[723416]

Many thanks for all the good suggestions. I tried loading the wordpress functions as suggested in previous posts and could not get it to work. Same problem with SQL queries (though I’m sure I’m doing something wrong). I went back and tried the rss2html function and got it to work – so I think I’ll be able to tailor it enough to do what I need.

This would be a great plugin, for those who are able to do it:)

[chrishajer]

fiat, to do what you’re talking about, you can load WordPress inside bbPress, to have access to WordPress functions inside bbPress. It’s not recommended, but here it is:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-integration-header-integration#post-17084

[ashes999]

Yeah, I have shell access…

I had a shell script before to back up my whole schema; but I just want to back up the bbpress schema now, not the wordpress schema.

[ashes999]

WordPress has a great plugin called wp-backup that allows you to schedule a nightly backup of your database. Is there something similar for bbPress? If not, how should I back up my data regularly?

[723891]

Why switch to bbpress? WordPress is highly configurable and there are a lot of plugins. And if you want you can change the source code on your own server…..

[Sam Bauers]

I don’t think they are even using WordPress. Looks like it is all custom code.

[Sam Bauers]

We will probably start using some form of display name in bbPress in the next version.

There is already a built-in way to map user roles between WordPress and bbPress within the admin area under WordPress Integration.

[jfz]

Hi. Can someone tell me if emptees.com is using bbpress for their talk section? I love the layout and theme of the forum their using. It reminds me of wordpress blog posts & bbpress? but it might be a customized version they made themselves. Is there anyone who would be willing to work on a free bbpress theme that looks like that? I’d pay for a theme that looked like that! Thanks.

[f1f]

No I haven’t moved the forum. The last thing I changed – which must have been a week ago or longer – was adding the following code into the .htaccess file for WordPress (not BBPress):

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

Could that have had an effect? If so it seems odd that it took so long to manifest itself.

Thanks for the speedy response by the way

[chrishajer]

You can make the data dynamic, but you need to use bbPress functions, not WordPress functions.

If you are intent on using WordPress functions, read this and this.

[chrishajer]

To anyone reading in the future:

Please use different table prefixes for bbPress and WordPress. bb_ for bbPress and wp_ for WordPress are the defaults, for good reason. You can change them to something else if you like, but make sure they are different for WordPress, bbPress, and anything else you might install in that database.

Integration does not require the same table prefix, and using the same table prefix means bbPress will try to use WordPress tables (of the same name) that have already been created.

[chrishajer]

laran: that is the proper behaviour for published and unpublished draft or future posts in WordPress. When you are logged in, you can view them. When you are not logged in, you will get a 404 if you try to view one of those pages you could previously view.

If it possible you gave yourself more power when resetting the permissions? If you had author or contributor status in WordPress before, and now you have editor or administrator, it’s possible you are seeing things now that you could not see before.

But, in my experience, that’s the way WordPress works. If you are logged in and have permission, and the URL, you can view unpublished posts. When you are not logged in, you can’t, by design.

Good luck.

[f1f]

My BBPress installation has been working fine but suddenly today I can’t access the content on any of my posts. All the post titles are listed, but clicking on them gives a 404 error:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/forum/

I have no idea what’s caused this. It’s been over a week since I made any changes to BBPress or the WordPress installation it’s integrated with.

I’ve checked my MySQL database and all the forum data appears to still be in there, it just isn’t displaying. Any ideas what’s broken?

[723416]

I have the blog and forum installed (example.com/blog and example.com/forum) using the same database. I’m in the process of creating a Community homepage similar to the feel of the WordPress support page at http://wordpress.org/support/ – with the exception that I want my blog posts on the left above the search section. I simply want the forum homepage to read and display the blog posts – with links back to the blog.

How do I get this to happen? I’ve searched everywhere and nothing on this. Ideally, I want to work from the forum, but if it’s easier, how can I get my blog to read my forum topics? (the Latest Discussion plugin works, but I don’t want latest discussions…I want forum topics.) Any help is greatly appreciated.

[bobbyh]

laran, can you please post a link to your wordpress and bbpress installs?

[laran]

I installed bbpress. I (tried to) followed the instructions for integrating with wordpress. When I was done with the installation the forum worked fine but I couldn’t log into wordpress. I resolved that issue by changing:

a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

to

a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

in wp_usermeta for my user.

This allowed me to log into wordpress. Not sure what it did to bbpress because I figured I’d just re-install.

I dropped the non-shared bbpress tables in the database (forums, topics, topicsmeta i think, tagged, tags).

Now, when I’m logged into wordpress my blog shows up a little wierd. The blog index page (index.php) shows published and unpublished posts. It didn’t do this before and I don’t want it to do it now. Also, none of the pages show up. They all give me a 404.

If I’m logged in I’m allowed to view the pages. But if I’m not logged in the pages show up as 404s.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to clean up this mess I’d love to hear them. Thanks.

