John,
It’s rather an odd situation, as I just took over administration of this board, so I’m not really familiar with the interactions of bbPress and WordPress. The WordPress installation had only one user (the original admin), and as part of the transition we intended to upgrade both utilities to their latest, greatest versions to leave me with a “clean slate” to work from. Our intended first step was to upgrade WordPress, which the original admin hadn’t updated in some time. I had, and still have, no credentials in WordPress.
Our intent was to simply delete the original install of WordPress and install the latest version. I took care of the file end, but upon install the program told me that there was already an installation in place that had to be deleted first. The previous admin then wiped the WP database. I believe this began our problem. Upon installing the latest verison of bbP, I discovered that bbP stores it’s user info in the WP database, so I think that killed us. I think that if the orignial admin restores that db we should be able to salvage our installs.
I don’t know the release of the original WP install, but if you’ll tell me where to look I have a local backup of the original site on my harddrive. Ditto bbP, though I think it was 0.8.3.
Yes, http://www.mh900e.org
The discussion forums (the only really relevant part of the site, to my way of thinking) is at http://www.mh900e.org/parlare. I’ve installed 1.1.11 at the root (I was thinking about removing WP, anyway) and put up a single message telling users that we’re working on resolving other issues.
Update: I seem to have gotten it working, by inserting the following code directly to function bb_safe_redirect within functions.bb-pluggable.php, right before the line checking against $allowed_hosts:
$allowed_redirects = array();
$allowed_redirects[] = 'offsite-feedback-forum.com';
$allowed_redirects[] = 'base-blog-url.com';
$allowed_redirects[] = 'base-blog-url.com/wordpress-installed-directory';
add_filter('allowed_redirect_hosts', 'add_allowed_redirect_hosts');
I originally tried to do this from a plugin, as the code above is copied from a handy WordPress plugin, but I was not able to get it to work without sticking it right within the pluggable.php file. If anybody has a better suggestion, I’d love to avoid editing the core files if possible!
Three quick questions to help scope out the situation. 
1) Which versions of bbPress and WordPress did you have working together?
2) What version of WordPress did you upgrade to?
3) Where did your users disappear – just in bbPress, or also in WordPress?
Also – is this your forum?
http://www.mh900e.org/
My forum has lost all user info.
I don’t know where to begin fixing it. The users are still intact in the database.
I just “upgraded” WordPress, and that’s when the shenanigans started. All posts are still present, but the poster for each is listed as “anonymous” and “unregistered”.
I’m an engineer, not a programmer, and I have very limited experience with .php programming. What can I do to fix this?
I’ve gotten BBPress/Wordpress integration working, and now I want to use BBPress to handle all login duties—I would like to make it so that when a user accesses the login link from WordPress, it redirects them back to the page they came from after they log in to BBPress. So, the user will ideally travel:
A page [not logged in] -> BBPress bb_login.php -> Originating Page [logged in]
This is another thread relating to redirection but it seems very outdated, I can’t find the code they reference. Redirection works splendidly whenever you are internal to BBPress, is there any way to have it work when you’re coming from an external wordpress page?
This is kind of a re-post, my first post attempt is being held with an “Array: Voices” status, whatever that means…
I would like to move my forums from ikonboard to bbpress. I am using wordpress so you can understand the reasons, that and ikonboard is no longer supported.
I did a search in google and it said it could be done. what do i need to do to this?
Excellent! This is exactly what I want. I will try this out as we speak…
anyone can find me at chrishajer [at]/ gmail [dot]/ com
Hi, I’m building a community website and planning to export the topic list, including the “number of post, last post user, time” column into my WordPress main page.
An example screenshot will look like this :
http://i43.tinypic.com/286tr7m.jpg
Please let me know if you know how to do it, or is there any documents that I can refer to. Many thanks
Okay, so I installed bbPress fine, but then I was trying to get my WordPress page to link to my forums. So then long story short, I changed the url settings in bbPress, and now, every time I try to log in, it goes to a page on my wordpress, saying page not found. I can go to my forums, just not the admin page. So I deleted everything and tried to reinstall, and when I hit step 2, it says the “Already installed, Upgrade Script thing,” so i click the link, and it send me back to my page on my wordpress. Is there a file that contains what that url thing should be? Because I haven’t been able to find it. Thanks for any help.
1) Yes, you’ve heard correct that project is almost dead as no development is taking place for weeks. Also, more chances are that it will be converted into a WordPress plugin (but some methods might be made available to transfer your data from the bbPress install to the plugin).
2) bbPress 1.0 was almost a rewrite of 0.9, so a lot of code changed and the plugins became incompatible. _ck_, a major plugin developer and contributor to the project left because the project was not getting attention from months. You can check her website – http://bbshowcase.com
3) Can’t say anything about the timings….
4) That has been reported in #1181
Hi all,
I am in the process of developing a new site (which is currently in beta and not meant for the public yet…) but I have a few concerns…
Website: http://www.diyextra.com
1) Have I chosen the right forum for the project, I keep hearing bbpress is dead or it will not be developed as much when/if it becomes a plugin… Should I be using a larger scale forum package like vbulletin or phpbb ? … My thoughts on the subject originally was to go bbpress as it may tie in well with the CMS side of the site which is controlled by wordpress, I did look in to buddypress but the whole group forum thing is off putting and the fact it is not SEO friendly and the slugs (urls) are way to long… Anyone have any comments or thoughts on this would be great….
