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Finally, Yes this is integrated with WordPressMU
bbPress doesn’t officially work with WordPressMU.
I’m surprised and impressed you’ve got it working nicely
Quick question, are you sure you’re using bbPress and not in any way shape or form using BuddyPress? I knwo that sounds like a daft Question, but you’d be amazed!!!
Hello folks,
I’ve found a rather sporadic bug when trying to download bbPress 0.9 from teh downloads page. Specifically rather than going to the .zip file, it led me to a blank page instead.
2 computer, 4 browsers, same issue.
Been like this since at least this morning (GMT).
I’m presuming it’s a hic-up, but just thought i’d point it out
Hi Roaming,
First off, bbpress is not a WordPress plugin.
It’s a standalone forum.
(you’re not the first to think this, as God forbid we’d actually be able to say that anywhere on the actual website)
bbPress has 3 advantages going for it
1) you can share users with WordPress
2) you can share logins with WordPress
3) you can use your theming knowledge from WordPress to make them look alike.
It should be noted that although (now) sharing a very similar looking/acting Admin section, bbPress has it’s own admin section totally outwith WordPress.
As for an installation guide, the good folks at bbPress have cunningly hidden it in their Documentation > INSTALLATION page. I know, who’d have guessed
https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/
The next bit may sound cheeky, but I just want to be very clear. As bbPress is NOT a wordPress plugin or a wordPress Page or anything like that, it will not in any way shape or form, look like your WordPress blog unless you manually edit the bbPress theme to do so.
I state this really bluntly because:
1) It’s our 3 most complained about assumption – not sure why people complain that their assumptions are wrong but y’know, they do.
2) You’re using Thesis, which 90% of the time means you like menus/WYSIWYG over actual coding. You may ofcourse be in the 10% and be more than happy, which is awesome.
Given how your blog looks, it wouldn’t be hard at all to theme your bbPress forums to look like your WordPress blog
Take care, and good luck!
Kev
The theme integrator plugin which I mentioned on here a while ago as being “alpha” is now available as a stable release in the WordPress plugins repository. Hopefully some of you find it useful
http://pixopoint.com/products/pixopoint-theme-integrator/
The system DOES NOT require deep integration and does not suffer the performance hits that deep integration normally applies. This simply copies your HTML markup over after you set a bunch of things in each theme. If you don’t know how to do a 100% perfect integration of your theme already the old fashioned way (copying HTML and CSS across), this new system will not help you at all as you need to set that up already. Once it is setup however, the changes you make in your WordPress theme will be automagically applied to your bbPress site, along with changes such as plugins, widgets etc.
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The system works across a range of different softwares, not just bbPress. You can see a demo of it in my own support forum which uses SMF … http://pixopoint.com/forum/index.php?topic=1385.0
Righty ho, so while I can’t test my code (on iPhone sorry), I can help shed some more light on this.
First Off: there is not (that I can see) a table called wp_capabilities. There is just a meta_key called “wp_capabilities” in the wp_usermata table. That actually makes some sense
The good news here is, that it’s a 1 to 1 relationship so easy to copy over.
// Show Database Errors
// Comment this line out when going live
$wpdb->show_errors();
// 99 times out of 100 this is overkill
// I’m just being on the safe side
//
// It checks what the current user ID is
if ( !$user_id ) {
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$user_id = $current_user->ID;
} else {
$user_id = (int) $user_id;
}
// Connects to the database
// Retrieves the value for this user for wp_capabilities
$user_cap = $wpdb->get_row( “SELECT meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE user_id=$user_id AND meta_key=’wp_capabilities’ LIMIT 1” );
// Checks to see if the user already has a bb_capabilities
// If it does we’ll overwrite it
// If it doesn’t we’ll add a new one.
$user_cap_in_bb_meta = $wpdb->get_row( “SELECT meta_value FROM bb_usermeta WHERE user_id=$user_id AND meta_key=’bb_capabilities’ LIMIT 1” );
if ($user_cap_in_bb_meta)
{
// update bbPress database
$wpdb->query(“UPDATE bb_usermeta SET meta_value='”. $user_cap->meta_value .”‘ WHERE user_id=”. $user_id .” AND meta_key= ‘bb_capabilities’ “);
} else {
// Add a new row to the bbPress database
$wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO bb_usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES (“. $user_id .”, bb_capabilities, ‘”. $user_cap->meta_value .”‘) “);
}
// Print all Database errors
// Comment this line out when going live
$wpdb->print_error();
// Hide Database Errors
// Comment this line out when going live
$wpdb->hide_errors();
Now, the disclaimer. This rather unsurprisingly hasn’t been tested by me, and my contain (will contain) a crazy amount of typos.
What it does is relaly simple. It copies the wp_capabilities and pastes them as bb_capabilities in the bbpress table. In terms of your initial goal, firing this code once the s2M stuff is finished will achieve that goal (basically, copy and paste it on the landing/finished/thanks/congrats page).
A quick word of warning. If you’ve been using Zaerl’s plugin or anything else that utilises the “bb_capabilities” meta_key then this will overwrite it. Now as it’s overwriting it with whats in the WordPress database, it’s very unlikely to cause issues.
But if you’ve set up something funny with a bbPress Plugin then you might end up overwriting it. In theory, this shouldn’t happen because the user is registered via s2M, so that’ll be it’s first time in the bbPress database – but I’m just giving you a heads up.
I may write this, with all the failsafe functionality, into a WP/bbPress plugin if I get time in a few weeks. But I’m also a tad wary of encroaching onto ground Zaerl’s been excelling in. Good code doesn’t need my size 13s stomping all over it.
Ok mate, try this and throw me back any errors.
Hi everybody.
I have just come across bbpress and very excited about the prospect of having the forum on my site. I just downloaded the bbpress folder to my laptop and then onto my server at hostgator. I added it to my plugins folder but it is not showing up on my wp plugins dashboard.
I am really not very sure how to install this to my site and was wondering if somebody could talk me through the process.
Thanks for your time and would really be grateful for your help.
Thanks
Ross
Right. Of course!
Seriously, I’m afraid I’m totally lost. I understand your logic, but my lack of PHP skills are shining bright. I’m an art director that had (until now) been successful hacking at standard WP PHP, but am clearly in over my head now. “Select the whozit and insert it into the whatzit now?” 
You’ve been very kind and I’ve never been one to straight up ask for the answer to be spelled out for me. I understand if you don’t want to give up any untested/theoretical code, especially as it pertains to a 3rd party plugin. (unless your last suggestion was to code that elsewhere??) But I do find myself against a deadline and have got to continue adding content and styling or my client is gonna kill me! Believe me, I’d rather work on solving problems all day so I can learn from them.
So, I guess I’m going to have to launch this weekend (client has a conference) and just manually change bbPress user roles on new subscribers (lo-fi and lame, by me) until I have more time next week to dedicate to this solution.
Cheers bud.
