[chrishajer]

Add a forum post to your WordPress front: does that mean if there is a forum post, you want to display it on your WordPress home page? As a sticky or something? You will do this manually whenever you feel like promoting a post?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration

[rabbitdk]

Hi there!

I’ve been looking for a while now, I can’t find anything that suits me

I am looking for a plugin that easily lets me (the admin) add a forum post to my WordPress front.

I’ve tried out bbPress-WordPress syncronization, but this only syncs comments, right?

Thanks in advance

[chrishajer]

During setup, the password is displayed on screen. If it’s not visible right on top, you can “show installation messages” and see it there. For a while there, I thought you could set the password as well, but I may be confusing with WordPress.

When you integrate and choose a WordPress user as keymaster, it just uses the existing password, so nothing is displayed or changed.

[zaerl]

Is it even supposed to show the WordPress users inside bbPress?

Yes it is.

I tell you what I have done. I have bbPress and WordPress on the same database and both have table prefixes. The blog is on my-domain.com/blog. The BBS is in my-domain.com/forum

On forum/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php:

1) the role map is key master, administrator, member, member, member.

2) WordPress URL is my-domain.com/blog, WordPress Blog is my-domain.com/blog.

3) Cookie salt “auth” valid, no Cookie salt “secure auth”, Cookie salt “logged in” valid.

4) AUTH_KEY <=> BB_AUTH_KEY and others set on (bb-config/wp-config).php and the NONCE_KEY <=> BB_NONCE_KEY

5) Table prefix set to the WordPress table prefix. Usually wp_

6) No advanced settings

On /blog/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress-integration-admin

1) bbPress URL = my-domain.com/forum/. Your plugin URL = nothing. WordPress type = WordPress.

2) Manual Cookie Settings tells me define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ ); which is defined in both config files (on top of those)

My wp-config.php:

<?php



define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );



define('DB_NAME', '...');

define('DB_USER', '...');

define('DB_PASSWORD', '...');

define('DB_HOST', '...');

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

define('DB_COLLATE', '');



define('AUTH_KEY', '...');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '...');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', '...');

define('NONCE_KEY', '...');



$table_prefix  = 'my_wordpress_table_prefix_';



if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');



require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); ?>

my bb-config.php:

<?php



define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );



define('BBDB_NAME', 'same as wordpress');

define('BBDB_USER', 'same as wordpress');

define('BBDB_PASSWORD', 'same as wordpress');

define('BBDB_HOST', 'same as wordpress');

define('BBDB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

define('BBDB_COLLATE', '');



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');



$table_prefix  = 'my_bbpress_table_prefix_';

[gerikg]

What are the “bb_” keys in your DB?

It’s rare that someone doesn’t have a wordpress prefix. I would suggest as a last resort to export your wordpress and create a new database and don’t remove the prefix.

The login out when you switch from one side to another, it happens to some of my clients when php5 isn’t used. It happens to me. If your users aren’t on both then I doubt that is the problem.

Take a deep breathe, you got more users helping you out here than most posts.

[Gautam Gupta]

Automattic is a company which owns all these projects (WordPress etc) – http://automattic.com/

And Sam had already made a new design for this forum a while ago but has not been implemented yet – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sneak-peek-at-bbpressorg-20

[Gautam Gupta]

Here – https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=bbpress&day=2009-12-09#m7771

[Gautam Gupta]

@Yuri

Talk practically, as if automattic would give you the passwords. By the way I think this website is owned by matt, as he said in one of the IRC chats or this forum. You can also check here – http://www.pir.org/get/whois?domain=bbpress&Submit=Search while wordpress is owned by automattic – http://www.name.com/whois_result?type=domain&domain_name=wordpress.com&submit=+Submit+

[robalan]

Is it even supposed to show the WordPress users inside bbPress? I don’t even know—that’s how incomplete and fragmented the frigging instructions are. What a waste of time.

[chrishajer]

robalan, do you have another set of eyes there than can help you look at each item one at a time? Sometimes that’s all it takes. Something simple like pasting all 4 keys from WP to BB, but not changing the name of the constant (they need to be BB_$wordpresskeyname in bbPress, for example.) I’m not saying it’s that one thing, although it has been that thing for many people, but it could be something simple you skip past every time.

