[Andreas Grzybowski]

ok – i’m the keymaster. the username is for example AndyBB.

if i put the var’s to the right thing:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.XYZ.de’; //

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.XYZ.de’; //

i use the folowing plugin in wp:

bbPress Integration 0.74 -> Michael Adams.

Synchronizes registrations on your bbPress installation with your WordPress blog

in bb:

WordPress Integration 0.7 -> Tightly integrates user accounts between WordPress and bbPress

if i now login into wp, i can use my forum with the same username as i login and this user stands in wp userdatabase NOT in bbpress users.

if i log out, use AndyBB + password – can’t login !!!

if i delete the var’s in config.php, i can login! i see the little admin link.

so – i make a misstake. but i don’t know what it’s wrong.

[tbronson]

Seeking a simple solution that allows logged in users to upload and include images in their posts.

All I’ve come up with is the Allow Images plugin, which adds a button to the editing form that helps paste an IMG tag so you can link to an external image.

I was told in another thread that it’s far from trivial to create a file attachments plugin for bbPress: “A major problem right now is lack of per-post metadata. Even if that were present, this would not be a trivial task.” I’m not sure of the terminology here, but if “attachment” means embedding an image in a post, that’s what I want to do.

ImageShack was suggested, a web service that lets people upload images which they serve for free. You can embed their upload form in your site, upload, then grab the preformatted image URL and paste it into your bbPress post. This kinda works, but it’s distracting because you get an ImageShack mini-ad, and have to go to their site to copy the link (cool service, though)…

I thought of trying a simple uploader script that would upload files completely outside of bbPress and present the URL for cutting and pasting into the post. Kinda like the ImageShack procedure minus…ImageShack. Dunno, this is probably beyond me, though I may try with a canned script…

I’m using 2.3.1 integrated with 0.8.3 via bbSync and WordPress integration. It works great!

Any ideas?

(I noticed that Allow Images is the #1 most downloaded plugin, 7x more popular than #2, WordPress Integration, so I imagine the MASSES are craving simple image upload…

Thanks!

[viveksivaram]

I have this weird issue. I have enabled permalink in my config.php. Initially I had the .htaccess with option +multiview in the /bbpress folder. Then I read that it would be good to have just one .htaccess in the wordpress folder. I did this and also tried to have the other option as documented in the site (using a generated list as content for .htaccess).

Permalinks worked when I am not logged in. The moment I log in as admin, I see the address is of the form ?/topic=1 etc.

I try clearing cookies, tried to delete the whole forum but still am able to reproduce the issue.

What am I doing wrong?

[chrishajer]

Are you using any custom role plugins with WordPress or anything that changes the display name? I think those things mess with the integrated logins.

Your setup is fine. The URLs are supposed to be the same in config.php. And once you have it working you can log in in WordPress and still be logged in in bbPress. It’s just an issue of getting it right.

[chrishajer]

I think you will be redirected from bb-admin if you’re not logged in or if you’re logged in as someone other than keymaster. Can you take a screenshot showing who you’re logged in as?

Sounds like you don’t have a link to Admin either. That makes me think you’re not the keymaster. Can you confirm with direct access to the database that you are in fact the key master? I think that’s the source of your problem.

There was also a plugin that I thought could do this. Are you using any plugins? I would tell you to disable them one by one, but since you can’t access the admin section, that would be hard. I think right now you are going to need direct access to your database tables with a tool like phpMyAdmin or whatever your host provides.

Regarding the WordPress error, that’s a WordPress issue and I think you will find help over at the WordPress forums, for example:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/134771

(From the looks of it, there is no more post2cat table in WP 2.3, but not all the plugins have caught up, so some of them are causing this error. Or possibly you just need to upgrade the database schema to match your WordPress installation? In either case, that’s a WordPress issue and totally unrelated to bbPress.)

[skrimpy]

I’m integrated on http://www.rabies-ls.com – though I think I’m a bit late for your weekend conference!

