[chrishajer]

You are looking for integration then, to include WordPress bits in your bbPress.

If you search this forum for integration or view topics tagged integration, you will find lots of integration advice. Here’s a good thread (started a while ago so some of the advice may not apply).

[fokjulle]

Here is config.php:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘*********’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘********’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘*********’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘**********’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old bb-config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”);

define(‘BB_LANG’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change BB_SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase. You won’t have to remember it later,

// so make it long and complicated. You can visit https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

// to get a phrase generated for you, or just make something up.

// If you are integrating logins with WordPress, you will need to match the value

// of the “SECRET_KEY” in the WordPress file wp-config.php

define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ”); // Change this to a unique phrase.

// If you are running multiple bbPress installations in a single database,

// you will probably want to change this.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// 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 BB_LANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BB_LANG’, ”);

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BB_PATH’) )

define(‘BB_PATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BB_PATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

Yes, I use PHPMyAdmin…

[chrishajer]

Maybe the database you used for WordPress has a different collation, but WordPress didn’t care about the difference where bbPress does care and gives you an error?

Do you have access to the database with something like phpMyAdmin?

[Sam Bauers]

New WordPress MU 1.5 release candidate is now out:

http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/04/19/wordpress-mu-15-rc1/

[nick212004]

it is one of the sidebars that is on my wordpress which is my homepage

[chrishajer]

To make bbPress look like your WordPress theme, you are going to have to do some XHTML and CSS work with a new template for your bbPress forum. It doesn’t sound like you will need user integration, so you can skip that part of the installation/integration, but will will need to either include WordPress in bbPress to get access to your WordPress header and foot or manually add those items to your bbPress template.

If you search this forum for integration or view topics tagged integration, you will find lots of integration advice. Here’s a good thread (started a while ago so some of the advice may not apply):

There are also a couple WordPress forum plugins:

http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/simple-forum/

http://www.xdweb.net/wordpress/xdforum2/

(might not work anymore with WordPress 2.5)

Never tried either of those but they might be options instead of creating your own theme to make bbPress look like your WordPress installation.

[chrishajer]

Courtesy of _ck_ http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/bbpress-plugin-bb-tweaks/

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Target Blank

Description:  append target="_blank" to all links

Plugin URI:  http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/bbpress-plugin-bb-tweaks/

Author:  _ck_

Version: 0.04

*/

//add target=_blank to post links

function bb_target_blank( $text ) {

$text = preg_replace('|<a (.+?)>|i', '<a $1 target="_blank">', $text);

return $text;

}

add_filter('pre_post', 'bb_target_blank');

?>

[antonioperez]

Hello everyone. I am attempting to incorporate bbpress into my current wordpress site at http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/wordpress. I don’t want bbpress and wordpress to share any user data as the wordpress site will only be available to members who pay for the service. In short, the bbpress forum will be a kind of online mentoring tool. What I want to is to basically embed bbpress into my wordpress so that when someone navigates threw the site, it will appear as a smooth transitition.

Thanks

[seeportugal]

I tried unsuccessfully installing both wordpress mu and bb press this week. Both times I had my whole website down, and insted some strange website that called something like “undirected designs” came up. Some strange African American in white overalls, a hous painter or something. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT? Should I be worried. For now I am giving up the install.

Can someone tell me what this was?

[jaydedman]

http://showinabox.tv/forum

We hacked in email notification.

Really like the clean look.

Join up if you hack wordpress…and work with video.

we’ve built some cool plugins and are designing themes that are videocentric at showinbox.tv. We’re glad to link/blog about other solutions that work for videobloggers.

[dthomas31uk]

I am also developing my wordpress site locally….is it possible to do the same with BBPress.

[dthomas31uk]

Hi. Have just downloaded bbpress from this site. Uploaded it to my server……now what? It is not showing up in my wordpress admin plug in section. I presume I have to configure something somewhere….can anyone advise please. Do I need to create a new databse for bbpress or do i still use my existing wordpress database.

[chrishajer]

> the desire to reduce the amount of support traffic

That’s the best reason right there. Convert to a front controller, mod_rewrite and create the rewrite rules automagically, like WordPress, and 1/3 of the posts on this forum would never have happened.

[Sam Bauers]

This would not impact anything other than bbPress, it’s just a question of choosing one methodology to support pretty URLs.

MultiViews could still be enabled on the server, it’s just a question of whether bbPress uses it or not.

Mod_Rewrite is better for a couple of reasons. For a start it is better supported, and it is also a lot more flexible. We are thinking about running all requests through a single page (index.php) just like WordPress. This is called a front controller, and is not as easily achieved with MultiViews.

There is also the desire to reduce the amount of support traffic around this topic and standardising on one approach may help that.

[txmom]

I have wp and bbpress integrated, fresh installation.

