[cornetjr]

NEVERMIND!!!

Apparently the problem was that when you try to login as ‘admin’ user the bbpress and wordpress user list gets confused. It thinks that they are two different users since there is the admin in bbpress user database upon install and an existing one in wordpress. This creates a conflict. I created a new admin account under a different username in wordpress and everything works correctly.

BBpress integration plugin IS NOT REQUIRED to get integration to work correctly.

I am not sure why, but “auth” cookie salt & WordPress “logged in” cookie salt in bbpress does not have to match that in wordpress.

Lastly, the most important variable other than in bb-config and wp-config files:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’,’ ‘);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’,’ ‘);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘ ‘);

Is to verify that User database table prefix is set correctly. To verify this, set field usually to wp_ and check the user list. If you have this value set correctly, then bbpress imports all users into bbpress admin area. Integration is super easy, but there are a few admin/instructional issues that have not been updated and can cause confusion. Please post if you have further questions!!!

[cornetjr]

For some reason I cannot change the :

WordPress “auth” cookie salt & WordPress “logged in” cookie salt in bbpress to match the values for wordpress!!!

[buddha-trance]

I am confused about the use of the plugin, now. Everything works fine when deactivating it, but as the description of the plugin says … “it is also necessary to setup this plugin so that WordPress can set a couple of extra cookies which are required”.

I am not sure what the extra cookies do, if things work fine without the plugin. Is there no longer a need for these extra cookies in v. 1.0? Were they required only in the prior versions of bbPress?

[cornetjr]

Also do I have to define:

WordPress “auth” cookie salt

and WordPress “logged in” cookie salt

in the bbconfig.php?

[cornetjr]

Cannot get integration to work even with the plugin. Help appreciated.

Below is generated from wordpress plugin for shared cookies:

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

User database table prefix:

set to wp_

I do not have a value for:

WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ” );

When I log into bbpress it logs me out of wordpress and vice-versa. Any ideas?

Settings are the same:

AUTH_KEY <=> BB_AUTH_KEY

SECURE_AUTH_KEY <=> BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY

LOGGED_IN_KEY <=> BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY

[JD Hartley]

So I was wondering with the release of bbPress 1.0 and all if there were plans to redo bbpress.org to match the same look and feel as wordpress.org or even buddypress.org.I would be willing to work on a WordPress and bbPress theme with Sam, or if Sam or no one else wants to spend the time I could by myself.

Is this a reasonable idea?

-JD

[intimez]

Where can I find the following in wpmu?

WordPress Integration Settings:

auth_salt

secure_auth_salt

logged_in_salt

I don’t see it anywhere.

bbpress 1.0 final and wordpress mu 2.7.1

[smi1ey]

Thanks for the reply! I resolved it! I had taken the AUTH keys from the options page of WordPress and entered them in the bbpress config file. I had assumed that by them already being listed in WordPress, that they were already in the WP config file. Apparently I was wrong. Once I ensured the AUTH keys were in both config files, it instantly started working. Woot!

[Detective]

Here’s another tip:

I mentioned in another thread that I had problems logging in WordPress. If someone logged inside WordPress, the cookies were valid in both WP and BB but the user was unable to post in BB. The problem was that BB was authenticating the username in the cookie against a lowercase version of the user_login value. I manually changed all user logins in the database to their lowercased version and everything worked correctly

[_ck_]

$page will be greater than 1 if you are on a paginated set of pages for any kind of view, topic, etc.

so do a

global $page;

and then if ($page>1) { blah }

but search engines like google are already aware of bbPress and index it well

[johnhiler]

Ah ok, I was just wondering if there was an implication that 0.9 doesn’t have a working integration with WordPress! Thanks for clarifying.

I definitely agree that it’s not as seamless as it could be…

[Ryan Hellyer]

It should be possible to integrate version 0.9 with just about any version of WordPress

Yeah, but it’s a lot easier with 1.0. I always found minor gremlins in the way it worked with 0.9, but with 1.0 it seems to function fairly seamlessly.

I generally help others with their forums, not build them for myself, so I need it to be fairly basic to do the integration. The way 1.0 does it natively is pretty slick IMO.

[johnhiler]

Hey Ryan – It should be possible to integrate version 0.9 with just about any version of WordPress (including 2.7)… except for 2.8? That’s only broken because WordPress decided to change how they handled cookies and broke bbPress integration in the process…

[infected]

Hi!

