Actually, no, I can’t share, it’s a closed forum for a client’s editorial staff. I might get them to move another domain to the server so that I can set it up and replicate the problem there, though?
And yes, they are working perfectly fine besides this. I was a bit surprised that they were, actually, since there’s a WordPress MU install on the same domain, but they’re playing nicely, and permalinks worked right away using the standard instructions, didn’t do anything fancy at all.
(Forum was installed after WPMU if that helps.)
Any ideas?
I’m having a couple of issues:
-Is it just me, or are a few files missing from the package. There are claims in the documents of a
stylesheet and another file outside of bbsync.php.
-When I put the <?php bbrepliestext(); ?> tag in my theme, it shows nothing, then I try <?php felbbreplies(); ?> and I get Fatal error: Call to undefined function felbbreplies() in /Applications/MAMP/taos.htdocs/woodfin/wp-content/themes/default/single.php on line 56
I’ve integrated WordPress and bbPress with the database and plugins. Is there something I’m missing to make this work, because this is a great plugin.
Hi.
1. No, you can’t use the WordPress translation because there might be phrases that occur in bbPress that aren’t translated already for WordPress. I think you already discovered and resolved that.
2. You already figured out where to put the mo file (bb-includes/languages)
3. I have seen a couple different posts for places to host the translations, maybe this one would be OK?
http://www.bbpulp.org/wiki/Translation_files
I have no idea how to get it hosted “officially” at Automattic.
Thanks for translating.
Hi, no I had left the $bb->mod_rewrite = false; although I did try changing it to true once but with no success. I don’t know how to create .htaccess but like I said I’ve never had a problem setting up a WordPress site. Is that something specific to bbpress that I should know? I would have thought that my db/site host GoDaddy was big enough that if this was a problem someone would have come across it before! Thanks for the reply anyway.
Wanted to share our new forums using bbPress:
http://www.touchtip.com/forums/ – The site is about all things iPhone and iPod touch and a forum was a natural addition to our WordPress-based site.
bbPress was a pleasure to work with and configure. I have had a long, love-hate history with bb software (worked at ezboard during their glory days) and I think bbPress is where it’s at. Love the low bloat factor, simplicity and the focus on content. Nice to see the bbs advance in this way.
Thanks for bbPress and keep up the good work!
JR
These instructions are for WordPress but the procedure is the same:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
I think you take that pot file I linked to and use a tool like poedit to translate all the phrases that are in that pot file.
Then, according to the config.php:
// 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', '');
So, according to that, use poedit to generate the mo file (maybe it’s ar.mo for arabic?) and drop the ar.mo file you just created into the bb-includes/languages folder. Now change the BBLANG line to read:
define('BBLANG', 'ar');
I THINK.
I am guessing on the ar as the proper language according to this page I found:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
I am totally guessing at all of this, but I think that’s pretty close to what you need to do. When you’re done translating, please post back and share your work. Thanks.
Hey folks
I’ve been trying to install bbpress and after six full attempts (including fresh db’s) I’ve given up. Every time I install it goes into a loop where I login and it takes me right back to the login page. There is no dashboard in site.
I haven’t used any customizations and I don’t have wp running on the same db or site. I just install as described with the config.php filled in up to the email.
There doesn’t seem to be any documentation that covers this, and I’ve installed WordPress many times (on other sites) with no problems. I’m using GoDaddy and I’ve tried 4.1 and 5.0 and I’ve tried deleting cookies and downloading both the zip and the tar.gz versions of 0.8.3 in case there was a problem with your file but I always end up with the same result.
I expect I’ll be moving on to a different forum package but you may want to cover this in your instructions, could there be a issue with GoDaddy or with permissions?
My guess is that there is something wrong with the database settings in config.php (sorry) – if it is using the same database as the WordPress site, and the WordPress site is still up, then I think there’s something wrong with the config.php. Unless you changed something else recently with your files, I can’t think of anything else that would cause it.
Since posting an edited wp-config.php and config.php would be useless since you’d be destroying information, I would have another set of eyes look at both config files and see if there are any differences. Maybe the config.php was edited with some editor that mangled a character or line ending or something.
Also, can you connect to the database with phpMyAdmin or something using the details from config.php? Make sure the database is still there?
I am getting a new error: Cannot select DB.
