[775251]

During step 3 of the installation process, I accidentally inputted the wrong URL for my forum.

It asked me for the Site address (URL), which was defaulted to:

http://mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/

I changed this to

http://mysite.com/forums/

Now I can’t access the forums at all, and I can’t figure out how to change the URL back. I looked at bb-config.php, but didn’t see any way to fix this.

I’m not good with PHP and I’m new to WordPress in general, so any novice advice would be much appreciated!

[_ck_]

It’s definitely not ready for production use but the 1.0 alpha in the trunk is looking really good. Sam (and MDA) have been hard at work.

Looks a great deal like WordPress behind the scenes – I mean the new 2.5-2.6 look with rounded everything – but in our familiar and sharp looking green.

BackPress is now powering it which should unify us with WordPress more than ever before and accelerate feature development.

Hey it’s got a dashboard like WordPress now!

[screenshot]

I also see they added Display Names to bbPress.

[screenshot]

This actually is to my dismay but I guess other people may like them. (Personally for me it will be the first thing I disable – nothing but trouble with pesky childish users).

It also has categories built in: [screenshot]

If you are a power user and know what you are doing, give it a try in a test environment – do NOT overwrite an existing install, it’s not stable yet. Sam says they could use some testing bug reports on TRAC for it.

ps. even more good news is that many of my plugins seem to work hassle-free on it…

[775016]

I am very new to wordpress. I read your post late. Have not yet installed BBpress but plan to do so. How do I downgrade 2.6 to 2.5 I could not get any information on the web regarding steps for downgrade. Please help and thanks in advance. I am sure mor epeople would want to know the same as more people will find out 2.6 and bbpress dont work

[_ck_]

You should be able to put back 2.5.1 without incident.

Backing up your current site/db is always recommended.

[davidbaldwin]

dang it!

i wish i knew that before I upgraded..

what do i do know?

thanks!

[Göran]

Thank you very much chrishajer! It worked and I now have a forum on http://www.enkelwebbplats.se/forum

I am writing a little book in Swedish on how to start a website with WordPress and include bbPress for a discussion forum. The major fault with bbPress is now that is does not work to use Swedish names with diacritic characters like my own, Göran. I have asked for help in this forum before but no solution seems to exist. Strange since many other languages also use such characters and most people are somewhat offended if they cannot use their name if they want. All suggestions how to solve this problem is highly appreciated!

[chrishajer]

Need more info.

If it’s a plugin, and there’s a management page, maybe you could just hit the URL from another system that does have the ability to schedule tasks?

I never looked into how WordPress does pseudo cron…

[chrishajer]

WordPress 2.6 is not compatible with the current release of bbPress.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/why-is-integration-so-troublesom#post-17387

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/adding-bbpress-to-wordpress#post-17403

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17409

[_ck_]

Dollar sign might have to be urlencoded? Also you can integrate bbPress 0.9 with older versions of WordPress using these instructions:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-integrate-bbpress-09-with-wordpress-23-or-lower

[771868]

Hello,

I have a problem with links like this:

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/PDF/fcpn9.pdf/$FILE/fcpn9.pdf

In case it’s been stripped out here as well, there ought to be a dollar sign before FILE. It’s in the db, so it’s being taken out on output.

I’m probably being a bit simple, but I couldn’t find the code that was doing this – I’d guess it’s something on the post_text filter.

I’m using WordPress 0.8.3.1 with the bbPress integration and WordPress Integration plugins. I would upgrade, but I don’t want to use WordPress 2.5 yet.

Thanks, Mike.

[davidbaldwin]

after upgrading to wordpress 2.6 i have a bit of a problem with bbpress

I’m trying to login to bbpress at:

http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/

when i login, i am brought back to the same page, but I am not logged in.

Usuing the login form on that page, Does log me into wordpress.

what’s up?

[_ck_]

Not yet. They may one day import the code from WordPress or eventually BackPress may solve the issue.

[citizenkeith]

I think they’re using the term “vanilla” to mean “plain.” In other words, any standard installation of WordPress MU can be turned into a social network platform.

Vanilla, the forum software, doesn’t have anything to do with it, as far as I know.

[724719]

can anyone please tell me is buddy press replacing bbPress? otherwise were wasting our time….

“BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.”

vanilla is another forum, so im guessing BuddyPress will have its own forum… right so what the hell is bbPress for lol…

anyone help here?

[lelandf]

I wish I knew about the integration problem before I upgraded to 2.6. I’m experiencing more problems than the upgrade is worth. Like someone said above, 2.6 is not really anything special.

Is there any surefire way of downgrading back to WordPress 2.5.1? I have backups but made a few posts since then and don’t want to lose them.

