[chrishajer]

did you quote the filename?

require_once('/absolute/path/to/wp-load.php');

[kirkpatrick]

The following will work to give the registration you want, and to hide the forums from unregistered eyes.

1. Integrate WordPress and bbPress (install the WordPress plugin bbPress integrate), so users are the same. This includes setting up a page in WordPress (title “Forums”) whose permalink is the path to the forums (so the bbpress folder, whatever you call it, should be inside WordPress, parallel with wp-admin).

2. Do surgery on your bbPress theme so there’s no registration prompt on the sidebar; do all registrations from WordPress.

3. Install a WordPress plugin (like Register Plus) that provides email verification of registration.

4. Install a bbPress plugin (like hidden-forums) that allows you to hide forums. Set it up to hide the school forum.

4a. If you are going to hide all your forums, be sure to fix the bug in bb-includes/functions.bb-forums.php, line 83: put “(array)” into that line the same way it’s in line 82.

5. Install WordPress RoleScoper plugin. Edit the page “Forums” that you created, scroll down to RoleScoper fields “Readers”, click Restrict for Page, and check all the groups under “eleigible groups”. (This makes the page invisible, then makes it visible to all registered users.)

This works — I did it just this evening. I’m really thankful you asked, because it forces me to document what I went through. Many things can go wrong (some people have trouble with integration, though I’ve done it a number of times without difficulty).

To get it to work for several forums, each with a separate set of parents, is a second stage of development. My approach would be:

Use RoleScoper to set up a new role/group for each school’s parents. Then hack hidden-forums.php to get it to handle RoleScoper roles. (That little sentence carries great possibilities of frustration and trouble. But that would do it for your problem.)

An alternate approach, which would be less technically difficult, but perhaps much more trouble in the long run, would be to set up a separate WP-BBP site for each school, perhaps as subdomains of your main WordPress site. Parents of a school would register at one of the sub-sites, which would have only one forum. Then district-wide material would belong to the main site, and each school would have its own website and private forum.

The third approach, the easiest: Trust all parents equally — allow any parent to visit any forum. No secrets among schools.

I hope this is of help to you.

Kim Kirkpatrick

[johnhiler]

Yup, you can use the same database as your current wordpress install – in fact, you have to in order to integrate the user data:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

“bbPress can share user data with an existing WordPress installation. All you need to do is specify the location of that database on installation or afterwards in the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin.”

[Abhinav Sood]

Hi all,

I am Abhinav. I am facing a slight problem deep integrating the latest stable versions of WordPress ( 2.8.6 ) with bbPress ( 1.0.2 ) on a website – I have completed the user and cookie integration and it works perfectly. All the settings are configured and saved properly. However after I add the line :

require_once(/absolute/path/to/wp-load.php);

to the top of bb-config.php .. Forums page goes blank! No errors, no warning messages.. Just a blank page with no code at all..

Before installing the bbPress live on the server, I developed the theme on my system locally and tested deep integration thoroughly a few times – everything works just fine locally but it’s creating trouble live on the server.

I have checked echoing values from the WordPress files that are loaded into bbPress.. that confirms that WordPress is being loaded properly.. But why isn’t bbPress loading after that !

I suspect that having WordPress installed and running since a long time already is causing the problem!

I have deep integrated various websites where WordPress was already installed and running for quite sometime without any issues..

Can it be a plugin conflict? The website is using 37 ( ) plugins at the moment..

( Should I post a list of plugins being used? )

Can anyone help me out, please?

I’d be very grateful..

Regards..

[robie]

Hi,

I have a wordpress site running now but need to know if I want to add the forum, do I need to create a new mysql database on my server or can I just use the existing database my current wordpress installation is using? I was not sure if I could fill out the same data in bb-config.php as I did in the wp-config.php file from wordpress.

[adonis827]

My fault. There is this option for wordpress admin not bbpress.

[Greg]

I have a strange problem. When I’m on the forum front page or a forum page, the timezone is set to “America/Los_Angeles “, but when I go onto one of the topic pages, it is “Etc/GMT+7”.

I am checking by using the PHP function “date_default_timezone_get()” in the header right after the <body> tag.

These two are different by an hour because of daylight saving, which is causing an issue with the simple-onlinelist plugin.

Where in the initialization of bbPress is the timezone set? Any ideas why it would be set differently depending on the bbPress page that is loaded?

If it matters, I have deep integration with WordPress MU 2.8.4a, which also has the timezone at “America/Los_Angeles”.

Thanks.

[t_shea]

How about lots more theme choices like WordPress. Also, is there a plugin that places a ‘pinned’ button at the bottom corner where you could add a link to ‘post’ or ‘top of page’?

[johnhiler]

bbPress is not a forum plugin for WordPress; it’s its own separate program.

What are the basic features of a forum you’d like to see? Let us know, and we can help steer you in the right direction!

[thezachperson31]

I’m looking for a good forum plugin for WordPress, and bbPress seems like a good choice. The main thing I like about bbPress is its simplicity. Dead-simple to use, with no confusing toolbars to intimidate users. However, aside from installing numerous plugins, it lacks many of the basic features of a forum. In my view, if I’m spending more effort to get something to work as well as another solution, I’ll go with the alternative.

The forum will only be used for basic discussion, so advanced functionality is not needed, but its helpful and attractive to include a few anyway. Keeping it easy and intuitive yet functional for first-time forum users is key.

Right now I’m leaning towards bbPress, but do you have any additional suggestions?

[chrishajer]

Are you using a default theme, and what plugins are you using? What version of bbPress and is it integrated with WordPress (and the version there too if so)?

[johnhiler]

bbPress is its own standalone program, similar to how WordPress is its own standalone program. It’s definitely not just a plugin to WordPress… although there are a few WP plugin forum plugins! Sounds like you’re already playing around with one of them.

