[thezachperson31]

I’m looking for a good forum plugin for WordPress, and bbPress seems like a good choice. The main thing I like about bbPress is its simplicity. Dead-simple to use, with no confusing toolbars to intimidate users. However, aside from installing numerous plugins, it lacks many of the basic features of a forum. In my view, if I’m spending more effort to get something to work as well as another solution, I’ll go with the alternative.

The forum will only be used for basic discussion, so advanced functionality is not needed, but its helpful and attractive to include a few anyway. Keeping it easy and intuitive yet functional for first-time forum users is key.

Right now I’m leaning towards bbPress, but do you have any additional suggestions?

[chrishajer]

Are you using a default theme, and what plugins are you using? What version of bbPress and is it integrated with WordPress (and the version there too if so)?

[johnhiler]

bbPress is its own standalone program, similar to how WordPress is its own standalone program. It’s definitely not just a plugin to WordPress… although there are a few WP plugin forum plugins! Sounds like you’re already playing around with one of them.

[Kolya33]

I’m already using your translation goebelmasse, thank you. Just turned it off for testing.

These strange characters you pointed out show up even if the content of config-bb.php is nothing but a PHP start and end tag. (I have no blank lines before or after the PHP tags.)

I think it must be some problem with the keys. I basically used all the keys from the wp-config.php with “BB_” added to the start of the keyname.

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ”);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ”);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ”);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ”);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ”);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ”);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ”);

The keys I use are all from the WP generator: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

[Kolya33]

On the WP blog I have the plugin “Limit Login Attempts” installed (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/). I have tried turning that off, to no avail.

[alicepohl]

We are creating a wordpress website which requires secure forums for schools.

How it needs to work is: school forums will be set up for individual schools.

If you are parent and want to see YOUR SCHOOL forum – you will need to

a) click on your school from a drop down list of available school forums

b) register for this school forum

c) An administrator will confirm your registration (depends if you answered security question correctly)

d) From there you can happily view information (which may be confidential) on the school forum page and post/view information as well

FEEDBACK FROM DEVELOPER:

Simplepressforum – doesn’t allow us to do the above

We then Installed the WordPress MU and had a look at buddypress.

The type of functionality that we are looking for is not available in WordPress MU. Buddy Press is entirely build on the facebook concept, and not geared towards groups as we are looking for.

A solution might be to create a custom forum with all the functionality that is needed and just include it in an iframe in wordpress. Downside to this will be that the there will be 2 back-ends for managing the website, Word Press and the Forums.

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Really don’t want to go custom design … I really though something like this would be simple to set up … excuse the pun …

Can anybody help?

[katastimata]

I suppose that the ideal for me would be a bridge between bbpress (or anything else) and drupal (or anything else). Just pick the best (for you) specialized software for all different parts of your website and integrate them (as seamlessly as possible).

[katastimata]

I have used wordpress, muwordpress, drupal and joomla and proprietary CMS extensively, for any kind of website. I’m about to start testing bbpress but I have to say that I’m a bit sceptical.

One thing is that the best communities I have ever seen are based on forum specialized software (not going to mention these here, you know them). So in order to establish a well performing online community I suggest that you use one of these software (bbpress seems to be one of these).

The other thing is that the community will help protect the community, so unless you build it and it grows, you won’t be able to keep it clean and tidy all by yourself.

[OKTeaRoom]

Ok, I just installed two wordpress blogs that share the same users using this method:

Installing two WordPress blogs with the same users

They seem to work as far as logging in and out but i don’t believe they share the same cookies (due to the fact that i can log in/out of one and still be logged in/out of the other).

I’d like to make one forum installation to serve BOTH of these sites (having seperate forum sections for each blog)…is it possible to do the cookie integration between all three?

Hopefully that made sense and thank you to anyone who can help.

[rainbow_lazer]

Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to display bbPress’ tag cloud from the sidebar in WordPress. I’ve googled a lot, but can’t seem to find anyone who’s done this.

I’ve hacked a temporary solution that displays the topic tags from bbpress as a list in the wordpress sidebar, but I’d really love to have the size formatting as well.

<?php

global $wpdb;

$taglist = $wpdb->get_results(“select name from bb_terms”,”ARRAY_N”);

$number_of_tags_to_show = 10;

for ($count = 0; $count < $number_of_tags_to_show; $count++)

{

if($taglist[$count][0])

{

$tag = str_replace( ” “, ” “, $taglist[$count][0]);

echo ‘

[chrishajer]

Actually, because this file is accessible:

http://speakasp.net/asp-forum/bb-templates/kakumei/screenshot.png

and your forum comes up if you access it like this:

http://speakasp.net/asp-forum/index.php

it seems that the files are installed in the proper locations. Maybe the server is not configured to serve index.php as one of the default files? I think the default on IIS is to look for default.asp first, but there has to be a way to serve index.php by default. That’s what you need for bbPress (and WordPress too, which seems to be working already.)

[chrishajer]

What are the directory paths where you installed WordPress and bbPress, the full path, or at least the relationship between the two.

Also, if you look, is the install.php file in the bb-admin directory? Maybe all the files were not transferred.

[drahmedgalal]

hello;

i am trying to install bbpress on my website but i get a very early wear problem.

i dowenloaded the last version of bbpress >>unzipped >> uploaded to a new virtual directory(i use windows shared hosting) >>then i go to the path of installation >>

http://speakasp.net/asp-forum/

>> then i got a massage saying “There doesn’t seem to be a bb-config.php file. This usually means that you want to install bbPress.” >> i press go to step 1 >> then i got 404 on

http://speakasp.net/asp-forum/install.php

i am running windows server, shared hosting(so no access to iis) ,i have installed blog on http://speakasp.net/blog/

and i have one sub domain.

i really want to have this forum application , although i am an asp.net developer i am the biggest fan of wordpress and i think i will like bbpress too

but please answer me quickly as i am fighting for three days now with no results

thanks allot

[mextena]

Yes, I was receiving emails when I was using WordPress from the same server. So it’s not the problem with the server side.

