I haven’t attempted this alpha 2 install yet, but I will sometime this weekend hopefully, however, in regards to the issue that bharatk was seeing in alpha 1… I was seeing the same thing. When integrating with WordPress 2.6.2, from the looks of it, you are only able to be logged in AND access the admin page of either WordPress or bbPress at one time. It seemed to work fine as a normal user to log into both entities at the same time and retain function, but I can double check that again before I upgrade. It just seems like the Admin functionality is limited to being logged in to either WordPress or bbPress at one time. If you log into one and then want to go to the other, you have to log out of the original one you logged in to. Let me know if you want any additional information before I upgrade and I can get it for you.
Looks great. What versions WP and BB are you using. If the most recent of each, how did you get the cookies to integrate? Right now, I and most other people it seems, can’t get it all working correctly. Logging in on one side results in only partial access and functionality in the other, it seems.
Here’s my recently launched WordPress/bbPress site.
http://nightsed.com/
http://nightsed.com/forums
The custom design is integrated between the two sites. I’m using several bbPress and WordPress mods, but there is also some custom php work.
Cheers!
To benefit fully from intergrating bbPress with my WordPress, I downgraded and went to WordPress 2.5.1 and bbPress 0.9.2. Now I know a plugin that allows you to display the last topics/discussion on your blog exists for bbPress 1.0, but I was wondering if something like this has been made for bbPress 0.9.2?
Thanks,
James
I have found a problem with the login between WordPress and bbpress. Alpha 1 didn’t have this issue.
It’s the same as @bharatk reported.
Any news about it? I have the same issue. May be downgrade to alpha 1 can be a solution?
Hi all,
bbpress integrated with wordpress works fine but there is only one problem. the problem is that username which is registered in bbpress and it is blank in the post author in wordpress.
please help…
thank in advance
No.
Kakumei is a theme (WordPress terminology) or a template (bbPress terminology) and controls the display of the content on your site. Any modifications you make to your site should be done in these template files, never in the core. Changing core files makes it hard to upgrade to newer releases: you lose your changes with every upgrade. So, if you make the changes in a template file, you can maintain them between releases.
Also, by default, the stock kakumei theme is used and it’s in the bb-templates directory. I recommend creating a new directory called my-templates (if it’s not there already) at the same level as bb-templates. So, in a directory listing, they’d be at the same level. Then, inside there, create a directory called mytheme or some other name that is descriptive for your forum. This directory name does not matter. (The my-templates one DOES matter.)
Now that you have a my-templates directory, and inside that a new directory with a name you choose, copy everything from inside the bb-templates/kakumei/ directory to this new directory you created. Then, open up style.css and change the header to give this new template a unique name on line two. You will see this there:
Theme Name: Kakumei
Change that to “Theme Name: My Cool New Theme” or whatever you want. Then refresh your admin panel, and you will see a new theme. You can change the rest of the lines in that header as well, to things that are meaningful to you. Be sure not to modify the text before the colon, just change the text after, to your values.
Now, modify the php and css files in this directory to change the look of your forum. You can switch back and forth between themes here. If you break something, just choose the default theme until you fix the one you were working on.
Sorry for the really late reply. Didn’t see my topic with a reply.
To bbPress’ credit I got that error and alot more when intergrating the wordpress database and theme intergration (But it is currently alpha) and I am looking forward to the stable release of 1.0 now that I’ve seen it and essentially test drived it.
If your still having problems I can only assume your also using the 1.0 alpha as well, in which case I’d suggest you consider downgrading to WordPress 2.5.1 and bbPress 0.9.2. I did a couple days ago and it is very stable, the intergration is perfect and I have no problems with permalinks etc.
I forgot update the bbpress user’s role. When I did that, the problem disapeared. Now my forum is working perfectly.
That’s good,
I first sounded as if we should take a step backwards.
Sorry for my misinterpretation!
