[wendel-brume]

@swaymedia: At this point I have to say, neither, because they aren’t doing the one thing that will make monetizing a site possible – collecting important data about my audience that I can share with a potential advertiser.

We -must- have the ability to get a relevant piece of information about our audience that tells our potential advertisers something about the audience member’s buying habits. For my site, I need to know the occupation of my visitors so ads can be targeted based on that data point. I need a way to require that that bit of information be collected at registration.

Neither bbPress nor Simple:Press do that. And that’s absurd, because it’s THE only way to monetize a website through advertising. And it’s being ignored. Screwing around with fonts and colors is irrelevant in the face of this need. I really don’t understand it.

[swaymedia]

@Wendel: im curious to what you think is better SimplePress or BBPress?

[wendel-brume]

It appears that the ‘deep integration’ between bbPress and WordPress will provide the basis for doing this, I’d need to be able to re-code the registration screen to make the ‘occupation’ field a required field. I also want it to be coded so it’s a dropdown list of choices that I determine.

This issue is way huge for anyone wanting to monetize a website through advertising. Advertisers on the web want to know who your audience is before they will pay reasonable CPMs. I’m showing videos that will eventually incorporate ads, and I want the site to know how to identify a registered visitor so that the video ads can be targeted based on their self-identified occupation.

I also need the forum to be incorporated into a WordPress page, the way I have a test of Simple:Press set up here:

http://architecturecartoon.com/forum/

Is there a relatively simple way to make bbPress look like that?

[wendel-brume]

Hello,

I have bbPress installed but not yet really active. I also have Simple:Press installed, and it is set up the way I want bbPress to look here:

http://architecturecartoon.com/forum/

Is there a theme or way to get bbPress incorporated into a WordPress page like that?

Thanks

[cldnails]

Sounds interesting, but Adsense should be contextual out of the box. However, if you are looking to do something with affiliate banners, I would think there might be a variable you can attach to a registered user, although that is far above my realm of knowledge.

[chrishajer]

To make the current WordPress talk to the stable 0.9 bbPress, you need one of these two solutions:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bayanimecom-wp26-and-bbpress-09-complete-cookie-integration

[chrishajer]

Just remove any line you added to bb-config.php or wp-config.php that includes the other program. If you added a line to include bbPress in WordPress, or added a line to include WordPress in bbPress, in the config files, just comment them out and see if this still happens.

[reprocessor]

For starters my site runs the following WPMU 2.7, Buddypress RC-1 and BBpress 1.0 alpha 6 – if you’ve had problems with any of the following then this is worth a read …

This is a weird one but totally worth mentioning. I just re-installed bbpress for the fifth time and found a wee error that seems to bugger everything up.

If you’ve got everything working properly and you’re in the admin screen on bbpress ‘Settings/Wordpress Integration’ DO NOT hit the ‘Save Changes’ button at the bottom of the user integration menu.

The reason being is that it breaks everything and you have to reinstall bbpress. I can’t remember the exact error as I did this late last night but the error occurs in ‘bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php’ on line 123 and 377

I also noticed that (once you get it back up and running) you can’t post on existing group forums but if you create new groups then everything is hunky-dory

Just as well I hadn’t populated the site LOL

It’s been a hell of a learning curve this but not a bad one by any means – I’s say I’m very proficient now at reinstalling bbpress and integrating!

After all this rant I’m not sure if this is a problem specific to me but please let me know if you’ve suffered the same. I’ll put something on the BBpress forums too shortly.

Cheers,

Phil

[sumit1988]

as you can see in many post outta there, bbpress 0.9 and wordpress 2.7 aren’t integrated well to each other without a special plugin. you have three options to get your integration working:

1. upgrade bbpress to unstable 1.0 alpha version

2. downgrade you wordpress to 2.5

3. use a plugin to get your current versions working together.

following thread should help you out

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

[sumit1988]

did you noticed the new way of integration in bbPress 1.0 and wp 2.7.x ?

