[dss]

I’ve been living with bbpress and wordpress integrated badly for a while now. I suspect it’s because I can’t really work out where my wordpress secure auth salt is.

I don’t see it in the options.php for wordpress

I’ve tried adding the secure auth key from the config file, an the nonce salt but these don’t work.

I am tired of being logged out of wordpress or bbpress when switching between them.

I have searched this forum, and googled my head off, but there’s no clear explanation I can find on where this simple bit of data lives.

Where is the secure auth salt?

[Atsutane]

@johnhiler

I want to correct something here. Bbpress latests discussion is a wordpress plugin, not a bbpress plugin. It should not conflict with any bbpress function.

[citizenkeith]

Looked in the archives here and couldn’t find a topic specifically about this…

I am fairly well versed in HTML and CSS. I have no programming experience though. I’ve been using bbPress for a couple years now, and have used WordPress for much longer.

I want to learn PHP but I don’t have previous programming/coding experience. I’d probably just use this to write plug-ins.

Can you recommend a good book or online tutorial for the absolute newb?

Thanks!

[_ck_]

There is no place yet for themes.

Even the theme manager on WordPress.org is a fairly new rewrite.

I’ve put your theme on my theme switcher @ bbShowcase.org

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/?bbtheme=bbVanilla

[Ramoonus]

@parallax view;

my provider uses subdomain vhosts …

i presume the problem is in cookies / vhosts + bbpress + wordpress

[chrishajer]

I wonder how hard it would be to do something like a bbMU? Not hosted (like wordpress.com) but just like WMPU?

[thekmen]

You should just be able to edit your bb-config.php in /forum/bbpress/

Look for $bb_table_prefix = ‘englisl5_’; and change englisl5_ to what ever is set in your WordPress wp-config.php

[jpmendoza]

It would be nice to have only one point of signin.

If nothing else works, I guess I’ll just use Hidden Forums and a custom message or something.

[johnhiler]

I’m guessing that Automattic built something similar to bbMU for TalkPress?

https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/04/talkpress-and-bbpress/

Not sure what if they plan to release that or not… I’m guessing they will, but that it’s not a huge priority?

[chrishajer]

bbPress was not built to work like that with WMPU. As for how to enable that functionality, I’m not sure. I think you would have to install bbPress on each blog. I’ve not heard of a way to have something like WPMU for bbPress (i.e. BBMU.)

[Windhamdavid]

let’s take that as a no. go to this page bb-admin/options-wordpress.php

go down to User database table prefix the value there should be “wp_” is it?

[Windhamdavid]

i just tried to register and see you’re problem..

[Table ‘englisl5_bulletinboard.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]

…so you were installing to share your user table with wordpress,

are you able to look at your database?

[Windhamdavid]

maybe a bit more about what you did “something to do with wp-admin”? are you sharing the same database for wordpress and bbpress?

[englishlangprof]

Please can anyone help. I tried to integrate bbpress with my wordpress blog by going into bbpress admin page and doing something with -wp admin

Now none of my users or me as admin are recognised and it won’t even send me an e mail.

Is there any way back in?????

[fpierron]

Hi,

I have a wordpress mu install + buddypress. All the stuff works fine. I have installed bbpress. As it was difficult to tune the installation, I don’t know if what I can’t do if the consequence of a bad installation or only a limitation of bbpress.

I thought bbpress was buillt to work with wordpress mu : then I should be able to automatically enable a forum per blog created. But it is not the case : there’s one forum belonging to the first blog wp mu, and other blogs do not have one’s.

I don’t know if I am clear so I describe what I need.

Let’s say I create a WordPress MU on example.org.

I install bbpress to the example.org/forums path. Ok, it works.

Now, I create another blog, let’s say myblog.example.org.

When I enter the url myblog.example.org/forums, I should get a new forum space, not the forum that belongs to the main blog.

How to do that ?

Regards,

Fred

[RWB]

I dleted the tables. I deleted the user files for bbpress.

This is the error message I get now.

The database failed to install. You may need to replace bbPress with a fresh copy and start again.

