[chrishajer]

bbPress.org is just a WordPress site with a bbPress installation. You have everything you need in the bbPress releases to create your own fork or distribution or CMS engine. Why would you need FTP/DB access to create a project like that? All you need is the bbPress code right?

The person who has access to the database and FTP or server is Matt, or someone who works for him. I believe you’ve already gotten in contact with him.

[Anonymous User]

I read everyday the post (negative thoughs) about the future of bbPress. But I don’t understand the motivation behind these posts.

We are the community – users of bbPress, WebWorkers, Developers, etc. I think it is possible to get more drive to the bbPress Project when we work together.

One thing I can help the project is in the developement of the new template …

We can make an Poll about an possible new face of bbpress.org!?

Suggest 1: Sneak Peak from Sam: https://bbpress.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/forum-front-page.png

Suggest 2: Example for a new Feature Page: http://matiasventura.com/bbpress/features.htm

Suggest 3: A more modern theme ala BuddyPress.org: http://www.buddypress.org

Markus

[chrishajer]

I believe I am an editor at the bbPress.org WordPress blog. That means I don’t have access to the Appearance tab (to change themes) or to Plugins or Settings. I have access to Pages and Posts so I can made additions or modifications to content there, but I can’t change the design or anything like that.

Honestly though, we have bigger problems than just putting a fresh face on the bbPress.org website. That would be the least of my concerns.

Yury, if you’re not seriously talking about creating a fork, but gave this topic a title like that “to get people’s attention” then you’re trolling, which is not productive.

Right now, we have the bbPress.org forums, which are moderated daily by me. I help out with solutions where I can, or try to pull information out of users who post of problems with very few details, to possibly help some other thoughtful soul who might come along and be able to help.

I don’t touch integration problems at all (“when I log in to bbPress, I am automatically logged out of WordPress” anyone?) because integration is far too complicated with too much voodoo required (PHP5? 777 permissions? pasting in keys and cookie domains that may or may not make a difference?) for someone who just wants to install a forum where their WordPress users can be logged in automatically. For that reason, and a couple others (functional integration [ability to use things like wp_list_pages()] and theme integration (“I want my bbPress to just be a page inside my WordPress site” or “how do I make bbPress look like my WordPress theme?”)) I support the decision to make bbPress a WordPress plugin.

Honestly though, I’m not sure how that will work with custom post types coming in 3.0. Justin Tadlock was playing with an idea that used custom post types to create a forum structure, and it looked pretty neat. He lost that work in a hard drive crash or something, but he mentioned it didn’t take long to do.

http://www.wptavern.com/forum/bbpress/1437-bbpress-off.html#post13939

http://twitter.com/justintadlock/status/10849352003

For those who want bbPress as standalone, please feel free to download the versions that exist right now. Download them daily, in case development ceases at some point. Right now, we’re continuing to fix bugs in the existing versions. After all the bugs are fixed it’s anyone’s guess what will happen.

And with a fork of bbPress you’d arguably have more control (heck, you can fork it now with one of the existing versions, create your own website and distribute the software) but you’d be hard pressed to match the community we have here. It may not be big, but it’s dedicated, and if you’re interested in seeing bbPress continue this is the best place to be.

[Gautam Gupta]

This is a good tutorial (with screenshots) for integration – http://www.wpmods.com/integrate-wordpress-bbpress

[kevinjohngallagher]

In fairness Yuri, while I’m unhappy at the way Matt has left bbPress, he is incredibly busy and recieves a crazy amount of email due to him being the effective face of the company.

Maybe you should have waited for a response instead of hounding him.

who are this people and why we can’t find them?

“We” is “you” mate. I used this thing called Google (or at least that is what the kids are calling it) and found this:

… documentation team has been put together comprised of Tom39Away, pmall, justintadlock, and Nightgunner5 …

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/documentation-team

https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-09-meetup/

Things with bbPress aren’t great. No-one is pretending they are. But they’ve not been great for well over a year now, and frankly its not going to change anytime soon. Lets just focus on getting 1.1 (or 1.0.3 – not sue when people started using different numbers) out the door, dealing with all the fall out of WordPress3.0 not integrating; and then we can take stock and see where we are.

Hounding Matt, or anyone from automattic, isn’t going to make the smallest difference I’m afraid.

[Anonymous User]

Hi Tom,

thanks for your new version of the buddybar-in-bbpress plugin. It works in my installation.

I only get this error message because of commenting “out” the bp_adminbar_blogs-menu:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method wpdb::get_blog_prefix() in /kunden/199620_87439/webseiten/wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-adminbar.php on line 193

1. bp_buddybar.php

/*add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_blogs_menu’, 6 ); */

2. bp-core-adminbar.php

/* $blog_prefix = $wpdb->get_blog_prefix( $current_blog->id );*/

Is there another way to deactivate the “new blog” function? I use the WordPress Single Version 2.9.2 – and there is no function for new blogs.

Greetings

Markus

[robynh]

GoDaddy

[Gautam Gupta]

This tutorial also explains integration for WordPress 3.0 – http://www.wpmods.com/integrate-wordpress-bbpress (WP 3.0 also has cookie salts). Haven’t dug into this yet, maybe will do later.

[deadlyhifi]

There’s a plugin to get the buddybar into bbP – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddybar-in-bbpress/

I updated it to work with buddypress 1.2

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddybar-for-bbpress/page/5#post-40993

It requires deep integration.

[Xevo]

Hi there,

I’m working on a bbpress 1.0.2, wordpress 3.0 beta and buddypress 1.2.3 setup, but now I’m having problems with my bbpress. I did the same setup with 2.9.2 and that worked great, but I’m guessing WordPress 3.0 changed a lot.

Here’s what happened.

