Thanks Kevin and burlesona,
It looks that it’s a few days-old problem. But I’ve had a longtime headache since I used multisite.
I was happy to hear that the wordpress 3.0 support multisite, expecting the problem might be solved.
Ok. I well understood.
I only hope that the problem be solved as soon as possible.
Thanks again.
Just an update on what’s going on Trac – bbPress 1.0.3 milestone has 3 tickets left (all the tickets have patches and 1 depends on a BackPress ticket), while 1.1 milestone has 4 tickets left (2 have patches, and 2 need patches). There’s also another BackPress ticket that needs to be fixed (which also has a patch). That means that bbPress 1.1 is very near to its release!
How can you help?
- Checkout a copy of bbPress trunk version via SVN and test it.
- Test the patches of the open tickets.
- Contribute patches to the tickets which don’t have one.
What’s new in bbPress 1.1?
- Email subscriptions
- Loginless posting
- Better administration of posts and topics
- Better search and statistics
- Bug fixes. Some critical ones are – #1261 (RSS feeds errors), #1146 (faster recount functions), #1150 (undelete topic error).
- Better tags administration (if #1243 goes in)
Some tickets that missed 1.1 milestone are #960 (better user administration) and #1277 (kakumei cleanup) even though they had patches but could cause errors as they were huge changes and needed more testing. They might get into 1.2 though.
Cross Posted Here on the bbdevel blog – http://bbdevel.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/bbpress-1-point-1-maybe-soon/
Here my website http://www.digitalheavens.co.uk Ive installed wordpress 3.0 and bbpress. It seems that a member of the website can’t be logged into the website and the forum at the same time? E.G. If a member logs in to see the free products and then goes over to the forum they have to log in again (using the same user name and password) Is this correct or a bug?
Hello Burlesona,
I’ve used vanilla (1.x) before but vanilla 2 was new to me. I’ve just checked it out briefly, but while I think using a framework (like Garden or others) to build a custom website, I don’t like the idea of using a framework to build a sort of webapplication (not sure what it should be called) which can be extended itself. (Then you’re actually building a mini-framework onto a framework)
Although the idea of using the MVC-pattern sounds interesting. It might be usefull for the theme stuff, although it isn’t a “go” yet.
Furthermore there is a difference between Garden and my to be fork of backpress. My fork would function as a basic cms. If you only need a simple website, you could go with my fork + the default included plugins. My blog and forum plugins would be just plugins. Garden however is a framework, it can do nothing on its own. It needs a layer (here : vanilla) on top of it.
As for your integration problems, you could try to integrate vanilla and wordpress untill you find something better?
However, the bbpress forum might not be the best place to have discussions about stepping off bbpress or forking it.
Thanks for the tip,
Wim Tibackx
Vevendi, I’ve got the same problem.
I don’t have a solution yet. I can get the two sites to appear to integrate (I work through the integration settings and everything proceeds as it is supposed to), but they don’t actually work.
What happens for me is the user database is not synced, but the cookies are at least partially synced, because if I log in to WP then BB doesn’t allow me to click on log-in, and if I log-out of one it logs me out of both.
However, if being logged into BB doesn’t actually give me access to WP-admin, and likewise, being logged into WP causes me not to be able to admin or post on BB – but I can’t click on log-in or register either.
I think Kevin is right – this is going to take a while to sort out. Compatibility between bbPress and WPMU was never easy as pie, and there’s no reason to expect it will suddenly be night-and-day easier with WP3.0.
@WimTibackX
You know what might be worth checking out? Vanilla 2 (forum software) is pretty solid, and it’s built on “Garden” which is exactly like the BackPress concept you were talking about.
I’ve been trying to get bbPress to take care of my forum needs for a while, because I’m a heavy WordPress user and I’d like the two to integrate.
However, given the current level of frustration I’ve had with getting the integration to actually work, and the frustrating limitations of bbPress which don’t appear to be going away any time soon, I’m becoming more interested in seeing a fork of WordPress to run on top of Garden and integrate with Vanilla.
Anybody? Nobody?
venividi,
you give us less than 24 hours to answer.
WordPress3.0’s been out for about 2-3 days, and you’re talking about something not working that has never been supported.
Automattic made no effort to make sure things were cool with bbPress before releasing so we’re all going to have to wait until we get more reports in.
Lets not forget that a large number of people wait until the first (if not second) bug fix release is made availible before chaning over.
Patience is needed my friend, just don’t push untested just release software onto a live enviroment and you’ll be fine – and we know you didn’t do that because that would be so silly ;-]
Anybody? Nobody?
The problem made me a strong headache for a long time.
Please ~
I get the idea that bbpress isn’t being actively worked
Nope, it is 
…and that this Mat individual wants to abandon this project
Nope. Matt wants to convert it to a WordPress plugin.
Is this the person who made wordpress really great?
He’s one of the 500+ people that have contributed to WordPress.
Is this a good reason not to continue using bbpress? Is bbpress going to die out if Mat doesn’t work on it?
If bbPress works for you, then use it
If it doesn’t, then don’t.
bbpress is open source software, it’s not going to die. As long as you’re ok with a minimum year between releases, and a project lead who refuses to answer any questions or pass on any information (and most people are) then you’re fine with bbpress.
I wanted to use bbpress because I thought it was really simple to use and it was easy to integrate with wordpress. I’ve been looking at some posts recently and I get the idea that bbpress isn’t being actively worked on and that this Mat individual wants to abandon this project (?)
Is this the person who made wordpress really great?
Is this a good reason not to continue using bbpress? Is bbpress going to die out if Mat doesn’t work on it?
i understand these may be silly questions, but I am not trying to make a joke of things
Thanks, thats really helpful.
