[Dailytalker]

The bbpress 2.0 template looks nice.

http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/forum-front-page.png

The new order with the forums on the left site and the recent discussions on the right site is excellent. Hope that it will be published soon.

[Sam Bauers]

I still have the files for this design, I don’t think anyone ever asked me for them when I left Automattic.

I think there are bigger plans for WordPress.org now that supersede this work, especially if bbPress becomes a canonical plugin.

[wp.rook]

– I put BBPress into a folder called /forum off of the root.

– WordPress is on the root.

I am trying to use the same database to install BBpress into as WordPress.

I’ve checked with host and my DB name, username, password are all correct. I’ve also copy pasted the DB Host into the advanced settings field.

I still get a msg back that there was a problem connecting to the database. Any suggestions? The only thing I can think of is I’ve installed in a folder that I shouldn’t have? Or I need to specify a path or something?

any help is much appreciated!

[adevigus]

how can you integrate the bbpress forum in your wordpress site ??

[Yps]

Hi,

I couldn’t login with my WordPress Name. There was also no chance to create a new account with my WP-Name (name already exists). I asked for a new password and got a link to change it. But there I got the message, that I am not allowed to change my password.

[johnhiler]

It looks like someone has built a *press module/plugin of some sort which allows users to vote on compatibility:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/

But nothing like that exists on the bbPress plugins side of things.

The bbPress Plugins install actually has a separate signin cookie from the forums – even if you’re signed in on the forum side of things, you won’t be signed in here:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/

Plus, the “stats” tab has been “Coming Soon” for at least two years:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/delete-all-bozos/stats/

All these things exist on the WordPress side of things, so I’m guessing it’s a matter of lack of resources and/or a lack of prioritization.

[nexusone]

Hope someone can help

installed bbpress OK but chose to change the URL from nexus1forum (this was where I created the bbpress folder/files) to nexusoneforum when offered the option to do so.

I just keep getting a 404 every time I try to login with my usual wordpress admin/password combination

http://www.nexusoneblog.co.uk/nexusoneforum/

Do i need to uninstall and start again?

Thanks !

[chengdu-living]

BTW I tried what was advised in this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-broke-when-i-changed-the-url but it just displayed the code on the actual live forum page

Here is my bb-config.php included the added part at the very bottom:

<?php

/**

* The base configurations of bbPress.

*

* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,

* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your

* web host.

*

* This file is used by the installer during installation.

*

* @package bbPress

*/



// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for bbPress */

define( 'BBDB_NAME', 'justchar_wrdp5' );



/** MySQL database username */

define( 'BBDB_USER', 'justchar_wrdp5' );



/** MySQL database password */

define( 'PASSWORDWASHERE' );



/** MySQL hostname */

define( 'BBDB_HOST', 'localhost' );



/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */

define( 'BBDB_CHARSET', 'utf8' );



/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */

define( 'BBDB_COLLATE', '' );



/**#@+

* Authentication Unique Keys.

*

* Change these to different unique phrases!

* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/ WordPress.org secret-key service}

*

* @since 1.0

*/

define( 'BB_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

/**#@-*/



/**

* bbPress Database Table prefix.

*

* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique

* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

*/

$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';



/**

* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.

*

* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen

* language must be installed to a directory called "my-languages" in the root

* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to "my-languages" and set

* BB_LANG to 'de' to enable German language support.

*/

define( 'BB_LANG', '' );

?>



$bb->uri = 'http://www.chengduliving.com/bbpress/';

[Thomaschaaf]

The main reason I consider switching ist that I would like to use WordPress in the future for our website and would love a close integration of both.. that is the only real reason.

Thomas

[kevinjohngallagher]

I have a function for WordPress that outputs some code into the class section of an item:

e.g. <li class="<?php my_custom_class_ouput_function(); ?>"> comment/thread </li>

It outputs the user’s level after a specific string (e.g. user_level_5), the author’s name after a string (e.g. author_username_bob ), is the user an author (e.g. user_is_an_author) and if the user is the author of the original thread/blog post (e.g initial_author).

You can then set up the styles as you want to display them in CSS.

I’ll have a look at porting this to BBpress later on.

[Trisha Cupra]

Hi,

I’ve tried searching the forums but haven’t found what I’m looking for.

In WordPress, it’s possible to style the post author’s comments to look different from other comments.

In bbPress, is it possible to style the Key Master’s replies and the Administrators/Moderators replies to look different from all the other members’ replies?

[Paul Whitener Jr.]

