[QuickD]

I decided to test out this new version of bbpress on another website I have on Godaddy. I couldn’t link from BBPress to the Msql wordpress database and followed the steps to link to the database. Godaddy tested out and said that nothing wrong with the database.

BBpress asking for

Database Name (so tried with both Name and host name)

Database User (so put in godaddy msql User Name for wordpress database)

Database Password (Put in password to link to that database)

Did not work and gave following message : There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.

Please check the settings, then try again.

Godaddy said that the settings are fine.

Any suggestions.

[toosalty]

Hi smi1ey,

Could you elaborate on how you resolved the problem? I’m facing the same problem that you have but I don’t really understand your solution.

Thanks!

[_ck_]

If I missed such a large site in the top 100 be sure to let me know.

Sometimes it’s hard for me to find certain sites given how much bbPress is being customized.

(I had written a whole thing here but I accidentally closed the tab and restoring it never brought the text back unfortunately.)

You should never adopt a program based on one person, especially if that person doesn’t do it for a living and even more important since that person doesn’t work for the company that made the program in the first place

To be clear I am not abandoning bbPress, at least not until I find something better and I am not actually looking for something else right now and what I have seen over the past year has not impressed me much. Besides, there are other talents around here and they are slowing releasing more and more impressive plugins or porting them from WP. A couple years from now people won’t even remember me.

My biggest problem with 1.0 is how bbPress was on a course with 0.9 to correct many of the legacy mistakes that WordPress had made, and suddenly with a whim by Matt, bbPress has turned around 180 degrees and steered itself neck deep back into the muck and mire via BackPress. It’s now burdened with many more layers and required compatibility and it will never be any more lightweight than it is now, which is not so fantastic anymore.

Another big problem growing with 1.0 is how instead of taking any feature that is outside of the API functionality and making it external as a plugin, it is being poured directly into the core, setting itself up for more legacy failure, like WordPress. Sam wrote some really great plugins as an independent but now as a core developer he can just slide it right into the core. It’s far easier to modified the core to get new features done fast but it should be resisted at all costs. You’ll notice that WordPress doesn’t have any official plugins outside of akismet and “hello dolly”, it’s a very clear but invisible company policy – “we don’t make plugins, put it into the core”. bbPress is now headed down the same path and it’s not necessary.

Things like:

gravatars

voices

topic page icons

should not be in the core. Instead any necessary action and filter hooks needed to accomplish such features should be carefully created and then the features should be made as plugins that can be enabled or disabled as desired. bbPress already comes with a “factory” plugin directory, it should be put to good use.

bbPress 0.9’s greatest strength was as a lightweight framework.

1.0 is not just a framework anymore, it’s starting to tell you how it should look and feel, and that is bad, because there are dozens of other forum programs out there that will do just that.

[chrishajer]

Not that I’m aware of. This will bump you back to the top though.

What are you looking to do with a mobile device? And what are you using to do the same thing on WordPress. You said you heard of something; do you actually use something?

[_ck_]

Nice to see the page restored (see my rant here about that for those who don’t know the history)

I can see they are already whining about “third-party publications”

I can give you newspaper references where bbPress was mentioned if that helps:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/big-changes-coming-to-bbpress

I’ve got a couple others somewhere.

Also there is a post somewhere where Matt describes how he first put bbPress together over a Christmas holiday, which is important as it’s bbPress’s genesis story.

Oh and TalkPress should probably be mentioned on there and compare it to WordPress.com

[Marcomail]

the plugin on wordpress it’s necessary! i can log in wp admin if i log in bbpress, if you log in wordpress the cookie are not set to enter in bbpress admin.

[infected]

@Jason_JM: Okay, but as i said it works also without having the plugin installed. I tried it on my testblog, before going live. And if the plugin is really needed for integration it should be mentioned in the documentation. It´s the first place to go for users who are trying to integrate bbpress with wordpress…

But one more point: What about those 2 folders called my-plugins & my-templates. Is there a reason for why i can´t access them with my ftp? The folders can´t not opened either i can´t change their chmods. I´m using Filezilla as ftp tool. It reports “Failed to retrieve directory listing” when i try to open on of this folders.

[buddha-trance]

@ cornetjr

I do have all the keys set, including the nonce key.

In the bb-config file you will find this url

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/

where it will define all the secret keys for you automatically

I simply copied and pasted.

Or you can use the ones defined on the wordpress end, as per the link on the wp-config file

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

Whichever ones you end up using, make sure the strings match in both config files. See if this makes it work for you.

Edit: Never mind, I noticed you fixed it, while I was posting. Maybe this info can be useful in other cases.

[cornetjr]

NEVERMIND!!!

Apparently the problem was that when you try to login as ‘admin’ user the bbpress and wordpress user list gets confused. It thinks that they are two different users since there is the admin in bbpress user database upon install and an existing one in wordpress. This creates a conflict. I created a new admin account under a different username in wordpress and everything works correctly.

