[redhousepainter]

Okay, I have to get this out of my system. But first…

I have three websites with WP. I love it. I love you all. I’m not throwing a tantrum or threatening to run off and elope with Movable Type or Joomla!.

But, here is my issue…

I want to add bbPress to one of my sites and quite possibly another that I just started.

I know there are other forum software out there but really want this to stay in the family.

My problem is that fresh out of the box bbPress looks like a manual for a cold war Soviet submarine.

Getting past that I tried to integrate my WP header into my bbPress installation but the info available on integration is either outdated or above my ability. I integrated the WP header into my gallery software (Zenphoto) with no problem at all, so it doesn’t make sense to me that integration bbPress should be harder.

Also, the forum on WordPress.org looks so good that using it is just rubbing salt in my wounds. It is as though WP is saying ‘here is what you could do with bbPress if you had a team of developers and an unlimited budget, but since you are poor and working alone… you’re out of luck!’.

Okay, I’m done ranting.

Does anyone have experience adding their WP header and footer into bbPress? I would prefer to not integrate the databases. All I really want is for the header and footer to be consistent throughout the site. I can handle the CSS part of it.

Thanks!!!

[Garth Koyle]

I’m having trouble getting the integration to happen.

http://www.adbeef.com/forum/

http://www.adbeef.com/blog/

The links on the blog link to the forum, but there’s no thread.

Any ideas?

[chrishajer]

You would need to include WordPress in your bbPress installation to have access to all the WordPress functions.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func

Sharing the database does not allow you to use WordPress functions from within bbPress.

[erewok]

Hello,

I’m new to WordPress and BBpress but I like the simplicity involved in using them. Currently, I have a wordpress site and a bbpress site that share a database. The wordpress site uses the Event Calendar plugin+widget to display its calendar and in the readme for Event Calendar I found the following:

Add the

following code to your sidebar.php:



Event Calendar:

<li>

<?php ec3_get_calendar(); ?>

</li>



Upcoming Events:

<li>Events

<?php ec3_get_events(5); ?>

</li>



If you are using an older template, then you should check that your HTML

header contains the following tag: <?php wp_head(); ?>

I’d like to add the Event Calendar to my BBpress sidebar; however, this solution doesn’t appear to work. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

[bubblebla]

hi, i’m a newbie here..

i need some help here. can anyone advise me on how to add a main page in my forum? i want the page to show only the login form, active and newest threads and i need to main page to show some information. my question here, can i really add the page in kakumei? or do i need to use the wordpress to make such page?

i really want to avoid using wordpress bcoz currently i’m trying to integrate the bbpress forum to 3 websites using the wordpress.

i hope someone can help me here.. thank you

[chrishajer]

Does this problem happen with the stock theme? Maybe it’s a problem with the customization?

Where do you log in? Normally at http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/ there is a spot to login or register, then logging in as keymaster allows access to the admin panel.

If you log in as keymaster, do you have a link to Admin your forum or can you access http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/bb-admin/ ?

It doesn’t look like you are using permalinks at all for bbPress, which is fine.

BTW, I don’t think this has anything to do with WordPress.

[davidbaldwin]

here is the URL to bbpress:

http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/

and the admin:

http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/bb-admin

i’m using this permalink structure:

http://lifelightcam.com/2008/06/07/sample-post/

thanks for your help!

david

[chrishajer]

[edited out a stupid idea]

WAIT: update 26 minutes later. If you’re not logged in, trying to access /bbpress/bb-admin/ is SUPPOSED to redirect you to the home page of the forum. When you log in there as keymaster or administrator, you then have a link to View your profile (Admin | Log out) – and in my installation, clicking Admin takes you to /bbpress/bb-admin/. You can also access the /bbpress/bb-admin/ URL directly, but only after logging in as keymaster. If that’s what’s happening, then that is correct.

Is it possible you can’t log in on the home page of the forum as administrator or keymaster? Did that account lose privileges or something? Maybe you have a different problem. But direct access to /bbpress/bb-admin is prevented by design until you are logged in.

[Detective]

You can download it here: User Photo for bbPress.

The readme.txt has installation instructions.

User Photo for bbPress is a modified/simplified/ported version of the original User Photo plugin by Weston Ruster.

