[annejan]

Thanks for your reply. I copied your code and deleted my own code.

The WP things in my bbPress are still working, but the “next page” problem is there still too.

Anyone a solution for the “next page” problem?

Thanks in advance!!

[shmufus]

Hi, I’m trying to integrate bbPress with Buddypress using the guide here: http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

I have done this successfully on my localhost, but trying to do on on our host’s webspace is proving difficult.

The integration of cookies works fine, but when I add a group to Buddypress, where is should normally say:

“Enable discussion forum”

It says:

“Attention Site Admin: Group forums require the correct setup and configuration of a bbPress installation.”

This is the part where a forum should automatically be created for the group. The passwords match up, the only difference I can see is one is using localhost and the other is using external webspace. Our host don’t allow us to set a folder to have 777 file permissions, which I thought could be the problem?

My question is, does the bbpress folder need 777 permissions for it to integrate successfully this way, or should I be looking somewhere else for the problem?

Thanks

[chrishajer]

WordPress sidebar code will not work straight away.

You can find themes that use sidebars here and maybe find something you can copy from:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes

Or, you can find professional help with programming for bbPress here:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-professionals-advertise-in-this-topic

Or, anyone familiar with modifying WordPress should be able to help as well since they’re very similar.

[chrishajer]

Yes, it will work fine with many users. It’s in use at WordPress.org if you want to see lots of users and activity. https://wordpress.org/support/

You can also check the top 100 sites using bbPress here and see how they feel to you:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

You can find forums with lots of users, lots of posts, or both.

[chrishajer]

secure_auth_salt is only present if you’re accessing wp-admin via https protocol, otherwise it’s not needed. The bbPress installation used to have a note about that at this field.

auth_salt you can get from your WordPress installation, at this URL:

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options.php

I thought those notes were present on the bbPress installation screen…

[peacesal]

Please where Can I find : auth_salt and secure_auth_salt, Still stuck at the 2nd installation steps. Trying to integrate wordpress and bbpress

[litehouse]

I formerly had login integration working between wordpress and bbpress, but it stopped when I upgraded to bppress 1.0. For wordpress I’m on version 2.8.3. Perhaps i did something incorrectly. These keys are not present in the bb-config.php file.

BB_AUTH_KEY

BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY

BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY

BB_NONCE_KEY

I added them to the bb-config.php file from the wp-config file. All the salt keys match the ones in wordpress, and I checked the meta table in the db to be sure.

i added the following line to wp-config and bb-config

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/lhw/’ );

Is it possible that bbpress wasn’t installed correctly to use the new security features? Any suggestions?

[missfor]

Having the same issues here, saw the plugin on wpmu-enable-bbpree-capabilities but I would wait a little until some one more experienced here would say something.

Basically the issue is that after installation and synch between bbpress and wordpress I see that the new users (except admin) have their roles assigned to Inactive.

Any help please ?

[terryjsmith]

@chrishajer I believe I found originally that including only wp-load.php did not register the actions and filters in WordPress and I wanted to keep those for our specific installation. But generally speaking, it would carry quite a bit less load

@AphelionZ I am very glad you solved the problem, congratulations!

[mptyuser]

Hi everyone,

I’m seriously considering dropping FluxBB (that i’m currently using for a large messageboard) and using BBPress.

I would stop using FLuxBB for various reasons (mostly because i feel like FluxBB isn’t really alive anymore development-wise and also because i’ve been using wordpress for many many years and really digg the WP/BBpress community & coding) but… i was wondering is BBPress would do the job for a large messageboard with many users and connections everyday ?

I’ve tested BBPress many times, installed the latest version again yesterday for a test run and tested many plugins, tried customizing themes to see if it would fit my needs etc. and it looks sweet but there’s one thing i can’t tell: would BBPress work fine with many users ? Would it be just as good and even better than FluxBB once i’ve installed the plugins needed and export everything from FluxBB to BBPress ?

Do any of you use BBPress with hundreds of users on a daily basis ? It is running smoothly ? Is it responsive and fast ? It is made to work with huge amount of users and connections ?

Thanx for your feedback. I’d really appreciate any experience you have / had.

[AphelionZ]

I’m trying to get the wordpress functions inside of bbPress and vice versa, and therefore get the buddypress functions into bbPress as well. I tried the method described here: http://labs.b5media.com/blog/creating-the-anypress-solution/ but to no avail. In short, it involves adding this code to the bottom of my bb-config.php file:

// Include WordPress functionality

$currDir = dirname(getcwd());

// Make sure this isn't install or admin (go up if it is)

if(!file_exists("$currDir/wp-blog-header.php"))

$currDir = dirname($currDir);



if(!file_exists("$currDir/wp-blog-header.php"))

die("Cannot find WordPress integration files.");



error_reporting(E_ALL);

require_once("$currDir/wp-blog-header.php");

The only clues I have from my error logs are a 404 error and a white screen of death when I try to access my forum root, which is at /community. Also, my rewrite log is here: http://pastebin.ca/1572291

Please note that im using an external install of bbPress intentionally because I need the forums to be centrally located and somewhat separate from my blog. Any insight or help would be greatly appreciated!

