[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!

[chrishajer]

Yes, you should create a page with the same name as the directory where you installed bbPress. So, if you installed bbPress in a directory called /forums/ create a page called “Forums” with a slug of “forums” and WordPress will use that directory before it ever shows your blank page.

If that does NOT work, there are simple plugins to redirect any WordPress Page to a URL, so you could use one of those if you wanted to do that instead.

[chrishajer]

With bbPress you don’t access bb-admin directly. You log in with your keymaster account, and next to your name, if you are truly a keymaster (or someone with admin capabilities) you have a link to Admin. Click that and you are in the bbPress admin. If you don’t have that link, then the account you logged in with is no the keymaster account.

What version of bbPress are you talking about, and are the logins integrated with WordPress?

[spicynodes]

Congratulations on bringing bbPress to 1.0 RC1! I am a big fan of bbPress, appreciate this positive and helpful community, the great codebase, the ease of installation and customizatoin, and the overall more “bloggy” feel of the forums, rather than most forum software which feels a lot more like a 1990’s bulletin board.

I’ve looked over past postings about the 1.0 series and about releases in general. I’ve read that 1.0 is based off of BackPress, that it integrates with newer versions of WordPress, that it supports a new plugin for WordPress called “bbPress Live.” What else is of note? (and out of curiosity, what did not make the cut?

With 1.0 on the horizon, can you please summarize some of the key features/changes in 1.0?

[Ben L.]

Actually, it’s exactly the same (at least in 1.0) as WordPress’s functions.php. Same name, same everything.

[johnhiler]

There’s a good overview of bbPress’ translation framework (with links to existing translations and to useful posts) on bbshowcase.org:

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

According to that, bbPress uses the same translation approach as WordPress:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#gettext_files

The approach seems to be:

1) You download the POT file, which has all the English strings in it.

2) You translate the strings into your language (Greek) and save the file as a .po file

3) You optimize the .po file into a machine readable .mo file

Looks like you can get the bbPress POT file for whichever version you’re using here:

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/pot/tags/

Good luck!

[swaymedia]

.. the latest bbpress with the latest wordpress. Could I use the bbPress forum list loop on the frontpage of my wordpress theme? so i can show all the latest discussions.. this wont be on a sidebar, so i dont want a plugin to do this, I just want to use the same code bbPress uses but on WordPress to show the forum topics?

is this possible.? thanks in advanced.

[johnhiler]

Check your database tables in your php admin, and see if they’re corrupted? Sometimes repairing them can fix this up – at least according to this post about a similar issue with WordPress:

http://conradmiguel.com/wordpress-25x-your-attempt-to-edit-this-pagepost-has-failed-please-try-again

[mortiferus]

Hello fellow bbPress admins!

I have wordpress and bbPress installed on a Mac OX Leopard server running PHP Version 5.2.6 (Safe Mode Off) and am having problems activating bbPress themes and plug-ins. Mind you everything else is working fine as well as WordPress which is working perfectly, but in bbPress I get the following errors:

Your attempt to switch themes has failed.

Please try again.

In the case of Plug-in’s I get

Your attempt to do this has failed.

Please try again.

In terms of Troubleshooting I have:

1. Tried the Akismet and Bozo plugins and the two default theme(s) included by themselves and I cannot switch between the two default themes nor activate the default plug-in’s.

2. Tried each plug-in individually. None will activate.

3. Tried adding the underscore (_) to the name to force the loading, they still wont work, but the show up as “Automatically Activated”.

Heck, I even Added the .htacesss rules for name friendly urls, did not help.

My questions are, do I need to set anything up differently for bbPress Plugins and Themes an two is there an error log for bbPress that I can view to try and sort out?

Is this a known issue on unix/linux variants?

Thank You in advance for your help

[johnhiler]

The JQuery issue sounded like it might be related to the WordPress integration?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/favorites-broken-alpha-6

Sorry if these links aren’t quite dead on – I haven’t seen this behavior before, so grasping at straws a bit!

[tribsel]

its BBpress 0.9.0.4 and yes, it is integrated with wordpress 2.7

[chrishajer]

What version of bbPress tribsel? And, is it integrated with WordPress?

[Ramoonus]

The forum is located in a subdirectory of the WP blog; bbpress/

I`ve enabled the bbpress plugin in WordPress

Ive added the lines to WP config and the BBpress lines to bb`s config

It just doesnt seem to be working

Have the same problem since 0.9.x

A bit of help is appreciated!

[Sam Bauers]

bbPress integration plugin is in the WordPress plugin repository.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

[bryanjrichard]

OK, fixed with the “put $bb->usercookie = ‘wordpressuser_[Insert MD5Hash]’; into the bb-config.php file” hack.

[bryanjrichard]

bbP 0.9.4 & WP (ahem) 2.0.11.

Unfortunately in a position that I can’t upgrade WP at the moment.

bbP is using the WP users table fine, but doubling up on the cookies for some reason.

[chrishajer]

This thread is pretty old. What versions are you integrating?

[bryanjrichard]

For some reason, I’m getting two sets of cookies being set.

Both WordPress and bbPress are setting wordpresspass_ & wordpressuser_ cookies. The domains and paths are identical but the hash part of the key is the different.

Any ideas why WP and bbP might still be out of sync after following the instructions above?

[Sam Bauers]

Actually the BBXF plugins have been temporarily removed from bbPress.

This one has been on the back-burner for a while, but hoping to base the first real release on the RSS or ATOM standard somehow. Similar to the way WordPress’ export format is based on RSS.

[AndrewRH]

Okay, I’ve installed WP 2.8 (beta1) and bbPress RC1. It appears to be integrated together. Except the obvious: my wordpress site has no link for my visitors to click on to go to the bbPress forum. Should I create a “page” which (somehow?) redirects to the bbPress forum? i.e. so that it appears in the middle column of my WP theme?

Thanks,

~Andrew~