[PeterVk2]

Setting up a forum for a university discussion course and can’t seem to find where to set up custom registration fields. For instance, I’d much rather have students’ student number and course number than their website and location. Where is the template file to change this? Or do I have to go into the core files? (I have a limited amount of experience with WordPress and none with bbPress.)

Cheers.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

I guess you mean you have WordPress.com blog then, as opposed to one on a server? You could try something like what’s being offered here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/free-hosting-for-bbpress

[villazadi]

HI

i dont really have a server where i can upload bbpress, but i have a wordpress blog. is there a possibility to upload bbpress on my blog?

[andyfielder]

I am having issues…

It installs fine, but it says:

Your installation completed with some minor errors. See the error log below for more specific information.

…Forum could not be created!

So i look through the log and it all seems fine! I have just looked in the config file and edited it a little, so the auth salts matched my WP install.

Here is the log:

Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

>>> Setting up custom user table constants

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Modifying database: db264490364 (db1673.oneandone.co.uk)

>>>>>> Table: cncbbf_forums

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: cncbbf_meta

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: cncbbf_posts

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: cncbbf_terms

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: cncbbf_term_relationships

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: cncbbf_term_taxonomy

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: cncbbf_topics

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> WordPress address (URL): http://www.cnc4.co.uk/

>>> Blog address (URL): http://www.cnc4.co.uk/

>>> WordPress cookie keys set.

>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt set from input.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt set from input.

>>> Fetching missing WordPress cookie salts.

>>>>>> WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt not set.

>>> User database table prefix: cnc4_wp_

Step 3 – Site settings

>>> Site name: cnc4 forum

>>> Site address (URL): http://www.cnc4.co.uk/forum/

>>> From email address: heading@gmail.com

>>> Key master role assigned to existing user

>>>>>> Username: admin

>>>>>> Email address: heading@gmail.com

>>>>>> Password: Your existing password

>>> Description: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum could not be created!

>>> Making plugin directory at /homepages/9/d258877654/htdocs/cnc4.co.uk/forum/my-plugins/.

>>> Making theme directory at /homepages/9/d258877654/htdocs/cnc4.co.uk/forum/my-templates/.

>>> Key master email sent

There were some errors encountered during installation!

Can anyone help me. the forum can be found at: http://www.cnc4.co.uk/forum

But keeps redirecting to the installer!!

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

It’s throwing up 301 Moved errors so I’m wondering if it’s messed up your .htaccess file or something. Where did you install bbPress under? Also, what integration plugin? What version of bbPress did you install? By the way… your version of WordPress has a gaping security hole, UPGRADE!

[krepta8]

I just finished installing and integrating a setup of WordPress MU 2.8.4a, BuddyPress 1.0.3, and bbPress 1.0.2. Everything seems to have gone fine, except I cannot seem to access the Plugins page under the bbPress Admin menu. When I click it, it directs me to …/bb-admin/plugins.php which loads only a blank white page. Also, bbPress does not seem to recognize any themes placed in the “my-templates” folder and so I am forced to place them in the core “bb-templates” folder. Because of the plugins.php problem, I cannot tell if it will recognize plugins placed in the “my-plugins” folder, as I cannot access the plugins page to find out.

Does anyone know what could potentially be going on? Any suggestions for fixing it? Thanks in advance.

[gerikg]

ah, good to know!

[Olaf Lederer]

I think you need more since there are sites providing buddypress+wordpress+bbpress

success with your free hosting site

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/05/integrate-bbpress-forum-wordpress-setup/#comment-13691

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

I’ve never quite understood the complaints about cookies and bbPress/WordPress integration… I set up a fresh copy of 1.0.2 locally with no prior knowledge and it worked fine (Windows test server). I FTPed it onto my live server and changed over the addresses and it works fine, apart from an odd quirk to do with bb-admin and where you log in. My cookies hold across either site, and for that matter to a MediaWiki install I have tied in to the same user set.

I quite understand the issue with cross-posting though. I’d fix it myself if I could work out how to initialise bbPress core cleanly inside WordPress, but that’s not possible in 1.0, so for now all you can use is plugins that do it by HTTP. Hopefully that will be integrated into core later on, but including bbPress as a WordPress plugin would be shoehorning something that was designed to be relatively standalone into a different structure and no doubt would over complicate things.

[Olaf Lederer]

Sure step over to SMF if you like to have:

– more spam

– more plugins (to get it working as a forum should work)

I never tried to use bbpress with wordpress, but I’m sure that both are able to work together (based on the same script)

[eclipsenow]

Hi all,

sadly bbsync still doesn’t work AFAIK and so I’ll probably head with SMF.

At least SMF has this.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-to-smf-forum/

I wish bbpress where a truly “out of the box” solution with all the SMF features already built in.

