Hello All
Happy Holidays
I had my host install bbpress on url/forum and now I am stuck. They do not provide support.
I have been able to login to bb-admin but see no administrative options. Just a “This Is Your First Post” and a test post the host did.
I guess what I’m looking for is the manual and directions to set up and sync to the existing wordpress blog.
I have put the integration plugin on my server in my-plugins but see no way to activate it or set up. The plugin read me only says “put in my-plugins folder”
I have been reading the forum and docs for two days and just dont get it.
Whats my next step/steps once install is complete.
Feel free to list all the steps to follow.
I’m not a coder, but know the wp files pretty well.
Thanks in advance for your help
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Hi. I run a community for several groups of people learning foreign languages and I NEED SOME ADVICE on which bb platform to use. The bb/forums are the most active part of our website, so this is a very important decision. I would greatly appreciate any advice or comments you can offer.
1) I’m attracted to the fact that bbPress seems “lightweight” and that features are added as plug-ins. But is it EASY to add plug-ins? Can they be added automatically, through a wizard, or does it require knowledge of PHP and manual cutting & pasting of code?
2) Is it popular enough that there is plenty of support available online?
3) Is it secure? I used to run our forums on phpBB2 and they were eventually overrun with spam. No matter what anti-spam mods I installed, it never seemed to fix the problem.
4) When I ran the forums on phpBB2 it was terribly difficult to install Mods, keep track of changes, and perform maintenance on the site unless I kept very careful records of what parts of code I was changing. Does bbPress make this easier and more user-friendly? Have any of you had issues with it, or been disappointed by it being overly complicated?
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your time. I look forward to your replies.
Regards,
R.S.
(considering bbPress, SMF, and phpBB3)
Actually, I installed the bbPress plugin directly from the WP Admin add new plugin front end and I get invalid header as well.
Actually, I installed the bbPress plugin directly from the WP Admin add new plugin front end and I get invalid header as well.
Zaerl thank you so much, you are a really helpful person on bbPress forums.
Love your spirit.
I’ll try it, then send you feedback.
Stay in touch.
Zaerl thank you so much, you are a really helpful person on bbPress forums.
Love your spirit.
I’ll try it, then send you feedback.
Stay in touch.
I have already answered such question:
Show only Parent Forums
You must only change the conditional (the WHERE clause).
I have already answered such question:
Show only Parent Forums
You must only change the conditional (the WHERE clause).
Hi Pagal,
Hi, thank you for the link.
Looks like that Italic Text with the WPMimic theme doesn’t work.
Do you have any tip to fix it?
And additionally, one question to css gurus: About code boxes:
is there any way to give a better layout to code boxes? Maybe adding a border and a different background color
Thank you for any suggestion
Hi Pagal,
Hi, thank you for the link.
Looks like that Italic Text with the WPMimic theme doesn’t work.
Do you have any tip to fix it?
And additionally, one question to css gurus: About code boxes:
is there any way to give a better layout to code boxes? Maybe adding a border and a different background color
Thank you for any suggestion
There isn’t. bbPress uses http://gravatar.com
There isn’t. bbPress uses http://gravatar.com
use winSCP to delete the directories my-plugins and my-templates
then create the directories again.
I had to do this in order for my installation to work
use winSCP to delete the directories my-plugins and my-templates
then create the directories again.
I had to do this in order for my installation to work
Have been for past few weeks but have had other priorities to get started. I’ll probably post something up all official like eventually. 
Okay, looks like I figured out the issue.
Nothing at all like I thought.
I followed a few things from this guide: http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/
I used the WordPress MU settings rather than the standard WordPress settings in the BB_config & WP_config files both.
So basically I added to the beginning of each of those:
define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘4ec2be76cfe2b6c707014602c3cc078f’ );
define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
instead of just:
define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
Then I verified that ALL 8 of the define lines from the WP_config file, both the Key & the Salt were in the BB_config file (for some reason only had 4 of them, the Key files and no Salt files).
Problem Solved.
Okay, looks like I figured out the issue.
Nothing at all like I thought.
I followed a few things from this guide: http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/
I used the WordPress MU settings rather than the standard WordPress settings in the BB_config & WP_config files both.
