Hello all,
I run a small website called the Youth Bloggers Network (http://youthbloggers.net/) which is currently using WordPress and the Simple:Press forum plugin to run the forum. I’ve received some advice to switch to a “dedicated” forum software such as bbPress or phpBB to increase loading time and optimize the site structure (splitting up the forum and cms backend). If I were to switch, bbPress is the definite option for me seeing as I need my WordPress users to be members of the forum as well. I was able to install the latest bbPress version (1.0 alpha I believe) and integrate it perfectly with my WordPress install (cookies, users and everything). That was wonderful. The only two things holding me back from making the switch are:
1) Simple:Press is so easy to integrate into any page, just plug and play
2) I need a bbPress theme that matches my current WordPress theme
The problem is that I would like my forum to look and feel like just another page on the site. With Simple:Press this is easy (even when switching themes). With bbPress I need a new theme.
So here is what I would like to know:
Is it worth switching to bbPress even if it means a little extra work and designing?
And where can I find someone who could create a bbPress theme for me that fits my current design for a *low* price?
Please visit the site: http://youthbloggers.net/ and give me your advice and suggestions.
Thanks very much,
Patrick
Ressurecting the dead.
I want to call the BB login_form function into WP (to use that as my login, register, etc link). But. I also use a static homepage and I get this problem too.
bbPress is in /forums
WordPress is in /blog (with the ‘give WordPress it’s own directory’ tweak so it pretends to be in root)
I am using PermaLinks and have .htaccess
I have my wordpress and bbpress databases integrated, but cannot seem to set it up so that a user who signs up via bbpress is assigned a role on wordpress. I’ve played around with the User Role Map found in Settings – wordpress integration, but nothing seems to help. It does work the other way though – if a user signs up via wordpress, they are assigned the role in bbpress as I indicated via the role map.
Honestly, I don’t even understand how it’s supposed to work. It seems very one way. At no point does the map even ask what role I would like to assign someone in wordpress if they have a particular role in bbpress.
What I’d like to do is have everyone who signs up be given the role of Author. If this is possible, I’d really appreciate any tips on how to accomplish it. Thanks!
chrishajer, I have no idea if RSS change between things, but y’know, it’s habit. I don’t like to spend time debugging something that’s doesn’t mesh. There are a lot of possibilities to miss-match.
And pulk, either you have bbpress 0.9.x or you have bbpress 1.0-alpha-x. The plugin is not the same as using bbPress core 1.0-alpha. In your bb-config.php, what is your BBDB_CHARSET defined as?
and I already use 1.0-alpha-4.1 of the bbPress Integration plugin.
Speaking of reintroduced, I’m logged into my forum and WordPress, but for some reason I am listed as Inactive on my posts when viewing a topic. I thought this was fixed in alpha2?
Why do I get the feeling that alpha5 was bolted on top of an outdated 1.0 version and things went cross eyed?
Personally, I would start a trac ticket. They can determine there if the issue is valid or not, and how to fix it. There have been problems with the WordPress API-generated keys in bbPress before, maybe something was reintroduced.
hello..
i already recognized that there are many posts about the problems of permalinks. but nobody have the same issue. i created htaccess and tried both modes (Multiview and manual copy from bbpress). I have no wordpress installation, but guess that is no problem. My permalinks does not work.
site url: http://bauklimatik-dresden.de/forum/
but the permalinks are like this: http://bauklimatik-dresden.de/forum/forum/climatic-data
i saw a lot of posts which have instead of forum forums? however i am not able to get it work…
thanks for any help!
i would like to have an automatic sitemap generator for my website, the idea would be to have
1 page where all topics are there, sorted alphabetically and per forum, like this plug in i use for one
of my wordpress blogs http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/
thanks!
OK, so you can’t use the WordPress user management functions. With MySQL 4.1.* you can use subqueries. Are you comfortable making a database backup, and then are you comfortable with a tool like phpMyAdmin? I ask because I will explain how I would do it to take care of the problem one time. I wouldn’t necessarily call it the best way or the only way, just the way I would do it with things I would check beforehand.
Might as well make a backup of the bbPress database now.
Hopefully, you’ve added the Human Test plugin to prevent spam registrations.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/
I don’t know of a way to mass moderate users in bbPress. If you’re integrated with WordPress, I believe there is a mass edit for users available there.
