[chrishajer]

Can you post what you did and what resources you used, so others with the same problem might find this post when they are searching for a solution to their problem?

Basically though, you would install WordPress first, then use the same database for bbPress, but with a different table prefix for the bbPress tables. Then there are configuration options in config.php in the bbpress folder. Some of those can only be answered AFTER installing WordPress, like these:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = '';

$bb->wp_home = '';

$bb->wp_siteurl = '';

 

[chrishajer]

I wouldn’t put them in bb-templates at all (no good reason for saying that other than “they don’t go there.”) Just drop them into my-templates.

The my templates folder should be 0755.

The template folder itself should be 0755.

The files in the template folder should be 0644.

(well, that’s what they are in my installation, by default, and they work)

If those permissions are correct, then is it possible you didn’t create a folder under my-templates? Should be something like:

my-templates  (directory)

-crystal (directory)

- all the php and css for the crystal theme here

-superbold (directory)

- all the php and css for the superbold theme here

 

The other thing is that the style.css needs to have a line in it like this:

Theme Name: Crystal

If the Theme Name is not unique, I think bad things happen. At least you see what appears to be a theme of the same name in multiple places in the admin panel. I know WordPress doesn’t like themes with the same name too much, and I suspect bbPress is similarly picky.

Please post when you find the solution because I am sure it will help other people. Thanks.

[chrishajer]

There has been some talk of this recently in the dev list. They were recently looking at using phpass as WordPress does, and I know they were also going to look into just how WordPress does registration as well.

http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/bbdev/2007-December/thread.html

[alexhertz]

WordPress has a really nice authentication method: by user’s email. No password or registration. Is it possible to use similar authentication in bbpress?

Really, registration is unnecessary and creates a problem of spam nicknames cluttering the admin panel. Akismet deals with spam comments well.

Wouldn’t it make sense to switch to the wordpress-type authentication by poster’s email?

Please note that this is not the same as anonymous posting.

Additionally, bbpress really lacks wordpress’ moderation options. It would be surely a good idea to moderate all comments which contain links since almost all of them are spam comments which make it through Akismet.

[Doobus]

This is such a nub question, but what goes first the WordPress install followed by bbPress? Or do they install at the same time, the documentation is confusing me because all it say is configure the config.php file in the bbPress folder, but doesn’t say much else? Any help past this would be great! Thanks.

[chrishajer]

Shared hosting works fine assuming you have a good host. As you get more forum activity, you would need more server, and shared hosting is not going to be enough. For starting out though, bbPress works fine on a shared host.

I’ve been using 1&1 (affiliate link) for 4+ years now without any trouble at all running WordPress or bbPress or anything else, for that matter. If you get an account on a shared host, I would recommend getting one with ssh access to a command line. It makes a lot of things much easier. If all you have is FTP access, that’s OK too.

[jeromyboyd]

When I finally got my installation to work, I was able to modify the source coding for bbPress to display within a page of WordPress, but styling it to match the wordpress theme would be to intensive with having to change core id’s and classes that were used between both wp and bb. It is easier, from what I am gathering, to design your wordpress template around the bbpress forum.

[ruilouis]

Hello everybody,

I’d liek to know if there is a way to allow people to post without being logged in, without having to become members.

In my case the fact that people have to enter a user name and a email is quite better-not-to-post-incentive.

In WordPress there was a way to do that so I suppose it was alike in BBpress, but I could not find how to do it.

Thanks for help.

Rui

[chrishajer]

I can’t see a way that bbPress would be responsible. The email is sent right before the registration success message is sent. From register.php lines 39-41:

do_action('register_user', $user_id);



bb_load_template( 'register-success.php', $_globals );

 

So, after the register_user action (which emails the password) the success message is displayed. There is no delay built into bbPress. So, it is somewhere after bbPress has handed off the email.

Is is possible there is a different header in the bbPress password message that causes it to be delayed by the recipient’s ISP? I know there is a Precedence: bulk header in the bbPress email, and that WordPress has the same, but there is also a X header in the WordPress email that I don’t see in the bbPress email: X-Priority: 3 (which means “normal” delivery.) It could also be due to the email address the email is coming from (some sort of validation by the SMTP server to see if the sender is valid.)

I would say the problem is with the server sending the emails, or the recipient’s ISP, not with bbPress. I can’t come up with any ideas at all how bbPress could be responsible.

[theshovel]

Hi All,

I have BBpress integrated with WordPress. We just launched the forums yesterday and noticed that users were registering, but not posting. After some testing it looks like the password emails are being sent, but they can take up to five minutes. Users seem to be getting impatient and leaving. We are on a hosted service and the email service works just fine so it’s not the server. Any ideas what is happening?

[c00l2sv]

Glad we could help somehow…

Good luck!

[Trent Adams]

You posted an hour ago! We are around to help, but not always right away! I am thinking it is the lack of an .htaccess file in your /bbpress/ folder on your server. Create that file and have the following in it and upload it and it might get you going:

Options +MultiViews

Check out:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/

Trent

[neffster]

I guess I will go with one of these: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Forums

[neffster]

Here is my situation, I finally was able to install BBpress onto my server and got it to work, however, if you press any links in the bbpress it goes here

http://www.thegi.net/word/bbpress/forum/geekincognito

BBpress is installed here:

http://www.thegi.net/word/bbpress/

Naturally; word is installed here:

http://www.thegi.net/word/ but you can access it here: http://www.thegi.net/

What am I doing wrong ? Here is the config minus security PW’s

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘*******’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘******’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘*****’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

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

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://thegi.net/word/bbpress/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘TheG:I.Network’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘ryan.a.neff at gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘slugs’;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = -6;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ‘0123456789ab’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://thegi.net&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://thegi.net/word&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

Any pointers? As well, how would I adapt BBpress to the theme I have?

