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When configuring BuddyPress I have an option to use an existing BBPress installation; if I choose to do so, will it import all the users who signed up for that forum and make them BuddyPress users?

Sorry if this is obvious, I Googled around and couldn’t find anything, and the Codex doesn’t always load today.

[Xevo]

I am also curious about what the difference is between using an existing install and using one by the buddypress rules.

Will I keep a normal forum and will I get the group forums if I use an existing install or will it convert a normal forum to group forums only like the one click install does?

[John James Jacoby]

There is no conversion, and there is no import.

With versions of BuddyPress previous to 1.1, bbPress was an external library, meaning it was integrated with an XMLRPC bridge but was never included in the core of BuddyPress. This meant that bbPress could technically be anywhere and BuddyPress could still get at it, but it also meant that it was more difficult to integrate and make play nicely together.

Only use the existing bbPress installation option if you used a version of BP older than 1.1, or you had a separate installation of bbPress that still shared the user tables with an existing WPMU/BuddyPress installation.

Check the forums codex entry for more info: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/