[chrishajer]

A table prefix is just one way of having lots of different software packages use one database. Since they might use similarly named tables, like user or post, the table prefix allows multiple packages to use the same database and table name, it just gets this prefix added to the table. So, the posts table becomes bb_posts, or wp_posts in the case of WordPress.

You could change it to chevycamaro_ and then you’d get chevycamaro_post as a table name.

Just don’t use the same prefix for two different software packages. That has a tendency to wipe things out. (The second package you install with a similarly named table will overwrite the first table, if you use the same prefix. Always use a unique prefix. It’s a non-issue for you now with only one software package installed using that database.)

[chrishajer]

Heh, completely misread that one. It’s even easier to put a link to the WordPress site in your bbPress header. Just modify the template file to put the link where you want it.

[chrishajer]

You do not need integration at all to put a link to your forum in your top menu.

How to put a link to forums on my WordPress navigation menu

But it’s even simpler than that. If you put your bbPress installation in a folder (subdirectory of where WordPress is) called “kitty-cat-talk” and you create a WordPress page called “Kitty Cat Talk” with a slug of “kitty-cat-talk” – the link will be in the menu, and clicking the link will send visitors to your forum. The way WordPress .htaccess and mod_rewrite works with pretty permalinks is that it looks for a folder first (or a file) and if a folder with that name exists, serve that. So that is what happens with a page like this. Your WordPress page will have no content, it will just send people to your forums, assuming the Page slug and the folder you installed into are the same.

There also also ways to call the page whatever you want, and do a custom redirect to your forum. That is detailed in the link I sent. There are a couple plugins that can do that for you.

http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/page-links-to/

http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/custom-field-redirect/

And then there is the template way someone linked to in that thread.

It’s pretty easy and you do not need integration at all to just have a link in your WordPress menu to your forum installation.

[fifthhouse]

I am going to install a bbpress forums with my wordpress blog. I am trying to understand something.

I want to have the menu from my blog appear in my bbpress forums. My question is: Does this mean I have to do “deep integration” as described in the documentation on integration where it says:

“bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. This integration step is also known as “deep” integration, “

Does my wanting to have the top menu from my blog appear on my bbpress forums fit into the category of “WordPress’ functions?” as described above?

[chrishajer]

http://valadilene.org/projects/wordbb/

WordBB is an integration between the blogging platform WordPress and the bulletin board system MyBB.

It is composed of two parts: a plugin for WordPress and a plugin for MyBB.

[circuit]

it was resolved by logging out and logging in to bbpress (not wordpress).

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forumsbb-admin-just-redirects-me-to-forums

[deuts]

Ahhh, I’m having the same issues. I guess this is inherent to the BbPress and WordPress integration. So that’s why. I’m wondering if there have been any solution for this.

[Justin Tadlock]

Codex. Codex. Codex.

Open up a BB Codex like we have with WP. How are we going to get more devs to start hopping on the bbPress bandwagon? While many of us enjoy sifting through code when we get the extra time, good documentation is always helpful to get people started. Heck, even some better inline documentation would do wonders right now.

Seriously, when was the last time this page and its subpages have been updated?

https://bbpress.org/documentation/

I’ve got more work than I can possibly handle, but I’d be willing to develop things for the bbPress community. I just don’t have time to spend reading through all the code, line by line, to see how things work.

Give developers a chance to make the platform shine.

The success of WordPress comes from the vast number of add-ons (themes and plugins) for the system. Without them, WordPress probably would’ve died a long while ago.

The lack of documentation is probably turning a good number of developers away from the system, developers that could be creating plugins for many of the features that users want.

This is the area that needs the most improvement. Let’s work on documentation first. Then, we can start thinking about other things bbPress needs.

Themes

I’ve seen a handful of decent themes I’d use, but (as far as I know) there are no major theme developers in the bbPress community. Documentation would go a long way in helping here. This is especially true for designers that don’t know all the ins and outs of the platform’s PHP code.

I’d personally start coding bbPress themes if it supported the same type of parent/child theme setup that WordPress has. I’d be happy to port all of my WP themes like this.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Thank DKB. To disable that line, go to line 1017 in the WordPress-side plugin file wpbb-sync.php and comment out (put \ before each line):

$comments[count($comments)-1]->comment_content .= '<br/><p class="wpbb_continue_discussion">'.

__('Please continue discussion on the forum: ', 'wpbb-sync')."<a href='$link'> link</a></p>";

You can also just change the text there too. Someone tell these guys about array_push() ?

[DKB]

Its coming from the plugin WordPress-bbPress syncronization

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/

[chrishajer]

How about a little more information?

URL?

What happens when they try?

What happens when you try?

Any error messages?

What version bbPress?

Integrated with WordPress? If so, what version WordPress?

Stock theme or custom?

Any plugins active?

Has it ever worked or never worked since installation?

What host are you on?

You never know which of these items will be important, but starting with a little information is better than nothing.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

bbPress doesn’t touch WordPress by default, so you must be running some plugin that adds that

[Erhnam]

I noticed that on my WordPress page below every last a line is added with the following text:

“Please continue discussion on the forum”

How do I change or remove this line?

[Erhnam]

BBPress is a bit new for me so sorry if this question sounds stupid.

I installed BBPress along with WordPress. After the BBPress installation setup a connection between those two. No problems till here. I also installed wordpress-bbpress-syncronization which also works fine. I noticed that only new posts on WordPress are copied to BBPress. So I wonder; Is there a way to copy all wordpress posts to BBPress and then start syncing from there?

