You can search the forum for dreamhost and see what other people’s experience has been, but according to this post from a year ago, it appears to work OK.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/weird-permalink-problem#post-2304
The allow images plugin is the one you need (the attachments one just allows attachments to posts).
Did you activate it?
People will need to have the image posted somewhere before they can insert it into their post. It can be a flickr URL, Photobucket, ImageShack, Picasa, whatever, so long as the image is publicly available on the Internet. Once the image is accessible on the Internet, they just need to insert the HTML to embed the image. the img tag will look like this:
<img src="http://www.flickr.com/whatever.jpg" />
If you post a URL to your forum, someone can try it to see what’s happening.
You can do those things with plugins.
Images:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/allow-images/
Admin can post anything (like video):
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/admin-can-post-anything/
Attachments:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/
Look around, search the forum, you’ll probably find people have already asked about the things you’re asking about.
I’m not sure, which is why I said “I think.”
Take a look at the user tables and see if there is something there that will affect logins. I’m quite possibly wrong. You could also try a test installation using the same procedure you’ve already used, but add the shared user table, and see what happens.
Always, always always validate first when you’re troubleshooting layout issues:
HTML
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.undercoverlawyer.com%2Fforum%2F
CSS
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.undercoverlawyer.com%2Fforum%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en
Fix issues that are described there. Some, like missing alt tags, are not going to have an impact on layout. I have found layout problems are almost always due to a div being closed to early or not at all.
I think that is a case of mixing an array ($title[]) with a string ($title). Somewhere, $title is being used as a string, and this piece of code wants to use it as the array $title[].
Glad you got it working. Hack away.
Depends on what you mean by embed, and how much work you consider cumbersome. I don’t think it works too well to put bbPress into an iframe in your website. But other sorts of integration work just fine. There’s nothing special (that I know of) that makes WordPress integration any different than the presentation in any other website.
I think you would have to integrate the user tables for that to happen.
I don’t think you can do a case without a switch first. Something like this:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Title Modifier
Author: Matt George
*/
add_filter('bb_title', 'titlemodify');
function titlemodify( $title ) {
//your code that does something to $title;
switch ( bb_get_location() ) {
case 'topic-page':
$title[] = get_topic_title();
break;
}
return $title;
}
?>
WordPress.com says this about the keys:
“Please use your own API Key and don’t ever share your API it is like a password for you 
“
I don’t know about advantages or disadvantages for using the same key. I used to use the same key for all sites, but now I get a new key for each site (which is a big pain). I haven’t noticed a performance difference one way or the other.
This is an old post, but the concept still applies:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/title-tags#post-9045
bb_title is the function you need to override with a plugin, such as this one. To see what bb_title and bb_get_title do, take a look at bb-includes/template-functions.php starting around line 305 (in version 0.9.0.2).
I doubt it has anything to do with subversion.
What revision did you check out? I think the trunk release is probably broken (I could be wrong, but I still wouldn’t use it in production) so I would check out tags/0.9.0.2/instead of trunk:
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/tags/0.9.0.2/
To link your bbPress forum to WordPress, follow this:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/link-to-forum-from-wordpress#post-15981
Create a new Page in WordPress. When you do that, the page is assigned a slug, which is basically the URL it will be accessed at. If you want http://www.example.com/forum/ , you create a new page called “Forum”. That page will appear in your WordPress navigation. Then install bbPress into a directory on your server, one directory lower than WordPress, called forum, and when someone accesses that URL, they get your forum.
They will never use the same administration pages.
Explain more please. What are you trying to do?
bbPress requires MySQL 4.0 minimum. I think 3.23 is too low:
https://bbpress.org/about/requirements/
This does not answer your question (sorry, I don’t have integration on that level) but there was a discussion of this recently:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-little-rant-about-bbpress-followed-by-some-questions#post-16722
While it’s easy to do it like this, by including the WordPress in your bbPress config, it’s not really recommended. It’s quick to do but a lot of overhead as explained by Sam Bauers (one of the developers.)
I don’t think those integration instructions apply any more. For example, there is no plugin necessary any longer.
Did you try just installing and see how it goes? Install WordPress first, then bbPress. Use WordPress 2.5.1 and bbPress 0.9.0.2 and integration will be no problem.
Once you get basic integration going, you can work on getting bbPress to look like WordPress if that is important to you.
> Yes, but you can see it does not survive on my forum.
Right you are
Name bbpress_[snipped]
Value chrishajer%7C[snipped]
Host www.dvdvideosoft.com
Path /forums/
Secure No
Expires At End Of Session
I just noticed there is no box at this forum either.
1. Cool (thank you), 2. Good, 3. Awesome.
I forgot two other things which may or may not apply with current versions of bbPress. Include the my-plugins and my-templates folders, empty if necessary. Then it sort of makes sense when people are looking and thinking “where do I put this plugin?”
Not sure if the my-* folders are still necessary or if everything goes into bb-* folders now.
There was one more item, but I have lost the thought. Maybe it will come back to me later.
EDIT: oh yeah. Why not include the code for search in the template, just commented out? I know there is one camp for tags and one for search, but people asking how to add search is a fairly common thing too. It’s built in, so why not just put it in the template, and comment it out if you don’t want to default to having it turned on?
Why not something like:
<?php
/* uncomment this to show the search box
search_form( $q );
*/ ?>
finalwebsites: The login cookie should survive closing the browser window, shouldn’t it? I think mine works like that.
Sam, that’s a good point. Thanks.
I would say that the number one request is for people to make their bbPress look like their WordPress. Lots of people are just using a WordPress template they found, so they’re not really up for customizing bbPress, since they really didn’t customize WordPress in the first place.
If there were an easy way to make their bbPress look like their WordPress it would answer a lot of requests. I think that’s why people are sometimes drawn to a WordPress forum plugin, since then it’s just a WordPress page and it looks like the rest of their site.
1. Make bbPress look just like the WordPress it’s integrated with.
2. Make the logins work in both places (with proper roles and capabilities.)
3. .htaccess with mod_rewrite rules, out of the box, for permalink support.
With those three things, the number of support requests per day here would go down dramatically.
Not sure which versions you’re running, but cookies are compatible in bbPress 0.9.0.2 and WordPress 2.5.1. They changed the cookie hash method. If the changeset is equivalent to 2.5.1 (my /tags/2.5.1 WordPress installation is changeset 7835) then the cookies should work, so long as you’re using bbPress 0.9.0.2.
What bbPress version are you using?
A fatal error would normally be a PHP fatal error. Do you have access to PHP logs to see what the trouble might be? If not, you can set up some custom logging.
And, are you running WordPress as well? Which version, if so.
That doesn’t happen in my 0.9.0.2 installation. Maybe it’s a cookie problem, since that is how bbPress knows you’re already logged in (via a cookie.)
Need more information on your installation. Can you post a link to your forum so others can try it?
