[chrishajer]

Alessandro – please post your contact info here and I will close this thread. You can conduct business outside the forum. Thanks.

[dbneeley]

I spent quite a few years doing marketing and corporate communication, and so far at least I have some basic questions I simply can’t find on the relevant websites. (It’d be very nice if the sites contained some sort of “Why you might want BBPress” or “Why you might want BuddyPress” or even perhaps “Basic requirements”–not to mention “Why you might want to install both BuddyPress and BBPress”.)

I am a complete newcomer to adding forums to a WordPress site, but I am planning to take the leap with a new blog site I am about to launch. A few basic questions, please:

From the looks of BuddyPress, it also offers forums by itself…although this is unclear from their site. What is the advantage, of any, of having BBPress either instead of or in addition to BuddyPress? Also, so far at least I have not found on the BBPress site a requirements listing–will it now work with a straight WordPress install, or is it tied to WordPress MU at this point? (With the upcoming integration of WP and WPMU, at this juncture I simply don’t want to go through the hassle of installing MU.)

I would appreciate any comments, suggestions, or advice you can give. Thanks!

[johnhiler]

Hmm, I heard that email notification was now in the core of the latest (trunk) release.

Brandon – what version of bbPress were you using before you upgraded?

[adevigus]

Hello

thanks for your reply. Would be great to get your help.

What exactly can you do for me?

I need the following things done:

create a wordpress – bbpress site

that looks similar to the actual site (skin)

at http://www.cerec.net

transfer all users and post to this new site

if you can do this what would you charge?

Best, Alessandro

new site

[dhananjai]

Hi there,

Notification feature for bbpress is not available in 1.0 version of bbpress, this feature could possibly be added in next stable version of bbpress, however if you want this functionality in your work then you can hire someone to accomplish this task for you.

regards,

Dhananjai.

[johnhiler]

This used to drive me INSANE, but this plugin saved the day:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/

[adevigus]

Hello

I’m running a forum on IPB 3.0 I have over 2000 users a d over 12000 posts .. I would like to convert my site to bbpress (especially looking for the WordPress integration)

anybody ready to help me ???

feedbacks are welcome

Alessandro devigus

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I got it working with 1.0 in way back October

http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/10/fix-bb-attachments-plugin-of-bbpress/

[Scott Kingsley Clark]

The way this would be handled is that plugins can hook into other plugins. Actions / Filters still work the same between plugins as they do between core.

[johnhiler]

That’s a great point Chris!

Maybe that’s why bbPress doesn’t have native support for full post deletion… cleaning up the meta data would be a pain!

[Alex Luft]

Thanks for your answer chris!

But that’s very strange. I have it activated in my-plugins.

And for some reason, that link goes to the blog (hosted in root) as opposed to a bbpress not found page.

Really don’t know what to do at this point

[usdavid]

Thank you, but I have an existing install of WordPress 2.9.2, with all the defaults including database names. I am trying to add bbPress 1.0.2. I have followed the instructions on the bbPress site for integrating, some hints I received on the WordPress forum referring me to How To Integrate BBPress with WP (http://www.bestwpthemez.com/wordpress/how-to-integrate-bbpress-with-wordpress-mu-2062/), and finally your tutorial. Your tutorial was a little out of the problem as it is an instruction set for clean installs. I followed the link on your page to “Integrate bbpress forum with your wordpress setup” and attempted the Fix Admin Access plugin, no go. Where is the wp_usermeta table located?

I still have the same problem.

Thanks,

David

[paulhawke]

I’ve put up a diagram of the current (1.0.2) database schema – http://devt.caffeinatedbliss.com/bbpress/bbpress-data-model – and I plan as a next step to dig deep into the bb_meta and bb_user_meta tables as there’s a goldmine of important details tucked into them that isnt immediately obvious.

[staticfrost]

How can I get my bbpress theme to look the same as my actual wordpress site? and how do I make my page link stright to the forums?

[Steven Hodson]

@Gautam .. I did manage to find one of the things that was causing a problem. It has to do as I suspected with the PHP $_SERVER[“DOCUMENT_ROOT”] variable. It doesn’t exist in an PHP install on IIS.

Now I have found a work-around that <gasp> works and when tested returns the proper path (eg: C:/Domains/winextra.com/bb-attachments/ – which from what I can tell in the “instructions” is exactly how it is suppose to be)

But when I try to upload a file (text/image) I get the following two errors and I was hoping that maybe you could help figure out what might be causing them

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Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for 83def462ed888db6e1ad898505ea40b6 in C:Domainswinextra.comwwwrootforumsmy-pluginsbb-attachmentsbb-attachments.php on line 342

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:Domainswinextra.comwwwrootforumsmy-pluginsbb-attachmentsbb-attachments.php:342) in C:Domainswinextra.comwwwrootforumsbb-includesfunctions.bb-pluggable.php on line 228

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any help (from anyone ) would be greatly appreciated as this is the last real big complaint my members have.

