[sydspinnin]

I upgraded bbpress after upgrading my wordpress site to the latest version (2.5.1). The install complained that there were already forums/threads in the database, but said the install went OK. The problem I’m having, however, is that when I go to the forums, I get a t_string error referring to line 20 of the bb_config.php file.

This line is the prefix used for the tables.

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

So, I’m guessing that it thinks it is a new install instead of merely an upgrade. How do I get the updated version to simply read in the existing forums and threads?

Thank you so much for any help. These are busy forums and there will be limited patience with this problem.

[chrishajer]

Can you post the URLs for the old site, new site and forum?

Is it possible you hard coded the old domain in a template or link somewhere? Maybe the link in the WordPress menu is still to the old site? Did you search through your WordPress template directories for the old domain? If it’s hard coded in a template file, it would not be in the database.

Or maybe, you were not consistent with www vs. non-www for the URL? I have seem WordPress redirect example.com to http://www.example.com in some cases (never sat down to figure out when or why that happens.)

[Derek Ashauer]

We previously setup WordPress/BBPress on a different domain. When we switched domains, I changed every reference of the old domain to the new one by exporting the database and doing a search/replace then reimporting the database.

Everything seems to work except for one minor issue: When you go to the BBPress main page, it redirects the URL to the old domain name. Everything works fine except it does not maintain the session. Once you click on a forum or topic title, it goes back to the new domain name. I cannot find any reference to the old domain name anywhere in config files, htaccess or the database – what else could it be?

[shirestudios]

I have the latest version of bbpress installed to my own server, and it is integrated with wordpress (also the latest).

I added one new forum a few weeks ago, but today I tried and it gave me the error: “Something strange happened. Try reloading the page.”

I did reload the page several times, but it still doesn’t work! I am completely stuck…I can’t add new forums or categories…please HELP!

These plugins I have installed and activated:

Use Display Name

Wordpress Integration

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

bbPress Avatars

bbPress Signatures

That’s all…anyone know how to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!!!!

[mystifier]

I like the idea of adding a BB to a WordPress website and BBPress offers good integration but, having had one website previously screwed with a Visitor’s Book, I am a bit paranoid about PHP Injection.

Since there is actually an invitation to put code between backticks, how secure is it against injection?

Is there a simple hack to exclude backticks?

[Sam Bauers]

@seryi

Cookies in WordPress 2.5.1 are compatible with cookies in bbPress 0.9.0.2

[Sam Bauers]

@javalizard

You need to upgrade WordPress as well to fix the cookie incompatibility.

[tbaleno]

Those solutions did’t work.

I just upgraded wordpress to 2.5.1 and still no luck.

[Mufasa]

Can somebody set that spammer on fire? Please!!! Seriously hot sticky napalm would be just fine…

Nobody can login to our site at all – including Admin.

We will probably hack it to work – but I think we should all vote for bbPress [shortcodes] and widgets.

1) [bbPress]

2) bbPress widgets

Hail bbPress [shortcodes] and widgets

[kineda]

http://www.kineda.com

Full details here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/kinedacom

[seryi]

The same happened to me after upgrading my wordpress to V.2.5.1

The problem is that auth mechanism in wordpress (based on cookies) has changed and no more compatible with the bbPress’ one. I believe that the next bbPress release will fix it. However now there is only one way to solve the problem – to edit some piece of code(only few lines). This is the instruction:

1) open your bbpress_dir/bb-includes/pluggable.php

2) find function wp_validate_auth_cookie

3) inside this function change next 2 lines of code

$key = wp_hash($username . $expiration);

$hash = hash_hmac(‘md5’, $username . $expiration, $key);

to

$key = wp_hash($username . ‘|’ . $expiration);

$hash = hash_hmac(‘md5’, $username . ‘|’ . $expiration, $key);

4) find function wp_generate_auth_cookie

5) inside this function change next 2 lines of code

$key = wp_hash($user->user_login . $expiration);

$hash = hash_hmac(‘md5’, $user->user_login . $expiration, $key);

to

$key = wp_hash($user->user_login . ‘|’ . $expiration);

$hash = hash_hmac(‘md5’, $user->user_login . ‘|’ . $expiration, $key);

That’s all!

