Write a plugin to do it. There’s some actions you can hook into. Writing bb plugins is like writing wp plugins: https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
However the actions are different. Look for the actions on http://bbpulp.org/wiki/API/actions .
Hi fel64…
Wow, thanks for the quick reply! I use the Get Custom Field Values plugin in WordPress and this allows me to pull in custom fields that I’ve set up in my posts. I typically use this if a post is going to have some information that needs to be laid out in a format thats a little different than my regular post format. I’m not sure how these custom field values could be pulled into bbpress. Here’s the link to the Custom Field Values plugin if that helps:
Plugin: Get Custom Field Values
Thanks for looking…
One other thing that I noticed is that I have some Custom Fields that I use in my WordPress posts. These custom fields don’t show up on the bbPress posts that bbSync is making. Is there a way for me to add these Custom Fields to the bbPress posts?
Thanks…
For some reason I can’t activate this plugin in WordPress version 2.3.1. Any ideas?
There is absolutely a solution for it: fel64 explained it above. bbPress is not a forum plugin for WordPress, it’s standalone forum software. It’s configurable enough that you can use the same login and password from WordPress, you can create a link to it from you WordPress installation, and you can style it to look just like a WordPress page. You can even use bbPress functions in WordPress, and vice versa. The thing is, you have to do some work. But at least it’s possible to make it look like your WordPress site. Try that with phpBB or some other forum software.
If you look around these forums you will see many examples of installations where the bbPress installation is formatted to look exactly like the WordPress blog.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strut-your-bbpress
https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press
Hello,
There is really no solution for that ?
It’s a pitty to have a WP companion forum and been unable to really use it….
On my new site http://www.SportSayer.com , you can check out what I did. I send all logins and profile views to bbpress’s version, the user never (hopefully) sees the wordpress login page or wordpress plugin page. I like how bbpress is more integrated into the site rather than wordpress’s which is a different template.
Check it out: http://www.SportSayer.com
I just finished this new site of mine. Need to get the Forums going so if any of you would like to participate, that would be awesome.
I have them working together at my new site: http://www.SportSayer.com
Not a bad idea for the wordpress integration plugin… redirect the results of user_profile_link to the wordpress page.
You can’t install in such a way that ‘Forum’ will be automagically listed under your pages and appear in your WP theme.
However, you can install so that it uses the same user database. You can also add ‘Forum’, say, to your pages list and have it redirect to the actual forum (using a WP Page redirection plugin). You can also make the theme such on bb that it looks just like your wp theme, or use the wp header – trickier, but fairly well documented around here.
Is bbPress 0.8.3 compatible with WP 2.3.1 ?
thanks!
Hello,
I have a wordpress “blog” that I’m using for my website, http://www.discoultimate.com and I would like install bbpress on a seperate page so people can communicate. Is there a way to install bbpress almost like its just another page in wordpress? bbPress sounds great and I’m excited to use it but I’m just not sure how to impliment it on and already existing wordpress blog.
Any help or advice is appreciated,
Dan
i call it like this:
if ( !defined('BBDB_NAME') )
require_once(ABSPATH.'forum/bb-load.php');
the problem started after the integration of wordpress and bbpress…so i don’t know what the problem ist.
mdawaffe do you have a idea how i can fix this?
i have one more problem…i can’t add links to my posts…when i post a link in the entry it shows only <a>test</a>…any idea?
jaithn
i’m running now bbpress.83 and wpmu 1.3…
I installed wordpress without problem for two different blogs, but cannot get bbpress to install. I’ve spent a few hours trying out things this past week with no success. The patch by mdawaffe fixes my error messages related to mysql_get_server_info, however I still get some other strange messages:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/10/d171407036/htdocs/bcg/mastertemplate/blog/bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php:473) in /homepages/10/d171407036/htdocs/bcg/mastertemplate/blog/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php on line 10
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/10/d171407036/htdocs/bcg/mastertemplate/blog/bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php:473) in /homepages/10/d171407036/htdocs/bcg/mastertemplate/blog/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1898
Can anyone help me with this? I just set up a WordPress blog for a new product we’re distributing, and would like a forum in conjunction with it, so bbPress would be perfect.
If I can’t set up bbPress right now because the code is buggy, does anyone have suggestions for other forum software? I would even be ok with temporarily using a different forum setup, then porting it over to bbPress later (if that’s straightforward???).
Thanks in advance for any help or advice. I’m a knowledgeable computer consultant, but pretty inexperienced in blogs/forums. I can follow the conversation about patching the php files, and did so using standard web authoring tools. However, I’m not interested in becoming an expert on code versions or using diff tools. I just want a forum software that works well with my new blog for the benefit of our clients, with a minimum of fuss.
Normally, bbPress is not this bad. A couple bugs were introduced which create problems on some systems. My install from a year ago was no where near this hard, but I checked out the new code and if I installed it I would have had this same trouble.
I think the line 80 being referenced is line 80 of /bb-includes/db-mysqli.php
https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php#L80
I think there are 3 possible workarounds:
1. You can try overwriting /bb-includes/db-mysqli.php with /bb-includes/db.php
2. You can manually modify line 80 of /bb-includes/db-mysqli.php
3. You can apply the 745c.diff patch attached to trac ticket 745
4. Wait for mdawaffe to fix it permanently.
I guess a 5th option is to move on to other forum software. I hope you don’t do that. bbPress is nice when it works (which is 99.9% of the time.)
Thanks again chrishajer,
Yeah I’m running windows so I have no idea what the equivalent would be.
mdawaffe keeps talking about “line 80”, changing “line 80”. But I don’t know, line 80 of what? lol.