My forums were set up and working at http://www.snownation.com/forums/
All of the sudden, now I am getting this error. I have checked the DB settings like 10 times. You will notice on my frontpage at snownation.com the latest discussions pluggin is still pulling info and it has the same login info as does my wordpress setup.
Any ideas???
Hey.
Yes, that’s it.
Works like a charm now!
And yes again, I’m using 0.8.3, but switching to a different theme is close to impossible since I have modified it so heavily to match my WordPress-Blog.
Thanks a lot!
AndrewMac, did you try the test in this post:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/registration-email-not-being-sent-new-issue?replies=15#post-6931
That will confirm if you can send mail from your server. It’s odd that WordPress works but bbPress does not. Is it possible the $bb->admin_email needs to be a real email address for the mails to be sent by your host? Is that a real email account?
Also, are there any mail logs or error logs? Maybe that would provide a clue.
To install my bbpress do i need to create a new database?
I would integrate in my wordpress using same users.
I can’t see how bbPress would be any different than wordpress in terms of the mail usage, so:
Emailed passwords not received
Description: When users try to register with your blog or change their passwords by entering their username and email, WordPress says that their password has been emailed to them, but it’s never received.
Reason and Solution: WordPress uses the standard php mail function, which uses sendmail. No account information is needed. This is not generally a problem if you’re using a hosting service, but if you’re using your own box and don’t have an SMTP server, the mail won’t ever send. If you’re using a *NIX box, you should have either postfix or sendmail on your machine; you’ll just need to set them up (google for how-to’s). If you don’t want to go through setting up a complete mail server on you *NIX box you may find ssmtp (http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/ssmtp) useful – it provides “A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mail hub”. On a Windows machine, try a sendmail emulator like Glob SendMail (http://glob.com.au/sendmail/).
More help can be found on the forums at: https://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=24981
Translation, there are posts in the normal wordpress.org forums as well that even dreamhost for whatever reason doesn’t send the passwords out through sendmail. I would look in the dreamhost support as well, maybe an answer is right there for you to grab 
Trent
Just a note, if you want to send a http response code, you need to use bb_init action (check init action for WP). If you use bb_head, you will get error since there is something has been sent to client side before your own header. And your own response code won’t be effective.
I suggest you send header, bb_load_template and then exit in the action hook.
I think you might be better off with a WordPress plugin then, if you really want them always in WordPress.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Forums
Not sure if this still applies, but I found something in the wp.org forums and posted it at:
Adding bbPress as WP Page
Trent
Is there a way to have the bbpress forum show within one of the wordpress pages. I dont want my users to go from one site to another that looks different. I want them to stay on my blog yet do everything in the forum while still staying on the blog. is that possible?
I got it working…. problem was i had saved the file as a rtf so when i switch the extension… it had like Options +MultiViews color ffff text size and stuff in it… i cleared it and insterted what you told me and everything works fine. thank you
Just delete the file .htaccess out of the /beta/ folder again and I will see what I can dig up for getting wordpress to see it. Are you using any subdomains to see it or just the URL you setup above in config.php ?
Trent
I did as u instructed… and now i cant even see my forum lol
http://kicksonfire.com/beta/ it goes to my wordpress
From the FAQ:
Create a file called .htaccess in bbPress’ root directory. Put only the following line in that new file.
Options +MultiViews
Just upload a file like htaccess.txt with the line mentioned above and then use the FTP program to name it to .htaccess versus htaccess.txt (notice the dot before name).
WordPress is just thinking right now that you have a URL that doesn’t have an assigned page or post to it and it is getting screwed up! Try that one out!
Trent
What is my .htaacess file on my bbpress folder suppose to say?
And how can i create it if i have a mac?
I have my own server with theplanet.com
It might be that the .htaccess file of wordpress is over-writing the one that should be in the bbPress folder /beta/. I have heard this can happen. Do you have the .htaccess in the bbPress folder? What host are you running? I think (without searching) that this was something on GoDaddy, but I am not 100% sure…..
Trent
I know nothing that would do it straight to bbPress, but one could be written based on the WP plugins like WP-AutoBlog, FeedWordPress or another Maggie based plugin.
I think the best bet would be to great a WP blog (hidden) that populates using one of the mentioned plugins and then a bbPress plugin like bbSync or bbPress-Post to pull the entries from WP into bbPress as entries.
It would be better to create a plugin that does it automatically, but if you don’t want to re-invent the wheel, that is the only solution I can think of right now.
Trent