[chrishajer]

In my opinion, which I expressed, it’s ridiculous. Sorry you disagree, but I stand by my statement.

In any case, I don’t think it has anything to do with this integration problem. This is the most common symptom of integration that is just not working well. There are lots of little gotchas in doing it. I gave up on even trying long ago. It’s far too much to ask people to do to achieve simple user integration. For this reason, I support making bbPress a WordPress plugin. You solve this integration problem, theme integration and also deep/functional integration. With those types of support questions gone, I’ll be out of a job (in a good way.)

[bobbycode]

Hi everybody,

bbpress fails to send out emails for my forum. Unfortunately, my host decided to disable mail() for all users.

I believe that is why I get the error:

“The email containing the password reset link could not be sent.”

Is there a work around? I know I have some plugins for my regular wordpress websites to get around this but wondering what to do for bbpress…

Tx,

Bobby

[zaerl]

It’s ridiculous if to integrate you have to set your directory permissions to 777. Some hosts won’t even let you do that.

It’s not “ridiculous.”

Anyway. Have you installed the WordPress bbPress Integration plugin?

[robalan]

Just tried that again—it saved and doesn’t give any errors, but still doesn’t display any of the WordPress users. Doesn’t explain the cookie issue either.

[gerikg]

In the wordpress integration section of bbpress have you tried to enter the information like it was a foreign database?

[robalan]

gerikg:

I tried installing without checking the boxes and setting it up via the admin area and got it to pass through: http://cl.ly/Gip

However, it’s still not showing my WordPress users in bbPress: http://cl.ly/HI9 and I’m still having cookie sharing issues where it logs me out of whichever app I switch to from the other.

[gerikg]

robalan, can you install without checking those boxes and then go to the bbpress dashboard and setting it through SETTINGS-> WORDPRESS INTEGRATION?

[zaerl]

Do bbPress and WordPress share the same database?

[Gautam Gupta]

GlotPress runs on BackPress too. BuddyPress doesn’t need BackPress because much code of it is already there in WordPress. And WordPress will eventually shift to BackPress. Though, that’s really not a matter of argument.

@Yuri

And main question: Who is admin of this site with full access if Matt left project?

As far as I know, matt, sambauers, and mdawaffe are keymasters and trent, chrishajer and _ck_ are moderators.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Back from my holidays and hopefully ramping up some bbPress dev in the next week or so, and this looks like a nice thread to come back to

The thing that I think a few folks have missed out on, is that the biggest changes from bbPress 0.9 to bbPress 1.0 is that alot of the core functions of the backend were unified into BackPress. While this added bloat to be sure, it basically gave us a unified platform on which ‘all’ of the automattic software solutions would be based. Except… none of the others moved to BackPress.

So we don’t have any (to the best of my knowledge) WordPress functions in bbPress, but also with “deep integration” we’re loading multiple classes and functions that effectively do the same thing. With deep integration we duplicate all of the base calls and functions every time we load a page.

BuddyPress got round this by ripping out all of the backpress stuff, and making the bbPress functions call the WordPress functions. BuddyPress’ forum is based on bbPress, its isn’t bbPress. This is where Sam kind of got the short end of the stick. Had WordPress moved to BackPress (instead of porting WP changes into BackPress) then all of the Automattic software solutions would be on the same base platform, and integration between them all would be a doddle. It also would have meant that bbPress could be both a stand alone AND a plugin, as it would effectively be a large “module” on top of BackPress functions.

The realsim is, that without any form of Project Management (and i know that phrase is where people start to hate me) or cohersion between the Automattic projects or developers and contributors, we’re effectively going to go in circles here.

Today marks the 3rd Month with no blog post or communication (other than the infamous “I just want to quit the whole project” statement from Matt). As much as that is disheartening, its not a shock. Matt (the person) and Matt (the developer) and those he works with on these projects have their hands full right now; and from what I’ve seen Chris has continued to steady the ship in a wonderful fashion… but make no mistake we’re drifting aimlessly in the current direction. Lets just keep the ship afloat, try and fix some bugs, and we’ll see what happens when we’re closer to a release.

Hope you’re all having a wonderful afternoon.

[Kevin Muldoon]

Craig.

