[Mark McWilliams]

When Justin announced DevPress.com on his personal blog, the question was raised about the Forum Plugin he’d been working on, to which he replied:

We’re thinking of just contributing all the work back to the bbPress community for their plugin. I’ll post an update as soon as we know the direction we’re going in.

Something like a week later he posted:

The entire code base that we use to run our forums has already been handed over to the bbPress project. I sent JJJ a link to download it a few weeks ago.

As for if JJJ has used any of the code Justin had, I don’t know, chances are both were/would have been pretty similar (but I can’t confirm that!) — Only JJJ and/or Justin could tell us that!

Because of what Justin achieved, I’d love to get him on the ”bbPress (Plugin) Team” and help JJJ get this machine on the road. I myself have it running on a local install, the barebones is GREAT and I can tell you that! Shame my coding knowledge isn’t as good!

Anyway, there’s some info! HAHA

[mr_pelle]

Have you tried this plugin?

[mr_pelle]

Have you tried this plugin?

[kenburcham]

First objective: Prepare your bbpress database

1) Create a database using phpmyadmin or whatever tool your hosting provider gives you to create a mysql database. I like calling mine “bbpress”.

2) Create a database user and give them access to the database you just created. I like calling my user “bbpress” and making a password that is unguessable “K4id83k$h@a” or something.

Second objective: Prepare the bbpress directory

1) Download the latest bbpress installation zip from here: https://bbpress.org/download/

2) Use either an ftp program or the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to copy the bbpress zip archive to the root directory of your webserver. Usually something like “public_html”.

3) Use the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to unzip the archive into your home directory.

4) Rename the “bbpress” directory to the desired directory name you want to reference in your url. For example if you want: http://www.example.com/forums then rename “bbpress” to “forums”. If you want: http://www.example.com/bbpress then you don’t need to rename the directory at all. This is now your bbpress “home” directory.

5) Delete the bbpress installation archive zip file from your home directory.

6) Advanced: check the permissions of the bbpress home directory. If you want to make things really easy on yourself, make the bbpress home directory world writeable (777) while you run the installation process. (just be sure to change it back when you are finished!)

Final objective: Install bbpress

1) Go to your bbpress home with a browser: http://www.example.com/forums

2) Follow the instructions bbpress gives you in the installation process. You’ll need to provide the username, password, database name and host that you created in objective one.

NOTE: I’d recommend NOT doing the wordpress integration during the install. Just skip it for now. You can set that part up later once bbpress is installed and working.

3) Once you’ve finished following the instructions, you should be good to go!

NOTE: If things go bad and you need to restart the installation process from scratch, you can delete the bb-config.php file from your bbpress home directory and delete the bb_* tables from your database using your database administration tool. Then visit your bbpress home again with your browser to restart the installation process.

[kenburcham]

First objective: Prepare your bbpress database

1) Create a database using phpmyadmin or whatever tool your hosting provider gives you to create a mysql database. I like calling mine “bbpress”.

2) Create a database user and give them access to the database you just created. I like calling my user “bbpress” and making a password that is unguessable “K4id83k$h@a” or something.

Second objective: Prepare the bbpress directory

1) Download the latest bbpress installation zip from here: https://bbpress.org/download/

2) Use either an ftp program or the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to copy the bbpress zip archive to the root directory of your webserver. Usually something like “public_html”.

3) Use the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to unzip the archive into your home directory.

4) Rename the “bbpress” directory to the desired directory name you want to reference in your url. For example if you want: http://www.example.com/forums then rename “bbpress” to “forums”. If you want: http://www.example.com/bbpress then you don’t need to rename the directory at all. This is now your bbpress “home” directory.

5) Delete the bbpress installation archive zip file from your home directory.

6) Advanced: check the permissions of the bbpress home directory. If you want to make things really easy on yourself, make the bbpress home directory world writeable (777) while you run the installation process. (just be sure to change it back when you are finished!)

Final objective: Install bbpress

1) Go to your bbpress home with a browser: http://www.example.com/forums

2) Follow the instructions bbpress gives you in the installation process. You’ll need to provide the username, password, database name and host that you created in objective one.

NOTE: I’d recommend NOT doing the wordpress integration during the install. Just skip it for now. You can set that part up later once bbpress is installed and working.

3) Once you’ve finished following the instructions, you should be good to go!

NOTE: If things go bad and you need to restart the installation process from scratch, you can delete the bb-config.php file from your bbpress home directory and delete the bb_* tables from your database using your database administration tool. Then visit your bbpress home again with your browser to restart the installation process.

[nmprofessional]

Asfame,

MANY Thanks!

WordPress + bbPress is new to me ( it is my third day working with them both) and your article about deep-integration:

http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/

was EXTREMELY helpful in me understanding hoe to integrate them both.

Again – many thanks!

Dave

[nmprofessional]

Asfame,

MANY Thanks!

WordPress + bbPress is new to me ( it is my third day working with them both) and your article about deep-integration:

http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/

was EXTREMELY helpful in me understanding hoe to integrate them both.

Again – many thanks!

Dave

[kenburcham]

Hi guys, I installed and uninstalled bbpress (1.02) several times and keep getting the same result:

After installation (with no integration) into a clean database and fresh unzip of the files (and even trying a couple of different browsers), I login as admin and get redirected to the forums page. I can logout, login, restart browser, try a different browser, etc. to no avail.

so I delete the database, delete the directory, reunzip, reinstall and end up with no joy in the same place.

maybe a hint: after I login with admin username/password, i get a 404 on: http://mysite.com/bbpress/bbpress

i have to delete the second bbpress it is adding from somewhere in its misty innards and then i’m logged in as admin, albeit not very powerful admin who can’t get anywhere or do anything.

bout to give up here and go with something else. love to get some guidance!

thanks…

ken.

