[chrishajer]

Once you have a wordpress.com username and password, you log in at wordpress.com and there is spot to retrieve your key. WordPress.com looks all different to me today, but the key is stored in there somewhere. Just look around.

Once you have that, enter it in your config.php and start blocking spam.

[rosebud]

I am having problems with the character encoding of my bbpress install. I have it integrated with wordpress and when I use the “Latest bbpress discussions” plugin I see the weird characters you get when you mix collations and charsets.

I have wordpress in utf-8 thanks to this plugin: utf8 dtaabase converter.

Before it I had it set to utf but still, the database was showing weird characters (the collation was alright though). So this is probably a MySQL problem somewhere.

Should I try to adapt the wordpress utf8 converter for bbpress?

[ajd777]

This is a little off-topic, but iif you are getting that much spam, you may consider looking at Bad Behavior

It blocks spambots before they can add content to the database.

[ganzua]

I’d like to add the same tool bar in all my web forms (by the way, it is up with bbpress), tinyMCE, fckeditor… whatever, but the same in all bbpress – wordpress forms.

Is it possible? so far I only was able of displaying tinyMCE in wp with a plugin.

[wsokc]

Inspiring from Gravatar plugin in WordPress, I try to find a work around to port that plugin to bbPress plugin, so I dont need to host image avatar files for each user.

Is there anyone had done this before ?

[rfleigh]

i dont understand what “define USER_BBDB_NAME, USER_BBDB_USER, USER_BBDB_PASSWORD, and USER_BBDB_HOST” means..

here is my config.php file. please let me know if this is correct.

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘USER_BBDB_NAME’, ‘XXXXX’); // The name of the database

define(‘USER_BBDB_USER’, ‘XXXXX’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘USER_BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘XXXXXX’); // …and password

define(‘USER_BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘XXXXX’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘XXXXXX’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘XXXXXX’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://richardfleigh.com/richardfleigh/bbpress/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Richards new bbpress site’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘richard@mediosone.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = -5;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ”; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://blog.richardfleigh.com/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://blog.richardfleigh.com/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

[ajd777]

I’m working on a project that calls for a seamless integration of the two with all the bbPress functions available in WordPress and vise-versa. I have finished nearly everything including adding the bbPress admin menu items to the WordPress panel.

However, the items don’t actually display because when WordPress checks to see if users can access them, the roles, such as “moderator” aren’t listed.

Is there a way, in bbPress, to just get a list of the current users capabilities, so it can be filtered into the WordPress list? The project requires that it be done entirely through plugins.

[Andrew]

Ah, you were right. With pretty permalinks off it works. Now I have to figure out how to get bbPress to play nice with WordPress. Hmm.

Thanks much!

[_ck_]

The /~username is known to mess up both wordpress and bbpress permalinks. If you are trying to run that way permanently that way it will require some hacks.

You might be able to setup the username as subdomain if you know what you are doing and get around the problem ie.

username.example.com

Or there might still be some decent free subdomain services around, unsure – you could use one to park onto of your account and then run that way to solve your problem.

[fabianzaf]

Probably wont work but try making

$bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl both “http://www.subventions.fr/wordpress&#8221;

[adriengeille]

After a few tests it seems the problem comes from the last paragraph

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.subventions.fr&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.subventions.fr/wordpress&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->cookiedomain = ‘.subventions.fr’;

define(‘WP_BB’, true);

require_once(‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

Where is the error guys?

[bobbyh]

I had a user write a post with this title:

This creates a post like this:

* http://www.kosmosity.com/forums/topic/?replies=1#post-2

I’m using the “slug” option on this test forum which uses the default theme and bbPress 0.8.2.1. It looks like the is being sanitized to “” (an empty string), which confuses bbPress and leads to that topic resolving to an error page. On the test forum to which I just linked, I have no plugins except WordPress Integration.

Has anybody else run into this bug? Is there an existing workaround? If other people can replicate this bug, I’ll create a ticket in Trac. Also, if there’s no existing workaround, I’ll try to create a plugin workaround.

Thanks,

Bob

[fabianzaf]

Actually… that wasnt such an elegant solution @_@ If logged in it redirects me to the control panel.. and when I access bbpress directly it still redirects Maybe its because I dont have an ifelse going on.. not sure.

Out of curiosities sake.. isnt there a way I can disable the wordpress control panel for subscribers and have them redirect to the bbpress profile page? That would be awesome…

>_>

[_ck_]

Well vbulletin is king-of-the-hill for a reason, many years of development, but it costs, costs, costs for everything.

But like I keep trying to suggest around here, bbpress’s easiest audience will be wordpress users, then next anyone who wants a more custom forum that doesn’t just have a vertical “brick” style.

In any case, if you poke around here you’ll discover there are have a dozen hacks and plugins you will need to make wordpress and bbpress work together more perfectly, but they are available and “proven” at this point. Look for the integration tag. I’ve been meaning to try to put them altogether in one post but keep getting distracted with stuff like paying the bills so the lights (and computer!) stay on… LOL

Forcing all logins through wordpress is possible (I do it on two sites now) but it requires a little bit of core hacks, which means the next time you upgrade it will have to be hacked again.

