[Sam Bauers]

You have to explicitly choose “Remember me” when you login. If that option isn’t there when you login then you need to update your template to match the default one in this regard.

I’m pretty sure this was a part of the last release.

[Sam Bauers]

Keep in mind though that including WordPress inside bbPress is an incredible overhead for what is just a modification to the presentation layer.

The most lightweight solution is to create your own theme in my-templates which extends the default theme. Any file that is not found in your own theme simply falls back to using the default, so your theme could consist of as little as a style.css file (which could itself simply import the default themes style.css – see kakumei-blue theme for an example of how to do that), a header file and a footer file.

[thousande]

iv tried on ur website (https://bbpress.org/forums/)

i just use the default theme without any plugins…believe me…it is not a plugin or theme problem…

u can log out and click a topic in this forum….and then log in…try to compare the speed… i do think u can get the same question as i…

i hope all the bbpress users can try in that way…

i doubt that there is a cookie problem on bbpress…

[bobbyh]

Can you give us a URL?

This sounds like a problem with either your theme or a plugin.

To isolate the problem, switch to the default theme, deactivate all plugins and then add the plugins one by one until the problem pops up again. It may also be a problem with your theme, but it’s more likely it’s a plugin problem.

[benbeltran]

I hope it helps somehow. In my opinion, this is the best forum software if you’re a developer that wants custom forums and doesn’t mind getting dirty with code. At least that’s why I love it (I know, people will disagree with me).

I’ve never felt so in control of my forums before . Everything is just … clean, from the default UI to the insides.

[cordoval]

0. done

1. so far bb_update_usermeta -> bb_update_meta-> and now in lines 38 and 39 of register.php on the root we add a line below 38: bb_update_usermeta( $user_id, $key, $$key ); /*this is where the user gets registered */

As follows: bb_update_user_password( $user_id, “default” ); /* I am assigning here the new password by default which is “default”

This works! So now I just need to get the string from the custom field and assign it here! Can anyone more experienced than me help me?

[hiver]

It was essentially default theme. I found the tag by viewing the source of the generated page. The template files didn’t have the information I needed.

[timskii]

All the integration code assumes you start with a blog and want to add a forum. However, if you start with a forum, chances are the forum’s user database will be far larger than the blog. The technique below outlines how I did it. This is entirely at your own risk. I’ve not gone over the standard things, like shared secret keys: I’m assuming you’ve read the basic integration guides.

0. You’ll need to be familiar with .htaccess, SQL at raw database level, and template hacks. If your level of expertise is “pressing buttons”, stop reading here. This is very easy to mess up, so make plenty of backups. Ideally test the whole conversion first, and probably prepare scripts to run if a lot of database changes are needed.

1. Block public access to the blog and forum for all except your IP using .htaccess.

2. In the database, rename wp_users and wp_usermeta. These won’t be used, but you will need them later to cross-reference old posts to new authors. I’m assuming a standard install that uses wp_ and bb_ as prefixes.

3. Copy bb_users and bb_usermeta to wp_users and wp_usermeta respectively. Keep the original tables for now.

4. Add the missing column via SQL: ALTER TABLE wp_users ADD user_activation_key varchar(60) NOT NULL default '';

5. Delete the WordPress install, but keep the old database tables (and plugins and themes). Install WordPress in its former position. Use an entirely new user name as your new WordPress admin. (The purpose of deleting and then installing WordPress is to create a genuinely new admin user in the table. For me, this was faster than manually adding an admin user and making sure all the correct permissions were set. You mileage may vary.)

6. How much extra work you need to do to your old WordPress tables depends on the number of authors that were active on WordPress: Using SQL, you’ll need to change all the old author IDs in wp_posts and wp_comments to match that author’s ID from the forum. It is possible there are other user references deep in the system, so be careful. I had little complexity to deal with. If your were the first to register for both your forum and blog, the important IDs may match perfectly already.

7. Most WordPress templates use the user’s display_name. This is unfortunately, because BBPress tends to use user_login. The result is that most WordPress references to user names will appear blank. You’ll either need to populate the display_name column, or hack around with your WordPress templates so that they use user_login. Template call get_the_author_login() is perfect for authors, but for comment references I had to use get_usermeta($user_id,’user_login’) or comment_author_link() where $user_id was 0. Messy. Since the admin side of WordPress uses display_name anyway, it is probably a lot easier to populate that column.

