[dyaddydad]

Hey this is cool. But, what tags does one put in the bbpress template to get the avatar from Dan’s Avatar thing to show up? Or do I have to have the bbpress avatar upload plugin installed and add it via this?

[Vili]

I would personally just copy the bbPress CSS over to the WordPress one, so as to keep it all in one place. If you want to integrate the two, why then have more than one CSS file?

[maker]

One admin dashboard, it’s as simple as a plugin etc , etc.

There are lots of good little reasons for this plugin. Not everybody wants the complexity of a wordpress blog for their main site entrance. And in my case I already have another wordpress blog integrated into my forums. In the case of those who just want a forum site, this plugin will make things more ‘inviting’ to the casual visitor.

[fel64]

h2.postform is in /bb-templates/k2/style.css, line 194. It’s stretched like that because it by default takes up the whole width of the parent element, which is Secondary. It is more effective to set the width for Secondary than for the child elements, because the Secondary width will automatically control all the child elements too.

Firebug is an invaluable HTML, CSS and JS debugger.

[bozzy]

Almost there… one quick question, do you know which part of the stylesheet controls the ‘reply’ line?

It’s stretched across the whole page, unlike the rest…

http://forums.bozzysworld.com/topic/6?replies=1

[fel64]

It is possible but I don’t know of any plugins to do it. You can probably do it yourself fairly easily though . You need to make a WordPress plugin that will call the data and display it. You can get the data by using something like

global $wpdb;

$latestusers = $wpdb->get_results("MySQL query");

but the wordpress wpdb reference and plugin writing reference will be of more help.

[tecfre]

Hi .

I am not sure whether any plugin is available for this .

I have integrated wordpress and BBpress and in my wordpress blog i want to have a page which should show the lastest users who have registered in my forum along with their avatar if available. Is it possible .

More or less like we have contact me plugin for wordpress , is there any plugin to display the users ..

Thanks and regards

blog : http://www.tecfre.com

forum ( under testing) : http://www.tecfre.com/forum

[fabtest]

follow-up post deleted. please ignore.

[fabtest]

my “seemless integration” is coming along quite nicely. but a have a question:

**obviously when I get my wp header from my bb frontpage.php, I also get the wp stylesheet. would it be better to put a check in the header to see if a bbpress page is being served and disable the wp css, as you mentioned? If so, should I then copy-paste the important stuff from the wp css into the bb css to make the layout uniform?

Thanks for the help.

faB

[metalvalley]

Isn’t it so that WordPress itself can function like a portal?

[fel64]

Got a problem on my hands. I’m trying to simplify a lot of things by require’ing bb-load.php and then using the bb API. However bbdb loads with a fatal error if I do this when wordpress has fully loaded, but it works perfectly fine if I require bb-load when the plugin is run.

What I mean is require( 'path/to/bb-load.php' ) works fine if placed anywhere inside the main code of the plugin. If I call it using the wp hook init it no longer works, nor does calling it by other hooks (that I’ve tried) or through function calls in templates and the like.

I went through wp-settings.php and require’d bb-load systematically until I found that it only worked once wordpress had loaded general-template.php (line 153). It worked from any point onwards, including after do_action('init'); (which I don’t understand at all). Using the init hook in my plugin to require it does not work.

I suspect this means that the init hook in wordpress maybe does something or other, then loads plugins, then does something else that stops bb being included, then runs any other funtions registered with the init hook – but my wp mojo is not impressive. I tested this with all other plugins deactivated.

The output if bb-load is required too late in the code:

Fatal error: Call to a member function get_row() on a non-object in xampphtdocsforumsbb-includesfunctions.php on line 1224

That makes me think bbdb is not created, but I can’t see why it wouldn’t be.

Can someone help me with this please? I’d much rather use the API than duplicate functions.

[fel64]

The #1 thing to do is to backup regularly. You can’t be 100% sure that you’re safe – but if you have a backup it’s not a particularly big deal. If you use WordPress use the backup plugin for that and include the bb tables too.

If someone else users your computer and you’re still logged in, then they have access to everything you have access to. You can’t do much damage through bbPress; deleting posts etc. isn’t permanent, for example. What you should be concerned about (if you reckon someone nasty is going to get to your computer at all) is your FTP, database and hosting admin access.

[pensandpencils]

Hello,

I am intergrating BB into WordPress and am hitting a wall.

