[Jason Giedymin]

Just a couple helpers as I’m on the road:

1.) try wp-admin/options.php and do a search on that page for the values you seek.

2.) Install the integration plugin, enter the settings for this plugin directory correctly. Do what it tells you 100%. Things like forum location, and extra defines to put in the config are crucial.

3.) Make sure you actually go into the ‘wordpress integration’ settings option in bb-press’s admin section (bb-admin/).

4.) When adjusting any of these settings, the order of how the app looks at these values is something like (don’t hold me to this, i’m working off of memory here): [option already initialized? starting up then no -> defined in config dot php? no -> Database.]

5.) As long as your doing vanilla HTTP and not doing HTTPS authentication everyting will work out of the box given you do exactly as your told by the apps/plug-ins. HTTPS would be chocolate and you’d have to do something to the integration plug-in to force a ‘secure-auth’ cookie generated. Do a search on this, I’ve covered this in another post.

[jphill77]

I am using WordPress MU 2.7.1, and BBpress 0.9.0.5 with PHP 5. I have the user table integration as well.

[lndasa]

I saw somewhere you shall run into cookie problem with wordpress authentication if bbpress is not installed as a subfolder under WP. Nevertheless that’s exactly what I want to do and Iam unable to do. I haven’t deleted the http://absolute-truth.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/ installation, I copied the whole bbpress to /forums and tried to re-install bbpress with bb-config commented. It failed in step 2. Thats where Iam. Unfortunately there is no step by step procedure to relocate bbpress.

[_ck_]

You don’t actually have bbpress installed underneath wordpress do you?

http://absolute-truth.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/

if so, that’s really not good design

move it to http://absolute-truth.net/forums/

bbPress is not a wordpress plugin, it’s a standalone program

[Wattskemov]

I have installed my WordPress-MU 2.7 & bbPress1.0.1 and I also try to bridge the cookies between them.

Now the user data is shared by them. But I can’t make the cookie share work.

I have installed “bbPress Integration” plugin for WordPress. I also Copy these from wp-config:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘blahblah’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘blahblah’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘blahblah’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘blahblah’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘bliddyblah’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘bliddyblah’);

Put them in bb-config.php with BB_ in front:

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘blahblah’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘blahblah’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘blahblah’);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘blahblah’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘bliddyblah’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘bliddyblah’);

But I don’t know what I should fill in bbPress –> Dashboard –> Setting –> WordPress Integration. 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.

Where can I find them in WPMU?

[jdschu]

I’m looking to start up a book exchange for students at the university I attend. I want it to be very basic. People post the book along with some additional information (edition, price, condition, etc.) The posts would need to be searchable (of course), and there would have to be a way of viewing each department separately (for instance, just browsing the French books for sale).

I’ve been playing with Noah’s classifieds, and while it would work, I feel like I can do better. bbPress is very trim, which I like, and I’ve used wordpress a lot, which should be helpful. How well suited is bbPress for something like this?

[hrfedh]

I downloaded one but I don’t see how I can upload a new theme – like I can in WordPress.

[bobbyh]

Are you using bbpress 1.0? I hope not, because I wrote that that plugin for 0.8. Also, what version of WordPress are you using?

Also, what version of PHP do you use, is your bbpress integrated with WordPress (not “deep integration”, just “user table integration”. Basically, you have to tell me something about your setup for me to offer any help at all.

[grassrootspa]

Hmmm…Have 2 idea to help (not sure what the issue is and am new at this)

1) change the bar width from “width: 800px;” to maybe “width: 900px;” and see if it extends to where you want.

2) If that does nothing (it might not) you want to try and stick the

<?php include('andybar.php');?>

for the bar DIRECTLY below where your “Origin Euphoria” banner” is in the WordPress theme header (assuming its not there already).

Since that part of your WordPress CSS lets stuff go all the way to the border on each side the bar should expand and fit perfectly. (Maybe Its not the navbar css but the WordPress theme css preventing it to go all the way across.

[guzik]

First off, I would like to say hello this community. I have been a long time supporter of WordPress, and just recently started looking into bbPress. I am very impressed with the software so far, but would like to get a couple kinks ironed out.

I run my own gaming community at http://www.irefire.com. The main page is running off of the most recent version of WordPress. Our forums used to be PHPBB and a backup of them is at http://www.irefire.com/phpbb. Our new forums are running off of the most recent version of bbPress and are located at http://www.irefire.com/forums.

I converted our phpBB3 forums to bbPress (thanks to http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release) but I must have done something wrong since no one’s password worked. It wasn’t a big deal since the community doesn’t have too many members, and they could just reset it. Then I integrated the userbase with my WordPress blog, and all of a sudden the only users I have are the ones that were in WordPress.