[Andreas Grzybowski]

so – tested a lot.

my blog has now an error:

WordPress database error: [Table ‘summerdb.wp_post2cat’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT p2c.category_id AS cat_id, COUNT(p2c.rel_id) AS numposts, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(max(posts.post_date_gmt)) + ‘1’ AS last_post_date, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(max(posts.post_date_gmt)) AS last_post_date_gmt FROM wp_post2cat p2c INNER JOIN wp_posts posts ON p2c.post_id=posts.id WHERE 1 = 1 AND posts.post_type = ‘post’ AND posts.post_status = ‘publish’ AND posts.post_date_gmt <= ‘2007-11-18 15:26:18’ GROUP BY p2c.category_id ORDER BY numposts DESC

if i try to login in bb-admin like: http://www.summer-breeze-fanatics.de/forum/bb-admin/admin-base.php

i was redirectet to http://www.summer-breeze-fanatics.de/forum/

i can login with all my users from wordpress into bbpress.

i have all things done that was sayed in zhe docu and in this forum.

in my config.php under bbpress and in the wp-config.php.

but it doesn’t work very well and i don’t know how to figure out what i do wrong.

anyone has a tip or a little workaround?

thanks

Andy

[joeby]

OK… I’m trying to integrate bbpress (whatever the current version as of 11/17/07 is) with wordpress, hosted on my site.

It’s a train wreck.

In no particular order, but all of equal importance…

bbpress recognizes all the usernames from wp, however my admin account doesn’t give me access to anything. When it was first installed I was able to log in with admin and the random password and get to the dashboard.

Actions are all met with “No Input File Specified”. In other words, Can’t read posts, can’t read can’t enter forums, can’t view profile.

I saw the plugins to integrate, and downloaded the WP plugin, which says is activated (although I’m not sure how to edit it appropriately with the prefixes), and apparently there’s a plugin for bbpress but I can only find the “trac” version of it, not the original, and anyway can’t get to the dashboard to do anything with it. When I could, the trac version didn’t show up, even though I had uploaded that to the my-plugins directory as instructed in the integrating section…

Here’s the url for the WP site and the bbpress site…

wp: http://www.seekgoddaily.com

bbp: http://www.seekgoddaily.com/bbpress/

Does anyone have time to help me out?

[chrishajer]

Whatever file your wp-config.php is in is where you normally want your bbpress folder. That would give you one of two things:

http://www.site.com/ (where this is actually WordPress for your site)

http://www.site.com/bbpress (bbPress forum)

OR

http://www.site.com/ (website)

http://www.site.com/wordpress (WordPress blog)

http://www.site.com/wordpress/bbpress (bbPress forum)

Lots of people use WordPress alone for their website. If you are using it for your site, and your site is at http://www.site.com, and you want bbpress in a folder called bbpress, then drop the bbpress folder into the root folder for your site (wherever wp-config.php is.)

IF you don’t need integration, and you have a website, a blog (WordPress) and want a forum (bbPress) just put the bbpress folder at the same level as the wordpress folder. So you would have this:

http://www.site.com/

http://www.site.com/wordpress/

http://www.site.com/bbpress/

If you are not concerned with integration, and you have a website AND a WordPress install, then I would do the option directly above (with bbpress and wordpress directories at the same level.)

Hope that makes sense.

[chgogrrl99]

Well, guess what? I just went and deleted all of the bbpress database tables and deleted the forums sub-directory.

I’m going to do a fresh install. I think I should have installed bbPress inside the WP subdirectory and I think you and I have discussed this before.

But, I’m an idiot today I guess. So, if you don’t mind, this time when I install I should ftp bbPress to wordpress correct? WP is the main page (top level domain).

So the url would be what? http://www.my_site.com/wordpress/bbpress?

Or, am I totally off base here. Once again, I’m hosted by Yahoo and cannot make a .htaccess file and I will leave my mod_rewrite = false if that makes a difference.

BTW, I’m not going to register users on the main site, so there’s no need to integrate WP with bbPress.

Thanks

[javafiend]

I just finished installing bbPress with WordPress MU and did the integration on install. Problem is, I can’t find the bbPress admin panel. Can anyone help me out? Thanks!

[chrishajer]

You just need a link in your “Pages” area to http://www.summer-breeze-fanatics.de/forum/ – it’s installed properly so you just need to link to it so people know it’s there.

