[_ck_]

Running bbPress on a server with 128mb of ram would be very difficult unless it’s a very light setup with low use.

256mb should be doable if that is real, permanent memory and not burst memory. It’s also important if you don’t have alot of overhead like cpanel running.

#1 problem on most small VPS is you either don’t have the mysql cache turned on or it’s too small of a cache

#2 problem is you almost certainly don’t have a PHP opcode cache like eAccelerator installed

#3 problem on almost all VPS is bad neighbors.

On a shared host, you can easily tell when you have bad neighbors who are overloading the server (node). On a VPS they are hidden. If you have an inexperienced host, they may have a hard time tracking down the offender, or may not even care. If they tell you that your neighbors can’t affect you, that’s an outright lie or plain ignorance.

If you are running bbPress 1.0 alpha it has several problems generating far too many mysql queries and that could be causing you some headaches. If you are using bbPress 0.9, definitely stick with that, but you need to fine tune your settings.

WordPress has some nice caching plugins like wp-super-cache. No such creature exists yet for bbPress, so all pages must be rendered each time by the engine, making it use more overhead than WordPress.

[mjsmith]

Never mind. I fixed it myself. I checked my comments.php (on your themes wp-content/themes/your selected theme/ folder) and to my surprise it was empty!.. So what i did is open the original comments.php from my back-ups. And copy all the contents and paste it to the empty comment.php. That’s it, all comments are there now.

[mjsmith]

Hi,

I installed bbpress yesterday. I followed the installation guide and the forum was successfully installed. I have a seperate database for my bbpress.

I have not integrated our wordpress blog to the bbpress forum. I also did not changed our wordpress settings like “users must be registered to login or comment”.

Today, I just noticed that the comments on our wordpress blog are gone. You can see them in the wordpress dashboard but when you visit the post for example here:

http://www.rewardcreditcardsite.com/how-to-spot-a-non-rewarding-credit-card/

It says it has “3 comments” but you can’t see the comments or comment box.

I removed the bbpress, but it didnt bring my comments back. Can anyone help? Thanks

[clementine]

Hi. I’ve just moved into a Virtual Dedicated Server, i have 4 wordpress instalations with very few users and visits (like 200 per day) and 2 bbpress instalations with 200 users and 800 visits/day each one… They are in different accounts in the server, sharing DDBB.

The server its supposed to have 126mb ram but they’ve double increased my memory so, 256…

The server gets overloaded all the time, and I guess it’s BBpress… I don’t have any plugin or anything weird, just a smileys plugin. Does anybody knows what might be happening? I have ssh access and all that stuff…

[chrishajer]

Option 1 is valid. When bbPress comes out later though, WordPress might be higher than 2.6. There might always be a little bit of lag between versions for compatibility, but the idea is sane: upgrade now, then wait for a new version and upgrade again later.

Option 2 is also valid.

Question 1: yes, you can grab any old release from WordPress.org:

https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/

Also, you need only worry about compatibility if you are looking for integration. Other than that, the versions don’t need to be sync’d up.

And finally, you need to be careful running old versions to be certain there were no security fixes. The move from 2.6 to 2.6.1 had nothing to do with security, but the move from 2.5 to 2.6 did. So I guess 2.5 had some security issues. [citation needed]

[Andrew]

I am currently running the following:

WP 2.3x (using due to theme limitations)

BBPress 0.8.3.1

I am planning to upgrade the theme to be compatible with the latest version of WordPress. Once I do this I need to upgrade BBpress. Given the availabiltiy of the Alpha and the 2.5 restriction of BBpress 0.9 I was looking for suggestions on how to go about things.

Option 1 – Is this a valid path?

1. Upgrade to WP2.5 & BBpress 0.9

2. Wait for stable 1.0 Beta of BBpress

3. Upgrade to WP 2.6x and BBpress 1.0

Option 2

1. Upgrade to WP2.6 & BBpress Alpha

Questions:

1. Is a 2.5 version of WP still being distributed?

I hope this was clear. Thanks.

[chrishajer]

The wp-config-sample.php for WordPress 2.5.1 most DEFINITELY has that constant (line 13). Maybe you upgraded and used an old wp-config.php. You would never see the new constants unless you updated a wp-config-sample.php with your old database details.

// Change SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase.  You won't have to remember it later,

// so make it long and complicated.  You can visit https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/

// to get a secret key generated for you, or just make something up.

define('SECRET_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

[Mark Thomas Gazel]

When I post in the my forum I get this page up:

http://wordpress.dk/forum/bb-post.php

It’s stuck. When it should return me to the forum index. The same kind of error happened when I logget into the bbPress-forum. Is there a fix for this?

I didn’t know what to search for in the forum.

[bmc_webdev]

I have an installation of bbpress 0.9 (installed independent from WordPress).

When I pull the rss feed, I get code that looks like this:

<item>

<title>Anonymous on "Hello"</title>

<link>http://forums.brynmawr.edu/topic.php?id=2#post-8</link>

<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:45:22 +0000</pubDate>

<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>

<guid isPermaLink="false">8@http://forums.brynmawr.edu/</guid>

<description><p>test

</p></description>

</item>

The <p> is a <p> tag that is entity-encoded (I presume so that <p> won’t be parsed as an XML tag by an XML parser).

This is causing an issue with the feed parser that I am using (lastRSS): the parser is passing the <description> contents through unchanged, and so I’m getting literal “<p>” and “<p/>” on the pages that use lastRSS.

