[chrishajer]

This is a pretty common complaint. They’re not included there by design.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/subforum-posts-not-attributed-to-parent-forum-on-main-page

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/counting-forums

[Kamil_D]

Sorry everybody for my late response.

Thanks for all the positive replays, I am very happy but I would like to hear some critique or input on how to improve the website.

To Michael R: I hope so too because I like bbPress a lot and I will use it for my future projects.

To: Sander B: Thanks. Or in Dutch : Bedankt!

To: Jim R: This is not an example of bbPress as plugin but it is just WordPress / bbPress integration without “deep integration”.

[bforeste]

Upgrading bbpress from 0.9.0.2 to 1.0.2

I also have WP installed, same DB & standard table prefixes (bb_ and wp_)

This is my test site, so I don’t have ‘active’ WP / BB integration

I’m on Media Temple Grid Server

DB Server is version 5.1.26-rc-5.1.26rc

MySQL Client is 4.1.11

When I followed the instructions on Upgrading, I mistakenly went to ‘install.php’ instead of ‘upgrade.php’. I don’t think this was a big deal though, because I wiped out the install directory and tried a ‘clean’ upgrade – with the same results.

I get all the way through to step 3, and I receive a ‘minor’ error that my Database is out of date & needs upgraded. I click ‘okay’ to upgrade…and I receive this error:

ERROR: Could not establish a database connection

I have gone through my wp-config and my new (and backed up versions of) the bb-config docs, and all are pointing to the correct db server, host, username, password, etc.

When I did the first install – it actually presented me with my main ‘forums’ page (I knew it was upgraded, because of the new theme). My posts were there. When I tried logging into the ‘admin’ area of bbPress, I got the ERROR: Could not establish a database connection reply again.

What am I missing? Is the ‘initial’ mistake of running the ‘install’ versus ‘upgrade’ script my downfall? How can I recover?

many thanks

bforeste

[hydroweb]

External Install…almost there…..

Login to WP as admin, click on forums (bbpress) tab and see that I am logged in to BBpress as roger|Admin|Log Out. (I am roger)

But it is only a “partial” login. If I click “roger”, I go to profile page. If I click Admin, nothing happens!

But, there is a workaround.

If I logout and login at bbpress, then Admin takes me to dashboard.

Whoa, there is another problem. If I try to logout from bbpress dashboard, buddypress says page not found.

Workaround is to “visit site” and then I can logout of bbpress.

All of this is very weird behavior. Any ideas about what is going wrong?

[kevinator]

“bbPress and WordPress are not cross aware of role changes.”

So what is the point of WP/bbPress Integration plugin, in which you cross assign roles?

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Just finish the installation. It will create a random password which you can change afterwards.

[lifestrikes]

Forum URL – http://bit.ly/aDl62k

bbPress Version – 1.0.2

Issue – Check out the Forums (Letter of Recommendation and F1 Student Visa). On home page, it doesn’t display the Topic and Post Counts ( Grayed Out). When you click on the them, it has Topics within the forums.

[Moominmama]

Figured it out!

It was the bbPress Sitemaps plugin!

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/bbpress-sitemaps

It hasn’t been updated lately and that was the issue. Thank goodness it was something easy! I was reading it as a BuddyPress plugin, which is why I didn’t disable it first. Doh!

[zreed]

I am trying to integration my WordPress site (the most current version of WP) with a bbPress but I can’t, for the life of me, get it to work. I can get it to share the user tables and user data but I can’t make it so if you login to the WP, then you are logged in automatically into the bbPress or vise versa.

The WP is on a domain and the bbPress is a subdomain:

-site.com (WP)

-community.site.com (bbPress)

^is how it is setup.

Would anyone be willing to help me setup these two up to work right? My lack of cookie knowledge is turning this into a huge headache! haha

My AIM is bluetidepro

My email is zreed [a] bluetideproductions.com

Thanks in advance!

[Moominmama]

I am running WPMU 2.9.2 with BuddyPress 1.2.1

When I post to a group forum I get a 404. If I hit the back arrow on my browser and then hit refresh, then the post is listed there.

If I click the title of the post, I get “There are no posts for this topic.”

http://supportforspecialneeds.com/groups/arizona/forum/topic/testing-yet-again/

(You can see even by that url that there IS a post.)

I didn’t install this BuddyPress install but I did upgrade it from the BP version just before this one and I’m thinking maybe something got lost in the translation?

I’ve asked on the BuddyPress site and haven’t heard back yet so I’m checking here to see if it’s exclusively a BBPress issue.

Thank you!!

Dawn

[yhong8]

Hi,

I have problem on step3, other than ‘keymaster user name’, it has no place let me setup the password, I’m not sure, does the step3 form is incorrect or it does not need to setup the password?

Thanks,

Lillian

[mvt82969]

Hello,

I have uploaded bbPress to my site started the install process, but I get this message:

There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.

