[kevinjohngallagher]

Yo Gatuam,

I’m in a real positive mood mate, it’s a glorious day here in Edinburgh (ha, that don’t happen that often) during the largest Arts festival in the world, at a time when we have 8 festivals overlapping in 6 weeks. I am like a pig in the proverbial

And if they were subscribed to feeds, most of them would also have subscribed to BuddyPress feeds

That’s a massive presumption matey

All i’m saying is, hasn’t 20 years of the internet as we know it shown us not to presume about users?

or they would be using WordPress (so they may get to know about it from the dashboard)

If they happened to log in on the 20-24 hours it was on the dashboard

Which gets harder depending on timezones and y’know life. If it was up there for a week, well yeah, I think you’d be closer to being right

All i’m saying is this JJJ: Maybe when you make posts about bbPress on other websites, you could do us a favour and make a little 2 line forum post on this website too. All that’s needed is “hello folks, FYI, link”.

From my point of view, this covers 100% of bbPress users, where are not doing it covers less than 100%. To me, in a really positive sense, taking 1 minute to post “FYI, link, ” and make sure no-one feels lift out is really positive

bbPress users have a history of hearing things 3rd/4th/5th hand, and rarely do those things turn out positive. I believe that JJJ’s plug-in will be positive to countless people, and i’m positive he’s the man for the job. Lets communicate about something positive, in a positive way, to all users

As opposed to posting about software X, on software Y’s website, and hoping people use software Z to read the news about it for the 24 hours it showed it. That’s just comical – haha actually I wonder if there’s already a dilbert comic that covers such convoluted messaging…

Have a great day folks, i’m off to see my 3rd favourite comic ever tonight

[Gautam Gupta]

Kevin, let’s be positive.

Couldn’t you have even posted a blog post here or a forum post here just with a link “hey folks, wanted to make sure you saw this ” ?

If bbPress users don’t use WordPress, then 99.999% they would also not be coming to bbPress blog each day to check for updates. And if they were subscribed to feeds, most of them would also have subscribed to BuddyPress feeds or they would be using WordPress (so they may get to know about it from the dashboard). And even if anyone would have missed, he/she would have got to know about it via other blogs like wpmu (I am talking of the people who like to be up to date with bbPress happenings).

[kevinjohngallagher]

Bro, there is zero doubt in my mind that you were always thinking of us, and your plug-in will please a great many people.

since both blogs feed into the WP dashboard you’re all going to see it regardless

But is it ok to suggest that not everyone who uses bbPress, also checks a WordPress install’s Dashboard that regularly? Especially as your post was bumped off that list in under 24 hours (it only shows the last 5 posts pulled in from entire 31 feeds it aggregates).

We’re not afflicted matey, thankfully many of us are in good health, but it’s hard sometimes to not find it difficult when we’re treated with presumptions.

Having to log into a WordPress install once every 24 hours ad infinitum just to check if someone’s posting bbPress news on another website, just seems a little daft.

Maybe when you make posts about bbPress on other websites, especially ones that have more info than has been posted here, you could do us a favour and make a little 2 line forum post on this website too. All that’s needed is “hello folks, FYI, link”.

[pagal]

Well, According to my little bit experience in bbPress World, its really not a good method to use just iframe to make forums seamless.

You’ll actually need to make your forums seamless / deep integrated with wordpress by following these Instructions. I hope it will work. Thanks

[s5group]

Hey,

Having a problem with the Media Temple re-direct exploit fix.. Had to change all the prefix’s in my database, to correct the issue… I can’t login to my forum now, under any account… User names have dissapeared from posts. I’m still able to login via WordPress though. I updated bb-config.php with all new correct info, still not working… any ideas?

http://www.onpointmusic.ca/forum

Thanks.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Kralletown,

You will lose some data in the transfer (attatchemnts as I recall was a biggie for some folks), but in theory none of the important data.

It also depends on how much you want to integrate with WordPress whether this is a good idea or not.

I’d loook at:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release

A phpBB to bbPress database converter

Good luck

[Kralletown]

Hello.

