bbPress Support Forums » Topic: Is bbPress going to merge with BuddyPress? http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-bbpress-going-to-merge-with-buddypress bbPress Support Forums » Topic: Is bbPress going to merge with BuddyPress? en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:02:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 r-a-y on "Is bbPress going to merge with BuddyPress?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-bbpress-going-to-merge-with-buddypress#post-63146 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:34:03 +0000 r-a-y 63146@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Chris is right; bbPress is included in BuddyPress already, although there are some limitations:
- most, if not all, bbPress plugins need to be ported over to BuddyPress
- there's no bbPress backend in BuddyPress

Also, is there a way of converting bbPress to BuddyPress?

Basically, you'll need to create groups in BuddyPress and then determine which bbPress posts fit which groups.

Read what CUNY Commons did - http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/12/06/upgrading-from-buddypress-1-0-to-1-1/. Specifically the "Dealing with bbPress forums" section.

]]> chrishajer on "Is bbPress going to merge with BuddyPress?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-bbpress-going-to-merge-with-buddypress#post-63144 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:55:16 +0000 chrishajer 63144@http://bbpress.org/forums/ From what I understand, bbPress is basically already included in BuddyPress.

From here: http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-09-meetup/

[13:55] <jjj> junsuijin is right again. Frankly apeatling has already made bbPress a plugin, it's just part of BuddyPress that includes all of the extra social things that forums have; profiles, pms, friends, etc...

[13:56] <apeatling> If the integration code is extracted from BuddyPress and moved into bbPress then we could get it integrating with one click tomorrow.
[13:56] <apeatling> it's not a lot of code

So maybe it's not really truly inside BuddyPress already, but parts of it are. I don't use BuddyPress so I can't comment first hand, just repeat what I've seen elsewhere.

]]> josh16 on "Is bbPress going to merge with BuddyPress?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-bbpress-going-to-merge-with-buddypress#post-63140 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:44:39 +0000 josh16 63140@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Or is it going to stay a separate project and hopefully improve? I was just wondering because I'm planning on switching to BuddyPress since it already has most of the same characteristics as bbPress, almost like it's built-in.

And will the bbPress project continue and hopefully gain more attention from the Automattic folks soon?

Also, is there a way of converting bbPress to BuddyPress?

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