[John James Jacoby]

Lets say in theory I was going to try and integrate bbPress’s functions into WordPress.

Theoretically, where would I look if I didn’t want bbPress to clear out the wp_head function?

[eclipsenow]

Hi,

I am using phpbb3 for now, but I’m not really good at database stuff and admin stuff. I love all open source projects, especially phpbb3, bbpress, wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc… even though I’m not very “Geeky” yet and am only just beginning to learn the basics of CSS (let alone php etc).

So… I am speaking from the perspective of a non-technical forum administrator frustrated by various interactions of various software. I don’t mind doing the grunt work of setting things up IN the software, but don’t know the code to work ON software. EG: Once phpbb3 is installed, I can easily set up forums, permissions, etc. It’s just easy point and click stuff. But messing around in mysql and database stuff still terrifies me, I’m afraid of breaking something. It’s all too big. I just want to install it and have it work.

I appreciate that there are various philosophies behind each style of software, but here goes…

MY ULTIMATE WISH LIST

1. Nothing to do with you guys, but number 1 on my list is to have Fantastico (or something equivalent) that can make installation of WordPress / Joomla / Whatever EASY! (My client is a volunteer campaigning group that just happened to choose Brinkster which don’t use Cpanel, let alone have Fantastico).

2. After EASY fantastico installation, I install WordPress.

3. Then within WordPress I browse across to the various add-ons pages in the WordPress Control Panel (A VERY cool new feature of WordPress that Drupal and Joomla should add to their systems!) and then click “INSTALL FORUM?” and WordPress suddenly installs a completely compatible forum, just like that, with all the power of phpbb3 built-in.

4. I then choose 1 of say 20 or 30 “looks” (templates, themes, whatever) that are already pre-configured to allow sign-in of users on all pages, especially the forum page. If I want to change the colour of a background element or use a new image in the header, I just point and click to template editing and do it ala Blogger. (No CSS required).

This sort of software is on the way. Joomla now has “Agora” which is already fairly advanced. Once Joomla is installed through the 50 second Fantastico installation, Agora only takes about 50 seconds to install as well. EVEN I CAN DO IT! But the Joomla / Agora combination does not yet have Step 4, which is killing me… I have to muck around with all sorts of plug-ins and extra bits to get a horizontal log-in menu I can put up just under my header (so it’s in the same place no matter what template I’m in).

I saw the video of how to integrate WP and BBpress, and ran a mile screaming! It just looked very intimidating.

So anyway, the Joomla / Agora combination is hardly perfect, but as you know these things keep on developing and Hazzaa over at Agora is MANIC in the rate he’s developing his product. Version 3 is nearly out, and it’s only been 10 months.

Just thought I should give you guys the heads up. The competition is great, because it forces us all to evolve.

EG: I LOVE the sound of WordPress’s new one click upgrade function, and hope Joomla gets that soon! (It’s just me and database stuff again… eeerrgh!) Combine that with easy forum upgrades, backups, etc, and software that’s Mac-like in that it “just works”, and I’m a happy camper.

PS: I forgot to check this thread in case there were replies, because I automatically get an email from every other forum I belong to. Old habits die hard. Agora has an automatic emailing function built in, it’s not a plug in.

[deadlyhifi]

found the problem. I had this in my bb-config

if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

else

if (file_exists(‘../../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../../wp-blog-header.php’);

to bring in wordpress powers.

Without it the status stays the way it should. How else can I bring in “wp_list_pages” without requiring the wp-blog-header.php?

[criketos]

i use wpmu 2.7 and bbpress 0.9.0.4!

I reinstall everything from scratch. Now it works! for information should be recorded wordpress site in the form https://monsite.com. for users of WPMU.

thank you

[chrishajer]

> I read that WordPress wp-caching plugins should work

Where did you read that? I never had the impression that WordPress plugins would work when installed in bbPress.

[frooyo]

I just downloaded and installed bbPress ALPHA.

All is working okay.

I read that WordPress wp-caching plugins should work, I just installed the WP SuperCache into /my-plugins/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

I logged in as Admin, went to ACTIVATE the plugin and received the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /home/uptownelite/forum.uptownelite.com/my-plugins/wp-super-cache/wp-cache.php on line 30

Any ideas why?

I thought WP caching plugins are suppose to work in bbPress ALPHA

[deadlyhifi]

Can you check your database to see that you permissions states

bb_capabilities a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

[chrishajer]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress did you integrate?

[michaelpierce]

Basically heres the issue I’m having. I have a wordpress installation and and a bbpress installation working together, I would like to create a special role for contributors on bbpress so that my contributors on wordpress can go to view things specific to contributors. I don’t want to allow my contributors access to moderator rights.

So there you have it, is there a way to create a custom role so I can assign them special access?

[ilo]

I fixed it, turns out i had not updated my config file from my wordpress upgrade so i was using an old config file, when changing i just edited the file and added the secret key setting and it seems to be working great with 0.9

[ilo]

After doing some reading I am going to assume someone is going to tell me to use the alpha 6 version of bbpress? Would it be wise for me to do the whole setup from scratch, re-uploading wordpress and then testing bbpress again?

