add a function that triggers when placing a post/topic and send that into buddypress’ tables, replacing the standard group forum entries.

This would mean that you won’t be able to use buddypress group forums anymore, but personally.. I don’t need them.

@ Dainismichel

I’m not following, what do you mean by “main themes”? Do you mean main categories/subfora?

What I mean is, I already created Main Themes in the bbPress admin area, but they aren’t appearing in BuddyPress…the last issue for me, as I understand this situation is “what code do I need to put in which BuddyPress file to make the Main Themes appear in my forum section.”

Man, this issue is getting SO SUPER OLD…can someone come step up to the plate?

Members are trying to help and have provided a few explanations on the issue of bbpress <-> buddypress. (in other threads too)

Ha! Well I’d have to understand the problem clearly first

I’m still confused if his end goal is external bbpress <-> buddypress theme’d (like buddypress.org) or custom plugin to display external bbpress categorization (main themes) within buddypress on the /forums/ component page (similar to what i did with group forums extras and the forum index subplugin – example: http://etivite.com/forums/ )

BuddyPress restricts its own functions to a parent_id (BP_FORUMS_PARENT_FORUM_ID) so no internal bp functions will pull out external bbpress forums.

But – you can call some internal bbPress functions if bb_init is invoked. Not all will work (due to various linking issues or meta table stuff) but some will get you the info you need.

(example: http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-remove-change-avatar-link-under-profile-if-avatar-upload-is-disabled/ note the “tags” section on the topic – this is actually calling a bbpress function but i had to rework the linking)

So given that… if we look at the bb-template/front-page.php we see the bb_forums() loop. and if you have an external bbPress hooked up… then just plug this code into buddypress/theme/forums/index.php

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e('Forums'); ?></h2>

<table id="forumlist">



<tr>

<th><?php _e('Main Theme'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Topics'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Posts'); ?></th>

</tr>

<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>

<?php if (bb_get_forum_is_category()) : ?>

<tr<?php bb_forum_class('bb-category'); ?>>

<td colspan="3"><?php bb_forum_pad( '<div class="nest">' ); ?><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a><?php forum_description( array( 'before' => '<small> – ', 'after' => '</small>' ) ); ?><?php bb_forum_pad( '</div>' ); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php continue; endif; ?>

<tr<?php bb_forum_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_forum_pad( '<div class="nest">' ); ?><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a><?php forum_description( array( 'before' => '<small> – ', 'after' => '</small>' ) ); ?><?php bb_forum_pad( '</div>' ); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_topics(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</table>

<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>

BUT – the links are borked if it pulls up an internal bbpress group forum (so check is required for BP_FORUMS_PARENT_FORUM_ID and use the buddypress forum link function ) otherwise the links point to the configuration which the internal bbpress is using (which should be the same as an external bbpress install)

hopefully i confused everyone a bit more