NOTE! It’s only actual for wordpress 2.5.1 with bbpress 0.9.0.1

[seryi]

The same happened to me after upgrading my wordpress to V.2.5.1

The problem is that auth mechanism in wordpress (based on cookies) has changed and no more compatible with the bbPress’ one. I believe that the next bbPress release will fix it. However now there is only one way to solve the problem – to edit some piece of code(only few lines). This is the instruction:

1) open your bbpress_dir/bb-includes/pluggable.php

2) find function wp_validate_auth_cookie

3) inside this function change next 2 lines of code

$key = wp_hash($username . $expiration);

$hash = hash_hmac(‘md5’, $username . $expiration, $key);

to

$key = wp_hash($username . ‘|’ . $expiration);

$hash = hash_hmac(‘md5’, $username . ‘|’ . $expiration, $key);

4) find function wp_generate_auth_cookie

5) inside this function change next 2 lines of code

$key = wp_hash($user->user_login . $expiration);

$hash = hash_hmac(‘md5’, $user->user_login . $expiration, $key);

to

$key = wp_hash($user->user_login . ‘|’ . $expiration);

$hash = hash_hmac(‘md5’, $user->user_login . ‘|’ . $expiration, $key);

That’s all!

NOTE! It’s only actual for wordpress 2.5.1 with bbpress 0.9.0.1

[mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)]

Hi all,

I just successfully got Michel Fortin’s Markdown to work in bbPress… I’ve submitted it as a plugin here on bbPress.org, but as that page isn’t updating for some reason, you can download it from the WordPress.org page.

Enjoy, and of course let me know if you have any problems with it.

mitcho

[chilledfresh]

WPMU is adding some extra information to the end of wordpress’ username cookie content.

For example, the old cookie content is simply “admin,” while the new cookie is “admin” + a number like “%7C1211540101%7Cb954a41e23200ea6951bdeb405dc5237.”

Perhaps this is some kind of hash? I know WPMU 1.5.1 added a salt key to the wp-config.php file, so maybe that has something to do with it.

[jldean]

Exactly the same problem here – posted yesterday.

It is odd that admin can still login though…? Do you find the same?

[chrishajer]

Someone just posted this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-theme-integration#post-16362

Sounds like the same problem?

[mrhoratio]

This has been discussed in a previous thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-login-required-when-between-bbpress-and-wordpress

[Mufasa]

Ya know what…

What would solve all these problems would be shortcodes.

If I could just create a page and add a shortcode:

[bbPress] then all our problems would just go away.

Then if you wanted to get the bbPress “search” and “hot tags” to show in your sidebar you can just add the bbPress widgets and they would in theory just work.

I guess that means my request is:

1) Add a bbPress [forum] shortcode for wordpress

2) Release some bbPress widgets for the wordpress sidebar

[kineda]

Wanted to share with you the new Kineda community built using WordPress and bbPress as the foundation.

Kineda is now part blog, part lookbook thanks to this dynamic pairing of software. The blog at http://www.kineda.com still offers our comprehensive fashion and lifestyle blog features, while the lookbook at http://www.kineda.com/lookbook offers a rare glimpse at what our half a million readers are wearing right this moment.

All of this built on top of WordPress and bbPress with lots of hardwork and many late nights.

Kineda Blog – http://www.kineda.com

Kineda Lookbook – http://www.kineda.com/lookbook

Would love to hear your feedback!

[Mufasa]

In previous versions to get your wp header into your bbPress theme you needed to include the wp-blog-header.php in the config file.

Doing this now breaks logging in to the bbPress site. No error messages – it just does not login.

