[chrishajer]

The WordPress table prefix is wp_ – when you enter that for the user database table prefix, bbPress will modify that WordPress table so that bbPress and WordPress users are both stored in there.

[globetrotterdk]

Hi,

I am in the middle of the install of bbPress (latest alpha as of today) and I get asked for the user database table prefix. Looking at my wp-config.php file, all I see is the following:

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

$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

Does that mean that I don’t have a WP user database table? What do I need to do? This is my first site and I don’t have any users yet except myself as admin – translation: I am an extreme newbie and just want to get the rest of this install finished.

I am using WordPress 2.6.3

Cheers

[beernews]

WordPress built-in RSS widget. I realized I was pulling the wrong feed..should have actually read what you were asking me earlier..

I wanted http://beernews.org/bbpress/rss/topics but was pulling http://beernews.org/bbpress/rss/ instead.

I would like the option to use either though and posts feed (2nd one) is still pulling the author. I have the rss2.php file open but am too exhausted to think. Will re-visit in AM.

[xeroxss]

I’m using wordpress 2.6.3 and just upgraded my forum to 1.0-alpha-2 integration works perfectly by following the docs to the letter. The first time I upgraded I didn’t manage to make the integration work the main reason probably is because I just copied the bb-config.php from my old installation. This time I deleted it and do the install again, I put all my database information and just follow the prompts it will detect that bbpress is installed then proceed with the database upgrade. Just make sure that settings for your bb-config.php and wp-config.php are the same for AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY’ under the bbpress integration menu in the admin panel also make sure that the “auth” = “auth_salt”, “secure auth”=”secure_auth_salt”, and “logged in” =”logged_in_salt” in WordPress /wp-admin/options.php are the same.

The only issue I found is that when i logged out in either bbpress or WordPress i’m still logged in on the other. Probably a cookie issue i’m not sure though, so I have to logged out manually from both.

–Update: After additional testing I found out that when I logged in using WordPress I can only logged out completely using WordPress logged out meaning I am logged out both from bbpress and WordPress. Same with bbpress if I logged in using bbpress I can logged out completely by using bbpress logged out. If I use WordPress login I cannot logged out from bbpress by using bbpress logged out but can completely logged out if I use wordpress logged out. If I logged in using bpress, I can logged out in WordPress by using WordPress logged out but I’m stil logged in in bbpress so if I want to logged out completely I have to use bbpress to logged out completely.

[beernews]

Thanks for your help, Chris. Shockingly it didn’t work. I am using bbOrg theme for which there is no rss php file. So I changed the one in kakumei but didnt work. Maybe there is an override built into BBPress, WordPress somewhere else with the exact same code?

Note that I removed it on both my local server bbpress file and my actual live site’s server. Didn’t work in either case.

http://beernews.org/ Look at the left sidebar.

[chrishajer]

What widget are you using to pull the feed into WordPress? And what feed URL are you using?

[chrishajer]

You’re using WordPress 2.6.3 – what version bbPress did you use?

And, can your users just log in at WordPress or bbPress and they are automatically logged in on the other side?

[chrishajer]

Just install without integration. If you don’t allow comments on the blog, then there’s no reason for anyone to log in there, and integration wouldn’t be helping anyone anyway.

[chrishajer]

I just thought I would share my experience with an attempt at an integrated installation. I downloaded WordPress 2.6.3 via svn and then created a directory forum and downloaded bbPress alpha 2 via svn there. I modified the wp-config.php by hand and installed WordPress just fine. I didn’t do any further configuration of WordPress.

Then I went to install bbPress with an attempt at integration. Things were going along pretty smoothly. (As an aside: I think the installer should tell you when it first asks for the keys that you don’t need to worry about them here if you’re going to be integrating, since you will be entering WordPress keys at a later point. I wasted time generating new keys here which end up being unused.) I selected all the integration settings, but did not use custom user tables. I got to step 3 and it said “Your installation completed with some minor errors. See the error log below for more specific information. ” The error below was “Forum could not be created!” (I’ve had that happen before.)

Since this was a minor error, I figured I would just continue and see how it goes. Clicking the link to my forum results in a Redirect Loop error in Firefox3. The page hangs for a while, never loads, then times out.

I just figured I would share that experience here. If anyone wants more information, please let me know.

[spidersilk]

I second keress’s question – I have to get a BBpress forum up and running this weekend on a WordPress site that’s already been upgraded to 2.6.3. And I don’t really think I can just downgrade, because somewhere in the last few upgrades (don’t know exactly when ) the posting interface in the admin changed drastically, and I don’t want to confuse people too much.