[laran]

I got my wordpress working again by making the following change.

I changed this: a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

to this: a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

Now I think I’ve got to figure out how to undo the bbpress installation and do it again properly. I too suppose I didn’t read the instructions carefully enough.

In my case, I want to integrate wordpress and bbpress. So I thought I was supposed to have the tables names be the same.

[threevisual]

Hi,

I’m currently working on a website which is powered by wordpress, it will have a forum which will be powered by bbpress. I’ve designed the layout to exactly how I’d like it to look (and partly coded the forum index).

Is there anyone out there who would be willing to complete customisation / styling of my bbpress theme?

If anyone is interested please let me know your costs and turn around time and I’ll be in touch.

Cheers!

[reclaimyourskin]

I am experiencing the same problem as well.

I think it has something to do with user roles, as a registered BBpress user does not have get a defined role in WordPress (i.e author, contributor, editor etc…).

It would be easier if a default wordpress role was automatically assigned to a user that registers via bbpress.

If anyone has any ideas/solutions it would be much appreciated.

[tbrams]

I have a forum running as an appendix to the wordpress blog we have at lyngbytaekwondo.dk and people love it.

Now after upgrading WP to version 2.5.1 it seems like all my html examples in the forum are being ruined when I try to add something. Right after installing the forum I did a post where wrote a post about how to use som of the html codes available and it worked nicely with the backtick to keep bbPress from formatting.

When I tried to modify something yesterday by editing the post, all the html examples in backticks were destroyed and I cannot get the backtick to work again.

If anybody can recommend a starting point for me to debug this, it will be appreciated.

[chrishajer]

This is the problem right here:

<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>

bloginfo is a WordPress function, but you’re in bbPress. Try hard coding it like this <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> as it is in the default theme, and I think you will find that it works.

[Tranny]

Yes, I had the layout of forums customized before upgrade to WP2.5 becasue defaul is very user not friendly. I also had title tag customized because default values are not SEO friendly. Obviously, this clashes with upgraded version causing my forums page to not work. This is what HEAD of my header.php looks like

<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />



<title>

<?php if (is_front()) { ?> Forums and Forum Topic on Bullshit Blog <?php }

elseif (is_forum()) { echo (get_forum_name() . " on Bullshit Blog Forums"); }

elseif (is_topic()) { echo (get_topic_title() . " Forum Thread on Bullshit Blog"); }

else {

?>



<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> &raquo; <?php bb_title() ?>



<?php } //else ?>

</title>

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->



<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />



<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />

<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />



<style type="text/css" media="screen">



<?php

// Checks to see whether it needs a sidebar or not

if ( !$withcomments && !is_single() ) {

?>

#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbg-<?php bloginfo('text_direction'); ?>.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }

<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>

#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbgwide.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }

<?php } ?>



</style>



<?php wp_head(); ?>



<?php if ( is_topic() && bb_is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

<script type="text/javascript">

var lastMod = <?php topic_time( 'timestamp' ); ?>;

var page = <?php global $page; echo $page; ?>;

var currentUserId = <?php bb_current_user_info( 'id' ); ?>;

var topicId = <?php topic_id(); ?>;

var uriBase = '<?php bb_option('uri'); ?>';

var tagLinkBase = '<?php bb_tag_link_base(); ?>';

var favoritesLink = '<?php favorites_link(); ?>';

var isFav = <?php if ( false === $is_fav = is_user_favorite( bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ) ) ) echo "'no'"; else echo $is_fav; ?>;

</script>

<?php bb_enqueue_script('topic'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>



</head>

There’s obviously a lot of dynamic stuff in the head of my theme to make it mor SEO friendly. Is there a way to retain it and have it properly pull required data again?

Thanks for your help guys, I really appreciate that

[Sam Bauers]

Are you loading WordPress inside bbPress? If so the textdomain does not get loaded due to the fact that it is called “default” like the WordPress one.

If you merge the language files of WordPress and bbPress and load it in WordPress it should work.

[tachyondecay]

Nah, I was just going to alter the theme to match my website’s eventual design. Having bbPress handle everything except whether or not the user is logged in is fine by my (although I was also hoping to make it display the user’s avatar, display name, and whatnot).

At this point though, because I don’t have much experience with extending WordPress, I’m just looking into writing my own custom system rather than play around with bbPress. While I could probably come up with a solution with some more effort, I can probably produce a workable forum that integrates fully into my system in about the same amount of time.

[Sam Bauers]

As long as you have all the fields that should be there, the extra fields shouldn’t affect bbPress.

Make sure you setup a WordPress to bbPress role map in bbPress before you do the integration. That way your WordPress admins should be able to instantly login to bbPress as keymasters.

Keep in mind that if you have existing data in your bbPress tables, the user ID associations will be out of whack on posts and topics.