Forced login for entirely member only forums is also very possible, I believe there is a specific plugin or hack around here for it.

[Null]

This aint wordpress and yes everything has te be done offline

[baduist3]

Am i missing something?

I’m used to edit themes in WordPress through the admin panel, is it not possible for bbPress -do i have to edit offline?

[fabianzaf]

Hey folks,

Wow.. I don’t even know what to say.. when I stumbled on this I felt like bashing my head against my desk repeatedly. As an avid user of Vbulletin for about 2 years+ and spending hundreds of dollars for plugins and the package itself; bbpress.. being opensource and not even at version 1 makes VB look like a crock of shit!

I’ve been using WordPress on a couple of my sites and have tried to find something that can be well integrated with my favourite blogging software ^^

I’m completely inlove with WordPress and BBpress.. all that is left is to complete the integration. So far I’ve got it to share users.

What I need to know now is how I can get BBpress to use wp-login and whether I can get BBpress to be locked down with this WordPress plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registered-only/

Shot,

Fab.

[_ck_]

I ported GamerZ’s useronline plugin for wordpress to bbpress awhile back. Been meaning to clean it up and release it one day.

It can not only count members and guests but since it keeps a list of the top bots, it can track those seperately. It also tracks where the users are (last browsed). So I have that working across a wordpress/bbpress install.

Actually, knowing my style, I will rewrite it from scratch at some point to work a little cleaner. I don’t like how it discards the data after the timeout period which loses valuable information about the user’s last activity before leaving.

It’s always bothered me that wordpress/bbpress doesn’t even natively track the last time a user logged in, only when the account was originally created, so you can’t even tell how dormant the account is.

I’ll probably bundle this with my ip2country routines so we can have pretty country flags next to member avatars as well as a list of what countries are currently visiting the forum.

[Elias]

I found something that can help to fix this bug. In the following I use wordpress_ as prefix for my WP tables.

My wordpress_usermeta table has 65 rows, and 65 users are displayed now in the bbPress dashboard. It seems to be a wrong SQL statement for querying the number of users.

Instead of the (by me assumed) select count(*) from wordpress_usermeta there should be used either select count(*) from wordpress_users or select count(distinct user_id) from wordpress_usermeta to get the number of users.

(Oh yes, I know that there will be a where-clause…)

I suspect line 2046 in bb-includes/functions.php, but I’m not familar with the source.

[Elias]

I use bbPress 0.8.2.1 for a small forum. My user table is shared with a wordpress blog. My bbPress plugins are UseDisplayName 0.7.2, AllowImages 0.7.1, Private Forums 5.0, Forums Moderators 1.0, Google Analytics 0.68. I use the german localisation file, it is a german forum.

There is a strange bug in the user list. At the moment, 8 users are registered. But the Users/Find admin panel displays a wrong number of users. It says there are 61 users.

I took a screenshot a few days ago with six users, displayed as 48, if you don’t understand the problem, take a look in my weird numbers. And I thought that reckoning is something a computer can do.

Is the problem caused by one of my plugins, or by another reason? And is there a workaround? It is a bug that does not harm me now, but it is a strange one I do not understand.

[_ck_]

I’ve discovered another interesting approach that SMF takes – their “plugins” are actually true mods where it’s a sort of “diff” file that patches the sources. Keeps it running very fast no matter how make addons you use. To a certain degree it keeps working between minor version changes (ie. 1.1.1-1.1.3) but major changes will break many of them. Still, it’s an interesting approach and very different to bbPress.

They also do virtually everything in memory as arrays (roles, etc) where bbPress runs through a big bunch of code to return a value ie. bb_current_user_can(“administrate”).

I know wordpress.org’s forum has distributed backup servers but it operates as a single server correct? I’m wondering just how far bbpress can scale on a single server. Once you offload mysql & email functions, that’s about as far as you can go easily on a single server.

[airdrawndagger]

The theme is Blix, and I’ve modified the hell out of it. The headers from the WordPress theme are loaded into bbpress. It’d take some work I’m not willing to put in to make this a bbpress theme

[adriengeille]

Hi chris,

after your answer i changed the quote a few times and to avoid any problems with french character i changed it this way

$bb->name = ‘Le forum des subventions aux entreprises’;

But I still get a blank page…..

Does anybody have a clue?

[chrishajer]

I am going to guess that the single quote in this string is causing you trouble:

$bb->name = 'Le forum des subventions à la création et au développement d'entreprise';

I bet it would work like this, although I don’t know how it will display (escape the single quote/apostrophe):

$bb->name = 'Le forum des subventions à la création et au développement d'entreprise';

I would also bet this would work (double quote the string, no escape):

$bb->name = "Le forum des subventions à la création et au développement d'entreprise";

Good luck

[Sam Bauers]

Are you trying to integrate with a WordPress install?