[powerspawn]

I have a forum that is marked “Private” but only admins can see it. I want Contributors and Editors and such to be able to see the Private forum as well. How do you that? I just want to hide it from basic members.

[mhjerde99]

Looks like it is possible to register new users with a link like this:

http://riftlabs.com/wp/wp-login.php?action=register

This displays a page saying “WordPress – Register for this site” which is a bit confusing

Is there a way to register new users in such a way that it looks like users are signing up to the forum and not to WordPress?

Also, the email confirmation roundtrip takes the users back to the homepage. It would be super if it took the user back to the forum.

Cheers,

Morten

[hlwinkler]

Most likely because it used your WordPress user tables and not your bbPress ones. So all of your topics and posts technically don’t have user accounts connected to them anymore

Is that an expected result of using the integration tool in 1.0.3?

[hlwinkler]

Oh, I just noticed this:

Since you have two sets of user tables (WordPress/bbPress) there’s no way to automate the merging of them. You’ll either need to do it manually, or pick one set over the other.

I don’t actually care what happens to my WP users TBH — there is only one account attached to all of the blogging and page creation and I can recreate that account (that account’s pages and posts, not so much). Is there anything I can do in this scenario if I don’t care about maintaining my WP users or don’t mind recreating them? I’ll still need to have one WP admin user at the end of it all so I can actually log in, of course.

[John James Jacoby]

Most likely because it used your WordPress user tables and not your bbPress ones. So all of your topics and posts technically don’t have user accounts connected to them anymore

[John James Jacoby]

There’s not a clear path honestly, since everyone’s installations can be markedly different. To guess at exact SQL queries you would need to run would do more harm than good.

If it was me, I would spend a lot of time analyzing the data in the 2 databases with something like phpMyAdmin, and come up with a plan on how to combine the two databases and WordPress/bbPress users tables together into 1.

[John James Jacoby]

All of the options you’ve mentioned are what I’d suggest. Since you have two sets of user tables (WordPress/bbPress) there’s no way to automate the merging of them. You’ll either need to do it manually, or pick one set over the other.

Either way you’ll need to spend some time manually finishing what the importer cannot.

[hlwinkler]

Hello,

I would like to be able to move over to the bbpress 2.0 plugin. Unfortunately, a year ago when I created my forum, I chose to put it on a separate database from my WordPress database since there was no reason to integrate them.

Now it seems as if there is no path to bringing over a bbpress forum (with both users and posts) that is on its own database into a bbpress 2.0 plugin install, is this correct? Is there a method for me to get my separate-database bbpress install useable for import into the 2.0 plugin install or am I out of luck entirely? I have tried the following:

1. Doing a user import using the 2.0 plugin import tool (fails drastically, not surprisingly since it is not intended for that purpose)

2. Doing a forum import using the 2.0 plugin import tool (works great but all posts are anonymous)

3. Trying to do WordPress integration in bbpress to prepare to try #1 again (this just resulted in all posts in bbpress being set to anonymous and the keymaster account being removed despite having mapped the user roles, and no user accounts were added to WP in the process so I don’t quite know what happened there but I had a backup so it was no big deal).

One (very unattractive) option seems like it would be to somehow manually create all of the bbpress users in WP, and then try option 2 again, and then somehow manually assign all of the correct posters to the anonymous posts, but I don’t really have that kind of time to be honest. I guess I’d probably do it if it were the only way, since I don’t want to be permanently stuck with a legacy forum version and there are a couple of aspects of the plugin that prefer to the 1.0 implementation.

Anyway, I hope someone can give me some help, especially since I’m sure this is not an uncommon issue since there wasn’t a strong impetus to choose to use the same database previously.

Thank you!

[kai920]

Thanks John. That’s what I had expected the forums to look like by default.

Is the best way to get the ‘latest’ version downloading the zip from here? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

[stentorian]

the link https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-wordpress-3-integration/ works fine for me

[stentorian]

the link https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-wordpress-3-integration/ works fine for me

[wsokc]

Hi,

I dont know what happen, currently I found my bbpress (1.0.3) admin could not open the user admin page with error “You are not allowed to do this here”.

Currently my bbpress template was integrated with wordpress they installed separately.

You can look the page here: http://teknoinfo.web.id/forum

previously it works fine, after i do some changes regarding bug in the count bbpress from here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/problems-on-recount-tools-after-upgrade-102-to-103, not sure its related or not.

