[John James Jacoby]

That makes sense, and I think it’s a really good way to say that neither platform has 100% of the things that anyone wants, hence the pluggable nature of them.

It sounds to me like you want BuddyPress without the WordPress MU capability, which is totally possible to do. I’m in the process of mirating a WP/BP integration to BuddyPress myself, and I think it’s exactly what I’ve been trying to modify WP/BP to do with plugins and hacks.

[joemoak]

That’s a fair question, John. Blog apps are great if you want a place for a few privileged people to talk about what’s on their minds. Blog apps are not so great at managing discussions and comments from readers. Forum apps are great managing users and discussions. I considered dropping WordPress for bbPress altogether, but bbPress (and most forum apps) lacks many of the other features I want; listing of posts with full or summary text on the front page, image management, static pages, related posts plugins, etc.

How do people maintain and track their own conversations on the blogs they visit? Outside of third-party services like CoComment, it’s very laborious. Bookmark each page you post a comment on? I guess that works.

Really I’m just looking for a way to encourage discussion and make it easier for people to stay involved. You’re right, maybe I need to rethink my strategy altogether.

I did a little more searching and found a WordPress plugin that does almost exactly what I want with Vanilla: Janine for Vanilla

[yokima]

ipstenu: it was this http://ciarang.com/posts/mediawiki-with-wordpress and some adjustments:

1. I installed wordpress on /blog and mediawiki on /wiki and bbpress on /talk

-> for this I added an absolute path with the line $WP_relpath=’/var/www/html/krcla/blog’; and set the cookies to point to the root folder

2. some others that I can’t remember at this point..

The result is that MediaWiki ends up being somewhat heavier than a plain mediawiki, but by redirecting both bbPress and MediaWiki logins to WordPress, I get a single WordPRess login action -> logged in WordPress, bbPress, and two MediaWikis!

[circulartrend]

Hi there,

Question for all of you. I am currently using wordpress and bbpress for a forum and I want to know if its possible to transfer members/posts over from WP/BBPress to a PHPBB message board? I don’t know a ton about databases as far as back end coding etc, but I wonder if its possible and how easy/hard it would be to make it work?

Thanks for any information,

Adam

[level200]

BBpress available as a install with wordpress and use the same template, if its made by the same people.

its a pain trying to look for a good template for both

[C Bog]

i have spent some time now analyzing the code of bbpress and wordpress.

it seems to me that an update of the old bbpress code (version 0.9.0.4) is unfeasable, because sam already managed to succesfully integrate version 1.0 with wordpress 2.7.1

all you have to do in order to use bbpress alpha with the recent versions of wordpress is to follow the bbpress installation instructions and it will work out of the box.

there is still some work to be done. as far as i can tell, bbpress and wordpess use multiple cookies for multiple paths. the one they share is the one for the root path. so… if you login into wordpress, you won’t be logged in into bbpress admin section. this does not happen the other way arround.

it is not recomended though to use the alpha version in production sites. for now, it seems that a downgrade of wordpress would be the best solution.

[teddyc]

Got BBpress and WordPress set up for a small school in Alaska. Almost ZERO customization (outside colors) since I just started using both WordPress and BBpress a month ago and I don’t know my butt from my elbow. But I have big grandiose ideas that hopefully will see the light of day (if my brain can ever absorb all of this).

I’m just happy they are both integrated with the user tables and (log–in/outs) are working perfectly. The school is happy so far too. Yay!

http://atheneum.org

[John James Jacoby]

I always scratch my head at this one and ask myself “what’s the point?”

Not trying to sound like an ass, but I really do not understand why.

Logically I think to myself that if you really want it to work that way, then why even use WordPress at all? Just use bbPress and have a forum sans all the blogginess.

[joemoak]

I have the same question. The latest mod post regarding bbSync said “it’s broken right now.” Any other options?

Ideally, I would like a new WordPress post to create a new forum topic and for all comments to be handled by bbPress. Possible?

[circuit]

i am running wp 2.7 and bbpress alpha 6 with no issues… not really sure how i did it, but i’ll help if i can…

[C Bog]

as far as i can see, by studying the code, wordpress has introduced a salt for hashing the passwords since 2.5

bbpress (my version is 0.9.0.4) has not updated it’s functions to include this salt.

the alpha release of bbpress 1.0 seems to take care of this problem, but the file structure, as far as i can see is completely different from the older versions, so a simple copy & paste wouldn’t do.

maybe the stable 1.0 release will take care of this issue, but since then (i don’t recommend using the alpha version on production web sites) i will try to modify the pluggable.php file of bbpress 0.9.0.4 in order to allow the usage of salts.

i’ll be back these days with further details.

[C Bog]

I am currently running a website which was initially built around e107. I also have a forum (e107 plugin) integrated in that website which reached over 1,000 posts. I am now planning migrating the hole solution to wordpress and bbpress. The biggest issue was to preserve the existing data (users and posts). I tried looking for a tool that acomplished this, but it was all in vain. I really wanted to migrate from e107 and wordpress with bbpress seemed to be a really good choice so I have built some migration scripts. They are written in PHP and are released under GPL.

There are two scripts. One that migrates the users to wordpress tables, and the other that migrates the posts of the forums. I would like to share these scripts with the community, hoping that there are users that could use them.

Please let me know what is the preffered way to share them.

Thanks!

[marc-brazeau]

My BBPress installation cannot find my salt cookies even when I plug them into the install from wp-config.

They do not appear in my WPMU admin options menu.

