Hello 
I presently use a framework called CakePHP for my website. I have an existing users data model etc., that consists of many tables and so forth. It’d be a hassle for my users to have to set up a whole new account.
So, I was wondering if bbPress is by any chance customizable to the extent of database structure and basically the way databases are treated. I guess I’m looking for the most customizable forum script right now.
So can it seamlessly integrate with existing data, besides WordPress?
So, http://www.addiva.net is OK, and later, when people type in http://www.addiva.net you will direct them to http://www.addiva.net/blog/home ?
Sounds like a configuration issue in WordPress. There is an option to choose what is displayed on the front page (Settings > Reading). you can select your latest posts or a static page.
Yes, the default address for the blog’s main page is index.php, and what is shown there is what I described changing above. Check those options and post back if it’s not what you expect to see based on what is configured.
I administer a phpbb forum that we are considering migrating to new software. As I’m pretty familiar with WordPress I thought this might be a good option, but I wanted to double check and ask a couple questions:
1) Can bbPress import my phpbb database? What info am I liable to lose?
2) My forum has a public section, a private section, and a superprivate section for admins and such. Does bbpress support this sort of thing? We govern who can go where with groups and permissions in phpbb, but I’m concerned that it wouldn’t translate.
Thanks!
It only affects posts made afterwards, not existing posts but some easy php/mysql code could fix existing posts.
But I could have sworn this was fixed in bbPress 0.9 with the WordPress Integration section built in. It should give the users a WordPress role and display name. Actually, WordPress should create the display name itself if it sees a user name without a display name. I wonder if this is a WP 2.6 issue which should not be used with bbPress 0.9
The themes section on WordPress.org is brand new and replaced the defunct one on WordPress.net bbPress.org will eventually get the look and layout that WordPress.org has, it just might take awhile as there is no one to work on it while bbPress is being developed.
A few sites have tried to do the “collections” idea but they have come and gone. I pretty much try to do what you are asking for on http://bbShowcase.org and of course right on this forum are lots of tips and tricks
Well each forum matrix is maintained by someone from each project. I recently had MDA update the settings for bbPress but there are still some things that are incorrect due to the limitations on that website (for example “plugin” is not an option on some settings).
In other related news, Wikipedia decided to delete the page on bbPress last week which really upset me:
http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/wikipedia-overlords-delete-bbpress-page/
Virtually every other forum software is on there, so I don’t know why they felt that was necessary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_forum_software
Hello everyone
It’s not directly related to bbPress script, but somewhere around it. What do you think about making something like Weblog Tools Collection, but for bbPress? You know – the newest themes and plugins for bbPress, tips, tricks etc?
I was also thinking about something like: http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/ – so people could submit their ideas for new plugins etc. And something like http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ – even if I would like to submit some themes for bbPress, I don’t have a site to do this 
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What do you think?
Thanks so much for the reply.
What I get at http://www.addiva.net is fine and what I expect. What I get at http://www.addiva.net/blog/home is the same and, once we get our htaccess file set up, will be what you get when you type in http://www.addiva.net. What we can no longer call up is the first page of the blog, the one that displays one or more recent posts, you know, the index for the actual blog section.
I don’t know of any way to call it up in the control panel to check on what the permalink is supposed to be. What’s the default address for the blog’s main page supposed to be? Isn’t it supposed to be http://www.addiva.net/blog/index.php? If I type that in I just get the main page of the site. .
As I said before, it was all working fine until I made an initial attempt to integrate our new bbpress installation with wordperss, didn’t get it to work and tried to backtrack what I’d done to try again another day. I’m trying to figure out what files might have been affected during this process.
Have you tried disabling the plugin to see if the problem persists?
Do you actually have a table called bb_users in the forums database, or are you using the wp_users table and an integrated installation?
Also, I see that plugin says compatible up to 0.8.3. If you’re using the latest 0.9.0.2, you might want to post your issue on that plugin page or try to contact the plugin author.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/moderator-new-post-notification/
Or maybe read through the comments on that plugin page and see how others resolved the same problem.
http://www.finalwebsites.com/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-mod-new-post-notify-db-error-w-wordpress-integrat#post-811
Would I be able to use the pretty URLs with this somehow? Or maybe exclude the entire directory of /bbpress/ from wordpress’s URL thing?
Using WMPU btw
Does the fix apply to comments made on WordPress before the fix is implemented or does it start after?
