Is there a way to do standalone pages in bbPress, like the undated “pages” in WordPress?
I’m starting a new project which must consist of a discussion board plus a small set of freestanding pages. The forums and pages need to have the same look and appear as tabs in a coherent navigation structure. I don’t need the freestanding pages to be in a user-friendly CMS, although it would be nice. I’m trying to decide whether to use bbPress alone, bbPress+WordPress, or something completely different.
I was attracted to bbPress in the first place because I thought I could use WordPress’s undated “pages” feature to supplement the forums. But now I gather from other posts that bbPress+WordPress integration is far from straightforward.
So, is there any easy way to present freestanding pages which are uniform in style with bbPress? Or should I give up and go with the competition? (I’m also looking at Drupal, ugh.)
WordPress doesn’t have tags…
Tag formatting should be consistent with whatever WordPress does.
YAY!!! I figured it out!
<?php global $user_identity;
get_currentuserinfo();
if ($user_identity == ”) {
echo(‘Welcome Guest’);
} else {
echo(‘<img src=”/forum/avatars/’ . strtolower($user_identity) . ‘.jpg” alt=”avatar” />’);
}
?>
i believe another problem (and this might be an integration issue) is that the users who have either logged in to bbpress using their wordpress logins (myself, Trent and one other user) or have attempted editing their profiles have had their emails within wordpress changed to “1”. that’s it, just the number 1 which would explain why I did not receive an email when both Trent and mdawaffe signed up for the site.
@davidbaldwin, the titles and rss are on a toggle, basically, when the page loads up, I check to see if bbpress is running:
global $bb;
if($bb){
if it is I switch the title to bbpress using bb_get_title(), and switch the feed to bb_feed_head();
I’ve seen so many articles about integrating bbPress with WP I’m getting a headache, and I still haven’t got it to work.
Has anyone got a definitive guide to integrating bbPress with WP when BB is installed in a sub-directory of wordpress, perhaps an example “live” config.php?
OK – will look later when I am at home, but from memory I don’t recall a bb_usermeta table. Again, from recollection , the term Keymaster doesn’t feature in any of the WordPress installations I have (I am running about 4 on my server), but I’ll check in a couple of hours or so. My wp databases are separate from the bb databases (ie I run multiple databases under MySSQL – and none of my WP databases use the WP_ prefix, which is why I didn’t bother when I installed bbPres!)
Thank you for your help so far!
Hihi,
Unfortunately things did not work out. After adding those lines, I lost all privileges to post or even log out on wp and on bb registered users on wp are still experiencing failed log ins.
And on bb, after the new config.php was reloaded, it went into re-install.
$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;
$bb->cookiedomain = ‘.website.com’;
and this in wp-config.php for wordpress:
define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.website.com’);
define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);
going to http://www.mydomain/pcbb/bb-admin/themes.php just puts me straight back to the home page (my bbpress installation is actually in a directory called pcbb)
Just to make sure I have done everything correctly
I have created my-templates in pcbb
This is not integrated with any wordpress tables – they are all standalone – the bbpress database has the 8 bb_ tables in it and nothing else.
Copied the theme in its own directory to my-templates
I never have seen a presentation menu even on the new install which was 0.8.1. The new install didn’t have bb_ as table prefixes, although I have since corrected that (after upgrading to 0.8.2
Reinstall won’t help you!
When you log into bb, you also log into WordPress, but not the other way around, right? Trouble logging in is usually a cookie problem.
Add this to your config.php:
$bb->cookiepath = '/';
$bb->cookiedomain = '.example.com';
and this in your wp-config.php for wordpress:
define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.example.com');
define('COOKIEPATH', '/');
I think that those are all the things you need to set. Give it a go.
To get www.community.example.com you need to set up a subdomain. This is usually done in your control panel. Bear in mind that some hosts have restrictions on numbers etc.
“The black, green and white really works.”
-> I agree!
I’m thinking that literally translating “tags” is not a a good idea because in spanish it doesn’t sound very meaningful. Same with wordpress “categories”, it sounds strange.
