[wendel-brume]

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!

[chrishajer]

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.

[chrishajer]

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.

[chrishajer]

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?

[chrishajer]

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…)

[wendel-brume]

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?

[wendel-brume]

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.

[swaymedia]

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.

[swaymedia]

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.

[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/