[JemzTouch]

Hi,

This sounds pretty dumb and I feel dumb asking it but where is the Dashboard for bbpress?

I’ve integrated the wp site with bb using this plug in http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

I cannot any way of controlling bbpress in my WP dashboard and I when I log into my bb-login.php it doesn’t show any bbpress dashboard.

Am I missing something right before my eyes?

Nice easy one for you hotshots – Help appreciated.

(I feel like one of those cases that use their CD tray as a mug holder)

[r-a-y]

The issue with loading WP header is that you don’t load a very important line for most plugins “bb_head()”

You could probably get around this issue by adding something like this in your bbPress theme’s functions.php:

function bb_head_in_wp_head() {

bb_head();

}

add_action( 'wp_head', bb_head_in_wp_head' );

Though this is true w/ deep integration:

(advantage you can load any WP functions in bbP. Disavantage it will slow down your forum because you’re loading WP & bbP at the same time constantly)

[gerikg]

echo get_user_name(get_post_author_id());

[gerikg]

sorry I was missing something…

[_ck_]

There’s a much better way.

My “Hot Tags Plus” plugin makes the output into a static file, already compiled so there’s zero overhead the next time you want to display it.

You can then just use php’s readfile to include it on any page you want outside of (or even inside) bbPress, you just have to figure out the full path to it on the server.

[BrianStevens]

Alright, it turns out I was a bit preemptive in declaring “Mission Accomplished.”

I modified your code because it originally didn’t work. Here is where I am stuck.

http://pastebin.com/rKBL3Wiy

Now, the link shows up formatted correctly, but it links to the wrong page and then redirects home.

You see, post_author calls up the user’s Display Name, not their username, which is what post_author calls.

So that links to http://www.example.com/members/Brian Stevens, rather than http://www.example.com/members/bstevens

Does anyone know the code to call the username, rather than display name? post_author_id also did not work. I’m not sure how to call their account name.

[BrianStevens]

Close, but the code was slightly off, and I was able to adjust it to my needs.

Thanks!

[gerikg]

try this:

http://pastebin.com/9Y1mPZwY

I had a better solution but I can’t remember it now. The code above only works if bbpress is in wordpress folder which 99% of people do.

[BrianStevens]

Hello,

I have just completed integrating bbPress into my WordPress MU installations. Buddypress is also installed, but I have not taken other steps in order to integrate Buddypress with bbPress significantly. It works really well: when a user signs up on WordPress, they appear as a user in bbPress.

I have only run into one problem, which is this.

On post.php in my theme file, I use <?php post_author_link(); ?> as a link the author’s profile. By my understanding, this should link to the Buddypress profile without any additional set up. Instead, when I click the link it goes to the post author’s site as defined in the user’s Profile in the WordPress Admin Dashboard. I want post_author_link to go to their Buddypress profile, not an external website. Obviously their Buddypress profiles are more important since the site focuses on community. Linking to an external site will detract from that quite greatly.

Thank you for any help on this matter.

[zaerl]

I’m not sure I’m using the ‘WordPress bbPress cookie plugin’ you mention

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

I have only tested it in my XAMPP sandbox (Debian) cause I had only few minutes for it. Apache/2.2.12, PHP/5.3.0, MySQL 5.1.37.

The “email is required” error can be spawn only from register.php file line 33 and only if $_POST isn’t defined (well I just made a quick look so I could have written something that isn’t true.) But it’s very strange. If you want to make a quick test do print_r($_POST); and see what you got.

Damn I can’t help. Maybe it’s the first time in my life in which I would like to have a software bug.

[rainbow_lazer]

OK, I figured it out. Here’s a link to my solution:

http://rainbowlazer.com/scripting-programming/php/bbpress-tags-from-in-wordpress/

[Trent Adams]

Please don’t download the copy from bbshowcase.org as it still has a reference to the Anarchy Media plugin for wordpress in the header.php line 19 which needs to be removed. Since I was getting a call for every single page view for every single hit to every single site using it, the cheapest bandwidth was protecting the site. That being said, I have a copy that does work fine at:

http://adamsranchltd.com/bbpress-forum.zip

Thanks,

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Please don’t download the copy from bbshowcase.org as it still has a reference to the Anarchy Media plugin for wordpress in the header.php line 19 which needs to be removed. Since I was getting a call for every single page view for every single hit to every single site using it, the cheapest bandwidth was protecting the site. That being said, I have a copy that does work fine at:

http://adamsranchltd.com/bbpress-forum.zip

Thanks,

Trent

[Rootside]

Thanks a lot for your help, zaerl – at least we now know that it should be working, or at least it looks like it should be. That’s valuable info.

