[Alex]

I haven’t used bbPress in a while and I’ve just started thinking about using it again. A few months ago it was relatively easy to integrate bbPress and WordPress, from what I’ve been reading in the forums, things have changed.

With the incorporation of ‘backPress’ etc, what’s my best bet for setting up a new site with bbPress and WordPress sharing users and cookies?

I’d really like to use the latest version of WordPress, is there a certain changeset of bbPress I should use?

[_ck_]

Without direct edits to the the profile template it’s very hard to extend it, if not impossible. I’ve managed to add post count to the profile without template hacks via my post-count-plus plugin but putting in an avatar or gravatar is impossible without a hack.

example: http://bbshowcase.org/forums/profile/_ck_

But it’s easy to add tabs to the profile section via plugins.

You can make supplemental pages.

Just make a new tab to list all WordPress posts/comments.

[deesdogcare]

Yes, thanks. vbulletin is actually who I found. Their base forums and blog with a month of phone support was what I quoted above ~~~ the blog is an add-on. However, I found that one of their members created a hack that SEEMS TO BE a ‘click to install’ type thing andwill integrate with wordpress ~~~ so I may only have to rework my forums template. Also, their base template has everything I want for now, except a blog. I never was trying to build any massive forum structure ~ just good working forums that people could upload their pics to and PM each other and that gave each user a title based on number of posts

I was just surprised, given that several people here don’tmind taking very small donations that no one wanted to make a couple of hundred to help. No issues though. I’ll do as you suggested and go buy the vBulletin.

[deesdogcare]

Obviously bbpress takes someone with a good understanding of php and I don’t have that. I have contacted 2 of you offering to pay you to help me but have heard nothing back. I didn’t want to ditch my wordpress, I liked it. I sure didn’t want to ditch either wp or bbpress after I’d worked to create templates that went with my site, but what good are templates if I can’t open the forums to my site visitors because they just aren’t working?

I’ve had a headache over this for several days now. I’ve found another forum software with a blog that I can also buy a month of phone support for ~ total cost for forum, blog, and one month phone support = US $195.00 (can take credit card or paypal). I would still rather pay someone here who has good working forums to get mine fixed ~~~ rather than start with creating a new template. I am doing one of the two tomorrow ~ if no one here is willing to help, I will be forced to go with the other product.

IF you are willing to help, you MUST have good, working bbpress forums running somewhere so that I can see your abilities. That’s how I chose the two members that I have already contacted. I checked out their forums.

[feastoffools]

Hi- We’ve been trying in desperation to stop spambots from registering profiles on our very active bbpress forums, and despite the captcha test we installed, it seems they are circumventing the registration process and creating new accounts all the time. We’re getting around 50 fake profiles a day.

We’re being told by several sources that this is a bug in the current version of bbpress and there is no solution for it. We simply can’t accept this, that bbpress would be open to such severe bugs.

Right now we’re manually deleting profiles and we’re seriously considering abandoning this plattform for a more secure foums solution that works with WordPress.

Do you have any insight into how to stop them from creating bogus profiles? Right now for some reason they are all having their birthday as Feb 2, 2008.

You can see some of the profiles here:

http://www.feastoffools.net/community/profile.php?id=2107

[helpy]

Quoto from simpler integration with wordpress:

Do so by defining WP_BB as true in either config.php or wp-config.php. Also, WordPress will have to be loaded first.

I use WP and BB with german language! If I include wp-blog-header.php in the configuration file (config.php) of bbpress, the following error occurs:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class streamreader in /homepages/.../www/forum/bb-includes/streams.php on line 26

If I uncomment the lines 122 + 123 in bb-settings.php:

// include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . ‘streams.php’);

// include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . ‘gettext.php’);

No error occurs … but the forum is in english!

I use WP 2.3.3 and bbpress 0.8.3.1 … WP is installed in web root and bbpress in the subfolder “forum”.

Is there a documented way to fix this … or a workaround?

cu, helpy

[_ck_]

I call this “reverse integration”.

Unless there is something I am overlooking, I believe the easiest way to do this is to use phpmyadmin to either rename or export bb_users and bb_usermeta to wp_users and wp_usermeta.

(you’d have to get rid of the existing wp_users wp_usermeta first of course)

Then you will need my fix-admin-access plugin to restore access to the WP admin panel since your role will no longer exist. This assumes you as the keymaster are user #1.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

[deesdogcare]

Sorry for posting it this way, butI’mkind of lost and need help finding my way though some of this. If you have a reasonable fee, I am willing to pay you to help me get my bbpress fixed the way I want it and correctly integrated with my wordpress. I have managed to get my theme customized, but I don’t speak php and am having SERIOUS trouble with a number of things (ie Avatar Upload and others) that you have managed to incorporate into your bbpress forums.

Forums are at http://www.deesdogcare.com/dogblog/dogdays

Wordpress is at http://www.deesdogcare.com/dogblog

[email removed by Trent]

Please let me know one way or the other whether you’re willing to help.

Thanks!

Dedi

ps ~~~ after you’ve read this, please mark this for a mod to delete. I didn’t want my email out there, but couldn’t find a way to contact you.

[feastoffools]

Hi there, (not sure if this is an appropriate place to post this.)

We’re looking for someone to hire to help us fix some bugs on our WordPress/Bbpress integrated site. Here are some of the bugs:

1- user profile pics missing from blog comments

2- Backslashes appear in blog comments

3- Backslashes appear if you modify any php files via the wordpress interface.

