[FMA]

I’ve followed this tutorial: http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/quickly-change-the-wordpress-mysql-database-table-prefix/

And my hole site just faded. It was horrible and it scared me to death. Hallelujah for backups <3

Well, erm, is there another way to fix this? Can’t bbPress staff just allow an empty table prefix?

[kevinjohngallagher]

None.

bbPress is not a WordPress plugin.

I’d love to suggest https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

But really, lets accept it’s utterly useless and allow me to point you to http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/ as it actually covers installation in more than 3 steps.

[boxjeff]

What wordpress folder do I install the bbpress software in?

[mr_pelle]

I just noticed that download links at Download page should use a background image, but it cannot be found at the moment.

Full background attribute: url("images/button-grad.png") repeat-x scroll left top #333333

[kevinjohngallagher]

If we fix it here, then there’s no pressure to fix it in BackPress.

Chris my friend,

We’re less than 10 hours away from that bug being present for it’s 3rd month.

Emails have been sent, Tweets have been sent, Trac reports have been filed, bug reports have been filed, patches have been submitted, Trac has been bumped (including by yourself), forum posts have been written, I’ve emailled Matt and Sam (though infairness it’s neither of these guys fault) etc etc.

I’ve even emailled Westi, who I’m looking forward to meet in 3 weeks in Manchester.

Nothing, nil, nada, zilch, zero, tumbleweed.

I’m not sure if we have any leverage to apply any pressure, because if we do – it ain’t working. At some stage, and that day might not be today of course, but at some stage we’ll have to accept that maybe there is no pressure on anyone to fix it in BackPress.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Ah sorry Chris, I wasn’t clear.

What I meant was this:

• We want/need people to test a year’s worth of code in 1.0.3
• Why not download the latest version.
• Apply the the patch to that downloded code.
• Put in a zip file.
• Rename Zip file “bbpress-1.0.3-alpha.zip”
• Upload to website
• Ask people to download and test.

We know we can’t release 1.0.3 into the wild given that it’s whole implementation is questioned by the bugs in 1.1; but it’ll at least give us a heads up on a year’s worth of bugs.

[FMA]

I’m using the newest bbPress version.

How can I resolve/fix this? (:

[kevinjohngallagher]

bbPress is built to be a standalone software that can share logins with WordPress. It loads it’s own theme.

The best thing to do is to make your own bbPress theme that looks like your wordpress theme.

[Gautam Gupta]

We can add the same code (the one I posted in the patch) in bbPress, but BackPress would be a better place for that. Anyone should contact westi as he can fix it.

[Gautam Gupta]

Easy way is deep integration but is highly not recommended as it adds unnecessary extra load on the server. Other way is to code a template yourself which looks similar to your WP theme or hire someone to do that.

[kaluwu]

I have installed the wp multisite 3.0. and bbpress the latest version. Everything is fine. But when I click on forum, it lead me to another different templet which is the bbPress templet instead of my WP-MS templet. How can I use both with one site without going to the bbPress theme? Anyone?

[chrishajer]

BackPress is included as an external. I don’t have the ability to update the code here. I can just check in code to bbPress. Then, on some sort of cron schedule, the code that runs bbpress.org/forums is updated. It’s not nightly, as evidenced by the fact that this site is still running r2441 (actually, I think r2442: I tagged it wrong.) So, maybe it’s not automatically done, but the job fails and someone needs to do it manually.

So, I can’t update the BackPress code that is running on this site. I could fix my local installation, and you could fix yours, but I can’t fix it here.

If you want to see what’s included externally, you can download a trunk release from the bottom of a trac page and see that Akismet and BackPress are both missing. When I check out a copy with subversion, those externals are checked out. But I can’t check in to either of those projects.

[chrishajer]

I don’t think I have any ability to update the code that runs at the plugins site, so I can’t fix the plugins search. I believe the search is fixed here in the forums so if they update the code at plugins, it will be fixed.

I don’t know if I can fix the < < thing locally (in an external?) but I would rather they just fix the BackPress bug properly. If we fix it here, then there’s no pressure to fix it in BackPress.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Yes,

we’ve seen this before,

you cannot have a blank entry for your WordPress table prefix and integrate with bbpress1.0.

I am presumig you’re using bbpress1.0 (you’ve not mentioned it).

[kevinjohngallagher]

Actually,

Don’t we package and include BackPress with every release?

Why are we reliant on the BackPress team at all, can’t we just apply the patches to BackPress as we release them for testing?

If thats teh case, cant we get an alpha for 1.0.3 out the door soon? Maybe ask people to test it and get a few bugs in while waiting on 1.1 development?

[FMA]

Hello bbPressers! (:

I’ve got some problems with integrating WordPress into my bbPress install.

What am I doing wrong?

http://i45.tinypic.com/15678gn.png

There just simply no $table_prefix in wp-config.php

I hope someone can help me with this.

With Kind Regards,

FMA

[kevinjohngallagher]

Yes mate it is, but it’s mental that it’s still not been fixed.

The person who is doing these updates could even apply your patch to our own version of backPress on this site and it would be sorted.

[Gautam Gupta]

And seriously, what is up with these >>> tags? It’s about to span into it’s 3rd month of not working. We can only help so much…

That is a BackPress bug, I think you know about it.. – http://backpress.automattic.com/ticket/25

[kevinjohngallagher]

I can’t wait until email subscriptions arrive!! This will be awesome.

Indeed it was, 2 years ago when we had it as a working plugin.

Gautam,

Given that we’re waiting on BackPress to update, and that the bug in question hasn’t had any response/update from any AutoMattic employees in 6 months, and isn’t included in the next Backpress release… how crucial is it that this bug is fixed?

[kevinjohngallagher]

You know, I love the silent updates to the site; but at the risk of sounding ungraetful – Could you please TEST the chanegs after you’ve made them Live??

All links to plugins from the plugin browser link to: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/#post-

Can be seen/reproduced here: https://bbpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=test

And seriously, what is up with these >>> tags? It’s about to span into it’s 3rd month of not working. We can only help so much…

[lissovski]

Excellent, thanks. Looks like 1.0.3 will have the fix.

[mr_pelle]

I don’t think Matt knows that we are changing the version manually. It would be nice to have that updated automatically, but I don’t have enough access to make that happen with subversion, so I just change it manually.

I know, I know, I just thought it was funny that he did not even look at any last commit…

[Gautam Gupta]

Here it is – #1261

[lissovski]

I had searched for a ticket or post but couldn’t find anything. However, saw some posts about problems with deep integration with WordPress and, separately, Permalinks.

[Gautam Gupta]

This has been fixed in the trunk version.