When I attempt to go to step three of installation I meet the following text:

bbPress database error: [Column ‘post_text’ cannot be part of FULLTEXT index]

CREATE TABLE bb_posts ( post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default ‘1’, topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default ‘1’, poster_id int(10) NOT NULL default ‘0’, post_text text NOT NULL, post_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’, poster_ip varchar(15) NOT NULL default ”, post_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default ‘0’, post_position bigint(20) NOT NULL default ‘0’, PRIMARY KEY (post_id), KEY topic_id (topic_id), KEY poster_id (poster_id), KEY post_time (post_time), FULLTEXT KEY post_text (post_text) ) TYPE = MYISAM

1. Created table bb_forums

2. Created table bb_posts

3. Created table bb_topics

4. Created table bb_topicmeta

5. Created table bb_tags

6. Created table bb_tagged

7. Changed type of wp_usermeta.meta_key from varbinary(255) to varchar(255)

8. Changed type of wp_usermeta.meta_value from longblob to longtext

9. Changed type of wp_users.user_login from varbinary(60) to varchar(60)

10. Changed type of wp_users.user_pass from varbinary(64) to varchar(64)

11. Changed type of wp_users.user_nicename from varbinary(50) to varchar(50)

12. Changed type of wp_users.user_email from varbinary(100) to varchar(100)

13. Changed type of wp_users.user_url from varbinary(100) to varchar(100)

14. Changed type of wp_users.display_name from varbinary(250) to varchar(250)

15. Added index wp_users UNIQUE KEY user_login (user_login)

bbPress database error: [Table ‘louise.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]

INSERT INTO bb_posts (forum_id, topic_id, poster_id, post_text, post_time, poster_ip, post_status, post_position) VALUES (‘1’, ‘1’, ‘1’, ‘

First Post! w00t.

‘,’2007-05-10 15:35:23’, ‘192.168.2.4’, ‘0’, 1)

bbPress database error: [Table ‘louise.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT post_id, poster_id FROM bb_posts WHERE topic_id = 1 AND post_status = 0 ORDER BY post_time

bbPress database error: [Table ‘louise.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT * FROM bb_posts WHERE post_id = 0

Finished!

I am doing everything to the letter and cannot see what I’m doing wrong…..

The only things I change to install is the directory titles from:

wordpress to ‘journal’

and

bbpress to ‘message_board’

Help would be greatly appreciated. As its driving me mental. All of this just so I can have people sign in to both wordpress and bbpress at the same time.

Thanks

[Vili]

Hmm. I took a look at the “Connections” theme by Vanilla Mist, and it seems that the header file in that theme is not used for actual header information, but only for the header DIV. This will make your life somewhat more difficult if you want to integrate your bbPress seemlessly in the manner that I described above.

[metalvalley]

I’d like to see a smilie plugin like wp-grins for wordpress!

[fel64]

I don’t know about “feature”, but all it means is that it sets a cookie that isn’t cleared until a week from when you log in. Unless you log out, that cookie remains. In WordPress, you can untick the “Remember Me” thing; I don’t know if bbPress can (yet) be configured to not remember you like that.

If you’re worried, just log out when you’re done.

[startribe]

Any word on a simple WYSIWYG plugin or feature for bbPress. Something similar to what is on WordPress support forums would be awesome.

[fel64]

Rather than filling up pages of this forum, it would be nice if you could use something like pastebin.

That’s not your only stylesheet. Style declarations for your forum are also made in http://www.bozzysworld.com/wp-content/themes/k2, which is where you need to make the changes to .secondary and so on. Since you have several different stylesheets referenced they may be conflicting. Changing that stylesheet may have knock-on effects on your main site’s theme. Are you using your wordpress header? It may be easier to recreate your header for bbPress but with seperate stylesheets, so that modifications for your forums will not affect your front page.

[Trent Adams]

The only place that you specify the domain of your bbPress installation is in the config.php file. If you change over to a domain name, you just change the path in config.php and you should be up and running again. As for installing with an IP address, I haven’t tried it and wonder if anyone else has tried. Might leave it for another to answer.

Integrating with wordpress requires a little work, but if you click on the ‘documentation’ tab in the forum, there is a detailed description of getting it working with the same users and cookies from wordpress. The integration of style has a couple of posts here on the front page that seem to work well. Integrating will not screw up WP at all since the ‘integration’ is really having bbPress use the WP users and metatable in the database and has no real effect on it.

Trent

[bozzy]

I’m not sure I get it… here is what my css file looks like:

/*

Theme Name: K2 for bbPress

Theme URI: http://www.linickx.com/blog/archives/253/k2-for-bbpress/

Description: A port of the famous k2 to bbpress

Version: 0.01 theta-beta

Author: Nick [LINICKX] Bettison

Author URI: http://www.linickx.com

*/

/*

Derrived from Bryan Veloso orriginal style sheet that ships with bbpress, added a little style from the sheet availble from http://getk2.com, copyright of that to the people at http://binarybonsai.com !

