[aaron1728]

How should I modify my .htaccess to accomodate a bbpress install in a /forums/ subdirectory? The install worked but permalinks aren’t.

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>



# END WordPress

[rcanine]

Wouldn’t a better fix for this be to apply a filter in the “WordPress Integration” plugin? I’m not sure the exact syntax but something like:

if (function_exists('wp_head')) {

// or another check to see if WordPress has been included

add_filter('get_topic_title', 'stripslashes');

add_filter('get_post_text', 'stripslashes');

}

To me this is exactly what a WordPress Integration plugin should do.

[Sam Bauers]

The current trunk contains the new password hashing method. We will do a simultaneous release with WordPress to avoid issues for people with integrated installs.

[Andrew]

I saw the following post on WP2.4 – coming in Jan.

WordPress weekly digest 26th November to 2nd December 2007

It sounds like WP2.4 will use a new hashing scheme to store the password.

Will this interefere with bbPress users who are running WordPress User integration?

[chrishajer]

Nah – I would think anyone looking to write a plugin should already know some PHP. I would start at a plugin for bbPress since there are already lots of PHP tutorials online. With bbPress, we need stuff like this.

Thanks.

[livibetter]

That’s a good topic, however I think PHP 101 should be come next?

PS. I am re-uploading .flv and .mp4.

[chrishajer]

I haven’t watched this video yet, but I think an idea for another one would be how to write a plugin

[livibetter]

Hi!

I made a new podcast show and the first episode’s topic is “Integrating bbPress into WordPress.” This is my first video, so I’m really need your suggestions. Maybe you can tell me what are you expecting in such podcast show? I am looking forward to hearing from you!

PS. I haven’t decided what’s next episode and when will it be released.

PS2. You may want to download .ogg (I might convert .ogg to .flv and .mov without appropriate parameters, so the qualities are not good).

[Doobus]

How do I changed how the feed views the RSS titles? The current title setup in RSS is “user name” on “title of post”. I want to remove user name, the word “on”, and the quote marks of the title post and just leave the title post, basically I want the rss view exactly like the WordPress RSS view. Suggestions? Thanks in advance.

[chrishajer]

Can you post what you did and what resources you used, so others with the same problem might find this post when they are searching for a solution to their problem?

Basically though, you would install WordPress first, then use the same database for bbPress, but with a different table prefix for the bbPress tables. Then there are configuration options in config.php in the bbpress folder. Some of those can only be answered AFTER installing WordPress, like these:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = '';

$bb->wp_home = '';

$bb->wp_siteurl = '';

 

[chrishajer]

I wouldn’t put them in bb-templates at all (no good reason for saying that other than “they don’t go there.”) Just drop them into my-templates.

The my templates folder should be 0755.

The template folder itself should be 0755.

The files in the template folder should be 0644.

(well, that’s what they are in my installation, by default, and they work)

If those permissions are correct, then is it possible you didn’t create a folder under my-templates? Should be something like:

my-templates  (directory)

-crystal (directory)

- all the php and css for the crystal theme here

-superbold (directory)

- all the php and css for the superbold theme here

 

The other thing is that the style.css needs to have a line in it like this:

Theme Name: Crystal

If the Theme Name is not unique, I think bad things happen. At least you see what appears to be a theme of the same name in multiple places in the admin panel. I know WordPress doesn’t like themes with the same name too much, and I suspect bbPress is similarly picky.

Please post when you find the solution because I am sure it will help other people. Thanks.

[chrishajer]

There has been some talk of this recently in the dev list. They were recently looking at using phpass as WordPress does, and I know they were also going to look into just how WordPress does registration as well.

http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/bbdev/2007-December/thread.html

[alexhertz]

WordPress has a really nice authentication method: by user’s email. No password or registration. Is it possible to use similar authentication in bbpress?

Really, registration is unnecessary and creates a problem of spam nicknames cluttering the admin panel. Akismet deals with spam comments well.

Wouldn’t it make sense to switch to the wordpress-type authentication by poster’s email?

Please note that this is not the same as anonymous posting.

Additionally, bbpress really lacks wordpress’ moderation options. It would be surely a good idea to moderate all comments which contain links since almost all of them are spam comments which make it through Akismet.

