Hi all,
I am in the process of developing a new site (which is currently in beta and not meant for the public yet…) but I have a few concerns…
Website: http://www.diyextra.com
1) Have I chosen the right forum for the project, I keep hearing bbpress is dead or it will not be developed as much when/if it becomes a plugin… Should I be using a larger scale forum package like vbulletin or phpbb ? … My thoughts on the subject originally was to go bbpress as it may tie in well with the CMS side of the site which is controlled by wordpress, I did look in to buddypress but the whole group forum thing is off putting and the fact it is not SEO friendly and the slugs (urls) are way to long… Anyone have any comments or thoughts on this would be great….
2) Plugins – Ok so I understand the forum is very basic in its core state and you add plugins to achieve options you require, but quite a number of plugins I have tried to use seem not to work, Also I have a concern that there will be a limited number of plugins developed for bbpress when/if it becomes a plugin.
3) Here is a bug I have found – maybe its just on my forum… The freshness (time/date) is incorrect a lot of the test posts I have posted on the forum are from weeks and months ago, but yet they are show up as 3 weeks… yes I have heavily modified the templet files but only the html and header/footer locations… any ideas ?
4) RSS – Also I am getting RSS error – “This page contains the following errors: error on line 10 at column 33: Entity ‘raquo’ not defined
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.” Anyone else have this problem or any suggestions…
Many Thanks Guys,
Chris
Chrishajer, how can I contact you?
Last I checked it seemed like Matt (the only developer I’ve seen around here) had his hat full with suggestions and left with that, quite some time ago now. I reckon if there is a future for bbPress it’s already set into motion some way or another. If that future is as a plug-in, I don’t worry at all.
WordPress is becoming a whole lot more than a blog these days; in some ways, a whole lot less. Way I see it, I wouldn’t be surprised if by WordPress 3.5 or 4.0, WordPress isn’t really a blog, but a plain extensible web development platform, making the blog functionality yet another ‘plug-in’ (that hovers).
>> Why not just start out with wp? I only ask then because your question gives me the impression that you will only be using one or the other. But on the flip side if you are going to be using both back up and save all your data and down load wp on the your site.
That is the problem that i am not starting right now. I have already built my forums and they are working with my previous website i.e. like a link is given on the previous website. I want to extend the functionality of my website by allowing users to comment on articles etc. and for that I need wordpress kind of thing. If I install wordpress right now, it will require users to register again. All I want is if I install wordpress right now, all the users from the forums be transferred in wordpress as well. With your reply it was not clear that if I just download the wordpress to my site, will it work right away i.e. it will have the similar ‘integration’ page like we observe when we install bbpress on wordpress. Or let’s say if I give the same sql data base name that I am using for bbpress, will it import the users from bbpress?
Thanks
Found a solution. Just provide a First name in the User profile page in the administration panel, save it, and then you will have the option to change the username to your first name.
I an new in bbpress, traying to help my greater daughter to install a forum, and we found the peacemaker bbpress theme, a very interesting 3 columns theme, just we was looking for. But it has not complete the templates files, (register.php and register-sucess.php do not exist) so is not posible a register for the users, and works like a demo site as it just says.
I found an one year old topic about in this forum, but I am not clear if it is the same problem.
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/why-regisration-disabled-this-is-a-demo-site#post-19644
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/demo-site-wordpress-integrations-problem
I have installed bbpress (not integrated with WP) and a few aditionals themes to test, buy I like peacemaker. Somebody has a complete version?
Is there any way to change the admin name that I setup at the beginning of the installation. I need to change it only at the posts section.
> Can I reinstall a broken installation in the same directory with the same database (Version 0.94)?
Yes. You can just use the old program files in the directory, with your old database.
> Or can I install version 1.0 in the same directory using the old database?
If you are going to do this, you are basically upgrading your old installation (old database, installing new files.)
It might be better to try and figure out what went wrong than burn the house down and start over from scratch.
“Don’t download me yet. I’m in the beginning stages of development.”
Also, interesting to see this tag: core plugin
OK, I know is hard for you guys dealing with the same dumb questions from ignorants like me about databases, upgrading and messing things up. Thats why you are so specials and thats why we all want our own forums to return the favor to other people. Thanks bbpress community for doing this for free while that guy Matt is making millions with WP.
Now the questions:
Things were wrong while upgrading, but the database is still in place and I have the back up of the database in my PC.
Can I reinstall a broken installation in the same directory with the same database (Version 0.94)?
Or can I install version 1.0 in the same directory using the old database?
Thanks
Thanks, here is the php:
And one final question , there is a way to reinstall using the same database and directory ?
<?php
/**
* The base configurations of bbPress.
*
* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your
* web host.
*
* This file is used by the installer during installation.
*
* @package bbPress
*/
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for bbPress */
define( 'BBDB_NAME', 'organica_foro' );
/** MySQL database username */
define( 'BBDB_USER', 'organica_ineFORO' );
/** MySQL database password */
define( 'BBDB_PASSWORD', '********' );
/** MySQL hostname */
define( 'BBDB_HOST', '' );
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define( 'BBDB_CHARSET', '' );
/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define( 'BBDB_COLLATE', '' );
/**#@+
* Authentication Unique Keys.
*
* Change these to different unique phrases!
* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/ WordPress.org secret-key service}
*
* @since 1.0
*/
// edited keys chrishajer 19 March 2010
define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'gUpvcuMfP+tDsXUus|(|9|/G4Owo@=;C697V[[ZPd+|W)BVK-[U,fi/H2r+VOj');
define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'sf8;HNH}7%N#_|=$d4(_(yV8Wt&R($kL+)JS@}Kno-Q2jfkOm|BUL-i**&f_Wg');
define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'm}Xc?tvc 3;o)JUVdxDm%F[V96V<+zyka239SbV<^2)o[/tV>Q4&kW$B4ik(NA');
define('BB_NONCE_KEY', ';k,c^0G4nz9eZS#-cF7((.smjv.GtAz+.WZd<G544PzG.Mz*Cztr]|Gaw:-(!=');
/**#@-*/
/**
* bbPress Database Table prefix.
*
* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
*/
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';
/**
* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
*
* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
* language must be installed to a directory called "my-languages" in the root
* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to "my-languages" and set
* BB_LANG to 'de' to enable German language support.
*/
define( 'BB_LANG', 'es_ES' );
?>
The basic template shows H1 tag as the main forum name for all pages. I want that the H1 tag will reflect:
1. Topic Page = <h1>The Topic Title</h1>
= <h2>The Main BBpress Forum Title</h2>
2. Specific Forum Page = <h1>The Specific Forum Title</h1>
= <h2>The Main BBpress Forum Title</h2>
I think I need to change it both in the header.php and topic.php, in the ‘Kakumei’ template (the base bbpress template).
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Hi all,
I do try the integration with applications but I get a problem, but really problems is that if I login on WP I lost login on bbpress and if I login on bbpress I lost login on WordPress.
I set in wp-config.php and bb-config.php with same constant:
AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY, NONCE_KEY and BB_AUTH_KEY, BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY, BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY, BB_NONCE_KEY
and I set the 3 value on bbpress setting page, I leave blank field “WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt” beacause I don’t have this field on wordpress.
I installed bbpress integration plug in on wordpress and set the url of forum and I write in wp-config file this string:
define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
This looks promising and very exciting the say the least.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/
Hi,
I have installed bbpress first with my own website. Now, when I have a lot of users on it, I want to switch my website to a wordpress based website. I know it is possible if you want to install bbpress on a wordpress website. I want to ask if I can install wordpress after I have installed bbpress. i.e. I want to transfer all my users from bbpress to wordpress etc.
Thanks
Did you get this work already?
@crosescu – there’s an interesting argument that would say more people would use wordpress (and for that matter bbPress too) if the codebase werent a monolithic structure. For instance, the ability to swap out user authentication to do single-signon against a Kerberos server rather than the built-in user-auth, or against the code in Mediawiki, should I want to integrate there. My hope is that merging yet more code in wont cause the entire house of cards to collapse around our ears.
It makes perfect sense for making bbPress a plugin for WordPress.
Now that WordPress MU code has been merged into WordPress 3.0 making bbPress a plugin should be even easier. bbPress already barrows a lot of code from WordPress anyway and also bbPress uses the exact same database tables (ie taxonomy tables)
A lot more people would be using bbPress on their WordPress powered websites if the issues related to the integration of the two separate login systems no longer existed and people were also able to easily use the same theme they have on their blog.
The standalone bbPress should probably stay but i think bbPress would be used by a lot more people than it is now if it was made a plugin.
Hmmm i think that i’m doing something wrong. Because: If i login in bbpress, i became logged out in wp. If i login in WP, i became logged out in bbpress.
Into the bb-templates directory the readme.txt says: “This directory is reserved for themes distributed with the bbPress core package. If you wish to install more themes, you should create a new directory called “my-templates” in the base directory of your bbPress installation and install them there, not here.”
I did it, but did not work. It works only if I put the new themes into the same bb-templates directory. Wich is the right way?
I’ve done it but I edited a lot in functions.bb-core.php and functions.bb-template.php.
Is there any way to achieve it without editing files? I don’t know bbpress plugin API clearly….
create a new kay and change it to bb-config and wp-config
go to bbpress wp integration and check again the key… follow the step
after this download and install bbpress integration for wordpress plugin add the code to your wp-config file
i’ve followed this step with my 2 site wp-bb and all works good with wp last version and bbpress 1.0.2.
in profile.php i’ve found this <?php echo get_user_name( $user->ID ); ?> but in post.php don’t print nothing… i don’t know bbpress very good to recreate the function 
any idea for a simplest way?
thanks!
Hello,
My integration between WP & BB is failed. Because if i login in WordPress, i must login again in BBpress. So the cookies aren’t the same. But wp-config and bb-config have the same AUTH Keys (So BB_AUTH_KEY and AUTH_KEY are the same (and the rest too ofcourse))
I don’t understand what i am doing wrong.
One thing is good integrated: The users. In both installation, i can logged in with every username. (that is registered)
EDIT:
When i see in bb-admin/options-wordpress.php, the AUTH KEY’s are different then the KEY’s that i have set in de bb-config and wp-config.
Thanks
Note: Micheal is not willing to solve any issue of bbpress.
I hate to bring this up – but I simply cannot ignore this. Pagal, please do not spread false information. I simply stated that I’m unable to get access to my server at the moment, for various reasons. So not willing is a false reproduction of the truth.
Like I have said before, as soon as I have access to it again, I will show you the different means and ways of customizing your front page.
Take care