[fakeplasticfish]

Oh my god, I love you. Will you have my babies???!!!!!

Changing from wp-blog-header.php to wp-load.php fixed the problem. At least it looks that way. The pages are loading in IE now.

How would I check to headers to make sure this problem is truly fixed? I don’t know what “check the headers” actually means. Sorry.

Oh, and maybe bbPress could change the instructions here

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

to indicate that wp-load.php should be used instead?

Beth

[chrishajer]

I think you should be including wp-load.php instead of wp-blog-header.php

I think the difference between browsers is due to your forum returning a 404 but still displaying the content. Some browsers ignore the 404 and display the content (Safari and Firefox, apparently) but others treat the 404 as a 404 (IE8).

Check the headers being returned from http://fakeplasticfish.com/discuss/ :

Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:34:48 GMT

Server: Apache

Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT

Pragma: no-cache

X-Pingback: http://fakeplasticfish.com/xmlrpc.php

Last-Modified: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:34:48 GMT

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98

Connection: Keep-Alive

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8



404

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/deep-integration-google-might-not-be-indexing-your-forum-pages

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-404-error-but-page-displays

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load

I think those are related.

[fakeplasticfish]

Not sure if this question should go to the Installation forum or Troubleshooting. I actually posted this question last night to the forum, and this morning it has disappeared. So trying again…

I have spent all weekend installing bbPress and modifying the kakumei template to integrate with my site. It all looked great in Firefox and Safari, but when I view the site in Internet Explorer 8, I cannot reach any pages besides front page, and only then if I browse to http://fakeplasticfish.com/discuss/index.php. Simply browsing to http://fakeplasticfish.com/discuss/ in Internet Explorer brings up a 404 Error, as do all the other forum pages.

Here are details of my install:

WordPress 2.8.4 installed at the root: http://fakeplasticfish.com

bbPress 1.0.2 installed at http://fakeplasticfish.com/install/

bbPress is installed into the same database as WordPress on a GoDaddy Linux server.

I have added this code to my bb-config file as instructed:

/** Integrate with WordPress */

require_once(‘/home/content/b/e/t/bethfish/html/wp-blog-header.php’);

This is because I want my WordPress plugin menu bar to appear in bbPress as well as other WordPress functions.

I thought perhaps the issue had to do with pretty permalinks, as I read some entries in this forum on that issue, so I actually switched back to the original ugly permalinks, cleared the browser cache and restarted IE. IE will still not open any of the bbPress pages besides index.php and returns a 404 error from the server (not my WordPress 404 page.)

I have two .htaccess files, one in the root folder created by WordPress and one in /discuss/ created by bbPress. I tried deleting that file after switching back to ugly permalinks, and now there is a new one there.

I am a novice. I don’t understand the information in the .htaccess file, but I am happy to copy the information from both files over here if that would help.

I just really don’t understand why the bbPress pages work fine in Firefox and Safari and not in IE.

[Collisionx]

Hi

I have tried integrate wordpress into bbPress according to the documentation, in my localhost, and im getting this error.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bloginfo() in C:wampwwwgm_wordpresswp-contentthemesdefaultfooter.php on line 12

Do i have to call every file in wordpress with “require_once”… Or is there any other solution ?

I ll be great if you guys can help me out..

Thanx

[psymatix]

Hello,I’m a wordpress user and I just downloaded bbpress for a project I’m working on since I can’t get some key features on wordpress. My project involves polls that can be created by users of the site, and also regular forum topics.

I have gotten the polls plugin bbpress polls and it adds ‘[poll]’ in front of the topic title. now I want to use this feature to display topics with polls separately from topics that don’t have polls since this seems to be the most distinguishing factor.

My question is how can I get the topic title in the loop for use in my code? the Function topic_title() displays the topic i.e. it echoes it, but I would like to get it as a string that I can use in functions.

Also, I would like to know how I can get a reference of all the index keys in the $topics array so I can use them in my code.

[Bagi Zoltan]

I faced with the very same problem with two bbpress installations along with a WP. I slightly modified the function is_404() in the /wp-includes/query.php so the function returns true when the requested uri belongs to the forums.

function is_404 () {

global $wp_query;

if (preg_match('/(firstbbpressfoldername|secondbbpressfoldername)/i', $_SERVER))

{return true;}

else{

return $wp_query->is_404;}

}

After saving the irritating 404 issue has gone.

Regards

Zoli

[NikonRumors]

Hi, I just updated to v. 1.02 and the admin screen still looks like the old version (green text on white background). When I installed v 1.02 locally on my computer, the admin screen looked like the WordPress admin interface. I updated my database. Everything else is working fine. How can I change/fix the admin screen to look like the WordPress interface (the way it is intended to be).

Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

felabria, keep in mind that at WordPress.org, they do not have cookie sharing setup; so logging into the forums does not mean you’re logged into the codex, etc…

[chrishajer]

You will need to create a bbPress theme that looks like your WordPress theme. If you’re not comfortable creating a theme, you will need to find someone to do that for you.

[felabria]

Can somebody help me with that? I want something like WordPress.org/support has. That it would have the same theme. I use Mystique wordpress theme.

[chrishajer]

I think it took a while for WordPress to get where it is today, including video tutorials at wordpress.tv – bbPress is not there yet. WordPress 1.0 was January 2004, and the first video tutorial on wordpress.tv was posted January 2009. bbPress 1.0 was released June 2009. I think there is a lot more development to be done with bbPress before resources would ever be devoted to anything like bbpress.tv (which is not registered ATM.)