[724613]

sambauers-

I followed your checklist and feel I am doing everything right. I still can’t get it to work. How can I make absolutely sure I’m doing #5 (sharing user tables from WordPress with bbPress) correctly?

1) You are running latest versions of WordPress (2.5.1) and bbPress (0.9.0.2)

2) You have matched SECRET_KEY in wp-config.php with BB_SECRET_KEY in bb-config.php

3) You have matched WordPress “secret” database option with bbPress “secret” database setting

4) You have setup compatible cookie domains and paths in config files (see instructions in bbPress admin)

5) You are successfully sharing user tables from WordPress with bbPress

[724613]

I’m having the same problem! After integrating, I see how the “test user” I created shows up in both admin consoles. However, whether I login to wordpress or bbpress first, the login does not carry over to the other when navigating, which forces me to login twice. I followed all the steps, which also inlcuded adding the following to the wp-config.php file…

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘*******’);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

The only thing that comes to mind is a “minor error” that I received after walking through the “successful install” of bbPress…

Duplicate key name ‘user_nicename’

>>> User tables will already exist when performing a database integrated installation.

I’m wondering if this is the problem. If so, I’m not sure how to fix it. Can someone help?

[Budde]

Wow! That was fast – Thanks!

[chrishajer]

You can install this with a free standing WordPress installation. Instructions are here.

[Budde]

I was wondering, How do I go about adding this to my WordPress install? or can you only do this for WordPress MU, i’d like it for my Self-Hosted WordPress Blog.

[chrishajer]

That line is supposed to allow you to use WordPress functions from inside a bbPress page. It looks like you just got the path to it wrong. Does the file wp-blog-header.php actually exist one directory level up from where the bb-config.php is right now?

[724719]

Ok, first of all I should note that this is the second time iv installed this and i still got the “minor error: duplicate user_nicename” message or something like that.

But this time it worked well and I logged in straight away as the admin. But when I went to login to the WP-Admin, I couldnt log back in the bbPress as admin and as any username.

So what I then did was clear all the cookies, then it allowed me to log back in as admin in bbPress, so now im in. But… I click on the “Admin” link at the top to go to the settings and all that stuff. and its spits out this:-

Warning: require_once(../wp-blog-header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/picbico/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 2

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/picbico/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 2

I also might need to mention that I tried to ‘intergrate’ the wordpress functions with it by applying this line to the bb-config.php file : require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

thanks for any help let alone all the work you guys have put into this forum. i appreciate it

[taboo]

Hi, just published a forum with theme mirroring sister wordpress chronic gynecological issues site:

forum.Vulvodynia.pl

What do you think?

[723416]

Many thanks for all the good suggestions. I tried loading the wordpress functions as suggested in previous posts and could not get it to work. Same problem with SQL queries (though I’m sure I’m doing something wrong). I went back and tried the rss2html function and got it to work – so I think I’ll be able to tailor it enough to do what I need.

This would be a great plugin, for those who are able to do it:)

[chrishajer]

fiat, to do what you’re talking about, you can load WordPress inside bbPress, to have access to WordPress functions inside bbPress. It’s not recommended, but here it is:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-integration-header-integration#post-17084

[ashes999]

Yeah, I have shell access…

I had a shell script before to back up my whole schema; but I just want to back up the bbpress schema now, not the wordpress schema.

[ashes999]

WordPress has a great plugin called wp-backup that allows you to schedule a nightly backup of your database. Is there something similar for bbPress? If not, how should I back up my data regularly?

[723891]

Why switch to bbpress? WordPress is highly configurable and there are a lot of plugins. And if you want you can change the source code on your own server…..

[Sam Bauers]

I don’t think they are even using WordPress. Looks like it is all custom code.

[Sam Bauers]

We will probably start using some form of display name in bbPress in the next version.

There is already a built-in way to map user roles between WordPress and bbPress within the admin area under WordPress Integration.