From the error_log i found:

[28-Apr-2011 02:36:13] ERROR: bbPress database error – “Table ‘latqueir_teknoforum.bb_privatemessages’ doesn’t exist” for query “SELECT * FROM bb_privatemessages” via caller “bb_activate_plugin, include, bbPM->bbPM, bbPM->update”

[28-Apr-2011 10:33:17] ERROR: bbPress database error – “Table ‘lat_teknoforum.tekno_users’ doesn’t exist” for query “SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_login in (‘raffaell’);” via caller “require_once, require_once, require_once, bb_current_user, bb_get_current_user, WP_Auth->get_current_user, WP_Auth->validate_auth_cookie, WP_Users->get_user”

[03-May-2011 06:24:52] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get_terms() on a non-object in /home7/latqueir/public_html/teknoinfo/forum/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-recount.php on line 167

Is there anyone experience this ?

[Kalman Labovitz]

John,

Question (not advance user so this might not be the smartest question) –

I have a standard wordpress install (just added bbpress) and using a child theme, based on what you wrote above (focusing on option 2), which files and/or folders should I copy into which folder?

bbp-twentyten into themes?

some files into my current child theme?

Another option?

Thanks in advanced and keep up the amazing work.

Kalman

[John James Jacoby]

I’ll take a look at it. This will most likely change in the future, and we’ll shift registration and user related functions over to use WordPress.org.

[John James Jacoby]

There’s are a few ‘context sensitive widget’ type plugins available for WordPress that would probably be the best places to start.

[John James Jacoby]

Forums *are* categories where topics live. A forum is just a grouping of topics, similar to a traditional WordPress category.

Beta 2 will eliminate the Forum breadcrumb issue you describe.

[dotaleague]

Can I please know when will 1.3 be updated. You released a new version of the wordpress plugin, but did not release an update for the stand alone forum.

Please update version 1.3 or tell me when is it going 2 be updated.

[dotaleague]

Can I please know when will 1.3 be updated. You released a new version of the wordpress plugin, but did not release an update for the stand alone forum.

Please update version 1.3 or tell me when is it going 2 be updated.

[John James Jacoby]

Never seen anything like this before. You might be able to use the WordPress post-by-email feature, along with bbPress 2.0, and pull something off that way. It’s a neat idea, and something that would still need to be developed specifically for your needs.

[John James Jacoby]

Never seen anything like this before. You might be able to use the WordPress post-by-email feature, along with bbPress 2.0, and pull something off that way. It’s a neat idea, and something that would still need to be developed specifically for your needs.

[blogher8]

Thanks, Gautam. I will look to WordPress.

[Anointed]

Thanks for the info, kinda figured that was the case.

Because I fully plan on using separate template files for each topic, this is going to get out of hand very fast.

Maybe someday WordPress will look into this a bit more as I can see how this is going to get very messy with very complex themes utilizing a number of template files.

*I’m sorry that I have not yet participated in posting bugs etc.. I am still quite busy messing with template concepts so I have not yet gotten to the point of even trying out the functionality.

[Anointed]

Thanks for the info, kinda figured that was the case.

Because I fully plan on using separate template files for each topic, this is going to get out of hand very fast.

Maybe someday WordPress will look into this a bit more as I can see how this is going to get very messy with very complex themes utilizing a number of template files.

*I’m sorry that I have not yet participated in posting bugs etc.. I am still quite busy messing with template concepts so I have not yet gotten to the point of even trying out the functionality.

[John James Jacoby]

@anointed – In a word, no. WordPress custom post types only know to look for their files in the root of the theme folder, and the same goes for page templates as well. For now if you want a totally customized theme, those files need to live in the root. I did my best to minimize the number of files in the root, and instead split them up into template parts in the /bbpress folder (because I want the same thing you do.)

It might be possible to hook into the template loader, see what the request is, and force it to look into a different folder, but there’s no possible way to do it at all with page templates; it’s actually purposely disallowed to prevent the theme from having to scan every file inside every subfolder to find them.

[John James Jacoby]

@anointed – In a word, no. WordPress custom post types only know to look for their files in the root of the theme folder, and the same goes for page templates as well. For now if you want a totally customized theme, those files need to live in the root. I did my best to minimize the number of files in the root, and instead split them up into template parts in the /bbpress folder (because I want the same thing you do.)

It might be possible to hook into the template loader, see what the request is, and force it to look into a different folder, but there’s no possible way to do it at all with page templates; it’s actually purposely disallowed to prevent the theme from having to scan every file inside every subfolder to find them.