[chrishajer]

Hopefully you have a database backup since that will be the easiest way to fix this. If you used the same database prefix for WordPress and your bbPress installation, bbPress tried to install into some existing WordPress tables.

Here is a list of the tables created by both packages:

bbPress tables:



forums

meta

posts

terms

term_relationships

term_taxonomy

topics

users

usermeta



WordPress tables:

terms

term_taxonomy

term_relationships

comments

links

options

postmeta

posts

users

usermeta

From that list, it looks like the following tables have the same names in bbPress and WordPress:

posts

terms

term_relationships

term_taxonomy

users

usermeta

So, if you used the same prefix, I think bbPress would just happily write into those tables. I’ve never done it, so I’m not certain, but I think that’s what would happen.

I guess it’s possible also that it just leaves the existing WordPress tables alone, but the tables are not usable in bbPress, so there could be weirdness. It’s also possible that bbPress tries to alter the tables and fails in some places, making the table unusable for bbPress and probably WordPress.

It’s easiest to just replace the database with a recent backup. If you don’t have that, then you will have to look at the database directly with a tool like phpMyAdmin and see exactly what happened.