[kevinjohngallagher]

hi bb-lover,

1) Google is not indexing your “http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forums/” because your wordpress sitemap is telling it to look at “http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forum/” which exists, works, and is not using BBpress.

Also the spam at the bottom of each page to ‘improve’ your search ranking is probably hurting it.

2) itt appears to me that you’re attempting to run BBpress with “deep integration” (i.e. inside wordpress), and to do that you’re running the wordpress header. As wordpress doesnt know about “/forums/” its throwing a page not found error in the title.

Good Luck,

Kev

P.S. Please don’t bump topics because you’ve not had an answer in two hours.

[Gautam]

Nico!

[Ryan Hellyer]

Hi everyone,

I’ve written a WordPress plugin which allows you to integrate your WordPress theme, widgets and many plugins into your bbPress theme. This is an alpha launch, so it’s probably buggy. Please file bug reports in the comments of the blog post please.

http://pixopoint.com/theme-integrator-alpha-launch/

This system DOES NOT require deep integration and does not suffer the performance hits that deep integration normally applies. This simply copies your HTML markup over after you set a bunch of things in each theme. If you don’t know how to do a 100% perfect integration of your theme already the old fashioned way (copying HTML and CSS across), this new system will not help you at all as you need to set that up already. Once it is setup however, the changes you make in your WordPress theme will be automagically applied to your bbPress site, along with changes such as plugins, widgets etc.

I’m not providing free support for this. Doing these types of integrations is very time consuming and I can’t afford to spare that much time to help you all integrate your themes sorry. I am keen to see bug reports etc though and will try to get them sorted as soon as possible.

The system works across a range of different softwares, not just bbPress. You can see a demo of it in my own support forum which uses SMF … http://pixopoint.com/forum/index.php?topic=1385.0

[Michael]

Sorry, my bad. That’s the WordPress theme. I will try find it for you now.

[kevinjohngallagher]

May i suggest that this NOT be a BBpress plugin but rather a WordPress plugin. It seems like a cURL post might be a better solution, and alot less hassle than an RSS feed parsing.

Just my two cents.

[josh16]

What happened to it? I found the WordPress theme and liked it but I can’t find the matching forum theme now because bbShowcase was shut down. Does anybody still have the original zip file? I also looked through this topic but had no luck.

[Sander B]

Amazing website!

Or in Dutch:

Ziet er echt heel erg goed uit. Dit is maar weer een goed voorbeeld van hoe makkelijk bbPress en WordPress aan te passen zijn naar wens!

[Gautam]

@kevinjohngallagher

The code you wrote would make the script echo all the usernames in the source code. Think if there are hundreds of usernames or a user database like that of wordpress, which has thousands of usernames, will you echo all of them? And try to match each of that with javascript!?

[Michael]

I found the smilies here: http://pinvoke.com/

They seem to be a remake of the default WordPress ones – the others were just from all over the web. I plan to make my own set one day, once I have more experience in Icon Design.

Glad you like the compilation.

[Michael]

You’ve done a decent job with creating the bbPress theme to match your WordPress theme – now you should take a browse through the plugin gallery and make it look better. I highly recommend bbCumulus, bbPress Topic Icons, Allow Images, Project Honey Pot (for Spam protection), and MyViews. Someone might highlight some other important ones – those are all I can think of at the moment.

[eryx010]

This is my first real attempt at making a site using wordpress and using bbpress for the forums. Please take a look http://englishchile.com. Any feedback positive or negative will be appreciated.

thanks

[Gautam]

Replying to kevinjohngallagher’s post (maybe its in spam, but I got an email notification as I am subscribed to topic):

1) Making “@” links is cool, and very “twitter generation”, even if its not something that’s totally globalised yet. But the “@” link is not pointing at what you’re replying to. We’re faking the functionality without the reasoning, which in the end will just confuse users.

On Twitter, you post on your profile page. People read it on their feed, and reply on their own Profile page. So a link to “@kev” goes to the page where “kev” has written his post. That’s the point of it, to link to someone’s post.

Here, we’re making the link “@kev” go to “/profiles/kev/” for the user to not see the post. That’s exactly the opposite of the purpose of the “‘@” linking system

–> That’s basically the work of a reply plugin, not of a mentioning plugin. I also have future plans with the plugin like linking #tag, etc. Even if I do something like that which you have mentioned, then a single user can make multiple posts, then which post will the plugin link to?

2) The other issue is that Twitter names don’t have spaces, while BBpress / wordpress names can. So if i write “@Michael R Thanks for your reply”, how does the plugin know where the username ends? What if it finds a “michael” in the usertable, it will then link “@Michael” to “/profiles/michael/” and the message will read “R Thanks for your reply”. In Twitter, it parses at the first space; but we can’t do that here.