I believe that the standard method of embedding HTML into an XML feed (or any XML document) is to use CDATA blocks:

<description><![CDATA[<p>test

</p>]]></description>

and this is the way feeds from wordpress, blogger, etc are formatted. bbpress should really do the same thing so that feed parsers like lastRSS will pass through correct HTML (in this example, text wrapped by a paragraph tag, rather than text with character entities that cause the browser to display the literal characters)

Can the feed generator code be changed to use CDATA blocks?

Thank you.

[goodwyne]

I’m trying to integrate with a WP 2.5.1 install and my wp-config.php does not include a constant named “SECRET_KEY”. The install routine will not let me complete without that. I’m stuck.

[Tom Lynch]

I reinstalled and its still not working im not saying i cant login with users from both what the problem is, that the users from wordpress dont have any permissions but they can login.

[kscurloc]

Thanks Chris!

So I guess I’m having an issue then. Using WP 2.6.1 and BB 1.0 Alpha. The integration seems to be working quite well. It’s creating users that’s the problem.

I have two Roles setup in bbPress:

WordPress Administrator = bbPress Key Master

Wordpress Subscriber = bbPress Member

However, whenever I create a user in WP (doesn’t matter if I set it up as a subscriber or admin) it always shows up in bbPress as a “user with no role in these forums”.

I’m sure it’s something I’ve misconfigured… Just not sure what.

[leoleoleo]

Thanks for help _CK_, In 1.0 Alpha bb-config.php not “stop editing” I already add the “$bb->load_options = true;” under define(‘BB_LANG’, ”);”.

I like bbpress best for wordpress.And how to reduce database queries in 1.0 Alpha?

[chrishajer]

Yes, there is an option to change the password. Once you’re logged in, just go to your profile, then Edit, and at the bottom of that page you can enter your new password twice to reset it.

I don’t think you need to reinstall anything. Just log in and access the admin and go to Manage > Forums > Edit (one of your forums) and make sure the forums are not all marked “Category.”

Although it’s easy to just reinstall, if you do things the same way, you’re going to get the same result. You can fix what’s already installed unless something catastrophic happened during installation.

You should still supply your forum address, and the version of bbPress you installed, and if you integrated with WordPress, then that version as well. These things will help someone help you solve your problem.

[chrishajer]

There is normally a way to add new topics. If that is not present in your installation something is certainly wrong. Can you post the URL to your forum?

Is it possible you have all your forums set as categories? If that’s the case, categories can only hold other forums (subforums) not individual topics. Someone posted about that before.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-is-category-bbpress-10-alpha

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-add-topic

What version bbPress are you using, and is it integrated with WordPress (and if so, what version WordPress?)

[Sam Bauers]

This is a deeper problem than the role map. If you have users spread across two tables you will never get them to both be able to login.

You need to just use the WordPress user table and migrate any users from the bbPress user table across to it (don’t forget the meta as well.

First just try to get using one set of user data happening. Then try to tackle single login.

[fel64]

Certainly it’s possible to integrate the logins with bbPress, if you want to use a seperate wiki system; all of bbPress’ login functions are replacable. I haven’t heard of anyone doing it for some time, though, but more than a year ago spencerp did it: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mediawiki-bbpress-and-wordpress-integration

[_ck_]

bbPress is also very young so expectations should not be as high as WordPress (ie. robust plugin library). It’s about equal to WordPress back in 2003. While it benefits from code development on WordPress, it’s still 5 years younger.

But writing plugins for bbPress is as easy for WordPress (and in some cases easier because of improvements over WordPress’s legacy design). I’m definitely an example of this as I had never written a full PHP program or plugin of any kind before my bbPress plugins.

[Sam Bauers]

bbPress is designed to be light and extensible. It’s aim is to create a robust framework which can be extended with plugins and themes.

It is designed to be adapted by developers into what they want it to be while it takes care of the core behaviour.

WordPress is very similar in this regard, it just has a much older ecosystem of extensions and a much more active community.

[pr1001]

I am also having this problem. Unfortunately, the meta_value is already set to the value __ck__ suggests. Any other ideas?

[michaelp16]

Basically I’d love to move all of my content from wordpress format and have those blogs be bbpress topics. I read about bbsync but I’d like to convert current content to bbpress what are the options?

[pab1953]

In vBulletin, if I want to pay $180, I could get the Porsche (reportedly) of message boards. In phpBB, if I want to grapple with a sizable infrastructure, I could get perhaps the most seasoned of the free forum systems.

What do I get with bbPress? Is it secure? Will it get spammed to death? Is it stable? Is it designed for personal sites or can businesses use it with confidence?

Here’s one very specific question: How do I add a link to bbPress to take people back to my WordPress home page?

BTW, the installation was a breeze.

[chequers]

Hello, as per post title, is it possible to remove this section from the forum frontpage? I’m using 1.0 alpha.

I’m also hoping to remove / disable / hide the following areas:

o ‘Views’ section on the front page

o tag clouds

Thanks for any assistance! This seems like a very powerful and scalable forum – wordpress integration is just icing on the cake. I’ll be poking this more over the coming weeks.

[Justin Tadlock]

I just wanted to show off what my installation of this wonderful software looks like:

http://themehybrid.com/support

It’s the support forum of my WordPress themes site. Let me know what you think.

The main site is:

http://themehybrid.com

[jaimetout]

I can confirm that this does work as a WordPress mini-plugin if you replace ‘bb_send_headers’ with ‘send_headers’.

Thanks so much for posting this tip, _ck_. I’ve been fighting against weird layout issues and javascript screwiness ever since I installed IE8.