BuddyPress & bbPress integration

BuddyPress general guidance

BuddyPress is the main plugins which provide a social network functionality in Olympus. After you have installed BuddyPress, go to WP Admin > Settings > BuddyPress to make specific settings.

Components

BuddyPress comes with several useful components, each of them has a unique purpose. You can selectively enable any of the components by using the "Component" tab.

Depending on how you want your community to operate, you can select from as many as you want from the following:

Extended Profiles: customize users profiles and configure the available fields.
Account Settings: let your users edit their account settings.
Friend Connections: let users make connections with each other.
Private Messaging: Let users send each other private messages.
Activity Streams: display streams of activity on the site with direct posting to the front-end, threaded commenting, mentions and email notification.
Notifications: select this and your members will receive notifications of recent activity in the way that they select.
User Groups: allow the creation of user groups for people to create their own networks in your community.
Site Tracking: track what’s happening on your site (posts and comments).
BuddyPress Core: it‘s what makes BuddyPress possible!
Community Members: everything in a BuddyPress community revolves around its members.

Options

This tab gives you a number of options for features you can choose to enable or disable. These are:

Main Settings: enable or disable the toolbar at the top of the screen for logged-in users, and specify whether users can delete their account themselves.
Profile Settings: allow members to upload their own profile picture, and sync BuddyPress and WordPress profiles.
Groups Settings: let users create groups, and choose whether to allow customization of group avatars.
Activity Settings: enable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts as well as BuddyPress updates, and auto-referees the activity stream in real-time.

Pages

BuddyPress requires setting up some pages to function properly. You need to map each of BuddyPress components to your site pages. If you haven't created the pages to assign to Buddypress components then go to Pages menu and add them and come back to assign it.

Members page will show all of your site members.
Activity Page shows wide activity from users. This includes messages, comments, friend requests, groups activity, etc
User Groups is used to show the Groups Directory.
Register - this is the page where users can register on your sites.
Activate - activate page is used to confirm an account creation.

rtMedia

Clicking the rtMedia tab will redirect you to plugin`s settings. This plugin adds missing media rich features like photos, videos and audio uploading to BuddyPress which are essential if you are building a social network.

In general, these settings help to fine-tune the integration of rtMedia with BuddyPress.

bbPress general guidance

bbPress is forum software from the creators of WordPress. Easily set up discussion forums inside your WordPress.org powered site.

Forum Settings

For bbPress settings go to WP Admin > Settings > Forums:

Forum admin panel

The Olympus Forum provides by bbPress. This plugin has it own admin panel, so you can manage the separate forums under Forums section, which looks like this: There you can find the topics section, which also comes from bbPress plugin, which helps to manage your forum topics.

Please, refer to the official bbPress site if you have any questions about forums https://bbpress.org/