CK I installed the plugin with the salt keys, etc……and there is evidentally a little progess as the cookies do not conflict as before, but the integration hasn’t worked either. Not sure what the issue is but in the docs there are not a precise definition of the secret key. Is the database secret key that you refer to the key I have defined in the config, php that holds the database name, password, etc…..or is that the “secret,” randomly derived string that is listed through options.php as “secret”? Also, since I am using .9, where exactly are the bbpress integration settings in wp……there was a new-plugin, but that was for 1. alpha, right…..not for .9?
Excuse me because I am new to this, but does it make sense for me to upgrade to the alpha version, is that easier to integrate? Or do I want to go the other direction and downgrade the wp cookies.
Thanks in advance>>
Andy
WordPress
|—- BBpress
aka :-
massbase
|
/community
|
/bbpress inside here
|
/rest of wp’s files..
wordpress is on the root and bbpress isin a folder called /community
http://www.massbase.com/community
im resintalling it all now, all same versions.
No, it’s probably becuase it’s Sunday.
bbPress isn’t a WordPress plugin, so unless you have conflicting htaccess files, I can’t see why that would happen.
What folder is bbPress loaded in and what folder is WP loaded in?
andyimages, to use WP 2.7 with bbPress 0.9 you need one of the two plugin solutions now updated in the first post. Changing the cookie path is not enough, you have to change the cookie method entirely.
if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))
require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);
^That line of code causes a lot of stress on my bluehost site. With that code active, I get “This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota” all the time, deeming my site unusable.
Is there another way to have the bb-config find the wp-blog-header? Everytime the server has to search for it, it takes fooooorever, which also slows down the rest of the site, then I get suspended by bluehost and can’t access anything.
It’s weird though, because this code will slow up the rest of the site that isn’t even using the bb-config. I’ll load up mydomain.com and it’ll go soooo slowly while that code is active – this, even though my bbpress config is way over there at mydomain.com/forums. If I comment that code out, everything is fast and zippy.
WP 2.7
BB 0.9
So far I am failing on this. I am going to try the plug-in that xurizaemom has suggested…..my integration is failing and I have tried the suggested method running WP 2.7 and the latest bbpress 0.9.0.4 .
There is definitely some conflict between the cookies as if I login as admin on wp, then go to bb, clicking on the admin link fails and I am redirected to the front page instead of admin area. Logged out of WP, and logging into BBPress as admin, the link works properly and the admin panel opens…
The wordpress is in the the root directory and bbpress in its own directory in the root.
WordPress: 2.7.1
BB Press: 1.0-alpha-6
wordpress: permalinks enabled name based
bbpress: permalinks enabled name based
WP plugins:-
Akismet 2.2.3
Google Analytics for WordPress 2.7
WP-Syntax
BBP plugins:
none
PROBLEM: –
as the keymaster logins through forum, he can login to wp-admin.. but the problem is, that he can’t see the posts on the actual WP site. Instead of seeing the posts, the keymaster (guy logins through BBpress) sees this:-
Error 404 – Not Found
The page you were looking for has either been deleted or moved.
Do you want to search for it?
The installation had no errors at all, and seemed fine. And my friend who logins in from New Zealand can see the post, but im not sure if hes logged into the forum yet. So I dont know whether its a cache thing even though iv cleared my cache several times. It only happens when i login through bbPress.
They can be integrated if you use one of these two solution to make the cookies compatible:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bayanimecom-wp26-and-bbpress-09-complete-cookie-integration
Yes the roles integrate in 0.9.0.4.
The private message plugin has nothing to do with WordPress – it’s a bbPress plugin. However, there have been some security issues with it recently and you might not want to use it right now until those are ironed out.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/security-warning-stop-using-private-messaging-plugin
I soved the problem of logn request on paginated topics using the EWp plugin mentioned here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101/page/5#post-24571
I can’t understand why with normal integration the whole system didn’t work… but I have no time to investigate for a non payed task 
The customer have the same problem of quote adn double-quote double escaping thamentioned in the same link…
This topic can be considered closed.
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I am using WordPress 2.7.1 and bbPress 1.0 Alpha
If you’re seeing WP logins work, and BB logins fail, then BB is probably logging you in and setting the wrong cookie path.
(You can debug this sort of thing by using a proxy which lets you inspect the headers as they pass from client to server – I recommend the excellent Charles Web Debugging Proxy.)
I fixed this using the WP Cookie Root plugin. Changing the COOKIE_PATH defines for me hadn’t worked, but the plugin did.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/root-cookie/
Q: With deep integration, I see any postings to BB get double-quoted, eg an apostrophe posted to the forum will appear as ‘ …
Here’s hoping BBPress doesn’t munge the line above. Apostrophes appear in the forum with a backslash to escape them, because both WP and BB are running the apostrophes thru their escaping function. How can I avoid this?
at the moment i think the only way to keep wordpress, bbpress and FB connect togheter is through an iframe that shows wordpress fb connect widget in bbpress.
somebody knows how to do that?
