[chrishajer]

So you installed bbPress into a different database from WordPress, but you previously integrated the users, so bbPress is already using the wp_users table?

[chrishajer]

This site isn’t too bad:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/

But if you just search the internet, you will find lots of tutorials and references. You’ve already gone about modifying your template files, so modifying the CSS is not going to be too difficult for you.

[chrishajer]

The problem for a plugin author, as I see it, is that you can follow RSS feeds for each of your plugins, in the plugin forum, but you can’t catch every topic posted in the forums here that mentions your plugin.

WordPress.org has a pretty good method of tagging the support topics with [Plugin-Name] so you can follow an RSS feed for an individual plugin in the support forums. That doesn’t exist here. I often wonder how they enforce consistency for plugin names in those tags.

Actually, maybe they don’t. These are all about All in One SEO pack from Michael Torbert.

https://wordpress.org/tags/all-in-one-seo

https://wordpress.org/tags/all-in-one-seo-2

https://wordpress.org/tags/all-in-one-seo-3

[Plugin All In One SEO]

[PLUGIN: All-in-One SEO]

Plugin: All in One SEO

So, maybe they don’t. Seeing this, I think it would be much easier for a plugin author to follow the RSS feed for their page, and not try to watch the forums for mentions of their plugins.

[chrishajer]

There’s no need to have all those folders. Just put bbPress into a folder called whatever you want (forums?) and call it a day.

If you took the database connection details from your wp-config.php, be sure you don’t copy the CONSTANT names as well, just the variable part (the part about your database.) The constants are named differently in bb-config.php and wp-config.php.

If you copied over just the variable portion, then you did something wrong because it will connect in both places (WordPress and bbPress) if you have the connection details correct. It’s telling you right here that it’s not.

[_ck_]

I believe the plugin page for Avatar Upload has a few suggestions as to how to use it in WordPress.

You can also find other help via this tag

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/avatar-upload

[Tommie Hansen]

Yes, you’ll just have to fetch the username and then have the same username in bbPress and then edit your comments-template.php inside your WordPress template. I don’t have the time to fully explain it though, but i will do it myself soon actually so…

[Anonymous User]

Hi everyone,

I’ve a problem with the Bavatars Plugin in bbPress 1.0.1 – integrated with WordPress 2.8 (User). I’dont understand where is the Link to the Upload-Page? I can’t see no effect on the Profil-Edit-Page. Do I miss something?

On http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bavatars/ I found an entry about the differance between Bavatar and Avatar Upload. One thing there was the statement: Avatar Upload is different because “Avatar Upload requires template editing.”

Where lies my fault?!

Greetings Markus

[kickerman360]

Hi,

I was wondering how I could display the bbPress plugin, Avatar Upload, in WordPress. Software: bbPress 1.0.1, WordPress 2.8.1

I am using bbPress as the profile’s home so to speak since I’d rather not use WordPress’ Dashboard and want to display the avatar of the user on the home page.

I have done deep integration both ways by using this snippet of code in [wp/bb]-config.php

if ( !defined( ‘ABSPATH’ ) ) {

include_once( ‘/home/path/to/forums/[bb/wp]-load.php’ );

}

Then pasted this bit of code where I want the avatar.

<?php avatarupload_get_avatar(ID); ?>

However, as I expected it doesn’t work with the error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function avatarupload_display() in blah3 on line x

I tried adding <?php bb-head ?> and <?php if ( bb_is_profile() ) profile_menu(); ?> to the header but both result in an error

I am no programmer but I don’t think bbPress is being load correctly. Can anyone offer a solution or some advice?

[Rohan Kapoor]

Hey you need to integrate the cookies using the plugin bbpress Integration for WordPress. Just google it and insert the code the plugin gives you into the wp-config.php and bb-config.php files.

[eyran]

Hello with all the inconvenience and noise width Adabe service

Portal BBpress

My name Sajjad Aghaee student in Informatics

Am. Beings that I am proud Iranian.

From long ago with your Association Management System

Met use and am very happy and satisfied. All projects in the Open

Iran welcomed by a very good face. Including the project can be referred WordPress

That Iran was known as the most popular system.

Willingness to open a harsh slave database

I am from Iran for BBPress. I opened with

Commissioning of this base to develop this system in need for. And I

Say that within a few months I system to rank the best management system 1 to 3

Society in Iran would become.

Summary that I can

BBPress not in place yet and need more support than

Is.

If you wish to setup a database to support

BBPress for Iran to have contact with me.

aghaee.sajjad @ gmail.com

(BBPress the best and strongest

Portal Management Association in the world)

Thanks Sajjad

من به ایرانی بودنم افتخار می کنم. با تشکر سجاد آقائی

http://www.eyran.net

[Driftless]

So… I’m thinking the secret lies somewhere here:

bb-includes/functions.bb-users.php Lines 171+:

if ( count( $wordpress_roles_new ) ) {

bb_update_usermeta( $user, $wordpress_table_prefix . 'capabilities', $wordpress_roles_new );

bb_update_usermeta( $user, $wordpress_table_prefix . 'user_level', max( $wordpress_userlevels_new ) );

Can I just change the 3rd argument to keep it null?

Of course, there is also the next few lines dealing with: function bb_apply_wp_role_map_to_orphans()

In short — how can I prevent bbpress from messing with my WPMU settings ever!? And I mean – never ever! If I want to change the MU settings, I’ll do it in MU.

Bad bbpress! No! Bad program. Go to your room.

