[chrishajer]

What happens when you try to do those things?

What version bbPress did you install? If you integrated with WordPress, what version WordPress did you install?

Does the problem happen with the default theme?

What sort of hosting are you on, Windows or Linux or other?

[Malice]

I tried to link the comment author’s name on my wordpress to the wordpress profile page (or “author” page), yet I have not yet found a solution for this. I posted my issue in the wordpress forum as well: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/235251?replies=1

A wonderful alternative would be to just link a commenter’s name to the bbpress profile page instead.

I have no knowledge of php, yet even I can imagine that fetching data from one platform to another can be quite complicated.

Any thoughts?

[deadlyhifi]

All integration guides appear to have the userbase in WP. I was in the situation where my userbase was in bbPress, so I needed to get all my bb_users into wp_users.

The following refers to WP2.7 and bbPress 1.06a.

The process is actually quite straight forward but do make backups of your database beforehand!

1. First delete ‘wp_usermeta’ and ‘wp_users’ tables (having made that backup!)
2. Change the name of ‘bb_usermeta’ to ‘wp_usermeta’ and ‘bb_users’ to ‘wp_users’.
3. The tables structures from bbP are the same as WP apart from one field in the ‘_users’ table. So we need to add FIELD: user_activation_key TYPE: varchar(60) NULL: NO after the ‘user_registered’ field.
4. The problem now is that none of these users have their WP roles defined.
5. To do this we need to insert the ‘meta_key’ and ‘meta_value’ to ‘wp_capabilities’ and ‘a:1:{s:10:”subscriber”;b:1;}’ for each user.
6. wordpress_capabilites.sql contains an SQL insert statement for 5000 users. If your userbase is less than that you only need to run it for your number of users (although we deal with overruns in a minute).
7. Once this has run each user will have ‘subscriber’ status within wordpress. You need to manually change your bbPress key holder (most likely user_id 1) ‘wp_capabilities’ to ‘a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}’. This gives that account administrator status within WP.
8. It’s highly likely that you’ll have deleted some users in the past, or run too many INSERTs from the wordpress_cabalilities file, so we need to delete all those ‘wp_capabilities’ that aren’t mapped to an exisiting user.
9. SQL: ‘select * from wp_usermeta where user_id not in (select ID from wp_users)’ will list all these non-existent users.
10. It probably a good idea to do a full backup of your tables right now just in case.
11. Now run this SQL: ”delete from wp_usermeta where user_id not in (select ID from wp_users)” – this will delete all those stray entries.
12. Done.

All worked out with the help of someone I work with, so I can’t take all the credit

Good luck.

[deadlyhifi]

Functions (optional)

…In order to do it, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ bb-config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).

Doing this will add quite a lot of weight to your bbPress installation as it will cause WordPress to load in it’s entirety. Your best option is to try to emulate the functionality you require inside a bbPress plugin.

Adding wp-blog-header.php to my bb-config causes lots of functionality issues.

Therefore has anyone made any of these plugins? I’m mostly looking to get wp_list_pages working.

[John James Jacoby]

Lets say in theory I was going to try and integrate bbPress’s functions into WordPress.

Theoretically, where would I look if I didn’t want bbPress to clear out the wp_head function?

[eclipsenow]

Hi,

I am using phpbb3 for now, but I’m not really good at database stuff and admin stuff. I love all open source projects, especially phpbb3, bbpress, wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc… even though I’m not very “Geeky” yet and am only just beginning to learn the basics of CSS (let alone php etc).

So… I am speaking from the perspective of a non-technical forum administrator frustrated by various interactions of various software. I don’t mind doing the grunt work of setting things up IN the software, but don’t know the code to work ON software. EG: Once phpbb3 is installed, I can easily set up forums, permissions, etc. It’s just easy point and click stuff. But messing around in mysql and database stuff still terrifies me, I’m afraid of breaking something. It’s all too big. I just want to install it and have it work.

I appreciate that there are various philosophies behind each style of software, but here goes…

MY ULTIMATE WISH LIST

1. Nothing to do with you guys, but number 1 on my list is to have Fantastico (or something equivalent) that can make installation of WordPress / Joomla / Whatever EASY! (My client is a volunteer campaigning group that just happened to choose Brinkster which don’t use Cpanel, let alone have Fantastico).

2. After EASY fantastico installation, I install WordPress.

3. Then within WordPress I browse across to the various add-ons pages in the WordPress Control Panel (A VERY cool new feature of WordPress that Drupal and Joomla should add to their systems!) and then click “INSTALL FORUM?” and WordPress suddenly installs a completely compatible forum, just like that, with all the power of phpbb3 built-in.

4. I then choose 1 of say 20 or 30 “looks” (templates, themes, whatever) that are already pre-configured to allow sign-in of users on all pages, especially the forum page. If I want to change the colour of a background element or use a new image in the header, I just point and click to template editing and do it ala Blogger. (No CSS required).

This sort of software is on the way. Joomla now has “Agora” which is already fairly advanced. Once Joomla is installed through the 50 second Fantastico installation, Agora only takes about 50 seconds to install as well. EVEN I CAN DO IT! But the Joomla / Agora combination does not yet have Step 4, which is killing me… I have to muck around with all sorts of plug-ins and extra bits to get a horizontal log-in menu I can put up just under my header (so it’s in the same place no matter what template I’m in).

I saw the video of how to integrate WP and BBpress, and ran a mile screaming! It just looked very intimidating.

So anyway, the Joomla / Agora combination is hardly perfect, but as you know these things keep on developing and Hazzaa over at Agora is MANIC in the rate he’s developing his product. Version 3 is nearly out, and it’s only been 10 months.