I’m not sure I’m using the ‘WordPress bbPress cookie plugin’ you mention – I think I’ve seen several plugins that promise to get the integration right – can you point me to the ‘right’ one?

The only plugin I’m using is bbPress Integration 1.0 by Michael Adams and Sam Bauers.

Any other suggestions/guesses? I’d be happy to report back – finding out what’s causing the “email is required” behaviour might be helpful to everybody, considering that there’s at least one other person (Terranb) who’s getting this, and also in light of kevinjohngallagher’s and timskii’s remarks.

Some more information:

The configuration is the same as zaerl’s (except maybe for the plugin mentioned above) – WordPress and bbPress are sharing users, I don’t get booted out of one when I log into the other etc.

The site is hosted on Media Temple’s Grid Service, running PHP 5.2.6 and MySQL 5.1.26

Feel free to have a look if it helps (it’s work in progress):

http://dev.sandithom.com

I’ve tried switching back to the default theme, but the problem was exactly the same…

Thanks everybody – good to find people who are passionate about making it work.

[zaerl]

I have tested it. bbPress 1.0.2, WordPress 3.0 RC1. Cookies integration, members integration, same database, WordPress bbPress cookie plugin.

I can create users from bbPress and from WordPress. No problems with the user database and other stuff like that. No problems with the login from WordPress and/or bbPress.

I have checked the wp_users database schema of WordPress 2.9.2 and 3.0. It’s the same. I’m sorry but I can’t reproduce the “email is required” bug.

[zaerl]

bbPress does integrate well with WordPress 2.9.2 which is the the current stable release. On the docs page it’s very well specified:

bbPress integration should work with most recent version of WordPress in the 2.9.x series.

[timskii]

If BBPress is going to de-integrate with WordPress, it’s worth publicising that fact as soon as possible: Plenty of people will upgrade WordPress without checking that BBPress still works, while registration errors generally aren’t apparent to the administrator.

I hope this “bug” isn’t intended. Forcing a ‘blog registration isn’t a terribly straightforward solution for those that have historically structured everything to use forum registration…

[wood2695]

Okay kids, here’s the solution that I’ve landed on. First, major props to kevinjohngallagher for taking the time to work this out with me. Second, the solution that I’ve come up with is not based on the previously mentioned code. I believe the code that kev had theorized was based on a flow of how s2M handled the end of the registration that wasn’t entirely correct (ie. no actual ‘thank you’ page). Perhaps this was something that could have been set up as such, but I abandoned that for another train of thought, which was… “if bbPress is reassigning bbP-specific roles based on the standard WP roles, so why can’t it do it for other non-WP-specific roles??”

So to accomplish this, I’ve made edits to two core bbP files. As kev said to me and I agree… “Usual disclaimer about editing the core blah blah blah.” This will likely need to be re-done again if/when I ever update bbPress, but for the time being, it is working splendidly. With all that said, I may be the only one trying to do this integration, but for anyone down the road that is trying to develop a member site with s2Member + WordPress + bbPress forum, here’s my solution (oh, and also based on a ‘deep integration’ of WP/bbP)…

in /bb-admin/options-wordpress.php, I added

<br />

$wpRoles = array(<br />

'administrator' => __('WordPress Administrator'),<br />

'editor'        => __('WordPress Editor'),<br />

'author'        => __('WordPress Author'),<br />

'contributor'   => __('WordPress Contributor'),<br />

'subscriber'    => __('WordPress Subscriber')<strong>,<br />

's2member_level4'=> __('s2Member Level 4'),<br />

's2member_level3'=> __('s2Member Level 3'),<br />

's2member_level2'=> __('s2Member Level 2'),<br />

's2member_level1'=> __('s2Member Level 1')</strong><br />

);<br />

and then in /bb-includes/functions.bb-users.php, I added

<br />

static $wordpress_userlevel_map = array(<br />

'administrator' => 10,<br />

'editor' => 7,<br />

'author' => 2,<br />

'contributor' => 1,<br />

'subscriber' => 0<strong>,<br />

's2member_level4'=> 0,<br />

's2member_level3'=> 0,<br />

's2member_level2'=> 0,<br />

's2member_level1'=> 0</strong><br />

);<br />

Because again, as far as the forum is concerned, I’m only really interested in differentiating whether a user is a logged-in member or not and show/hide the forums/topics/whatever using the zearl Visibility plugin based on that.

