[tokotom]

never mind. I got it working using the Bavatars plugin.

[driz]

Also noticed that the KEYS are not the in the database just the SALTS only for both WordPress and bbPress. When installing bbPress it asks for both so what happens to the data you give for the KEYS? As it doesn’t save it in the DB just the SALTS. And why do you this stuff in the DB and the config files?

[tokotom]

I have bbpress and WordPress deep integrated and have enabled avatar upload in bbpress using the Avatar Upload plugin. How do you show the bbpress avatars next to the comments in WordPress? I searched the forums and couldn’t find a good solution. Thanks.

[driz]

Sent them.

Quick Q: Why do I have to have the SALTS in both the DB and Config files? Also would the COOKIEPATH be causing the problems because I have the forums on a subdomain?

Thanks

[gerikg]

you can email me the files and I can look at them. gerikg # gmail.com

[driz]

Tried those. Still not working Really annoying. Any ideas? Thanks

[gerikg]

in you bb-config & wp-config file you have double the keys? Just keep the ones that start with BB_ for bb-config and without the BB_ in wp-config. Try that first. Clear you cache. If that still doesn’t work try taking out the line define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘abe2eb1549111222254c933716b86d46’ ); from bb-config only.

[chrishajer]

What would start the discussion in the forums? If it’s a blog post that will get comments, then I think threaded comments in WordPress are probably better.

The 1.1 release will have login-less posting. It’s in the latest trunk version now. Maybe you want to try that and see if it works for you?

You can download trunk here https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk

[driz]

I have integrated WordPress 3.0 and bbPress 1.1 user tables and done all the steps and everything works well apart from the cookies

Here is the code I have for both my config files. Can’t see any reason why they shouldn’t be working…

BBPRESS CONFIG

<?php

/**

* The base configurations of bbPress.

*

* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,

* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your

* web host.

*

* This file is used by the installer during installation.

*

* @package bbPress

*/

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for bbPress */

define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘xxx’ );

/** MySQL database username */

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘xxx’ );

/** MySQL database password */

define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxx’ );

/** MySQL hostname */

define( ‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’ );

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */

define( ‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’ );

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */

define( ‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ” );

/**#@+

* Authentication Unique Keys.

*

* Change these to different unique phrases!

* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/ WordPress.org secret-key service}

*

* @since 1.0

*/

define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘di*3e[%bIf}JWXFwxI=Qq|{c7J1%RA;aR5yQ,2-vsxhT}p<Me:wNq$*+1=@Ycj’ );

define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘b^/nwHK+FR&8;gP&Z+q!,,.5|f;[rLv2NIV}eu-PxtqX|S)6#|rIB+9|>S:A-Oid’ );

define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘_>w2my8aud-$ Jv=%-wo [Fh+ /AQs^2:[^jY?}_oUNZ3dB>p<xol!]Z rq1;uIs’ );

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘MImWoLh!X(>E6IkvRY$}76Xx(IV$4ijql<R/Zd0QR-L%-h2!a-DHR{V hu@1V*O]’ );

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘di*3e[%bIf}JWXFwxI=Qq|{c7J1%RA;aR5yQ,2-vsxhT}p<Me:wNq$*+1=@Ycj’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘b^/nwHK+FR&8;gP&Z+q!,,.5|f;[rLv2NIV}eu-PxtqX|S)6#|rIB+9|>S:A-Oid’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘_>w2my8aud-$ Jv=%-wo [Fh+ /AQs^2:[^jY?}_oUNZ3dB>p<xol!]Z rq1;uIs’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘MImWoLh!X(>E6IkvRY$}76Xx(IV$4ijql<R/Zd0QR-L%-h2!a-DHR{V hu@1V*O]’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘E[7bB=}$7&|c1t:^X=0(s9}-Cz^&9C%9z@O(x2@bJ^f[>%%T$9wuATh(?A9h#s’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘,dxYkzRyNG+pc@- UkhDBbx qT[4N;+=_|/R~||W672Xh6%{T!x|,kdh!G

-Pijs');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'V|UcSSwm{H}joP<code><@m&2-%I Nvhw3|gM-{$</code>*uhaX4xa{5*J*FUK1wGaI{u#|=');

define('NONCE_SALT',       ')$rgk@ke2;]{(hJ~Od%N^8F(-R[o(rCg$!hvDYV(Gh*+?AE/Ruz8M[>HDc};G]ZU');



/**#@-*/



/**

* bbPress Database Table prefix.