[Doobus]

This is such a nub question, but what goes first the WordPress install followed by bbPress? Or do they install at the same time, the documentation is confusing me because all it say is configure the config.php file in the bbPress folder, but doesn’t say much else? Any help past this would be great! Thanks.

[chrishajer]

Shared hosting works fine assuming you have a good host. As you get more forum activity, you would need more server, and shared hosting is not going to be enough. For starting out though, bbPress works fine on a shared host.

I’ve been using 1&1 (affiliate link) for 4+ years now without any trouble at all running WordPress or bbPress or anything else, for that matter. If you get an account on a shared host, I would recommend getting one with ssh access to a command line. It makes a lot of things much easier. If all you have is FTP access, that’s OK too.

[jeromyboyd]

When I finally got my installation to work, I was able to modify the source coding for bbPress to display within a page of WordPress, but styling it to match the wordpress theme would be to intensive with having to change core id’s and classes that were used between both wp and bb. It is easier, from what I am gathering, to design your wordpress template around the bbpress forum.

[ruilouis]

Hello everybody,

I’d liek to know if there is a way to allow people to post without being logged in, without having to become members.

In my case the fact that people have to enter a user name and a email is quite better-not-to-post-incentive.

In WordPress there was a way to do that so I suppose it was alike in BBpress, but I could not find how to do it.

Thanks for help.

Rui

[chrishajer]

I can’t see a way that bbPress would be responsible. The email is sent right before the registration success message is sent. From register.php lines 39-41:

do_action('register_user', $user_id);



bb_load_template( 'register-success.php', $_globals );

 

So, after the register_user action (which emails the password) the success message is displayed. There is no delay built into bbPress. So, it is somewhere after bbPress has handed off the email.

Is is possible there is a different header in the bbPress password message that causes it to be delayed by the recipient’s ISP? I know there is a Precedence: bulk header in the bbPress email, and that WordPress has the same, but there is also a X header in the WordPress email that I don’t see in the bbPress email: X-Priority: 3 (which means “normal” delivery.) It could also be due to the email address the email is coming from (some sort of validation by the SMTP server to see if the sender is valid.)

I would say the problem is with the server sending the emails, or the recipient’s ISP, not with bbPress. I can’t come up with any ideas at all how bbPress could be responsible.

[theshovel]

Hi All,

I have BBpress integrated with WordPress. We just launched the forums yesterday and noticed that users were registering, but not posting. After some testing it looks like the password emails are being sent, but they can take up to five minutes. Users seem to be getting impatient and leaving. We are on a hosted service and the email service works just fine so it’s not the server. Any ideas what is happening?

[c00l2sv]

Glad we could help somehow…

Good luck!

[Trent Adams]

You posted an hour ago! We are around to help, but not always right away! I am thinking it is the lack of an .htaccess file in your /bbpress/ folder on your server. Create that file and have the following in it and upload it and it might get you going:

Options +MultiViews

Check out:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/

Trent

[neffster]

I guess I will go with one of these: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Forums

[neffster]

Here is my situation, I finally was able to install BBpress onto my server and got it to work, however, if you press any links in the bbpress it goes here

http://www.thegi.net/word/bbpress/forum/geekincognito

BBpress is installed here:

http://www.thegi.net/word/bbpress/

Naturally; word is installed here:

http://www.thegi.net/word/ but you can access it here: http://www.thegi.net/

What am I doing wrong ? Here is the config minus security PW’s

<?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’, ‘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://thegi.net/word/bbpress/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘TheG:I.Network’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘ryan.a.neff at 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 = -6;

// 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 = ‘0123456789ab’; // 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://thegi.net&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://thegi.net/word&#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’ );

?>

Any pointers? As well, how would I adapt BBpress to the theme I have?

[madcap]

Well, that was definitely the problem.

I have the bbpress directory in the wordpress directory, and had the language parameter set in both. I read your post above, set the lang in bbpress to ”, and viola! It worked immediately.

It took me forever to find this post, but I’m glad it was posted. I would have died of old age before I figured that out on my own.

[Thord D. Hedengren]

I managed to duplicate the problem on my own project. Take a look, Next link (Nästa in Swedish, way down) doesn’t work.

http://pakten.se/forum/

and

http://pakten.se/forum/forum/testa-loss

The forum is installed in /forum. There’s a WordPress MU installation in the root directory, with working permalinks.