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_forums (

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_name varchar(150) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_desc text NOT NULL,

forum_parent int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

forum_order int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

topics bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (forum_id),

KEY forum_slug (forum_slug)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_meta (

meta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

object_type varchar(16) NOT NULL default ‘bb_option’,

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,

meta_value longtext,

PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),

KEY object_type__meta_key (object_type, meta_key),

KEY object_type__object_id__meta_key (object_type, object_id, meta_key)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_posts (

post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,

poster_id int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

post_text text NOT NULL,

post_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

poster_ip varchar(15) NOT NULL default ”,

post_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

post_position bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (post_id),

KEY topic_time (topic_id, post_time),

KEY poster_time (poster_id, post_time),

KEY post_time (post_time),

FULLTEXT KEY post_text (post_text)

) TYPE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_terms (

term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

name varchar(55) NOT NULL default ”,

slug varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”,

term_group bigint(10) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (term_id),

UNIQUE KEY slug (slug),

KEY name (name)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_term_relationships (

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

term_order int(11) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (object_id, term_taxonomy_id),

KEY term_taxonomy_id (term_taxonomy_id)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_term_taxonomy (

term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

taxonomy varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,

description longtext NOT NULL,

parent bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (term_taxonomy_id),

UNIQUE KEY term_id_taxonomy (term_id, taxonomy),

KEY taxonomy (taxonomy)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_topics (

topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

topic_title varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_poster bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_poster_name varchar(40) NOT NULL default ‘Anonymous’,

topic_last_poster bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_last_poster_name varchar(40) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_start_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

topic_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_open tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_last_post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_sticky tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

tag_count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (topic_id),

KEY topic_slug (topic_slug),

KEY forum_time (forum_id, topic_time),

KEY user_start_time (topic_poster, topic_start_time),

KEY stickies (topic_status, topic_sticky, topic_time)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

Database installation failed!!!

Is bbpress compatible with wordpress or am I wasting my time?

[Nnyan]

That stinks I was able to integrate punBB by just adding header/footer of my theme. Would be nice if bbPress were made more “theme” friendly.

[johnhiler]

Btw, do you need to have only one point of signin? I used to do that too (only use the bbPress signin, in my case)… but eventually I gave up and started using both. There has been no confusion or technical problems from users, and each signin does a good job with its side of the *Press fence!

[chrishajer]

bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress, so what you’re looking for requires some work on your part. You need to create a theme for bbPress that mimics the look of your WordPress theme. We’re all spoiled with finding WordPress themes for free, pretty much all over the place. The same thing does not exist yet for bbPress themes, although there are a few bbPress themes that match their WordPress counterparts. If you have a WordPress theme you like already, you’re probably going to have to create a theme for bbPress that looks like that one.

[onlined]

I worked through the screencast to integrate bbPress with wordpress and all seems to be working well.

The thing is I can not figure out how to get bbPress to work within my theme, I want the wordpress theme to be a kind of ‘wrapper’ for the forum, putting just a link in the header to the forum, then for bbPress to come up on the page.

Is there a simple code tag I can put on a page to make this happen or else how do I do it?

[Windhamdavid]

Disable all plugins! upgrade the bbpress RC-1,

try again. if persist it sounds like your user tables are mangled probably due to something similar to dragunoff

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/not-able-to-make-new-posts-database-error

you try to clean up using – http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-dbmanager

.. are you sharing tables with your wordpress installation?

[HeroicNate]

Ok so I started the install of bbPress and ran into this same issue so I stopped at step 2. Now I know I need to install the 1.0 version, but since I’ve already configured the database( Part 1 of install ), does that mean I’ll have to erase/change/do something to the database besides just deleting the bbPress files and uploading the new version?

Also, I never put the secret keys in when I installed wordpress. Does that mean I’ll have to resintall to put the secret keys in, or can I simply change the config file and over-write the old one and everything will work that way?

[John James Jacoby]

So what cookies do you see when you login through bbPress?

What cookies do you see when you login through WordPress?

What are the differences? Either you’re missing a hash, or your host is wrong, or the path is off. Something is missing.

[jpmendoza]

I’ve tried this as well: if( !wp_validate_auth_cookie() )

but haven’t had any luck.

[jpmendoza]

Sweet. I’ll definitely look into this.

Thanks!