[donnasdream]

Hi,

I am building a forum (http://donnasdream.co.uk/forum) to co-exist with my existing wordpress blog (http://donnasdream.co.uk).

I have tried to install BB-Mobile and followed the instructions to the letter however i cannot get it to work. I am using version 1.0.2 of BB-Press and the latest version i can find of BB-Mobile.

As my work for the website involves me travelling around quite alot i really need to be able to access a mobile version of the forum like i can for the main site so i can quickly reply to posts etc (http://donnasdream.co.uk should show a mobile site on most touch screen phones).

Does anyoneknow anything i can do to get this working, even if its a crude work-around (the mobile site is more for me to use as i dont think the majority of the visitors to the site will use it).

Many thanks in advance

Az Mansell

Donna’s Dream

[chrishajer]

1. Spammers – use Human Test to prevent them from registering the first time around. I can’t recommend Akismet because of the false positives and the fact that it doesn’t block all spammers.

2. Translation – not sure what to tell you. Translation takes time.

3. What needs to be managed with search engine traffic? If you have an XML sitemap, the search engines will follow it. If not, they follow links, unless you don’t want them to.

4. I don’t recommend anything other than bbPress, but only because I have never used anything else. The versions available now are standalone and in the future bbPress will be a WordPress plugin.

[hibiscuscreative]

Sorry. Here’s the link: http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/forum

The main WordPress install is at http://completeorganizingsolutions.com

[kevinjohngallagher]

WordPress, then bbPress in a sub folder.

http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/

[Raize]

Vanilla 2 is here (http://vanillaforums.org) and they are working on a full integration with WordPress.

Even Matt M. is supporting it. Start packing your bags

[VirtualityStudio]

For anybody else out there that is having this problem, this worked for me:

http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/

still needs some tweaking, but overall… total match!!!! yay!

[johnjos]

Thanks chris. i will try that, i seriously hope it works.

[ffleader]

I have a WordPress website and want to add a forum (message board). If I wanted to use bbPress do I setup a bbPress forum first and then integrate it into WordPress or can I install bbPress in WordPress and then set up the forum?

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/configphp

[chrishajer]

You need to temporarily rename that config.php file to something else to allow the installer to continue, then change the name back. Or find the code that prevents bbPress from installing when it finds a config.php, and disable that so the installation can continue. I would just rename the file for a minute or two while you install bbPress, then change it back.

[johnjos]

I want to add a forum to this site and as i run the installer i get this message “An old config.php file has been detected in your installation. You should remove it and run the installer again. You can use the same database connection details if you do.”

BBpress has been added in the forum folder in the root where the config.php file for the existing site to which i want to add a forum for. e.g mysite.com/forum(bbpress). It is asking me to remove the config file and if i remove the config file than the site won’t work. Has anyone got any suggestions, i have read through that some people managed to install bbpress with existing non-wordpress sites.

thanks in advance.

[johnjos]

I came to bbpress in the hope that forum would be as great as wordpress. I hope i am right and can get the installation done.

[pagal]

MATT is not sleeping, but busy in world tour

http://ma.tt/2010/08/hiking-alt/img_1318/#image

[johnjos]

Is that a BBpress forum on your site?. Did you manage to integrate with your forum with non-wordpress site?. thanks.

[Rich Pedley]

Well bbPress as a plugin is progressing, and last official word was that there would be a testable version in a few weeks.

[VirtualityStudio]

it strikes again…

put require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/wp-load.php’); into bb-config to get my functions to load and it gave me this error:

Warning: require_once(/home/xxxx/public_html/forum/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/wp-load.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/xxxx/public_html/forum/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/wp-load.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

also tried with:

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../../blog/wp-load.php’);

and it did the same thing, just with the dots after forum/

any ideas?????

[Darfuria]

I’ve stopped caring now. As long as something comes out that integrates simply with WordPress, I don’t care what it is. As long as I never have to use SimplePress again.

[VirtualityStudio]

I tried that and it would stack it on the end anyway… so i would get for example

home/user/directory/forum/home/user/directory/blog/file.php

out of desperation i tried the absolute path

just tried something else… I took the important parts out of the header and footer files and put them into the bbpress template files. it is loading now… sort of.

now onto the game of figuring out how to get some wordpress functions to work. I have the sliding door theme in wordpress, so ugghhh……..

thanks for your help!

[chrishajer]

When you are doing “require_once” you need to give it a filesystem path, not a URL.

So what is the full path to the file you want to include? That’s what your should use if you cannot figure out the relative path.

[VirtualityStudio]

tried doing an absolute path and got this error:

Warning: require_once() [function.require-once]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

Warning: require_once(http://www.xxxx.com/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘http://www.xxxx.com/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

[VirtualityStudio]

trying to integrate bbpress to use my wordpress theme… but running into problems. when i put the code into the bb.config file

require_once(‘../blog/header.php’);

if (file_exists(‘../blog/header.php’))

require_once(‘../blog/header.php’);

else

if (file_exists(‘../../blog/header.php’))

require_once(‘../../blog/header.php’);

it stacks the path on top of the forum path instead of where it belongs… giving me the error:

Warning: require_once(../blog/header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../blog/header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

has anyone else had this problem… and can you share how to fix it?

I’m using the method of replacing the header.php file content with <?php get_header(); ?> and the footer with <?php get_footer(); ?> if there is a better way of going about this, I’m open so please share

thanks!

[chrishajer]

You need to use a table prefix for the database for integration between WordPress and bbPress to work. I’m not sure how to get around that now that you are already using WordPress without a table prefix.

One question per topic please.

[frooyo]

@Rich Pedley

Nonetheless, I hope this causes action on Matt/Auttomatic to take bbPress more seriously.

[ratracegrad]

I am helping a friend get bbpress installed with his wordpress site at http://www.sealgrinderpt.com and http://www.sealgrinderpt.com/forums.

I have it installed. I have added a link on home page to get to the forums.

My wordpress integration seems to not be working. He has an admin account on wpress that is not recognized on the forums. I created an default admin account in the bbpress installation. That account is not recognized when logon to wpress. The wp_config file does not have a $table entry so wondering if that is my downfall on the integration.

Next question is how to get the header and look and feel of wpress site to carry over to the forum? I want at least the logo at top and the navigation menus.

Thanks for help on these 2 issues. I am sure I will have more as I work on this site for my friend. Thanks in advance for all of the assistance.

Jennifer

[Rich Pedley]

not everyone likes the approach used. Not everyone wants voting, and it isn’t always suitable.