You could definately do this, though it’s not overly easy, it is relatively straightforward.
You’ve 3 options:
1) Edit the CSS to attempt to display things the way you want.
In theory it’s good, in practice it’d be a pain (imo).
2) Edit the theme file to put categories into their own DIV and then style them into two columns via CSS.
Probably the easiest without hacking any real PHP.
3) Write your own query on the database and output hte code exactly as you want it.
Tricky, mostly as we’ve no documentation or examples, but it’s definately possible if you know your way around PHP (and any cusotm wordpress theming experience would be helpful)
Basically though, you’ll have to code it and you’re somewhat on your own there, but we can try and help out if you hit a road block.
Deep integration is when you include wp-load.php in your bb-config.php, so that you have access to WordPress functions (like get_sidebar(), get_header()) in bbPress. It’s not recommended, and it’s not an official bbPress term by any means. There are just several different types of integration and calling this one “deep” helps keep things straight.
I’ve done something very similar using separate (but user integrated) installs of WordPress and bbPress.
Here’s the blog:
http://www.weddingbee.com/
Here are the boards:
http://boards.weddingbee.com/
And here is a support forum:
http://support.weddingbee.com/
You don’t need to add an extra column to restrict support access – you can use Roles and “Hidden Forums” to pull that off.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/
I’m actually using 7 separate bbPress installs for that site, along with two WordPress installs and some custom code. Just follow the instructions on integrating users between WordPress and bbPress, and wash and repeat for each additional bbPress install.
Good luck!
I am designing a website which will utilize WordPress for a blog and bbPress for its forums (both linked). I would also like to run ticket-based support using bbPress. My first thought was to create a custom theme for bbPress which would achieve this but I do not know if this would be possible.
Requirements:
– Website structure would need to be as follows:
/blog/
/forums/
/support/
– All three of these would share the same users.
– Ideally an additional column would be required in the user database to specify if a user is allowed to open a support ticket (limited to customers).
Can this be achieved with one single installation of “bbPress”? I was thinking about giving all forums a parent forum “Forums” and all support forums “Tickets”, and then somehow mounting one to “/forums/” and the other to “/support/”.
If not, how would I go about doing this?
Kind regards,
Lea Hayes
Its amazing that only four people are behind WordPress, plus some new ones now. To me, it seems like WordPress is a company on the level of Apple. I imagined there would be hundreds of employes behind WordPress. They really give the impression of being the most professional people in the business of cloud-computing.
Welcome to open source software development Marius 
What you are saying is *sort of* true. There have only been 4 main code “committers” in recent years but there are actually a lot more people involved in making WordPress what it is.
WordPress is “owned” by a company called Automattic. Everything they produce is open source and therefore free to use and/or modify. It’s not a huge company but it’s not tiny either. They are comprised of 40+ developers, designers, engineers, etc who all work from their homes spread around the globe. They make their money mostly from WordPress.com which sells WordPress hosting as a service.
The beauty of it, since it’s all open source, if you decided you wanted to become a developer and you came up with a great idea for a new feature and coded it up as a plugin – Automattic might decide that they want to incorporate it as a core feature and implement YOUR code. This is exactly how the new menu feature in 3.0 came about. People had been making plugins that worked in a similar fashion for years.
Aw Kevin dear, thanks for understanding me lol.
This speech we talk about, was held last month, has there been any development?
Its amazing that only four people are behind WordPress, plus some new ones now. To me, it seems like WordPress is a company on the level of Apple. I imagined there would be hundreds of employes behind WordPress. They really give the impression of being the most professional people in the business of cloud-computing.
Same goes for BBpress. And to learn that most of this business is handled on forums and chatrooms is almost near the point of being unbelievable.
I imagined huge office landscapes, designer glasses, modern art on the walls, a brass mailbox full of offers to buy the company.
To learn that what we say on these forums, actually gets noticed by the makers is a huge privilage though. That never happens on places like Apple.com. Imagine Steve Jobs going, on the launch of iPhone 4: “So this guy Marius on the forums, really gave us a hard time about this the other day, so we decided….”
*Obviously* bbPress is about working with WordPress, so those complaining about it becoming a plugin really need to get over yourselves. bbPress wasn’t made to cater whatever bizarre whim you wanted it to, it was made to provide a forum that functions with WordPress. A plugin works great for that.
You’re totally wrong. Integrating with WordPress was an after-thought. At the beginning, it was made as a standalone software.
Please don’t confuse ‘mu’ and 3.0’s new ‘multi site’.
Any one who has the same problem or who has no such a problem?
I think integration on MU is just broken because mine doesn’t work if you log into the forums and then try to access the blog.
WordPress 3.0 + bbpress 1.02 : integration works fine.
but,
wordpress 3.0 multisite + bbpress 1.02 : integration doesn’t work.
….
when added the code below in wp-confeg.png
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false );
$base = ‘/’;
define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘myhomepagename.com’ );
define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
the integration breaks.
What’s the problem, and what’s the solution?
Any help will be appreciated.
Pagal, please describe the problem you’re having in a new topic. It’s not clear what is happening, when it’s happening or what you expect to happen instead. Please start a new topic with that information.
I don’t understand why you people “looking for a lightweight forum” don’t just use Vanilla.
*Obviously* BBpress is about working with WordPress, so those complaining about it becoming a plugin really need to get over yourselves. BBpress wasn’t made to cater whatever bizarre whim you wanted it to, it was made to provide a forum that functions with WordPress. A plugin works great for that.
If you want something else, look elsewhere and stop blaming others for making a poor decision.
@kevinjohngallagher you can’t understand what’s the problem?
I think everything clear in ma last post…
