Hello, I’m a little frustrated. I have installed the BP plugin for WP and it is wonderful but the fact that Forums are tied to groups and their use is very limited compared to a standalone installation is “crappy” to say the least.
After trying out the new bbPress installation and not liking it at all, I decided to uninstall it by deleting all of its files from the directory and drop all the bp_bb_ database tables. I now have a new problem:
I downloaded bbPress to set up a standalone install and integrate it to WP. When I install it and follow the directions, everything gets installed properly, including new database “bb_” tables, but I am redirected to login at “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-login.php” instead of “forum/bb-login.php.” I can go to mysite.com/forum and I’ll see the login fields on the top of the page and a “Page not found! I’m sorry, but there is nothing at this URL.” error. When I log in I am taken to “mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-login.php” with a very much BLANK page.
I assume this is a config.php error but I’m all out of ideas. Help :’( Thank you
Wow, why is this happening? Do any of you have the same problem? Phpbb has a feature where you have to approve a member’s registration before they become members. Does Bbpress have something similar?
Also, my akismet is not activated. I am using WordPress MU, the Buddypress Magazine theme. They are somewhat integrated. However, when a user signs up via the bbpress forums and not on the main page of the website which is WPMU, that user will not show up in dashboard of the WPMU, only the bbpress listing of users.
If I activate Akismet, will I kill my site?
-j
Hi Kevin, i added your recomendation but there’s one small problem. Now, the bbpress is calling both titles: from the blog and from the forums as you can see here: http://www.escoladinheiro.com/forums/
How can i say that i want it to exclude the blog one?
So here’s my thing:
– Is anyone working on the theme?
– If so, who?
– Can we get some form of notification when there’s been a theme update/bug-fix?
– How often is this site getting updates from the SVN?
– What software is running the static pages? (wordPress or hacked bbPress)
I ask this because I’m never sure if something is a bug from the nightly build, a theme bug, or a bug from (what appears to be) the hacked pages from bbPress.
If we take the HomePage as an example, and seriously “the homepage is broken” should be setting alarm bells off somewhere in Automattic; i’m not sure if this is down to someone trying to fix the theme, or a nightly build error, or compatability, or just not testing or what?
With respect, the theme roll out was half-assed and for the most part untested. I’m not fussed about the font-size issue; but once again the management issue behind it. Who thought it would be a good idea to take an untested 9 month old design/theme and put it onto live enviroment with ever changing software base (nightly builds) and then not test it??
*sigh* and I was trying so hard not to complain
Hi Paulo,
This is one of the main issues with bbPress and WordPress. Here is a quick and dirty fix which should solve your specific issue:
<?php if( function_exists('bb_title')) { bb_title(); } ?>
Put this in your WordPress header theme next to the closing title tag like this:
<title>
// WordPress code
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
<?php wp_title(); ?
// but this line after the existing WordPress code
<?php if( function_exists('bb_title')) { bb_title(); } ?>
</title>
Realistically though, in the long term, duplicating the themes in bbpress and WordPress is the best way forward.
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Additionally,
On your WordPress pages there’s a popup delivered from “MaxBlogPress”, that is running an annoying little script that messes with browsers. It keeps moving further down the page, so that when you hit the bottom of the page it keeps making it longer and longer and longer etc. Apart from being annoying, it made it look like your site had been hacked. I hope thats not the case Bro, but if it is, you can go looking for it in your code.
It doesn’t appear on the bbPress pages, only WordPress pages.
Hi Kevin, the problem is my header and footer are running a lot of custom codes for grabbing my subscribers and twitter counters for example. This information is grabbed from WordPress plugins that connect on Feedburner and Twitter API’s. I have also the problem that the blog uses a 960 grid system for the layout. I’m really unsure how to move the header and footer to my bbpress folder without crashing everything 
Paulo – I really think the best thing for you to do is to copy the header and footer design from your main blog to your bbpress design.
This will stop problems like this. bbPress integrates with WordPress well from a member point of view, however the design aspect of it is still separate.
It honestly shouldn’t take you longer than 30 minutes to copy the design over. Give me a buzz if you are unsure.
Homepage returns a 404 page.
has written a Thesis port for bbPress?
Thanks.