[Kolya33]

I’m already using your translation goebelmasse, thank you. Just turned it off for testing.

These strange characters you pointed out show up even if the content of config-bb.php is nothing but a PHP start and end tag. (I have no blank lines before or after the PHP tags.)

I think it must be some problem with the keys. I basically used all the keys from the wp-config.php with “BB_” added to the start of the keyname.

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ”);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ”);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ”);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ”);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ”);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ”);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ”);

The keys I use are all from the WP generator: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

[Kolya33]

On the WP blog I have the plugin “Limit Login Attempts” installed (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/). I have tried turning that off, to no avail.

[alicepohl]

We are creating a wordpress website which requires secure forums for schools.

How it needs to work is: school forums will be set up for individual schools.

If you are parent and want to see YOUR SCHOOL forum – you will need to

a) click on your school from a drop down list of available school forums

b) register for this school forum

c) An administrator will confirm your registration (depends if you answered security question correctly)

d) From there you can happily view information (which may be confidential) on the school forum page and post/view information as well

FEEDBACK FROM DEVELOPER:

Simplepressforum – doesn’t allow us to do the above

We then Installed the WordPress MU and had a look at buddypress.

The type of functionality that we are looking for is not available in WordPress MU. Buddy Press is entirely build on the facebook concept, and not geared towards groups as we are looking for.

A solution might be to create a custom forum with all the functionality that is needed and just include it in an iframe in wordpress. Downside to this will be that the there will be 2 back-ends for managing the website, Word Press and the Forums.

========

Really don’t want to go custom design … I really though something like this would be simple to set up … excuse the pun …

Can anybody help?

[katastimata]

I suppose that the ideal for me would be a bridge between bbpress (or anything else) and drupal (or anything else). Just pick the best (for you) specialized software for all different parts of your website and integrate them (as seamlessly as possible).

[katastimata]

I have used wordpress, muwordpress, drupal and joomla and proprietary CMS extensively, for any kind of website. I’m about to start testing bbpress but I have to say that I’m a bit sceptical.

One thing is that the best communities I have ever seen are based on forum specialized software (not going to mention these here, you know them). So in order to establish a well performing online community I suggest that you use one of these software (bbpress seems to be one of these).

The other thing is that the community will help protect the community, so unless you build it and it grows, you won’t be able to keep it clean and tidy all by yourself.

[OKTeaRoom]

Ok, I just installed two wordpress blogs that share the same users using this method:

Installing two WordPress blogs with the same users

They seem to work as far as logging in and out but i don’t believe they share the same cookies (due to the fact that i can log in/out of one and still be logged in/out of the other).

I’d like to make one forum installation to serve BOTH of these sites (having seperate forum sections for each blog)…is it possible to do the cookie integration between all three?

Hopefully that made sense and thank you to anyone who can help.

[rainbow_lazer]

Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to display bbPress’ tag cloud from the sidebar in WordPress. I’ve googled a lot, but can’t seem to find anyone who’s done this.

I’ve hacked a temporary solution that displays the topic tags from bbpress as a list in the wordpress sidebar, but I’d really love to have the size formatting as well.

<?php

global $wpdb;

$taglist = $wpdb->get_results(“select name from bb_terms”,”ARRAY_N”);

$number_of_tags_to_show = 10;

for ($count = 0; $count < $number_of_tags_to_show; $count++)

{

if($taglist[$count][0])

{

$tag = str_replace( ” “, ” “, $taglist[$count][0]);

echo ‘

[chrishajer]

Actually, because this file is accessible:

http://speakasp.net/asp-forum/bb-templates/kakumei/screenshot.png

and your forum comes up if you access it like this:

http://speakasp.net/asp-forum/index.php

it seems that the files are installed in the proper locations. Maybe the server is not configured to serve index.php as one of the default files? I think the default on IIS is to look for default.asp first, but there has to be a way to serve index.php by default. That’s what you need for bbPress (and WordPress too, which seems to be working already.)

[chrishajer]

What are the directory paths where you installed WordPress and bbPress, the full path, or at least the relationship between the two.

Also, if you look, is the install.php file in the bb-admin directory? Maybe all the files were not transferred.

[drahmedgalal]

hello;

i am trying to install bbpress on my website but i get a very early wear problem.

i dowenloaded the last version of bbpress >>unzipped >> uploaded to a new virtual directory(i use windows shared hosting) >>then i go to the path of installation >>

http://speakasp.net/asp-forum/

>> then i got a massage saying “There doesn’t seem to be a bb-config.php file. This usually means that you want to install bbPress.” >> i press go to step 1 >> then i got 404 on

http://speakasp.net/asp-forum/install.php

i am running windows server, shared hosting(so no access to iis) ,i have installed blog on http://speakasp.net/blog/

and i have one sub domain.

i really want to have this forum application , although i am an asp.net developer i am the biggest fan of wordpress and i think i will like bbpress too

but please answer me quickly as i am fighting for three days now with no results

thanks allot

[mextena]

Yes, I was receiving emails when I was using WordPress from the same server. So it’s not the problem with the server side.

I am using latest version of bbpress (bbPress 1.0.2) I am using English language. I have not integrated WordPress with this bbPress.

So what is the problem With email sending?

[chrishajer]

First determine if you can send email from that server. Can you? Have you ever received mail from the server?

Also, what type of server, and what version of bbPress did you install, and are you integrated with WordPress? Using English or another language? All of these things can affect how mail is sent from your server.

[chrishajer]

When you have the integration working, a user will be able to log in in either the forum or the WordPress site, and will already be logged in on the other side. They would not have to log in twice and would be logged in at both places simultaneously.