[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?

[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?