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yokima on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

yokima — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:35:43 +0000

ipstenu: it was this http://ciarang.com/posts/mediawiki-with-wordpress and some adjustments:

1. I installed wordpress on /blog and mediawiki on /wiki and bbpress on /talk
-> for this I added an absolute path with the line $WP_relpath='/var/www/html/krcla/blog'; and set the cookies to point to the root folder

2. some others that I can't remember at this point..

The result is that MediaWiki ends up being somewhat heavier than a plain mediawiki, but by redirecting both bbPress and MediaWiki logins to WordPress, I get a single WordPRess login action -> logged in WordPress, bbPress, and two MediaWikis!

C Bog on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

C Bog — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:06:36 +0000

i have spent some time now analyzing the code of bbpress and wordpress.
it seems to me that an update of the old bbpress code (version 0.9.0.4) is unfeasable, because sam already managed to succesfully integrate version 1.0 with wordpress 2.7.1

all you have to do in order to use bbpress alpha with the recent versions of wordpress is to follow the bbpress installation instructions and it will work out of the box.

there is still some work to be done. as far as i can tell, bbpress and wordpess use multiple cookies for multiple paths. the one they share is the one for the root path. so... if you login into wordpress, you won't be logged in into bbpress admin section. this does not happen the other way arround.

it is not recomended though to use the alpha version in production sites. for now, it seems that a downgrade of wordpress would be the best solution.

circuit on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

circuit — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:02:22 +0000

i am running wp 2.7 and bbpress alpha 6 with no issues... not really sure how i did it, but i'll help if i can...

C Bog on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

C Bog — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:51:28 +0000

as far as i can see, by studying the code, wordpress has introduced a salt for hashing the passwords since 2.5
bbpress (my version is 0.9.0.4) has not updated it's functions to include this salt.

the alpha release of bbpress 1.0 seems to take care of this problem, but the file structure, as far as i can see is completely different from the older versions, so a simple copy & paste wouldn't do.

maybe the stable 1.0 release will take care of this issue, but since then (i don't recommend using the alpha version on production web sites) i will try to modify the pluggable.php file of bbpress 0.9.0.4 in order to allow the usage of salts.
i'll be back these days with further details.

Ipstenu on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

Ipstenu — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:59:27 +0000

Sumit1988 has it right.

yokima, how did you share login with MediaWiki and bbPress/Wordpress?

Sumit1988 on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

Sumit1988 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:38:15 +0000

i think i remember, that here in the forum are a lot of threads that says:
WP 2.7 + bbPress 0.xx = Nope!
WP < 2.7 +bbPress 0,xx = yes
and finally
WP 2.7 + bbpress 1.0 = yes

So, either you downgrade your WP or you use the alpha version of BBpress.
You shouldn'T get issues with login then...

yokima on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

yokima — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:35:44 +0000

Ah yes, I did have issues with logout as well. I did however combine it together with MediaWiki shared login so that's pretty good for me so far..

Ashfame on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

Ashfame — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:14:57 +0000

I wasn't able to get WP 2.7 + bbPress 0.9 in sync but when I tried WP 2.7 with bbPress alpha 6, I am able to get a sync but not fully.
Dividing this into 4 cases :

CASE I

Logged in from : WP
Reflected in other : Yes
Logged Out from : WP
Reflected in other : Yes
Complaints : None so far

CASE II

Logged in from : bbP
Reflected in other : Yes
Logged Out from : bbP
Reflected in other : Yes
Complaints : None so far

CASE III

Logged in from : WP
Reflected in other : Yes
Logged Out from : bbP
Reflected in other : No
Complaints : Unable to logout. Doesn't reflect anywhere.

CASE IV

Logged in from : bbP
Reflected in other : Yes
Logged Out from : WP
Reflected in other : No
Complaints : Unable to logout. Doesn't reflect anywhere.

I guess the only problem is that logging out from other than where you logged in doesn't logged you out.

Ashfame on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

Ashfame — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:27:02 +0000

Let me try and get back. < WP 2.7 + bbPress 0.9 >

yokima on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

yokima — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:39:12 +0000

WP 2.7 and bbPress Alpha 6 works fine for me - no issues

Ashfame on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

Ashfame — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:29:46 +0000

Hi Warren
I am working for WP + bbPress for my college website and I will create accounts in one go. There won't be open registrations. I just need to have the functionality of using same login credentials at both place and logged in at both WP & bbPress at the same time. Students will need to login before they can comment on posts on WP. Can I achieve this with WP 2.7 and bbPress 0.9?