[767427]

I’ve decided to go with bbPress for my new website because of my love for WordPress because of the relative ease of user integration and it’s light weight. I have everything nailed down except that I’d like to customize my installation to show categories like other forum software, i.e.:

Category

+Forum

+Forum

+Forum

Category

+Forum

+Forum

+Forum

You get the idea I’m sure. I’ve searched quite a bit and found only some posts from a year ago where this was brought up and supposedly this is in the trunk now. Has anyone managed to do this to a current stable installation or know how I could do it myself? It seems there used to be patches that did this for old revisions and I thought about playing with them to try to produce the desired effect on the current stable version. Has anyone else tried that?

I figure one option I _could_ use is trying out the current trunk (which I have almost up and running, got it installed but have an error that says it cannot find the uri) but I worry about stability.

I’d appreciate some tips and tricks if anyone has any. The lack of organization isn’t a deal breaker but it would be very nice. I don’t feel like waiting until version 1.0 which I know will be a long way off and I don’t want to try to cram together wordpress and another bloated beast of a forum like phpbb3.

[kernow]

Appreciate these things are always developing and improving, though the integration of the two is an important part of their dual improvement, so perhaps some notification via the WordPress panel which says, do NOT upgrade yet if you are using the current version of bbpress perhaps…?

[guyleech]

As of fairly recently, other users and I have only been able to post in Firefox. In all other browsers the error message of “Your attempt to create this topic has failed.” comes up.

The bbPress is not hooked up to a WordPress install, and is running no plugins. I haven’t touched the core code, only the template files (and I’m aware they’re slightly out in IE).

I’ve tried with both a newly registered account, and using my Admin account – both work in FF, but not in anything else.

If anyone could offer some guidance as to why this may be, it would be greatly appreciated.

The URL is: http://support.westciv.com

Cheers

Guy

[falcon1986]

Thank you. I removed it without negatively affecting WordPress.

[kernow]

…If you are using bbPress, you are considered an “early adopter”

I have noticed of late that early users of bbpress are now being categorised as ‘early adopters’ whereas one of the reasons I used it was that it was described thus:

• Light and fast
• Tired of getting your forum hacked? etc
• Integrates easily with WordPress
• If we could re-write WordPress, it would be a lot like bbpress

All of the above suggesting that it was a ‘finished product’ and technically superior to WordPress in some respects.

What features will the ‘released version’ have and will there always be integration problems? Will bbpress adopt common forum features or develop unique features of its own?

[Detective]

“Glad you got it working but I really dislike “display names” and I think it’s the worst concept in WordPress. Very bad idea to allow users to spoof other names. Even the “impostercide” plugin doesn’t solve all the issues. No other blog/forum system has such a quirky concept.”

I think the same. In a forum it doesn’t make much sense. What if i want to send a private message to a user ? If he changes his display name and avatar it could be very hard to find who he really is. It shouldn’t be allowed in a forum with a lot of users, it could get extremely chaotic.

[thion]

Until now, I never had problems with Flickr rss (I mean these cool latest 75×75 images) because I was using WordPress plugins. But now, I have no idea how to put latest images from Flickr group in my bbPress. I was reading API docs for two days now, and I don’t understand it completely .

Can anybody help? Or more, anyone have proper plugin? .

[Dennis Whiteman]

No problem. I like to keep WordPress up to date and the XDForum plug-in was holding me back.

[_ck_]

Note that bbPress is not a finished final product. It’s pre-release and therefore in a state of flux. bbPress has always been a bit behind WordPress changes. If you are using bbPress, you are considered an “early adopter” and therefore you have to accept that things aren’t going to be perfect.

No one but maybe Sam or MDA can say when bbPress will have a release that’s 2.6 compatible. There is code in the trunk that supposedly will work but I wouldn’t recommend using the trunk. It has to be ported to the 0.9 branch and then tested. I suspect they may even wait for the 1.0 beta release and I don’t know if that’s two weeks away or two months away.

Again, there is nothing special about the WP 2.6 release – it only has a handful of extra features and no security bug fixes over 2.5.1 – in fact people are having a bunch of little problem with 2.6 still so why rush to upgrade? I was able to easily downgrade back to 2.5.1 with no problems.

[hotforwords]

I really don’t understand the statement that “it will be a while” before they upgrade bbpress! I upgraded to 2.6 as my website (blog) is the most important part and I wanted to add bbpress as a side thing. It confuses me that they company that owns both products is basically telling you to downgrade back to 2.5.1 on WordPress to get the two things working! I will never do that… I will just have to wait for the bbpress update.. but the “awhile” part really makes me concerned! Is that months from now? Or weeks?