I searched the forum for an answer, but I couldn’t find any up-to-date answer to my question. I’m doing a website for a mate who has a phpBB-forum which I’d like to integrate with a WordPress theme – and my first choice would be to import everything into bbPress. Is this possible without losing any information?

Thanks in advance,

Kralle

[Techpad1]

This may not be the same issue at all, but I thought it best to share just in case. I’ve experienced a similar incident to Susan’s when I first setup the User database sharing in the integration area. For the User database table prefix option, I had put in the prefix used with my WordPress install. As soon as I saved changes, I was logged out and could not log back in again until I went into the bb_meta table, found it under a meta_value field and deleted the prefix from that field. That immediately fixed my issue.

[chrishajer]

2) – no, bbPress is not a WordPress plugin. It should be inside a folder which is inside your WordPress installation. So, if your WordPress is at

/var/www/wordpress/

your bbPress will be at something like

/var/www/wordpress/forums/ where the word “forums” will be part of your URL. If your WordPress site is http://www.example.com, then your bbPress installation will be at http://www.example.com/forums/ if you called the folder “forums” as I did above.

3) create the folder my-languages at the same level as bb-templates, bb-plugins, my-templates, my-plugins. All those folders should have permissions of 755.

Step two is your biggest problem right now. You don’t activate it like a WordPress plugin because it’s not one. It has a separate installer. It doesn’t even require WordPress.

[thenbrent]

Zaerl, thanks for that. Very handy little fix!

I also just noticed, courtesy of Kevin’s post on the WP Forums, that users registering on the WordPress side aren’t being allocated a role in BBPress.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-change-to-registration-screws-bbpress?replies=2

Argh. Any ideas how to fix that one Zaerl?

[pcheick]

Hi,

don’t know if this is the right place to post this – but I just made the huge mistake to give the table prefixes identical values in both bbpress and wordpress config files. This resulted in 400 post from my blog being deleted.

I think this should be mentioned in the integration guide as it is a pretty easy mistake to do.

cheers

Paul

[kevinjohngallagher]

It’s really unlikely a single user could have done something.

Excuse the obvious nature of the questions, and i aprecaite that you’ll have answered them in teh text above, but this isn’t a normal everyday bug, so we’re starting from scratch:

1) What version of WordPress?

2) What version of bbPress?

3) Are they integrated (share login cookies)?

4) Are they “deep integrated” (can call functions in the other program)?

5) Do you have the latest version of akismet on both WP and bbP?

6) Can you log into WordPress?

7) Can your other users log into WordPress?

Can people register with WordPress?

9) Can people register with bbPress?

10) Can people log into bbPress?

11) Have to tried disabling all plugins and trying again?

12) If so, have to tried switching to the default theme?

13) Are you using a premium (paid for) theme?

14) Are you using buddyPress?

15) What has changed since Friday?

16) What WordPress plugins are you using?

17) Are you using WP MultiSite?

18) Did you know that “registered users only” plugin has been marked by others as not working for WP3.0.1 on the plugin repository?

I know it’s a load of info, sorry, but it will help.

Very few, if any, bbPress plugins change the “role” for bbPress users, simply due to it’s rather convoluted nature.

Hopefully, we’ll get this fixed

[vshal]

I installed bbpress integrated to my wordpress site on a subdomain, the problem I have is the following.

The forum is working in the following way

http://subdomain.mydomain.com/forums

what I want is to make it work like this

http://subdomain.mydomain.com/

What do I need to do for the above, I am a newbie so please excuse my ignorance if it is a quick fix.

Thanks in advance.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Sorry Robo, i know it’s confusing, apologies if i wasn’t clear. You’re not using bbPress.

bbPress is a standalone forum that can integrate logins/users with WordPress. It sits in its own folder.

You’re installing the bbpress plugin for buddypress which is a plugin for wordpress. (yes, it’s a nightmare that they have the same name)

“http://lostinsound.org/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/”

If you’re in “wp-content/plugins” in any way shape or form, we can’t really help on this forum. I know it’s confusing because someone at autoMATTic decided to keep the same name for a totally serarate project, but thats where we are.

