[thekmen]

Yeah, I spotted that as well.

I removed all higher lever .htaccess files & it made no difference.

I then created a sub domain at root level & did a fresh install with no wordpress integration & still have the exact same problem.

[john500]

bbpress 0.9.04

wordpress latest post 0.20

Reputatioin 0.0.6

BBpress Latest Discussion 1.3

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

You mean to pull from you bbPress database to populate the members of your mailman list?

In theory, anything that worked for WordPress to do that could be tweaked for bbPress. Just be careful that the default is to leave people NOT getting emails, so they can opt-in if they want. Otherwise you’re practically spamming

[aetorre]

We are considering extending our wordpress site with forum capbilities. The question is whether is possible or not to integrate mailman and bbpress. Any experience?

Thanks in advance.

[RWB]

I am trying to integrate WPMU 2.71, BuddyPress 1.0, and bbpress bbPress 1.0-rc-1.

WPMU and BuddyPress work fine.

BBPress is a nightmare.

It never finishes the installation although it says:

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

Key master could not be created!

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://lilienbrown.net/

>>> Blog address (URL): http://lilienbrown.net/

>>> 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: Lilien Brown Forums

>>> Site address (URL): http://lilienbrown.net/forums/

>>> From email address: richard@lilinbrown.net

>>> Key master could not be created!

>>>>>> That login is already taken!

>>>>>> Existing key master entered!

>>>>>> Re-setting admin email address.

>>> Description: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum could not be created!

>>> Key master email sent

There were some errors encountered during installation!

When I try log in it takes me back to the install page.

Can someone advise how to get out of this loop?

If not how to delete BBpress?

[chrishajer]

To make the forum look like your WordPress theme, you need to create a custom theme for bbPress to match WordPress. Browse the integration tag here and you will see this is one of two things that people mean by integration:

1. user login integration between WordPress and bbPress

2. make bbPress theme look like WordPress theme

[chrishajer]

I suspect a plugin; MySQL should not do that.

Also, exactly WHAT did you do with the WordPress plugin? Sounds like that just allowed you to access the database, but then what?

[thekmen]

Hello, I have my WordPress installed at root level of my domain.

I have bbPress installed in a directory called forums.

Everything seems to be working fine except when I click on Add New when not logged in.

I am redirected to:

http://domain.com/forum/bb-login.php?re=http://domain.com/forum/?new=1

which brings up my wordpress 404 page.

Removing ?re=http://domain.com/forum/?new=1

from the end of the URL does bring me back to my bbPress login page at http://domain.com/forum/bb-login.php. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

[AndrewRH]

Sadly, I think I was ignored over on WP forum site (perhaps I’m marked as a spammer there too?)

I ended up using the “Page Links To” plug-in within wordpress to make the forum ‘page’ actually take people to the bbpress installation.

It looks naff right now since bbpress theme doesn’t match up with WP theme. I have yet to figure out how you get bbpress to appear in a frame below your site’s menu bar. I guess both themes need to match up?

Thanks again for your help.

~Andrew~

[chrishajer]

Wouldn’t WordPress do most of what you’re looking for? WordPress supports threaded comments now, so replies to a post take on the shape of a threaded conversation. Also, email notification of replies is built in. What are you looking for in bbPress that WordPress does not offer?

[Sam Bauers]

The deletion from Wikipedia was pretty random and I think a better structured and written page would probably survive. Interestingly the BuddyPress page has only one self-published reference.

I appreciate people’s desire to evangelize bbPress (thanks johnhiler) but I at least agree with kevinjohngallagher’s sentiments about putting the cart before the horse. If there is willingness to write something to promote bbPress, then how about we put some effort into our own site?

If anyone wants to have a go at comprehensive editing and/or rewriting any of the information on bbPress.org I’m happy to help with that process. I think this would be far more valuable to us.

So I guess I’d like to hijack the enthusiasm that some people are showing and direct it closer to home. I can easily create a sandboxed WordPress install that volunteer editors can use to re-work the existing content. Then once we are happy with it, we can migrate it over to the main site.

I also think that a “codex” wiki site for bbPress would be beneficial at this stage but I need some reassurance that it won’t just sit there empty either. So take this poll and we can see if there is traction for that to be created…

http://www.polldaddy.com/p/1650020/

[kevinjohngallagher]

Ok, let me phrase it another way.

Given BBpress’s track record (alpha’s that fail, lack of communication, wrong communication, skipping of beta’s 2 weeks after telling everyone that you’re skipping alpha7 for beta1, lack of integration, lack of coherance with wordpress, prettey dubious documentation etc); what possible good can come out of having a wikipedia page before the RTM1.0 ?

Also, with RTM1.0, won’t that in itself generate alot of blog/article posts once the automattic “it’s all fine here, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” marketing; why have ‘bad/negative’ facts written on teh wikipedia page?

