[cichlid]

mr_pelle I tried the upgrade from 1.0.2 to the newest trunk version. Just got a white screen when after uploading the new files.

I’m running wordpress 2.9.2 deep integration.

I also tried doing a separate install but it tells me includes backpress is missing in bb-includes

Is there any special procedure I need to follow?

[paulhawke]

If we are talking “blue sky” here, I’d like to propose a re-think of the content of “forum”, “topic”, “thread” and “profile” pages. WordPress site maintenance took a giant step forward with the addition of widgets.

Blogger.com is aimed at the masses (as any good forum software ought to be) and the “blog layout” tool is a great example. Drag + drop gadgets from a palette and tweak the look of the blog without ever editing a line of code.

Wouldn’t it be nice if forum themes revolved around skinning just the presentation, and the structure of the page could be as simple as drag + drop in the admin area?

Wouldn’t it be nice to allow widgets developed by other people to be dropped into place on the various pages that make up the site? What would it take to allow WordPress widgets to co-exist with bbPress ones?

Now that would make moderating and tweaking a forum easier!

Actually, while I think of it, a “get more widgets” link in the admin area, that seamlessly downloads and activates widgets would be awesome. All the smartphones are going toward an “App Store” why shouldn’t we?

[Eric]

Well thank you both for your responses. I ended up getting frustrated with it, both wordpress and bbpress. As they both want to work as their own individual platform, I could not get them to communicate the way that I needed. Nor, at least copy the theme over to make it a fluid site. I ended up deleting the whole site and I’ll start from scratch with maybe Phpnuke and PhpBB since they can be integrated. Just a pain to configure the way I want.

Basically, I like the ease of WordPress, however, it lacks certain functionality even with all the widgets. BBPress, is new, I’d like to see a functional WYSIWYG editor, the ability to private message, and integrate it into a wordpress site using the same css styles and mainly the header. Right now, its too obvious that you are navigating to two different sites and it lacks a certain possession.

[mr_pelle]

You just have to add bbPress CSS to WP header, I suppose.

[floweringmind]

You can resolve the issue by logging out of WordPress. Then log into the BBPress and you will be able to access the admin menu.

[christofius]

I have been having trouble with the buddypress forums. Basically, everything on the wordpress side of things works, and everything else BP wise works too. However, when I post a topic, the topic get’s posted, but the post doesn’t. So it says that there are 0 posts in the topic.

I am running wordpress 3.0.1 (not on multisite mode) and buddypress 1.2.5.2 in a root install. I have made one code change: before this I was getting an error because of mysql_get_server_info on wp-db.com, so I changed line 1589 (or somewhere around there from return preg_replace( '/[^0-9.].*/', '', mysql_get_server_info( $this->dbh )); to return preg_replace( '/[^0-9.].*/', '', mysql_query("select version() as $this->dbh") );, and that error stopped.

This is not because of any plugins or themes that I have installed: I have tried deactivating all of them to no result. I can not find any solution in any other topics.

And the problem is because of buddypress, not bbpress. I tried installing bbpress separately and integrating it with buddypress, and the same problem occurred when I posted on the buddypress end, but it didn’t when I posted on the bbpress side.

xmlrpc is enabled.

Thank you for your help.

[Eric]

If someone could help me out on an issue that I have been trying to resolve. I am trying to integrate bbpress into wordpress as many others have in the past. I have successfully kept the header and footer of wordpress as well as kept all css information from wordpress. However, I have lost all formatting of BBpress and well you just have to take a look at it.

http://igneusterra.dyndns.org

click on the forums tab in the header and you will see. Any ideas of how I can get the formatting back or at least columns and the forum feel would be greatly appreciated.

[pagal]

@ricardouk, Thank you so much for your time and interest.

some say 0.9.2 is faster but even if it is faster i can´t really notice it.

Yes, I’m totally agree with you, I also can’t find any difference.

the next version (pluggin) will be what everyone wanted,

I don’t think so, I analyse that most of people/developers don’t want this plugin, they love standalone.

What you think, This plugin will win the situation? Nope never,

I’m afraid, How can biggest sites will move to this plugin.

And those who just want to run community without WordPress, Will like it?

off course, they need a separate forum solution.

And what about those plugins which have developed for bbPresss standalone, Will developers again make them compatible for bbPress plugin?

I don’t think so.. specially _ck_ will not remake them.

Community forums is a separate issue, It should remain separate.

Its a stupid idea to messing it up with WP. My apologies.