Well, I figured that I would only have to re-write a few functions for authentication, but this would still require me to use the bbpress user table, no? For example, after I re-write the authentication functions, how does the bbpress software know who the user is… the user’s name, and so forth. Where are all of those functions that get that information? Are they included in the pluggable.php too? Is that bb_current_user()?
I know enough PHP programming to make my own functions, but I’m just not familiar enough with how WordPress works to know what is doing what in detail. Thanks for your help _CK_. I appreciate it a lot.
What Chris suggests is definitely possible! I have four bbPress installs sharing a single user database… along with a WordPress install and a MediaWiki one. I’ll probably be up to 6 or 7 bbPress installs on the same user database by the end of the summer!
It’s not so bad to maintain, but it’s definitely worth is so far – especially since the functionality of each install is very different! For example, one bbPress install supports a Classifieds feature… while another one is a standard message board. If the functionality across the bbPress installs was more similar, I’d just combine them into a single installation…
Good luck!
The authentication system in bbPress is completely adjustable via plugins.
Look in the pluggable.php file, there are 4 routines that have to be replaced.
If you look at a plugin like my “freshly baked cookies” you can sort-of see the 4 replacements you need. Actually you only need 2, because the other two are used by the first two. One creates the cookie, the other reads it. If you only want your other software to create the cookie, then in theory you only need one function replacement.
WordPress works the same way, except after WP 2.5 they added 2 or three other kinds of cookies. The older method that WP 2.5 and bbPress 0.9 uses is easier to hook into.
Note that a few obscure WordPress plugins like to read the cookie to gather the username which is a bad approach. No bbPress plugin that I am aware of does this yet, and I hope they won’t so we can switch to a httponly cookie which is more secure and less XSS vulnerable.
ps. technically the auth system doesn’t even have to be via cookies but the only other ways I am aware of would be HTTPS Client Authentication which is impractical for public systems or maybe LDAP
LOL, my thoughts exactly! Now I’m in contact with an outfit in India to see what it would take to code the site in Joomla!
What a rabbit hole this stuff can be!
Earlier I tagged this a BBMU, which is sort what this was sounding like, bbPress Multi User (like WPMU.) That way, you have one installation to update, but multiple blogs (or in this case, forums.)
I don’t think that is currently possible. There was some work involved to create WPMU, although it reuses a great bit of WordPress code.
So, I think you are stuck using multiple installations of bbPress, or just using the built in Forums that exist in bbPress. If you use the built in forums that exist, then you don’t have to worry about logins working in all forums. The logins will work in all forums because it’s all just one forum.
But, to have multiple bbPress installations, but just one user database, you might want to investigate the advanced database options upon installation, in step two where they talk about user integration.
Custom user tables
Only set these options if your integrated user tables do not fit the usual mould of wp_user and wp_usermeta.
User database "user" table
The complete table name, including any prefix.
User database "user meta" table
The complete table name, including any prefix.
I think here you would be able to enter the same settings for every installation of bbPress to point them all to the same user database. You could try it with two forums to see if that works.
Also, managing 10 forum installations is not too bad if you have command line access to use something like subversion. Then it’s just a matter of doing an svn up or svn sw and accessing the update in a browser. You can do 10 or 20 installations pretty quickly. It’s even faster when there are no database changes. Then it’s just svn updates.
If you’re looking at monetizing, maybe you have the ability to pay a programmer to accomplish what you’re looking for? Everything you’re looking for is doable (except making bbPress work like a WordPress plugin), but it might not be on anyone else’s radar right now. That’s not to say it can’t be done or won’t be done, but your priorities might be different from those maintaining the software packages.
I think this is due to the server using PHP4:
Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()!
What version bbPress did you install, did you integrate with WordPress, and what software is the server running?
I don’t know of a way to incorporate bbPress into a WordPress page. It’s not a forum plugin for WordPress. You can make them look the same and use some of the same functions, but bbPress is never going to live in a WordPress page. (I know, never say never, but…)
Here’s a Joomla! plugin that does what I want, except it’s for Joomla!:
http://boygj.com/juser-204-extended-joomla-registration
Excerpt:
• Ability to extend registration form with unlimited additional fields
• Different types of fields like Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Select List, Text Field, Data
• Ability to create your own list of values to choose for fields of type Select List,
Check Box, Radio Buttons
Does anyone know of a WordPress/bbPress plugin that will do this?
Yeah, ‘occupation’ is already there at the registration screen, but I need it to be a required field, and I need it to be a dropdown list that I populate with a fixed set of choices. I suspect I’ll end up going with bbPress since it looks like the deep integration (when it actually works) will do the backend on the cookies that I’ll need. When I asked about this at Simple:Press they said they might add custom fields sometime, and even if they do I’ll have to write the cookies.
bbPress is still better but i need to make a decision quick, the PM feature is lacking soo much idk if they’ve fixed the plugin yet.
you can always start a new field for a user and call it “occupation” or something…
however what i want is a stable PM feature, a built in one so i dont have to go chasing around 3rd party plugin authors websites, and reading tons of crap on what the next mod is to secure the bloody loop whole.