If you’re not integrated, I think you need to use some SQL with the database directly. If you need that, please post the MySQL version you are using (since subqueries were added in MySQL 4.1, and the solution would be different if you’re using MySQL prior to 4.1)
I’ve been playing with the SQL to do this, but my MySQL version is 4.0.27, which does not support subqueries.
Hey Ipstenu,
The plugin you suggested seems to work after a wp-bbpress integration! thanks a lot 
In my case, I’m forcing registration and login through wp. I tried registration through bbpress before, and I think you run into a lot of problems.
The sanitize_user() function is the same in bbPress as it is in WordPress. Even the filter names are the same. Still, WordPress plugins don’t generally work in bbPress without some modification.
If it is the same function, in my opinion this feature should be in the core of both, wb and bbpress. It has no sense to allow double registrations like “John” and “john”, don’t you think so?
wordpressfan, have you added the line above inside the <?php … ?> tag ? If you have added it at the beginning or the end of the file, then it’s normal if you get header related warnings .
@wordpressfan
I got the same error Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in …/bb-includes/wp-functions.php on line 113
I switch from php4 to php5 and it works fine now. I’m hosted on MT GS.
my Wodpress version 2.7
my bbPress version 1.0 Alpha 5
Integrated wordpress. Use wordpress user table.
Example:
User Name : admin then login bbPress.
User Name : hasan then login bbPress.
but
User Name : 123456 then cant login bbpress.
Help me..!
The sanitize_user() function is the same in bbPress as it is in WordPress. Even the filter names are the same. Still, WordPress plugins don’t generally work in bbPress without some modification.
@johnjamesjacoby, I get the exact same problem. I cannot get a role assigned to my users at all! And it’s really frustrating. I create a user in BBPress and no role assigned in WordPress. User created in WordPress and no role assigned in BBPress. I have the exact same problem as you.
I am comparing the two right now to see if I deleted something important. Do you know which php file I should be looking in? I did not integrate the forum with WordPress and am using the latest version of bbPress (I just installed it a few days ago). The only plugins I am using is the Akismet plugin. I guess I must have deleted something although I’m not sure what!
Also, when I register a new user through WordPress as per normal, that user is still not assigned a role in bbPress. Not when they login, not when they hit the forum for the first time. Not ever.
My Steps:
- I used a Chrome browser window to register a new user through WordPress
- Logged in via WordPress
- Hit the forum
- User could not post, looks like has no role
- Logged out via WordPress
- Used FireFox to login as admin to check new user role
- No Role Assigned
- Used Chrome to login through bbPress
- Hit the forum
- User could not post, looks like has no role
- Used Firefox admin to edit Test user
- Received typical error message (noted below)
Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /forums/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 2009
Basically it looks like the exact same error message as before, with the same circumstances.
Round two using alpha 5 trunk from the SVN went exactly the same way, only this time when I logged in via bbPress, the above Warning went away, but that user is still marked as Inactive by default when they should be a Member according to the role map.
When registering through bbPress, the new user still is not assigned a Role on the WordPress side either.
Sam, can you explain to me what was supposed to be different in alpha5? Maybe I misunderstood…
I’m looking at trying this with http://www.theblog.ca/wordpress-case-insensitive-login but … yeah, can we sanitize for bbpress too?
Wow. I wish I had known that a few hours ago.
.htaccess probably just needs to be 0644 permissions (-rw-r–r–). Did you set up permalinks with rewrite rules as described here? bbPress does not write the .htaccess file in the same way that WordPress does (i.e. when you change WordPress permalink settings, it changes or creates the .htaccess file for you, with the proper rules.)
https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks
Update: it looks like you are installing again? This page gives a 404:
http://www.greenfitnessworld.com/bbpress/
This page shows that installation is not complete:
http://www.greenfitnessworld.com/forum/
Once your installation is complete, you’re going to want to go here to create the rules which you will paste into .htaccess: http://www.greenfitnessworld.com/forum/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php
@Ipstenu, that’s true. But integration working or not doesn’t have any bearing on whether or not the date in the RSS feed is incorrectly formatted, does it?
WordPress themes are more closely related to bbPress themes. phpBB themes use a completely different system.