[chrishajer]

Ignoring the index.php permalink thing, which should be addressed at the wordpress.org forums, were you able to install a plugin that will redirect a page to a URL you select? Actually, it used to be necessary to use a plugin, but maybe now you can do it with php and a WordPress function or a template file. Were you able to get that part working?

[lifestrikes]

I’m trying to integrate WordPress 2.7.1 with bbPress 1.0 rc1

I have few of issues going on

1) Logged in as Admin in WordPress, but bbpress doesn’t recognize it. I have to login in again into bbPress.

2) If I log out from bbPress, it logs me out in wordpress too.

3) If I logout from wordpress, it doesn’t log me out in bbpress

4) After integration, users data from bbpress is not shared i.e. only Admin is listed under the bbPress Admin > users. There are 231 registered users in bb_users table.

5) Since users are missing, all the existing posts by the users are displayed as Anonymous

Root cause for all the above – I tried to integrate 0.9.0.4 with 2.7.1 and later realized that its not straight forward process.

I’m trying to get the forum backup and running, atleast map the existing users to their posts.

Thanks for your help.

[AndrewRH]

Apache version	2.2.11 (Unix)

PHP version	5.2.9

MySQL version	5.0.77-community

Architecture	i686

Operating system	Linux

Kernel version	2.6.28.8-VISION

[dawormie]

Perhaps a submission to cnet about bbPress and it’s VERY easy integration with WordPress?

Also the stupidly simplistic modifications needed to make a WordPress theme work with bbPress?

I’m doing mine at the moment and I’ve changed maybe a total of 10 lines in the CSS (some lines multiple times) to make it convert.

[johnhiler]

I agree! This is Wikipedia’s policy, not my own… they are really conservative when it comes to sources.

WordPress gets a lot of press on tech news sites!

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.cnet.com+wordpress

bbPress really gets almost none though… it’s kinda shocking. Even BuddyPress gets more press!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/30/buddypress-launches-may-a-thousand-social-networks-bloom/

http://mashable.com/2009/04/30/buddypress-social-networking/

[dawormie]

Also this one: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/bbpress-for-wordpress/

[dawormie]

Non – wordpress / bbpress owned sites I believe.

1: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/bbpress-for-wordpress/

2: http://www.iterating.com/products/bbPress

3: http://adrianshort.co.uk/2008/10/26/246/

Mind you – to get information those 3party sources usually source their information from the original website… go figure!! ^.^

[johnhiler]

We need your help to get the bbPress page reinstated on Wikipedia!

Sadly, the bbPress page was deleted last August:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/wikipedia-overlords-delete-bbpress-page/

The reasons given for the deletion included this: “Fails WP:RS as sources are self published.”

The “WP:RS” notation is short for “WikiPedia:Reliable Sources”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS

“Wikipedia articles should rely primarily on reliable, third-party, published sources (although reliable self-published sources are allowable in some situations – see below). Reliable sources are credible published materials with a reliable publication process; their authors are generally regarded as trustworthy or authoritative in relation to the subject at hand. How reliable a source is depends on context. As a rule of thumb, the more people engaged in checking facts, analyzing legal issues, and scrutinizing the writing, the more reliable the publication.”

In other words, most of the references cited were hosted on bbpress.org:

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=BbPress_(deleted_31_Jul_2008_at_00:19)#External_links

I’d like to recreate the bbPress page on WikiPedia, but this time with a bunch of “reliable, third-party, published sources”. I did a bunch of Googling though, and most of the mentions of bbPress were on blogs.

Has anyone seen reviews or mentions of bbPress in non-blog sources? If so, please post a link here… thanks!

[dawormie]

How relevant is the above linked guide?

Will it still work with current wordpress and bbpress versions?

If not… is there a guide for converting WP theme –> BBP Theme?

[chrishajer]

If it doesn’t happen automatically by naming a page the same as your directory, then just use one of the page redirect plugins to direct the page to your bbPress installation. No need to rip it out and start over.

I’ve only seen the index.php permalink problem on Windows servers. What sort of server are you on?

[AndrewRH]

It didn’t redirect in 2.8RC2, even with the slug, however I am having problems with the permalinks showing index.php as part of them. I might just have to rip out WP and bbPress and start again (not a bother since the site I used them on its not even off the ground yet).

~Andrew~

[johnhiler]

Did you integrate with WordPress? If so, this plugin can help restore keymaster access after an integration:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

Good luck!

[byles]

Hey,

Hmm, frustrating isn’t it? I can’t offer anything else I’m afraid. Cleared your cookies and tried again? I guess that’s the obvious stuff…

“secure_auth_salt” doesn’t show up unless you’ve configured WordPress for SSL stuffs (apparently).

Sorry I can’t help anymore!