[adeboy]

I would have thought Automattic could monetize BBPress in the same way the make money from WordPress, there’s obviously a need for blogs and forums to be combined and people will pay for hosted versions.

Its great to get new WP features, but its now a well developed software and I think there’s much more scope for growth with BBpress. Once you link them together its very good and it solves a lot of the Profile customisation problems you get in WP. The alpha works fine as long as you don’t want too much from it and I don’t get how they don’t want to exploit that much more

[_ck_]

bbPress is certainly not abandoned. It’s not going away.

It’s paid for by a company with over a million dollars in funding.

It’s just not developing fast enough for some people and that minority is unfortunately the most vocal.

I think the biggest problem is people start using WordPress when it’s version 2.5 or newer and somehow they figure it’s always had all those features so they see bbPress by the same people and figure it must be as developed and managed like that.

WordPress was nearly exactly like this until version 2.0

I’ve suggested before that bbPress will get more attention once Matt finds a way to monetize it like WordPress.com did for WordPress.

There will likely be a few small releases of improvements to 1.0 and bug fixes for 0.9 this year (with one likely in April), but there will not be anything major in 2009 IMHO. If Sam or Michael asked me for my opinion I would suggest that 1.0 final should not be released in 2009, it’s just not ready and if you think people are complaining now, just wait.

To put it another way, if bbPress doesn’t have the feature you want right now and you aren’t willing/able to write it yourself, don’t start thinking it’s going to magically appear in 2009.

Of course I could be completely wrong and Matt will suddenly take a dozen of his WordPress developers and put them onto bbPress next month – but do you think that is realistic?

[Ivaylo Draganov]

I also support the suggestion for a blog/bettter communication.

Because now bbPress looks somewhat abondoned. I’m talking about people involved in the project to some degree but to an outside observer or a new user. People would like to know how the project is going and whether it could meet their needs in future versions without digging into the forums or Trac.

I came to bbPress because it is related to WordPress and shares many similarities (templates, plugins, etc.). I believe many others do that for the same reason. Using another forum platform I would have to learn from scratch.

[_ck_]

Yes, you are asking too much, it’s free software, there’s not even a 1.0 final yet.

Michael was working on bbPress before Sam joined Automattic, he has been working on other Automattic projects for the past few months and recently started working on bbPress again.

Name the current developers of WordPress, I suspect most people can’t – the point is that it doesn’t matter to most people.

Note that I don’t have some special insight on bbPress activity – Michael and Sam don’t tell me secrets and hide them from everyone else. I just go and read stuff, all the notes in the code, I watch trac updates, I read the history in bbDev.

If you don’t know what I know about bbPress it just means you are lazier than me and don’t want to bother reading it all and just want it spoon-fed to you. In which case, you seriously need to find other software that has reach maturity, is well documented and the developers twitter every darn day what they do. There are DOZENS of forum programs. Many of them have been integrated with WordPress on some level. Find another solution.

Again, if you are planning your website, project, etc. around the day-to-day, week-to-week or even month-to-month improvements in bbPress development you are using the wrong program. bbPress is pre-release, it is not final, it is not gold. If you need a timetable, you are using the wrong program.

If you are using bbPress now you are an early-adopter. Early adopters have to be do-it-yourself-ers who figure things out for themselves and/or don’t have timetables.

I cannot stress this enough, if you cannot deal with how bbPress is manged, and didn’t like it last month or the month before, you may have noticed nothing has changed to meet your desires. Please, please, please find other software and stop posting to the forums with this. Stop making YOUR need for timetables everyone else’s priority. Stop acting like you are entitled to special attention and time above the other thousands of bbPress users. Uninstall bbPress and switch to something else.

[hnsweb]

I have uploaded the bbpress in my server. and i get the 1st welcome installation screen. After i press “lets get started” .i get the following error…

“Warning: html_entity_decode() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /home/hnsalumn/public_html/ryt/bbpress/bb-includes/wp-functions.php on line 113″

Please HELP ! ( i have already installed wordpress MU in the server.)

[kahnoya]

SOLVED!

After troubleshooting this problem for the last 24 hours, I noticed in the screencast that sambauers installed WordPress 2.7.0 and not 2.7.1 the most updated version to this date. So I did a fresh install with WP 2.7.0 and bbPress 1.06 Alpha exactly the way he said. AND IT WORKED ON THE FIRST TRY!

[chrishajer]

The password in the database is encrypted. So, if you just pasted the plain text into the password field in the database, it won’t work.

What version of bbPress are you using, and are you integrated with WordPress?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Except it’s not what ‘everyone’ wants

People who want an integrated forum/blog may want that, but then it’s a whole new measure of pain when one half upgrades. And they’re getting there (with things like BuddyPress), but bbPress is a forum. That’s it. It happens to integrate with WP, but that’s not all it is.

[bruinfelix]

Integration into a existing wordpress theme, is just what evryone wants .. So, why the developers dont listen to the people who uses this software, beats me!

Its just on of the main raisons i dont install bbPress anymore, no at all integration with the theme stuff

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

That would be because it’s a duplication of the theme, and not ‘deep’ integration.

