[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

You used to be able to do that with bbSync, but I have no idea if it will still work in the latest release of bbPress and WordPress.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbsync?replies=214#post-7922

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Would an approach like this work?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/different-backgrounds#post-14452

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Did you see this?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-084-release-date#post-14507

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

1. Yes it’s possible to make bbPress and WordPress look the same.

2. I don’t know about the widgets. I suspect if you include the WordPress functions in bbPress you could probably do that.

3. You probably want to redirect all your bbPress logins through WordPress since the WordPress registration function is more robust.

The level of integration you’re looking for is beyond what most people will help with for free. It’s all possible though (I think: not sure on the widgets since I never used one.)

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

What are you expecting from integration? Integration here means the user information is shared, that’s about it. If you want your bbPress installation to look like your WordPress blog, there is more work to be done. I’m guessing that’s what you’re expecting: you want your forum to look like your blog?

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Here is the WordPress plugin:

http://www.shiftthis.net/wordpress-swift-smtp-plugin/

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

crazlunatic: did you try it? That looks like what you need to do for integration, to me. Oh, except I think you need to do that before you install, so that your user tables are integrated. If you changed that after installation, install again.

Integration next week will be different with the release of WordPress 2.5 and the latest bbPress 0.9.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

rahul286: the false option always works for all servers. The other options work but require some configuration on your end. So, setting it to false is the quickest and easiest way to get going. It’s not a problem with bbPress, it’s a problem with configuration on a lot of servers.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

It looks bad because the path to your style.css is wrong. The stylesheet should be here, but it’s not:

http://vistarewired.com/test2/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

So, where is it really? I suspect the path in the config.php and the URL you are using to access the forum are not the same, and that’s why you see the forum without any styling.

Wait – it’s actually here:

http://vistarewired.com/test2/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

So, in your config you called the directory forums but you actually installed it in the directory bbpress. You need to fix your config.php.

You have this:

$bb->uri = ‘http://vistarewired.com/test2/forums/’;

It needs to be this:

$bb->uri = ‘http://vistarewired.com/test2/bbpress/’;

(or, you can leave the config alone and change the name of the bbpress directory to forums.)

Fix that and everything will look as it should. You may need to do a hard refresh or clear the cache in your browser to see the effect of the changes. CTRL SHIFT R in Firefox.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Your server responds that it DOES support PHP:

(uiserver):u12345678:~ > curl -I www.infotainmentcenter.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:01:32 GMT

Server: Apache

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.1

Try putting this into a file and making it accessible at your domain:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

Save that as info.php and try accessing it http://www.infotainmentcenter.com/info.php . Maybe you will find that the server supports PHP.

If the host does not support PHP, I suggest you get a new host. I have seen forum software that can run with flat files instead of a MySQL database, but none that are done without a scripting language like PHP.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

With integration, you are sharing the wp_users table. Even if bbPress and WordPress are in different databases, there is going to be some shared data – that’s what the integration does. So having bbPress and WordPress in different databases doesn’t actually help with that. If you have them in the same database, just drop the bb_ tables and edit the users to remove any bbPress users. I don’t think using different databases helps you down the road.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

–Benjamin Franklin

I hope you were making changes with each subsequent installation. If so, what did you try?

Try setting permalinks to false instead of true or slugs, in your config.php, like this:

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

If that works, then it’s a pretty permalinks issue.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

What plugins are you using? And, is one of them, “Admin Can Post Anything”?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/apostrophe-issue

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

It can be done with PHP.

I’ve never done the random thing, but the Cutline theme for WordPress offers this functionality. You can read about it here:

http://cutline.tubetorial.com/totally-random-header-images-for-cutline/

I think you could adapt that for your uses.

In WordPress, for a specific background tied to a specific page, I just do something like this in header.php:

<div id="container" style="background: #fff url('<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/<?php echo $post->ID; ?>.jpg') left top no-repeat;">

That gives the container div the background image of the post ID.jpg, so if you were viewing post 52, you would have a background image of 52.jpg. You could easily adapt this to bbPress calls by using the forum number and $forum_id, whichever div you want a background for (#wrapper or #main?) and then the proper location of your images (whether they are stored in your template folder or your forum root or something.) It fails OK too since there is a color code for the background and that is used if the image cannot be found (I think that’s what happens anyway.)

Let me know if that makes sense. This is how I’ve done it in WordPress, but the same approach will work for bbPress I think.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Maybe all the cool kids are at SXSW?

I would offer to help but I know zero about integration at the level you’re looking for. I think it’s probably been covered here in the forums, but I don’t have any first hand experience you I hesitate to point you to any posts.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Please contact me at an email listed on the website linked to my profile here, or just google my screen name. I’m not hard to find.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

I didn’t actually see your forum, so I’m not sure. I don’t think so though – you have to do some more work to get that level of integration. If you browse threads tagged integration here, you will see lots of tips.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Since it’s a WordPress plugin, log into your WordPress admin panel, Plugins > bbPress. That’s where you enter your bbPress table prefix.

This is the URL once you’re logged in.

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?page=bbpress-integration

Replace example.com with your domain and you should end up right where you need to be.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Looks like your blog is fine, but bbPress is not. Assuming you’re using the same database for both, then the connection details should be the same, other than the name of the constants (BBDB_ for bbPress instead of DB_ for WordPress – if you copied the whole section over, the constant names would be wrong.)

It’s hard to troubleshoot these things remotely since someone needs to be able to log into your control panel to see the actual connection details, then view and edit your config.php to make sure the settings are the same. Without trusting someone with that info, you’re going to have a hard time finding help for the problem.

P.S. please don’t post the connection details here.

P.P.S. you can contact me directly using any email found on the site linked in my profile, or just google my name (screen name or real name, matters not). I will be glad to help off-list.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress. There are forum plugins for WordPress if that’s what you’re looking for.

Here are a couple. I have no experience with them, I just know they exist.

http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/simple-forum/

http://www.fahlstad.se/wp-plugins/wp-forum/

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Please start a new thread.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

BTW – great idea for a forum.

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Nice to see you working on it

I think it’s a rewrite problem, somehow. When you access the page 2 & page 3 the “old way” they come up:

http://justintadlock.com/forums/forum/forum.php?id=1&page=2

http://justintadlock.com/forums/forum/forum.php?id=1&page=3

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

I wonder if the forums/forum/ is messing things up? Slug based permalinks seem to be working fine.

You can add a line to your config.php to enable debugging and see some additional info which might help. This will be displayed at the top of your forum page:

REQUEST_URI:

should be:

full permalink:

PATH_INFO:

 

Set this in config.php, after the database connection details.

$bb->debug = 1;

[@chrishajer Participant 18 years ago]

Right now, there is a problem with the config.php. It’s really messed up. I can see the source of that file. Looks like it was edited improperly. It begins with this <!--p when it should begin with this <?php.

I suggest you contact someone local you can trust who can help you get this up and running.

It looks like the host supports PHP so that shouldn’t be a problem.