[johnhiler]

SPAM

It’d probably be useful to have a section on registration and post spam, along with the various techniques to fight it:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/request-to-the-experienced-what-anti-spam-tools

PERMALINKS

Some general stuff on htaccess and pretty permalinks (and how support for different approaches to permalinks vary across hosts):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalinks-not-working

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalink-type-change-gives-me-a-404-error

VERSION DIFFERENCES

It’d also be helpful to have a summary table showing major differences between the different versions, especially for people using plugins and unsure if an upgrade will break their plugins.

For example, version 1.0 uses BackPress plus it uses WordPress’ latest taxonomy stuff. Plus it has a new approach to meta data. So if an 0.9 compatible plugin depends on any of this stuff, it will probably break in 1.0 unless the plugin’s been specifically updated for the latest version.

TAGS

Tag permissions – who can add and remove tags:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/members-can-add-tags

How hot tags work and can be formatted:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hot-tags

Reordering of hot tags:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/alphabetical-ordering-of-hot-tags

Multi-byte characters (this may have been addressed in recent versions):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unable-to-add-mutibyte-character-tags

[Sam Bauers]

@alternateroute

Although things look a little different now. The premise of integration and the instructions remain the same with one small variation. If you are integrating with WordPress < 2.8 then you need to make an additional setting in bbPress to get cookies to be compatible.

[frooyo]

Does anyone have more details on what type of caching mechanism was added to the recent RC?

Per Sam blog post:

>>”Some new issues came up around WordPress integration, caching and SQL query performance which were simply too important to leave out of the final 1.0 release.”

It seems like he is inferring that some type of caching mechanism has been added.

[frooyo]

@_ck_

Like massbase said, the blog announcement from Sam says:

>>”Some new issues came up around WordPress integration, caching and SQL query performance which were simply too important to leave out of the final 1.0 release.”

That seems to indicate to me that Sam did add in some type of caching mechanism into bbPress 1.0

bbPress 1.0 Release Candidate 3

Did I misinterpret what Sam wrote?

[wire42]

OK, great. Thanks for looking into that. It almost seems that I’ve come at the wrong time, but I can’t wait to dive in.

[thechrisd]

Recently I’d been trying to deep integrate WP 2.8 and bb 1.0-rc1 together. I had previously managed to do it successfully with WP 2.5.1 and bb 0.9.0.4, so I tried porting the same method to the newer version.

Unfortunately however, it doesn’t seem to work. With the addition of backPress, the old method of deep integration no longer works as some functions get called twice, triggering a fatal error.

[Wed Jun 17 02:56:20 2009] [error] [client 86.45.179.252] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _mb_substr() (previously declared in */wordpress/wp-includes/compat.php:86) in */forums/bb-includes/backpress/functions.compat.php on line 108, referer: *

So, mainly I was wondering whether anyone else had managed to find a new method of deep integration, or whether it’s now not possible at all?

[Josh Leuze]

I think I found a bug with the third RC of bbPress 1.0 and WordPress 2.8, I checked around the forums and in Trac and didn’t see this specific issue mentioned elsewhere.

I have WordPress installed in a subdirectory, with bbPress installed below that.

WordPress: http://www.mydomain.com/beta/

bbPress: http://www.mydomain.com/beta/forums

So aside from having WordPress installed in a subdirectory for testing purposes, there is nothing out of the ordinary about my install. I don’t have WordPress set up to run in the root from the subdirectory or anything, it’s totally standard.

The issue is that when I am logged in through WordPress, I am unable to access the backend of WordPress. Any attempt to access the Dashboard or any other page on the admin area is redirected to the login page of WordPress, even though I am already logged in.

I am able to access the admin area of bbPress, but I am unable to logout from either WordPress or bbPress.

When I login through bbPress, I am able to access the backend of both WordPress and bbPress. I am able to logout from bbPress, but not WordPress.

I have followed along with Sam’s basic integration screencast a few times now, I believe I am installing everything correctly, and the results are consistent.

I have a live install of WordPress running in the root of this particular domain, so I am unable to do a test install in the root, but I have a feeling that it would run fine there and that this issue is the result of installing from a subdirectory.

The only difference that I can see between the screencast and what I am seeing on my end is the manual cookie settings code that bbPress asks you to add to wp-config.php at the end. In the screencast, bbPress lists this code:

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

But in my install, bbPress lists this code:

define('COOKIEHASH', 'e49cd3ef5873cd2d82bbc6a99b41ebfa');

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.www.mydomain.com');

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/beta/wp-admin');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/beta/');

When I delete those three extra line from my wp-config.php file, leaving only the fourth line, the issue is resolved and I am able to login in and out from either WordPress or bbPress, and access both admin areas.

Has anyone else encountered a problem like this? Am I skipping a step, or is one of the paths that bbPress giving incorrect?

[thewebscaper]

Short version, since this probably isn’t going to work…

On the WordPress.org forum support site, I have tried repeatedly today to post a new topic. The topic seems to post. It shows up in my Profile page as having posted. Yet if I try to reply to my own post, it says the topic has been closed. And if I log out of my forum account, and browse the forum, I discover my posts are not showing up for the world to see.

I upgraded to 2.8 today, is this the problem?

I really, really need support for a WP issue, and the only place I can get it is by posting to the WP forum, so it’s a big, big problem that I can’t post.

I even tried creating a brand new user account on wordpress.org forums, and the exact same thing happened.

Please help. Or at least let me know if you were able to read this message.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

WP 2.8 (not MU), been integrated since 2.7 without issue once I re-set my secret keys. The only hard time I had was sorting out my cookie paths, since I have my blog at domain.org/blog, but it’s ACCESSED at domain.org, and the forums are domain.org/forums.