Its active. I’ll delete the video posts. I guess I will have to pass on the video idea until one is made for my bbpress version.
I’m sure this is a dumb question; but how did you get your avatar on the site?
If you have access to subversion, it is easiest. If you don’t, you can download all the bbPress files, but you end up not getting the BackPress files.
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/ ./bbpress
will get you the latest trunk version, which is basically 1.0.2 with bug fixes, plus login-less posting and subscribe to topic.
Otherwise, you have to get it here:
https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2432/trunk?old_path=%2F&format=zip
from the bottom of this page:
https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk
Then you have to get BackPress.
http://backpress.automattic.com/browser/trunk
I’ve never done it this way; I use subversion normally, so I’m not sure how well this works.
I saw that yesterday but I thought it was me and autocomplete in my browser. Happens for me two, on two systems with either Firefox or Chrome.
Is there a downloadlink for 1.0.3?
Now the home page isn’t loading, it is redirecting to the install page.
Exactly chris 
There isn’t any title for those pages at this moment
Thanks all, got it working with this:
if ( $posts ) {
$out = $posts[0]->post_text;
$out = strip_tags( $out );
$out = str_replace( array( "n", "r" ), ' ', $out );
$out = preg_replace( '|/!]*?[^[*?]|si', '', $out );
$out = substr($out, 0, 200); // only display the first 200 characters of the first post
}
echo "n".'<meta name="description" content="'.$out.'" />';
Now the home page isn’t loading, it is redirecting to the install page.
For those not using deep integration and want to use BuddyPress avatars, check out this forum post I just made on BuddyPress.org:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-definitively-display-buddypress-avatars-in-bbpress/?topic_page=1&num=15#post-56018
If you’re using WPMU, replace the $avatar_folder_url with:
$avatar_folder_url = '/files/avatars/'. $author_id;
You want to make sure that the topic title (the post title of a forum entry) appears on the page (it is now), but also in the <title> tag of the page, for SEO?
So this page:
http://www.escoladinheiro.com/forums/forum/wordpress
Should have some variation of this title:
Forums de Webmarketing e Afiliados » WordPress – Programação
?
Hi chris, thanks for the reply. I only that the titles appear just like on my normal WordPress entries. On the forum, if i click on a post or topic, there isn’t any title for that I’m not trying to automate content. I only want that my forum has it’s own pages/posts titles, not only to appear on the top browser, but also to help them rank in search engines.
I think this problem appears because i’m defining the title of this bbpress posts/pages in my wordpress header, but not the friendly way
What do you expect to happen? Do you want WordPress posts/pages to appear as forum topics automatically, or are you trying to display a list of WordPress posts/pages?
That’s normally the job of a plugin, but this one is not working. You can try contacting the author of that plugin to see if it can be updated.
I just installed this plugin on a trunk installation (so 1.0.2 or even 1.1-alpha) and the video gets embedded just fine:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbvideo/
There is some weirdness because it looks like the plugin should have an admin page, but the link doesn’t work (that could be fixed if you needed it). But just pasting a youtube video URL into the post showed me an embedded video as expected.
Hello People,
I’ve made a deep integration of Bbpress into my WordPress blog as you can see at http://www.escoladinheiro.com/forums but i’m getting a very big problem. I can’t make page/post title to appear as my bbpress topic/posts titles. I’ve searched for about 8h on google and i didn’t found any solution for this. There’s anyone that can help me define this titles?
I’m using the header and footer of my main WordPress blog. There’s any way i can define that if the page/post is from bbpress, it’ll call the page title from bbpress? With this mess, i can’t even make a sitemap for the forum
If anyone can share some sort of code to implement on my wordpress for fixing this, i really appreciate. If needed, i can pay for the work.
Thanks in advance.
Paulo
I voted for it being called 1.0.3 as a bug fix release for 1.0.2. The problem is, there are things in there that were destined for 1.1. So maybe there never will be a 1.0.3 and the next will be 1.1 with a couple more bugs fixed, and new functionality like subscribe to topic, and login-less posting. I expect we’ll hear back in a couple days.
I guess based on the fact that it’s being used here as 1.1-alpha and the fact that 1.0.3 actually has 2 new features in it, that it should probably be 1.1 and there would be no 1.0.3.