*

* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique

* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

*/

$bb_table_prefix = 'pvbb_';



/**

* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.

*

* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen

* language must be installed to a directory called "my-languages" in the root

* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to "my-languages" and set

* BB_LANG to 'de' to enable German language support.

*/

define( 'BB_LANG', '' );



define( 'COOKIEHASH', 'abe2eb1549111222254c933716b86d46' );

define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.paperviewmagazine.com' );

define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );

define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );



?>



WORDPRESS CONFIG



<?php

/**

* The base configurations of the WordPress.

*

* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,

* Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information by

* visiting {@link http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php Editing

* wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host.

*

* This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the

* installation. You don't have to use the web site, you can just copy this file

* to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values.

*

* @package WordPress

*/



// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for WordPress */

define('DB_NAME', 'xxx');



/** MySQL database username */

define('DB_USER', 'xxx');



/** MySQL database password */

define('DB_PASSWORD', 'xxx');



/** MySQL hostname */

define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');



/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');



/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */

define('DB_COLLATE', '');



define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);



/**#@+

* Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.

*

* Change these to different unique phrases!

* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}

* You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.

*

* @since 2.6.0

*/

define('AUTH_KEY',         'di*3e[%bIf}JWXFwxI=Qq|{c7J1<code>%RA;aR5yQ,2-vsxhT}p<Me:w</code>Nq$*+1=@Ycj');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'b^/nwHK+FR&8;gP&Z+q!,,.5|f;[rLv2NIV}eu-PxtqX|S)6#|rIB+9|>S:A-Oid');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    '_>w2my8aud-$ Jv=%-wo [Fh+ /AQs^2:[^jY?}_oUNZ3dB>p<xol!]Z rq1;uIs');

define('NONCE_KEY',        'MImWoLh!X(>E6IkvRY$}76Xx(IV$4ijql<R/Zd0QR-L%-h2!a-DHR{V hu@1V*O]');

define('AUTH_SALT',        'E[7bB=}$7&|c1t<code>:^X=0(s9}-Cz^&9C%9z@O(x2@</code>bJ^f[>%%T$9wuATh(?A9h#s');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', ',dxYkzRyNG+pc@- UkhDBbx qT[4N;+=_|/R~||W672Xh6%{T!x|,kdh!G

-Pijs’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘V|UcSSwm{H}joP<@m&2-%I Nvhw3|gM-{$*uhaX4xa{5*J*FUK1wGaI{u#|=’);

define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ‘)$rgk@ke2;]{(hJ~Od%N^8F(-R[o(rCg$!hvDYV(Gh*+?AE/Ruz8M[>HDc};G]ZU’);

define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘di*3e[%bIf}JWXFwxI=Qq|{c7J1%RA;aR5yQ,2-vsxhT}p<Me:wNq$*+1=@Ycj’ );

define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘b^/nwHK+FR&8;gP&Z+q!,,.5|f;[rLv2NIV}eu-PxtqX|S)6#|rIB+9|>S:A-Oid’ );

define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘_>w2my8aud-$ Jv=%-wo [Fh+ /AQs^2:[^jY?}_oUNZ3dB>p<xol!]Z rq1;uIs’ );

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘MImWoLh!X(>E6IkvRY$}76Xx(IV$4ijql<R/Zd0QR-L%-h2!a-DHR{V hu@1V*O]’ );

define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘abe2eb1549111222254c933716b86d46’ );

define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘www.paperviewmagazine.com’ );

define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

/**#@-*/

/**

* WordPress Database Table prefix.

*

* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique

* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

*/

$table_prefix = ‘pvwp_’;

/**

* WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.

*

* Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen

* language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install

* de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’ to enable German

* language support.

*/

define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

/**

* For developers: WordPress debugging mode.

*

* Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.

* It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG

* in their development environments.