[John Jordan]

Hi I want to make my bb press forum the same as my wordpress page.

Is there and easy way to do this?

thanks

John

[angelamaria]

Hello,

I’m planning to using bbPress on a WP site/blog I am currently working on, on my local. WordPress is up and running already, a relatively clean install save for a couple of themes, and some entries. No plugins yet. I download bbPress, upload it underneath my WP root directory (where the blog is), change config to match WP config (for my local it’s just changing out the database name; I have a username/password account set up already for each of test installs), and try to install. I get:

DB Error: cannot select

…on all pages. I’ve looked at both bb-config and wp-config and the database values are identical, except for the suffix variable naturally. I’ve checked the database, only wp_* tables are there. I am using a fresh bbPress download.

Just for completeness’ sake (comments removed for brevity):

bb-config.php excerpt:

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

define('DB_NAME', 'pugad-lawin');

/** MySQL database username */

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘username’ );

/** MySQL database password */

define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’ );

/** 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’, ” );

/** snip snip **/

/**

* 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_’;

wp-config.php excerpt:

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

define('DB_NAME', 'pugad-lawin');

/** MySQL database username */

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username’);

/** MySQL database password */

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’);

/** MySQL hostname */

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

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

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

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

define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

/** snip snip **/

/**

* WordPress Database Table prefix.

*

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

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

*/

$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

Again, I have a username/password user setup on my local MySQL database for testing purposes, so yes, it is expected that those will be staying the same.

Any info on this would be great. Thanks!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@Kawauso

I think using $wpdb & $bbdb should sanitize by them self but reading the page on codex it looks like that we need to do that explicitly. I am a lil confused. Can you please clarify?

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Thanks ! I forgot that I should check out the codex for that.

[_ck_]

0.9 or 1.0 and what is the environment your server is on.

If you don’t know what that means just give us a PHPINFO.

If you are on a host with NFS (like dreamhost) bbPress and WordPress

(or anything relying on alot of files) will be slow.

[chrishajer]

I think you first need to determine how long bbPress is actually taking to generate a page, and how long it takes to generate the other pages on the site. You can start with _ck_’s mini-stats plugin for bbPress.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mini-stats/

[edit: see johnhiler’s link below to the bb-benchmark plugin]

And, on the other part of your site, what is running that? Is it WordPress or just static HTML? If it’s WordPress, you can get a plugin as well to point out performance bottlenecks.

Regardless of what type of software a site (your site) is running, there are lots of tools you can run in your browser to find performance bottlenecks.

Firefox (you need that to run most of these add-ons)

Firebug (all around awesome tool)

Y Slow from Yahoo!

Google Page Speed

There are tons and tons of performance add-ons for Firefox but these will get the job done.

Also, what host are you on, and can you post the URL here so others may see the performance first hand?

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

It just goes to http://fitness-passion.com/wp-comments-post.php for me

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

$wpdb and $bbdb have nice sanitizing functions and caching of results if I remember correctly

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpdb_Class

They can also be used to retrieve table names for the respective package

[chrishajer]

Why not just use the threaded comments that are built in to WordPress? Is there something you don’t like a the WordPress commenting system? If so, maybe there’s a plugin out there to change it.

[Mark]

I turned them on.

I found the problem though, some time in the middle of last night I had some hair brained idea to reverse integrate bbpress back into WordPress so I could display forums in my sidebars and what not… well I’m running µ and I didn’t want everybody who hosts with us to have to load bbpress and not even get to use it, so I was being ‘crafty’. Somehow I managed not to break WP, but I busted bbPress. Woke up this morning and forgot all about it.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

How does using $wpdb & $bbdb differs from using $results=mysql_query($query);?

[circuit]

yes, it is when you have a massively complicated array of wordpress plugins to integrate, and 2000 users. last time i installed and integrated it took 9 hours out of my weekend. i would rather avoid this until i have 9 hours to spare.

[gerikg]

Okay, I looked at his settings and config files. I got fresh keys both to match. He had the deep integration line and cookie lines all fine. The problem was in the bb-admin setting for WordPress intergration the URL had the www. , once that was taken out it worked fine.

[brightcoconut]

Cool; phpMyAdmin I can do.

So, I could probably upload that file into the same database as the WordPress install, right, since the prefixes are different? That would help integration immensely, if I’m not mistaken… and then configure bbPress to use WordPress’ user tables (which has been described before in many places)?

What happens then w/ the old bbPress users? Not that I actually care, much, if we’re using WordPress’ user tables… I guess I just don’t know what happens for the posts made by defunct users. Any advice there?

(and thanks again, everybody… this is supremely helpful.)