I wish bbpress were a plugin, or in WP core, so that all I had to do was click a few buttons and it was there.

I wish this WP/forum plugin also had a bbsync blog-post-to-forum-post automatic function that I could just switch on, also WP core.

But it isn’t. BBpress seems to have all sorts of issues integrating with WP. I may as well just operate 2 separate databases, and keep the thing simple. Once users have logged in and accepted the cookies they don’t have to keep logging in anyway… they’re auto-logged in. If a WP post can be automatically shunted across to SMF as an SMF post with an automated link to that post, wow!

[swingJazz (Jimmy Saputra)]

It’s my deep pleasure to launch my WPMU+BuddyPress+bbPress. Please take a look at http://jazz.or.id

This is community website for Jazz Lovers in Indonesia. We know there are many website using WordPress, but not many about jazz.

Dedicated to Matt Mullenweg, because he loves Jazz. Does someone else also like Jazz?

Please give comments for the design and content, I am hoping so much from you all, because you know better than me.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@gerikg

installing bbPress in a sub folder doesn’t cause any issues. I have integrated several setups like that without even using the integration plugin which has many supporters without which they can’t be integrated.

Things may be different if bbPress isn’t installed in a sub directory as I haven’t tried that.

[wsokc]

Hi Guys,

Currently I’ve reinstalled bbpress to new version 1.0.2 I do fresh installation of bbpress to a new location, then I import the data from old bbpress database 1 by 1.

Since I’m installed the bbpress directly integrated with my wordpress, I saw there is no table bb_tags.

How to restore this and where should I put the bb_tags data ?

Since I saw now bbpress using wp_users as user management data, where do I found for this tags ?

Thanks in advance.

[gerikg]

ashfame, what about the cookie path… and the wordpress intergration option on bbpress dashboard?

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Assuming you’re talking about deep integration of bbPress, you should be able to use one of the constants defined in the settings of WordPress MU / BuddPress to determine if bbPress is embedded or not.

[gerikg]

WPMU+BuddyPress+BBpress

How do you write the php code to say

if in a bbpress side

do this

if wordpress (or else) do that.

?

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Try integrating as per this tutorial of mine on a test install : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/07/integrate-bbpress-10-with-wordpress-28/

Just follow closely and you should be fine.

[LargeCell]

It is compatible with WordPress 2.8.4? Thanks.

[gerikg]

Okay I found a few things. I don’t know if it matters but I just try to mimic what I had. I’m not an expert.

I don’t know if this was a factor: You didn’t have enough keys (Salts weren’t used)

You got your keys from here: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

I got my keys from here: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt

I added the new keys to both files.

You had the COOKIEPATH in wp-config but not in bb-config (again I don’t know if it matters but I do it anyway) I copied it onto bb-config. I also moved that line to the top before anything else, just in case.

And that was that.

I notice you had the wrong URL to the forums (/bb-press/ instead of /bbpress/) but that was to get the cookie path and it didn’t matter either way.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Using IE on it doesn’t work at all for me. How weird… http://www.oraclepronet.com/techzone/index.php loads fine though on first try, so it might be something to do with how the server is handling the directory index rather than bbPress. Your version of WordPress has security holes by the way, you might want to upgrade.

[Tomcraft1980]

Hi there,

is there a way to build canonical URLs like WordPress does? WordPress automatically redirects http://domain.tld to http://www.domain.tld and I would like bbPress to do so too.

This is needed to prevent duplicate content on your site.

kind regards

Tom

[Olaf Lederer]

bbpress registrations via facebook connect is not so strange, but there is no plugin at the moment, check facebook connect plugin from wordpress, maybe you can change it that it works.

btw. that would be a great feature.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

I think should do it, it’s based off code here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/open-links-in-new-window

Change the values of $forums to the forum IDs of those you wish to restrict (it’ll only work on direct parent forums, not grandparents or categories, I don’t want to include walker code unless people need it).

Tested on 1.0.2 trunk, so I’m not 100% sure it’ll run on 0.9, sorry.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Remove Links (conditional)

Description: Removes links for non-registered users. Based on <a href="http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/bbpress-plugin-bb-tweaks/">bb tweaks</a>.

Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hide-links

Version: 0.01

*/



function bb_strip_links( $text ) {

global $topic;



$forums = array(

1,

2,

3,

);



if ( !in_array( $topic->forum_id, $forums ) )

return $text;



if ( !bb_current_user_can( 'write_post' ) )

$text = preg_replace('|<a (.+?)>(.+?)</a>|i', 'Login or register to download', $text);



return $text;



}



add_filter('post_text', 'bb_strip_links');



?>

@Hanratty: hiding links using CSS visibility will still leave the link URLs in the code, which isn’t too desirable for some