[kevinjohngallagher]

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

[kevinjohngallagher]

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

[Ryan Hellyer]

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.

…

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

[kevinjohngallagher]

Oh yeah totally agree, and your forums are nice and work well for you.

I suppose then I’m asking if you have any tutorial/guides/tips from whoever converted from SMF to bbPress via phpBB3.

[gerikg]

https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

Installation direction.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Oh for the love of @****

Apparently bbPress, in it’s infinate wisdom, is now turning every tag opening and closing, even those in and backticks and [blockquote] into screen written &gt.

I wouldn’t mind if the damn thing would write the HTML as &gt so it at least looked right on the screen, but no…

I’ll try and cope and paste it into a paste bin thing for you wood2695

Grrrrrr

[code] and backticks and [blockquote] into screen written &gt.

I wouldn’t mind if the damn thing would write the HTML as &gt so it at least looked right on the screen, but no…

I’ll try and cope and paste it into a paste bin thing for you wood2695

Grrrrrr

[Ryan Hellyer]

Yes, I’m still using SMF myself. If bbPress changes to being a WordPress plugin I might switch, but at the moment I’ll be sticking with SMF. If it aint broke don’t fix it is my motto as far as forum softwares go.

[kevinjohngallagher]

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.

[gerikg]

bbPress is not a WP plugin. It’s a standalone program like WP.

Most people put the bbPress folder in the WordPress folder and copy the theme.

so it will be

wordpress

|-bbpress (they rename this folder to forum/forums)

|-wp-admin

|-wp-content

|-wp-includes

example: This site all the tabs except for Forums is WordPress and the forum is bbPress. The themes are similar so the user does not see a difference.

then you can read this post that was just recently brought up: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-header-on-bbpress

[roamingross]

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

http://www.roamingross.com

[gerikg]

The best way is to mimic your WP in the bbP header.

The issue with loading WP header is that you don’t load a very important line for most plugins “bb_head()”

example would be zaerl Editor (0.3) plugin. That plugin needs bb_head()

You can use

Pixopoint Theme Integrator

http://pixopoint.com/products/pixopoint-theme-integrator/

(advantage is it doesn’t slow down your forum. Disavantage anything highlighted when your at that page doesn’t work. Which will not be a problem for you because you’re using Arthemia theme)

or

Deep Integration

Where you can copy and paste stuff from the header that you need

(advantage you can load any WP functions in bbP. Disavantage it will slow down your forum because you’re loading WP & bbP at the same time constantly)

or

Get someone else to do it

Me go to this site http://wpbbpthemes.org/

or other people on this site by posting a new post with a request to hire someone.

[mr_pelle]

But then, the code in this post is fine:

WordPress Header on bbpress

Maybe the previous one was edited and that’s where the trouble started?

My post had GT LT replacement too, I had to edit it and remove the php tags… but this is not a solution, because there are post in which you cannot remove the tags, as https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/internet-explorer-problem-1?replies=8#post-69386

[wood2695]

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.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Yeah, If you edit with CODE in place it causes issues.

Before hand we just used to put code in BLOCKQUOTES, but now it’s got that daft graphic it’s not helpful at all (imo).

[kikko088]

excuse me, bbpress 1.0.2, integrate with WordPress (cookie + user + template), this is the url http://www.endurodoc.net/forum/

I’m not use buddypress or wpmu.

thank you very much

kikko088

[chrishajer]

But then, the code in this post is fine:

WordPress Header on bbpress

Maybe the previous one was edited and that’s where the trouble started?

[chrishajer]

Check how backticks and work to format a post.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/internet-explorer-problem-1?replies=8#post-69386

Was initially written with backticks, and rendered as GT and LT, so I tried to edit it to replace backtick with [code] but it’s still messed up.

Someone mentioned that re-editing also introduced paragraphs or breaks, IIRC. When I first edited the post, every line of code and a [BR] after it.

[code] work to format a post.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/internet-explorer-problem-1?replies=8#post-69386

Was initially written with backticks, and rendered as GT and LT, so I tried to edit it to replace backtick with but it’s still messed up.