WarrenScott on "WordPress 2.7 and bbPress?"

WarrenScott — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:34:22 +0000

bbpress 0.9.0.4 and wordpress 2.7 intregrate but bbpress doesn't hanlde the roles at all. If a user gegisters through wordpress, all is good but if they register through bbpress, they get an "you don't have permission to view this page" when they try to login to wordpress.

I think this should be addressed asap, but as I'm ready through the forums, I see Sam or any other developer has addressed this issue at all. There are some .htaccess 301 redirects and a small code change you can make to redirect users from the bbpress registration page to the wordpress registration page, but in my humble opinion, one should not have to do this because the whole reason to use bbpress with wordpress was the fact that they intregrate.

Bottom line...bbpress needs to update the user roles to that of wordpress user roles period.

levifig on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

levifig — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:01:50 +0000

@josswinn:
Sure, but when is a 1.0 product coming out?? And remember, WP is not bound to bbPress and bbPress is just darn slow! I'm ok with that, but I can't afford using it if that's the case! Every new WP version breaks integration and then there's months before a new version of bbPress comes out... Sorry, not for me!

Don't get me wrong, I love what they got here, but it just doesn't fit me! I'll recommend it to ppl wanting a very lightweight forum with little to no integration with any CMS! Well.. in that case why use bbPress, that's my question!

See? :)

Joss Winn on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

Joss Winn — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:07:24 +0000

Well, I wouldn't be so harsh... It's not even 1.0 software yet and I'm looking to integrate two applications from SVN trunk, ideally using a third-party LDAP plugin :-) I didn't really expect it to work but hopefully reporting my findings might help us along the way...

I've spent enough time on it for now, but will watch for progress and help test with interest.

tomwi on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

tomwi — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:30:23 +0000

yep, very frustrating... i have the same issue whether i use 2.5 and alpha 1 rc2, 2.6 and alpha1 rc2, or 2.7 and alpha 1 rc2.

login to WP, go to BB and click on "Admin" does not go to Admin section - BROKEN
login WP, user stays logged in to WP and BB - WORKS
login to BB, user is not logged into WP - BROKEN

I've tried every integration post on wordpress.org and bbpress.org with no luck. anyone have ideas?

levifig on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

levifig — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:48:23 +0000

@josswinn:
I think we're all on the same boat: accounts shared and... that's about it!

F.R.U.S.T.R.A.T.I.N.G.

I'm starting to wonder if this is actually a worthy open-source project or some project that started with some pretty good intentions and just died out! bbPress is in nooo way related to WP!

Joss Winn on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

Joss Winn — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:43:08 +0000

Just to add to this conversation: I've tried to integrate WPMU Version 2.7-RC1-10145 and bbPress Version 1.0-alpha-2 (both from svn trunk).

User accounts are being shared, user roles are not mapping, cookies are not working.

Anyone else got past this point without a dirty hack for these recent versions?

(On another note, bbPress doesn't seem to want to know about users that are created from LDAP accounts which WPMU is authenticating against. It only recognises locally created accounts). I'm using this nice plugin for LDAP.

levifig on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

levifig — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:21:06 +0000

Again, I posted something here this morning and it's not showing up while it showed up immediately after posting...

Will it show up later? Is it gone forever?

Bottom line: no more bbPress for me!

mvds on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

mvds — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:13:10 +0000

@Nipon: try to log out and then back in again. I bet you it will tell you that the username does not exist!

I had to take out the WP->BBP integration to get that back working.

Nipon on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

Nipon — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:26:48 +0000

@levifig: Well I forgot to add... yes me too lost the wp_user_level on my user id. But in the end, I can't access BB admin though it shows me logged in.

John James Jacoby on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

John James Jacoby — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:41:03 +0000

If you want to check out http://www.delsolownersclub.com, I am running wp2.7rc2 and bbpress1.0a2 right now. Logins are done through WordPress, and if I need to access the bbPress admin, I can login that way privately myself by typing the URL.