I’m also not happy with those five forums software which you’ve mentioned. They all looks like same including vbulletin. They are complicated, heavy.

You know which I choose bbPress? because of its motto

yes, its really simple, fast and elegant.

I don’t know why management remove these “three words” which was the identity of bbPress.

With Regards,

Pagal

[mr_pelle]

The code above has some errors in it: $thisPage is used when calling bb_list_pages() recursively, but this param isn’t defined anywhere but in the function’s description… In function definition that param is instead named $parent_uri.

Moreover $kids <> "" should be replaced by !empty($kids) and I’m not sure that wordpress_mu_primary_blog_id has any meaning now that WP 3.0 has merged WP and WPMU…

Last, calling bb_list_pages() with no args, makes if ($depth == 0) true, resulting in an empty string returned. It would be good to use the same template of wp_list_pages(), which lists all pages if no param is passed to it (see docs). By the way, this could be the reason why you get nothing displayed when calling the function.

[cichlid]

I just want to say thank you to the following people who contributed plugins and made my life much easier.

Thomas Klaiber

Eduardo Graells

Michael Adams

Nightgunner5

_ck_

Rich Boakes & Frédéric Petit

Rhys Wynne

Francesco Bigiarini

Well, thats out of the way.

I switched from phpBB3 to bbpress 1.0.2 because I couldn’t stand the huge administration section and the constant spam. In addition I had problems integrating phpbb with wordpress (yes, I tried, wp-united and hated it).

It took me roughly 2 days to implement the forum and wordpress the way it is now and I converted the data from phpbb to bbpress. Lost a lot of users because they couldn’t convert for whatever reason but I managed to keep all the data.

Forum Address: http://www.cichlidexplorer.com/forum

It still needs work!!

[Rose]

Does anyone know if this still works with the current incarnations of wordpress and bbpress? I’ve tried it but it comes up with nada (using the default bbpress template with <?php echo bb_list_pages();?> added).

[wblogan]

Can’t explain why one thing worked for me with the footer and another works for you. I get lost trying to follow the divs, so I just kept fooling around with it until it worked. Not exactly the right way to go about it I know, but…

I took a look at your site and saw no difference between the footer on the front page and the other pages. So I don’t know what the issue is there.

With regard to editing the two style sheets, I did not have to mess with much but the login field. It crowded the line below, so I fixed it. I just looked for things on all pages in WordPress and bbPress that weren’t right and changed what I had to. But the idea is that you want to merge the two style sheets. So far as I know you could put all of the styles in one sheet if you wanted and eliminate the other. I think the point is that you can’t have different styles for the same elements without it causing a problem somewhere. As I recall I made no changes to the WordPress style.css. I made all changes in the bb-style.css and bbPress theme.

Your site is looking good to me. Is Firebug available for Opera? If not, that edit styles bookmarklet I mentioned in my documentation is very helpful in making changes to styles.

[Ricardo]

get the rss feed from bbpress by adding “rss” to the forum url

http://www.domain.com/bbpress/rss

copy the rss feed url and paste it on the rss/feed widget in wordpress

[DKB]

How can i grab the RSS feed from bbpress and show it on WordPress?

I want to show the latest 3 comments in the format:

title

summary (max 10 plain text exerpt length)

Thanks in advance,

DKB

[curtismchale]

I’ve also now increased php memory limit to 96M as well as tried with no plugins activated in WordPress.

It also doesn’t work if I prebuild the tables with data from the original forum (from before moving to MT). The data is there in theory but nothing shows on step two.

[curtismchale]

My date? I’ve removed bbPress more than once. I’ve also removed the bb-config.php file and copied the information out of the working WordPress install as well as going through the installer.

I’ve downloaded a fresh copy of bbPress from the site as well as getting it from Trunk.

No idea what my date may have to do with it.

[lmsook10]

I solved the problem, the issue was about using xampp locally. The solution is

The solution is to turn on mod_rewrite by editing apache/conf/httpd.conf. Just remove the comment in front of the line (around line #118) and restart Apache.