I am using latest version of bbpress (bbPress 1.0.2) I am using English language. I have not integrated WordPress with this bbPress.

So what is the problem With email sending?

[chrishajer]

First determine if you can send email from that server. Can you? Have you ever received mail from the server?

Also, what type of server, and what version of bbPress did you install, and are you integrated with WordPress? Using English or another language? All of these things can affect how mail is sent from your server.

[chrishajer]

When you have the integration working, a user will be able to log in in either the forum or the WordPress site, and will already be logged in on the other side. They would not have to log in twice and would be logged in at both places simultaneously.

[chrishajer]

OK, I see.

How are you getting your WordPress header to display in the forum? Did you just integrate deeply and the include the header <?php get_header(); ?>?

[fifthhouse]

I have a developer who does some work for me sometimes fixing up my blog, and this week he made a nice theme for me to match my wordpress theme

http://angerwise.com/forums

[abcaa6]

I am having problems with bbPress-WordPressMU User Integration.

Under the WordPress Integration Settings, I have correctly set the User Role Map and User Integration Cookies like AUTH, Secure AUTH KEY, etc. according to my wp-config file.

My question is, how do I know whether I have integrated correctly? By what I know, if integrated correctly, user should be log-in from either bbPress or WordPressMU and have the same access throughout. But under Users tab, I see only my account, (admin log-in) and no one else. If I try to log-in to my bbPress using my WPMU account, it doesn’t work.

[jefferisp7]

thank you chrishajer.

Right now on the forums, I have major categories like tacky lamps, tacky decorations, tacky parties, etc. The members can post comments and photos. In Joomla, I’ve also linked the users with photogalleries they can create using Coppermine. I have set up moderation to approve people before they can join because they spammers were atrocious.

I’ve used Community Builder to coordinate user registration, postings, and their galleries. I used Fireboard as the forum plugin and it integrates with Community Builder.

A couple of problems I noted is that there was no way for the community to report bad posts or spam, which made more work for the moderator (me) having to approve posts until I got to know the people.

What I’d like to have is a self policing community, spammer protection, and some automated filters for bad language and the like, with the ability to report abuse to the moderators. Then I’d like the members to be free to create as they like.

So, I’m hoping to duplicate these features in a WP environment…

Aside from that, there would be articles and news by editors that would be normal WP stuff.

Maybe I should wait for WP 2.9?

Jeff

[arpowers]

sure. thanks for the reply.

notice here: http://www.pagelines.com/

there is no ‘articles’ page..

here (the forum): http://www.pagelines.com/forum

the ‘articles’ page shows up.

I’m using the WordPress plugin ‘exclude pages’ (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/)

to hide the page on my WP install.

The forum is deeply integrated but notice that BBPress doesn’t reflect the changes from the plugin

[chrishajer]

Having run sites with WordPress, bbPress and Joomla, I have had less security issues with WordPress and never one with bbPress. bbPress is certainly less used, so it’s less of a target (like Apple for viruses, for example.) WordPress security releases seem to be fixed fairly quickly. There was an update this week to 2.8.6 for example, to fix some security issues.

I’ve done 3 sites with Joomla and about 40 sites with WordPress, and 3 bbPress forums. I would never recommend Joomla to anyone either.

Drupal had too steep a learning curve for me, and with 2.9 WordPress is adding custom post types, which was a strong point for Drupal in the past.

10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

I would use WordPress. But before you install bbPress, define what you want in your forum installation, and post that here. Integration is not a strong point with bbPress and WordPress right now. If you desire integrated logins between WordPress and bbPress, you might want to consider a WordPress forum plugin instead of bbPress.

[jefferisp7]

Hi folks,

I created a website for my wife ( http://www.tackypolice.com) which she, as a school teacher, is always too busy to moderate and update. Unfortunately, Joomla is a security nightmare if you have forums on it. Every update to its community builder produces 1500 attempts by russian hackers to register or worse. It seems that somehow they know immediately if an update is applied to patch something.

Fortunately, I can check these names against known forum spammers:

http://www.stopforumspam.com but it is not automatic.

I am so disgusted with this labor that I’d like to move to what seems to be more secure: WordPress. The interface would be easier to use for my wife.

But I have a few questions:

If you use a Forum on a WordPress site, are you any better off or are you going to encounter the same spam/hacker problem that will require constant manual oversight?

Is there a way to preserve and transfer your valid user database and forums and posts to the new service?

I wonder if joomla is targeted more just because it is a known security sieve…

Or would anyone recommend Drupal or something else instead for some of these issues?

After this experience, I would never recommend Joomla to anyone. What a time waster.

Thanks

Jeff

[Sushubh]

well its hard to restrict the title limit on a community. twitter is hard enough to manage with a limit.

i was actually surprised that no one has had this issue and there were no plug-ins either.

well words would be fine. 3-4-5 to keep the link short and sweet. of course i am not looking for a wordpress like slug feature. but a vbseo like fixed limit on the number of words.

[paamayim]

The .htaccess trick worked for me, thanks.

Just ensure to edit the .htaccess inside bbpress folder ( /forum/ ? ) not the one in wp folder, and add the line suggested by “balgo” at the top of the file replacing your domains/folder where stated.