[merddyn2002]

I just integrated my wp with bbpress and its working wonderfully, however, now i’m wondering if I should still be using the “automatically upgrade” feature in wordpress when they release a new version of it. I routinely do that. I currently have the most up to date version, but I’m wondering if I do that in the future if something will break now that I have this integration setup.

The integration instructions I followed were here:

http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/

[chrishajer]

This is my favorite topic of all time on bbpress.org – thanks _ck_

[_ck_]

Chris the bbpress.org theme willl likely never be available since it’s not a GPL creation, Matt paid employees to have it made.

However there is a WPMimic theme for bbPress which makes it look very close to this since it simulates wordpress.org

For some reason I have the wrong screenshot of it but you can see it in action like this:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/?bbtheme=WPMimic

[porcelainduck]

Hi there, after installing and integrating bbpress on our WordPress site, the “news” page which is the blog portion of the site only shows partial content, of the last post created, not showing any of the “blog” stuff like date, author, sidebar, etc. Here’s the address if that may help: http://www.apps4good.ca/news

Would appreciate any help!

Thanks,

Ian

PS. I’ve installed bbpress again with no integration at /forums (previously /forum).

[_ck_]

We might be able to guilt/nag Matt into getting a proper Wiki installed here once he gets WordPress 3 out the door (but then there will be 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 the week after, so maybe 2 weeks then, lol)

[Gautam Gupta]

Published about it on the bbdevel blog – http://bbdevel.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/bbpress-website-gets-a-new-look/

[langster]

Im getting these messages @ the bbPress syncronization page in WP

(Synchronization with bbPress is not enabled. You must check options and enable plugin to make it work.)

&

URL is incorrect or connection error, please verify it (full variant): pedalmovement.com/forum/my-plugins/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/bbwp-sync.php

The forum is visible at >>> http://pedalmovement.com/forum/

I have the plugins correct…

Also want to change the template, I uploaded one to the my-templates folder, how do you activate it?

[NathalieLussier]

Hey I decided to just scrap everything and re-install…

That fixed it. But – then I thought I’d be smart and just rename the databases to the new table prefix, and that broke things again.

So I’m think it’s something to do with the database holding onto to information about the wordpress database… Just my hunch.

Anyways I ended up just reinstalling and going with it from scratch.

Thanks for you help!

[gerikg]

email me your bb-config file.

[patrick hall]

one last thing, if I restore the bb-config.php file back to before I went for the deep integration, the forum shows back up. Is the point of all of this so I can log in to the forum with my existing users from my WP Blog? Because if so, it’s saying no users are found.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

database name, username, password & hostname

These are the only four things you need and since you mention only the username and passwords are changed, this even narrow down.

Is there a possibility your host changed things for a particular hostname only (that script was intended for your WP hostname only and bbPress is on a different hostname)?

And since you are using deep integration, I guess it has to do something with the WordPress loading before and conflicting with the bbPress db connection somehow.

Where is your deep integration line in bb-config.php? Before where bb db settings are defined. right?

[patrick hall]

Can you help me with this error? I went through your steps and it seemed to work perfectly (except the part where you type in Blah blah blah, that hasn’t worked for me yet but I skipped it).

Everything seemed to go fine until the Deep Integration. I followed that correctly including the ” ‘ ” note and this is the error I recieved:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/content/r/l/m/rlmorris/html/blog/fsforum/bb-config.php on line 74

Not sure what to do at this point, I thought I finally had it but now I’m just tired of dealing with this. How in the world can installing a blog be so complicated?

[NathalieLussier]

Hi!

I installed bbpress with deep integration and it was humming along nicely. Then my host went through all the database user passwords and updated them, for security purposes. They had a script to change the .php files for the wordpress installs, but not for bbpress unfortunately.

First I got “ERROR: Could not establish a database connection” on my bbpress install. I thought, no worries, I just need to update bb-config.php with the new password.

Problem: I did just that, and it is still giving me the same error.

Any chance there’s another file that also needs to be updated? Perhaps with the deep integration there’s a second place that I need to change?

Thank you SO much in advance for your help!

[Daiv Mowbray]

I have recently discovered that new users at my bbpress forum

fail to receive their welcome email with their password.

BBpress version 1.0.2 integrated with WordPress version 2.9.2

I thought it might be the New User Email Setup , http://www.epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/ plugin installed in my WP, but deactivating it didn’t fix the issue.

Any tips on where to start looking for a solution would be much appreciated.

[kikko088]

Hi at all, I have some question:

first question:

if I put

require_once( dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . ‘bbpress/bb-load.php’ );

define(‘WP_BB’, true);

on my wp_config.php, for use bbpress function on wordpress, I recive a blank page, why? is the same code that I put on bb-config.php with another path and file. (I can put wordpress function on bbpress, it works). wordpress is on the root and bbpress inside the bbpress folder.

second question:

i have install bbsync, on plugin page I see that there is some config to do, if I click on “It needs your config!” i’m linked on general setting, I don’t understand what I have to do for use this plugin.

third question: is neccesary wp_plugin_bbPress_Integration?

