I followed gerikg’s instructions & all seems well, except, when I log into bbPress, then go to WPMU it appears as if I’m logged in. Until I try to admin the site, then & have to log in again. Seems to be that a cookie is not being set.
XAMPP on local machine, here is one line of several that appear at top of bbpress login page after installation was apparently completed successfully.
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:xampphtdocsbbpressbbpressbb-settings.php on line 186
and when I try to log in a bunch more error messages. XAMPP works fine with wordpress by the way.
Thanks, Roger
You set WordPress Administrator to bbPress Administrator instead of bbPress Key Master.
Run this on your database: DELETE FROM bb_meta WHERE meta_key='wp_table_prefix'
That should allow you to log in with your bbPress account and fix the setting.
Hello
I installed bbPress ok and had admin rights under a user named admin. Then I finished integrating with my wordpress site. It logged me out as the admin and now when I access with my WordPress admin account I cannot see any settings to change.
When I try and log in with the bbPress admin it says there is no admin user. Basically I have no way of changing settings.
Please could someone help with my problems?
Thanks
No, I was just pointing out what the lead developer of BuddyPress said about it. I don’t believe it’s in a packaged release, it’s in ‘trunk’ which is sometimes unstable. It would be worth watching the BuddyPress releases to see when it’s available for single WordPress in a stable form. It’s coming.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for jumping in, are you / twitter link telling me that BuddyPress is now available for WordPress single? Would I just download the latest version of BuddyPress even if it is MU? Is this it? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/
Thanks for clarifying _ck_ is a female.
So am I!
Toni
You can’t call a WordPress function (or even a function in a WordPress plugin) without doing deep integration between WordPress and bbPress. Normally, someone would create similar functionality in a bbPress plugin so you can use that instead of trying to call the WordPress plugin:
How about this bbPress plugin from Gautam Gupta:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/social-it/
It’s a WP plugin that works for posts and pages, but not for anything else, so I want to put it directly into the BBpress template – not sure where. Here’s the plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/
And my site: http://www.selfpublishingreview.com
tonicarr, have you seen this re: WordPress single and BuddyPress?
Single WordPress support in BuddyPress trunk is already quite stable. Who’s tried the latest?
Also, _ck_ is female.
There won’t be anything in your WordPress dashboard about bbPress. What happens when you try to access the forum URL? (and what is the forum URL?)
Hi community,
Happy new year everybody 
Just installed bbPress 1.0.2 to complete a WordPress 2.9 installation. I’m trying to add custom themes, as indicated in all tutorials i could find. This is what i did :
– created a my-templates directory at the root of the forum (same level than b-templates)
– uploaded the custom themes into this directory – themes coming from several repository on the Web, none that i did myself.
Then I cannot see any of my themes on the “appearance” tab in the admin. I tried to upload raw zip files or extracted directory but nothing is detected.
Any help is greatly appreciated !
Thanks,
Jeremy
How? there is nothing about bbpress on my WordPress dashboard, and when i visit the subdomain it just says bbpress is already installed
Plans for 1.1 have not been finalized by Matt – so there is no date of when it will be released. A lot of features are still being considered – many of them coming from the IRC chats that happen every Wednesday.
Not sure about BuddyPress for WordPress – though if they say it will happen, then it will happen. It is a very popular package, so they would probably want to integrate it with normal WordPress.
thierryyyyyyy:
About the Canonical plugin story, you may want to read this: https://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/canonical-plugins/
Like I said, I don’t think it will be a standalone package as, just like other Automattic products, it will need to be a part of WordPress. Look at BuddyPress, for example.
I’ve hit yet another snag.
Apparently, I have bbpress installed on my site and integrated with WordPress. NOW HOW THE HECK DO I MAKE A FREAKIN FORUM AND PUT IT ON MY SITE??!!!!!
I’m just really looking forward to the development and progression of bbPress, regardless of the direction it takes. I think one of the things I’m most keen to see is for the masses to take it under their wing in much the same way millions have with WordPress, so that we have a plethora of innovative developers providing additional functionality and solutions through these forums and their own personal websites.
Maybe it’s me, but I have no clue what I’m supposed to put for my database title in the very first step – as in what is hte database file usually called by default and where would I find it?
I’m running wordpress 1.9.
I’ve installed the bbpress folder renamed as “forums” in my root because if I put it under /blog/forums I get a 404 and the rss list of posts from wp
I have the database host set as the default “localhost” per suggestion
I assume ‘databse user’ and ‘database password’ are not pre-existing UN & PW but the same ones used to access the admin of WP, but if they are a way of setting new UN and PW then I’d be using the same for both BB and WP.
I’m using Yahoo as my web host
The thing is, I converted my Phpbb3 into bbpress sucssefuly and the I integrate it with wordpress. Shoul i try the other way? Integrate WP with BBpress, and the convert my phpbb3 to BBpress?
A few months ago I had problem with reCaptcha activated on both “software” try deactivating bbpress’ one then try it after chrishajer’s link.
What version of the softwares and how did you integrate it?
When I integrate bbpress with wordpress, all users in bbpress became anonimus. How can I fix this?
I have done a good few wordpress/bbpress cookie/log in integrations at this stage.
The easiest way I find to get it to work as expected is place the following in my bb-config.php
define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'YOUR_AUTH_KEY');
define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'YOUR_SECURE_AUTH_KEY');
define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'YOUR_LOGGED_IN_KEY');
define('BB_NONCE_KEY', 'YOUR_NONCE_KEY');
define('COOKIEHASH', md5('Domain Name'));
define('BB_COOKIEHASH', md5('Domain Name'));
$cookiehash = md5('Domain Name');
define('BB_HASH', md5('Domain Name'));
and the following in your wp-config.php
define('AUTH_KEY', 'YOUR_AUTH_KEY');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'YOUR_SECURE_AUTH_KEY');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'YOUR_LOGGED_IN_KEY');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'YOUR_NONCE_KEY');
define('COOKIEHASH', md5('Domain Name'));
Replace the KEY values with those generated here: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/
Also i’m not sure which of the bbPress cookie bits is needed, I presume it’s only one of them.
Hope this helps.
Hi,
So far from browsing the forums, there is a somewhat minor issue regarding WordPress and bbPress when it comes to shared cookies and logins. Here is what happens:
WordPress Login = WordPress Dashboard
bbPress Login = WordPress Dashboard
Wordpress Login != bbPress Dashboard <– Problem
bbPress Login = bbPress Dashboard
So basically whenever I login via WordPress (there is a main site login form in the header), I can access the forums and it even shows I am logged in however when I click “Admin”, I am redirected to the forum index.
Other forum posts which didn’t have a solution (in my case atleast):
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-access-admin-dashboard
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forumbb-admin-redirects-me-to-forum
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forumsbb-admin-just-redirects-me-to-forums
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/admin-link-redirects-to-front-page
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/admin-link-doesnt-take-me-to-dashboard
Things I’ve tried:
Going directly to the mysite.com/forums/bb-admin/index.php
Checked all hash keys and other wp/bb-config.php stuff
Updated to the latest WordPress and bbPress
Deactivated all plugins (I only had Akismet and reCAPTCHA bbPress anyway)
Clearing cache (Firefox)
Trying in another browser (Internet Explorer)
Does anyone have a clear cut solution? Most people are happy with just using bbPress to get to the admin panel but it would be nice if it worked.