[jfz]

Hi. Can someone tell me if emptees.com is using bbpress for their talk section? I love the layout and theme of the forum their using. It reminds me of wordpress blog posts & bbpress? but it might be a customized version they made themselves. Is there anyone who would be willing to work on a free bbpress theme that looks like that? I’d pay for a theme that looked like that! Thanks.

[f1f]

No I haven’t moved the forum. The last thing I changed – which must have been a week ago or longer – was adding the following code into the .htaccess file for WordPress (not BBPress):

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

Could that have had an effect? If so it seems odd that it took so long to manifest itself.

Thanks for the speedy response by the way

[chrishajer]

You can make the data dynamic, but you need to use bbPress functions, not WordPress functions.

If you are intent on using WordPress functions, read this and this.

[chrishajer]

To anyone reading in the future:

Please use different table prefixes for bbPress and WordPress. bb_ for bbPress and wp_ for WordPress are the defaults, for good reason. You can change them to something else if you like, but make sure they are different for WordPress, bbPress, and anything else you might install in that database.

Integration does not require the same table prefix, and using the same table prefix means bbPress will try to use WordPress tables (of the same name) that have already been created.

[chrishajer]

laran: that is the proper behaviour for published and unpublished draft or future posts in WordPress. When you are logged in, you can view them. When you are not logged in, you will get a 404 if you try to view one of those pages you could previously view.

If it possible you gave yourself more power when resetting the permissions? If you had author or contributor status in WordPress before, and now you have editor or administrator, it’s possible you are seeing things now that you could not see before.

But, in my experience, that’s the way WordPress works. If you are logged in and have permission, and the URL, you can view unpublished posts. When you are not logged in, you can’t, by design.

Good luck.

[f1f]

My BBPress installation has been working fine but suddenly today I can’t access the content on any of my posts. All the post titles are listed, but clicking on them gives a 404 error:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/forum/

I have no idea what’s caused this. It’s been over a week since I made any changes to BBPress or the WordPress installation it’s integrated with.

I’ve checked my MySQL database and all the forum data appears to still be in there, it just isn’t displaying. Any ideas what’s broken?

[723416]

I have the blog and forum installed (example.com/blog and example.com/forum) using the same database. I’m in the process of creating a Community homepage similar to the feel of the WordPress support page at http://wordpress.org/support/ – with the exception that I want my blog posts on the left above the search section. I simply want the forum homepage to read and display the blog posts – with links back to the blog.

How do I get this to happen? I’ve searched everywhere and nothing on this. Ideally, I want to work from the forum, but if it’s easier, how can I get my blog to read my forum topics? (the Latest Discussion plugin works, but I don’t want latest discussions…I want forum topics.) Any help is greatly appreciated.

[bobbyh]

laran, can you please post a link to your wordpress and bbpress installs?

[laran]

I installed bbpress. I (tried to) followed the instructions for integrating with wordpress. When I was done with the installation the forum worked fine but I couldn’t log into wordpress. I resolved that issue by changing:

a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

to

a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

in wp_usermeta for my user.

This allowed me to log into wordpress. Not sure what it did to bbpress because I figured I’d just re-install.

I dropped the non-shared bbpress tables in the database (forums, topics, topicsmeta i think, tagged, tags).

Now, when I’m logged into wordpress my blog shows up a little wierd. The blog index page (index.php) shows published and unpublished posts. It didn’t do this before and I don’t want it to do it now. Also, none of the pages show up. They all give me a 404.

If I’m logged in I’m allowed to view the pages. But if I’m not logged in the pages show up as 404s.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to clean up this mess I’d love to hear them. Thanks.

[laran]

I got my wordpress working again by making the following change.

I changed this: a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

to this: a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

Now I think I’ve got to figure out how to undo the bbpress installation and do it again properly. I too suppose I didn’t read the instructions carefully enough.

In my case, I want to integrate wordpress and bbpress. So I thought I was supposed to have the tables names be the same.