BBpress integration plugin IS NOT REQUIRED to get integration to work correctly.

I am not sure why, but “auth” cookie salt & WordPress “logged in” cookie salt in bbpress does not have to match that in wordpress.

Lastly, the most important variable other than in bb-config and wp-config files:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’,’ ‘);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’,’ ‘);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘ ‘);

Is to verify that User database table prefix is set correctly. To verify this, set field usually to wp_ and check the user list. If you have this value set correctly, then bbpress imports all users into bbpress admin area. Integration is super easy, but there are a few admin/instructional issues that have not been updated and can cause confusion. Please post if you have further questions!!!

[cornetjr]

For some reason I cannot change the :

WordPress “auth” cookie salt & WordPress “logged in” cookie salt in bbpress to match the values for wordpress!!!

[buddha-trance]

I am confused about the use of the plugin, now. Everything works fine when deactivating it, but as the description of the plugin says … “it is also necessary to setup this plugin so that WordPress can set a couple of extra cookies which are required”.

I am not sure what the extra cookies do, if things work fine without the plugin. Is there no longer a need for these extra cookies in v. 1.0? Were they required only in the prior versions of bbPress?

[cornetjr]

Also do I have to define:

WordPress “auth” cookie salt

and WordPress “logged in” cookie salt

in the bbconfig.php?

[cornetjr]

Cannot get integration to work even with the plugin. Help appreciated.

Below is generated from wordpress plugin for shared cookies:

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

User database table prefix:

set to wp_

I do not have a value for:

WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ” );

When I log into bbpress it logs me out of wordpress and vice-versa. Any ideas?

Settings are the same:

AUTH_KEY <=> BB_AUTH_KEY

SECURE_AUTH_KEY <=> BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY

LOGGED_IN_KEY <=> BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY

[JD Hartley]

So I was wondering with the release of bbPress 1.0 and all if there were plans to redo bbpress.org to match the same look and feel as wordpress.org or even buddypress.org.I would be willing to work on a WordPress and bbPress theme with Sam, or if Sam or no one else wants to spend the time I could by myself.

Is this a reasonable idea?

-JD

[intimez]

Where can I find the following in wpmu?

WordPress Integration Settings:

auth_salt

secure_auth_salt

logged_in_salt

I don’t see it anywhere.

bbpress 1.0 final and wordpress mu 2.7.1

[smi1ey]

Thanks for the reply! I resolved it! I had taken the AUTH keys from the options page of WordPress and entered them in the bbpress config file. I had assumed that by them already being listed in WordPress, that they were already in the WP config file. Apparently I was wrong. Once I ensured the AUTH keys were in both config files, it instantly started working. Woot!

[Detective]

Here’s another tip:

I mentioned in another thread that I had problems logging in WordPress. If someone logged inside WordPress, the cookies were valid in both WP and BB but the user was unable to post in BB. The problem was that BB was authenticating the username in the cookie against a lowercase version of the user_login value. I manually changed all user logins in the database to their lowercased version and everything worked correctly

[_ck_]

$page will be greater than 1 if you are on a paginated set of pages for any kind of view, topic, etc.

so do a

global $page;

and then if ($page>1) { blah }

but search engines like google are already aware of bbPress and index it well

[johnhiler]

Ah ok, I was just wondering if there was an implication that 0.9 doesn’t have a working integration with WordPress! Thanks for clarifying.

I definitely agree that it’s not as seamless as it could be…

[Ryan Hellyer]

It should be possible to integrate version 0.9 with just about any version of WordPress

Yeah, but it’s a lot easier with 1.0. I always found minor gremlins in the way it worked with 0.9, but with 1.0 it seems to function fairly seamlessly.

I generally help others with their forums, not build them for myself, so I need it to be fairly basic to do the integration. The way 1.0 does it natively is pretty slick IMO.

[johnhiler]

Hey Ryan – It should be possible to integrate version 0.9 with just about any version of WordPress (including 2.7)… except for 2.8? That’s only broken because WordPress decided to change how they handled cookies and broke bbPress integration in the process…

[infected]

Hi!

I have a simple question to bbpress 1.0 (final) and wp 2.8: Is the bbpress integration plugin still needed for complete integration? I followed the screencast on wordpress.tv. After installing bbpress there´s no problem to login into bbpress and wp at the same time. I remeber my first tests with 1.0 alpha where it doesn´t work…

[Ryan Hellyer]

It sounds like there are enough people wanting to keep using the 0.9 release (and apparently with good reasons) to justify continuing it longer than I suggested.

I never liked the 0.9 line, but it seems I’m not in the majority with that opinion. I guess I’m biased by requiring a working integration with WordPress.

[leehow]

I don’t want the search engine index every forum’s navigation page, so I’m thinking about this question.

[QuickD]

sorry I am not using 1.0 it was a typo I am using version 0.9 with wordpress 2.7