[775251]

vilimaunula – your site akirakurosawa.info is an quite impressive integration of WP and BBPress. I’m wondering how you managed to integrate your forum and wordpress loops into one, as presented on this page: http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/. You are showing a single chronological list of recent posts and comments across both your WP blog and BBPress forum. Would you mind sharing how you did this? I’m very new to PHP so would not be able to tweak things easily to make this happen.

Thanks!

[chrishajer]

Yes, put it in it’s own folder, inside the WordPress folder. So you might have something like this:

/var/www/public/website/wordpress

/var/www/public/website/wordpress/bbpress/

 

The 404 error might be because you are trying to use permalinks, either “slugs” or true, and they’re not set up on your server. I would change them to false for now and see if you can get the links to work. If that works, then you know that was the problem and you just need to set up permalinks.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

phpBB3 conversion:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion

I don’t think so, not easily, not yet. I think there was a script to export phpBB2 to bbPress:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-phpbb-to-bbpress-database-converter

[_ck_]

Hopefully you put it in it’s own folder, either under your WordPress folder, or off the webroot of your website.

View your profile should not give you an error unless you have something configured incorrectly.

[793634]

Ok I was wondering where I should upload bbpress? Right in the wordpress folder on my server? Also why can’t I click on the View your profile link? It says “User not found.” is that because it is still beta so to speak…

Thanks,

Noproblem

[_ck_]

Ah there is probably a more developed guide on the WordPress side, let me see if I can find it for you.

update: here’s a few guides – essentially the process is identical to the WordPress side except the URL used is going to be https://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/

guides:

http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2008/01/wordpress-plugin-subversion-guide/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/svn/

[RossB]

OK – ta, Chris.

[chrishajer]

I think this fix will take care of it: please confirm.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load#post-13156

[_ck_]

Hi filosofo, it’s an honor to have you here (I learned alot from studying your WordPress plugins).

I take it you are trying to do “full” integration where bbPress and WordPress run together and I guess I didn’t think of that as I try to encourage people NOT to do that because of the massive amount of code that has to execute for every page rendered.

I meant the cookies should integrate, with simple (stand-alone) integration.

Having bbPress based on BackPress and WP not based on it yet is going to become a problem for people doing full intregration. I am not sure if Sam is willing to wrap all the functions in “function_exists” clauses.

It’s great that it works when you remove them – they must have copied the most recent WordPress functions.

[Austin Matzko]

For those that know what they are doing and have subversion, you can checkout or switch to the trunk of bbPress which will give you compatibility with WordPress 2.6

Are you sure it’s compatible? I’m getting fatal errors because the functions in bb-includes/backpress/functions.core.php and bb-includes/backpress/functions.compat.php, which are shared with WP, are all getting re-declared.

However, if I make those files blank, the integration seems to work.

[chrishajer]

You should post from now on on the WordPress.org support forum for WordPress help, but we can still help you here since we’re mostly familiar with WordPress and bbPress.

You do *not* need to edit the file, but it looks like you did based on that error, which is why we asked.

I would try uploading all the files again. Maybe something just got corrupted in that one file, or maybe more files.

If you need assistance, please contact me at the website listed in my profile.

[chrishajer]

If you do a curl -I http://example.com/ from the command line on a Linux or Mac machine, or check the response headers with Firebug or the Web Developer Toolbar (both Firefox add-ons) you will see the response header is a 404, but the page still loads. This has something to do with WordPress, I think.

I tried to load a page on your forum just now, to show you the header output, but I keep getting a “page load error.”

[chrishajer]

I change the Firefox icon to the IE icon on people’s desktop then remove IE from the desktop. It’s a hard habit to break but well worth it.

I think you *can* subscribe to a site feed from within Google Reader: that’s the whole point. Use the “Add Subscription” button and paste in the URL for the feed you want. That’s it.

[cfreview]

After a lot of research, and looking at tumblr, then wordpress, then joomla, and now wordpress and bbpress, I think I almost may have made a decision. I want to create a site that is a blog on the front end, with the blog topics becoming forum discussions. Technically I don’t need bbpress to do this, but it seems to me that bbpress will facilitate better discussion. First, are there other sites that are already doing this, I would love to see how they operate?

Second, and maybe most important to me are the user profiles and the ability to let other users ranks each other posts to comments. I’m looking for some opinions on which extensions do this the best.

[783349]

Hi, so has this forum got nothing to do with wordpress? I tried to post on the word press forum and I couldn’t.

Please understand I am really new to everything computer.

I really need help. I didnt know I had to edit wp-includes/funtions.php.

Can you explain what I have to do. In basic language.

I really feel stupid when it comes to all this. trying to learn. sorry.If all esle fails do you know of any one that I can pay to fix this for me?