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

thanks to http://www.webtechdaily.com/2008/11/21/how-to-fix-object-not-found-error-when-using-xampp-and-wordpress/

[Ricardo]

Hi

Personally i prefer the 1.0.2 version, both of them are fast and light, some say 0.9.2 is faster but even if it is faster i can´t really notice it.

with version 1.0.2 i can switch the pretty permalink function on very easily, i was unable to do that with version 0.9.2, in fact i was unable to turm it on and spent a good amount of time in the support forums trying what everyone said (multiviews, htacess etc etc etc), the permalink structure is a bonus point for me in any forum script (i dont like all those cripthgraphic urls).

visually (user side) there aren’t many differences, from the admin prespective version 0.9.2 has a “wordpress retro look” version 1.0.2 looks like wordpress 3.0 .

version 1.0.2 added a few functions/pluggins to the core that were missing or needed a pluggin in 0.9.2.

if you use wordpress, version 1.0.2 can be integrated a lot easier than 0.9.2.

There’s been some talk about forking it but in my opinion the next version (pluggin) will be what everyone wanted, better integration at several levels, no backpress dependency, bbpress admin area inside wordpress etc etc)

i tried several forum scripts and i think nobody will be angry if i write a few lines about them:

1- phpbb3 – fairly simple to setup but way too much options in the admin area, nothing difficult as it is understandable but no “pretty permalink structure”, there was a pluggin but you need to reinstall it with every new version and its a pain to even set it up.

2- SMF – simple to setup but its kind of complicated to get around all those options, to much stuff.

3- PunBB/FluxBB – Original forum script and fork – both were a breeze to install, PunBB had native permalink structure and FluxBB had a pluggin but in my opinion the community has lost his “power” forking PunBB split the community but i could be wrong.

4- Simple press – the best forum pluggin for wordpress, had most stuff i wanted (clean urls, integration with wordpress at all levels, theme, users etc) nice community forum, international language support but it was sluggish, there were a few tips on how to optimize its speed but never managed to optimize it, otherwise a great forum script for wordpress.

5- MyBB – easy to instal with a easy to understand administration area, great community, lots of pluggins, themes, international support, fast forum system, clean urls (through pluggin) etc, if the bbpress project doesnt take off in next version it willprobably be my choice.

Hope this helps you.

[curtismchale]

I’m installing on a MT GS and have WordPress 3.0.1 already working. I want to install bbpress into the same DB ad the WP site. Once I upload the files and hit /forum it asks me for the DB information which I put in. It seems to connect to the DB just fine but then just gives me a white screen with no errors.

site: http://fraservalleywhitewater.com

forum: http://fraservalleywhitewater.com/forum

[hpguru]

Not supported in future…

bbPress is WordPress plugin next month…

[lmsook10]

Thanks for your reply. Yes, if I select year/month/title option, it goes to http://localhost/wordpress/forums/ (which is bbpress) page, which I wanted.

However, I have another page, like about and staff.. and they do not exist like forum, so I need them to be like default?p=123

Currently, if I click about page, it tries to go to http://localhost/wordpress/about/ and it throws Object not found! error because I do not have about page. How can I solve this problem?

Thanks,

[wblogan]

I am using the default WordPress and Kakumei themes at the moment. It seemed that bbPress was very sluggish, so I activated the default theme in order to check the load on the server and found that it was significantly less with the default theme than with the integrated theme. In my case it’s a personal call in favor of performance. This is a well known trade off about which there is plenty of information available.

Having an integrated and non-integrated theme created no issues of which I am aware. Unless I am forgetting something the only change to the WordPress theme was the call to the bbPress style sheet in header.php. All other changes are made to the bbPress theme. So either remove, comment out, or leave the call – I don’t think it hurts performance. I commented it out so that I can do some testing. I may be wrong about something here, but it’s all working for me at the moment.

[arthurfreitas]

Hello everyone,

I followed these steps to integrate WordPress with bbPress. However, there appeared some errors that I could not fix.

1. Since I am using the theme “Twenty Ten”, I tried to use the page template One column, no sidebar, but could not. Is there any way?
2. The sidebar does not appear in your place.
3. The footer in both WordPress and in bbPress, was disfigured. How can I fix it?
4. The bbPress admin pages comes to a blank page.

Here’s the sites: the blog, and the forum.

Thanks for everything.

Att;

P.S.: Sorry for my terrible English…

[alexiss]

Is that gallery view on a forum or on a wordpress theme?. It certainly is very beautiful. A free gallery template like that would be nice to rapidly popularize your efforts. Of course i would get a free template. Excellent work.

[pagal]

You were being a little “rude”

Nope, never.. I doesn’t want to be rude. I always respect _ck_ and love her work. But I also want to see update of her work.

I’m really sorry if you or _ck_ feel bad because of my pinching words.

You are first person who is talking in friendly way , otherwise this community is really rough and tough then normal WordPress.

Its nice to listen ALL IZ WELL, ALL IZ WELL in this forum