*/

define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);

define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );

define( ‘VHOST’, ‘no’ );

$base = ‘/’;

define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘www.paperviewmagazine.com’ );

define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );

define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */

if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )

define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);

?>`

[gerikg]

@Al compare make sure your wp-config.php is following the same layout as wp-config-sample.php

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Amwilson,

Always glad to hear someone thinking through using bbPress to see if it fits their needs.

bbpress appears to integrate with buddyppress

It doesn’t. Well, kinda.

Basically, it doesn’t. BuddyPress uses a large hack of bbPress (it removes almost all the work in the bbPress1.0.2 backend). They do look similar, and work simialr, and share some code… but the bbPress/forum you see in BuddyPress is fundamentally different.

Basically, any changes to bbPress (haha) will not appear in BuddyPress unless one of the BuddyPress team takes the time to manuall convert/hack them. That said, the BuddyPress team seem on the ball with this sort of thing.

how should I set bbpress up now before it becomes a plugin to make the transition better when it does become a plugin?

We have no idea. bbPress becoming a plugin of WordPress was ‘announced’ in the middle of an IRC chat by Matt with no warning or explanation. Its never been written in a forum post or a blog post, and we have no other information other than Matt posting that “I just want to quit the whole project” 2 months ago.

At this point in time, none of us have any information and the ‘weekly’ IRC chats and Blog posts haven’t happened in 14 weeks; so spending anytime thinking about making life easier down the line is going ot be fruitless. We’re all clueless.

Should I set it up to use my wordpress database or give bbpress its own database? I am not sure if the separate database will be an option after it is a plugin

Having the same database makes integration a bucket load easier.

I’d presume that would be the same when bbPress becomes a plugin.

Is it simple to import simple:press data to bbpress?

There are a few hacks for converting forums to bbPress on these boards. Paul Hawke has written a few and they seem to get good reviews. You’ll have to do a search though to see if Simple Press is included, but Paul’s threads and code is definately the place to start.

If so I may just use simple:press for now until bbpress becomes a plugin

Just a heads up, bbPress 0.9 to 1.0 had a full time paid developer from Automattic, and it took 14 months to be released with virtually no feature improvements. bbPress 1.1 has taken 10 months to develop, and we’re no where near realease ready.

bbPress as a WP plugin, even if we all stopped work on bbPress1.1 and focussed on that, wouldn’t be ready this year.

=============================

My big advice is to make a list of the feautres you want your forum to have, and post them here and see if bbPress can meet those needs. If it can, awesome. If it can’t – better to find out now

[Al]

I’m on an old, but continually updated, WP install with a fresh 1.0.2 BBPress install. I could always make a brand new WP 2.9 integrate with BBPress, but could never make the live site (the updated WP) work. I’d always known it to be something to do with the older WP, but had not found what. Still don’t know exactly what, but the shorter keys make it work.

[kevinjohngallagher]

@EvilGeek23

No.

@Brucini

There is no way to downgrade from bbPress1.0 to bbPress0.9.

And you’re right that with a little knowledge you can convert 0.9 plugins to 1.0 plugins

@Dragunoff

bbPress integration is not something the folks releasing WordPress are fussed about.

bbPress0.9 is only meant to integrate with WP2.5 and 2.6. There is a hack/plugin to let it integrate with WP2.7; and so far that has been reported to work for 2.8 and 2.9 but it’s not designed with that in mind.

We’ll see what happens with WP3.0, and if the current plugin/hack continutes to work, but i severly doubt it will. Either way, i’d not worry about the beta too much, and I’d def suggest holding off upgrading WP3.0 until at least WP3.0.1 anyway.

[gerikg]

You need a FTP program, same way you got the wordpress and bbpress on the server the first time. I would say look at your wp-config.php file and look for line that says define (‘WPLANG’, ‘XX’); Whatever the XX is is what you need to put in your bb-config.php file. define( ‘BB_LANG’, ‘XX’ );

[amwilson]

I am looking at different forums to use and I like the idea of bbpress because all of my web development is within wordpress. I like the idea of being able to integrate the forum with wordpress. I installed simple:press just to take a look at it and I like how the forum is on the wordpress platform because it uses use my existing wordpress theme with all of my widgets and site navigation already there. Now that I hear bbpress is going to do the same, I am leaning toward going with bbpress instead of simple:press since I am guessing long term that is where the most development and compatibility will be. For example, bbpress appears to integrate with buddyppress and mingle but simple:press does not.

