[tachyondecay]

I’ve created a custom user system for a website and am looking for a forum solution; a friend recommended bbPress to me. However, I need to be able to integrate bbPress so I have a single sign-on and registration point.

Searching around, I’ve found that I’ll need to write a plugin that overrides some of the functions in bb-includes/pluggable.php. All right, sure. This is my first time working with bbPress (no WordPress experience either), so I might as well ask those with more experience in case there’s any advice that could make this easier for me.

I manage authentication through a single cookie with a login_key. This is a randomly-generated string of characters that gets stored in the user’s row in the users table. Each time the user signs in, the site generates a new key and stores that in the table and the cookie.

The users table itself contains fields similar to those of bb_users: id, username, email, first_name, last_name, etc. So integration seems to be a matter of getting bbPress to check for my login_key cookie, and if the cookie is valid, load the data from my users table instead of from bb_users. I’m not concerned about registration, profiles or password changes, since those are all handled by the site on a larger level (although if I could disable those parts of bbPress, that would be helpful).

Looking at pluggable.php, I’ll need to override wp_validate_auth_cookie() and bb_current_user() at the very least. Any other guidance?

[ccraine]

That was it!! Fixed it. I guess its because I never set the Admin as KeyMaster in the WordPress integration page. But it works now that I was able to get admin access again and change the settings. That just saved me so much work and headaches. Thanks so much Chrishajer!! I hope this helps others with the same issue.

[ccraine]

I cannot access my admin since I turned on integration with wordpress. I have the latest versions of wordpress and bbpress. Everything worked great until I turned on integration and now I can’t get to the admin area at all. It just redirects me back to the main bbpress page.

anyone know how to fix this?

Or can someone tell me how to manually shut down integration in the files without admin access?

[chrishajer]

I think you might have better luck at the TinyMCE forum. It’s not a bbPress problem, (unless it’s a filter stripping out the tags) but something TinyMCE is doing with your span tags.

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/punbb/

I suspect though that it’s got to do with the rules for span elements. The XHTML ruleset allows style but I’m not sure why it strips out the color. Or, are you filtering this through something in bbPress that would strip that out? (in WordPress, I think kses handles that.) Can you post spans with a color style as administrator? How about the ‘admin can post anything’ plugin?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/admin-can-post-anything/

If the admin can post the <span style="color: #ff0000;">, WYSIWYG or not, then it’s likely a filter in bbPress that is stripping that code out.

[vassago]

When trying to post I get this message:

bbPress database error: [Unknown column ‘post_title’ in ‘field list’]

UPDATE bb_posts SET post_title=’Testy mctest test’ WHERE post_id=’11

I am using the wordpress database (different prefix for bb stuff) but there doesn’t seem to be a post_title column, here’s the output from mysql:

mysql> describe bb_posts;

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| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |

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| post_id | bigint(20) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |

| forum_id | int(10) | NO | | 1 | |

| topic_id | bigint(20) | NO | MUL | 1 | |

| poster_id | int(10) | NO | MUL | 0 | |

| post_text | text | NO | MUL | | |

| post_time | datetime | NO | MUL | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | |

| poster_ip | varchar(15) | NO | | | |

| post_status | tinyint(1) | NO | | 0 | |

| post_position | bigint(20) | NO | | 0 | |

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9 rows in set (0.00 sec)

I have looked around, but can’t seem to find anything about it on here. The forum/topic actually shows up when I go back to the page, but this is rather inconvenient. Thanks to anyone willing to help out with this.

WP version = 2.51

MySQL version = Server version: 5.0.45-Debian_1ubuntu3.3-log Debian etch distribution

bbPress version = latest (just got it 3 or 4 days ago) so 0.9.0.2

Thanks,

-Scott.

[newbbie]

I’m having problems, too, with logging out. When I click Log Out, it does nothing. But if I switch to my Profile, it gives me the Login Form on my Profile page. But if I go back to the Home page, it remembers my previous login. This happened with the original theme, and is still happening with a new theme. This happens whether I have a session logged in with my WordPress installation or not–it doesn’t seem to be related. This is a serious problem. I can’t launch a bbPress-based site with login/logout not working.

[phayze]

Nevermind, upgrading to 0.9.0.2 fixed it.

[wanrenqingkong]

hi, I wanna inset bbpress into my wordpress just like what bbpress.org website does. Is there any clue? Thanks!

[wanrenqingkong]

ok, let me describe it much more detailedly.

wordpress is stored on d:/member/wp

bbpress is stored on d:/member/bbpress

I move bbpress file from d:/member/bbpress to d:/member/wp/bbpress , when I browse the new url of bbpress , I get redirected to the orginal

[SteveFree]

bbSync would be fine however I want to import RSS feeds from blogs other than mine. Importing from my WordPress blog just won’t do it.

I thought about possibly using feedwordpress plugin to pull the topics into wordpress then use bbSync to pull the topics into bbPress but…… that’s getting pretty ugly and I really don’t want to pull external feeds into my blog……

Would prefer to find a plugin which I can just point at a feed and it will create new topics into a forum of my choice (per rss feed).

[phayze]

Also, probably as part of the same problem, administrators for bbpress can’t get to the presentation or site management tabs – they’re not there, so I can’t disable any of the plugins!

[phayze]

I’ve recently upgraded my WP to 2.5.1, and the integration with BBpress 0.8.2 (via bbPress Integration 0.74 by Michael Adams) has broken the login on the BBpress side for the admin/keymaster account. It doesn’t help that my server won’t send emails, so I can’t set the password because I never get the registration email (weirdly it never change the WordPress admin login. Should it?).