*/

/* Globals

=================================== */

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

body {

font: 62.5% ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; /* 62.5% sets 1em to about 10px */

background: #EDEDED;

color: #444;

text-align: center;

margin-bottom: 30px;

}

a { color: #27d; text-decoration: none; }

a:hover { color: #27d; text-decoration: underline; }

.alt { background: #fff; }

code { font: 1.0em Monaco, ‘Courier New’, monospace; }

p { margin-bottom: 1.0em; }

.left { float: left; }

.right { float: right; }

.delete:hover {

background: #c00;

color: #fff;

}

h1 { font-size: 2em; }

h2 { font-size: 1.5em; }

/* Structure

=================================== */

#wrapper {

width: 780px; /* controls the main width of the page, if changed also change #content and .sidebar */

margin: 0 auto;

background: white;

text-align: left;

}

#header {

padding: 0;

margin: 0;

position: relative;

height: 200px;

background: #3371A3; /* header color default is #3371A3, for images – background-image: url(example.jpg); */

}

h1, h2, h3, h4 {

font-family: ‘Trebuchet MS’, Verdana, Sans-Serif;

}

#header h1 {

font-size: 3em;

font-weight: bold;

letter-spacing: -1px;

margin: 0;

padding: 75px 0 0 40px;

}

#header p { margin-bottom: 0; }

#header h1 a, #header h1 a:visited { color: #fff; text-decoration: none; }

#header h1 a:hover, #header h1 a:active{ text-decoration: underline; }

#main {

font-size: 1.2em;

width: 760px;

margin: 10px auto 25px;

position: relative;

}

.bbcrumb {

text-transform: uppercase;

font-size: 0.9em;

letter-spacing: 1px;

}

#footer {

margin: auto;

color: #666;

font-size: 1.0em;

letter-spacing: 2px;

text-transform: uppercase;

padding-top: 10px;

clear: both;

text-align: center;

width: 760px;

}

#footer a:link, #footer a:visited { /* more link link color fixes for nav & admin stuff */

color: #777;

text-decoration: none;

font-weight: bold;

}

#footer a:hover, #footer a:active {

color: #000;

text-decoration: underline;

font-weight: bold;

}

.notice {

border: 2px solid #4c9545;

background: #abd8a2;

color: #4c9545;

font-size: 1.1em;

font-weight: bold;

padding: 10px 15px;

margin: 0 0 1.1em;

}

.notice p { margin-bottom: 0; }

/* Login Form

=================================== */

.login {

color: #000;

margin: 10px 40px;

}

.login a, .login a:visited { color: #000; text-decoration: none; }

.login a:hover, .login h1 a:active{ text-decoration: underline; }

.login p { padding: 0 0 5px; }

.login label {

display: block;

float: left;

padding-right: 10px;

}

.login #submit {

font-size: 1.2em;

margin-top: 13px;

float: left;

}

p.login {

font-weight: normal;

font-size: 1.2em;

}

form.login input {

margin-top: 3px;

border: 1px solid #999;

}

/* Front Page

=================================== */

#front-page #hottags {

position: absolute;

top: 0;

left: 0;

width: 150px;

overflow: hidden;

}

#front-page #discussions {

margin-left: 0px;

width: 500px;

float: left;

}

.frontpageheatmap {

font-weight: normal;

line-height: 30px;

padding-bottom: 10px;

}

#front-page #main h2, h2.post-form, #userlogin, #currentfavorites, #register {

color: #333;

border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;

margin: 0 0 10px;

padding: 0 0 5px;

}

#front-page #discussions ul { padding: 0 0 0 14px; }

.sticky {

background: #EDEDED;

}

/* Topic Page

=================================== */

.infobox {

border: 1px solid #ccc;

border-width: 1px 0;

padding: 1em;

width: 500px;

}

.infobox ul {

margin: 10px 0 10px 12px;

padding: 0;

}

.infobox ul li { padding-bottom: 3px; }

#topic-tags {

border-left: 1px solid #ccc;

float: right;

margin-top: -2em;

padding: 0 1em 1em;

}

.nav {

margin: 15px 0;

padding: 12px 0;

}

.nav span { font-weight: bold; }

.nav span, .nav a { padding: 6px; }

#thread {

background: #eee;

list-style: none;

margin: 0 0 0 100px;

padding: 0;

width: 500px;

}

#thread li {

padding: 1.5em 1.0em;

line-height: 1.5em;

}

#thread li ol, #thread li ul { margin-left: 40px; }

#thread li ol li, #thread li ul li { padding: 0; }

.threadauthor {

margin-left: -110px;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

width: 95px;

}

.threadauthor small { font: 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }

.poststuff {

border-top: 1px dotted #ccc;

margin: 10px 0 0;

padding: 5px 0 0;

font: 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

text-transform: uppercase;

width: 500px;

}

.num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

}

.postform {

background: #fff;

padding: 1em;

width: 500px;

}

.postform textarea {

height: 12em;

margin: 5px 0;

padding: 5px;

width: 500px;

display: block;

