Is it true that the ‘standard’ thing to do is install WP and BBP in the same database? If so, I’m going to take bbolman’s recommendation and copy my BBP tables into my WP database. Is it safe to copy these directly, or are the some alterations that need to be made first?
? so,,,,,,,,,,,, you want the first post to be the blog post itself, and all the replies to be comments?. it is doable, but why?
It sounds that playing with a cool DB migration tool would be woth your while.
Uh…converting forum posts to wordpress posts sort of defeats the purpose of bbPress I think. Plus, if you have much of any posts it will eat up your database. Why exactly do you want to do this?
Basically the part causing problems is using the require of wp-config. THis gets you the wordpress API in bbPress. I use this to have my widget sidebar in my bbPress pages. When you do this, bbPress uses the kses.php library from WordPress instead of bbPress. It makes sense – the library is generic. Why load it twice (plus the function names would conflict)
But something with kses 0.2.2 is stripping out attribute lists. I’ve been debugging it all morning and I can’t figure out why. I get so far as to see in wp_kses_attr that after checking for allowed protocols, no attributes come back. Still digging.
baptiste said: “The point of using a href is to hide the URL itself and have a clickable phrase. a is listed as an allowed tag and in kses it appears to be allowed. I can’t understand why it’s being stripped out of the post. It should not be”
Good point. I forgot I can do that with mine and it works fine. I am not using any WordPress integration plugin for mine – just user registrations are integrated. What integration plugins are you using and what does it get you?
I used the instructions here but stopped short of the cookies. I think all that is ‘integrated’ in mine are user accounts. Maybe I didn’t complete the integration and that’s why mine is acting different than yours.
Hrm…..
(edit: the link to “here” works exactly like you want it to in your install, but it does not. I grok your problem now. )
This is bizarre. If bbPress integrated is using the WordPress version of kses, you’d think the same problem with href disappearing would happen in WordPress too, but it doesn’t. I’m still digging, but this is really puzzling.
I have confirmed, however, that ALL attributes are being stripped that should be allowed. href, rel, cite in blockquote, etc.
All,
I’ve posted a few things on the forums about odd behavior I’ve seen – href attributes in a tags getting stripped, slashes not getting stripped, etc.
I’ve confirmed that these problems are due to the WordPress integration. I am running WordPress 2.1 and bbPress 0.75 and followed the documentation to do the integration.
When I stop loading wp-config in my bbPress config, the slashes get removed and href attributes stay in posts.
I’m still digging, but part of this problem is overlap between WordPress and bbPress. The docs talk about a constant WP_BB that tells the code there are possibly conflicting APIs out there. Setting it causes bbPress to use the kses code from WordPress instead. WordPress 2.1 uses kses v0.2.2 while bbPress ships with v0.2.1. My guess is something changed between the two that bbPress doesn’t handle.
As for the slashes in front of apostrophes, it MAY be part of it – I’m not sure yet if kses is used to strip slashes. I didn’t think kses got called except during posting, not during viewing. There is another library from WordPress that bbPress uses in integration mode (l10n) for localization – not sure if this is involved in anyway (doubt it)
So if you’re seeing weird behavior – it may very well be intergation. But the good news is it doesn’t seem to be overly difficult to fix. Still digging to find the ‘right’ way (though as a hack for the slash problem, you can include a stripslashes call in template-functions:
function get_post_text() {
global $bb_post;
// Hack to strip slashes until WordPress integration is fixed
return stripslashes($bb_post->post_text);
}
Anyway – just an FYI. I’ll dig more into the kses href issue and post if I find anything.
I’m thinking this problem may be due to the WordPress integration stuff. Same thing with the slashes being included in the posts. I may mess around with the integration plugin a bit and see if including the wordpress APIs is the root cause and why.
