[chrishajer]

Oh.

I think what you want then is something that can display an RSS feed in your bbPress sidebar. I can’t recall if there is something like that now, for bbPress, but if there is, it would be a plugin.

WordPress has lots of plugins like that, to display RSS content in your WordPress sidebar, maybe something like that could be adapted to bbPress.

There was an old discussion of a bbPress plugin here but I don’t know if that plugin will work any more. Maybe it could be modified, if necessary, to use the latest bbPress.

Good luck.

[Erica Kapoor]

I just want to show the list on the sidebar, not making a new post automatically. Thank you.

[lookfab]

Just fired up our new forum: http://www.youlookfab.com/welookfab

Love to know what people think. I’ve stripped out a lot of the great features that work for a techie crown, but might confuse newer users (e.g. tags, favorites, etc.). We might bring those back in over time.

Everything is achieved in the template/theme, except for a minor hack to create an alternative post form.

The experience is integrated with a WordPress blog, but this is no deeper than sharing the same header. Databases are separate and users only sign up to bbPress.

There are many potential improvements, but one thing that bugs me in particular is that there are two signups on the site: one for bbPress and another for the blog post notification. I would love to integrate these two things. Any pointers on how to do so would be appreciated.

Thanks to the bbPress team for a fun and flexible forum system!

[chrishajer]

I think you want bbSync, a WordPress plugin:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbsync?replies=214#post-7922

[Erica Kapoor]

I want to show wordpress recent posts list on BBpress forums.

Can anyone help me?

[chinkerfly]

It’s been two days since I started trying to install bbpress and I’ve scoured the forums and the internet to try to find an answer without much luck (isn’t there a FAQ somewhere for people like me?)

Here’s the details on what I did.

1. Created a new database called “bbpress” in cpanel, the database name it gives me is thechonx_bbpress

2. Added user from my wordpress database, thechonx_chinker

3. downloaded, unzipped bbpress, edited config-sample.php and renamed it to config.php (how I edited it is shown below–I think I should change BBDB Host, but don’t know what to change it to)

4. Created a folder in my public_html root (where all my wp files are uploaded) called “forum”

5. Uploaded all the files (minus original “bbpress” folder) to “forum”

6. Opened this address in my Firefox browser (I am running Mac OS Leopard 10.5.1): http://www.thechonx.com/forum/bb-admin/install.php

–attempted other URLs like localhost led to blank pages or 404 pages

7. Received “Cannot Select DB” error

I’ve tried a dozen other variations of the above, mostly changing config file info but no dice. Help please!

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘thechonx_wordpress’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘thechonx_chinker’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxx’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.thechonx.com/forum/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Rumble in The Chonx’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘thalia.kwok@XXXXX’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘slugs’;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = 8;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ”; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.thechonx.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.thechonx.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

[Sam Bauers]

Because of the restrictions on the bbPress logins in the current version I suggest using bbPress for registration/login. Logout can be either.

With WordPress 2.5 and the next bbPress 0.8.x they will be as good as each other.

Please don’t bump.

[nbglobetrotter]

Is there any way I can use an email address as the user name?

This is OK in WordPress but not in BBPress, so integrated logins dont work.

Hope someone can help. Thanks.

[Warwick Booth]

Hello Everyone

I have integrated WordPress with bbPress and skinned them the same, but when I log into bbPress, or add a forum/topic/post i get a redirect error. I dont know what it wrong.

Warning: parse_url(http:///mobile.feedmymedia.com/forum/) [function.parse-url]: Unable to parse URL in /home/mobile/public_html/forum/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 208

Warning: parse_url(http:///mobile.feedmymedia.com/forum/) [function.parse-url]: Unable to parse URL in /home/mobile/public_html/forum/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 209

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/mobile/public_html/forum/bb-includes/pluggable.php:208) in /home/mobile/public_html/forum/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 164

Thanks

Warwick

[dotdj]

Hello, I need urgently a designer to port WordPress theme to BBpress with some little modification. Please let me know (of course pay for work).

Many thanks!

[lyzadanger]

I’m trying to be fairly aggressive with my bbPress integration into some WordPress pages. Our client wishes to see recent forum posts on specific subpages of the main site (which is WP). This works fine if I include bb-load in my wp-config.php file (as I’ve seen recommended) and then use some of the useful bbpress functions to integrate content. It works, that is, on the SUBPAGES.

Strangely, however, the site’s landing page blows up. It’s using the exact same header as the rest of the site’s subpages, and is not using any of bbpress’ functions itself (just includes the bb-load.php file because it’s in wp-config.php), but the same wp_list_pages function call in the header (used for navigation) that works just fine for the subpages gives me an infinite loop of this error on the landing page:

Warning: illegal offset type in [my-server-path-removed-here]/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 252

Removing bb-load.php from the wp-config.php file fixes this immediately.

Note that I am using WP configured to use a STATIC page for the landing page. Both the home page template and the subpage template in question immediately call get_header(). Nothing happens before that.

For now what I figure I’ll do is remove bb-load.php from the wp-config.php file and just include it exclusively in the subpage template I’m using for the pages I need forum stuff to show up.

I googled and haven’t seen anything like the problem I’m having anywhere else. I kind of think it might be something getting upset during the walker class’ traversal. Anyone got any bright ideas?

[starnet]

Beau,

Which files should you put this code on? I am also installing bbPress on a MU WordPress. I get the same error. I thought maybe it’s because of WP/MU not compatible with bbPress. I have the same install directories (WP/MU on root and bbPress on /forums/). And I am getting the same 404 error on user profile and post.

