[kboan23]

Hello,

I need a little help, if possible. I am trying to integrate a WordPress blog with BBpress. I have placed BBpress in a subdirectory of WordPress and followed the instructions for sharing cookies. But still, when I go back and forth, I have to continually re-log in to each site.

When I look at my cookies, they are definitely not the same. For the blog I get this (and one other similar one)

wordpressuser_b458245343e06b7fa7cd00d37af29401

For the BBpress, I get this (and one other similar one).

wordpressuser_4e7fbe834162925f74c6c2e053468ef6

Any ideas as to what I could have possibly done wrong?

Thanks,

Kay

[lecolibri]

I have BB en WP sharing the same database, but loggin in/out is only possible through WP…

The configuration is as follows:

WordPress address: http://www.some-directory

Blog address: http://www.some-directory/blog

BBPress is installed in:

http://www.some-directory/discussions

Of course, $bb->wp_siteurl and $bb->wp_home are set correctly.

Stange thins is, that when I use a trailing slash after the $bb->wp_siteurl address, I can logout once via BB, but the logout only affects BB and not WP. Furthermore, logging in again is still impossible from within BB.

Might it be, that I need to set some cookie paths?

Thanks,

robert.

[_ck_]

Ugh sorry.

I will have to create a bunch of fake posts to try to test a similar environment.

Because of the way bbpress calculates those pages, this is a very tricky process (also a very annoying process).

If all you are trying to affect is just the front page, there is a direct hack for the core you can do which should not affect any other page and allow all other plugins to work properly.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/3?replies=15#post-346

In theory it will work better than any other plugin method.

I’ve got my hands full right now working on an advanced user tracking program to replace simple onlinelist that works across wordpress+bbpress.

[_ck_]

Okay I think I have a workaround.

Try this.

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/change_topics_per_page.txt?v002

Don’t really have a way to test, so you’ll have to let me know. You’ll have to re-edit the limits at the top, sorry.

[chrishajer]

RonJRoy, bbPress and WordPress are not really related, and a wordpress.com login is necessary just for the Akismet key. The login for bbPress does not work at wordpress.com.

One thing I always thought was weird though is that the wordpress.com login works for trac.bbpress.org.

Glad you got it sorted. Since this is beta software, there are going to be some questions, and there are always people around to help.

[_ck_]

Let’s start with are you using front-page-topics?

If so, deactivate/delete it and then download this:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/change_topics_per_page.txt

edit the limits per page near the top as desired

rename .txt to .php

install and activate it

[Null]

I think they are, the also switching enirely to jQuery with wordPress (I believe). I also think it’s better to switch and ditch prototype.

[_ck_]

You probably have an incomplete WordPress+bbPress integration.

Go through the steps here and see what you missed:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-intregation-between-wordpress-038-bbpress-not-work?replies=7#post-10428

I bet it’s the cookies not being set to the same location.

[_ck_]

jQuery is really nearly 60k – if you use the 20k version it has to unpack itself on the visitors broswer everytime a page is loaded. Better to use unpacked version and gzip web compression instead.

It’s the same size as prototype but smaller in use when you consider prototype needs other libraries to do other functions that jquery has built in.

When again is bbPress switching to jQuery?

Or is this just a rumour?

Apparently WordPress has ditched the last scraps of prototype from the admin panel this very week:

https://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3824#comment:25

[Sam Bauers]

Did you not see this?

From config.php:

// 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'

[benbeltran]

login to wordpress.com, go to your dashboard, click on profile (or My Account) and you should see “Your wordpress.com API Key is: ” followed by the key

got it from: http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/10/19/api-key/

[w3creativa]

Hi Ganzua, Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me. I believe, as you say, that it is not the best solution but, apparently, the only one at the moment (?).

I wonder how did other users managed to translate their integrated bbpress.

Thanks again!

[_ck_]

Unless you are editing wp-config.php directly, you do need to adjust the wordpress cookies somehow. Otherwise they point at the wordpress directory and not the web root.

There is a typo in his plugin url, this is the correct url:

http://www.2diabolos.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/_setCookieParams.zip

[ganzua]

“hi, I have the same problem. Has anyone found a way to integrate and change the language without errors?”

I managed to translate a wp-bb integration but I don’t know if you are going to like my workaround;

1. edit bbpress config.php and in define language section point to your wp language file with this code; ‘ define(‘BBLANGDIR’, ‘wp-includes/languages/es_ES.mo’); ‘ (change es_ES.mo for the name of your language .mo file)

2. edit wp language .po file and insert there your bbpress .po file. In other words, copy/paste all bbpress entries at the end of wp .mo file

3. Open with poedit and try to save this modifed file. You’re going to have +-100 duplicated entries in an error log. Delete all duplicated entries, one by one, so you can save.

4. When you save with poedit you produce 2 files; .po file and a .mo file. This .mo file is the one you want. Now you have translated both; wp and bbpress with just one .mo file.

I do know that this workaround implies a lot of future problems and I don’t like it at all but I didn’t find any other way.