}

.postform label { display: block; width: 500px;}

.admin { padding: 10px 0 0; }

#manage-tags {

margin: 10px 0;

list-style: none;

}

#manage-tags li {

float: left;

width: 200px;

padding-bottom: 10px;

}

.submit { text-align: right; }

.topiclink { display: block; }

.topictitle {

font-size: 26px;

font-weight: normal;

display: inline;

}

/* Other

=================================== */

#content .frontpageheatmap a {

font-weight: normal;

text-decoration: none;

}

#content .infobox li { margin-bottom: 2px; }

#content .nav a {

border: 1px solid #ccc;

font-weight: normal;

}

#content .nav a:hover {

border: 1px solid #999;

}

#content a:visited {

font-weight: normal;

}

#front-search {

float: right;

margin-top: -8px;

}

#latest td, #forumlist td, #favorites td { padding: 5px 10px; }

#latest tr:hover, #forumlist tr:hover, #favorites tr:hover { background: #cbd9e4; }

#latest th, #forumlist th, #favorites th {

/* border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; */

background: #3371A3;

color: #fff;

padding: 5px 10px;

text-transform: uppercase;

font-weight: bold;

}

#latest th a:link, #latest th a:visited, #latest th a:active {

color:#fff;

}

#latest, #forumlist, #favorites {

background: #f7f7f7;

margin-bottom: 2em;

width: 100%;

}

.bozo { background: #eeee88; }

.alt.bozo { background: #ffff99; }

.deleted { background: #ee8888; }

.alt.deleted { background: #ff9999; }

/* Profile Page

=================================== */

#profile-menu {

margin: -35px 0px;

padding: 0 0 30px 0;

float:right;

}

#profile-menu ul {

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

position: absolute;

bottom: 0;

left: 20px;

width: 90%;

}

#profile-menu li {

display: inline;

margin: 0;

}

#profile-menu,

#profile-menu li a {

padding: 5px 15px 6px;

}

#profile-menu li a {

font-size: 1em;

color: white;

margin: 0;

}

#profile-menu li a:hover {

background: #333;

color: #eee !important;

text-decoration: none;

}

#profile-menu li.current a,

ul.menu li.current a:hover {

color: #333 !important;

background: white;

text-decoration: none;

}

#userinfo { margin-top: 10px; }

#userinfo dt { font-weight: bold; }

#userinfo dd { margin: 0 0 5px; }

#useractivity { margin: 15px 0 5px; }

.user-recent { margin: 0 0 10px; }

.user-recent ol { margin: 5px 0 0 28px; }

.user-recent ol li { margin: 0 0 3px; }

/* Profile Edit

=================================== */

fieldset {

border-top: 3px double #ccc;

border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;

border-left: none;

border-right: none;

padding: 10px 0 10px 10px;

margin-bottom: 15px;

width: 500px;

}

legend {

font-weight: bold;

padding: 0 15px;

}

fieldset table {

text-align: left;

margin: 0 15px;

}

fieldset table td { padding: 2px 0; }

fieldset p {

font-size: 11px;

margin: 10px 16px;

}

/* further additions by Nick */

/* this is for my 48 x 48 avatars */

.post {

min-height: 60px;

}

Can you tell me if it’s right?

[stricha]

Can you install BBPress using an IP Subdomain (example: http://111.111.111~directory)? I’m working for a client who wants to get their new site set-up before switching over their existing domain name. I’m wondering: can I install BBPress using the IP address or should I wait for the domain transfer? If I can install now using the IP subdomain, what are the implications for the install when the domain transfer goes through?

I’m planning a BBPress integration with WordPress, which I have installed and customized nicely and don’t want to mess-up at this point or else I’d go for it with BBPress and see what happens. Does anyone have experience with this issue they can share?

Thanks.

[fel64]

1. Unfortunately there’s nothing I can find. No-one on these forums has posted about switching from vBulletin yet, presumably because they’ve invested in it. I can’t help since, well, it’s licensed. Maybe you can look at the data structure yourself and write a converter?

2. No idea, but my guess is far better for performance. That’s one of the main reasons for bb’s existence – to provide even faster forum software than the best the WordPress people could get their hands on.

[fel64]

You certainly need an absolute path like GTim said. Now your forum seems to work, how’d you get it to be so?

I should also say that in my config.php I have the path to wordpress’ wp-config.php, nothing else.

[gtim]

I think that you need need to require bb-settings.php, too. However, that doesn’t explain your error messages. The //../ part is odd. What if you try an absolute path? E.g.

require_once( '/home/ceciliabjerling.com/www/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php' );

[emildorbell]

“bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. In order to do that, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).”

Just uploaded bbpress and tried doing this on http://www.ceciliabjerling.com/wordpress/forum/

You can see the error message there and perhaps tell me what I’m doing wrong.

I changed

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

to the path where my wp-blog-header.php is