2) Plugins – Ok so I understand the forum is very basic in its core state and you add plugins to achieve options you require, but quite a number of plugins I have tried to use seem not to work, Also I have a concern that there will be a limited number of plugins developed for bbpress when/if it becomes a plugin.
3) Here is a bug I have found – maybe its just on my forum… The freshness (time/date) is incorrect a lot of the test posts I have posted on the forum are from weeks and months ago, but yet they are show up as 3 weeks… yes I have heavily modified the templet files but only the html and header/footer locations… any ideas ?
4) RSS – Also I am getting RSS error – “This page contains the following errors: error on line 10 at column 33: Entity ‘raquo’ not defined
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.” Anyone else have this problem or any suggestions…
Many Thanks Guys,
Chris
Chrishajer, how can I contact you?
Last I checked it seemed like Matt (the only developer I’ve seen around here) had his hat full with suggestions and left with that, quite some time ago now. I reckon if there is a future for bbPress it’s already set into motion some way or another. If that future is as a plug-in, I don’t worry at all.
WordPress is becoming a whole lot more than a blog these days; in some ways, a whole lot less. Way I see it, I wouldn’t be surprised if by WordPress 3.5 or 4.0, WordPress isn’t really a blog, but a plain extensible web development platform, making the blog functionality yet another ‘plug-in’ (that hovers).
>> Why not just start out with wp? I only ask then because your question gives me the impression that you will only be using one or the other. But on the flip side if you are going to be using both back up and save all your data and down load wp on the your site.
That is the problem that i am not starting right now. I have already built my forums and they are working with my previous website i.e. like a link is given on the previous website. I want to extend the functionality of my website by allowing users to comment on articles etc. and for that I need wordpress kind of thing. If I install wordpress right now, it will require users to register again. All I want is if I install wordpress right now, all the users from the forums be transferred in wordpress as well. With your reply it was not clear that if I just download the wordpress to my site, will it work right away i.e. it will have the similar ‘integration’ page like we observe when we install bbpress on wordpress. Or let’s say if I give the same sql data base name that I am using for bbpress, will it import the users from bbpress?
Thanks
I an new in bbpress, traying to help my greater daughter to install a forum, and we found the peacemaker bbpress theme, a very interesting 3 columns theme, just we was looking for. But it has not complete the templates files, (register.php and register-sucess.php do not exist) so is not posible a register for the users, and works like a demo site as it just says.
I found an one year old topic about in this forum, but I am not clear if it is the same problem.
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/why-regisration-disabled-this-is-a-demo-site#post-19644
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/demo-site-wordpress-integrations-problem
I have installed bbpress (not integrated with WP) and a few aditionals themes to test, buy I like peacemaker. Somebody has a complete version?
“Don’t download me yet. I’m in the beginning stages of development.”
Also, interesting to see this tag: core plugin
Thanks, here is the php:
And one final question , there is a way to reinstall using the same database and directory ?
<?php
/**
* The base configurations of bbPress.
*
* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your
* web host.
*
* This file is used by the installer during installation.
*
* @package bbPress
*/
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for bbPress */
define( 'BBDB_NAME', 'organica_foro' );
/** MySQL database username */
define( 'BBDB_USER', 'organica_ineFORO' );
/** MySQL database password */
define( 'BBDB_PASSWORD', '********' );
/** MySQL hostname */
define( 'BBDB_HOST', '' );
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define( 'BBDB_CHARSET', '' );
/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define( 'BBDB_COLLATE', '' );
/**#@+
* Authentication Unique Keys.
*
* Change these to different unique phrases!
* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/ WordPress.org secret-key service}
*
* @since 1.0
*/
// edited keys chrishajer 19 March 2010
define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'gUpvcuMfP+tDsXUus|(|9|/G4Owo@=;C697V[[ZPd+|W)BVK-[U,fi/H2r+VOj');
define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'sf8;HNH}7%N#_|=$d4(_(yV8Wt&R($kL+)JS@}Kno-Q2jfkOm|BUL-i**&f_Wg');
define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'm}Xc?tvc 3;o)JUVdxDm%F[V96V<+zyka239SbV<^2)o[/tV>Q4&kW$B4ik(NA');
define('BB_NONCE_KEY', ';k,c^0G4nz9eZS#-cF7((.smjv.GtAz+.WZd<G544PzG.Mz*Cztr]|Gaw:-(!=');
/**#@-*/
/**
* bbPress Database Table prefix.
*
* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
*/
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';
/**
* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
*
* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
* language must be installed to a directory called "my-languages" in the root
* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to "my-languages" and set
* BB_LANG to 'de' to enable German language support.
*/
define( 'BB_LANG', 'es_ES' );
?>
Hi all,
I do try the integration with applications but I get a problem, but really problems is that if I login on WP I lost login on bbpress and if I login on bbpress I lost login on WordPress.
I set in wp-config.php and bb-config.php with same constant:
AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY, NONCE_KEY and BB_AUTH_KEY, BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY, BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY, BB_NONCE_KEY
and I set the 3 value on bbpress setting page, I leave blank field “WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt” beacause I don’t have this field on wordpress.
I installed bbpress integration plug in on wordpress and set the url of forum and I write in wp-config file this string:
define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
This looks promising and very exciting the say the least.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/
Hi,
I have installed bbpress first with my own website. Now, when I have a lot of users on it, I want to switch my website to a wordpress based website. I know it is possible if you want to install bbpress on a wordpress website. I want to ask if I can install wordpress after I have installed bbpress. i.e. I want to transfer all my users from bbpress to wordpress etc.
Thanks