So basically I added to the beginning of each of those:
define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘4ec2be76cfe2b6c707014602c3cc078f’ );
define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
instead of just:
define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
Then I verified that ALL 8 of the define lines from the WP_config file, both the Key & the Salt were in the BB_config file (for some reason only had 4 of them, the Key files and no Salt files).
Problem Solved.
Meant to say I tried adding the php flags to the .htaccess file by the way.
Someone might be able to correct me if I’m wrong, but maybe this has something to do with php flags not working in .htaccess when phpSuExec is enabled? Not sure.
Meant to say I tried adding the php flags to the .htaccess file by the way.
Someone might be able to correct me if I’m wrong, but maybe this has something to do with php flags not working in .htaccess when phpSuExec is enabled? Not sure.
Hello, I’m brand new to both WordPress & bbPress, but successfully managed to follow all instructions for integration. Everything seems to have worked quite well, with 1 exception. When I access the dashboard panel on either WordPress or bbPress, it logs me out of the other.
I can navigate the blog on WordPress, leave comments, etc., and vice versa on bbPress, without having to log back in to either; it only occurs when I access the Dashboard panels.
I suppose if I have to, I can live with this, as its just a nuisance, but would love to fix it if possible.
I am not that good at php yet, just learning as I go. Pretty sure I got all the cookie integration correct. I found a couple of posts on here suggesting things like:
‘AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4′
When I first tried the above, it seemed to have solved the issue, only it broke other links on the site (this caused downloads to occur rather than links).
Using WordPress 3.0.1 & bbPress 1.0.2.
My Host provider is JustHost & server has php 5 with phpSuExec enabled.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Well, I managed to fix another problem which was cookie sharing was not working. It is now, after manually editing bb-config.php. There is a line for the NONCE_KEY which was not asked for in guided web setup… so I copied my NONCE_KEY from wp-config.php. I also noticed that the guided setup asked for the salt values but there were no corresponding define() lines for salts in bb-config so I added those in the same style as in wp-config, with a BB_ prefix to the variable names… one or the other or both of those changes fixed cookie integration for me.
Meanwhile, the administration link is still broken. I have no user role map or anything other than theme changes, and the fact that the text is not styled at all seems weird. (still looks the same as the screenshot linked above) But I have no previous bbpress experience to base this on so I don’t know how badly broken it is.
I may have to end up adding subforums right into the bbpress tables through phpmyadmin… bleh
Well, I managed to fix another problem which was cookie sharing was not working. It is now, after manually editing bb-config.php. There is a line for the NONCE_KEY which was not asked for in guided web setup… so I copied my NONCE_KEY from wp-config.php. I also noticed that the guided setup asked for the salt values but there were no corresponding define() lines for salts in bb-config so I added those in the same style as in wp-config, with a BB_ prefix to the variable names… one or the other or both of those changes fixed cookie integration for me.
Meanwhile, the administration link is still broken. I have no user role map or anything other than theme changes, and the fact that the text is not styled at all seems weird. (still looks the same as the screenshot linked above) But I have no previous bbpress experience to base this on so I don’t know how badly broken it is.
I may have to end up adding subforums right into the bbpress tables through phpmyadmin… bleh
I am digging bbPress!
Check out my new forum…
Music Festival Junkies Forum
OK I am going round in circles trying to get bbpress installed;
I have done a fresh unzip to a new directory, as a sub-directory of WordPress…
If I then open the url mysite.com/forums (i renamed bbpress folder to forums) I get a cannot connect to database error…
So I then go bb-config-sample.php file and rename it to bb-config.php and enter my database details and then go back to mysite.com/forums URL and either get
“Oh dear! bbPress is already installed.”
Or I get a prompt for database details which leads me to a login page with “User does not exist.” error…
Is there a way to create a user somehow? I cannot login as there’s no existing user…
I am going round in circles and nothing seems to work…
I have tried many different variations, I had it working once but since then (deleted all files) I cannot get it going again…
Any ideas?
Cool. I finally got in. Thanks, everyone. What I did was install the bbPress Integration plugin, clear my cookies, and then log into bbpress admin w/ a different browser (Firefox instead of IE).