[davidbaldwin]

I used this code from the documentation:

Code:

require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);

to intigrate bbpress with wordpress, so I could use my current wordpress themes.

the only problem I have now, is that when I try to access /bbpress/bb-admin I am automatically forwarded to /bbpress and I have no access of the admin screen.

any ideas?

thanks!

david

[reclaimyourskin]

Hi Detective, I really like this theme – like I said before definitely one of the best WordPress/BBpress installs I’ve seen.

Does this theme have the User Photo plugin intergrated into it? I would love to be able to use User Photo within BBpres like you have done at http://www.ryuuko.cl/bbpress

[alexleonard]

Ah brilliant,

Thanks so much for the clarification. I was getting the feeling that quite a few things had changed all right. The main development site has had quite a lot of work done so far, but on bbpress all I had really done was set it to use the header and footer from the WP theme.

It’ll be easy to dump it and start again.

Actually on that point. In installing the old version I stored the bb_press database tables in this site’s WordPress database, eg:

| bb_forums              |

| bb_posts               |

| bb_tagged              |

| bb_tags                |

| bb_topicmeta           |

| bb_topics              |

| wp_comments            |

| wp_ig_caticons         |

| wp_links               |

| wp_options             |

| wp_postmeta            |

| wp_posts               |

| wp_term_relationships  |

| wp_term_taxonomy       |

| wp_terms               |

| wp_usermeta            |

| wp_users               |

Should I delete each of the tables prefixed “bb_” before continuing?

Cheers,

Alex

[chrishajer]

I would install bbPress latest which is 0.9.0.2 and WordPress latest which is 2.5.1. The big change with WordPress 2.5.* and bbpress 0.9.* was with the cookies. If you have only a few test posts, I would just install WordPress fresh (or upgrade your WordPress installation) then install bbPress fresh. Integration is totally different now, no more plugins.

Good luck.

[alexleonard]

Hi there,

I started development on a wordpress + bbpress site quite a while back. Development stalled and I’m only coming back to it now.

I had integrated wp + bbp fairly successfully but I have a feeling upgrading to WP2.5.1 might have broken a lot of that cross compatibility.

The bbpress installed version is 0.8.3.1, but essentially it’s an empty forum (a couple of test posts from myself).

Regarding upgrading to the latest version, I get a feeling I might almost be better off completely wiping the original forum version and starting again – I might run into less problems? I had a look through the trac but couldn’t really work out how much substantial change there has been between current and my older version.

Any suggestions?

Is uninstalling and reinstalling reasonably easy?

[pomeid]

Yes, there is a ‘migrate’ option in bbsync admin page. Maybe synchronisation is not working properly for you?

[gabx82]

Hello,

I integrated bbPress with WordPress, soooooo, now bbPress is using WordPress database… that means I have no Key Master nor Administrator for bbPress,

How can I manually convert my WordPress’ admin to a bbPress’ Key Master?

So I can change bbPress settings and stuff.

Please help, thanks!

[chrishajer]

Does any of this help?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookie-sharing-between-wp-and-bb

I think since you’ve moved stuff around, you probably want to delete your cookies or try a new browser without any of the old cookies in it already.

[enquirer32]

Thanks but how do I resolve it?

[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…

[os0wski]

i just want all old entries and comments in wordpress bein changed to topics on bbpress

is it possible mate?

[os0wski]

ok I changed the absolute path to bbPress but

when i klick migrate it still doesnt copy old entries to my bbpress!

why?

[chrishajer]

That’s a problem with your host; they’ve disabled a php function. If you can’t change hosts, you are going to have to look into how the plugin uses that function and find a replacement. Maybe it’s as simple as hard coding the current working directory.

Taking a quick look through the plugin shows that the getcwd function is used only for an error message anyway. You can do without it and can just edit the file. The error message will not be as useful (since the error message uses getcwd) but you should be able to use it even if your host has getcwd() disabled.

[os0wski]

looks good but i cant check it couse theres:

Warning: getcwd() has been disabled for security reasons in [path]

in admin, and cant migrate

[chrishajer]

Does this do what you’re looking for?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/

[chrishajer]

I think the problem is related to the cookie paths.