Someone mentioned that re-editing also introduced paragraphs or breaks, IIRC. When I first edited the post, every line of code and a [BR] after it.

[code] but it’s still messed up.

Someone mentioned that re-editing also introduced paragraphs or breaks, IIRC. When I first edited the post, every line of code and a
after it.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Nah that sounds good mate. It’s basically what I was suggesting here:

2) Write some custom code for the s2Member callback API (which it supports) to add a field to the bbPress database.

Basically, what you want to do is look for the bit of code in the s2M files that writes to the wp_capabilities table, and copy it on a new line with bb_capabilities.

Or if you don’t want to go hacking around (totally understandable), make your “landing page” when people finishing paying/signing up via s2M have a bit of code that copies the last row from the wp_capabilities into bb_capabilities. This method means you wouldn’t have to touch the core of WP/bbP/s2M – but would still work.

Doesn’t matter that this isn’t a core question mate, you’re helping us break a bit of new ground here, and we’re always interested in that. bbPress isn’t feature rich, so we like to know when it’s bene extended in a way we all hadn’t thought of And you’re polite – we like that

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Guys, thanks for the info. It’s always good to rule things out

Basically, I’d attempt the following:

1) Log out of wordPress and clear your cookies and cache.

2) Upload and overwrite your existing files with a newly dowloaded version of bbPress

3) If that doesn’t work, set all permissions to 777 and see if it makes a difference.

4) If that doesn’t work. start again with the new files.

I know it sounds annoying, and sorry, but at this stage we’re just covering the bases.

Oh, could you also tell us what server host you’re using?

Thanks !

[wood2695]

Well I’ve spent a day on this that I didn’t have to spare and have come up with nothing. So I’m crying mercy. Admittedly, this is over my head.

KJG- while your solutions sound plausible (though I haven’t really found out where to start) I had another guy suggest that I try just making s2M fill bbPress roles while it creates roles for itself for a particular user. To my untrained ear, this seems like a simpler and more direct solution.

Perhaps I’m wrong there and still don’t really know where to start with that, but I see in my wp_usermeta that users added through WP have wp_capabilities and bb_capabilities, but a user added through s2M doesn’t have any bb_capabilities (duh!). So, how can I add that to the table when it’s adding it’s own custom wp_capabilites? Or KJG, is that the gist of what you were suggesting, only handling that on forum load rather than the initial table creation?

I realize that is more of a plugin functionality support question, but I’ve not heard back on the s2M forum and methinks they have other priorities there while ramping up for a pro version launch.

So this is a plea to anyone that might catch this thread and know what they’re doing with user role tables. I’m stumped. Much appreciated.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Lovely of you to give them some credit Luke, my hats off to both of them!

I’m hoping that more people look at your site and see that not every bbPress forum needs to look/work the same

[mr_pelle]

I use this in my template:

global $is_bb;

$is_bb = true;



get_header(); // call WP's header

$is_bb = true; tells WP that current page is a bbPress page. If you need to load different content depending on that, just use:

if ( $is_bb ) {

// bbPress-related code

} else {

// WP-only code

}

[mr_pelle]

Plugins directory not updating: Fixed.

Seems it’s not retroactive… I mean, Zaerl’s last plugins are now listed correctly, but all other plugins did not get updated (yet): it looks like my last plugins update was a month ago!

[Michel – xiligroup dev]

mdawaffe :

What is the refreshing rate ? like wp plugins or less ?

can you verify this plugin (and perhaps all others):

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/xili-new-post-notification/

the webside is not refreshed as the

https://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/xili-new-post-notification/

Many thanks

Michel

[Michel – xiligroup dev]

He said, but as in WP plugins repository website bbPress repository don’t see other versions (in tags folder)… I had refreshed all data and I am waiting results

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/xili-new-post-notification/download/

as you can see all datas are visible here :

https://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/xili-new-post-notification/tags/

Best regards