To use avatars is it better to use a wordpress plugin? I tried avator upload, but no avators, nor upload links in profiles. Admin tab is there.

I’d like to be able to use the private message thing, will it work with the 2 integrated?

Thanks.

[psheerin]

Can you clarify the impact of disabling MultiViews? Will this impact only bbPress content on a site, or do you need it turned off for the whole site?

I like to mix WordPress, bbPress, and plain content for some images, PDF manual downloads, etc., and really need content negotiation/MultiViews supported in directories outside of WP/bbPress.

And why is Mod_Rewrite better than MultiViews for bbPress?

[Sam Bauers]

@ blackidlabs

I think a new release of WPMU is imminent. You might want to hold off until it is released, or you can simply follow the same integration steps as for WP2.3 (installing required compatibility plugins)

If you have any issues, then ask here.

[chrishajer]

HowToGeek: I wonder if that’s really true. I’d like to believe it is, but I wonder if there are really hosts that allow the MultiViews directive in an .htaccess file, but don’t allow mod_rewrite. I’d like to believe it’s true so that MultiViews goes away and bbPress gets proper rewriting via mod_rewrite, the sooner the better. And have bbPress generate the rewrite rules then create or edit the .htaccess file automatically, just like WordPress, while you’re at it.

[Beer]

We could try to appeal to the mercy of whoever the current plug-in coders are. I’ve seen something at TextDrive where a group would donate some money into a pool for development purposes.

I think it’d be great if they added the “Ideas” feature here at bbPress like they have for WordPress also.

https://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/

[timskii]

Dreamhost does allow mod_rewrite. And technically they do support Multiviews, but as a .htaccess hack.

However. I remember having terrible trouble trying to configure BBPress to use Multiviews, because it appeared to work, but didn’t on certain pages. I ended up manually adding mod_rewrite.

As an aside, in automating anything like this, keep in mind that people like to do strange things with their directories. One of the annoyances of WordPress is that it assumes almost complete control of the layout of all directories below where it is installed.

[blackidlabs]

Hi Sam,

youve been a great help so far. I was just going through the installation of bbpress. Now I have wpmu installed on my server http://www.blackidlabs.com. I wanted to integrate bbpress into it. I guess wpmu is in 2.3.3 stage as of now. So I wanted to ask you, should I go through the wordpress integration option which bbpress gives during the installation?

Thanks

Jyot

[gregory.dziedzic]

Maybe it’s because I’m not so knowledgeable about wikis, but I really wonder what you are talking about. I totally agree concerning the “simple, fast and elegant”. phpBB is far too complicated for example. But gimme a break please. I don’t need to be told what I need. WordPress is great for news publication, it’s understandable by my not so computer literate community and it even allows to attach documents to posts (albeit not to comments). Now I’m thinking about phase 2, which is the integration of a forum to the blog and the duplication of WordPress posts in a dedicated sub-forum through the bbPost plugin. These guys are scientists who need to communicate AND exchange documents. bbPress appeals to me because of the WordPress integration, BUT I need it to have attachment as a feature. And I don’t have the skills to add this feature. I don’t intend to be demanding. I have an idea what open source development can be. I just don’t want some geek zealot to tell me that my need is wrong just because it breaks his ideal of how his software idol should be…

[Sam Bauers]

Try putting this in your bb-config, it should rename those bbPress cookies for you:

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

.

You may also need to adjust the cookie domain and path, but try that first.

[devcore]

I installed bbPress on a directory called /discussions on the root of my hosting account, where I have also installed WordPress 2.5, everything on the installation went ok, but after all been done, the admin login to the dashboard gives me the following message:

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

Any solution?

[samuli]

I for one would appreciate the possibility for registration approval. I’m currently involved in a zero budget project to launch a forum on a sports related website that runs WordPress as CMS, and registration approval seems to become the last thing we need to solve before choosing bbPress (over Vanilla.) In this scenario, a registration approval plugin for bbPress would naturally be very handy. (I don’t think we have skills to make our own plugin.)

For what the approval thing is needed, then? For example, Vanilla discussion forum uses registration approval in a way we would appreciate to copy for our project. The idea of people not registering an account but applying for one would suit our project really well. “Why do you want to join this forum?” is a question we would like people to answer before letting them post anything.

A Finnish online magazine covering ice hockey, Jatkoaika.com, has a forum that has grown into a lively discussion community for over 13,000 registered users without losing its, well, usefulness. It’s not only because of strict moderation of discussions, they require their users to apply for registration as well. Given that the topic is ice hockey (you know, that game with all the tackling and fighting and strong emotions) and most forum users are hockey fans (“We want blood!”) and male (“We want blood!”), we consider that a great role model for this forum project of ours, even though we don’t expect our forum to become as popular (and we are not about ice hockey.)

(In what comes to our project, we might still decide to NOT having approval for registration. There are advantages in also not having that, of course.)