[Morbid]

I have done a complete site re-design and have been debating between using vBulletin, which I own, or bbPress. I decided to try out bbPress purely from the simplicity and low-maintenance aspect. But I am having a registration issue that may be cookie related, but I am not sure.

I have bbPress installed within my WordPress directory. I also have bbPress integration as well as WordPress integration to keep users synced between the two (I hope that is what I was supposed to do).

My WordPress register page seems to be working:

http://www.dreamindemon.com/Blog/wp-login.php?action=register

But my bbPress does not:

http://www.dreamindemon.com/Blog/forum/register.php

I have verified that registering in WordPress does integrate the user automatically into bbPress.

Any ideas on what I should be looking at to resolve this?

[archasek]

Hi.

I know that’s not the wordpress forum, but my problem is about bbpress so i’ll ask there.

firstly, look at this: http://ram.org.pl/forum/

everything seem to be working ok, but click on the ‘latest discussion’ called ‘ostatnio na forum’ in my sidebar on the right. there’s a problem with links to topics. how to resolve the problem?

[john24]

On this forum there are a few categories. It is probally not called categories in English.

– Installation

– Troubleshooting

– Templates

– Plugins

– Requests and Feedback

– Pimp your Press

This plugin has an option “N/A Categories (separated by comas, eg. “1,10,40”) -” but, how does it work?

[fel64]

There’s no such thing as categories in bb, unless I don’t understand what you mean? You can tag threads, but there’s no such thing as categories.

[john24]

Thank you. Do you know if it also automaticly creates Categories?

[fel64]

Yup! http://dev.mbzeus.net/?page_id=6 It’ll create (or edit) topics in bb when you make or edit posts in WP.

[john24]

Is there a plugin that automaticly copies categories and post from the wordpress blog?

[tiszenkel]

I’m running a fresh installation of bbPress, albeit with the WordPress integration and Bozo-error-fix plugins, and I noticed that certain links return a “No input file specified” error page. Here’s an example:

http://www.queenscentral.com/forums/tags/

The homepage RSS seems to do the same thing:

http://www.queenscentral.com/forums/rss/

Though other RSS feeds are working fine.

Anybody know what could be causing this?

[kennethhung]

Hi, first of all, Thank You For Doing This

I uploaded the folder and trying to run the install.php (http://www.gaszappers.com/forum/bb-admin/install.php), and all I got is this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bb_install_header() in /home/2206/domains/gaszappers.com/html/forum/bb-admin/install.php on line 11

Any Clues?

I triple check the dbName, user, password, directory and all that jazz, here’s my config.php:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘db2206_gaszappers’); // The name of the database

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

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

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘internal-db.s2206.gridserver.com’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

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

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

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = ‘http://gaszappers.com&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/forum/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘GAS ZAPPERS Development Forum’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘kenneth@tinkin.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

// 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 = -4;

// 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 = ‘***************’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

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

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

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

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

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

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

?>

[c00l2sv]

Oh, thanks Trent…

I also did something, well not so great as you did…

I wrote about bbPress on my blog, including some of our reviews from here. The blog is of course on WordPress.com.

So far not to much responses… But I saw some referrers coming here from there.

[fel64]

It’s a wordpress plugin! I don’t think I can call bb_new_topic() from wordpress?

[kernow]

It’d be better as a plugin for WordPress, with the obvious option not to activate it, and the opportunity to deactivate it without affecting the function of WordPress.

It’d share all the benefits of WP too.

[fel64]

To change where the user is redirected, add a hidden field to the login form called redirect_to, with a value of where-ever you want the user to end up (default is in the dashboard).

[altmejd]

At my site I have a login form put in the header (generated by wordpress, with wordpress functions) that displays either the form for the user to login or the welcome text with the username etc.

The reason I don’t want to use wordpress own login function is because that forwards the user to their wordpress profile which they shouldn’t be using.

The problem I now encountered using the usernames_i18n_fix.php plugin is that wordpress doesn’t display the usernames properly. For the time being I’ve removed the username from the welcome text. But is there any way to make this work through wordpress without including bbpress every time wp loads?

Is it possible somehow to redirect the user to the page they logged in from instead of sending them back to the forum main page?