All of my users are gone except for those that were in WordPress. Even then, one of them (Giraffe) has been assigned as the author of posts he never wrote. Any help as to how to get my users back and on the forums (even if they have to reset their passwords) but keep it integrated with my WordPress (so they only need one account to post on the forums and comment on the blog) would be great. If I need to just do a clean install of bbPress and try pulling over the phpBB passwords correctly this time, help would be appreciated in how to do that.

Thank you so much.

Edit: I would also like to say that I have access to and limited knowledge of phpMyAdmin. I can still see all my old phpbb users in the _pbb database. All my the wordpress users are in my _wp database. If I could just throw the users from one database to the other, would that force them as registered users on both wordpress and bbpress?

[lamentira]

Which is the best way to learn CSS? Any easy how to?

[kickerman360]

Ok

I integrated WordPress 2.8.1 and bbPress 1.0.1 using the tutorial by Sam and it worked perfectly.

I did deep integration by adding:

if ( !defined( ‘ABSPATH’ ) ) {

include_once( ‘/path/to/wp-load.php’ );

}

*with the correct path*

And again, worked. Now I want to load both stylesheets off WordPress and bbPress. Only WordPress loads it style sheet, bbPress returns a 404.

This didn’t happen with bbPress 0.9, anyone know why this happened?

Permissions are 755 on all files and folders.

[_ck_]

Do not integrate using iframes, you can’t bookmark anything or return to specific pages via RSS

Learn a little css and just make the header and footer match.

[lamentira]

I have discovered that there is a very easy way to integrate a BBPress forum inside of a WordPress blog. I havent found anyone in the forums doing it in this way so I will explain it here.

1. Asumed that you have instaled wordpress and bbpress, and you have integrated bbpress with wordpress following the steps showed in bbpress installation process.

2. You have to go to the administration pannel in your wordpress (wp-admin)

3. Create a page named Forum. Chose HTML and include the following code:

<iframe id=”forum” name=”forum” src=”http://your_url/bbpress_folder&#8221; frameborder=”0″ framespacing=”0″ scrolling=”auto” border=”0″ style=”width:925px; height:1000px; ” >

Sorry, your browser doens’t support iframe. Please upgrade your browsers.

</iframe>

replace the bold characters for the apropiate values in your web. The number in bold is the with of your blog. In that case (I use primepress theme) it is 925

4. Now we only have to add the widget to show the page, or like in my case, the theme shows all the pages in the blog as options in the header. We only have to remove the header and the footer of the forum.

5. In your bbpress directory go to bbtemplates and make a copy of kakumei directory. You could call it noheader directory and open it.

6. Open header.php and replace this

<body id=”<?php bb_location(); ?>”>

<div id=”wrapper”>

<div id=”main”>

<div class=”search” align=”right”>

<?php search_form(); ?>

</div>

<?php if ( bb_is_profile() ) profile_menu(); ?>

with this

<body id=”<?php bb_location(); ?>”>

<div id=”wrapper”>

<div id=”main”>

<div class=”search” align=”right”>

<?php search_form(); ?>

</div>

<?php if ( bb_is_profile() ) profile_menu(); ?>

7. Open footer.php and delete this section

<div id=”footer” role=”contentinfo”>

<p><?php printf(__(‘%1$s is proudly powered by bbPress.’), bb_option(‘name’), “http://bbpress.org&#8221;) ?></p>

<!– If you like showing off the fact that your server rocks –>

<!– <p class=”showoff”>

<?php

global $bbdb;

printf(

__( ‘This page generated in %s seconds, using %d queries.’ ),

bb_number_format_i18n( bb_timer_stop(), 2 ),

bb_number_format_i18n( $bbdb->num_queries )

);

?>

</p> –>

</div>

<?php do_action(‘bb_foot’); ?>

8. Open style.css and delete this

#wrapper {

background: #fff url(‘images/page_header_tile.png’) repeat-x 0px -15px;

}

9. You can add the reference a bbpress.org in the wordpress footer.

Hope this help

You can see the result here http://www.lamentiraestaahifuera.com

This is the forum page:

http://www.lamentiraestaahifuera.com/?page_id=45

[_ck_]

Both bbPress and WordPress can be integrated so the login is shared.

With bbPress 0.9 you will need special plugins to use WP 2.7 or 2.8

bbPress 1.0 can share the login with WP 2.7 or 2.8 without plugins.

However many plugins do not yet work with 1.0, so keep that in mind.

Real names as an option is nice but I’d hate to see it mandatory as some countries are trying to do. My experience is that people either have manners or they don’t, real names, in person, online or otherwise won’t stop rude people much. The problem is once your real name is online, your employer or in the USA your health insurance can use anything you say against you, no matter how innocent it might be.

But that doesn’t change the fact you should be able to use your native characters in bbPress and WordPress if you wish

I’m curious if the user login plugin above will also allow you to use your name with the login and not just the Display Name.

Note that bbPress 1.0 also allows you to login via your email address once you are registered. There is a plugin for 0.9 that does the same thing.