Thanks. Should I post here from now on or the word press forum if I can. hopefully I wont have to.

[RossB]

Oh yeah, I do already use Google’s reader – but you can’t actually subscribe to a site from within that, can you? And I have tried Firefox – I use it spasmodically. It’s illogical and even stupid of me, but I am so used to IE I find myself opening it up by default, as it were. No question, it is inferior to Firefox.

[chrishajer]

Did you add that to wp-config.php as the first line, right after the <?php?

The error cannot redeclare means something has already been included that it’s trying to include again.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Cannot+redeclare+_http_build_query()

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/having-trouble-integrating-wp-functions

[chrishajer]

There are several different types of RSS feeds, so maybe some sites and some feeds are handled better than others.

If you are stuck using IE6 you’re going to need a feed reader. IE7 has one built in, and IE8 is due around the end of the year as well.

Once you try Firefox or IE7 (or any browser with tabs) I don’t see how you’d want to go back.

Here is more info about RSS readers:

http://blogspace.com/rss/readers

[775251]

Hi – I’m also trying to add access to bbpress functions inside WordPress. I took the advice above and added

require_once(‘path/to/bb-load.php’);

to my wp config file.

Now I get the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _http_build_query() (previously declared in /path_to_bbpress/bb-includes/wp-functions.php:768) in /path_to_wordpress/wp-includes/compat.php on line 45

Any ideas on why I’m seeing this and how to fix?

[RossB]

Thanks, Chris. I know Firefox is a better browser, and the only reason I am using IE is out of habit. Currently running IE 6, and I suppose newer versions are equipped for RSS feeds. Anyway, you’ve cleared up the mystery of the RSS coded page for me! Weird thing, is, IE does show RSS feeds as they should appear on various blogs I’ve subscribed to. Why it should be different for the WP and bbPress forums…aaarrghh, not even going to think about it!

[Mr. Grim Reaper]

Thanks, though I’m a little confused. I put that in as a plugin file (with the plugin info up top) and I got a fatal error when I tried activating it. Sorry, but I’m totally new to bbPres, and WordPress alike.

Edit: Never mind, I noticed a slight typo (you wrote the wrong function name and forgot a parenthesis) but it works like a charm now. Thanks for that. :]

[chrishajer]

Same here. Is this the 404/200 problem?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load

[chrishajer]

Is this the 404/200 problem?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load

[_ck_]

It’s very easy to do this via a plugin.

You have to attach to the ‘bb_head’ action.

In fact if there’s a plugin for WordPress that does it, it would take under a minute to change it for bbPress.

Here’s a mini-plugin I wrote to do noarchive and nofollow:

function no_archive() {

echo "n".'<meta NAME="robots" CONTENT="noarchive,nofollow">'."n";

} add_action('bb_head', 'no_archive');

.

It would just have to be wrapped in an IF statement with a URI check to add it when you want it. To get the current location, either check bb_get_location or steal it’s code and modify as desired.

Something like this (untested)

function no_index() {

if (in_array(bb_get_location(),array("login-page","register-page","profile-page")) {

echo "n".'<meta NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">'."n";

}

} add_action('bb_head', 'no_archive');

[_ck_]

For those that know what they are doing and have subversion, you can checkout or switch to the alpha trunk of bbPress which will give you compatibility with WordPress 2.6

svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/

Unfortunately an automated download zip cannot be created because this is the first version of bbPress that uses BackPress which is automatically added by svn, but can’t be zipped by TRAC.

Here’s a ZIP’ed snapshot from yesterday:

http://www.mediafire.com/?alvvslgmh22

Keep in mind that you should NOT use the bbPress trunk for live websites – it’s bound to have bugs and some might affect security. You are on your own if you chose to use this version – plugins may have some compatibility issues.

1.0 requires the 3 new WP matching keys inserted into bb-config.php (see thebb-config-sample.php for more info)

[_ck_]

For those that know what they are doing and have subversion, you can checkout or switch to the trunk of bbPress (which will give you compatibility with WordPress 2.6)

svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/tags/1.0-alpha-1/

Unfortunately an automated download zip cannot be created because this is the first version of bbPress that uses BackPress which is automatically added by svn, but can’t be zipped by TRAC.

Here’s a ZIP’ed snapshot from yesterday:

http://www.mediafire.com/?y33rsdhxeld

Keep in mind that you should NOT use the bbPress trunk for live websites – it’s bound to have bugs and some might affect security. You are on your own if you chose to use this version – plugins may have some compatibility issues.

1.0 requires the 3 new WP matching keys inserted into bb-config.php (see thebb-config-sample.php for more info)

Sam could use your bug reports via TRAC if you find problems.