I’m not sure about the rest of your questions. bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress, it doesn’t become part of your WordPress installation. To make it look like your WordPress installation you need to do some CSS work. As for the creating new topics, I did not receive a confirmation for me account creation, so I could not log in to try that. Is mail being sent from the server? I waited about 10 minutes but still no confirmation.

[Andreas Grzybowski]

Hi all,

i’ve installed bbforum (latest version).

i use WP Version 2.3.1 DE-Edition.

now – i don’t know how to integrate my bbpress with my wordpress.

i can’t login into the admin page to crate a now forum topic.

i don’t know how to set up bbpress into my wordpress.

i want a link to integrate bbpress.

can anyone help me?

how i can set up a new forum topic, integrate it with my wordpress?

thanks.

(info.: wordpress Version 2.3.1 DE-Edition

bbpress: latest.

www: http://www.summer-breeze-fanatics.de/

forum: http://www.summer-breeze-fanatics.de/forum/)

Andy

[fel64]

You’ve got problems with your rewrite rules; wp assumes that it’s meant to be a wordpress page, can’t find it and therefore goes wrong. Not sure how to fix it, but I’m sure someone is.

No folders are actually created in making new forums, by the way. Your forums are being created, you just can’t access them right now.

[fel64]

BG: bbsync, avatar upload and some custom code. If you want some help doing it, just start a new topic.

[Andrew]

Outstanding. Well done.

[honewatson]

Nice clean layout. Did you do the theme?

How about some gravatars?

[chrishajer]

Adding a link or a button to your WordPress site is easy. Just add a link to the forum URL in whatever format your blog header uses. Post a link to your site and someone will help with the formatting of your new button.

[betwixt]

hmmm thanks for the tip. I’m not going to redesign it all myself. I just don’t have the time to get down and dirty with this code/stylesheets.

I currently use different K2 themes… Actually I don’t mind the forum having another theme… What I do want, is a button in the header of my wordpress site pointing to the forum…. Any idea?

Regards,

Dennis

[intellivision]

mine: http://appleswitcher.com

[refueled]

betwixt: probably the best thing to do is to redesign the default kakumei theme to make it look exactly like the WordPress theme you are using.

Is there a particular WordPress theme you are using or is your design custom?

[betwixt]

Hi there. I tried searching a bit, but I can’t seem to find a decent tutorial on how to use the WordPress header, footer and background color (of the main content box). Can you guys help me a bit in the good direction?

I have already installed bbpress, using the same database as wordpress and I configured config.php to match the integration.

Regards,

DM

[bloggerdesign]

fel64, did bbPress automatically add the aviators in the comments when you hooked it all up? Or how did you get that working?

[chrishajer]

I didn’t think you could put bbPress and WordPress in the same folder.

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test&#8217;;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test&#8217;;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test&#8217;;

And http://areamom.com/test/ points to a WordPress installation. So, where’s the bbPress? I did find this:

http://areamom.com/test/bbpress/ which results in this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/areamomc/public_html/test/bbpress/config.php on line 29

That’s right after the mod_rewrite line in the config. Maybe you have an extra single quote there or you forgot the semi-colon in your config? Oh yeah, check this:

$bb->mod_rewrite = false <– no semi-colon.

That means this you should add the semicolon to the mod_rewrite line line and then this line should be changed:

`$bb->uri = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test/bbpress&#8217;;

[spacecat4]

Hi,

I am running a WP site and trying to install BBpress, but when I run the install.php file, I keep getting the “already installed” error.

Here are some things I’ve already tried:

I created a new test directory and installed a fresh WP out of box, and then tried installing BB press–same error

I checked my databases–the only two I have are my two Word Press DB’s none of which seem to have any “bb_” references to them.

Any other suggestions? Thanks in advanced!

Here is a copy of my config.php file that I am using in my test directory:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘areamomc_wrdp2’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘areamomc_wrdp2’); // Your MySQL username

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

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

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

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

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

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

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

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Area Mom Forums’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘*********’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = -5;

// 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 BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// 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’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

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

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

require_once(‘/public_html/test/wp-blog-header.php’)

?>