I hope someday bbpress will appear as a plugin for wordpress.

[Anne-Lise]

Thank you so much! Also for the quick response.

I already had the integration plugin installed. The only thing I needed to do was to install the allo spaces in usernames plugin. Now I can skip between blog and forum without any problems and without having to login again if I am already at one or the other.

BTW: the cookie control plugin you reffered to in step 1 is no longer available for download at the site you referred to. But from what I understand from this article it is not necessary anymore.

[adriengeille]

Hi guys,

I can’t launch the installation of bbpress on my existing wordpress blog using the same database. The issue I have is, that i have a blank page…

So no way to launch the installation.

It’s on the same server

using the same db

I even created a second user to the DB (didn’t change anything)

I have enabled all the writing right to the installation folder

So what do you recommand. Do a fresch install of wordpress and bbpress or is there a solution for me to avoid that for exemple feeling up a file myself to have the insatallation process behind me.

Cheers for your help.

[rosebud]

I have wordpress and bbpress integrated (in terms of users and logins) but they do not share all the functions. BBPress is translated and working fine, however, I don’t have the wordpress code translated, just a po for the theme.

[_ck_]

All these problem are both cookie path

and forbidden character problems.

Both are poorly documented (or not mentioned at all)

but the good news is that fixes exist for both issues.

I have to find my previous instructions on this but

because bbpress search is so poor, this may take awhile.

Could someone please get this into a wiki or faq at some point:

Steps required for more complete and problem-free bbPress+WordPress integration:

1. cookies paths need to be changed to the same path in both WordPress and bbPress (change to domain root recommended)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpressbbpress-single-sign-on?replies=22#post-9010

2. the integration plugin should be installed

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/4?replies=26&more=1

3. the allow spaces in usernames plugin should be installed (also add my underscore hack for characters bbPress by default forbids but WordPress allows – see my message later in same thread)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/usernames-with-spaces-do-not-work?replies=28#post-7904

4. add the ” set default role when registering new user though forum” mini plugin should be installed:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yet-another-integration-bug-no-role-set-on-registration?replies=10#post-8768

5. search your bbpress templates and force all registrations/logins through wordpress from the several places they are buried on the forum (the WP login interfaces are far more developed) – unfortunately at least one bbPress login location is hard coded in the core which will require a direct hack everytime you upgrade. ie:

<?php $request_uri=$GLOBALS["HTTP_SERVER_VARS"]["REQUEST_URI"]; ?>

<a href="/wordpress/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo $request_uri; ?>"><?php _e('Login'); ?></a>

<a href="/wordpress/wp-register.php?redirect_to=<?php echo $request_uri; ?>"><?php _e('Register'); ?></a>

6. optional but highly recommended, install the “use display name” plugin for mods+admin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/2?replies=6&more=1

[adriengeille]

Don’t work,

If i delete $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl both and leave the address blank ”

here is the message i get…

Does it ring a bell to anyone?

Cannot select DB.

[Anne-Lise]

BTW: WP and BBpress are using the same database.

[Anne-Lise]

I have more or less the same problem. My forum is only accessible to WordPress users of the blog the forum is linked to. They cannot register themselves. Therefore registration is not possible on the forum either. All user names consist of two words. When I, or another user, is logged in in WP and then switches to the forum, he or she has to login again. When user name and password are filled in correctly and the login button is clicked, the user is redirected to a page where it says that the login failed and that he or she has to try again. But this time the space between the words of which the username consists is deleted (‘tester twee’ becomes ‘testertwee’). Logging in with the newly formed username doesn’t work either, of course. Logging in with a username that is made up of one word is no problem (for example ‘admin’).

This problem didn’t exist in the previous version of BBpress and it doesn’t have anything to do with the browser either since I tested this with Firefox as well as with IE. I also tried deactivating all plugins, but wasn’t the solution either.

I hope there is anyone who can help me fix this, because it’s really annoying. I was so glad I finally found a rather simple forum that could be integrated with WP.

[w3creativa]

Hi again Rosebud, Is it an integration of wordpress and bbpress or you just installed bbpress and changed the language?. I am asking you because I integrated and when I try to change the language I get an error. I have done some research and I looks like there´s no solution yet.

[w3creativa]

hi, I have the same problem. Has anyone found a way to integrate and change the language without errors?

[chrishajer]

Once you have a wordpress.com username and password, you log in at wordpress.com and there is spot to retrieve your key. WordPress.com looks all different to me today, but the key is stored in there somewhere. Just look around.

Once you have that, enter it in your config.php and start blocking spam.

[rosebud]

I am having problems with the character encoding of my bbpress install. I have it integrated with wordpress and when I use the “Latest bbpress discussions” plugin I see the weird characters you get when you mix collations and charsets.

I have wordpress in utf-8 thanks to this plugin: utf8 dtaabase converter.

Before it I had it set to utf but still, the database was showing weird characters (the collation was alright though). So this is probably a MySQL problem somewhere.

Should I try to adapt the wordpress utf8 converter for bbpress?