I went through the exact same thing a few days ago and was getting the same error as you initially. As well as removing the tables you need to remove the plugin. You all need to remove the templates you added to merge buddypress from wordpress. It’s one of these templates which causes the not found error as the template is looking for buddypress in the plugins directory.

Remove the buddypress tables via phpmyadmin, deactivate the plugin (and delete it if you wish) and then delete all the templates you uploaded. You should be fine after that.

[Gautam Gupta]

THIS IS IMPORTANT POST, WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD READ:

For the time being, according to the plan laid down by Matt (which was weeks ago), bbPress will continue to be a standalone till some 1.2 version and then change into a plugin.

Now there are 2 things for you to consider:

1. Start your own project and if you start, then there will be 2 things:

   1. Either your project would get more attention if development doesn’t start here
   3. Or your project and hard work would go into vain if the development starts here/or you still don’t get popularity. So you might consider point 2.

2. Wait for the development to start (which would only happen when Matt pays attention to it, maybe after WP 3.0?). You might now want to start your own development, then see point 1.

I know that you might be confused, but I am also confused as much as you’re, thinking should I keep developing plugins for bbPress or not (nor any donations have come in the recent days). I’ll probably start developing plugins for BuddyPress/WordPress and be active on projects like After the Deadline/GlotPress.

I personally think that Matt is not considered about this project because (I might be wrong):

1. See his reply here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/whats-happening-with-bbpress/page/5#post-64425 (which was his last post on this forum).
2. I mailed him to let me take on the development and he said to be just active on trac, maybe he has some other plans down the line?

Right now, chrishajer is committing patches to the trunk (as he has the svn access) and IMO, trunk is more stable than 1.0.2.

Another thing is that half the people want it to be a plugin and half want it to be a standalone. Thus, I posted this method – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-as-a-wordpress-plugin-thoughts#post-64476, and it is how BuddyPress integrates bbPress forums into WP/BP install. This way it will remain a standalone for those who want it to be simple, light, fast etc. and plugin for those who want deep integration, ease of install etc. The problem that arises here is the plugin and theme repo, anyone has a solution to that? Maybe here’s one – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-as-a-wordpress-plugin-thoughts#post-64737

[zaerl]

bbPress _must_ not become a WordPress plugin. First of all because a BBS isn’t always associated with a blog and in my case this never happens. bbPress gain the attentions of a lot of people tired of bloatware engine like phpBB or slow engine like vBullettin. I switched to bbPress on all my sites for these reason.

Seconded a lot of people (as far as I know) chose bbPress because they can access to a WordPress style plugin system. If you have ever written a plugin for WordPress you can edit a bbPress one easily in order to accommodate your needs. But if bbPress will be a plugin of WordPress you will download a plugin… of a plugin? This is kind of confusing IMHO. Obviously I’m not talking about PHP programmers or in general skilled people but of regular users.

Third I think that the bbPress project deserve its own space. It is a too well done piece of code and for being a mere WordPress plugin.

[Kevin Muldoon]

Hey all,

For years I’ve used vBulletin for discussion forums. However, I have recently began to use bbPress for support forums on WordPress powered sites.

There are a lot of good tutorials on bbPress integration however some of the articles don’t go into that much detail in some areas so I decided to write my own tutorial on the matter.

It’s difficult to cover everything, but I have tried to note some of the most common problems which arise when integrating bbPress and WordPress. If you are unsure about anything please let me know

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

Thanks,

Kevin

[gerikg]

It hasn’t happened yet (a completed plugin) and with no developers, or developers on other projects, I don’t think it will happen anytime this year. I’ll bet on it. Either way, I read a lot of “let’s do this and let’s do that” but no action. I don’t think any of us can demand anything. We aren’t paying anyone anything. I doubt anyone donates either. We can request it, we can be annoying about it, but the choice is not ours. If you haven’t noticed the more annoying people get, the less developers we have. We can start a movement away from bbP once it’s a plugin but it hasn’t happened. This is premature complaining because it hasn’t happened.

We should focus on four things

1 Getting the current plugins to have admin menus for non-php editors.

2 More Plugins

3 More themes (the reason I picked wordpress over drupal)

4 Documentations. It will be easier for people to code once the basic map is mapped out instead of everyone starting from ground zero. https://bbpress.org/documentation/