This maps all s2M roles to that of a member in bbPress. Roles may then be changed using the dropdowns in bbPress > Settings > WordPress Integration.

Cheers.

[1BadApple]

Hi Guys

I’m new on the block, but have considerable experience with forum software and server enrironments. I also have a little fleet of WordPress sites, LOL. I haven’t grokked all the bbPress stuff yet, but this is a very interesting topic.

-ck- and paulhawke both made some very good points there.

Based on what I know of other systems, the observation about cacheing is accurate. Also a fairly competent Forum program is likely to become considerable larger than any blog because of the nature of the communications, which is many-to-many, rather than one-to-many. Tts not uncommon for forums to have fifty to a hundred thousand posts. How many blogs do you know like that? Just like WP, it all has to be iterated to do a page generation.

Forums are also very spiky, due to their many-to-many, interactive nature. One post begets another or another five. Other than add-ins, Blogs are effectively document retrieval systems where there is a time disconnect between related events.

For these reasons, I lean toward the idea of either hybrid or standalone development. Another concept would be that the plug-in have either less capabilities or some size limits coded in. Sure people could code around, but they would also be on notice that ‘you may be heading for trouble’.

I’m looking forward to what’s coming.

[_ck_]

Nothing exciting but here’s what’s pending and will be available soon (hopefully).

All were designed for 0.9 but in theory should work under 1.x

Rename User

changes user name (user_login) across standalone or integrated (or multiple) bbPress / WordPress installs (that share a common user table)

Blocklist

blocks posts based on a list of words or IP addresses (like the WordPress feature) by immediately marking them as spam

Spam Notification

notifies admin when a post is marked as spam by akismet

Browser Timer

improve your forums by learning how long it really takes for users to see your bbPress pages

The others are just utilitarian but Browser Timer is the one I am most interested in seeing people try. It’s like asking all your visitors how fast your website is.

It compliments bb-Benchmark but instead of breaking down page rendering time on your server, you’ll instead be able to see if your pages and server are truly up to speed for your visitors around the world. It tells you EXACTLY how long it took them to get the whole page, including images, javascript, etc. on just about any browser.

[mr_pelle]

mr_pelle,

Where in your template did you place that code?

The first block is actually my bbPress header (you have to put it inside some php tags, of course), while I use the second in my WordPress header and footer when I have to load different content (css, icons, code).

[kevinjohngallagher]

Comparing anything on the bbPress website to the WordPress website is only going to lead to heartache and pain my friend.

As for the bbPress website not syncing after 22 hours, thats nothing new either.

IMO, give it closer to 48, and if its still not happening we’ll try and drag Michael away from WP3.0 release to help us again

[kevinjohngallagher]

This sadly isn’t a huge shock.

Given that 4 versions of WordPress will have been released since the last version of bbPress, it was bound to happen at some stage.

I’ll attempt to report it into the WPdev channel and see what the change is, and maybe we can come up with a bbPress plugin to help make any changes meccessary.

If whatever change in WordPress that is affecting us is here to stay (basically: if it’s not a bug), then it will effectively signal the end of complete WordPress integration. Thats not me being all doom and gloom, its the harsh reality that the two systems will then be out of sync.

That said… I’ve long been a believer in forcing people to both login and register via WordPress over bbPress on an integrated system. At least then you’re only working with 1 system setting cookies/registering etc. And right now there are far more WordPress plugins for control and customization.

[chrishajer]

bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress. It should not be installed in wp-content/plugins, like a WordPress plugin.

You probably want to put it here:

/home/content/88/6235388/html/bbpress/

Then you can access it at the URL of your website, plus bbpress, like

http://www.example.com/bbpress

to start the installation.

Rename the bbpress folder to something you want to be visible online. Here it is called forums, but you can call it forum or discussion or community.

[Rootside]

Same issue here.

bbPress 1.0.2 seems to play nice with WordPress 3.0 RC1, except for this problem.

I actually managed to get one account registered, but I can’t reproduce the situation. I do remember that I didn’t get to see the register-success screen, but I received the confirmation email with the password. All subsequent attempts failed though, as did numerous previous attempts.

Being able to do it once (out of 20 attempts or so) would point to a problem with cookies or being previously logged in, but the problem occured in 4 different browsers, 2 of which had never been used to access this site.

So, bbPress acts like I’m trying to register without providing an email address. Any thoughts?