I installed wordpress normally with a different username than “admin” with my own password, all went well. After that I installed buddypress as a plugin, this went like it should as well. Then when I reached the bbpress installation (step 2), I entered all the secret keys and salt as I had them in my wp-config.php and pressed next step, it said that everything was validated but then in step 3 it let me choose a keymaster username, which I find odd since 2.9.2 didn’t. I entered a username/e-mail and finished the setup without a problem. No problems encounterd in the setup was said in the setup logs. Now here’s the strange thing, it made the tables in my database (which is the database that holds wordpress as well) but it did not make a bb-config.php file, so when I went to the URL of the main forum page, it gave me an error (which is when I discovert that there was no bb-config.php). It also made “bb_users” and “bb_usermeta” in my database. I made bb-config.php myself after that with the same secret keys from wp-config and setup wp integration in bb-admin accordingly. This gave me shared cookie logins with my wordpress install (having bbpress intergration plugin installed in wordpress). But after having done all this, I cannot enter my bb-admin area anymore. I checked the files and figured out that the function bb_auth was causing me to be redirected to the main forum page.

So my question is, anyone solved this problem yet or can you help me solve it?

function bb_auth( $scheme = 'auth' ) { // Checks if a user has a valid cookie, if not redirects them to the main page

if ( !bb_validate_auth_cookie( '', $scheme ) ) {

nocache_headers();

if ( 'auth' === $scheme && !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {

wp_redirect( bb_get_uri( 'bb-login.php', array( 're' => $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ), BB_URI_CONTEXT_HEADER + BB_URI_CONTEXT_BB_USER_FORMS ) );

} else {

wp_redirect( bb_get_uri( null, null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_HEADER ) );

}

exit;

}

}

[Gautam Gupta]

Here are some useful links:

http://www.wpmods.com/integrate-wordpress-bbpress

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

[gerikg]

what is the name of your hosting company?

[robynh]

Yeah. It uses php5. What do you have to do, exactly?

[robalan]

zaerl,

Apparently I need the second pair of eyes for when I post things here. ;o) I copied/pasted the redacted code, but didn’t add the BB_.

On the actual config file, they are:

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘same as wordpress’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘same as wordpress’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘same as wordpress’);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘same as wordpress’);

[zaerl]

in your bb-config.php:

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘same as wordpress’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘same as wordpress’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘same as wordpress’);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘same as wordpress’);

[gerikg]

Does your server use php5? I use 1and1 hosting and I have to put a line in the htaccess or I get the same thing.

[robynh]

I think I might have broken something when setting up bbPress. I wanted it integrated with my wordpress site. While installing, when it asked for the username for the “Key Master” I put in Murgy, which is my WordPress admin name. Anyway, I went through the rest of the installation, integrations, etc. But now, when I log into WordPress, it logs me out of bbPress, and when I log into bbPress it logs me out of WordPress, so… I’m thinking that naming the initial Key Master the same as my WP admin name maybe wasn’t the smartest idea.

But anyway. Is there any way to fix this, or should I reinstall or something?

[Anonymous User]

Hi Rabbitdk,

with manual coding it should be possible to display complete posts in wordpress.

I use the examples from https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration to display an complete list of my forums and a short list of the newest topics.

http://www.mysteria3000.de/wp/

But I think – to make an original WordPress Post out of it – is not as easy as pure displaying.

hmmm….

For the last month I use the plugin ‘WordPress-bbPress syncronization’ (http://bobrik.name/code/wordpress/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization). But these plugin does it the other way – make WordPress Post to Topics in bbPress and display answers (post in bbPress) as comments in WordPress. A skilled php developer can use this plugin and change some code to realize your idea.

Unfortunately I’m no developer

[chrishajer]

You will get the password even if mail() is disabled, on installation. You either set it, or it uses the existing one if you selected a WordPress user as keymaster, or it’s displayed on screen. It will also mail, but that’s not the only way.

[robalan]

Here are my config files, for reference:

wp-config:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘###’); // The name of the database

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘###’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘###’); // …and password

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘internal-db.###.gridserver.com’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

define(‘WP_CACHE’, true);

define(‘SECRET_KEY’, ‘###’);

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘###’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘###’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘###’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘###’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘###’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘###’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘###’);

define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ‘###’);

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

$table_prefix = ”; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// 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’, ”);

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

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

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

?>

bb-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’, ‘###’ );

/** MySQL database username */

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘###’ );

/** MySQL database password */

define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘###’ );

/** MySQL hostname */

define( ‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘internal-db.###.gridserver.com’ );

/** 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’, ” );

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

/**#@+

* 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(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘###’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘###’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘###’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘###’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘###’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘###’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘###’);

define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ‘###’);/**#@-*/

/**

* 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 = ‘bb_’;

/**

* 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’, ” );

?>

[Olaf Lederer]

That’s why I asked, I can’t remember that (it was more than two years ago ver. 0.83)

If it works like for wordpress everything is cool.

[robalan]

Thanks guys—I’m going to have a more competent db admin switch over the WordPress database so that the tables have the wp_ prefix. Everything else seems to be default, so hopefully that fixes it (though if that’s what fixes it, I’m going to be pissed). ;o)

I’ll keep you posted.

[rabbitdk]

No, from inside the bbpress forum, I want to send a topic to my WordPress front so it’s published like a ordinary blog post

[gerikg]

Chrishaje, I think it’s something like this https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-recent-replies/#post-4989

but not recent replies but new topics that was just added….?

[rabbitdk]

Not sure that does exactly what I want, btw I am no good with codes, but that is explained pretty detailed so I could probably try it out (however, I just messed up my bbPress install while messing with permalinks )

I want the full forum post to be published as a blog entry, by the click of a button, to promote the posts as you said