Oh that will also involve looping through queries until you find a match, so first for Michael, then for Michael R, then for Michael R Thanks etc. Ofcourse there could/should be a word/search limit – either way there is huge potential for database issues there. Imagine adding up to 5 sql searches, per “@” per post, per page load.

The initial solution, and i suppose this is for Gautam, is to make a search of the user table for all users who have posted on the topic being replied to, which should narrow it down considerably, though it should be noted that if you have “Michael” and “Michael R”, or any similar naming issues, the plugin will not know that…

–> That can’t be helped. The plugin first checks if that username exists, if not, then checks if that nicename exists. This will be also mentioned on the plugin page.

3) You are effectively allowing a user to search your database for anything you put after your “@” symbol. Now this one is a little bit of scaremongering, but we’ve all seen bad coding before. What if I write “@drop table wp_usermeta hi bob, how much fun would this be “. There is a reason that we try to make sure we don’t take database queries from the user.

–> 1) This is what is used to match the username – /[@]+([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/, so there is no point of mysql commands going in there.

If you want to test the plugin (how it works), you are free to use this as sandbox – http://forum.gaut.am/

I have made some posts to test the plugin here.

[kjetilostereng]

It seems like Safari decided to not show the icons due to old cookies or something – nonetheless the problem is solved.

[Paul Whitener Jr.]

Awesome, updating my files following these instructions:

Login Integration Issues – bbpress and wordpress mu

corrected this as well as another issue I was having. Thanks!

[arpowers]

They’ve been tested in IE6 but not IE5.. (I don’t even know how we would test in IE5)

Yes, they can only be used with our WP themes.. we’ve had to hack the WP header.php to include bbPress specific stuff, there are also some bbPress options included in the WordPress themes.. (meaning we had to alter the WP themes)

I would like to give away a bbPress theme for free, but didn’t get any feedback on the thread we started about it.

It also seems like bbPress works best when with a WP theme.

[arpowers]

you can deep integrate and include the headers/footers from you WP theme.

Then hack the header of your WP theme to include the bbPress specific stuff

we’ve done it for our bbPress addons at PageLines.

Andrew

[gerikg]

It’s not straight forward. You can’t have a step by step instructions and have it work for every theme. That is why you never find anything. All the themes I made work with WP are different procedures.

[gerikg]

For MU try this one: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/login-integration-issues-bbpress-and-wordpress-mu#post-62274

[kjetilostereng]

Some more investigation, and the icons does not disappear if I register a new user in bbPress, and log in to WP afterwards. As well, cookies doesn’t seem to work.

[kjetilostereng]

I’ve installed and integrated bbPress with WP for the first time, and user synchronisation seems to work perfectly. But for some reason, after i install bbPress and setup the integration, the icons in the WordPress admin disappears. I’ve checked that the png files are still in place, and this is the second time this has happened.

As far as I can tell it doesn’t affect any other aspects of the site, but still I’d really like to find out what’s going on.

Screenshot: http://s3.kjetilostereng.no/wp-icons.png

[Matias Ventura]

Are you referring to this plugin? Because that is not ready yet and not supposed to be downloaded: “Don’t install this, it isn’t ready.” bbPress remains being a stand-alone package for now (which you can download from here). It is planned to become a WordPress plugin though, and John James Jacoby started the initial process of porting it to the extensions platform of WordPress.

[Lucian Florian]

The plugin is located here: http://www.fldtrace.com/wordpress/bbpress-front-page-text-plugin

[kipprsnak]

Hi,

I have wordpress at the root, bbpress in a folder called forums. I had to specify a host for my provider, so I connected to the db, but the second step in the install results in a “unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING” error on line 19 of the config file. I’ve looked at other references to this error and they seem mostly to be that someone mistyped something, but I’m using the one generated by bbPress. I haven’t typed anything at all. Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks

[paulhawke]

I think there are a number of big architectural hurdles to get over. In WP I bind a given slug to a page on a 1-to-1 basis, and that’s what is used to resolve a given URL. If I have a forum I would want “virtual page slugs” where anything starting with (say) “/forum” is passed to my plugin for resolution of the rest. The URL processing in WP is messy (to say the least) and is a perfect example of the opposite of the “Open/Closed” OO design principle – “Closed to modification but Open for extension” – I imagine that a rewrite of that code would go a long way to improving WP itself.

If bbPress were hosted on a single page using a WP shortcode, then the entire GUI needs to be re-coded to run fully AJAX as the user will need to remain on that particular page.

[paulhawke]

Or, like me, you can grep the bbPress source for “do_action” and “apply_filter” to see what the code does. In any case, the code itself is the best documentation.