Even when a new user registers in BBpress – let em be orphaned in MU… whats the harm?

(Stop… think… how will the affect cookies… if a user goes to MU, and there is no setting for them, but they have a shared cookie saying they are logged in, MU will FREAK OUT!… So, something needs to change on MU’s end to say: if this happens, (cookie says logged in, but no role for you!) no biggie, stay cool, just pretend the user is not logged in…. Oooooh…. am I on to something?)

[Wattskemov]

I find the AUTH_SALT etc. in my wp-config.php file. But I still can’t share the cookies after I have done all stuff.

Here is my bbPress admin image:

http://www.waterlin.org/tmp/bbPress_Cookies_integration.png

I notice that there is on sentence in bbPress document:

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

Here is the sentence:

---

This feature requires your WordPress and bbPress installations to exist in the same domain name, or at least in sub-domains of the same domain name.

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I install WPMU into the root of my virtual host; then I install bbPress into the path /forum/

I don’t know if bbPress will work when it is in the sub-folder of WPMU?

[johnhiler]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress MU are you using?

[Driftless]

Hi – there are several threads relating to this. Short answer:

The multiple keys are used in both — notably in bb-config.php:

define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’ );

define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’ );

define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’);

Should match the similar keys (of the five or so) listed in your wp-config.php file.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/login-in-problems-with-wordpressbbpress

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast/page/3

[mbojkowski]

It’s frustratingly awkward to install isn’t it. I hope this improves somehow. I managed it once before after (a long time spent) integrating it with WordPress but now I want to install it again as a stand-alone I’m finding it near impossible to get past “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified. Please check the settings, then try again”. These forums are near useless too.

[mdtreo]

i’ve read through the forums to no avail. here’s the scenario…i have wordpress installed and hosted. right now the database is set up as http://mydomain.com/wordpress. i created a new directory called “forums” and installed bbpress in that folder. then i go to http://mydomain.com/wordpress/forums/bbpress (which is crazy) to proceed with the install. i enter the dabase name, database user name and password which i’m taking directly from the wp-config file and i get “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified. Please check the settings, then try again.” I’m assuming either the directory set up is wrong or i’m entering the wrong database info. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[hotforwords]

Can I integrate my bbress database into my WordPress database after they were separate (but sharing the same WordPress usernames)?

Can I just copy the bb_ tables into my WordPress database and them tell bbpress to look at my WordPress database?

Thanks so much!

Marina

[gardenfl]

Second issue:

Currently my BBPress and WordPress are on two different databases. I would very much like to integrate users. However, the forum has about 50 users and the blog has about 20 users. Some are duplicates.

My main concern is making this as simple as possible for the users.

If I use the integration settings, how does that handle existing users?

[Marius-]

To integrate BBPress with WordPress cookies, I need a secret key.

I have four keys in my wp-config file, and none of them are called “Secret Key”. So where do I get this?

I need help FAST, so please!

[gardenfl]

I currently use 09.5 but would like to upgrade this weekend. I do need to clarify a couple of things first.

To begin with I set up a temp/test forum and tested the plugins I currently use. All seemed to work just fine.

OK, not to the trickier part.

Originally I installed BBPress through SimpleScripts, which my host makes available on dashboards.

Then, changing my plans I moved the forum to a subfolder of a WordPress instillation.

I will ask my host, but I don’t think there is a way to change the SimpleScripts info, which thinks the forum is located at the original location.

Does anybody know if SimpleScripts adds anything that could complicate a normal upgrade? I am a very cautious upgrader and will of course back up the data base. But I want to go into this knowing about any potential problems.

[gardenfl]

This is the request I receive most often on my forum, the ability to reply to a specific post on a thread.

Say that a user comes into a thread and finds about 40 responses on a thread, but wishes to respond to a comment somewhere in the middle. Yes, they could quote. But is there any way to add a Reply button to keep discussions connected? We do have this option on WordPress.

Thanks

[Paul]

i’m having a problem with unescaped characters showing up in my forum entries – for instance, if there’s an apostrophe in an entry, it gets displayed as ' when people read the forum. if you later edit that entry, the next display is \' and so forth. it seems as if the engine isn’t un-escaping the characters.

i’m using bbPress 1.0.1 and wordPress 2.8.1 at http://trashfilmorgy.com/

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

By the way, I am trying to understand why so few people ask these kinds of plugin specific questions on the page for the plugin itself. Can you give me any insight?

WordPress does it in the forums. It’s a second place to look for support, not as many people visit it with the regularity they do this part of the site, and as it has the oldest post on top, it’s not quite as intuitive as it might be.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

For example, where is WordPress “auth” cookie salt in WPMU? I also can’t find WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt & WordPress “logged in” cookie salt in my WordPress admin page.

You just listed them.

The WordPress “auth” cookie salt in WPMU is in your wp-config.php file: define('AUTH_SALT', 'bliddyblah');

If you’ve done that correctly, you should see something like this: http://img268.yfrog.com/img268/8247/bbpresssettings.gif

I wiped out my cookies and URL, but you should get the idea.

[thekmen]

Hi all,

I am using the hidden forums plugin by _ck_ on bbPress 1.0.1 without any issues so far.

The only thing I am stuck on is getting the user id to add to the list of allowed users. It is not displayed in the bbPress users admin page, so I have to go back to the wordpress end, click on edit user & get the number from the URL.

I am using pretty permalinks in bbPress, so maybe thats why I don’t get it in the edit user profile URL there…

Anyone know of an easy way to display the user id in the bbPress back end?