[madcap]

Well, that was definitely the problem.

I have the bbpress directory in the wordpress directory, and had the language parameter set in both. I read your post above, set the lang in bbpress to ”, and viola! It worked immediately.

It took me forever to find this post, but I’m glad it was posted. I would have died of old age before I figured that out on my own.

[Thord D. Hedengren]

I managed to duplicate the problem on my own project. Take a look, Next link (Nästa in Swedish, way down) doesn’t work.

http://pakten.se/forum/

and

http://pakten.se/forum/forum/testa-loss

The forum is installed in /forum. There’s a WordPress MU installation in the root directory, with working permalinks.

[Thord D. Hedengren]

Actually, no, I can’t share, it’s a closed forum for a client’s editorial staff. I might get them to move another domain to the server so that I can set it up and replicate the problem there, though?

And yes, they are working perfectly fine besides this. I was a bit surprised that they were, actually, since there’s a WordPress MU install on the same domain, but they’re playing nicely, and permalinks worked right away using the standard instructions, didn’t do anything fancy at all.

(Forum was installed after WPMU if that helps.)

Any ideas?

[sheatsb]

I’m having a couple of issues:

-Is it just me, or are a few files missing from the package. There are claims in the documents of a

stylesheet and another file outside of bbsync.php.

-When I put the <?php bbrepliestext(); ?> tag in my theme, it shows nothing, then I try <?php felbbreplies(); ?> and I get Fatal error: Call to undefined function felbbreplies() in /Applications/MAMP/taos.htdocs/woodfin/wp-content/themes/default/single.php on line 56

I’ve integrated WordPress and bbPress with the database and plugins. Is there something I’m missing to make this work, because this is a great plugin.

[chrishajer]

Hi.

1. No, you can’t use the WordPress translation because there might be phrases that occur in bbPress that aren’t translated already for WordPress. I think you already discovered and resolved that.

2. You already figured out where to put the mo file (bb-includes/languages)

3. I have seen a couple different posts for places to host the translations, maybe this one would be OK?

http://www.bbpulp.org/wiki/Translation_files

I have no idea how to get it hosted “officially” at Automattic.

Thanks for translating.

[scoooooop]

Hi, no I had left the $bb->mod_rewrite = false; although I did try changing it to true once but with no success. I don’t know how to create .htaccess but like I said I’ve never had a problem setting up a WordPress site. Is that something specific to bbpress that I should know? I would have thought that my db/site host GoDaddy was big enough that if this was a problem someone would have come across it before! Thanks for the reply anyway.

[pixelplain]

Wanted to share our new forums using bbPress:

http://www.touchtip.com/forums/ – The site is about all things iPhone and iPod touch and a forum was a natural addition to our WordPress-based site.

bbPress was a pleasure to work with and configure. I have had a long, love-hate history with bb software (worked at ezboard during their glory days) and I think bbPress is where it’s at. Love the low bloat factor, simplicity and the focus on content. Nice to see the bbs advance in this way.

Thanks for bbPress and keep up the good work!

JR

[chrishajer]

These instructions are for WordPress but the procedure is the same:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

I think you take that pot file I linked to and use a tool like poedit to translate all the phrases that are in that pot file.

Then, according to the config.php:

// Change this to localize bbPress.  A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to 'de'

// to enable German language support.

define('BBLANG', '');

 

So, according to that, use poedit to generate the mo file (maybe it’s ar.mo for arabic?) and drop the ar.mo file you just created into the bb-includes/languages folder. Now change the BBLANG line to read:

define('BBLANG', 'ar');

I THINK.

I am guessing on the ar as the proper language according to this page I found:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry

I am totally guessing at all of this, but I think that’s pretty close to what you need to do. When you’re done translating, please post back and share your work. Thanks.

[scoooooop]

Hey folks

I’ve been trying to install bbpress and after six full attempts (including fresh db’s) I’ve given up. Every time I install it goes into a loop where I login and it takes me right back to the login page. There is no dashboard in site.

I haven’t used any customizations and I don’t have wp running on the same db or site. I just install as described with the config.php filled in up to the email.

There doesn’t seem to be any documentation that covers this, and I’ve installed WordPress many times (on other sites) with no problems. I’m using GoDaddy and I’ve tried 4.1 and 5.0 and I’ve tried deleting cookies and downloading both the zip and the tar.gz versions of 0.8.3 in case there was a problem with your file but I always end up with the same result.

I expect I’ll be moving on to a different forum package but you may want to cover this in your instructions, could there be a issue with GoDaddy or with permissions?

[chrishajer]

My guess is that there is something wrong with the database settings in config.php (sorry) – if it is using the same database as the WordPress site, and the WordPress site is still up, then I think there’s something wrong with the config.php. Unless you changed something else recently with your files, I can’t think of anything else that would cause it.

Since posting an edited wp-config.php and config.php would be useless since you’d be destroying information, I would have another set of eyes look at both config files and see if there are any differences. Maybe the config.php was edited with some editor that mangled a character or line ending or something.

Also, can you connect to the database with phpMyAdmin or something using the details from config.php? Make sure the database is still there?

[pwdrskier4]

I am getting a new error: Cannot select DB.

My forums were set up and working at http://www.snownation.com/forums/

All of the sudden, now I am getting this error. I have checked the DB settings like 10 times. You will notice on my frontpage at snownation.com the latest discussions pluggin is still pulling info and it has the same login info as does my wordpress setup.

Any ideas???