[chrishajer]

To make bbPress look like your WordPress site, you need to create a bbPress theme to mimic the look and functionality of your WordPress theme. Widgets are not currently part of bbPress.

What does the topic title “monetize” have to do with any of this?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Why not just a simple .htaccess redirect? Or this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration

For .htaccess, something like this in your bbpress folder might help:

RewriteRule ^bb-login.php http://www.arguemax.com/wordpress/wp-login.php [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^register.php http://www.arguemax.com/wordpress/wp-login.php [L,R=301]

[xarzu]

I installed a fresh copy of bbpress and during the installation process I was asked if I wanted to connect it to a wordpress database.

Now, when I register a new account on wordpress, it appears as a new account on bbpress.

But here is the rub. I have added a plug in on the wordpress side on the registration menu. You have to click to agree to some policy. Since this plugin does not exist on the bbpress side, if I register a new account on the bbpress side, and try to use it to log in on the Wordperss side, I get an error that says “you do not have permission to ….”

How do I make the registration I have formed on the WordPress side match the Registraion process on the BBPress side. Although the database is shared according to my tests and how I installed the latest versioin of BBPRess, the registration and login pages are not the samel

Here is the registration on the wordpress side showing my custom plugin

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/WordPress/arguemaxregistration2.jpg

Here is the registration on the bbpress side.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/WordPress/arguemaxregistration.jpg

Maybe there is a way to make the bbpress such that when they click on the login link it directs the user to the login for the wordpress side (and also if they click on the registration link on the bbpress it goes to the registration on the wordpress side). How would I go about changing that? Is it html code or php code? The page http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0,2-2/bbpress/ has the login and register links the link for login goes to http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0,2-2/bbpress/bb-login.php and the link for Register goes to http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0,2-2/bbpress/register.php . How do I change that?

[Daiv Mowbray]

I can confirm that themes from bbpressthemes are trying to sell Cialis.

here’s a question for the bbpress owners- do you not own the name bbpress?

or at least the logo? BBPRESSTHEMES.NET has robbed the bbpress logo.

I recall some issues with the WordPress brand in the past. Protecting bbpress may also be an issue to deal with.

aside: ashfame, great contribution, if you can get the themes posted

[Chip Bennett]

@bingster loot:

I will try to address that shortly. I don’t have a Mac with which to test, but I’ve been tidying up the CSS in my WordPress theme from which I ported the bbPress theme. So, once I also propagate those changes to the bbPress theme, hopefully it will work better for you.

[Chip Bennett]

I still shake my head whenever I read that thread.

I see people who are both genuinely concerned about and desirous to help with the future of bbPress, but also trying their best, as nicely as possible, to offer up deserved, constructive criticism.

The project seems to have quite a few people willing to contribute; the biggest concern seems to be that the project lacks a leader who is – and this is the critical point – dedicated solely to the bbPress project.

To use a different metaphor, bbPress has been a rudderless ship for some time. The crew stand by, oars at the ready. Occasionally, the crew hears a report from the Crow’s Nest (“1.1, ahoy! Steer for Email Notifications and Anonymous Posting!”) – but since they cannot see the Captain at the helm, steering the ship, there is little motivation to paddle.

bbPress is Matt’s baby, and I think everyone appreciates Matt’s development of and continued contribution to bbPress. But likewise, everyone appreciates the many directions in which Matt is pulled, that – rightly and properly – prevent him from dedicating himself solely to bbPress.

(To stretch the metaphor beyond recognition: Matt is the Commodore, commanding not only the bbPress ship, but also the WordPress ship, the Automattic ship, the wordpress.org ship, etc…)

What the community here seems to be asking for, then, is for someone to be appointed – or hired, if necessary – to act as the Project Lead (certainly, under Matt’s direction), someone who can be dedicated solely to bbPress, the way Sam Bauers was previously, and the way Andy Peatling and Raphael Mudge are dedicated to BuddyPress and AfterTheDeadline, respectively.

To Matt: please don’t get discouraged because of, and please don’t be offended by anything said by, the bbPress community. I think all parties involved have the best interests of bbPress at heart, and understand and appreciate both your overall time commitments and your continued contribution to bbPress.