Man I had no idea that installing bbpress was going to be so difficult, installing wordpress itself was not bad at all.
I had the same problem. In wordpress I had changed my display name to something other than my login name. This was the problem, when I changed it back to match my login name, it worked.
I believe that it was a problem with the way my host (GoDaddy) deals with .htaccess files. I was also having major issues with the same as this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalinks-not-working?replies=29#post-5247
All-in-all, I would say stay away from GoDaddy if you are trying to do a integrated wordpress/bbpress site. I have moved the site to another host and all issues have been resolved.
Maybe someone could port the “Live Comment Preview” plugin from wordpress to bbpress.
Too bad I don’t have the time at the moment 
Hey Chris,
I had created a second bbpress database called bbpress2 to see if that was the problem, which it wasn’t. The error message is an older one. The one I’m getting now is in reference to bbpress, not bbpress2 like above. But everything else is the same:
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress']
SHOW TABLES;
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress']
CREATE TABLE bb_forums ( forum_id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, forum_name varchar(150) NOT NULL default '', forum_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', forum_desc text NOT NULL, forum_parent int(10) NOT NULL default '0', forum_order int(10) NOT NULL default '0', topics bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0', posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (forum_id) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress']
CREATE TABLE bb_posts
Question: can I use the same database as my WordPress database?
I may call my hosting provider to see if there is something wrong with the way mysql databases are set up. Perhaps I can connect but can’t create tables?
Thanks for all your work on this!
Eric
I have no idea what the problem is, but this right here is a funny 404 page:
http://approachanxiety.com/404.htm
This database is listed in the first error:
approachanxiety_com_bbpress2
But you are connecting to approachanxiety_com_bbpress in the second example. Was that changed along the way?
And you said you’re integrating with WordPress, but are you using a different database (i.e. why approachanxiety_com_bbpress if it’s an existing WP database?)
Not sure what it is yet, but I am curious.
Thanks for the response.
Okay, I tried to patch all the files with the changes in that ticket and I seem to get the same error.
Here is my config.php:
<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('BBDB_NAME', 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress'); // The name of the database
define('BBDB_USER', 'disco'); // Your MySQL username
define('BBDB_PASSWORD', 'xxxx'); // ...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://approachanxiety.com/bbpress/';
// What are you going to call me?
$bb->name = 'New bbPress Site';
// This must be set before you run the install script.
$bb->admin_email = 'ericmonse@yahoo.com';
// 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 = 0;
// 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 = ''; // WordPress table prefix. Example: 'wp_';
$bb->wp_home = ''; // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'
$bb->wp_siteurl = ''; // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'
/* Stop editing */
if ( !defined('BBPATH') )
define('BBPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );
require_once( BBPATH . 'bb-settings.php' );
?>
When I run the testdb.php I get
Connection Results
Connection: Successful!
Database Selection: Successful!
Enter Your MySQL Information
MySQL Hostname localhost
MySQL Username disco
MySQL Password xxxx
MySQL Database approachanxiety_com_bbpress
Here is the text php file that connects to the database and works:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>MySQL Test Script</title>
<style>
body { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; }
td { font-size: 10pt; }
th { font-size: 8pt; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if ( isset ( $_POST['submit'] ) ) {
?>
<table border="1" summary="" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr>
<th bgcolor="#F2F2F2" colspan="2"><center><b>Connection Results</b></center></td>
</tr>
<?
if (!$link = @mysql_connect($_POST['mysql_hostname'], $_POST['mysql_username'], $_POST['mysql_password'])) {
?>
<tr>
<td>Connection:</td>
<td bgcolor="red"><font color="white"><?php echo mysql_error(); ?></font></td>
</tr>
<?
} else {
?>
<tr>
<td>Connection:</td>
<td bgcolor="green"><font color="white">Successful!</font></td>
</tr>
<?
}
if (!$dblink = @mysql_select_db($_POST['mysql_database'], $link)) {
?>
<tr>
<td>Database Selection:</td>
<td bgcolor="red"><font color="white"><?php echo mysql_error(); ?></font></td>
</tr>
<?
} else {
?>
<tr>
<td>Database Selection:</td>
<td bgcolor="green"><font color="white">Successful!</font></td>
</tr>
<?
}
@mysql_close($link);
?>
</table>
<?
}
?>
<form method="post">
<table border="1" summary="" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr>
<th bgcolor="#F2F2F2" colspan="2"><center><b>Enter Your MySQL Information</b></center></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL Hostname</td>
<td><input type="text" name="mysql_hostname" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST['mysql_hostname']; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL Username</td>
<td><input type="text" name="mysql_username" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST['mysql_username']; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL Password</td>
<td><input type="text" name="mysql_password" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST['mysql_password']; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL Database</td>
<td><input type="text" name="mysql_database" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST['mysql_database']; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><center><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset"></center></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
I am installing bbPress to integrate with an existing WordPress. After the second step of install I get this error:
Second Step
Now we’re going to create the database tables and fill them with some
default data.
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to
database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress2']
SHOW TABLES;
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to
database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress2']
CREATE TABLE bb_forums....
It seems to be similar to this post,
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/step-two-database-error?replies=4
And this one,
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/db-access-problem-in-the-first-installation-step?replies=19
I tried to resolve it by replacing db-mysqli.php with db.php in the bb-includes folder and that didn’t work.
The username and password are correct. They are the same as for my original wordpress blog. And the database is correct as well. When I change it to something else I can’t even get to the second step.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