I always get this message at the end of install:

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

>>>>>> Could not fetch “auth” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “auth” cookie salt in your database.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch “logged in” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “logged in” cookie salt in your database.

Forum could not be created!

Nevertheless, I get an email saying that the install was successful. But when I go to the BBPress admin in the WPMU dashboard it doesn’t see the installation.

[pro101]

Angie: I’ve not touched the htaccess file, and I probably need to do it. WordPress usually updates it automatically… what should I put in it? I want to use the name based option …/forum/first-forum.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

For one, bbPress isn’t a WordPress plugin.

It should be in it’s own folder outside of the WP structure.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Sumit1988 has it right.

yokima, how did you share login with MediaWiki and bbPress/Wordpress?

[tfab69fr]

Unfortunately this causes an error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _http_build_query() (previously declared in E:wampwwwrs_prod_nextforumbb-includesbackpressfunctions.compat.php:21) in E:wampwwwrs_prod_nextwp-includescompat.php on line 45

[johnhiler]

You could use create a new Role, and then restrict access to a specific forum only to people in that role or higher using Hidden Forums:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

You’d still need a hook into Paypal, if you wanted to automate purchasing of access to your premium forum… but you could take that code from some of the existing WordPress or WordPress MU programs out there?

[sumit1988]

i think i remember, that here in the forum are a lot of threads that says:

WP 2.7 + bbPress 0.xx = Nope!

WP < 2.7 +bbPress 0,xx = yes

and finally

WP 2.7 + bbpress 1.0 = yes

So, either you downgrade your WP or you use the alpha version of BBpress.

You shouldn’T get issues with login then…

[yokima]

Ah yes, I did have issues with logout as well. I did however combine it together with MediaWiki shared login so that’s pretty good for me so far..

[John James Jacoby]

I wish that bbPress could incorporate the same type of threaded functionality that WordPress has, because I think it just works amazingly well.

[chrishajer]

Shouldn’t that require_once be at the top of the wp-config.php file, right after the opening <?php ?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

In your bb-config:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_econome'; // WordPress table prefix. Example: 'wp_';

In your wp-config:

$table_prefix = 'wp_econome_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

Looks like you’re missing an underscore in bb-config.

Also try changing this on your bbconfig: $bb->sitecookiepath = '/starteconome/blog/';

[rigwelter]

Hi,

I’d like to set up a forum that requires members to pay for access, preferably using Papyals subscription facility. Is there anything available that would easily allow me to do that?

I’m thinking there may be two options –

1. Integrate BBpress with WordPress and use a Premium WordPress access plug-in.

or

2. Have a plug-in that stands alone with BBpress that allows users to subscribe for access.

Does anyone know of any plug-ins/software that exsists that would allow me to do that?

I have had a look at many forum programs to find something useful to do this. The only forum software I have found with premium subscriptions built in is Dolphin/Orca by Boonex. However I’ve had problems with Boonex support and the Orca forum software.

So does anyone have any ideas as to how I can have people pay for access to a BBpress (or any other) forum.

Thanks.

Rig

[lasthero]

I have done all the above directions but still can’t seem to get anything to work. It is not detecting the cookie and having be already logged in to bbpress after wordpress login. I have been working on this for some time.

I have the exact same scenario that schmitt has at the beginning of this thread.

Please help me out here, I have posted several thread but no one has helped me or taken a look at my config files.

Here they are:

bb-config.php

<?php



// ** MySQL settings ** //

removed for security



define('BBDB_CHARSET', '');      // If you are *upgrading*, and your old bb-config.php does

define('BBDB_COLLATE', '');          // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here



// Change BB_SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase.  You won't have to remember it later,

// so make it long and complicated.  You can visit https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

// to get a phrase generated for you, or just make something up.

// If you are integrating logins with WordPress, you will need to match the value

// of the "SECRET_KEY" in the WordPress file wp-config.php

define('BB_AUTH_KEY', '7k67k67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '67k67k76k67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', '67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('BB_SECRET_KEY', 'thisisone{crazy}sectret9084biugfhKey'); // Change this to a unique phrase.



// If you are running multiple bbPress installations in a single database,

// you will probably want to change this.

$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_'; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!



// Change this to localize bbPress.  A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BB_LANG to 'de'

// to enable German language support.

define('BB_LANG', '');



/* Stop editing */



if ( !defined('BB_PATH') )

define('BB_PATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );

require_once( BB_PATH . 'bb-settings.php' );



// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you're not, just leave the rest as it is.



$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_econome';  // WordPress table prefix.  Example: 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.fabuso.com/starteconome/blog';  // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.fabuso.com/starteconome/blog';  // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'



$bb->usercookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_my has here';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_my has here';

$bb->cookiedomain = 'fabuso.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';



?>

wp-config.php

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

removed for security



// Change each KEY to a different unique phrase.  You won't have to remember the phrases later,

// so make them long and complicated.  You can visit https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

// to get keys generated for you, or just make something up.  Each key should have a different phrase.

define('AUTH_KEY', '7k67k67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '67k67k76k67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', '67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('SECRET_KEY', 'thisisone{crazy}sectret9084biugfhKey');

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'fabuso.com');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');



$wp->cookiepath = '/';

$wp->sitecookiepath = '/';

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/');



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

$table_prefix  = 'wp_econome_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!



// Change this to localize WordPress.  A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to wp-content/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'

// to enable German language support.

define ('WPLANG', '');



/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */



if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

?>