[qprints]

Is it true it is to be intergrated with the BBPress forum plugin?

http://popcritics.com/forums/topics/if-i-needed-a-wordpress-integrated-forum-by-this-time-next-week#post-10319

[nmprofessional]

I am also having the same issue on one of my clients sites using WordPRess + bbPress with deep integration here:

http://theagelessedge.com/wp/forum/

Please excuse the roughness of layout for now.

Again, like <b>eshipguy</b> has said all of the posts work and can be seen – but every TITLE of very forum page displays “404 Not Found” EXCEPT for forum/php (in the main bbPress directory).

Anyone else figure this out or anyone want to work with me to try and figure it out?

Thanks,

Dave

[nmprofessional]

I am also having the same issue on one of my clients sites using WordPRess + bbPress with deep integration here:

http://theagelessedge.com/wp/forum/

Please excuse the roughness of layout for now.

Again, like <b>eshipguy</b> has said all of the posts work and can be seen – but every TITLE of very forum page displays “404 Not Found” EXCEPT for forum/php (in the main bbPress directory).

Anyone else figure this out or anyone want to work with me to try and figure it out?

Thanks,

Dave

[motherfunk]

http://www.fryer-mantis.co.uk/forum

I have now installed bbpress 3 times and i cant get deep integration working no matter what i do i get a blank page in admin when i try and do deep intergration.

Has someone come across this problem, i could do with some help?

[wildkyo]

Hi guys,

Is there any date on which you think the plugin will be fully functional? I tried it today and it seems that it still needs much more development.

Thank you very much for your work and hopefully we can enjoy it soon.

[thepaulcook2]

I get the following message that bbpress is installed. How do I uninstall it as I can’t see the forums?

Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?

[bbailie]

During the installation, bbpress creates my-plugins and my-templates and bb-config.php.

Somehow it manages to get an apache service to do this and the permissions refuse anyone else to access those folders / file.

So plugins cannot be uploaded, and the folders cannot be opened/deleted etc.

Some of us are stuck with FrontPage extensions, so there is no .htaccess, and on a leased server there is no way of using su to get a chown.

Can anyone help?

It might be nice to try adding a plugin, but the folder is off limits.

This is the current version. I have tried removing what I could, and dumping the database tables. That allows a normal install. But the problem persists.

TIA!

[frooyo]

How do can I allow new users to begin creating forum topics without having to check their email to receive their password first?

I ask because currently, the process of new user creation is:

1. User goes to /register.php and fills out their new account info

2. bbPress sends that user their password

3. the new user has to go to their email account and retrieve their auto-generated password

4. the new user obtains their password and then logs into bbPress

What I want to do is essentially eliminate the need for the user to do steps 2-4 before they can start chatting on bbPress.

What I’d like to do is instead:

1a. User goes to /register.php and fills out their new account info

2b. User is now auto-logged and can begin chatting

(Their password is still email to them, but they don’t need it to begin chatting on new user creation)

[master5o1]

It’s not insufficient for general use. My patch only allows a post to be given info about the xmlrpc client.

Basically it adds a get request to be given that allows for client namr and uri to he added as two meta keys.

This allows for a Facebook/Twitter like ‘via Client’ to be listed on each post made through the xmlrpc api.

Although, I did add some stripslashes() to some of the variables.

[master5o1]

It’s not insufficient for general use. My patch only allows a post to be given info about the xmlrpc client.

Basically it adds a get request to be given that allows for client namr and uri to he added as two meta keys.

This allows for a Facebook/Twitter like ‘via Client’ to be listed on each post made through the xmlrpc api.

Although, I did add some stripslashes() to some of the variables.

[John James Jacoby]

If the xmlrpc file that comes with bbPress isn’t sufficient or needs a patch, could you submit your changes to our trac as an svn diff?

http://trac.bbpress.org

If you want more eyes on this, having it not require a core file edit will help.

[John James Jacoby]

If the xmlrpc file that comes with bbPress isn’t sufficient or needs a patch, could you submit your changes to our trac as an svn diff?

http://trac.bbpress.org

If you want more eyes on this, having it not require a core file edit will help.

[Abdessamad Idrissi]

thank pelle for the replay and the hint… hope an admin sees this thread and put an end to that devilish bug

[Abdessamad Idrissi]

thank pelle for the replay and the hint… hope an admin sees this thread and put an end to that devilish bug

[mr_pelle]

I think I’ve found the root of all evil: https://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/ currently says:

Trac Error

TracError: The Trac Environment needs to be upgraded.

Run “trac-admin /home/trac/trac-environs/bb-plugins upgrade”

[mr_pelle]

I think I’ve found the root of all evil: https://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/ currently says:

Trac Error

TracError: The Trac Environment needs to be upgraded.

Run “trac-admin /home/trac/trac-environs/bb-plugins upgrade”

[Wokasa]

Hi, I’m new to bbpress and I’ve got it up and running after some work.

I’m now wondering if there is a simple way to display a users occupation and location?

I’ve looked everywhere and I don’t seem to be able to get it to work…

Would much appreciate a solution!Thanks in advance

Wokasa