At the very least, I take the bbpress.org refresh as a sign of new life, and in that sign, I choose to find hope of great things in the near future for bbPress itself.

[rich777]

wp-config.php has 8 keys from that link you provided

bb-config.php has the same 8 keys as above, with the BB text added in as well

any other ideas?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Matt confessed that he dove into bbPress. He admitted that he became a little burnt out on it. bbPress will undoubtedly be tied closer to WordPress. The future of bbPress will be a really awesome plugin. He even admitted that right now, it would be better off to use another plugin rather than bbPress. Matt said he just needs a little more time before he dives into bbPress again. The bbPress community was a bit rough around the edges and the flame war that ensued forced Matt to break away for a bit.

– http://www.wptavern.com/mattnote-from-wordcamp-san-francisco

I appreciate that I come across a bit strong sometimes, and certainly I felt that Matt wasn’t prepared for walking into the bbPress project when he came back last year. Personally, I think its a bit rich to say that the bbPress community “was a bit rough around the edges” given the way Automattic had handled bbPress with contempt for so long (leading to every single person involved in the project leaving – save for 1 forum moderator).

And as for the “flame war”, and it was probably the most quiet and mannerly flame war in the history of the internet, I think that maybe Matt has become acustomed to people praising the good things he and his company does and not that used to pointing out when they drop the ball (which originally was one of the things that most impressed me about Matt and Automattic).

– http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/whats-happening-with-bbpress/page/4

(the world’s nicest flame war, where 6 different people ask Matt questions using ugly words like Please, Thank You, and “really hope you had a great time on your travels “. Man it almost made me want to quit the total internet it was SUCH a flame war of epic proportions!!!!)

There’s no doubt in my mind that Matt is a humble positive guy that just wants the best for all of us. He speaks from the heart, and sometimes that can be a double edged sword because people hold him to that. Truly we understand that, but throwing the toys out of the pram in the way he did isn’t conducive to galvanising the community/development of bbPress.

All of the major issues/setbacks that bbPress has had have been quite obvious long long long before we hit them; and the “Relax, we’ve done this before” line is now seriously coming home to roost. Given the sheer volume of “wordpress integration” questions and “buddyPress” questions on this forum; i fail to see how telling people to not use bbPress is going to do anything to help the community or development of bbPress.

I said it when Matt came back that if bbPress is going to be a WordPress plugin then there is no point wasting development time rushing out new features that attempt to duplicate features already in WordPress. Its a shocking waste of development time, made with a unilateral decision without any real project management input. Headless chickens don’t make for good developers!!

hmmmm.

Well I am worried I’m just trudging up old ground. I’m quite sure there will be great Euphoria on the board today with this new theme (though personally, having all text shurnk by 20%, the space in which the text goes reduced to under 500px, and the links changed to a light green on a white background are mental decisions – oh and brilliantly going against everything the new WP theme is doing ) . Many will mistake it for bbPress not being an after thought, and development once again being kick started; though you’ll excuse the cynic in me for thinking the roll out of the new theme had as much to do with _ck_ calling Matt out on the WPtavern page as anything else.

Ha, but then again, maybe thats the real positive here. Welcome back _ck_.

[Xevo]

Not possible.

WordPress and bbPress are two seperate things even if you could widgetize your bbpress, it would take time to let the wordpress plugins work as widgets in your bbPress.

[truthlighthouse]

Hello,

I am currently working on figuring out BBPress and one thing I was wondering about is if it was possible to add sidebars similar to wordpress where I can drop a widget in there and put an add in that widget. Also I could put other things in there such as maybe a links section (like blog roll) or Nextgen gallery. I guess what I am really wanting is to be able to have the forum look similar to my wordpress site. Any ideas or know how to do something like that. I know practically no PHP so it would likely have to come in the form of a plugin or theme that requires a drag and drop mechanism similar to wordpress if possible.

Thanks

[truthlighthouse]

Scratch my last part about the admin panel not looking like wordpress. It does. It just had a weird login screen at the initial part. But now it looks like the good ole wordpress dashboard….even on the free server.

