[Jayesh]

Hi

I love this forum and easy to use with WordPress but I like to give feature of signatures to my forum visitors.

Is there any plugin or guide for how to add signature feature for bbpress

Please Advise.

[Daniel Ortega]

When I install it using buddypress I get this when I click the “FORUMS” tab:

Warning: mysql_get_server_info(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/********/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1582

Can someone help me? I really need to use bbpress!

[christofius]

I couldn’t agree more. The new bbpress needs something like wordpress’s custom post, and it would be awesome if bbpress had the same thing, only more flexible and with a UI.

Example: just drag a wigit in between topic title and message, and name it topic description.

WordPress already has the “app store”, but bbpress needs it to.

WordPress integration is crucial, because tons of people would like to have a cms and a forum. However, I don’t think that making bbpress a wordpress plugin is the right solution. Lot’s of people also want to have a standalone forum software. The integration just needs to be smoother.

If you guys could do that I would definitely use the forked software.

[maxumimike]

Varjik.

There are plugins for both private messaging and a WYSIWYG editor.

BBPress does work well with WordPress, better than any other forum software. What people like you fail to understand is that whilst, relatively, integrating BBPress with WordPress is easy, it is not something a basic WordPress user who does not have any knowledge of PHP should really do, unless you are prepared for the challenge and prepared that you mgiht not be able to do it.

Regarding themes, you need to edit the BBPress theme you are using. You need to add the Get_Header and Get_Footer tags of your WordPress theme to your BBPress theme files. If you wish to use a sidebar you will need to reference the sidebar too.

You then need your Forum to fit in the Wrapper of your WordPress theme, you do this by referencing the wordpress themes CSS wrapper in the BBPress themes files, using div tags.

You also need to then make sure a copy of your BBPress CSS is in the same directory as your wordpress CSS, you then need to reference the BBPress CSS in your wordpress header.

If you know what you’re doing with web design then those steps should be fairly easy to follow. At the end of the day, a certain level of expertise is required to integrate BBPress with WordPress.

I have managed it, you can see the result at:

Discussions

As you can see, both the WP site and the BBPress forum use the same theme.

Personally, I think if you are already looking to phpNuke then WordPress is probably not for you. I personally think phpNuke is the poor mans WordPress, it’s gimmicky and performs poorly, but if that’s what you find easiest then it’s whatever you think is best

[cichlid]

mr_pelle I tried the upgrade from 1.0.2 to the newest trunk version. Just got a white screen when after uploading the new files.

I’m running wordpress 2.9.2 deep integration.

I also tried doing a separate install but it tells me includes backpress is missing in bb-includes

Is there any special procedure I need to follow?

[paulhawke]

If we are talking “blue sky” here, I’d like to propose a re-think of the content of “forum”, “topic”, “thread” and “profile” pages. WordPress site maintenance took a giant step forward with the addition of widgets.

Blogger.com is aimed at the masses (as any good forum software ought to be) and the “blog layout” tool is a great example. Drag + drop gadgets from a palette and tweak the look of the blog without ever editing a line of code.

Wouldn’t it be nice if forum themes revolved around skinning just the presentation, and the structure of the page could be as simple as drag + drop in the admin area?

Wouldn’t it be nice to allow widgets developed by other people to be dropped into place on the various pages that make up the site? What would it take to allow WordPress widgets to co-exist with bbPress ones?

Now that would make moderating and tweaking a forum easier!

Actually, while I think of it, a “get more widgets” link in the admin area, that seamlessly downloads and activates widgets would be awesome. All the smartphones are going toward an “App Store” why shouldn’t we?

[RedBull]

Hello _ck_,

I still have yet to figure out this problem but I noticed you are achieving this issue on your showcase site http://bbshowcase.org/forums/forum/bbpress-chat.

The most recent forum is showing up on top of the topic list right below the “stickies.”

Any further help is appreciated,

RedBull.

[mr_pelle]

You can download bbPress latest version, located here, via SubVersion.

[Eric]

Well thank you both for your responses. I ended up getting frustrated with it, both wordpress and bbpress. As they both want to work as their own individual platform, I could not get them to communicate the way that I needed. Nor, at least copy the theme over to make it a fluid site. I ended up deleting the whole site and I’ll start from scratch with maybe Phpnuke and PhpBB since they can be integrated. Just a pain to configure the way I want.

Basically, I like the ease of WordPress, however, it lacks certain functionality even with all the widgets. BBPress, is new, I’d like to see a functional WYSIWYG editor, the ability to private message, and integrate it into a wordpress site using the same css styles and mainly the header. Right now, its too obvious that you are navigating to two different sites and it lacks a certain possession.

[llclj]

Would you please elaborate? I tried to search around for “trunk” and svn but only got confused. What exactly is it that we need to download?

Thanks

[_ck_]

I’ve now added experimental support for bbPress 1.x

starting with version 0.0.4

Looking for feedback from those running a realworld, robust 1.x setup as I only have a test install.