I installed builds of both WordPress MU and bbpress and had them both running independently. After setting the integration settings (in the bbpress admin and via the WP integration plugin settings) bbpress is no longer working.

The main forums page appears, but I am unable to login to access the admin. It will not accept either my “keymaster” account or my WordPress admin. Attempting to have my keymaster password sent throws the error that the user cannot be found.

I’m assuming I have an issue with my intergration, is there a way to verify where it’s breaking and fix it?

Thanks in advance.

[JT]

First, I apologize if this is duplicate information, or the wrong forum to ask. I have searched and searched and can’t find an answer.

So we are building a site using WordPress Mu, BuddyPress, and BBPress. BBPress was integrated into BuddyPress, and it works just fine.

The problem is I installed the Moderation Hold, and Moderation Suite Plugins for BBPress and put them in the /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bb-forums/bbpress/bb-plugins. I can activate them in the BBPress admin just fine (using the bb-config.php in the bbpress folder you can access it.) But neither work. Is there a different folder these should go into? If I have a group forum, anyone can still post a topic or reply without it being held for moderation.

Is there a better way to do this? Is my config wrong?

Thank you for your time, again, I am sorry if this is the wrong place for this.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’d wager Matt has a calming affect when he writes more than 5 words

I am also in agreement that “it will turn out fine”, the problem with that is there is no time limit. It probably will turn out fine in the end, or eventually, but how do we, the community (sic) attempt to speed up that process?

My concern is that we’ve been through this all before Chris. Remember the “its all fine so I made a BBpress Fan Page on Facebook”? Remember the definitive instructions on how to get BBpress and WordPress to play nice together, that instead of being in the documentation was a 7 page thread with the answers on how to actually do it on page 4?

I’m not meaning to bring up the past and use it as a stick to beat the BBpress people with, I just feel we go over the same things time and time again, don’t you? And so far, we appear to be repeating the exact same mistakes.

I dunno, i’ll try and come up with something, because I’m confident that we wont have a BBpress version that integrates with wordpress out of the box this year.

[Alexandru Vornicescu]

It seems that latest version is not working for me because I want to integrate it with old version of WordPress.

Can I get a old version of BBPress? like in wordpress.org

[chrishajer]

This is because integration was not done properly. The cookies are not compatible between WordPress and bbPress.

Read and try this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-integration-coockie-does-not-work#post-61969

[RCHR]

Raize,

Is there a plugin for vBulletin that allows it to share a login with our wordpress site?

[Ixchel Lunar]

I also have this issue. I cannot access admin settings when logged into the WordPress admin. Once I log out of WP and log out of BB then log back in I can click Admin and get to the settings.

[Michael]

Hi

Well, for a start, if you have a WordPress.com username, you must enable Akismet – it’s the best spam protection you’ll get. I also recommend ‘Human Test for bbPress’ – also good for security.

Here’s a list of the plugins I recommend: (I may miss some because I don’t use all of them, obviously) Items marked with a star are quite important, in your case.

1. Allow Images *

2. Avatar Upload *

3. bbPM (for Personal Messages)

4. bbPress Moderation Suite (not always used in some forums, but very handy to have)

5. bbPress Smilies *

6. bb Topic Icons

7. bb Topic Icons/Support Forum Connector (comes with the above plugin)

8. Burning Tags

9. The MyViews Suite

10. bbPages

11. Project Honey Pot (Spam protection, prevents spam users from registering)

12. Signatures

There are plenty more, but those are my most common ones.

Hope that helps a little.

[Sabuntu]

Can you share us how did you do that !?

[Sabuntu]

Dear support

I installed bbpress 1.0.2 to wordpress 2.9.1 as sub-domain and the installation process went smooth & I integrated my forum to the blog successfully but by the end of the installation process I noticed a message that said “installation process completed with minor error”

when I tried to access my forum after the installation I faced this message

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?

I changed the key master name to root and I don’t know if this was the problem !!!?

I received an email

Your new bbPress site has been successfully set up at:

http://forum.sabuntu.com/

You can log in to the key master account with the following information:

Username: Root

Password:

We hope you enjoy your new forums. Thanks!

–The bbPress Team

http://bbpress.org/

But I didn’t receive any password to login

how to fix this problem any Ideas ??

