[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

tomwi – Two easy options.

1) Use the build in RSS sidebar widget in wordpress.

2) Add the PHP Widget plugin and then toss in something like this:

<?php require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss-functions.php');

$today = current_time('mysql', 1);

// insert the feed URL here

$rss = @fetch_rss('http://domain.net/forums/rss');

if ( isset($rss->items) && 0 != count($rss->items) ) {

echo '<ul>';

// set the number of items from the feed to display (5)

$rss->items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 5);

foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {

echo '<li><a href="';

echo wp_filter_kses($item['link']);

echo '">';

echo wp_specialchars($item['title']);

echo '</a></li>';

}

echo '</ul>';

}; ?>

[tomwi]

this is great! i had downgraded to 2.5.1 for integration.

i am using bb latest discussions to show latest bbpress posts in wordpress which I could not get to work with alpha 2. i want to move back to 2.7 and alpha 4…… does anyone know of a plugin that works in bbpress alpha wp 2.7 to pull latest bbpress posts to wordpress/wordpress sidebar?

[lolos]

but then wont they be two separate identical themes that is not connected in anyway? I want to be able to use my wordpress theme as the parent theme, in the same time I can access the bbpress forum within wordpress parent frame.

If I duplicate the theme, how will I make wordpress links work in bbpress lookalike theme?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

It may not be integrated. Duplicating a theme between bbPress and WordPress is pretty simple, since it uses similar templating styles.

[lolos]

davidbaldwin,

How did you change the font size and color of the bbpress in your wordpress theme? are you using two separate css style sheets or only one?

Can you give me some instructions on how did you make bbpress work within wordpress theme? i.e. when you click on forum it opens bbpress forum in the same page under word press header??

Please some one help me.. I spent over 4 days trying to understand how do just that!!

[Sam Bauers]

Just remembered, if WordPress is loaded then bbPress relies on the setting of WPLANG in WordPress to determine which language to use.

This will all probably require some more work.

[lolos]

Immeldoy, can you upload your theme and send me the link please?

I want to do the same thing and tried to do everything but I keep failing! I just want to have bbpress inside my word press theme! Is that a hard thing to accomplish?!!!

[lolos]

Anyone?

[jgk1013]

OK some more info. Background: I’m trying to install bbpress 1.oAlpha4 to integrate with WPMU and BuddyPress, following the instructions from here https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt

So. I’ve uploaded the bbpress files to forums.wearelabor.com. I’ve gone there in my browser and started the installation process. Got the bb-config.php created, good. On to WP integration. I’ve clicked yes I want to integrate and yes on cookie integration and here’s where my problems are.

WordPress “auth” cookie key

– have that, found in wp-config.php, entered

WordPress “auth” cookie salt

-supposed to be the value of auth_salt found on the wp-admin/options.php page but I don’t see anything like it there. (Help?)

WordPress “secure auth” cookie key

-found at wp-config.php, entered

WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt

-supposed to be found at wp-admin/options.php but its not there. BUT I did find it at wp-config.php. What should I do?

WordPress “logged in” cookie key

-found at wp-config.php, entered

WordPress “logged in” cookie salt

-supposed to be found at wp-admin/options.php but its not there. BUT I did find it at wp-config.php. What should I do?

Any and all help appreciated. This is quite frustrating.

[gogoplata]

They are completely independent platforms, but can be integrated if needed.

[John James Jacoby]

@Sam:

You know, I think about this everyday, but between you and me (and everyone else reading) I’m convinced more and more that no one really has any idea how to code XHTML, or what kind of object should rightfully be used to encapsulate content.

For the first 20 years of the modern web, everything was done in tables. For the last 5 years of the modern web, everything is being done in lists, divs, and paragraphs. Half the time things are marked up as paragraphs even though they aren’t actually blocks of text. The other half things are marked up as lists even though they contain 1 link. (WordPress and bbPress both suffer from this type of issue, specifically in the pagination and previous/next functions.)

One thing that the Smarty engine does promote, is keeping ALL of the XHTML out of the source code, allowing “template designers” to focus ONLY on the mark-up and then inserting the Smarty tags where the dynamic content belongs.

I’ve noticed that Automattic products tend to really try to think ahead in terms of a typical layout and what their audiences want, and that’s not a bad idea usually… But when the audience changes their mind and wants to go from UL’s to DL’s, inserting a DT becomes impossible and the function is immediately flawed by design. A Smarty type of engine avoids this all together.

Smarty is way too big and fat to include in either WP or BBP in my opinion. We’d be better off with a slimmed down version that’s used in CHBB, which I would LOVE to see implemented personally…

[rootf]

Hi.

I want to create a forum on my WordPress 2.7 website and I decide to try bbPress, but I don’t know what integration method will be the best and I wonder wheter it is possible at all. I want fully integrated bbPress and WordPress (common header, footer, user database, etc., saying simply bbPress included in a WordPress page). Could you help me? Or maybe should I use an other script like Simple:Press Forum, punBB or phpBB? Thanks in advance.

Regards,

rootf.

[csseur3]

no, you can use only bbpress if you want. WordPress is not required

bye

[jgk1013]

Here were my errors:

>>> Fetching missing WordPress cookie salts.

