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Thanks gentlemen!

Update:

Mostly working except unable to create BP groups and my BP theme menu code is not picking up that it is on a sub.domain, working manually until I get php help for the BP theme menu. I think my solution might break the menu code in the BP theme.

BP Group create seems to work and shows sub.domain in button URL when creating a BP Group but group never gets created, looks like it is about to happen or did happen actually, but no group?

Solution thus far:

I installed BuddyPress on a second blog id on a fresh install as instructed by BuddyPress at their website. I then integrated bbPress internally not using stand-alone conversion, see below*.

Simple:Press is installed on my main blog id, WPMU, and main site. Wildcard domains are in place and running smoothly.

It all looks like it should work and a php fix for the BP theme is fine as it probably wasn’t created to be on a sub-blog but BP was!

Simple:Press is rolling along just fine, still changed slugs and page names but each forum is in a different bog id!

Checked users settings, dashboards all work; everything looks fine except for BP theme menu missing the wildcard domain (manually works fine through address bar) and an acceptable irritation.

What is blocking BP Group creation though it looks like it was created?  Groups never appear?

I don’t think it is Simple:Press?!

Plan:

Double check settings one last time.

Remove Simple:Press – check issue, if not the problem, start over but base bbPress on the stand alone method, not BP internal. Check BP/bbPress before installing Simple:Press and see if it doesn’t work before, that’s where I messed up, I don’t know the chain of where what fails.

Input is appreciated!

*As Yellow Swordfish stated bbPress and Simple:Press fit different needs (you are the first to say so that I’ve read), I’ll address Mr Papas question too:

What they have done with BuddyPress/bbPress is… weird but cool. You can install either/both and run them separately, they are not dependent on each other.

If I decide to integrate them I have to choose now:

1. Create a typical forum in the traditional sense with shared WP user credentials (handy). A full standalone bbPress forum but no integration with BuddyPress, just shared log-in creds.

or

2. Let BuddyPress integrate and literally consume the standalone forum meaning you lose the true forum permanently (no choice), they even recommend deleting all but the config file from the once stand alone bbPress install.

You can even bypass dealing with the standalone bbPress install because assuming you are doing a fresh install, BuddyPress has a forum feature utilizing bbPress internally … after BuddyPress is installed, click the “Install bbPress” feature, optional.

So yes, no more forum but forum like features for BuddyPress Groups, only!

Think of the confusion for existing bbPress users on an active board, very different paradigm.

I was going crazy trying to decide and couldn’t figure out why everyone seemed so keen on losing a site wide forum for a group forum and no one seems to have discussed what I’m trying.

My solution would be nice, a church for example would have a main site and regular template on the home page plus a site wide Simple:Press forum. BuddyPress/bbPress focus on groups, installed just off the main blog, which can even create a shared blog and a mini sub-forum.

Kind of makes Simple:Press more important because you have a public forum and your internal users can play out of the way keeping the mess off the main forum, pretty cool.

I narrowed it down, seems that BuddyPress is having an issue with *domains and writing to the db/path but only BuddyPress. I am having a hard time logging into the BuddyPress Forum but thought I would let you know that it looks very likey this can be done. Working on domain issue.