[chrishajer]

I’ve often wondered about indexing the tag pages anyway and wondered if there was a duplicate content penalty from Google. For WordPress, the Robots Meta plugin by Joost recommends noindex for tag pages. That doesn’t resolve your problem but I wonder if getting them indexed is the solution to any problem or if they shouldn’t be indexed in the first place.

http://yoast.com/wordpress/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/

[chrishajer]

I agree that the “relax” statement wasn’t comforting. It didn’t change anything for me either way. Sometimes Matt has a calming effect on the conversation:

http://onefinejay.com/2010/01/10/shackling-a-free-market-wordpress-canonical-plugins#comment-7566

sometimes not (here.) It’s not a big enough worry for me to be concerned yet. I still think it will turn out fine.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hello folks,

I appreciate you all taking the time to comment.

@chrishajer

Thanks very much for posting the links to where the IRC logs are kept. That is very useful information indeed. Its the sort of thing that should be on this website somewhere Respectfully, far too much information about BBpress is hidden in replies on threads, that once off the front page are relegated to history.

You’re also right about the 3 most common phrases/tags/topics on this site being independent (i.e. not “a wordpress integration plug-in” but rather plug-in being separate). But with BBpress not delivering on the wordpress integration part, and having changed so much under the hood in 1.0 that the plug-ins don’t work; surely we’re failing on the very key topics the community are worried about.

I wouldn’t waste any time developing plug ins for a platform that I know is going to change in the near future, possibly breaking my plug-ins again

-chrishajer

Which is where we find ourselves now. BBpress1.1 isn’t going to change any of this. its a “holding pattern” release. Matt’s already stated that BBpress is going to be a WP plug-in ( so integration’s not going to be looked at for 1.1) and that none of the big issues stopping plug-ins from working are going to be looked at in depth. So other than “rallying the troops” so to speak, what is BBpress1.1 going to give us? ANd what are we rallying the troops for – as you yourslf said, you/me/others aren’t going to build plugins for the moving target?

I suppose it reminds me a little bit of this:

http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2003-10-12/

You have a product that’s meant to do one thing, you rally support for the next version, present it to the masses and right before you do you tell them how awesome later versions that will make their code redundant will be. “Hey there developer, come make plug-ins and code for BBpress, yes sir code that will be pretty much gazumped when we integrate it to WP as they already have code that does this stuf… what do you mean you’ll wait for the working release? “

@Ryan Heller

I’d rather be developing plug-ins for BBpress, but as pointed out above, there’s not much point developing plug-ins for a moving target.

– Ryan Heller

Is BBpress1.1 going to change that?

@ipstenu

This made me smile a lot mate, thanks.

I’m an independent contractor and have worked as a PM/BA for the smallest to the largest companies; and you’re not wrong

That said, Project Management exists for a reason. Its a different skillset from development. And no matter the size of the company or organisation, holding a requirement gathering session and then ignoring the data is just daft.

@chrishajer

You’re spot on that we’re in no position to judge anyone. Matt, and automattic, have done some truly incredible software – I’d hate for my posts to be seen as criticising or judging for the sake of it. But I also feel that its ok for us to point things out from a different perspective. We all know what its like to be tied into software, even cool software like this.

We want to help, we want to make it better, we want to do that in a positive way; but I don’t know about you and don’t want to speak for anyone else – but the last 9months/year as a BBpress user/enthusiast has been really… difficult.

In that respect “We’ve done this before” isn’t a comforting statement.

This is free software, I’m trying to give back in the only way I can My plug-ins no longer work, the group of folks I used to make plug-ins and themes with have all abandoned the project. One of my sites is sitting with about 1000 comments a day/post and a forum that’s taking 200 posts a day (way more on match days – especially if my team lose). I’m tied in, and many others are too.

I’m not wanting to have strong words at Matt the person or Matt the head of automattic, heck the dude’s lovely and I can’t thank him enough. But “we’ve done this before”, while a throw away line and not a mission statement, isn’t that helpful right now. I appreciate Matt posting on the thread greatly, especially as he’d only posted 4 times in 2 years previous to Sam’s leaving (and probably for a good reason, that’s not a dig) – so I’m not going to hang the phrase around his neck forever. Its just that, from a PM point of view, which I know everyone hates, “We’ve done this before. Relax.” is a statement that strikes fear into my heart. Seriously, Kryptonite fear!

P.S. The captain of the Titanic had actually been on a ship before too

P.P.S Can’t believe I check in here on a Sunday! Have a great weekend all, and once again, thank you for reading

[subject101]

BBPress appears as WP plugin on the repository right now;

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

What’s the schedule? will current themes be compatible with the plugin?

With BBPress as plugin WP is becoming the best CMS out there!

Developers, please don’t forget;

* fix slugs, “topic” and “forum” thing

* move all functions.bb-template.php template stuff to the template folder