It’s not absolutely vital that they be integrated – the blog doesn’t actually allow commenting, or new users to register at all – the only registered users it has are the owner (a professor) and his six teaching assistants. So they’re the only ones who will benefit from integration – the students who would be posting in the forum can’t register on the blog anyway. But it would be nice for the prof and TAs not to have to log in twice.

I don’t want to inflict alpha software on them if I can avoid it, so I guess I’ll just have to do without integration for now, but I’m wondering, if I end up trying to integrate the two later on, will that work?

[keress]

I’ve copied the same navbar I’m using on WordPress into BBPress, it has hard links, so it should be straightforward, but for some reason, within this header.php file, the links aren’t live.

http://www.addiva.net/bbpress/

The code looks like this:

<div id=”smallNav”>

Home

| Possibilities

| Events

| Blog

| Forum

| Store

About ADDiva

| Meet Linda

|Media

| Resources

| Contact </p>

</div>

<!– end smallNav –>

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

@sam: The function ‘display’ in the bbpress-live.php class ‘bbPress_Live_Widget_Forums’ appears to echo out the fora lists etc. Look who I’m preaching too I must have missed something!

Curious Ipstenu that the rest of your wp blog functions with this plugin enabled and in this state. Not my current experience. Server differences?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Viewing source was the first thing I tried. Old habits die hard But really, there was nothing.

I did not check the error logs, so I did that right now.

On Server:

Make sure error-log is set to verbose for now.

On bbPress:

Enable XML-RPC – YES

On WordPress:

Install plugin – Done

Activate Plugin – Done (no errors)

Configure Plugin –

URL (http://jorjafox.net/forums/)

ID/Password (Ipstenu / 555Nope!)

Caching Enabled - NO

Enable forums widget - YES

Enable Topics widget - YES

Copy new WordPress posts to bbPress (not implemented)

Then I went into widgets and picked ‘bbPress latest topics’, put it at the bottom of my sidebar. I gave it the title of ‘Latest Topics’ and saved my changes.

The header shows up on the bottom of the side bar, no content.

Error log is empty. Frustration resumed

By the way, if the standalone function is called to be echoed like print_r($myarray);, shouldn’t that output something?

[_ck_]

I just wanted to announce I have a primitive prototype of OpenID working with bbPress and should have a more stable version for experimental testing within a few days (likely by the end of the weekend). The only requirement is your PHP needs CURL with https (ssl) support, which many servers have or can easily add ie. via cpanel’s rebuild PHP (check your PHPINFO to be certain).

I finally got an old openid 1.1 framework working with openid 2.0 so this makes it possible to use it with all the newest providers: aol, yahoo, microsoft and now even Google (as a “consumer”, not as a server).

The biggest problem was making it work without extra libraries like the complex math support and even DOMXML which is not available on many shared hosting PHP4 servers. But found a way around that too I’ll eventually add fsockopen support with ssl so even CURL is not a requirement.

ps. OpenID on WordPress.com needs to be fixed to offer a secure login when a cookie is not present like every other provider. This is annoying

[Joss Winn]

Isn’t Sam’s plugin almost what you’re looking for:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/

It’s not a fully fledged forum plugin, but I’m guessing it’s something you could build on.

[johnhiler]

I have been getting reports that registrants on my bbpress forum aren’t receiving their auto-generated password emails from my server.

I’ve read a few threads on this forum that suggest workarounds. But I’m more interested in allowing my users to set their own passwords.

There’s a neat WordPress plugin that does exactly what I want:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-password-register/

I don’t even need the email confirmation/validation code part. I just want users to be able to specify their own passwords. If bot registrations become a problem, I’d just install a captcha plugin.

Can someone adapt that code into a bbpress plugin that allows for user-defined passwords? I’d be glad to pay $100 to anyone who can deliver a working plugin! Plus I’d be eternally grateful and would have no objections to open sourcing any code that came out of this.

Please let me know!

[chrishajer]

Why? I think it’s because bbPress is not a WordPress plugin. There are already other forum plugins for WordPress. bbPress is not one of them.

[zappoman]

I am also looking for such a thing.

I’ve been hacking on a WP plugin that will embed a forum into a page, but it’s not working yet.

I’d love to find out if someone else has already built this.

I am looking to embed a full fledged forum not just a feed. I want posting, navigation etc.

So, let’s say you had wordpress at:

http://example.com/

And you made a wordpress page call /forum/

And you wanted to embed bbPress there.

Why is not not the same as running bbPress at /forum/?