I put all key on bb-config and wp-config.

thank you

kikko088

[gerikg]

Yes, for the themes to work deep integration (include wp-load.php) needs to be used. The themes do not work unless the wordpress version is active. So both WP & bbP theme have to be active at the same time for the “preview”

[gerikg]

Okay,

wp-config:

iit had two cookiepath, I delete one.

bb-config.php:

I took out the cookiehash (i think it should be on WP only)

The include line

include_once( '/home/xxx/public_html/xxxx' ); was not pointing to any file

it should point to wp-load.php

`include_once( ‘/home/xxx/public_html/xxxx/wp-load.php’ );

also the ‘ wasn’t ‘ it was something else which happens when you copy and paste. I mentioned it “(beware some pasting of this code make the ‘ character change, make sure it’s the button left of the enter key on your keyboard)”

I didn’t do the follow up steps on the bbP dashboard, but this should set you on your way.

[gerikg]

yeah, email me…

[chrishajer]

To make bbPress look like your WordPress site, you need to create a bbPress theme to mimic the look and functionality of your WordPress theme. Widgets are not currently part of bbPress.

What does the topic title “monetize” have to do with any of this?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Why not just a simple .htaccess redirect? Or this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration

For .htaccess, something like this in your bbpress folder might help:

RewriteRule ^bb-login.php http://www.arguemax.com/wordpress/wp-login.php [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^register.php http://www.arguemax.com/wordpress/wp-login.php [L,R=301]

[xarzu]

I installed a fresh copy of bbpress and during the installation process I was asked if I wanted to connect it to a wordpress database.

Now, when I register a new account on wordpress, it appears as a new account on bbpress.

But here is the rub. I have added a plug in on the wordpress side on the registration menu. You have to click to agree to some policy. Since this plugin does not exist on the bbpress side, if I register a new account on the bbpress side, and try to use it to log in on the Wordperss side, I get an error that says “you do not have permission to ….”

How do I make the registration I have formed on the WordPress side match the Registraion process on the BBPress side. Although the database is shared according to my tests and how I installed the latest versioin of BBPRess, the registration and login pages are not the samel

Here is the registration on the wordpress side showing my custom plugin

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/WordPress/arguemaxregistration2.jpg

Here is the registration on the bbpress side.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/WordPress/arguemaxregistration.jpg

Maybe there is a way to make the bbpress such that when they click on the login link it directs the user to the login for the wordpress side (and also if they click on the registration link on the bbpress it goes to the registration on the wordpress side). How would I go about changing that? Is it html code or php code? The page http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0,2-2/bbpress/ has the login and register links the link for login goes to http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0,2-2/bbpress/bb-login.php and the link for Register goes to http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0,2-2/bbpress/register.php . How do I change that?

[Daiv Mowbray]

I can confirm that themes from bbpressthemes are trying to sell Cialis.

here’s a question for the bbpress owners- do you not own the name bbpress?

or at least the logo? BBPRESSTHEMES.NET has robbed the bbpress logo.

I recall some issues with the WordPress brand in the past. Protecting bbpress may also be an issue to deal with.

aside: ashfame, great contribution, if you can get the themes posted

[Chip Bennett]

@bingster loot:

I will try to address that shortly. I don’t have a Mac with which to test, but I’ve been tidying up the CSS in my WordPress theme from which I ported the bbPress theme. So, once I also propagate those changes to the bbPress theme, hopefully it will work better for you.

[Chip Bennett]

I still shake my head whenever I read that thread.

I see people who are both genuinely concerned about and desirous to help with the future of bbPress, but also trying their best, as nicely as possible, to offer up deserved, constructive criticism.

The project seems to have quite a few people willing to contribute; the biggest concern seems to be that the project lacks a leader who is – and this is the critical point – dedicated solely to the bbPress project.

To use a different metaphor, bbPress has been a rudderless ship for some time. The crew stand by, oars at the ready. Occasionally, the crew hears a report from the Crow’s Nest (“1.1, ahoy! Steer for Email Notifications and Anonymous Posting!”) – but since they cannot see the Captain at the helm, steering the ship, there is little motivation to paddle.

bbPress is Matt’s baby, and I think everyone appreciates Matt’s development of and continued contribution to bbPress. But likewise, everyone appreciates the many directions in which Matt is pulled, that – rightly and properly – prevent him from dedicating himself solely to bbPress.

(To stretch the metaphor beyond recognition: Matt is the Commodore, commanding not only the bbPress ship, but also the WordPress ship, the Automattic ship, the wordpress.org ship, etc…)

What the community here seems to be asking for, then, is for someone to be appointed – or hired, if necessary – to act as the Project Lead (certainly, under Matt’s direction), someone who can be dedicated solely to bbPress, the way Sam Bauers was previously, and the way Andy Peatling and Raphael Mudge are dedicated to BuddyPress and AfterTheDeadline, respectively.

To Matt: please don’t get discouraged because of, and please don’t be offended by anything said by, the bbPress community. I think all parties involved have the best interests of bbPress at heart, and understand and appreciate both your overall time commitments and your continued contribution to bbPress.

At the very least, I take the bbpress.org refresh as a sign of new life, and in that sign, I choose to find hope of great things in the near future for bbPress itself.

[rich777]

wp-config.php has 8 keys from that link you provided

bb-config.php has the same 8 keys as above, with the BB text added in as well

any other ideas?