Anyway, my question is this – how can I manually reset the password for the admin account, or re-create the link between admin (WP) and keymaster (bb)? Is it possible, without going through the link that auto-generates a password?

Also, if I de-activate the integration plugin (on WP and bb) and upgrade bbPress to 0.9.0.2, can I force a new password for the bb keymaster account? There doesn’t seem to be a table for bb_users, and I don’t want to mess with the WP admin account.

Without a keymaster account, can I even upgrade?

Thanks,

[PaulMyatt]

The errors I saw were:

“bbPress database error: [Duplicate key name ‘user_nicename’]

ALTER TABLE wp_users ADD UNIQUE KEY user_nicename (user_nicename)

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 600 seconds exceeded in /var/www/html/forum/bb-admin/upgrade-functions.php on line 499″

After seeing that I had a look at the WP user table to examine user_nicename. I renamed the field and reran the upgrade. This time I got the error:

“Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 600 seconds exceeded in /var/www/html/forum/bb-includes/functions.php on line 2644”.

WordPress is version 2.5.1. MySQL is “4.1.22-standard”.

[wystan1000]

Yes, yes, newbie, here. Sorry about that before anyone bumps me or deletes me for duping or just raises their eyebrows and walks swiftly on. I have used google and other searches frequently. But I still can’t work out this database name, database user and password issue. I have copied the unzipped files into website.com/htdocs/blog1 where NetworkSolutions put WordPress for me. So now BBpress sits at the same level as WordPress. Is that right?

Now I have copied the values from the WP_config file (did it make those up on install?) but I still get “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified. Please check the settings, then try again.” I’m surprised these bear no relation to my actual WordPress password and user name.

I haven’t changed any settings from WordPress since I installed it. Is there a permissions issue?

Thanks (please)

Michael

[Krystian]

Well, I have already the Latest Discussions in the WordPress’s sidebar (with a plugin).

But now that you say that, my next objective is to put the latest posts from WordPress in the BBpress’s sidebar. RSS is a good option I can use to do it. I’m going to find how after this.

Thanks for your opinion chrishajer.

[prathik]

I have never been hacked while using it but after reading about the recent security issues with WordPress 2.3 and script kiddies hacking those sites, I have to make sure that its completely safe. Were you ever hacked while using bbpress on your website. Thanks for your opinion and views.

[Christiaan]

Hi Chris, I’ve got access to access logs, if that would help.

It appears to be .htaccess related. If I remove the .htaccess file from the WP directory my forum is accessible.

I’ve forgotten the timeline of what I was working on now (can’t multitask very well!) but it’s possibly related to this plugin that I’ve installed to get rid of a 404 problem: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strange-redirections-and-404s-after-wp-integration

Although when I deactivate this plugin it doesn’t make any difference. Here’s the htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^forum/topic /forum/topic.php [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^forum/forum /forum/forum.php [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^forum/tags /forum/tags.php [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^forum /forum/index.php [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>



# END WordPress

[chrishajer]

How about using an RSS widget in WordPress and importing the latest discussions feed URL there?

[Krystian]

Hi.

First of all, thanks a ton for all the hard work that you guys have done making our live easier. I apologies if there is other discussion about this issue (I did a search and didn’t find an answer).

I’m integrating my WordPress blog with BBpress forums and I would like to have the Latest Discussions list in the sidebar for all pages. I already put it in the blog with a WP pluging, now I’m trying to put it in the forum.

I tried copy and paste the code from front-page.php to sidebar.php. It works fine when I’m in the front page, but disappears when I enter in a topic or other page.

So, could you give me a clue, a code or a pluging I can use to have this done???

Any help is appreciate. Thanks.

Krystian at decnex.net

[chrishajer]

I have heard of WordPress widgets being used to show the latest bbPress entries in a blog, but nothing I know of that will create a new entry in bbPress from an RSS feed.

Could you use bbSync to follow the RSS items that are imported into WordPress to create the new bbPress topics?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/

Or, would RSS2HTML help at all (it wouldn’t make new topics in bbPress)?

http://www.rss2html.com/

[Christiaan]

Solved:

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

[Christiaan]

– when I try to view the “Admin” account profile, I get a wordpress 404 at www/forum/profile/admin.

– Clicking on any topics or forums (I believe I created them before the integration?) even a view of topics with no replies I get the same 404.

I’m getting exactly the same thing. Haven’t tried creating and logging in with a different user yet. Did you resolve this elorg?

[Christiaan]

Solved, my problem was I needed to change <?php bb_get_header(); ?> to <?php get_header(); ?> in the bbPress theme files, but I also needed to move require_once('../wp-blog-header.php'); up to the top of my config file.

It would be useful if both these aspects were mentioned in the Functions section of https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

Who can I contact to suggest these changes to that page?

[SteveFree]

Hi,

I want to convert from my phpBB forum to bbPress however I need 1 more plugin to make it happen.

I need a Plugin for bbPress which will monitor RSS feed’s and post new items into bbPress as a post.

Does anyone know of a free plugin which does this today?

For WordPress, I’m using the Plugin – FeedWordpress

URL – http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/

It works great and has many great options. Hopefully something exists for bbPress.

Thanks!

[gabx82]

Hi there!

Well, I did something else… I added the keymaster line to my admin wordpress’ db,

Thanks!