Just thought I should give you guys the heads up. The competition is great, because it forces us all to evolve.

EG: I LOVE the sound of WordPress’s new one click upgrade function, and hope Joomla gets that soon! (It’s just me and database stuff again… eeerrgh!) Combine that with easy forum upgrades, backups, etc, and software that’s Mac-like in that it “just works”, and I’m a happy camper.

PS: I forgot to check this thread in case there were replies, because I automatically get an email from every other forum I belong to. Old habits die hard. Agora has an automatic emailing function built in, it’s not a plug in.

[deadlyhifi]

found the problem. I had this in my bb-config

if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

else

if (file_exists(‘../../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../../wp-blog-header.php’);

to bring in wordpress powers.

Without it the status stays the way it should. How else can I bring in “wp_list_pages” without requiring the wp-blog-header.php?

[criketos]

i use wpmu 2.7 and bbpress 0.9.0.4!

I reinstall everything from scratch. Now it works! for information should be recorded wordpress site in the form https://monsite.com. for users of WPMU.

thank you

[chrishajer]

> I read that WordPress wp-caching plugins should work

Where did you read that? I never had the impression that WordPress plugins would work when installed in bbPress.

[frooyo]

I just downloaded and installed bbPress ALPHA.

All is working okay.

I read that WordPress wp-caching plugins should work, I just installed the WP SuperCache into /my-plugins/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

I logged in as Admin, went to ACTIVATE the plugin and received the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /home/uptownelite/forum.uptownelite.com/my-plugins/wp-super-cache/wp-cache.php on line 30

Any ideas why?

I thought WP caching plugins are suppose to work in bbPress ALPHA

[deadlyhifi]

Can you check your database to see that you permissions states

bb_capabilities a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

[chrishajer]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress did you integrate?

[michaelpierce]

Basically heres the issue I’m having. I have a wordpress installation and and a bbpress installation working together, I would like to create a special role for contributors on bbpress so that my contributors on wordpress can go to view things specific to contributors. I don’t want to allow my contributors access to moderator rights.

So there you have it, is there a way to create a custom role so I can assign them special access?

[ilo]

I fixed it, turns out i had not updated my config file from my wordpress upgrade so i was using an old config file, when changing i just edited the file and added the secret key setting and it seems to be working great with 0.9

[ilo]

After doing some reading I am going to assume someone is going to tell me to use the alpha 6 version of bbpress? Would it be wise for me to do the whole setup from scratch, re-uploading wordpress and then testing bbpress again?

[dixyantar]

This is the error log that i am getting :

>>> WordPress cookie keys not set.

>>>>>> Your "bb-config.php" file was not writable.

>>>>>> You will need to manually re-define "BB_AUTH_KEY", "BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY" and "BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY" in your "bb-config.php" file.

>>> WordPress "auth" cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch "auth" cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the "auth" cookie salt in your database.

>>> WordPress "logged in" cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch "logged in" cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the "logged in" cookie salt in your database.

What did I do wrong? How can I get it right now?

Please someone help me.

[moealza1]

successfully installed bbpress on my wordpress 2.7

Is their anyway to have the forum actually be within the site so everything is together instead of having its own theme?

[criketos]

synchronization between wordpress and bbpress is OK! However bbpress not recognize me more as a super administrator! I do not know how can I become super administrator ……

thank you

[John James Jacoby]

@Sam

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but if you check out http://www.delsolownersclub.com/forums/, the links for the feeds from WordPress seem to point exactly where they should.

The only problem that I had personally was using wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); in my wordpress functions.php file. I replaced it with

if (!defined('BB_PATH')) {

wp_enqueue_script('jquery');

}

And all is well again.

[Sam Bauers]

When you load WordPress inside bbPress, it is detected and all WordPress filters are cleared, including default filters. This means that most of what wp_head() usually does won’t happen. It’s the wrong thing to do in any case as the wrong RSS and XML-RPC links will get inserted for a start.

Having said that, using a plugin in bbPress you can easily add filters back in to wp_head().

[Fernando Tellado]

That RSS you demand is integrated in bbPress. In your browser navigation bar, if you click to the RSS icon it shows you the list with the two RSS feeds availables. One is for latest topics and other one is for latest messages in all topics. If you see my forum ( http://forowordpress.es/ ) I’ve added two links to both in the sidebar (redirected to feedburner as you can see).

[stevedrum]

cleared my cookies… checked i had that plugin working on wordpress…. but it still messes up.

it’s only on that one example though. it works alright with all the other variations

i looked at the cookies as i went through it.

i start with no cookies.

when i log in to wordpress i get quite a few cookies… two of which start with the phrase “wordpress_logged_in”

when i log out of bbpress, only one of these cookies disappears. which is presumably why i stay logged in to wordpress.

can i ask, should there really be two cookies called that? or should there just be one. it seems that wordpress is creating two cookies for everything, one for itself and one for bbpress

[exbrief]

How is this achieved? how can you see the logs? And are IP’s logged on each post and comment so they can be tied to the user’s ID? Can this be ported to work in all of WordPress MU? Thsi would be very handy. Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

@Tiago

How did you ditch the WordPress comment system and link the comments to a specific forum topic? Is this an automated process or a clever use of custom fields?

[John James Jacoby]

@Steve

Still sounds like a cookie issue. I would retrace your steps, make sure you’ve got the WordPress Integration plugin installed on the WordPress side of this. Make sure you’ve added all of the cookie info to your config files as specified, etc…

In my opinion, for usabilities sake, it may make sense to route your log ins and registrations through 1 platform anyhow.