EDIT: The files are getting uploaded but to the root folder and they are not being entered into the bb-attachments table – http://screencast.com/t/Y2UyZGQ4

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Are you sharing user tables too?

If both the installations are fresh, I would say integrate them as per my tutorial – http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/07/integrate-bbpress-10-with-wordpress-28/

[Cyndy Otty]

Well this is an odd thing, I’m running a BuddyPress site at http://guide-dogs.org and I just finished integrating bbPress into it. On the surface things are spiffy, when logged in I can post and comment and all the other user type stuff.

However, if I, as the admin, log in via the main part of the website, when I try to visit the admin panel for bbPress, I just get redirected back to the forums. (I can SEE the “Admin” link and all, so it seems to recognize that I’m the “key master/administrator.”) Even more strange is if I log in via the forums this isn’t an issue and I can access both admin panels (WP and bbPress).

I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to work like that.

[Steven Hodson]

@Gautam I gave your ‘fixed’ plugin a shot but it still isn’t wanting to play nice with my set-up (PHP / IIS) as you can see from the screenshot – http://screencast.com/t/MTQ1NDFl

back the to hair-pulling I guess

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/01/fix-bbpress-installation-problem/

It was fixed in 2383

[Steven Hodson]

@navjotjsingh – much apologies but I’ve had my head down recently in both work and another side project which has kind of delayed my posting about the experience. Hopefully I will be able to get back on track at some point next week and pull all my notes together and get the posts written.

[Taeo]

Did I say Dan? It was late. I meant to thank Tom! lol

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi flowiesowieso,

Deprecated errors:

This is a common error with WAMP runing PHP 5.3.

You should go to the WAMP homepage > addons > PHP > 5.2.x (latest one)

Download, Install and then next time you start WAMP, you can click the menu-bar option (bottom right of the screen) and change the PHP version it’s running.

This issue has been fixed for the next release of bbPress, so it’s only a small issue.

Cannot determine:

This is an upgrade issue.

The easiest way is to head into phpmyadmin and look through your meta table and see if you see anything weird or blank. I know that’s kind of vague (sorry), but there’s a good chance you’ll see your URL slightly wrong in one of the fields (no http, or no localhost or something).

let us know what you find.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I suppose what I might not have put across well is that I don’t want bbPress to become the monster that some of the other boards out there are. I’m very cool with lightweight and fast, it’s more that… bbPress has never had a “fixit” release y’know.

• 0.8 added some new functionality while removing alot of the hardcoded stuff (remember when you HAD to set the time displayed to the time zone you server was physically located in?).
• 0.9 added loads of new functionality
• 1.0 added backPress and new admin section.
• 1.1 is adding Anon posting and Email notification.

For me, having things like https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2377 sitting in trac (for the 2nd time btw) for over 5 months is crazy. Why do we have to have a year between releases?

I guess the way i’d put it is that there’s a difference between “basic” features and “standard” features in terms of forums. Simleys, BBcode, private messaging are fairly standard these days. I can absolutely live with them being a plugin. But the ability to delete a user from the backend inside the ‘3 click rule’ is a “basic” feature (why isn’t it one click?).

There’s a whole lot of places, especially in the backend, where there is legacy code or integrated plugin code that’s just made to work with 1.0. Take editing your forums placement, it uses an old AJAX routine from 0.8 to send to a page that’s not actually part of the current admin set up, and has no hooks/actions/filters/triggers. No plugin can interact with it. (I’m not against AJAX or the use of javascript, but there’s only 1 place in the whole admin area where there’s no actual posting back of info, and it just so happens to also be the one place where there’s hooks/action/fiters).

In my opinion, at some stage someone more intelligent than myself (not difficult) needs to have a look at bbPress on the whole, not in terms of X bits of code, but more in terms of the coding philosophy behind it. Not to make radical changes, but to make sure that it’s all going in the same direction.

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@johnhiler

Thanks, i’d be very keen to know how you got round that particular issue, i personally got round it by writing a plugin after abandoning _ck_’s approach in her plugin.

Finally,

That said, please don’t (even jokingly) refer to anyone as an idiot!

You’re right of course, apologises to anyone i did offend there. I write on these forums at about 3-4am my time as that’s the busiest time for the rest of [the board], and sometimes i forget to edit myself. I am sorry

[johnhiler]

Do you have any programming resources or budget available? It’d be a pretty straightforward effort to upgrade the plugins to work with the latest bbPress version…

[gruff1927]

This is currently a problem for me as well. Like nonegiven above, I need dual language WordPress/bbPress integration, i.e. I need the facility to be able to switch the language of the bbPress forum interface from within the forum interface. Ideally this could tie in to the user’s stated language preference, or the language of the referring webpage.

However, I can only currently change the interface language by changing the settings in the bb_config.php file. This changes the language of the interface globally, which.

Like nonegiven, I’ve tried the bbPress Language Switcher plugin by _ck_ as well as User Languages and these don’t seem to work on v1.

Unfortunately, this undermines the usefulness of bbPress for multilingual websites.

Any chance that this will be on the roadmap for the future?