Thanks in advance

[hollywoodgrind]

I’ve gone over the configuration file, and it all looks correct. I am installing in forums.nerdgrind.com, which I gave it’s own directory, so there is no wordpress installation sharing the forums directory. I’m not sure why I keep getting this error:

bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ ”, , ”, ‘2008-01-16 00:57:55” at line 4]

INSERT INTO bb_topics (topic_title, topic_slug, topic_poster, topic_poster_name, topic_last_poster, topic_last_poster_name, topic_start_time, topic_time, forum_id) VALUES (‘Your first topic’, ‘your-first-topic’, , ”, , ”, ‘2008-01-16 00:57:55’, ‘2008-01-16 00:57:55’, 1)

The database is setup, and all other tables are created except this one. I am using the latest bbPress.

[vhilaire]

Nevermind, I took out the WordPress integration stuff and the admin dashboard came back.

[vhilaire]

The URL to the forum is: http://www.johnmayerfans.com/boards

The forum itself seems to be working the way it should. When I first created the config file I left the whole “integrating with wordpress” section blank. I didn’t fill it out. Then I filled it in once I found that the pretty slug permalinks weren’t working right. Once I did that the forums worked fine but then I couldn’t get into the main Admin dashboard.

Here’s my config file as it is now:

<?php

require_once(‘/home/26615/domains/johnmayerfans.com/html/blog/wp-blog-header.php’);

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘***************’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘******’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘*********’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘************’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.johnmayerfans.com/boards/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘JohnMayerFans.com Message Boards’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘myemail@gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘slugs’;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = -8;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ‘***************’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.johnmayerfans.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.johnmayerfans.com/blog&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

[vhilaire]

I installed bbPress and was able to get into the Admin dashboard right after installation. However once I changed the config file to talk to WordPress I can’t get to the bbPress admin dashboard anymore. It just redirects me to my bbPress homepage.

Any idea what’s causing the problem?

[kitkat278]

Where can I download the theme that is being used here? I tried a couple links but they lead to somebodies login page of there wordpress.

Thanks!

[Beau Lebens]

Background: Installed WPMU (at “/”) and bbPress (at “/forums/”), followed integration instructions (and tweaked to get it all working). I used my WP theme header.php and footer.php as the basis for a bbPress theme, and loaded the full WP engine into bbPress by putting this code in my config.php

// Load WordPress so we can use the same templates.

define('WP_BB', 'true');

require_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/wp-blog-header.php';

Symptoms: Pages load just fine, and all appears successful, but, upon further inspection, all bbPress pages actually return a 404 error in the HTML headers (you can see this using FireBug, or using a HEAD command to the page). NOTE: This will also happen if you create custom pages (not WP “Pages”) that load the WordPress engine – they load fine, but actually throw a 404).

Explanation: What appears to be happening here, is that the page loads fine, because it is a real page. Internally however, WP doesn’t know about this page (because it’s a bbPress, or custom page), and so it assumes it’s a request for a permalink that it can’t resolve. Thus it throws a 404.

The internal rewrite system in WP allows you to add new rewrite rules, but appears to only like dealing with “internal” or WP-specific rules. If you add in what it refers to as “non_wp_rules”, then it doesn’t actually apply them (so it still throws a 404).

The FIX! on the code that I’m running, I have put the following WordPress plugin in place to add rules appropriate for my bbPress installation:

function mbob_flush_rewrites() {

global $wp_rewrite;

$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();

}

add_action('init', 'mbob_flush_rewrites');



function mbob_add_rewrites($wp_rewrite) {

add_rewrite_rule('forums/topic', 'forums/topic.php');

add_rewrite_rule('forums/forum', 'forums/forum.php');

add_rewrite_rule('forums', 'forums/index.php');

$wp_rewrite->rules = array_merge($wp_rewrite->non_wp_rules, $wp_rewrite->rules);

}

add_action('generate_rewrite_rules', 'mbob_add_rewrites');

NOTE: I have removed a lot of my bbPress installation as part of my integration, so I didn’t require any other rules to handle things like profile pages or tags – you probably will need to add them if you use those features.

Hopefully this will help someone else and prevent you from beating your head against a wall like I almost did

Thanks to sambauers for helping me out with this in #bbpress as well.

Beau

[Sam Bauers]

I assume that bbPress is in a sub-directory of your WordPress install?

Sounds like the rewrite rules are incorrectly set or the existing WordPress rules are somehow getting in the way of bbPress.

What type of permalinks are you using? Set that value to FALSE in your config.php if they are turned on and see if this still happens. I think that will narrow it down a bit.

[newyearwill]

I’d like to start off by saying what a fantastic piece of software bbpress is – I love the similarities with WordPress: clean HTML & CSS code. In my opinion it’s like a breath of fresh air compared to other forum software because you can easily customise it to fit your site. I just hope the clever designers and developers continue their excellent work with future releases.

…anyway enough of my rambling, here is my forum (still needs a few finishing touches):

http://forum.reclaimyourskin.co.uk

[fel64]

It depends where your bb-load.php file is (in relation to your wordpress wp-config.php). You may find it easier to give an absolute path rather than a relative path. http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/absopath.htm

[fel64]

What’s the fatal error?

[Erica Kapoor]

I added

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

in bbPress’ config.php

And I’m getting Fatal Error

Help me

[Erica Kapoor]

Thanks, Should “path/to/bb-load.php” this be like this?

“forums/bb-load.php”

I’m getting errors…

Would you explain little bit easier?

[fel64]

You need to include bbPress. To do this, make sure that your bbPress supports being integrated thoroughly with WordPress (not just users, also functions), then open your wordpress config file and at the bottom put require_once('path/to/bb-load.php'); That’ll let you use the bb functions too.