Personally I also think it looks better in 0.9 but that’s just me.

It cannot damage anything during testing as it’s a read-only kind of plugin (for now).

[Taeo]

It is all done on bbPress.

I’ve considered making a free theme to get my name out there. But if I do I will most likely wait until the new version is released (the WP plugin). It would allow me to simplify the code somewhat I think. As it stands right now the theme and plugin is a bit of a mess as I was learning and adding features as I went.

[mr_pelle]

Well, I believe this feature is missing mainly because bbPress is not a social network.

If you want to invite someone to a forum, just send him/her its web address!

[nuesha]

OMG.. is this true? thanks for the share.

[mr_pelle]

bbPress.org is running trunk (r2540 at this very moment), whom includes topic subscription. You’ve to download bbPress trunk to have that feature; I suggest getting it via SVN.

[mr_pelle]

You just have to add bbPress CSS to WP header, I suppose.

[floweringmind]

You can resolve the issue by logging out of WordPress. Then log into the BBPress and you will be able to access the admin menu.

[christofius]

I have been having trouble with the buddypress forums. Basically, everything on the wordpress side of things works, and everything else BP wise works too. However, when I post a topic, the topic get’s posted, but the post doesn’t. So it says that there are 0 posts in the topic.

I am running wordpress 3.0.1 (not on multisite mode) and buddypress 1.2.5.2 in a root install. I have made one code change: before this I was getting an error because of mysql_get_server_info on wp-db.com, so I changed line 1589 (or somewhere around there from return preg_replace( '/[^0-9.].*/', '', mysql_get_server_info( $this->dbh )); to return preg_replace( '/[^0-9.].*/', '', mysql_query("select version() as $this->dbh") );, and that error stopped.

This is not because of any plugins or themes that I have installed: I have tried deactivating all of them to no result. I can not find any solution in any other topics.

And the problem is because of buddypress, not bbpress. I tried installing bbpress separately and integrating it with buddypress, and the same problem occurred when I posted on the buddypress end, but it didn’t when I posted on the bbpress side.

xmlrpc is enabled.

Thank you for your help.

[Navin]

Already 2 months since the creation of this topic, and still not fixed — wow way to sell bbpress

[Eric]

If someone could help me out on an issue that I have been trying to resolve. I am trying to integrate bbpress into wordpress as many others have in the past. I have successfully kept the header and footer of wordpress as well as kept all css information from wordpress. However, I have lost all formatting of BBpress and well you just have to take a look at it.

http://igneusterra.dyndns.org

click on the forums tab in the header and you will see. Any ideas of how I can get the formatting back or at least columns and the forum feel would be greatly appreciated.

[ethanthekiwi]

This forum, bbPress.org/forum, is using what appears to be the Subscribe to Topic plugin to send email notifications. I have been told that this plugin does not work, so I would like to ask the question, “How is the bbpress forum doing email notifications, because it works the way that I want email notifications to work on my site.”

The last time I posted about this, I was told that the plugin did not work in 1.0.2 and that 1.0.2 had built in support for this. I am fairly certain that 1.0.2 does not have built in email support and I would rather not downgrade to 0.9, but I might if that’s what it takes. Can anyone confirm this or offer a better solution?

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/all-member-names-anonymous-on-front-page-bbpressorg

[pagal]

@ricardouk, Thank you so much for your time and interest.

some say 0.9.2 is faster but even if it is faster i can´t really notice it.

Yes, I’m totally agree with you, I also can’t find any difference.

the next version (pluggin) will be what everyone wanted,

I don’t think so, I analyse that most of people/developers don’t want this plugin, they love standalone.

What you think, This plugin will win the situation? Nope never,

I’m afraid, How can biggest sites will move to this plugin.

And those who just want to run community without WordPress, Will like it?

off course, they need a separate forum solution.

And what about those plugins which have developed for bbPresss standalone, Will developers again make them compatible for bbPress plugin?

I don’t think so.. specially _ck_ will not remake them.

Community forums is a separate issue, It should remain separate.

Its a stupid idea to messing it up with WP. My apologies.

I’m also not happy with those five forums software which you’ve mentioned. They all looks like same including vbulletin. They are complicated, heavy.

You know which I choose bbPress? because of its motto

yes, its really simple, fast and elegant.

I don’t know why management remove these “three words” which was the identity of bbPress.

With Regards,

Pagal

[_ck_]

They did something wrong and bbpress defaults to “anonymous” when it can’t find the user. Probably means they didn’t do a global or something like that.

[_ck_]

I noticed this morning it’s tricky in bbpress to figure out who tagged what, when.

So now this plugin will help admin explore how those tags got there or if spammers have snuck in any stray tags.

Install, activate and look under the Manage menu.

Click on the numbers next to the items to “drill down” on those tags.

Let me know if you have feature ideas or find bugs.

—

okay it’s on the SVN now with a couple of tweaks/fixes

so you can get it from there

http://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/tag-history/trunk/

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/tag-history/