I’m interested in this too. Mostly I’m interested because my current forum that I’m converting from (phpbb) allows you to preview your post, and that feature will be sorely missed. Bring able to save a draft of it would fit right along side a preview, pretty much just like the way WordPress allows authors to save/preview drafts. Now, I’m not a php person in any way (although I wish I was) but I can see it could easily work to make a plug-in or mod that would allow you the option to save your post draft for later with a different post status and pull it or all your saved/unpublished drafts into a single page by pulling them based on the status and your user id. From there you could edit those posts and “publish” them by saving and changing the status code to so that bbPress “sees” it as a valid post rather than a “deleted” or “saved draft”.
I tinkered with this idea a little while ago but with my php knowledge limited to hacking peices here and there to suit my needs it’s just too much of a task. I can’t imagine it would be too complicated to implement. Let us know if this pans out Vili or anyone else who has an urge to work on something like this.
So, there used to be a site that is not WordPress at http://www.addiva.net/ ?
If you log into the file manager for your host (ssh, ftp, control panel, whatever) do you see a file in the root that would be served for this URL http://www.addiva.net/ ? And then, at that level, is there a blog folder that holds all your WordPress files?
What is happening though is not what I understood from your first post. Everything that comes up, at either URL, looks like WordPress to me. You said “the home page we’ve set up comes up instead” when you try to access http://www.addiva.net/blog/ . What do you expect when visiting the URL http://www.addiva.net/ ?
WP doesn’t necessarily have an .htaccess file, does it? I’m not seeing one here, so what other file could be involved?
The site is http://www.addiva.net. The wordpress address is http://www.addiva.net/blog
The wordpress blog is also set to http://www.addiva.net/blog.
I have a similar logout issue. My WP and BB are integrated. I can login at the WP site and go to the BB site without issue. I can then logout of the BB site, but when I jump back to WP, I am still logged in.
oops! Just spent ages upgrading my blog today to 2.6 which broke an afternoon’s work I spent a while back integrating with BB press 0.9. Thankfully the 1.0 Alpha release isn’t too far away
The problem is WordPress 2.6 re-used the existing cookie name but with a different format and calculation (and purpose). It was not the brightest design move on their part. Had they chosen a new cookie name, your idea would be valid.
At the rate Sam and MDA are working, I suspect there will be a stable enough bbPress 1.0 alpha by the end of this month (which will work with – actually require – WordPress 2.6).
A few other people have reported the profile bug. I will ask them to investigate.
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Sorry to be mildly off topic, but with regard to the cookie issue, is it not possible to create an interface cookie? Like a simple plugin that creates a cookie in WP 2.6 to interface with the BB cookie? Just as a quickfix?
(as an aside, I signed up with a wordpress.org account and I can login here at bbpress, but when i try to view my profile, I get an error at a bbpress page. This error also occurs when I view my profile from wordpress.org. I’m wondering if this is an integration bug as well)
Using the same database is fine and actually the easiest way. You must be using the same user table.
Follow the Integration 101 steps to make your cookies match.
Make sure you are not using wordpress 2.6 which is incompatible with the cookies from bbPress 0.9
.htaccess is definitely a suspect
if you gave it write access, WordPress may have even updated it for you after you made some kind of configuration change
Turning off pretty permalinks may give you a temporary fix.
Version 1.0 of bbPress will have built in support for display names like WordPress. By some weird design bbPress has no mechanism to delete users so you just set it inactive and make a new user for now.
That’s what I call reverse integration and it definitely can be done but you are going to have to decide which user table you want to use – you cannot merge them. You’ll either have to use WordPress’s or bbPress. Then you can either rename the usertable or make very specific settings inside bb-config.php and wp-config.php to point to the new table.
Daft question time… I’ve recently built a site based on WordPress 2.6 and want to launch soon, so BBPress integration is out of the question for now. However, I don’t want to use another forum system in it’s place.
So… my question is, If I have a standalone BBPress installation now, is it easy to integrate it with my WordPress installation later on when BBPress gets upgraded or is it going to be a major hassle?
Thanks all!
To get quicker help, you should post your URL.
It might be something in the wp-admin control panel, under settings > general. The Blog address or WordPress address. Or, maybe you overwrote a file that was doing the redirection. Or possibly changed the .htaccess file. Something like that.