[chrishajer]

Ah yeah, good point. I saw the #wcsf code sprint, but figured it was WordPress only. I saw in Matt’s state of the Word that he was sort of burned out on bbPress. Nice to see someone interested in it again.

[truthlighthouse]

It took way too long to find the necessary instructions on how to install on Godaddy. The instructions listed with the download of this software was not sufficient. When people asked questions, it had an issue resolved there, one resolved here, but nothing complete. Finally I got it to run so I thought I would share a complete instruction manual on how to do this.

First, I would like to point out that I installed it on their free hosting service if you buy a domain name through them. However you can install it on their paid hosting service the same way I am pretty sure. In fact, I installed it on their free service for now while I test things and will install it on their paid hosting service in a bit so I can edit this if it turns out to be different.

1) download BBPress. Unzip it.

2) Log in to Godaddy services. Click on the Home tab at the top left -> the sub-tab hosting -> then click on hosting under the “my products section” on the left. If you have already bought hosting or had the free version set up, you should see a list of your domain names that are set up for hosting.

3) Click on manage account next to the domain name you wish to install this bad boy on.

4) The first thing you need to do is create a database. So click on databases at the top and then mysql.

5) The click on create database on the upper center right.

6) Type in a description name (maybe forum or blah or whatever)

7) Type in the same thing in mysql database user name box

Type in a password that you can remember and then retype it in in the next box. Skip the last three boxes and click ok.

9) It will take forever and a day for the database to set up. Not really but maybe 20 minutes. In the meantime, lets go ahead and load the files onto your godaddy server. So click on the content tab at the top next to the databases tab you just selected and then click on FTP client.

10) Scroll down a bit and you will see two side by side panels. On the left is your desktop. On the right is the files on your domain name. Even if you just set up the hosting service, there will be files already on there.

11) Now you have two options. Do you want to install it at http://www.yourdomain.com/bbpress or do you want to install it directly on your main domain name http://www.yourdomain.com? If you want it directly on your domain name, then you need to transfer all the files within the downloaded folder from BBPress and not the actual folder with all the files in it. So in the left panel, you will navigate to your BBPress folder and double click it to view the contents. When you see all the files within that folder, hold the control key down and select all the files and folders within that folder. Then hit the little arrow in the center that points to the right which should move those files to the right panel and onto your domain name. If you wanted it at the http://www.yourdomain.com/bbpress, then just upload the actual folder with all the files in it versus opening up that folder and moving each file over individually. Also, you can rename the folder BBPress to something different and it will give it a different extension on your domain. For example if you renamed it Forums and loaded the entire folder onto the server, then you would have http://www.yourdomain.com/Forums.

12) Now we need to change some information in there. But first we need some information from the database you set up early. Probably it is still not set up yet and is pending setup. To check, click on databases tab at the top and then mysql. It will be listed as “setup” or “pending setup” under the status column. If it is pending setup, then grab some popcorn. Once it is ready, click on the pencil icon under the action column and you will then see the host name. It will likely start with yourdomain and then some numbers and dots and other stuff. Copy it.

13) Now click the home tab at the top.

14) Then click on the big button called “your files” under the tabs at the top.

15) Now locate the file that is called bb-config-sample.php. Check the box next to it. Then click edit at the top. A new window should pop up.

16) Scroll down and change BBDB NAME to the name you gave your database earlier. Change BBDB user to the same thing. Change mysql password to the password you set up earlier (if you used caps, you must use it here too). Then change mysql hostname (which is probably currently listed as local host) to the name you copied just a bit ago from the database pencil menu that had numbers and dots and other stuff. Then hit the save button at the top left.

17) Now this step, I forgot to do and it still works. I was just building a test site anyways so I will fix it when I attempt to load it to my real site. But you need to change the name of the file you were just editing. You should still have bb-config-sample.php still checked. Up at the top, click rename. Rename the file to bb-config.php. Essentially you are just dropping the -sample part.

18) Now navigate to your domain name where you installed the BBPress.