[Göran]

Thank you for fast and helpful answer. I have seen display names mentioned before but I did not understand how to use them. I now found I can change my display name in my profile and chose my full name or parts of it as display name.

I have not yet tried to integrate a WordPress web site with a bbPress forum. Is it now possible to let users log in once to both? Or at least use the same user name and password for both? Can the display name option be used in both?

[Driftless]

Interesting idea … I might try to work on that.

I understand the physics behind the why, but the reason I want it that way is the forum is a whole-world feature, the blog(s) is an in-house… and I don’t want the world mucking around in the backend of the blogs. Paranoia?

[grassrootspa]

@andywilliams244 Try this for a nifty nav bar that shows at the very top of your site (maybe use this at the very top of both your WordPress and bbPress site?):

1) Check this link out: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic55647.html

2) What you want to do is make a really simple PHP file, lets call it “andybar.php” (if you have trouble making one copy one of your .php bbpress files and rename it)

3) Copy the code from that page into the php file. (you probably want to open with Notepad or Wordpad)

4) Fill in the links how you want them to be, like:

<li><a href="http://www.andywebsite.com">ANDY_WEBSITE</a></li>

5) Save the php file and upload it into the folder of your theme.

6) Put this in the header where you want the bar to display:

<?php bb_head(); ?>

<?php include('andybar.php');?>

<br>

</head>

7) The bar should appear at the very top of your bbPress site. You can easily change the colors with the CSS inside that one php file.

You might need to play with the bbPress CSS if there is a spacing issue above or below the bar. Hope this helps!

[katastrov]

Thanks for the quick reply Ipstenu. It still doesn’t work so I went to the yahoo hosting control panel and set up a WordPress blog since the database can be shared. It gave me the username, password and database name. But now, whenever I’m trying to reach the folder (http://gufugumu.com/guillos) it redirects me to http://gufugumu.com/bb-admin/install.php which of course does not exist… I have placed everything in http://gufugumu.com/guillos/

any idea?

thanks in advance

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Don’t rename bb-config-sample.

Finally, I have also created the database in phpMyAdmin. Of course there’s 0 tables.

That’s fine You have to create the DB before bbPress can connect to it. bbPress doesn’t make the DB for you (any more than WordPress does so this should be familiar).

You should be able to run the install now, though make sure bbPress can write to the bbpress folder, so it can create the bb-config.php file as it goes (you can remove the access later).

[katastrov]

Hi everyone,

I’ve successfully installed PHPBB3 forums, WordPress blogs etc etc… and somehow, I’m having a nightmare installing BBpress…

I’m not a coding/IT guru but I’m not a beginner either so this makes the thing even more frustrated. By wanting to make the installation process easy, the description lacks a lot of details I believe. Here’s what I have:

– Yahoo web hosting

– MySQL Server version: 4.1.14

– MySQL client version: 3.23.49

– phpMyAdmin latest version

Steps:

1. download bbpress

2. upload it to gufugumu.com/bbpress

3. go to the url gufugumu.com/bbpress -> installation window appears fine

4. Step1 – fill the information

– Database name : guillos

– Database user : admin

– Database password : *********

Then comes the famous error : “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified. Please check the settings, then try again.”

So I can’t pass step1. I then look in the forum but could not find anything usefull. One would expect that installing a forum should not require advanced PHP or MySQL knowledge. This is quite annoying.

Also, if I try to remove the “-sample” from the “bb-config-sample.php” then I get the error message “ERROR: Could not establish a database connection”. Finally, I have also created the database in phpMyAdmin. Of course there’s 0 tables.

Any help would be extremly nice as I’m about to give up and go for PHPBB3…

Thanks in advance

[kipperman]

OK, thanks.

Done that and re-installed it. It completed saying:

Your installation completed with some minor errors. See the error log below for more specific information.

These read as:

>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch “auth” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “auth” cookie salt in your database.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch “logged in” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “logged in” cookie salt in your database.

Unsure about that but it looks painful!

The forum has at least opened and I seem to be in it.

[_ck_]

Only people that have rushed to the new version are in limbo.

1.0 has been out only a whole week now.

The alpha/RC phases didn’t help as more was changed afterwards.

One only has to study what happened to WordPress during it’s growing pains to see what will happen to bbPress.

GPL means you can republish the plugin, ie. post a link to a new download with your fixes. Taking over for an author within the extend section itself is another matter however and is best done with permission from the original author. Then someone like Sam can add you to the SVN. Rarely is it impossible to reach an author – they may leave bbpress but unlikely the entire internet.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

If WordPress is any indication, people just spin-off the abandoned plugins and make newly named ones with credit given. A branch, if you will.

Go ahead and submit them as ‘new’, but be a mench and credit where it’s due

[andywilliams244]

Thanks a bunch!

I’m trying to copy over my nav bar from my wordpress website, would that be possible?

Every time I try and copy over the code under “main” there an place it under “main” on the forum header.php it doesn’t appear.