Hello lads,
First off could you tell us a few things please?
1) It’s WP2.9.2 and not WPMU
2) It’s bbPress and you’ve not got BuddyPress instealled
3) Are you defiantly using PHP5
4) “did all the integration stuff” – which guide did you follow?
5) What does your server error log say?
I’m getting the exact same error message. Can’t get to the forum I just installed.
Edit: I did the WP integration as well. This is my first time installing BBpress, so I’m not sure if I am just doing something wrong or what.
I got a “minor” error during installation – the Forum could not be created.
It said the installation completed, though.
Running WP 2.9.2 and did all of the integration stuff.
When I go to http://www.ne-ygn.org/forums it redirects me to /bb-admin/install.php and says:
Oh dear!
bbPress is already installed.
Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?
I’m lost, have never had any trouble with WP software installation before!
hi at all, the bbpress.org theme i very very beautifull, can i ask you how can i put on my forum the same style of form (the form on start new topic)?
kikko088
I doubt anyone needs to release it as a theme, it’s just a custom front page (although a good one for sure).
It just loops through Categories / Forums and then outputs the last topic and last post for each forum with it’s gravatar next to it. The code to do it yourself is already in front-page.php
( I say that without taking away from the excellent work done by lukepuuk and others on the theme )
Exit mate, If you want your bbPress to be/act different than all the others, you’ll have to change more than the CSS/Background. But realistically you don’t need much/any plugins to enable your forum to be unique while staying cool and usable 
Killer bbpress layout. Congrats!
Anyone want to release that kind of structure to a bbpress theme?
Heh, thanks. If I’m understanding you correctly, then I’m ahead of you on the basic forum functionality… I do have Zaerl Visibility plugged in (and working wonderfully) and that’s why my task-at-hand is mapping all the s2M roles to that of bbPress Member within bbPress. I don’t think I’m too far off here, just a bit out of my experience, but I’m up to the challenge.
I do find it funny that I’m the first to inquire about this. Not that I’m surprised, by the lack of results on some searching. But I love bbPress and s2Memeber seems like a very solid and well supported plugin (and free doesn’t hurt!)
bbPress has no way of setting up roles to forums like every other forum out there has.
So if you’re hoping to say set “contributors” to see everything and then set your s2M to move people from members to contributors on the WordPress side I’m afraid you can’t – bbPress doesn’t come with that basic forum functionality.
In that regard, and with all due respect (you’d be amazed how very few people are as polite as you are), doing anything out-with the “plug and play” variety with bbPress unless you really know your way around PHP/WP-theming and functions is not going to happen.
Now you may be able to take one of Zaerl’s plugins which allows the setting of show/hide/moderate certain forums and adapt it. Or you could contact Zaerl for some custom work (i’ve no idea if they do this btw – its just where I’d start).
If you’re going on your own, keep posting back, we’ll help when and where we can
And sadly, I don’t know my way around querying tables, but I’ll figure it out. Quite simply I want any s2M role to be mapped to a general member role (in bbPress) as I’ve set the forum up to only be different if you’re a logged-in member or not. Currently all s2M roles come in to bbPress as Inactive (no role).
Thanks again for your input. I’ll post a solution here if/when I find it.
I’ve sadly none. You’re the first person to ask about this.
You’d basically need to set up a s2M roles to Forums relationship in a table somewhere, and then query it.
It would greatly depend on how you wanted to run it.
i.e. Would different levels see different forums? Or would they just not see the topics in forums but know they are there, or would they just not see the answers to topics in certain forums etc etc.
I’m guessing a little, but the easiest way to make it work with bbPress would be to write into the actual theme files testing against the s2Mrole. Shouldn’t be too horrible if you know your way around.
Do you guys have any recommendations?!
This isn’t a good place for asking this kind of questions. It’s like if you enter in a bar and say: “your bar sucks. Do you know where I can find another bar?”
In theory, you’d need either:
1) Deep Integration with WordPress, so you could query the WP DB on forum load
or
2) Write some custom code for the s2Member callback API (which it supports) to add a field to the bbPress database.
Shouldn’t be horribly difficult; but so far, no-ones asked about it here so I can’t point you towards any examples.
Has anyone had success in integrating the s2Member plugin into a WordPress site with a bbPress forum?
There has got to be a way to map the custom 2sM roles (ie. s2Member Level 4) to the standard WP “Subscriber” role for purposes of the bbPress platform, but I certainly haven’t figured it out yet.
I’m going to do something strange here AmplifiedShock, I’m going to ask you NOT to do that.
The “bbPress” that BuddyPress uses is not the same as this “bbPress”. It is heavily heavily modified. Basically the whole of BackPress is removed and replaced by custom functions, and then some of the middle tiering has been rewritten, and a little bit of the front end output and default theme.
A large chunk of the support requests we deal with each day/week is people coming here because BuddyPress calls their forums “bbPress”. We need to be able to tell people honestly and without looking like we’re being difficult, that if they use BuddyPress we can’t help them.
I’m sure it’s technically possible to do anything. I’m sure once it’s technically possible, it’s easier to write a guide for people to follow. You seem to be good enough to do that But with bbPress being turned into a WP plugin and Matt publicly telling people not to use this software; inviting more support queries that end in “we simply can’t help you” isn’t going to help us at all.
Now if you felt like writing more tutorials on converting from other forums to bbPress, I’m sure there would be a good market in that for you!
And, as always, thanks for your time
“plz” give us some more information.
What version of bbPress?
What theme are you using?
What error?
Does all content get sqeezed to the left or the right?
Do you have any screenshots?
etc. etc.
Lets pretend that we are not mind readers so we can help you…
That sucks, Seems like I have to find another simple forum script.
Do you guys have any recommendations?!!
Thanks guys!
I’m currently working on integrating WordPress 3 (WMPU), bbPress, and BuddyPress so that they all use the same database. I’ll post the results and a guide when I get it to work!
Thanks for the writeup!
To those reading, the “limitations of converting” section is key. Read that section before starting with the guide.
If by “bbPress 2.0” you mean this theme, the answer is never.
If you mean the next release of bbPress (which is either 1.0.3 or 1.1 – they haven’t decided yet and thankfully we’ve people working on different versions) then it’s a wait and see situation. I’d suggest August seems one of the earlist likely dates.
New features? Matt is scapping bbPress and making it a wordPress plugin, so there are no new features going to be added. Plus last time we were asked what we wanted in bbPress the results of the poll got ignored and the needs of WordPress.org was chosen.
What is the estimated time for bbPress 2.0 to be officially out?
Also, Is there a thread that I can use to ask for new features? Like easier quoting as it is in other forum scripts.
Mamikaze,
What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?
Did you install and use the WP/bbP integration plugin?
Have you tried logging in from both sides?
Have you checked to see if you’re using the same user tables?
Have you checked roles in your database?
Basically, give us as much information as possible, and we’ll try and help
I have all my integration, cookie and auth keys matching but I cannot login to bbpress admin if I am in wp-admin and vice versa.
Yes I know. But I thought that it was problem only related to upgrade and not to new uploads.