I’d like to suggest anyother word but I still haven’t found a good one 
Hey, fel 64!
Then this is a bad new because it is not smart at all changing core files.
However I have a half working “B plan”
You can get rid of that streams.php error by pointing the ‘BBLANG’ to the wordpress .mo file.
You have to change bbpress config.php like this;
define('BBLANGDIR', '/wp-includes/languages/es_ES.mo');
The problem is that when you copy the bbpress .mo to the wordpress .mo it doesn’t translate anything but the wp itself.
Translation files come in two files; a .mo file and a .po file that I think is the source code.
Perhaps you need to add anything to this .po file but I didn’t find out yet.
Some permalinks are showing up fine and some are not for me. What do you have in your .htaccess file in the /forum/ folder? Is it just:
+ Options Multiview
That seems to work for me. Without having a seperate .htaccess file for your bbPress folder, it will get messed up and try and use the wordpress .htaccess.
As for speed, nothing changed for me with and without permalinks on.
Trent
To get bbpress login integrated with WPMU I had to add the following lines to config.php, after $bb->wp_xxx settings:
if ( isset( $bb->wp_table_prefix ) ){
$bb->usercookie = ‘wordpressuser’;
$bb->passcookie = ‘wordpresspass’;
}
Because WPMU does not use HASH in its COOKIES.
Does editing your .htaccess to just having the following and nothing else work?:
Options +MultiViews
Does that work? Having it of course in your /bbpress/ folder only so that it is not screwing up your wordpress .htaccess file. Does that work for your installation?
Trent
Thanks for your explanations, i hope bbPress will be as clever as WordPress.
Did you put the .htaccess file in your http://bqtrademark.com/bbpress/ from the instructions? I see that you are using ‘slug’ based entries. Maybe try putting the config.php back to false instead of slugs and see if that helps you. Since it is getting your wordpress installation, i am thinking it is the wordpress .htaccess file and not the bbPress file.
Trent
For error: “Cannot redeclare class streamreader …”, read this…
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/111411?replies=9
like i said, i haven’t implemented this plugin as of yet (haven’t even installed bbpress, just planning to in the near future), but will this plugin allow me to put the “Add this topic to your favorites” link on the wordpress post page? i would like to have that capability to allow the users who don’t comment to create a list of their favorites without having to follow the link to the thread in the forum to do so.
I got to thinking… being that it renames the image to their usernames, I thought that the following might work, but it doesn’t…
<img src=”http://yourkahil.com/forum/avatars/<?php echo $strtolower($user->user_identity); ?>.jpg” alt=”avatar” />
Shouldn’t that work? I’m trying to get it to display the current username of the person visiting the site, provided they are logged in. If they aren’t logged in it shouldn’t display anything. Later I’d like to figure out how to do an if else statement so that if the visitor isn’t logged it, it will display a default image.
do you mean that “after upgrading and changing the permalink structure of a forum; the old permalinks does not redirect to the new one” ?
No, I just meant that with the current code, if you’ve somehow managed to change the slug, you’ve broken the old links. But, as you point out, bbPress knows how to move “sideways” across different kinds of permalinks.
WordPress allows you to change the slug and automatically redirects your old links to the new slug; it’s more clever than bbPress is at the moment
Thanks! I went ahead and put the two as different prefixes. Can you make sure the developers put a note about that in config.php!
Yes, it will. WordPress has (what is usually) wp_posts and bbPress has (ditto) bb_posts, with a different table structure, so there’d be issues.
What are the dis/advantages of putting tables in the same database, does anyone know?
karaboga, permalinks should be permanent. Perhaps we can work on redirecting old permalinks to the new ones. Better yet, that’d be a great plugin
mdawaffe, do you mean that “after upgrading and changing the permalink structure of a forum; the old permalinks does not redirect to the new one” ? In this forum, for example we if write
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/100
it is redirected to the 100th topic with the new permalink structure.
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Yes, permalinks should be permanent. But, in WordPress we can change the post slug, and then the permalink of the post is changed. Why cannot we do so in bbPress?