We want the forums to be here:

http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce/support-forums/

Not looking like this:

http://instinct.co.nz/forums/

There must be as easy way to do this. I must say I thought it would get easier as new versions were released – not harder ;P

Ciao,

Dan

[gerikg]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/make-bbpress-a-page-in-wordpress

[elorgwhee]

Hello!

I searched through the forums and wasn’t able to find anything quite like what I’m getting, so I figured I’d post.

I just did a fresh install of the latest versions of wordpress and bbpress over the past few days. I installed and tested several plugins for wordpress and started doing some minor css updates, and exported/imported my blog posts from my old server to the new server – but haven’t done much with bbpress except to integrate with wordpress.

I have PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 4.1.22, and Linux on a shared server. Everything’s on the same domain (well, an IP address until I get things situated on my new server) and there are no subdomains involved. WordPress uses the root www folder, and bbress uses www/forum/. WordPress and bbpress have separate databases, but all the secret keys, etc. are all setup to match and everything is configured per the install instructions.

It took several attempts to get bbpress installed because it was giving me an database error at the last step stating that I may need to do a fresh install – even though it *was* a fresh install. After several attempts, I decided to try it without the wordpress integration, and that seemed to do the trick. I had assumed that everything was ok after that and it was just a minor hiccup during the installation…?

All that said…

– Login/logout works for each user so far.

– Registration works.

– When I’m signed in as “Admin” I can get to the Admin panel.

However:

– when I try to view the “Admin” account profile, I get a wordpress 404 at www/forum/profile/admin.

– Clicking on any topics or forums (I believe I created them before the integration?) even a view of topics with no replies I get the same 404.

– On the other hand, when logged in as my other user account “elorg” and trying to view that account’s profile page, it redirects me to a wordpress blog entry… that happens to have “elorg” as the first few characters in the subject…?

– And… When creating a new thread titled “test” as my “Admin” account – I was able to post it, but was redirected to… a wordpress entry who’s subject starts with “test” as the first few characters…? That can’t be a coincidence, right? So…

– I logged in as my “elorg” account for good measure, and created a new thread with a one word subject that I know I have a blog post

– When going back to the forum and attempting to open any of the new threads, it forwards me to the same journal entries as it did when I tried to create the threads.

Any ideas? At this point, I might just try to start from scratch and see what happens…

[Rhys Wynne]

Hiya

I’m basically thinking out loud, and felt this was the best forum to post in.

I was browsing through _ck_’s top 100 bbpress forum (well, the first one at least http://www.greedyorneedy.com/), and had a look at the site’s forum and member profiles such as this:-

http://www.greedyorneedy.com/users/view/id/7412

They look brilliant – facebook esque, and would love to implement something similar to my site (well one of my ideas anyway)

What I suspect is that it is a WordPress/Wordpress MU plugin, but still if anybody has any ideas to how they achived this, I would love to hear them

[elorgwhee]

I received a very similar error (something about the database and needing to try to reinstall) when trying a fresh install and integrating wordpress at the same time. I retried it a few times – each time it would fail, and if I tried to access the forum location it would bring me to the installation script again.

Eventually I went through the installation without integrating wordpress and I that’s what ultimately worked. I then went through the wordpress integration after the install.

Latest wordpress & bbpress, on Linux, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 4.1.22.

[jldean]

Ok I switched the theme back to standard, but still have the problem. None of the extra javascript is being loaded with this theme either, so it rules that out.

My bbpress is installed in my wordpress folder (in ‘forum’ subdirectory), but I haven’t configured anything in bbpress admin – settings – wordpress integration… I didn’t think it was necessary as wordpress only needs one admin user. Could this be the problem?

I should add that my bbpress config.php is using require_once to call in wp-blog-header.php. This lets bbpress load the wordpress functions so I can use the wordpress header/footer in my theme. Perhaps this is causing a conflicting cookie or something?

It just seems weird that bbpress lets me login as admin no problem?!

Thanks