Well, the issue has not been resolved and it is a problem with Alpha 2. For now I myself am going to stick with Alpha 2 until an update (or plugin for wordpress as the keymaster mentioned in the linked topic above) is released. This problem would probably require some code modification, but I don’t have time to carouse the php at the moment. At least they forewarned us by calling it alpha 
Hello,
My server seized up yesterday and it looks to me like the bbpress-live plugin was the root cause of the problem. I could be wrong and would be grateful for some other’s opinions on this.
Details here:
http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/blogs/joss/2008/10/14/wordpress-mu-and-server-resources/
Thanks
Joss
Does that mean you resolved it or you still need help? That logged in cookie key can be found in your wp-config.php, line 15:
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',
Hi,
I tried to install bbPress 1 Alpha 2 + wp_2.6, but in the second step configuration appears :
“logged in” cookie key, but I can not find it. What is it?
Can anyone help me?
bbPress turns 2 years old today!!!
It’s been a big year with new features being added at a rapid pace thanks to hard work by Sam and Mike. It’s an easy guess that we should see a stable 1.0 beta by the end of 2008.
But don’t let the modest sounding “1.0” fool you, it’s practically a “2.0” inside with all the changes since 0.9 including BackPress integration (merges core functions from WordPress) and an XML-RPC api like WordPress as well.
While Matt Mullenweg (Automattic/WordPress founder) created bbPress during Christmas 2004 to power WordPress.org, version 0.7.2 (nicknamed “bix”) was only officially released for public consumption on Saturday October 14th 2006 making it two years old today.
Regardless of being summarily deleted from Wikipedia this year, bbPress has never been more popular. I’ve been tracking bbPress growth via the Top 100 and Top 1000 lists for over a year now and this month shows the list surging to nearly 5000 forums, with bbPress being used in over 80 countries and in dozens of languages.
Roughly 10 sites a day have installed bbPress over the past two years and over 70% them continue to use it. The largest bbPress forum is about to break a million posts by the end of the year and just to be on the Top 100, a forum now needs at least 7000 posts.
bbPress hosted forums via TalkPress (ala WordPress.com) are on the horizon, and with new forum conversion software being developed and more plugins and themes available than ever before, bbPress will definitely make it’s mark in 2009 and should have a very exciting third year!
Radium,
Are you suggesting we go back to alpha 1?
I am having the same problems a Nekita. As soon as I ad the line
// require_once(‘pathto/wp-blog-header.php’);
to my bbconfig file
I cannot access my admin anymore… It takes away the ability to reply to posts too..
when I switch it back.. fine again. Its the same problem I was having before upgrading to BBpress 1 alpha..
Too bad… I had a perfectly integrated Theme BBPress/Wpress before I upraded WP to 2.6.1.. i Will look before I leap next time.. oooops.
Slightly off topic, but im not sure if having a space in your keys is a good idea. Might want to remove the space in them. If you do make sure your wp-config and bb-config match after the changes
Yes…
I’ve mapped the roles.
I’ve set the wordpress and blog addresses which are the same.
I’ve put in “auth” cookie salt.
I have NOT put in “secure auth” as my WordPress admin options page did not have one
I have put in “logged in” cookie salt.
I’ve copied the foolowing to my wp-config.pgp file
define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);
define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ”);
and added the “Manual bbPress config file settings” to the bb-config.php file, however in this section it says “Afterwards, the settings in this form will reflect the hard coded values, but you will not be able to edit them here.”
What is hard coded where? I didn’t see any difference to this page after adding these speedup settings to the bb-config.php file.
Yeah the bb-config has to have BB_ defined, no need to change.
Have you checked in your bbPress admin panel:
Settings > WordPress Intergration
That all the stuff it wants if filled in with correct information
I’ve chedked them about 5 times but with the hope that your suggestion and good energy might find an issue, I just checked them again but they are the same apart from the fact the the bbPress ones have BB_ before the variable names.
WORDPRESS:
define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘phrase 1’); //
Change this to a unique phrase.
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘phrase 2’); // Change this to a unique phrase.
define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘phrase 3’); // Change this to a unique phrase.
BBPRESS:
define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘phrase 1’);
// Change this to a unique phrase.
define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘phrase 2’); // Change this to a unique phrase.
define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘phrase 3’); // Change this to a unique phrase.
