@Gautam: Does that mean I have to create a ‘page-login.php’ template which contains the login/logout form?
Sorry, but this doesn’t make any sense to me, since WordPress already comes with everything needed to handle logins etc.
binhdo: When you install bbPress, you need to set up some pages using the Page Templates. Login is one of them. We should probably change this.
slobizman: That question is like the icing on the cake, especially after all the GPL debate. Theoretically, bbPress has some theme compatibility features which would work good with most of the themes. If it doesn’t with Thesis, then probably you can go to their support forums and ask them to add bbPress support. 
I’m very excited to hear this Alpha of the plugin is days away. I have a question whose answer I hope will not spoil my excitement: do you see any reason this will not work with the Thesis theme?
Thanks @Arjun, but there is nothing wrong with permalinks enabled in my setup. I am running several installs on my local machine and everything is working well unless bbpress is enabled. I noticed that with bbpress enabled, the login link is changed to ‘…/login/’ which also results in a ‘page not found’.
@binhdo
I’ve had similiar issues on my XAMPP server like when the permalink structure is changed I get 404 error. Its just a mod rewrite error of the local server installation. Even with the kind of permalink you said, you wont be able to view a post too, you’ll be getting same error. The default permalink works fine on local server. There is nothing wrong with bbPress. 
There is absolutely nothing special about my install. It’s a clean and fresh install of WP 3.1.2 with no additional plugins enabled. Initially, I enabled permalinks, activated bbpress and created a new forum. The view-forum link points to ‘http://localhost/wptest/forums/forum/general-forum’, which then results in a ‘page not found’ error. With permalinks disabled, all these pages would show up nicely as expected.
The sever is a local Apache on Win7 x64 (uniformserver package) and appears to be running perfectly fine so far.
I like how there are two completely different opinions and perspectives immediately back-to-back.
@binhdo – Something is most likely up with your install. Any more details you an provide?
Just installed the bbPress plugin and WOW… I’m impressed! Took about 5 minutes to install, activate the TwentyTen bbPress theme and create a couple of pages with the appropriate templates.
Can’t wait to start theming sites with these new capabilities in mind! Am I correct in assuming that the forums are based upon custom post types? With that baked in core functionality there are all kinds of cool implementations I’m itching to try.
Nice work ya’ll! If there’s anything I can do to help please let me know…
Thanks ya’ll! Once the plugin version moves into alpha or beta, let me know what I can do to help improve the documentation.
That PHPdoc helps a lot Gautam. I’ve also been using the PHP xRef as well. http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/nav.html?index.html
Thanks ya’ll! Once the plugin version moves into alpha or beta, let me know what I can do to help improve the documentation.
That PHPdoc helps a lot Gautam. I’ve also been using the PHP xRef as well. http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/nav.html?index.html
Just installed the latest version of the plugin on my local testserver. Unfortunately, my first impression was that it did not work at all since whatever I tried, WP would always redirect anything related to bbpress to the 404 / Page not found, regardless of which theme (default TwentyTen / bbpress Theme) was activated.
I noticed that turning off WP’s rewrite engine eventually did the trick, although I would not consider this to be a real solution. Maybe there’s something wrong with the url rewriting handled by bbpress. The base path to my WP in my setup is like ‘http://localhost/wptest/’.
OK, I have gotten the redirection working by adding the following to the start of the htaccess for the forums directory before the bbpress business:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forums/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
Do you think there is anything else I’ll need to do in order to get my forums and my main site picked up by Google as being the same domain? Thanks.
OK, I have gotten the redirection working by adding the following to the start of the htaccess for the forums directory before the bbpress business:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forums/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
Do you think there is anything else I’ll need to do in order to get my forums and my main site picked up by Google as being the same domain? Thanks.
Hello,
My bbpress install seems to be unintentionally hurting my Google health a bit by having a different domain from the rest of my site, which it links back to a couple of times on every page due to its navigation. My site’s canonical domain is http://www.domain.com and I think that bbpress was installed at http://www.domain.com/forum (it was a while ago and I wouldn’t swear to this), but when I take a look with Webmaster Tools, Google picks it up as living at domain.com/forum and counts any links to other parts of my site from a bbpress forum page (such as navigation or an answer to a support question that recommends reading a particular page on the rest of the site) as being one of many heavily-repeated links from an outside site.
I have gone to the bbpress admin settings page and set the field “bbPress address (URL)” to the fully-qualified URL.
At this point I would like any requests for domain.com/forum/* to be 301-redirected to http://www.domain.com/forum/*. I have a working 301 redirect at the root level of my site that successfully does this to all other pages on the site, but it doesn’t get applied to the forum directory, presumably because it has its own htaccess with bbpress-specific settings. I tried adding the following to the bbpress htaccess:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
But this just causes requests for the forums to be redirected to the root page of my site.
I have checked into the bbpress config.php and there doesn’t seem to be anything in there which controls this.
Can someone help me out getting everything working/perceived by Google as being at the same domain and subdomain so my forum navigation that goes to the non-forum part of my site isn’t counted as vast numbers of repeated links from a different site?
Thank you very much.
Is there a solution for conversion the other way around?
I am using 1.1x. I was able to successfully convert to phpBB. You can see the converted forum here:
http://leftcoastlogic.com/forum/phpbb/
I have full admin access to this, and checked that the tables, topics, posts and users were all successfully converted to phpbb.
I then downloaded the phpbb-to-bbpress script from code.google.com (per other posts here):
http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/
Following instructions, I began the conversion and it stepped through the process. It appeared to have completed the “converting posts” step, although the last step had some strange text:
View post on imgur.com
I then proceeded to the next step, “convert users data”, and got this error message:
View post on imgur.com
I then tried to run the script a second time, and got this error message:
View post on imgur.com
So, I guess I’m not having much luck converting my phpBB forum to bbPress. Any suggestions?
I am using 1.1x. I was able to successfully convert to phpBB. You can see the converted forum here:
http://leftcoastlogic.com/forum/phpbb/
I have full admin access to this, and checked that the tables, topics, posts and users were all successfully converted to phpbb.
I then downloaded the phpbb-to-bbpress script from code.google.com (per other posts here):
http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/
Following instructions, I began the conversion and it stepped through the process. It appeared to have completed the “converting posts” step, although the last step had some strange text:
View post on imgur.com
I then proceeded to the next step, “convert users data”, and got this error message:
View post on imgur.com
I then tried to run the script a second time, and got this error message:
View post on imgur.com
So, I guess I’m not having much luck converting my phpBB forum to bbPress. Any suggestions?
This did not work for me. The first time I tried it, I got as far as “Convert Posts” then got this:
GENERAL ERROR
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Data too long for column ‘user_url’ at row 1 [1406]
I then tried again (having no idea what to do), and got this error message:
SQL ERROR
Duplicate entry ‘1’ for key ‘PRIMARY’ [1062] followed by a bunch of text that seems to replicate the key.
This did not work for me. The first time I tried it, I got as far as “Convert Posts” then go this:
GENERAL ERROR
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Data too long for column ‘user_url’ at row 1 [1406]
I then tried again (having no idea what to do), and got this error message:
SQL ERROR
Duplicate entry ‘1’ for key ‘PRIMARY’ [1062] followed by a bunch of text that seems to replicate the key.
You can either use bbPress 0.9 with the Subscribe to Topic plugin or install the yet-to-be-released bbPress 1.1 alpha which has that feature built-in. The Subscribe to Topic Plugin by _ck_ doesn’t work with the current version of bbPress, i.e. 1.0.
