Yes, if I remember correctly, groups are created as forums internally in bbPress and are sub-ordinate or children of a parent forum created by BuddyPress. When you’re done with your import, you can easily move out all of the forums from that parent and do a recount. Sorry for the late reply. 
I tried to do this and buddypress won’t let me integrate them– it looks for a bb-config file which apparently does not exist. Ideas?
Thanks BJ!
Unfortunately, though, that didn’t work for me. I still can’t access my templates on the admin page that creates forums, so I still can’t add a widgetized sidebar on the forum pages.
Sigh.
I found a problem,
I have a WP Multisite installation and when i log-in and log-out the redirect ends up on a 404 page. (only on WP multi sites)
http://localhost.sites/example.nl/members/example.nl/members/?loggedout=true
I’m just testing offline at the moment.
http://localhost.sites/example.nl/ <– WordPress homepage
http://localhost.sites/example.nl/members/ <– 2nd WordPress site (WPMU) with bbPress forum.
This is what i did and worked for me.
I do have a WP Multi-site installation but i don’t think it’s different on a normal WP install.
*My root
wp-content > themes > <first theme> <second theme> <twenty ten> <twenty eleven>
First theme is the theme i was using on my WordPress website.
After that i created an empty folder called second theme
I copy-/pasted all files from the bbPress plugin folder into the empty second theme folder i just created.
From:
*plugins > bbpress > bbp-themes > bbp-twetyten > All files and folders from here (without the bolded bbp-twentyten folder)
Now if you go into your style.css in the second theme folder you see that this one is empty and it says it will call the css > bbpress.css from the functions.php file. <– now also inside that second theme folder.
But at the top of this style.css file you see some theme info it just looks like some regular junk-talk (theme info) but it really isn’t junk-talk but very important, at the last line of code it says template name: (twenty ten) (if i remember correct) If you change that to (first theme) in my case and save it you’re done.
Now it will load first theme as a main theme and second theme as your child theme (with your bbPress files inside)
It’s very cool because if you add a new page from your admin you can also pick different bbPress page templates.
Example, you can create a new page and add from the template drop down menu (right-side sidebar) the login bbPress page template and you will get a login-page.
This is all i did and it worked out for me, the add theme support function i never added because it’s also inside the functions.php file in your second theme folder.
Hope this will help somebody here.
I’m very excited to use this great tool, but I would second what BJ and Dagnabbit said immediately above.
My child theme already has a functions.php file. Copying all the files from the /bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten folder, as instructed, would overwrite the existing child theme’s functions.php file. How should we integrate them?
My goal is just to be able to put bbpress widgets in the sidebar of only my site’s forum pages. I think I need to create a template that uses a special sidebar for this. Right now, when I create forums in the admin section, I can’t access any of my other templates.
Thanks!
That did not work. I updated the bbpress/bbpress.php file to clear the cache.
After messing around with the bbpress settings, and then restoring it back to what I had it at originally.
I am not getting this displayed on the pages that weren’t loading all the way.
Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /hermes/bosweb26c/b2552/ipg.cwilson/DOMAIN.com/wp-content/themes/techblog/functions.php on line 41
Hello, i’m french boy
I have installed plugin Forum bbpress in my WordPress website
and i have created more than 50 Forums, 79 forums
but i see in my page forum 50 forums ?
how i can do for to see more than 50 forums ?
Thanks
Which, I assume would be copying the existing shortcode function, modifying it to see fit.
Thank you…
So it’s a hook for WordPress and other plugins to work into this bbPress form..
You could create your own custom shortcode that does it.
Adding an action is add_action(‘bbp_template_notices’, ‘funciton_name’);
I used this bbp_template_notices action hook to print my post toolbar in earlier versions of the plugin. This is because I noticed that the do_action(‘bbp_template_notices’); was (in bbp-twentyten) near the post form, so each time the post form is displayed, the template notices action is run and the post toolbar is displayed.
InterMike,
Your site is awesome.
Can I ask which theme template you are using to integrate buddypress and bbpress?
Thanks!
I have a PHP class for jDate but I saw something in the core cause of that I asked. Now I must make a plugin for jDate
But your Docs are not very good and it’s hard to make it!
About regrading, you made vr.2 a plugin cause of that I get mistake 
We will wait! but if you add Automatic Update to bbPress for the first step it will be intresting! Can we port the WP one tp bbP?
امیرسام
I don’t see anything in bbPress core regarding jDate, and am unfamiliar with what it is. PHP has some jd functions for handling/converting Julian dates, but I’m afraid I cannot teach you PHP – it must be learned.
Regarding bbPress 1.0/1.1, we are still actively creating/supporting/maintaining all previous versions. Thanks for the offer, but we have everything under control.
Ditto here; same issue.
I’m a WP newbie and also recently installed the wonderful bbPress plugin. I too noticed that the subscription / notify feature doesn’t seem to work. I know that my WP instance is able to send email–I’m getting comment and registration emails.
As @ BJ, I found myself confused as well from reading the instructions. I have just recently assumed you move everything except the functions and css files. But would you add the functions or css o your existing files?
Clarification in the installation instructions would be great for those of us who are unsure.
Looking forward to getting this to all work. I have Buddypress 1.5 with the track template files for that running pretty well. I will be looking to integrate bbpress 2.0 with that.
Very glad to see both of these plugins come together after such a long time.
Nice work to those who make this happen.
Jay
It’s also worth noting that you need to make sure and create your own bbP theme if you are going to modify it.
If you edit the core theme that is inside the bbPress plugin directory you will lose all your customizations next time you update.
i’m trying to do the same thing right now. looks like you’re going to have to search through each PHP file in the bbPress theme and remove the following code:
<?php get_sidebar)(); ?>
it’s the only way that i can think of… which is neither fast nor easy. 
WR!
Have you tried it in bbPress?
Just wondering
If i want to add bbPress to my own theme, this topic tells me to add the add_theme_support( 'bbpress' ); to my functions.php <– the functions of my own WordPress theme.
Because if you copy-/paste the files from the bbPress plugins folder to my wp-content > themes > theme folder it also has a functions.php file.
What about two functions.php ?
Same as above i would like to see a codex how to use those all PHP codes.
I often can understand the WP Codex and build unique themes because i can view the codex and work thing out.
Now i would like to create my own bbPress theme and forum layout-/display but i don’t have a codex to view what options i can use.
Shortcodes are great but not the most flexible.
I see, you are using shortcodes, so my idea doesn’t work then.
Personally, I like to have complete control over every template in my theme, so I bring over all the bbpress files into my current theme and modify from there.
As I don’t use shortcodes, I’ll have to let someone else chime in and help you out.
My first guess is that when you copied over the bbpress theme into your current theme that you ended up copying over the style.css and functions.php file?
If so, that would explain why you can’t see your theme to activate it in the admin.
*The style.css file tells wp what theme it is, so if you copied the bbpress theme css over your own, then there ya go…
Hi,
Is there a way to make the shortcode [bbp-topic-index] displaying only a certain amount of topics ?
Something like [bbp-topic-index n=$number]
Thank you,
Sulliwane.
ps: your plugin is just awsome…really awsome, thank you so much