I have a simple question to bbpress 1.0 (final) and wp 2.8: Is the bbpress integration plugin still needed for complete integration? I followed the screencast on wordpress.tv. After installing bbpress there´s no problem to login into bbpress and wp at the same time. I remeber my first tests with 1.0 alpha where it doesn´t work…

[Ryan Hellyer]

It sounds like there are enough people wanting to keep using the 0.9 release (and apparently with good reasons) to justify continuing it longer than I suggested.

I never liked the 0.9 line, but it seems I’m not in the majority with that opinion. I guess I’m biased by requiring a working integration with WordPress.

[leehow]

I don’t want the search engine index every forum’s navigation page, so I’m thinking about this question.

[QuickD]

sorry I am not using 1.0 it was a typo I am using version 0.9 with wordpress 2.7

[_ck_]

That’s a good idea, someone should do it.

I’d recommend to take screenshots under Safari for the best possible appearance.

Here is a view in Firefox of the plugins panel.

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/7973/bb10adminplugins.png

As you can see it now has the (very annoying) semi-monochromatic, narrow, length-wise vertical layout of WordPress 2.7+

It also uses the same short-circuited logic as WP, where item that are dark on the left mean they are selected and active, while items on the right that are dark are actually inactive.

[QuickD]

no professionals are listed there on _ck_ site. I am installing under the older bbpress before the beta and now 1.0 with the wordpress version before the 2.8 release.

[_ck_]

To learn how bbPress works, I would suggest browsing the source of the top level files in the bbPress root.

is_forum simply checks the url and does not know which forum it is in

but it can be used before repermalink happens (similar to wordpress)

to get the current forum, in theory you should be able to

global $forum_id;

And then the $forum_id is the current forum number. You can then use the api to get the forum name, etc. if desired.

This may not work in all cases as bbPress has some nasty code in some places that even in 1.0 still does not reset the counter after loops. For example a forum page that has some sub-forums, the $forum_id might very well be the last sub-forum displayed (if the bug has not been fixed yet).

You also cannot fetch $forum_id before repermalink happens which is after bb_init is triggered. Shouldn’t be a problem unless you are trying to execute code while a plugin is loading vs. after init

ps. is_forum is deprecated in 1.0, use bb_is_forum

[_ck_]

Speaking of .htaccess I want to express how I simply cannot disagree more with the suggestion during bbPress 1.0 install to make it writeable by bbPress.

Opening .htaccess to writes by PHP is an INCREDIBLY bad idea security-wise.

Never, ever, make any part of your bbPress (or WordPress) install write-able or you are just begging to be hacked sooner or later. Always use FTP and replace it yourself.

If you are on a shared server, the vulnerability is magnified many more times.

Directories used for caching and uploading that simply must be writable should always be “above” the web-root so that an attacker cannot easily execute files they just uploaded or modified.

One day bbPress will have a template editor like WordPress and I will have to recommend deleting it and never chmod’ing the template directory as well.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

FYI – Installing WordPressMU + BuddyPress + bbPress was a snap! Integration FTW!

[Jason Giedymin]

I haven’t heard any benchmarks as it’s up to you on setting it up (nginx/apache/phpcgi/phpfpm/etc….).

It’s even harder to compare pound for pound because of the extensibility bbpress affords you with wordpress and buddypress. Even the plug-ins that each trio of apps afford you.

There is a point when it’s not about how many users you can squeeze out of a single VPS, it’s about building a site… a community and what is the best software & hardware able to do that.

Of course, when your scaled to the limit with hardware, software, and users to that of say Twitter it’s a different story.

On their curve, no matter how much hardware they add, curbing simple things like response time become a huge battle. At this scale it’s in your best interest to develop something proprietary as such they have and are doing.

In your case though, your probably better off worrying about ‘how do i scale my forum installation’ , and ‘what forum software gives my users the most benefit’, than asking ‘how many people can i house on my vps/dedicated/box/PS3’.

Even having said this all of this, out of the box there is less overhead in the bbpress architecture than with PHPBBx.

Take all of what I said with a grain of salt, and a beer in hand.

Cheers,

– Jason

[Marcomail]

But the profile page have the navigation ? i see in wordpress you can browse all your reply and thread

[michael3185]

Ah – OMG! – I know nothing about WordPress except the name. (Exit me!)