>>>>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.

This is clearly the issue. However, when I went to where I was told these things would be, http://wearelabor.com/wp-admin/options.php, I didnt see any reference to them.

What am I doing wrong?

[colegeis]

Hello, I want to use bbPress but I am not using WordPress for my website at all. Do I need to have WordPress installed and setup on my domain for bbPress to work??

– Cole

[chrishajer]

bbSync doesn’t work with the latest version of anything. What version bbPress did you install, and what version WordPress?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

You want your WordPress posts to show up as topics in your bbPress forums?

This sounds like a job for BBSYNC!

[bebopcool]

i am try tu use forums in buddypress

i am suffering pb in wpmu 2.7 (trunk 1574) and bbpress (1.0 alpha 4) integration both in update or brand new installation.

wpmu install in root

bbpress in /forums

user integration is ok

log in integration not

this seems ok :

You will also have to manually ensure that the following constants are equivalent in WordPress’ and bbPress’ respective config files.

WordPress (wp-config.php) bbPress (bb-config.php)

AUTH_KEY BB_AUTH_KEY

SECURE_AUTH_KEY BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY

LOGGED_IN_KEY BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY

the bb press integration plugin gives me this line to add in wp-config :

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

nothing about cookie domain : is this a pb ?

i added the cookie salt information looking manually to wp-config because a have an issue somewhere :

in bbpress/settings/integration it tells that we have to got to the page :

http://domain/wp-admin/options.php

to get the information about cookie salts

on this page i have those errors (both on new and update install of wpmu 2.7)

Warning: array_search() [function.array-search]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/$$$/www/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php on line 1044

Warning: array_search() [function.array-search]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/$$$/www/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php on line 1044

Warning: array_search() [function.array-search]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/$$$/www/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php on line 1044

Warning: array_search() [function.array-search]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/$$$/www/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php on line 1044

do not know if there is a link …but is there anyone with an idea about this error ?

and about a solution for my wpmu+bbpress integration

[Sam Bauers]

It should be possible to load both language files, in fact some changes were made to WordPress to address the problem specifically.

Can you link to the language files you were trying to use?

* Side note: We should probably move where languages are stored. A my-languages directory would probably be the way to go.

[Sam Bauers]

@iservers

Well, that’s different…

But I just realised you are using bbPress 0.9 – the bb_mail() function has been replaced in 1.0-alpha with one more like wp_mail() in WordPress.

It was replaced in part because people had problems sending from Windows environments. You have probably just pinpointed the cause of that. Just a few months too late unfortunately!

For now I would just hack the core of 0.9 if I were you – it is unlikely to see any more updates. The replacement function in 1.0 should take care of this, although I would appreciate it if you could test 1.0-alpha for the same problem if you have some time.

[Sam Bauers]

@johnjamesjacoby

I suspect that user just never visited the bbPress portion of your site.

There are four ways a user will get their role set in bbPress once the role map is setup:

1. If they register through bbPress (will also give them a role in WordPress)
2. If they register through WordPress, then visit bbPress whilst logged in
3. If they register through WordPress, then logout, then log back in through bbPress at some stage
4. If they register through WordPress, then an admin re-saves the role mapping in bbPress

[_ck_]

GoDaddy is massive and would have thousands of support staff, probably outsourced.

There is far too much competition in the hosting world to stay with such a provider, find yourself someone better and smaller that actually cares about losing a customer and doesn’t put 1000’s of clients per box.

My best advise would be to get someone with cpanel because it far easier for the host and far easier for you and makes the account extremely portable between other cpanel hosts. I can literally move an entire account between servers in 1 or 2 minutes flat, all settings, mysql, email, dns, structure, etc. preserved exactly (and you don’t even need to know linux).

Avoid the really big hosts, avoid the really little hosts.

If you can afford it, get a VPS so you have much more control but don’t get a small, underpowered VPS which can be worse than shared hosting.

Do not get a host that uses NFS (networked file storage) like Dreamhost because that makes file intensive programs like WordPress/bbPress slow. GoDaddy probably uses NFS too but I am not positive about that.

Quick summary:

1. get a host with cpanel
2. make sure the host does not use NFS
3. make sure the host does not run PHP in safemode
4. only get a VPS if it’s reasonable size/performance,

     as small VPS are worse than quality shared hosting

added: one more tip for choosing a hosting provider – if they use the word “unlimited” in any of their advertising, find another provider.

[John James Jacoby]

Hey Sam, when registering through WordPress, did you mention that your WP Integration plug-in would adjust the role in bbPress somehow also? I have a new user that registered through WP and while I’m not sure if they’ve ever logged in or not, they do not have a role set in the BBP side. I could manually map them…

What would help you in this situation? Would you like me to dump the meta data for that user along with their respective user table entry?

[John James Jacoby]

Isn’t this what the role mapping in the bbPress Admin panel WordPress Integration page is for? It should map the existing users as you specify according to their preexisting WordPress roles.

[chrishajer]

You’ve stumbled onto one of the great mysteries of bbPress and WordPress working together: integration. It’s a work in progress.