Registrations are also forced through WordPress, as I need to use the register plus plugin or the facebook connect plugin to control registrations. All registered users have author access to WordPress, which conventionally is a horrible idea, but for our intentions it works alright. Unfortunately WordPress doesn't automatically give the new user access to the forums because it isn't aware of the roles for it. I have to manually run the map tool in bbPress when a new user registers. Again, it's a small private group of about 90 users or so, and we all know each other.

levifig on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

levifig — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:13:51 +0000

I'm getting annoyed by bbPress already...
Wouldn't post my reply and then posted 3 times and then no way to delete them... :|

levifig on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

levifig — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:12:42 +0000

@Nipon:
I had the same problem. I had to manually add a row to the wp_usermeta table! For some reason, I lost the "wp_user_level" on my user... setting that to "10" fixed the problem! I had full admin rights to the WP install again, while keeping the "keymaster stuff" on wp_capabilities...

Hope it helps...

I'm still struggling with some stuff and wish I didn't have to have my users sign in twice... I might come up with a solution for that or, at least, have the BB login look exactly like my WP's custom login page. I'm actually contemplating of just taking punBB... It's no more of a PITA to install and configure and it's a much better solution!

And I thought bbPress would be better and easier because of being from the same "ecosystem"... I was *sooooo* wrong... ;(

John James Jacoby on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

John James Jacoby — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:10:55 +0000

@Nipon: I had that plug-in installed at one point also, but I'm not sure if it is the culprit or not. I actually installed it hoping that it would pick up on the bbPress roles but it didn't.

If you integrate by modifying the config.php files, you won't be able to access the bbPress admin regardless of where you login from.

If you don't integrate the config.php files, you can access the bbPress admin by logging in ONLY through the forum/bb-login.php.

WordPress just isn't aware of how to assign your session/role the forum admin rights. I am convinced this isn't a cookie issue because all of us seem to have them pretty well synced up, and we're able to login and stay logged in.

Nipon on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

Nipon — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:59:39 +0000

I can login it seems but the bb admin page wont open! I am using role managers plugin... is it to be blamed?

Nipon on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

Nipon — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:38:24 +0000

I did as johnjamesj said (except that i left "secure auth" cookie salt as blank because I don't see it anywhere) I am on wp 2.7rc1 and bb1.0a2. After installing, BB integrated and extracted the wp admin id to assign it the keymaster role. But I could not login in the newly created forum. On the WP side, I was stripped of my admin status and told that I don't have the permissions.. bla bla. After initial panic, I edited wp_capabilities (under wp_usermeta). It was changed by BB to
a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}
I changed it to
a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}
and got back admin powers in wp much to my relief.

But the problem remains, I can't login to BB. Something is seriously wrong.

John James Jacoby on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

John James Jacoby — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:26:16 +0000

@elwagar: Conversely, once they are registered you can assign them a role by going to the bbPress admin, WordPress Integration, and remapping. I feel like a plug-in could help this registration laziness along, but I also think this should just work correctly right away.

I actually had a similar issue years ago integrating phpBB 2.x and osCommerce together, trying to get one to work inside the other with cookies and what-not was a really big problem, one that I never really did get working 100% correctly.

I have no experience with bbPress Live, but it might be worth looking into. CK posted a really nice SQL example on how to grab information without a plug-in, so if you can't get that to work, you could always put in a little manual labor. ;)

eliwagar on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

eliwagar — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:39:43 +0000

I am still kind of fighting with it...what i found was that initially new members added to bbpress via WP don´t get a role assigned...but on publishing their first post they will be assigned the proper role...

As you mentioned bbpress live above: On install it says "not implemented" on the settings screen for the post to WP section. And I can´t get it work either. Is there any secret?

eliwagar on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

eliwagar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:31:23 +0000

:( I have just realized that...Bugfixing can be so frustrating...I will check again tonight...

John James Jacoby on "Integrate wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2"

John James Jacoby — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:14:52 +0000

Have you tried logging in and out of both your WordPress and bbPress installations and accessing both admin panels? I mean each combination each way.

Log into WordPress; Check admin panel access and cookies; Log out of WordPress
Log into bbPress; Check admin panel access and cookies; Log out of bbPress
Log into WordPress; Check admin panel access and cookies; Log out of bbPress
Log into bbPress; Check admin panel access and cookies; Log out of WordPress

That is where the problem lies, and I have been running the most updated trunks of both bbPress and WordPress the entire time. :/