8. Your WordPress install should be now more-or-less working. Let’s return to the forum!

9. It is very easy to accidentally destroy the forum Keymaster, locking yourself out of the forum before integration is complete. If this happens, edit the table bb_topicmeta by deleting the final few lines with meta_key starting “wp_”.

10. On the forum admin, under WordPress Integration: Set the User role map such that Admin links to Keymaster and everyone else is a subscriber, and save. Add “wp_” under User database table prefix and save. Hit the User role map button again. Finally complete the cookie setting and save. The order is important – simply filling in all the boxes and saving can wipe out the old Keymaster access before the new one has been set up.

11. In WordPress, check the user list. I found that some user types did not convert automatically – notably moderators. Hopefully 99% of users will have been automatically assigned as subscribers. If you use a lot of plugins, take care that nothing conflicts. For example two separate plugins trying to write user meta data using the same key name. You may also wish to test a dummy registration and profile change.

12. Remove the old bb_users and bb_usermeta, and the copies of your original wp_users and wp_usermeta.

13. Remove the .htaccess blocks, and celebrate your newly integrated setup.

I’m now having fun trying to marry a second forum to the first WordPress-Forum pair. Everything is easy, until one tries to alter the admin permissions…

[chrishajer]

Put all the bbPress files that are in the archive you downloaded into a folder in your webspace. If your website is at http://www.example.com/ and the files on the server are at /var/www/vhosts/yourname/ and you want your forums at http://www.example.com/forums/, just create a directory called /var/www/vhosts/yourname/forums in your webspace and upload the files there.

Put all the bbpress files into one folder though, exactly how they came out of the archive. By default, when you unzip the files, they are in a folder called bbpress. You can use that or rename that to forums, then just upload the whole thing to your webspace.

[sepidol]

i just solved my login cookie issue after one night debugging…

i found these things:

– by default, wpmu generate auth_cookie as “wordpress”, but bbpress generate as “wordpress_xxxxx(hash)”

– wpmu not using “database secret” for cookie hashing, but it use the SECRET_SALT constant defined in the wp-config.php, bbpress using “database secret”. so the cookie result will never be the same.

you need to update your bb-config.php file to meet these situations.

assumed you’ve successfully install wpmu + bbpress, then edit your bb-config.php and add these line:

define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ‘yourreallysecretkey’);

define(‘BB_SECRET_SALT’, ‘yourreallysecretsalt’);

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress’;

$bb->cookiedomain = ‘.yourdomain.com’;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ”;

and try to login… voila.. you can switch to bbpress and wpmu without re-login…

good luck,

—

rh

[Detective]

Please add these two fields to your table bb_privatemessages:

'del_receiver' tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '0'

'del_sender' tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '0'

I forgot to put those two on the install function. Now it should work

[parthatel]

I want to know what I need to change in the bbPress files so that the layout will be changed. Basically, I want the left sidebar currently on the default bbPress on the right, with the content on the left. Also, currently on the default bbPress theme, the sidebar disappears when you click a topic or forum. I want the sidebar to always be present. Is there anyway of doing this and switching the sidebar and content?

[malfhok]

Here’s my bbPress. It’s a forum for kids and teens to discuss books on. I modified the default theme to fit with the color scheme of the main site, and added a few plugins for features that my members wanted.

This is actually our second forum. The first was a YaBB install, which I hated, ’cause it kept letting spammers in. But our members and I love bbPress and the ease of use!

http://incredibooks.com/ibdiscuss/

[chrishajer]

Do you have any plugins installed? If so, try disabling them and see if users can log in.

You’re running a modified template. If so, try the default template, unmodified, and see if the problem goes away.

Do you have access to server logs? If so, look for 500 errors being logged or php errors.

UPDATE: I just created a user and I see what’s happening. Not a blank screen, they’re just redirected to the login screen to log in again. Try a stock template and try disabling plugins.

Also, there’s a lot of javascript on that page. Does disabling those scripts affect anything?

[willyhoops]

I tried this and it has not gone. I downloaded .rar file at http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-remove-forum-and-topic-keyword-from-bbpress-url/

(thankfully winzip can open .rar files), and copied the two files “.htaccess” and “remft.php”, and then run the plugin from admin but it made no difference. The first time I ran it I may have forgotton the .htaccess file. Any suggestions what now please?