You can use some plugins to get the stable 0.9 of bbpress working with wp 2.7.

whatever i think this thread should help you much more:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

[chrishajer]

bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress. Get it out of your WordPress plugin folder. It does not belong in /home/m4inform/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/ it belongs here /home/m4inform/public_html/wordpress/bbpress/ as a sub-directory of WordPress.

[perrymyk]

New to WordPress and certainly am not impressed with this Plugin.

Installed new WP v 2.7.1 and uploaded this module bbpress-0.9.0.4 and it fails with the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_option() in /home/m4inform/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bb-plugins/akismet.php on line 72

I just can’t imagine I did something wrong but assume this plugin works.

Appreciate any pointers.

[chrishajer]

Remove the second forum link/page.

Hardcoding the first forum link in your WordPress header.php is fine. Without any styling, that means it will just be a link to your forum page, and inside WordPress, it would NEVER need to be styled as current, because you’ll never be in WordPress when you are in your forum, right?

How are you getting the WordPress navigation in the forum? That’s where we need to focus on getting the current class on the forum page tab. If you’re including the WordPress navigation by integrating WordPress inside bbPress, then there needs to be a little work done on getting the current class on the forum tab (since you won’t actually ever be on a page called forum for is_page('forum') or is_page('190') to work properly from WordPress.

[thindery]

I am using the StudioPress theme and I have fully integrated bbpress into the theme. I think it looks great, and all the pages seem to be working. View at http:.//mipages.net/forum/ The only problem is that the “forum” tab isn’t hilited when viewing the forum. It always does the “home” one instead.

In my theme I hardcoded the first forum link to http://mipages.net/forum/

The second forum link is actually to just a page I created in wordpress called “forum”. I thought I could edit the link in phpmyadmin to http://mipages.net/forum/ somehow but I couldn’t seem to figure it out. So the link for the second forum tab is actually just a page, and not the actual forum.

So basically I just want one of those forum tabs to be hilited when viewing the forums. It doesn’t matter to me how to get it done. Any suggestions by anyone?

below is my header code for the forum page.

Code:

<div id=”nav”>
<?php function get_the_pa_ges() {
global $wpdb;
if ( ! $these_pages = wp_cache_get(‘these_pages’, ‘pages’) ) {
$these_pages = $wpdb->get_results(‘select ID, post_title from ‘. $wpdb->posts .’ where post_status = “publish” and post_type = “page” order by ID’);

}
return $these_pages;
}

function list_all_pages(){

$all_pages = get_the_pa_ges ();
foreach ($all_pages as $thats_all){
$the_page_id = $thats_all->ID;

if (is_page($the_page_id)) {
$addclass = ‘ class=”current_page”‘;
} else {
$addclass = ”;
}
$output .= ‘<li’ . $addclass . ‘>ID).'” title=”‘.$thats_all->post_title.'”><span>’.$thats_all->post_title.'</span>‘;
}

return $output;
}
?>

<?php

if (is_home()) {
$addclass = ‘ class=”current_page”‘;
} else {
$addclass = ”;
}
echo “<li” . $addclass . “><span>Home</span>“;

if (is_page(‘190’) ) {
$addclass = ‘ class=”current_page”‘;
} else {
$addclass = ”;
}
echo “<li” . $addclass . “><span>Forum</span>“;

echo list_all_pages();?>

<div class=”cleared”></div>
</div> <!– Closes Nav –>

I changed the code to use the function is_page() when trying to identify it as a forum because that is what it looked like I needed to use, but I’m still pretty new to wordpress functions. the “190” is the id of the entry in my wp_posts table that contains the guid of http://mipages.net/forum/ (the link itself)

So I know it is kind of working, because it is grabbing the right url and everything, I just can’t get it to recognize that is is viewing that current page to add the class.

Help anyone! As soon as I can get this resolved I’d like to publish the modified theme files so other users can easily implement bbpress with their studiopress theme.