[grasn]

Hey,

i just found this great forum and integrated it in my wordpress, with help from the video guide.

I have succesfully set up all cookie stuff, and now i want to display my forum wich is located on mywebsite.com/forum/ in my wordpress blog page. Like on this website.

Can anyone tell me how to do it? I didn’t find informations about.

greetings

[kahnoya]

Still does the same thing. I can log into both but they log each other out. Here’s my quick settings. Do they look right?

// WordPress cookie integration speedup

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.mysite.com';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.mysite.com';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.mysite.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_3f597388c6109a55a322633x12345678';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_3f597388c6109a55a322633x12345678';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_3f597388c6109a55a322633x12345678';

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/forums/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '/';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins';

[zenseeker]

That one line of code worked for me. I’ve been at this since Jan. Luv ya, man!

[maharzan]

Yep.. is everything same? or do we have anything else to consider?

[Jimmy B.]

Alright, so good news, it’s all working. I actually ended up including bb-load into my sites login script, then calling the login function when a successful login happened on my site, this then set cookies for my site and bbPress. I also have it so that when a successful registration takes place on my site it also inserts the user into the bbPress users database with the proper information. I snagged the MD5 password plugin for bbPress, modified it to change passwords to sha1 (which is also what my site uses).

Then I snagged the freshly baked cookies plugin for bbpress so that it also sets WordPress cookies. I got the external DB auth plugin for WordPress so that it uses the bbPress users table for authentication. I’ve killed registrations through WordPress and bbPress…so you can only register through my site. So now it works that a user registers and logs in through my site, and when they have a successful login they can use my site and WordPress and bbPress.

Thanks for the help!

[_ck_]

Also note that you edit the es_ES.po file which then makes the new es_ES.mo file when you save the changed in poedit.

Their es_ES.po is here: http://ayudawordpress.com/descargas/bbpress/bbpress-es_ES.po.zip

[chrishajer]

The program you need is poedit. http://www.poedit.net/

WordPress has pretty good instructions for doing it, and the process is similar with bbPress:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

[chrishajer]

@matiaspunx: what version did you integrate? The cookies are not compatible with the 0.9.0.4 version of bbPress and WordPress versions greater than 2.5 (like the latest 2.7.1 version.)

Also, did you try clearing all the cookies or using a different browser to log in?

These two solutions exist for making logins compatible with WordPress latest and bbPress 0.9.0.4:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/share-solution-for-bbpress-10-alpha-6-wordpress-mu-27-cookie-integration

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wpmu-27-cookie-integration

[bforeste]

It seems I have a similar issue as hijen. Was there a resolution to this stream?

In my instance, I cannot login as my administrator (or any other user) via BBpress, but I can via WordPress. The users are still in the DB, and the password reset option also displays that ‘user does not exist. Register it” drivel.

[chrishajer]

That sounds like something printed by the refresh theme. I can’t seem to find a copy of that theme online anywhere. Can you look through the theme files for that language?

Also, what version of bbPress did you install with WordPress 2.7.1?

[_ck_]

Poedit will automatically re-save the .mo file when you edit and save the .po file by default unless you’ve changed the default settings.

the mo file is in here, it’s all you need

http://ayudawordpress.com/?dl_id=96

in bbPress 0.9 put it into bb-includes/languages/

in bbPress 1.0 put it into my-languages/

and change in your bb-config.php

define('BB_LANG','es_ES');

[juampolo]

Bad news… the problem persist…

its the same…

In Ayudawordpress i have found just the .po file… but not the .mo…

so maybe i really have to edit the .mo file… how can i do that? with what program could i edit it ? because notepad or dreamweaver is not reading it good!

Tx.

[Billy Wilcosky]

Good news! I am integrated 100% for the first time in over a year!! Woo!

The only thing I need to do later is I am going to redirect any logging in or logging out through bbpress. Because I can’t log out from wordpress now, but if I log out through bbpress, then it logs me out of bbpress and wordpress correctly. So this is really not a big deal, I will just change any log in/log out links in wordpress to the bbpress log in/log out links.

The way I was able to get my reverse integration to work was by following the normal reverse integration instructions, then I chose to install Ann’s plugin which downgrades the 2.7 wordpress cookie set up to the 2.5 cookie set up.

[juampolo]

People!!! Thanks for the replys!

@chrishajer: I have installed the latest stable version of bbPress: The “Brubeck” version 0.9.0.4

@_ck_: I have rebuilded the .po file… (¿do i have to rebuild the .mo file too?…)

I will try with the ayudawordpress.com´s translation… let me test it and i will talk again.

Thanks!

[jonlzebub]

I set up bbpress for http://austin350.org – it’s at http://austin350.org/forums. I integrated with WordPress. In bbpress, the registration page says “Registration is closed for a while… sorry!” I can’t find any source for this message, or any helpful reference to it online. I have no idea how to “open” registration again. I’m assuming that this means, with WordPress integration, that registration must happen on the WordPress side, but I’m seeing references that suggest it can happen on both sides and they can be integrated. Also in that context the “registration is closed” message wouldn’t make sense – wouldn’t you just refer them to WP registration?