Anyway, the Buddypress folks are top notch, and they’ll sort you out v quickly

[robo523]

here is the exact error message

>>> WordPress cookie keys not set.

>>>>>> Your “bb-config.php” file was not writable.

>>>>>> You will need to manually re-define “BB_AUTH_KEY”, “BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY” and “BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY” in your “bb-config.php” file.

Forum could not be created!

[zaerl]

So I’m suspecting the zaerl plug-in as the cause.

Absolutely not. My plugin doesn’t change roles, doesn’t change permissions neither it attempts whatever action that invole writing of data nor it install nasty things on any of the bbPress tables. It just read and write a single bb_meta value in which there are packed all the visibility rules. Nothing more.

Keep in mind that a user that hasn’t posted anything is actually inactive and become active only when he will post something. Also double-check that role-mapping on /forum/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php.

[zaerl]

Just use the gravatar service http://www.gravatar.com

bbPress and WordPress has integrated gravatar support. No need for an additional plugin.

[maxbmx]

all right! I found this:

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wp-load.php’);

insert into

bb-config.php file and than bbpress has access to wp functions (for exemple for widgets)

[maxbmx]

How to add sidebar from wordpress to my bbpress?

[thomasfals]

Could it have anything to do with my wordpress install being at http://larm:8888 and the forum at http://forum.larm:8888 ?

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

I had this issue (with single user however) and it turned out I was missing the WordPress plugin for bbPress integration.

[chrishajer]

Log out of WordPress and then access bbPress and log in there. You might also have to clear your cookies.

More explanation:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/login-integration-issues-bbpress-and-wordpress-mu#post-71940

[notApro]

Okay,

WordPress is to big, i can’t see where i’m searching..

What i’m looking for is a plugin that adds Avatars to my WordPress site and bbPress site/forum.

I have deep Integration so it would be cool if the avatars would match or sync together.

If some member post a comment on the homepage in a blog-section it would be cool if he has the same avatar that he is using inside the forum.

Only thing is,

– I don’t want anybody to upload files.

It would be nice if they could use an external url (http://www.domain.com/folder/image1.jpg) to include there avatars.

Is it possible because i was looking at the WordPress site and i can’t get the search function working.

If i search for avatar there is a very big list of plugins but if i want to list them down by rated or most download then it deletes my “avatar” search word. and i get plugins like, contact form 7 and Google SEO on top of the list as a result.

[simple_gpr]

To add to the list of potential solutions to the Fatal errors for require_once people are encountering whilst completing deep integration of BBpress into WordPress.

If in your error log something similar to this:

PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/var/www/vhost<domain>/httpdocs/wp-load.php’ (include_path=’.:’) in /var/www/vhost/<domain>/forum/httpdocs/bb-config.php on line

16

and you have tried using absolute paths instead of relative paths and the other various solutions people have suggested don’t work. Then you will need to change your php.ini file and add the directory for your wordpress installation to the open_basedir variable.

i.e. open_basedir = /var/www/vhost/<domain>/httpdocs

The other option is to turn off open_basedir altogether.

If you are on a sharedhost and do not have access to php.ini your webhost will have a vhost.conf or similar file which will allow you to send directives to Apache for your particular domain. In this case you will need to have this within your vhost.conf file.

<Directory “/var/www/vhosts/<domain>/forum/httpdocs”>

php_admin_value open_basedir “/var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs:/tmp”

php_admin_value include_path “.:”

</Directory>

I hope this helps those having issues with deep integration whitepages / require_once fatal errors and saves people some time.

[DigitalGdn]

@Josh – Thanks for posting this. Massively useful, I was unaware of a the conversion script.

@Sincever – I think the script will convert the SMF/phpBB users to bbPress users. You could then move all the tables into a single database, but that in itself wouldn’t change which table bbPress uses for users. This answers your question, but if you’re referring more to WordPress users vs bbPress users and reconciling that, I can’t comment as I’ve not tried the integration before.