19) It will prompt you with the installation (or should). It will tell you that it recognizes that it is the first time and needs to be installed and then ask you to proceed. You will then enter all your information including database name, mysql user name (which was the same as the database name), and the password (with the necessary caps if you used them). But ONE PART THAT IS HIDDEN AND NEEDS to be adjusted is in the advanced section. So click the little check box. Now paste that host name you copied earlier with numbers and dots and other stuff. Now proceed onwards.

One thing I noticed is that I would proceed through the installation process at that last part and it would revert to the beginning again. I think this was because I was hosting it on Godaddy’s free server and they put ads at the top which was causing it to loop. After several times (probably 5) of clicking the buttons over and over again and retyping the information, it finally worked. Also the login screen is very basic on the free server. I don’t know if this is normal but I will let you know when I try on my paid server. But it was my understanding that the dashboard of the forum should be similar to wordpress. Maybe that is after integration between the two. Not sure.

Anyways, hope that helped. Thanks

[Mark McWilliams]

Yeah, cool, somethings happening!

Could it be Matt himself, I read we could be looking at bbPress 1.1 RC very soon!

[Geekaholic]

Thx, hab das gemacht und es hat funktioniert

[Samara]

I just applied the fix listed above (here: http://bestservedcold.com/news/bbpress-and-wordpress-magic-quotes/comment-page-1 ) on line 632 of wp-settings.php hash out $_POST = add_magic_quotes($_POST ); and it works on all new posts. I am wondering though if this will cause issues with any of the other plugins or the way wordpress itself functions.

[vanesta]

I saw from wordpress showcase (http://wordpress.org/showcase/slashgear/) slashgear.com is using wp+bbpress. can anyone tell me which theme they are based on?

http://discuss.slashgear.com/

[Anonymous User]

Hi Geekaholic,

you moved the phpbb user to the bbPress user table (e.g. bb_users). The users are still there. After the user integration you must copy the users from bbPress user table to the WordPress user table – and also copy the user_meta information.

If you had some WordPress users before the transfer form phpbb to bbPress/WordPress – it is possible to merge the users by hand. I do this within the phpMyAdmin.

Markus

[Geekaholic]

Hi,

I’m using phpbb3 right now but want to move to bbpress. So I installed bbpress on my server and was able to import all the posts and users from the phpbb3 to the new bbpress forum. Everything worked great. But now I would like to integreate the wordpress user database with the bbpress database. When I’m using this build in integration method, all the users I transfered from phpbb3 to bbpress disapear…

does anyone know how to fix that or is the bbpress user databye deleted by integreating it to wordpress?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Sandar,

If you’re using StationPro, a premium theme, then I’d suggest asking in their forum’s first. BaseStation, the company behind StationPro, claim that all their themese are bbPress compatible, and indeed sell bbPress themes which should work with the WordPress theme.

BaseStation also, out of the kindess of their hearts, will sell you a bbPress component to make it all work (side effects include: it still may not work as you’d hoped and loss of $50).

Either way though, bbPress is not a WordPress theme nor a Plugin, and should not be placed in the WordPress theme nor plugin directory. Hopefully it’ll all work for you after that.

Take Care,

Kev

[kikko088]

U found this topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/load-bbpress-into-wordpress it can be a solution but when I put require_once(‘/bbpress/bb-config.php’ ); i recive a blank page…

any solution?

kikko088

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

[logart]

@Xevo Hi, Thanks.

Here is that info:

wordpress: 2.9.2

bbPress: 1.0.2

bbPress Plugin for WP: 1.0

Here are the keys that are the same in wp/bp:

BB_AUTH_KEY = AUTH_KEY

BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY = SECURE_AUTH_KEY

BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY = LOGGED_IN_KEY

BB_NONCE_KEY = NONCE_KEY

In PB’s settings I also have:

* WP’s auth_salt

* WP’s logged_in_salt

Both set to the WP values.

[ghiboz]

Hi, in my server I have wordpress installed with the permalink active and works fine,

I tried to do the same thing with bbpress but after the server returns a permission error…

maybe due that bbpress is installed on the same website that wordpress and wordpress consider /forum as a page and this crashes?

thanks in advance

[michaelmongeau]

@ashfame: Thanks for the fix. That did the trick.