Please check the settings, then try again.

Not sure what to do?

[johnhiler]

What bbPress version are you using? Also, can you provide a link to the topic in question?

Thanks!

[daver]

I recently setup a bbpress-based forum.

There’s a hot topic with 1500 posts and about 100 new daily posts.

If two users will post simultaneously (same post_time and post_position in bb_posts table), the posts count is 1 less the real.

When a new page is required, the pages number is one less (and new post unreachable) until a second new post is added.

The post recount tool in Administration will not fix the problem: I have to manually edit the bb_topics table

Thanks in advance

[Zatoozy]

Hey all there,

I tried to integrate wordpress with my bbpress installation but it failed..

I edited a setting in the menue, I forgot which..

I typed “wp_” in a box where it needed to be, that’s what I understood after reading the description below the box.

Now the forum has no users! My users.php file looks like after the first installation..

I can’t login into the forum and so I can’t change it back to default..

Please help me.

{ The searchbar didn’t }

Zatoozy.

Link to my forum: http://zap.bplaced.net/forum/

[johnhiler]

The Post Count Plus plugin does exactly that:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-count-plus/

You can set “custom titles” depending on the number of posts… and even change the colors of each username, depending on custom title.

Hope that helps!

[ericlyleklein]

We’re considering migrating from a discussion board that has custom roles that basically rewards members by giving them unique roles based on various criteria like how many replies the post, etc.

Are there ways to add this functionality in bbPress? I only see Member, Moderator, and Admin so far. What we want would be various levels of Member – no new privledges, but just a new “title” or “role” that gets display under their avatar. We’re a little worried that if we take away this feature, we will upset quite a few long time members.

Thanks!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

This will help playing with bbPress – http://blog.ashfame.com/bbpress/

By the way, you can just drop the bbPress files in a folder and install it like WordPress. Ditto method.

And if you want to integrate it as well, then you can find the link to tutorial on the resource page.

[johnhiler]

It’s my understanding that the next release (1.1?) will be a standalone version of bbPress with bug fixes and a few feature additions added (email notifications and anonymous posting).

In the longer term, I believe that bbPress will become solely a WordPress plugin just like BuddyPress. If that’s true, then the only standalone version of bbPress will be the earlier versions, which of course are GPL and anyone is free to download and/or fork!

[rlebowitz]

John,

Thanks so much for this post. I checked back too late though and hired someone to code instant password for me in 1.0. He did a nice job.

If anyone wants the files, I’d be happy to share, since people (like John) have been very kind to me here. Contact me at rlebowitzAT yahoo.com.

R.

[r-a-y]

I’m not an authority figure, but I can tell you that bbPress is turning into a WP plugin.

So bbPress does have a future; steps have been made to do this. Release date is uncertain though.

Not sure what is going to happen when bbPress turns into a WP plugin in BuddyPress.

I think BP will adapt to fit this new incarnation of bbPress when it comes out.

What is uncertain is the people who use bbPress w/o WordPress. Is there going to be a standalone version of bbPress in the future? That’s the question.

[Arturo]

hi, i’ve added the code require_once(‘/path/to/wp-load.php’); on my bb-config.php in a subdomain of my site but when i try to visit the site i see only a blank page… any idea to resolve this issue?

my installation is: wp 2.9.2 and bbpress 1.0.2

thanks!

[Putter1246]

I’ve built a website using wordpress and want to add a discussion forum. Looks like bbpress will do it, but I’m new to building websites and could use any help I could get. Are there spelled out instructions anywhere??

[kevinator]

…still going…consider 2 previous posts before this one.

So I cleared out everything and started again. Made sure /my-plugins and /bb-plugins were both void of anything to do with bbPM. Check.

Reinstalled bbPM – the entire folder and contents – into /my-plugins/ check.

Go to bb-admin, plugins, and voila, it’s there in “Inactive”. Activate: “bbPM” plugin activated! Woo hoo!

But alas, upon refresh, shows up in Inactive and Active. Cool thing is, in the Active list, it gives me only the option to activate bbPM. So let’s try that: “bbPM” plugin activated! woo hoo!

But alas, no joy. Type new PM, guess at recipient username, SEND: blank page at http://www.mydomain.com/bbpress/my-plugins/bbpm/pm.php

I knew it couldn’t be as easy as the documentation said.

[kevinator]

So even though it gives me this error, “Private Messages” still shows up as an option in bbPress forums, even though I have deactivated the plugin.

So, what the heck, let’s try to send a PM. First, no user list, so I’m guessing I’ll just type the user’s name and see if it works. Test message took me to the following URL:

http://www.cwnp.com/bbpress/my-plugins/my-plugins/pm.php

So I’ve put the entire contents of bbPM plugin into bbpress/my-plugins but it’s trying to operate pm.php from my-plugins/my-plugins.

Not to mention that bbPM shows up in both “Active” and “Inactive” plugin lists. DOH!

Help?