4- User names with apostrophes, accents or usual characters display oddly

5- Cant modfiy the way a author or user name displays

6- private messaging is disabled

7- users can’t modify profile pictures.

Feel free to look around and see the bugs: http://www.feastoffools.net

[drtech]

http://www.koma-inu.org

This site uses both, WordPress and bbPress. Also plug-ins from many members of bbpress.org.

[_ck_]

Integration takes about 10-15 minutes once you’ve

installed both WordPress and bbPress .

You just have to get the cookie hashes and paths to match

and make sure bbPress allows the looser names that WordPress does as well as set the roles for WordPress if you allow registration through the bbPress side.

[fel64]

http://www.loinhead.net

[ulyssesr]

I have a new bbPress theme called Black-Letterhead. It’s derived from the default Kakumei theme. This theme is a takeoff from my WordPress Theme also called Black-Letterhead.

Here’s the download and preview links:

http://ulyssesonline.com/2008/02/16/bbpress-theme/

Sorry, no live demo available.

[chrishajer]

What does integration mean to you? What features would an integrated install have for you? I’m curious because integration means different things to different people.

[_ck_]

http://pravin.insanitybegins.com/articles/running-bbpress-on-sourceforge

I also believe there is code on the WordPress side that uses 3rd party mailers like gmail or yahoo to send passwords. This could be easily adapted to bbPress as a plugin.

[circedesign]

Can anyone help me with this problem?

I need play-by-play instructions on importing user info from an already existing BBpress database to a fresh WordPress install. Can anyone help me?

Thank you so much!

[_ck_]

Omegacool has a wp.com site too, there are download links there as well:

http://mundoarroba.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/theme-misty-para-bbpress/

(ps. it’s bbShowcase.org I decided bbpressshowcase was just too long and too many sss’s

[_ck_]

If you cannot get into admin panel it’s one of two reasons:

1. cookie hashes & paths don’t match

2. you do not have the proper role set under bbpress as administrator

The 404’s may be caused by turning on slugs without multiviews or proper mod_rewrite rules. If you have slugs turned on, turn them off temporarily (in your config.php) until you solve the other problem. ie.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

I am betting on the role not being set in bbPress that’s preventing you from getting to the admin panel. This can be inspected/fixed via phpmyadmin. I’ve been meaning to write an auto-load plugin to fix this issue automagically.

UPDATE:

I’ve whipped up a little plugin to restore proper admin access roles for both bbPress and WordPress without having to tinker in phpmyadmin:

http://bbshowcase.org/plugins/fix_admin_access.zip

Copy this to your plugins directory in bbPress OR WordPress (not both). Then access bbPress or WordPress (whichever you used). Then test you can access admin panel. Then DELETE the plugin off your server. There is no reason to leave it there.

(you MUST leave the leading underscore “_” on the plugin name which makes it auto-load without having to activate it first. I have not tested it from the WP side but in theory should be fine.)

[hans3]

The original KeyMaster created on install has suddenly lost the ability to create new forums. The following error message is displayed.

“You don’t have permission to do that.”

I created a new user and bumped it up to Keymaster and it does have the ability to create new forums.

With some guidance from _ck_ I went into phpmyadmin and compared the bb_capabilities between the two users. There was a slight difference (which I stupidly didn’t record), so I copied the capabilities from the new keymaster and pasted them in place of the old keymasters capabilities.

Unfortunately this did not resolve the problem. Both keymasters have identical usermeta now, and its still not working.

I have bbpress integrated with WordPress, so the user data is shared between the two systems.

Any ideas?

[johnwade]

I learned from a search on The WordPress forums that my “Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted” can be addressed via an edit of php.ini. However I don’t think that is an option as I’m on a shared server and it is pre set and the host won’t budge.

Additionally I also learned they are running a very old version of php and have no plans of upgrading.

So I think it will be time to make a change.

I lack the experience and ability to have a broader view as to what my needs are and will be regarding seeking a new host and would like some guidance from people not only more experienced but with an eye to the future development of bbpress and wordpress.

In short, what minimum features should I be looking for, who do you recommend, and what should I pay? I will need a company with good tech support as I’m a dog trainer first and site manager second and that’s a really distant second. It wouldn’t be possible at all without the assistance these forums provide.

jw

[chrishajer]

Regarding incompatibilities between WP and bbP, see this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-038-wordpress-integration#post-13713

There *are* incompatibilities right now. Things are in flux.

[319]

Still, the only thing i can think of that is causing this is some sort of incompatibility between WordPress 2.3.3 and BBpress 0.8.3.1.

[chrishajer]

I don’t think problem is with plugins, I think the problem is with the way WordPress is being called by bbPress, in both cases here. Hard to keep things straight with two people reporting problems, but since they’re the same type of problem, I think it’s good that they’re both in the same place.

[319]

The server that Chris tested did have a few of plugins running at the time (Allow Images, Avatar Upload, Quote, Comment Quicktags) but regardless, the second test forum has no plugins and has the same errors.

As far as why i’m running wp and bbpress, thats so i don’t have to change multiple files whenever there’s an update to the header, footer, sidebar etc. and so i can use wordpress functions in sidebar to show recent posts, etc. Its one website so i’d like it to have just one set up templates.

[chrishajer]

noyz319: I would try a stock installation of bbPress without the WordPress stuff. The require_once wp-blog-header.php seems to be fouling it up.