My forum is at http://www.willyhoops.com/bbpress

Also, I am totally new to this but searching for “remove hot tags” got me nothing. Not sure why they have added that by default but obviously I have to remove it. Can anyone tell me how to do that please?

Ahh gee, you can’t delete a post. I think I have totally messed up. This pluging does not remove the forum it does something else.

Man I have been done! The default install is hopless and there is no info on how to change anything. This is a pro product only but it did not give that impression at all. I though I would have a simple little forum like the one here and it would all be easy. Instead I lost two hours of my Saturday.

“So let’s get started. Download, install, and you’re on your way!”. Yea right

[bobbyh]

Chris, you’re totally right about phpinfo and this should work. If that doesn’t work, it’s probably because Google says that the hosts that disable default PHP functions also disable phpinfo.

[paradox460]

When users on my site sign up using the forum signup, it successfully integrates them into wordpress, but they do not have a nickname, so all comments appear as Anonymous.

Normally wordpress would automatically set the display name default to be the login name, but they dont seem to for this.

Any way i could edit the BBpress files to make wp have a name?

[Oscar]

I’m looking for a plugin for bbPress that shows the latest posts on the forum front page. With the default theme this would be shown as snippets (text of the actual post) below the Tag Cloud/Hot Tags ‘widget’.

I can’t seem to find a plugin, except the one that does just this on your WP installation if you’ve integrated with WP. Does this exist for bb as well?

[mrhoratio]

You’re welcome. It’s included with 2.5.1, it’s just an optional entry, so I don’t think it would be in your default config file. But I think it is shown in the sample config file.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Secret_Key_IMPORTANT

[djp]

Hi Leemon

As far as I am aware, the email addresses of the people who register are not visible in their profiles by other registered users. It seems to be a default setting in bbpress.

The email addresses are only visible to the Keymaster & people who have been given Administrator access.

Hope this helps

[dangrey]

I needed to put a writeable .htaccess containing “Options +MultiViews” in my bbpress root for “pretty permalinks” to work — there wasn’t one by default.

Perhaps your old install had one and you didn’t copy it over during the upgrade.

[bobbyh]

The easiest way is to find and install an existing theme that exists for both WordPress and bbPress. For instance, K2 for bbPress is similar to the WordPress default theme. Here are some bbPress themes for you to check out.

[bobbyh]

Chris, I did disable plugins, but I hadn’t wrapped the Email Notifications plugin function call with a function_exists wrapper, so my active theme stopped working when I did so. I then oh-so-intelligently reasoned that this plugin couldn’t be the cause of the problem, so I moved on…

I couldn’t just disable all plugins and test with a default theme because of the existence of private forums. Finally, I moved the database to a private test server (and used a HOST file) and went through all the plugins carefully one-by-one until the problem was fixed.

Let my idiocy be a lesson for others: wrap your plugin function calls with function_exists wrapper!

[bobbyh]

Lookfab, here’s a slight tweak to the default kakumei topic.php theme file that should do what you want:

<ol id="thread" start="<?php echo $list_start; ?>">

<?php $i = 0; ?>

<?php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $del_class = post_del_class(); ?>

<li id="post-<?php post_id(); ?>"<?php if ($i == 0) { echo 'class="firstpost"'; } elseif !($i % 2) { echo ('class="alt"'); }?>>

<?php bb_post_template(); ?>

</li>

<?php $i++; ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ol>

You can then style the class “firstpost” using CSS to make it stand out however you want…

I didn’t test this, but I think it should work either by itself or with a tweak or two.

[citizenkeith]

My forum users have named this the “Page Bug.”

Here’s what happens: Our forum has 30 posts per page in a thread. Somebody posts the 31st post (or 61st, 91st, etc) which should show up on a new page. However, the thread gets stuck. There’s no “next page” number to click on. The post was successful, it’s just not displayed on a new page.

At this point, I tried recounting, but it still did not appear.

The only way out of the mess is to make a new post. Suddenly, a new page appears and the 31st post is right where it should be, followed by the new 32nd post.

Sometimes the 32nd post doesn’t work either, but that doesn’t happen often.

I’m running v0.9.0.2 with a host of plugins. I’ve tried with no plugins and the default template but it still happens.