[bzmillerboy]

Good job, I can’t even get bbPress to install within my wordpress directory so your ahead of me!

I got an error when I clicked on the only topic you have posted.

An un-related comment…I think your glare is upside down on your logo, the white should be on top, not bottom. I would recommend you glare the city and not the text…just being helpful. Site looks clean, great job!

[daniellaf]

Hi Everyone!

Just got a WordPress and BBPress integrated site working. I adapted the default theme to make it match our custom WordPress theme. Comments appreciated!

Site: http://www.planningpool.com

Forum: http://www.planningpool.com/forum

[amyhello]

What’s your secret, Atsutane?

I have the blog and forums kinda working — but when you go from the blog to the forum, it doesn’t carry over the password/username. It requries you to sign in again.

[Atsutane]

I do mine perfectly with WP 2.7.1 and BBPress 1.0 RC1

[amyhello]

I read that. So did you ever get it to work?

So I downgrade my WP back to 2.7. Is there a way to do one sign in between 2.7 and BBPress 0.9.0.5 – without having to sign in again?

[johnhiler]

Sam mentioned that he might set up a codex for us to start documenting bbPress… so I thought it might be useful to round up useful links with info we could cleanup for a bbPress codex:

Versions:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-stable-version-version-0905

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-release-candidate-1

http://bbpress.org/forums/tags/releases

WordPress and bbPress signin integration:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

Theme integration:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/seemless-wordpress-integration

php compatibility issues:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode-in-home2

Writing plugins:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/overwriting-template-functions

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/list-of-hooksactions

Importing data:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb

Translation:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-translate-bbpress-to-another-language

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages

Roles:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/adding-a-new-user-type?replies=6#post-9210

Miscellaneous FAQ’s:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums-started-39-years-ago

Please chime in and share what you’d like to see documented in a bbPress codex… and also, any links you’ve found particular valuable!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Your htaccess is killing a /forums/ but NOT http://huddle.inversekarma.in/forums/index.php

Which takes you to http://huddle.inversekarma.in/forums/bb-admin/install.php

So … either figure out what’s in your htaccess outside of the regular wordpress stuff that might cause this, or use the index.php? Without seeing your htaccess we can’t even guess too much.

[lukeishere]

The place I work have started using BBpress so I thought I’d give it a go on my doctor who fansite,

http://www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/forum/

I have to say it’s really easy to use and customize (like wordpress) so thank you to everyone involved!

[wordsmithbob]

never mind. I got hold of my WordPress wizard and she uninstalled it told me to use Simple Forum.

[wordsmithbob]

I installed the bbPress plugin and that went fine using the auto install. (I have WP 2.7) Then I activated it and got a fatal error. I tried re-installing it but now it won’t install because it’s already in the directory. All I remember about the fatal error was that it concerned Line 72 and said something about Akismet. I’m pretty clueless about this stuff. My WordPress expert is incomunicado so I’m hanging out here on my own. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[chrishajer]

Are you certain the bbPress files are in a subdirectory of your WordPress installation? Can you post a directory listing showing where the files are located?

[johnhiler]

_ck_ prepared a list of the top 100 sites here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-april-2009-update

The largest site has 1.6mm posts; the site with the most users is wordpress.org, which has 7.5 million users.

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

Hope that helps!

[fooddude]

For some reason, RC1 is having a problem connecting to my database. Followed the instructions to the letter. Ran the install and set all the database info to the same as before. Clicked the additional settings because I’m on dreamhost, which doesn’t use ‘localhost’. Everything saves just fine. Config file appears with proper settings in my bbpress directory. Go to step 2 and get “ERROR: Could not establish a database connection”. Double checked everything, did another clean install, still doesn’t work.

BBPress shares a database with my wordpress installation, and wordpress sees the DB just fine.

Any ideas?

[johnhiler]

Try the instructions here?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

WordPress 2.7 uses a different type of cookie, so you can either downgrade the WordPress cookie (using SuperAnn’s plugin) or upgrade the bbPress 0.9 cookie (using _ck_’s plugin). Both are linked from the instructions!

[emfulz]

I am using the latest versions of bbPress and WordPress which are 2.7.1 (wp) and 0.9.0.5 (bbp)

The instructions are rather inside in the installation of bbPress which you can make the integrating processes through the databases.

[johnhiler]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?

Also, what did you do to “make it where members of my site could use 1 account for both instead of separate ones”… was there a specific set of integration instructions you followed? If so, please post a link to that too!

[emfulz]

I have just recently installed bbPress so that I could make it where members of my site could use 1 account for both instead of separate ones. When I did so it caused me to lose my admin but didn’t actually integrate them. What can I do to get my admin back and integrate wordpress and bbPress? I don’t know much more to say about this but if needing more information I will be gladly to give.