To echo the username I use

<?php $user = wp_get_current_user(); echo $user->display_name; ?>

[binialas]

Hi, i’ve downloaded bbPress because i’m a lover of WordPress amb because i like bbPress very much. But now i’im in a big trouble.

I want to integrate bbPress in an standard XHTML website with any line of WordPress code, and so i need to know how i can integrate it from the beggining of the process.

Now i’ve just installed bbPress in a url rute like /mydomain.com/bbpress but i need to be shown in a basic xthml document, like mydomain.com/phorum.php

How can i do this?

I think it’s possible, but can you help me?

Regards guys from Mediterranean sea.

I’m waiting a good response form you as soon as you can, thanks guys.

[c00l2sv]

Read this!

[c00l2sv]

Of, thank you guys for reply…

@Trent

I’m sorry, maybe I did not explained myself clearly:

I appreciate the thing that developers like the accessibility given by ajax, and are using this in their application, but the point was to leave the core functions that are for displaying content (like wp_list_pages(); for example in wordpress) outside of ajax.

You’re right wordpress uses ajax in the core but the templating part and the content is not affected at all (only the admin CP). This way we have ajax but only where it is really necessary.

Sorry for bugging, I do understand that my problem is not the #1 priority of the project team but I was thinking maybe there is any solution, thats why I reported that. Sorry …

@Null

Maybe the problem was in the marketing. bbPress was from the start advertised as perfectly compatible and easy to be integrated with WordPress. That is a great advantage, because WordPress is already one of the most usable publishing platform on the web, and people like everything that comes with it – as a result they took bbPress as an another plugin for giant. =]

[fel64]

And everytime a visitor writes a comment in that wordpress posts, it will appear as a post in that bbpress forum? (and vice versa)

Unfortunately that bb Post plugin only toasts your bagels but doesn’t put anything on them. It’ll send WP blogposts as new topics on your forum, but comments/replies aren’t integrated. Someday.

[thierryyyyyyy]

on 2diabolos.com, everything is working fine. And actually, my wordpress plugin allow me to make what you propose (cookie_domaine = ‘.2diabolos.com’ and cookie_path = “/” for wordpress and bbPress)

But on “localhost” (my computer), cookie_domain = “false” and cookie_path = “/” works fine for the front-page, but not for topic pages … that’s not normal (to my opinion). But perhaps someone have an explanation ….

[providencebooks]

Thanks. I will try this and let you guys know how it turns out.

[Nola1974]

Crazy little thing, that google. First result.

http://dev.mbzeus.net/?page_id=6

[fel64]

Not sure what the DXX theme is, but if it’s the one you’re using on your site yeah it’s ultra-easy.

First of all, don’t try to force bb into the WP theme … that rarely works. Your best bet is to open (or make if it doesn’t exist) your my-templates folder and start a new theme by making a new folder (call it dxx or something). Go back up into your main bb folder, open bb-templates > kakumei and copy style.css, then paste it into your new my-templates > dxx folder.

Using CSS you can then modify how your page looks (not what’s on it though). The basic way to do css is like this:

html element {

property: something;

}

For example, the code to colour links red with NO underline is like this:

a {

color: red;

text-decoration: none;

}

To change the way your forum looks, you therefore open the copy of style.css you made and change properties like that. There’s much more info at http://www.w3schools.com/css/. That is all you need to know.

So for example, what you would do for your theme is make links blue and no underline, make the header green, change the background of the page and put a border on the main div element. Some knowledge of HTML will be helpful but you can also pick this up.

[pschwar]

Is it possible with a plugin (or existing functionality?) to create a bbpress forum topic everytime a new wordpress posts is made? And everytime a visitor writes a comment in that wordpress posts, it will appear as a post in that bbpress forum? (and vice versa)

Cheers all!

[Trent Adams]

Just through plugins I think. I know mdawaffe is using more wordpress functions in bbPress and maybe there might be more things that would be considered tighter integration. The bbPress-Post plugin already has the comments of WP controlled by bbPress, so that is why I speculate that it will be done through plugins.

Trent

[albert4000]

This one too:

http://www.informedbanking.com/resources/forums/

Its not nearly as big as Technorati but I’ve been tweaking it slowly but surely, integrating it in with a custom CMS / Wiki, WordPress, and now bbpress.

Thanks for the awesome software. I sent in a patch of themes.php last night – it needs a urldecode() in the current subversion revision.