Easy fix (hack) in bb-includes/template-functions.php, update this function to look like this:
function get_post_text() {
global $bb_post;
return stripslashes($bb_post->post_text);
}
May be an artifact of the wordpress integration – not sure.
lo all, I have the same problem as Staffan, when I use this fine plugin, I get no name name displayed, I have just installed the 0.75 of BBPress, and I do not have any option in my profile to enter a nicename at all, hence why the assigned database entry (‘user_nicename’) doesn’t hold a Nicename 😮
Well I could enter a Nicename via phpMyAdmin, but that’s surely not the way to work that out, because tbh I am way too lazy, to do that for every future user registering with the forum 
==edit==
Nevermind my post above, just sorted it out, it works, IF you install BBP with the database tables from WP in the config.php, but NOT IF you install BBP without these information
So the nicename from the WP user-table is being used, also means, users have to enter their WP profile to change that, as this is NOT possible via BBP profile
Thx anyways 
==end edit==
Anyhow, a pretty nice plugin, keep up the good work Atsutane 
Hey guys,
I recently used a cool script I found on here somewhere to convert our phpbb2 forums’ database over to bbpress.
Anyone know if it would be possible to convert this new database over to a wordpress DB? So all the forum posts become posts in a wordpress blog – under categories?
Sorry probably the wrong place to post this!
Adam
bbPress should already be filtering new registrations thorugh Akismet; if you have Akismet set up, it should mark as “bozo” any new registrations.
There may, of course, be bugs particularly if you’re loading both bbPress and WordPress at the same time.
WordPress sends Content-Type headers. I guess bbPress should too.
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/561
I think the easiest thing to do would be to just move over your bbpress install into the same database as your blog. I’m sure somebody here could probably help you modifying that plugin, but I feel like just moving would be much simpler.
That’s right Trent — I’m using 2 databases. I’ve been looking for a way to modify this plugin to get it look in the bbpress database, but I’m afraid my PHP skills aren’t quite up to it. Do you know of any other workarounds?
I think the plugin is designed to work when you have both wordpress and bbPress in the same database. You are using 2 different databases I would imagine then? If that is the case, then this plugin will not work for you.
Trent
I’m getting this error in WP2.1:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘wordpress.bb_topics’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status = 0 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 10
—-
The table wordpress.bb_topics doesn’t exist because my bbpress database is named bbpress. So the proper database place to look would be bbpress.bb_topics
Any way to fix this issue?
Sorry, wrong location. Search database bb_usermeta table for is_bozo and you will find your bozo information in there. If you are integrated with WordPress, it will be the wp_usermeta table (as in my case). Here is an example of one of the entries in the database for a bozo:
umeta_id user_id meta_key meta_value
696 106 is_bozo b:1;
Trent
I see, and this plugin in instance, where do I set it? either in wordpress or bbpress?
Hello, I’m trying to get working display_name plugin in my forums but after installing the plugin it doesn’t work, it’s still showing “Admin” but in wordpress is showing my “name” correctly.
Another question, maybe related with the previous… Here I see people saying, “put it in your my-plugins folder”, but if bbpress has not plugins or has it? pardon my confunsion :S
Thanks in advance
Has someone thought about this “standard” addition yet? WordPress has it. It becomes even more useful on message boards where, in conjunction with subscriptions or favorites, users can carry on an entire conversation (thread) via email without ever having to get online. The entire conversation is then preserved online for later reference.
Anyone interested in trying to set this up?
Wouldn’t that be the allowed tags in WordPress, not bbPress forum though right drmike?
Trent
I knew I had seen them over in wp.com land.
They’re in the allowed tag list.
Link
I thought I was going bonkers.
“a list of all the functions in /my-includes/template-functions.php”
Indeed, and to be honest I forgot about that.
Anyway, wouldn’t it be neat to see some examples, etc a la the WordPress codex.
If we assume for a moment, that there a several people who would be happy to contribute to a topic like that, where do we go to from here, and how does it get collated in documentation.
FWIW, bbPress forums are terrific, but they are often answering simple questions (like mine??) that really should be in documentation. Someone suggested a wiki but I think WP has been there and done that. Somehow the user community needs a forum (excuse the pun) to help build the documentation.
Gee, sounds like I’m all fired up, which I’m not. But I can see bbPress dying on the vine for want of continuous improvement in documentation.
Hey Community,
I had a question about this latest discussion plugin, which is awesome by the way:
http://www.atsutane.net/2006/11/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wordpress/
Is there a way to shorten the length of the titles being pulled from the forum.
For Example, for a forum with a title as:
“this is a forum title and I am a bad poster who make titles way to long”
to this:
“this is a forum title…”
This would really help out because our latest discussions from the forum on our wordpress home page break a bit when the titles get to long.
Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Orion