What I would like to know is, if I do decide to go with bbpress, how should I set bbpress up now before it becomes a plugin to make the transition better when it does become a plugin?

Should I set it up to use my wordpress database or give bbpress its own database? I am not sure if the separate database will be an option after it is a plugin.

Or is there a way to set it up bbpress now as a plugin?

Is it simple to import simple:press data to bbpress? If so I may just use simple:press for now until bbpress becomes a plugin and gets any bugs straightened out and then import the forum to bbpress.

I would also like to hear any comments about my reasoning here.

[psycheangels]

bbpress is not going die, open source file will never die.

well im happy to see more ppl use bbpress not because the wordpress stuff.

[simonle]

Thank you for your comments.

I am in the need for a light-weight discussion board, preferably something that isn’t tied to WordPress. And for this I think bbPress suits perfectly. But I don’t want to invest time in something that isn’t going nowhere.

[cnc]

@ chrishajer… topic has been resolved… My problem has gone..

==================================================

@ gerikg reply regaring your email

Because you was using the wordpress header you wasn’t using the style.css file in the theme. I left it so it’s not used but adjusted the other files.

…:: Yes I’m using my bbpress style sheet into wp style sheet…

I tried your files but they did not work…

Its was a matter of global variable ..

I’ve learned it from this post

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/seemless-wordpress-integration

<?php if ($forumpage == TRUE) {

bb_title();

echo ” :.: AKN&I”;

} else …

to add the forum feed:

<?php if ($forumpage == TRUE) bb_feed_head(); ?>

in my case I call global variables..

anyway thanks for your help..

============================================

@ pelle .. really sorry dude your plugin did not work for my forums.. I hope it will work for others..

and I hope you’ll make it better and simple..

all the best….

Regards

cNc

[Process of Illumination]

My experience with bbpress is unfortunately very bad: i am a webmarketing manager (not a developer) and i trusted the “Download, install, and you’re on your way!” they claim on the homepage, but since then i had nothing but frustrations.

Obviously i chosed bbpress because of the wordpress integration, but it took me months to make it work, and now ii have it, but full of bugs (plugins not working, empty synced comments etc etc etc).

Unfortunately many people work in my company, and already have many users in my forum, so i just cannot change platform i’ll have to survive with bbpress.

If you have a simple site, lots of patience, know php and are very religious, go on with bb.

The Process

[jakshi]

O, I did integration with lastest releases wordpress (2.9.2) and bbpres (1.0.2), I just guess that long chain of previous upgrades can influence on bbpress integration with wordpress (may be database upgrades have some inaccuracy etc.)

[Kevin Muldoon]

Yes it may have been a little different if you did the integration with older releases. The best thing to do is to upgrade WordPress to the latest version, then bbPress, and then do the integration. Rather than integrate the scripts and then upgrade them.

[Ryan Hellyer]

This is now been released as a beta and includes a lot of improvements.

http://pixopoint.com/products/pixopoint-theme-integrator/

You can see another example of it in action on the GreekBerry forum (case study). It would be great to see an example of it in use with bbPress too

[gerikg]

Locate the bb-config.php file it might be in your wordpress folder or bbpress and find the define( ‘BB_LANG’

[Shivanand Sharma]

bbPress isn’t going anywhere. If you are worried about the lack of initiative in the direction of development, be assured that it will be also be there in bbPress closing down.

They’ve decided to convert bbPress into a WordPress plugin. But that’s been pending for months now. And when that does happen you’ll sitll have bbPress around. Don’t worry… use bbPress. It’s not got some premium themes and plugins too. The community is working on it behind the scenes.

[jakshi]

Al – I glad that my investigation help somebody

Kevin Muldoon – Thank you, may be it help some people that have trouble with integration. You article about integration very useful and clear. May be difference between my site and site that you setuped – My site has been upgraded from 2.1.x to 2.9.x during using and bbpress was upgraded from 0.9.x to 1.0.x, but you setup new sites.