[feastoffools]

I’d love to see WordPress, Bbpress and Facebook Connect working beautifully in unison. Will this dream come true? Any suggestions?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Is there then a way that when a registered bbPress member visits the WordPress area of the site, that WordPress will recognize them as registered bbPress members

Integrated login will do that. If you only want to use the BB side of things, you can use a ‘Hide Dashboard’ plugin for WP (to … hide things ), and then just never link to the WP profile stuff. I’m doing that and the three smarties who know they can login on the WP side quickly learned: Ain’t nutin’ there.

As for targeting ads, I suspect you can do that, though it’d be a question for the WP side methinks.

Hide Dashboard: http://www.kpdesign.net/wp-plugins/wp-hide-dashboard/

[wendel-brume]

I’m setting up a new website that is using WordPress as a CMS, and probably bbPress as a forum. (I’m toying with phpBB at the moment, but the integration I want here will likely push me to bbPress.) The WordPress area won’t require registration since its content is a series of short videos, and I want guests to be able to view them. Visitors will be invited to join the forums to discuss the videos, and I want them to self-identify their field of occupation when registering. My site is specific enough that the list of relevant occupations can be limited to a known list, so that field will be from a fixed set of possible choices.

Is there then a way that when a registered bbPress member visits the WordPress area of the site, that WordPress will recognize them as registered bbPress members and somehow pass that information out, so that an adserver (like AdSense) can target the ads it serves more specifically to that visitor based on the occupation they provided?

[psheld]

Thanks again Chris for coming back on this thread. I am surprised to read your statement about integration though, as it was this feature of bbpress that made me go for it over other forums! Oh well, may be it’ll come out good in the end.

Here’s the code for wp-blog-header.php. Line 14 simply says “wp();”.

<?php

/**

* Loads the WordPress environment and template.

*

* @package WordPress

*/

if ( !isset($wp_did_header) ) {

$wp_did_header = true;

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );

wp();

require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-loader.php' );

}

?>

[chrishajer]

WordPress 2.7 (or anything after 2.5.1 really) does not integrate well for logins with bbPress 0.9.x., although I have heard recently of a couple different ways of getting the two to talk to each other.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bayanimecom-wp26-and-bbpress-09-complete-cookie-integration

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/

Regarding user roles in 0.9.0.4, there is a user role map section to the bbPress admin where you can map the WordPress roles to the bbPress roles.

http://www.example.com/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php

[chrishajer]

The latest stable bbPress (0.9.0.4) does not integrate nicely with WordPress 2.7.1.

What does line 14 of wp-blog-header.php look like?

[najkiie1]

Alright. Thanks a lot for your help I started working on it yesterday, it might actually work.

And on the bbpress forum, i will have the forum categories in the sidebar, and then just a list of all the topics. So i don’t think that’ll be a prob

Oh and i like the way your sidebar works, how it changes all the time. Pretty cool.

Thanks again

[Process of Illumination]

Hi, i read

“In the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin you will find a “User Role Map” where you can set which roles will be applied to users who register on your forums. Users who register on your WordPress blog will have the appropriate role applied to their account when they first login to bbPress.”

but since i dont see the “Settings” area in my bbPress admin, how can i set it the proper way?

thank you very much,

the Process

[swaymedia]

WordPress 2.7 not 2.7.1.

[psheld]

Thanks Chris. My version of bbpress is the latest stable one at the time of writing: 0.9.0.4.

Just changed the secret key in both bb-config.php and wp-config.php to a 37 character long string of letters only, and we have success at http://www.atcv.net/bbpress . Awesome. Thanks v much.

But I get the following at my wordpress root http://www.atcv.net:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/philipsh/public_html/wp-blog-header.php on line 14

so perhaps my integration with WordPress remains flawed?

[chrishajer]

I think it depends on the version of WordPress you’re installing. What version of WordPress are you going to use?