[dixyantar]

This is the error log that i am getting :

>>> WordPress cookie keys not set.

>>>>>> Your "bb-config.php" file was not writable.

>>>>>> You will need to manually re-define "BB_AUTH_KEY", "BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY" and "BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY" in your "bb-config.php" file.

>>> 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.

What did I do wrong? How can I get it right now?

Please someone help me.

[moealza1]

successfully installed bbpress on my wordpress 2.7

Is their anyway to have the forum actually be within the site so everything is together instead of having its own theme?

[criketos]

synchronization between wordpress and bbpress is OK! However bbpress not recognize me more as a super administrator! I do not know how can I become super administrator ……

thank you

[John James Jacoby]

@Sam

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but if you check out http://www.delsolownersclub.com/forums/, the links for the feeds from WordPress seem to point exactly where they should.

The only problem that I had personally was using wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); in my wordpress functions.php file. I replaced it with

if (!defined('BB_PATH')) {

wp_enqueue_script('jquery');

}

And all is well again.

[Sam Bauers]

When you load WordPress inside bbPress, it is detected and all WordPress filters are cleared, including default filters. This means that most of what wp_head() usually does won’t happen. It’s the wrong thing to do in any case as the wrong RSS and XML-RPC links will get inserted for a start.

Having said that, using a plugin in bbPress you can easily add filters back in to wp_head().

[Fernando Tellado]

That RSS you demand is integrated in bbPress. In your browser navigation bar, if you click to the RSS icon it shows you the list with the two RSS feeds availables. One is for latest topics and other one is for latest messages in all topics. If you see my forum ( http://forowordpress.es/ ) I’ve added two links to both in the sidebar (redirected to feedburner as you can see).

[stevedrum]

cleared my cookies… checked i had that plugin working on wordpress…. but it still messes up.

it’s only on that one example though. it works alright with all the other variations

i looked at the cookies as i went through it.

i start with no cookies.

when i log in to wordpress i get quite a few cookies… two of which start with the phrase “wordpress_logged_in”

when i log out of bbpress, only one of these cookies disappears. which is presumably why i stay logged in to wordpress.

can i ask, should there really be two cookies called that? or should there just be one. it seems that wordpress is creating two cookies for everything, one for itself and one for bbpress

[exbrief]

How is this achieved? how can you see the logs? And are IP’s logged on each post and comment so they can be tied to the user’s ID? Can this be ported to work in all of WordPress MU? Thsi would be very handy. Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

@Tiago

How did you ditch the WordPress comment system and link the comments to a specific forum topic? Is this an automated process or a clever use of custom fields?

[John James Jacoby]

@Steve

Still sounds like a cookie issue. I would retrace your steps, make sure you’ve got the WordPress Integration plugin installed on the WordPress side of this. Make sure you’ve added all of the cookie info to your config files as specified, etc…

In my opinion, for usabilities sake, it may make sense to route your log ins and registrations through 1 platform anyhow.

[mpttt]

Hello.

How do I uninstall bbpress from my WordPress site? wp 2.7, bbpress 1.0 alpha 6

1. Delete folder

2. Delete entries from db… which ones?

Anything else to completely remove the forum?

Thank you.

[stevedrum]

actually… I spoke too soon.

all of the different combinations work okay apart from this one…

if i log in through wordpress, but log out of bbpress, i stay logged in to wordpress

[stevedrum]

integration works perfectly for me now, with this new version.

i can log in and out of bbpress or wordpress, and it automatically logs in and out of the other one. i could never get that to work with the last version.

one tiny little thing though…. i’m not even sure that this is a mistake… but when you go to the log-in screen you always get the “Enter a username” message appear next to the username box.

I am guessing that that is actually supposed to be an error message, and should only appear if they try amd submit without filling in the box — like it does for the password field

[Fender]

I was able to achieve most of what I wanted to do with almost no core hacks.

I editted my template front-page.php to basically be topic.php but without the re_permalink() ; call and statically setting $topic_id = 2.

The core hack I made was to change functions.bb_templates.php to modify all location query functions to trick it into thinking ‘front-page’ is topic-page instead (these are mostly case statements inside functions like is_front() and is_topic()) , meaning that post.php, post-form.php and /bb-post.php all fuinctioned on my new front page in the same way they would on topic.php. I would prefer to develop a plugin that did this modification, but I don’t have time to make one.

So it essentially does what I wanted it to do, albeit with a core hack that will have to be manually maintained in future releases unless a plugin is developed.

In the last few days, I’ve basically discovered that neither WordPress or bbPress can do more than 60% of what I want, and it’s a different 60% in each case. bbPress has one major advantage for me over WordPress right now, and that is bbPress Moderation Suite. WordPress has nothing remotely resembling it and I doubt I’ll be able to find someone willing to build it, even for cash. But even bbPress Moderation Suite is missing one key thing for me, and that’s email notification to the users, but Nightgunner is working on that one already.