[Tynan Beatty]

You should only need the define('WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1); part added to the bb-config.php, not the rest (if you upgrade to WP2.8, then you don’t need any of those additions to the bb-config.php file). The WP bbPress Integration plugin’s settings page lists some things you’ll need to add to your wp-config.php file though. Namely, you’ll need to add at least something like define('COOKIEPATH', '/');, depending on your wordpress’ installation path. Try just adding that part and see how things work. If they don’t work, try adding the other things the WP bbPress Integration Plugin settings page suggests (I added all of it’s suggestions using the latest WP2.8 and the latest bbPress 1.0-rc-1 and it broke my WP login; but with just the cookipath definition, most everything except logging in from bbP and then logging out from WP [somewhat trivial], integrates as expected).

peace~

[Tynan Beatty]

Hello. Please read this post of mine and also this post that the previous post references

peace~

[amyhello]

Hey I have WordPress 2.8-beta1 and bbPress 1.0-rc-1. I downloaded and installed sams plugin. However — I still need to sign in new when going from the forum to the blog. I can sign in fine in each — but it doesnt carry the cookie info over. And I did everyhting in the video. Any new tips?

Should I roll back to a previous version? If there are versions of WordPress, BBPress and Plugin that do work together — please share what versions that play nicely together.

[Sam Bauers]

WordPress is planning on implementing a labeling system to identify “canonical” plugins. I believe the rating of these will be community driven. It’s early days on that one, but I think a user driven approach would be the only legitimate way to go.

Thanks for the MySQL query testing above. I’ll look into what’s possible without bloating the cache objects.

People might be interested to know that in Automattic’s mix of bbPress usage we use no external object cacheing (like memcached) or page caching. This is with both 0.9 and 1.0 versions.

[michael3185]

I love the plugins folks have created, and would like to try creating a simple one of my own. Thing is, I have no idea what functions calls are available in bbPress 0.9.0.5, and can’t find any documentation. Is there a list of function names and parameters somewhere, or do I have to trawl through a thousand files and learn the hard way..?

As an aside, I’ve noticed a couple of comments regarding using bbPress stand-alone. I do for my clients, and myself. Never installed WordPress, and don’t need it. In their working world, WordPress is little different to static web pages. bbPress, on the other hand, invites comments and discussion, which is what they need.

[quiltingwithmoxie]

Grrr I tried the Download 1.0 RC.zip version and that didn’t work either. This time no user info appeared, it took my info, acted as if it was working, generated an email with no password but nothing really happened. Here is the error this time:

Forum could not be created!

Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

>>> Setting up custom user table constants

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Database is already installed!!!

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> WordPress address (URL): http://quiltingwithmoxie.com/

>>> Blog address (URL): http://quiltingwithmoxie.com/blog/

>>> WordPress cookie keys set.

>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt set from input.

>>> WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt set from input.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt set from input.

>>> User database table prefix: wp_

>>> WordPress MU primary blog ID: 1

Step 3 – Site settings

>>> Site name: Quilting with Moxie Guild

>>> Site address (URL): http://quiltingwithmoxie.com/guild/

>>> From email address: –snip–

>>> Key master created

>>>>>> Username: admin

>>>>>> Email address: –snip–

>>>>>> Password:

>>> Description: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum could not be created!

>>> Key master email sent

There were some errors encountered during installation!

What now?

Blessings,

Wendy

[_ck_]

People don’t write software to see their name in lights.

I think the point is being missed by some who haven’t kept up with bbPress history.

bbPress wasn’t invented by Matt to create a better forum for the masses.

It was invented to serve the needs of Automattic needing (faster) support forums.

It just happens to be open source so others can improve it, write plugins for it, etc.

You’ll never have “certified plugins”, that would have no useful purpose to Automattic. On the flip side I would never have written a single plugin if I thought it was being held to some kind of standard, I wrote them for “fun”, to see if I could do it, or to show others it was possible.

Releasing a product as open source is a way for business to get additional labor on their products for free by encouraging adoption. That’s not a criticism, that’s how it works in general. Matt used code from other open source projects so he’s motivated to also share his projects as open source.

Sure there are some projects that are made from scratch to try to serve the greater good. But there’s no reward for that, you can never please more than a handful of people with whatever you try to do, given how many different opinions and experiences there are in any community.

Some of the wishes expressed in this topic were expressed last year, the year before that and will be said next year and the year after that. Don’t use bbPress if any of those issues are important to you, because WordPress has been around for six+ years and it still has those issues and always will.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Simply calling plugins ‘bbPress Certified’ will make the world assume that those behind bbPress are an authority who have the power to authorise things.

I think you’re going at this the wrong way. WordPress doesn’t do this, and frankly if such an effort was to come down upon our fair bbsoftware, it would HAVE to come from the Big Brother that is Automattic if it was going to stick at all. Is it a good idea? Yeah, but it feels almost contrarywise to the tenents of open source. That may just be me, and I’ll need to re-read the GPLs for WP and BB. Either way, it does end up being a weird feeling to think that someone has review plugins. It’s going to be work, no matter what, and much like the recent themes switch (where paid themes got the boot) someone’s going to get pissed off… Meh. I like the idea, I worry about implementation.