This has been working like a champ:

// WordPress cookie integration speedup

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://domain.net/blog';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://domain.net';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.domain.net';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->authcookie         = 'wordpress_COOKIE';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_COOKIE';

$bb->logged_in_cookie   = 'wordpress_logged_in_COOKIE';

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/forums/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '/blog/';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/blog/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/blog/wp-content/plugins';

Also I kick all http://www.domain.net traffic back to straight domain.net to force things to be in order, which may be useful to someone.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Put this in your .htaccess file at the public_html level:

# Getting rid of the WWW in front

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.investorsbuzz.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://investorsbuzz.com/$1 [L,R=301]

If you have wordpress info in that file, put this BEFORE the WP stuff.

Ugh and there’s a bug in put $1 right after the / in http://investorsbuzz.com/

I don’t know why that’s happening. See http://yfrog.com/eahtaccessg

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I tried integrating WordPress 2.8 with bbPress 0.9.0.5 today but I found out that it can’t be done as per my tutorial because WP 2.8 has added one more function by which they change how they handle login so “Freshly baked cookies” plugin is broken for WP 2.8 at the moment. I would suggest integrating WP 2.7.1 with bbPress 0.9.0.5

Apart from new Widgets functionality, theme installing capability and some back-end performance improvement, you won’t miss much

Or you can wait for a few days for bbPress 1.0 which will integrate with WP 2.8 without any pain.

[bikingtoronto]

Hi Massbase…

I’m super-new to all the *press stuff… so I’m not sure what you’re talking about… BBpress can replace WordPress and Buddypress and WPMU?

[massbase]

dude, you hardly need WordPress for anything anymore…

bbpress can replace, WordPress, BuddyPress and WPMU..

check my site out. http://www.massbase.com

[bikingtoronto]

*Just* started using bbpress for a forum… have been using blogger for my blog, but the ease of bbpress is making me seriously consider wordpress for the blog.

Looking forward to more bbpress developments.

Forum at http://www.bikingtoronto.com/forum

[wire42]

Thanks, ashfame, I’ll be looking for that.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Its just code that works. Real power is the pluggable nature of bbPress & WordPress which lets you add almost any functionality without bloating the code for mass consumption.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I have already tested the integration of WP 2.7.1 and bbPress 0.9.0.5 here : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/05/integrate-bbpress-forum-with-your-wordpress-setup/

Although WordPress 2.8 should work fine (theoretically) by following that integration tutorial but I havn’t tried it yet. I will let you know if I face any issue and will update the tutorial.

Hope that helps!

[chrishajer]

> Can I use the latest production/stable releases of WordPress (2.

> and bbPress (0.9.0.5) together?

You can if you use something to make the cookies compatible:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/

or

http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/

Those were using bbPress 0.9.0.4 and WordPress 2.7, and there has been some additional talk about adding a line to (or was it removing a line from??) your bb-config.php to make the 0.9.0.* cookies work with WordPress 2.8:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-release-candidate-1#post-30330

> Is that the best combination?

Best is up to you to decide. I think you will find you can integrate logins and also have the greatest number of bbPress plugins available with 0.9.0.5.

> Will most of the plug-ins or extensions for bbPress be available with those versions?

The majority of the plugins were designed to work for 0.9 and below. There are significant changes to the 1.0 RC that some plugin authors are not updating their plugins until 1.0 becomes finalized.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/list-of-plugins-that-work-on-rc1#post-37033

[Sam Bauers]

bbPress 1.0 incorporates the shortcode API from WordPress, so most shortcode based video insertion plugins for WordPress will work with only minor modification.

[wire42]

Can I use the latest production/stable releases of WordPress (2. and bbPress (0.9.0.5) together? Is that the best combination? Will most of the plug-ins or extensions for bbPress be available with those versions?

I like the look of a lot of the plugins and just wanted to make sure that they will work. Thanks!

[Sam Bauers]

@johnbillion

You might want to upgrade that further to the latest trunk, RC2 has some issues.

[John Blackbourn]

Thanks for the compliments!

@sambauers: I’ve fixed the login integration by updating bbPress to RC2 (it was still on an alpha) and all is well again. Thanks for all your hard work on bbPress. Much appreciated.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Inching forward.

When I share tables, the default role of the admin of forums has a subscriber role in capabilities, thats why the admin access is lost.

Right, but WHY does that happen to you when it doesn’t to everyone else (that I’ve heard of) who sets up bbPress/WordPress the way you described It’s weird and I wonder what happened. It’s not the different wp_/bb_ prefixes, I’ve tested that.

[Anonymous User]

Hi onelove,

i think this must be the right “startingpoint” for you:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release

I’ve converted a phpBB 2 to phpBB 3 to bbPress 0.9.4 Forum three weeks ago. The converter works great for me. But the best way is on a local pc (XAMPP, WAMP, LAMP) which some backups.

A colleague from me wrote a little script with some regular expressions to clean up the topics and posts. eg. for the old phpBB <quote>-Tag and the smilies. Maybe I can upload this script temporary.

Also i hope i have some time to write an “how to” for the user reverse user integration in WordPress after the conversion from phpBB3. On Mysteria3000 (http://www.mysteria3000.de) we have 50 authors and about 150 users in the forum.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

ash, I was talking about the exact same plugin you were. Read the very first post on the plugin page.

This plugin is only meant as a simple way to fix roles for users doing reverse integration of bbPress with WordPress without having to resort to using phpMyAdmin but it may have other uses if a primary admin role gets corrupted or wiped out for some reason.

So really, unless your admin role is being wiped out somehow, this shouldn’t be needed in the situation you describe.