Well, I want wp to handle the rendering of the header, footer, sidebar, etc. I just want the page content to be bbPress.

[chrishajer]

How about using the 1-column fixed bbPress raw theme and customizing it to look like your blog?

http://bbpressraw.com/bbpress_blank_themes/

I don’t think I’ve seen anything like Kubrick for bbPress at all yet.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Thanks Deadpan11,

The core behavior of bb-settings.php is to append BB_HASH to the cookie name on line 638:

$bb->logged_in_cookie = ($bb->wp_cookies_integrated ? 'wordpress_logged_in_' : 'bbpress_logged_in_') . BB_HASH;

Even in a non-WPMU installation such as this one, I would agree that this is a good coding protocol to follow. I did try your suggestion though, because I do want to understand, but the cookie was still created as wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8.

This caught my eye over the weekend…

In bb-settings.php line 592:

$bb->wp_cookies_integrated = false;

$bb->cookiedomain = bb_get_option('cookiedomain');

if ( $bb->wp_siteurl && $bb->wp_home ) {

if ( $bb->cookiedomain ) {

$bb->wp_cookies_integrated = true;

I even tried setting $bb->cookiedomain=” to allow the code to construct the value… no joy. No problems logging into bbPress, which is just fine for the moment.

The code is alpha! Since others had had success I was trying to nail down my server environment deltas…

I’ll push on with other projects for now

[hotshottwo]

Can anyone point me at some instructions on how to create a bbPress theme that loosely matches the WordPress default (Kubrick) theme, i.e. 760 px wide with rounded page corners and space for a header image with rounded corners? Looking for a quick way to integrate bbPress so that it has the same look as the rest of my WordPress site.

[rensenieuwenhuis]

Hi,

I recently installed BBpress live on my blog (http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl), and it worked like a breeze. I’m using WP 2.6.1 and bbPress version 1.0-alpha-2.

I downloaded the WP-plugin from wordpress.org/extend, installed it, then activated it in the plugins-screen, then to the settings-screen in the WP-plugin section, then activated both the widgets (it’s a check-box), and then added the widgets to my sidebar.

I did encounter minor problem though, which I described here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-live-widgets-fail-when-changing-other-widgets

[_ck_]

Very nice work.

Demo:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/?bbtheme=WPMimic

don’t forget to add the info at the top of style.css

/*

Theme Name: WP Mimic

Theme URI: http://idolsavenue.com/forums/topic.php?id=1

Description: This theme is called "WP Mimic" because it is structured after the current themes of WordPress (.com and .org) forums.

Version: 0.02

Author: limited

Author URI: http://idolsavenue.com/forums/

*/

and make a proper screenshot

[Deadpan110]

@musnake – as you are not using sub domains, the only thing i can see wrong with your setup is the:

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8';

Try changing to:

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_';

[Deadpan110]

Im not sure if I have set my bbPress 1.0.alpha2 to work with WordPress MU 2.6.3 correctly, but its working.

http://domain.com = my WordPress MU

http://forums.domain.com = bbPress sub domain

As you can probably see, there are things within the config files that might not be needed.

WordPress/wp-config.php

define('AUTH_KEY', 'authkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'secureauthkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'secureauthsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'loggedinkey');

define('SECRET_KEY', 'secretkey');

define('SECRET_SALT', 'secretsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'loggedinsalt');

I copied and pasted the existing lines straight into bb-config.php replacing what was already there and then added the BB_ to each.

bbPress/bb-config.php

define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'authkey');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'secureauthkey');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'secureauthsalt');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'loggedinkey');

define('BB_SECRET_KEY', 'secretkey');

define('BB_SECRET_SALT', 'secretsalt');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'loggedinsalt');

In BOTH bb-config.php AND wp-config I added:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.domain.com'); // remember the '.' prefix

define('COOKIEPATH', ''); // this is empty

Then I visited http://forums.domain.com/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php (Settings > WordPress Integration) and scrolled down to ‘Manual bbPress config file settings’ and copied all the text below ‘WordPress cookie integration speedup’ and pasted into bbPress/bb-config.php.

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

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

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

$bb->cookiepath = '';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_'; // DELETE the hash part

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

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

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

$bb->sitecookiepath = '';

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

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

Oh, and I added the$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; too.

NOTE

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_';

The hash was removed and the line reads EXACTLY as above.

To test, just make sure you are logged out of both and then log in and visit your other site.

Final Note, as stated above – there is probably a lot of unneeded clutter in the bb-press config, but all works for me – no matter which domain I log into!

I hope this helps someone