[Daniel Juhl]

I’ve localized bbPress to Danish, but how can I be able to localize timestamp/date?

[deadlyhifi]

Well done Taeo, that looks really great. A nice use of the ‘views’ to browse the various galleries.

Noticed one issue, on profile pages (which can only be reached through the UI Vitals panel and not by clicking on the Member next to their name?) it states ‘recent replies’ for both lists. One should be ‘topics started’.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I can’t see anything on that page but I guess you want to run bbPress inside a WordPress page or just want a matching WordPress theme?

Integration can be done by following my tutorial – http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/07/integrate-bbpress-10-with-wordpress-28/

and my bbPress resource page is here – http://blog.ashfame.com/bbpress/ in case you need any other help with bbPress.

[Taeo]

Heya,

I posted in a thread a while back about a project I was working on with bbPress and some people were interested in it so now that it is complete I thought I would share.

WoW UI Gallery

I have created a community website for enthusiasts of custom user interfaces for World of Warcraft. Users make a post consisting of a description of their UI, screenshots, and other various meta data. Other users can comment on and rate the UI’s that have been posted. And of course they can discuss further in the forum.

Aside from some small modifications to the profile page code (why isn’t there a template for this?!) all of the additional functionality has been achieved through plugins and theme code. I wrote most of the functionality into a plugin I am called bb-gallery. I am also using ajaxed-quote (detective), bb-ratings (mdawaffe), bb-topic-views (wittmania, _ck_), my-views (_ck_), and front-page-topics (_ck_, mdawaffe).

There were a few snags here and there but overall I was very happy to work with bbPress and it will definitely be my first choice for any other forum project in the near future. The site has been up for less than 18 hours at this moment but I’ve already gotten over 1000 page views and a promising lead for a possible “digg” effect of sorts.

If any of you are WoW fans I invite you to join the community!

[johnhiler]

This worked great for me in 0.9:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/

It may not work in 1.0 though…

[chrishajer]

If you can log in at WordPress, navigate to the forums, still be logged in, and then log out and do the reverse, your cookie integration is fine. To test the rest (the reason you included wp-load.php) try using a WordPress function (wp_list_pages()) in a bbPress template and see if it works. Those would be good tests.

[kevinjohngallagher]

You’ve hit the nail on the head Aaronski, any form of moderation on bbPress is poor.

The simplist way to do this, is to remove the “Add New” link from your theme (simply add HTML comments around it), or you could hide the “Add New” link via CSS (which should be quicker):

a.new-topic

{

display:none;

}

The realism is, if your forum needs actual configuarable moderation, this might not be the software for you. Hope it is though, Kev

[Aaronski]

I’ve installed bbpress along with my WordPress site and so far everything is working great! Currently when you go to the forum, you can register, sign in, and start a brand new thread as a member. Is it possible to restrict members from starting new threads? I’m fine with a member having the ability to respond and comment on an already existing thread, but I would like the admin to have sole rights for posting new threads. Is this possible? If so, how would I do that? From what I’ve seen, there doesn’t seem to be much the administrator can do to restrict or modify user permissions.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[chrishajer]

Is this require_once('/../wp-load.php'); inside PHP tags near the top of your bb-config.php file? Like this

<?php

require_once('/../wp-load.php');

/**

* The base configurations of bbPress.

.

.

.

?>

If it is properly inside PHP tags, then there might be something wrong with the syntax of that line.

The other thing is, chances are the file is NOT located at the root of the server. You have it starting out here: / – which is the root. Might look more like this:

require_once('../wp-load.php'); if wp-load.php is located one directory up. You can also use the full path to the file, if you know it. Like this:

require_once('/var/www/htdocs/wordpress/wp-load.php');

Looks like the path is wrong there if you have it starting with a slash, at the root.

[thelobbyist]

Using bbPress 1.0.2 and WP 2.9.2

Where would I find my error log? And I’m assuming you mean when I add the deep integration code into the bb-admin.php file? Because when I don’t add the deep integration code snippet everything works flawlessly.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi there,

Can i ask what version of WordPress and what version of bbPress you’re using please?

Basically, the guide you followed was recorded at a time when we were on bbPress0.9 and WP2.7; we’re now on bbPress1.0 and WP2.9 so there’s been a large number of changes since then, and integration wasn’t something that Automattic had prioritized to make work.

Could you look at your error log to see exactly what is going wrong? until we know that we’ll struggle to help any more than guessing.

That said, your bbPress install uses “www” while your WordPress doesn’t. No idea if thats the issue or not, but given how difficult “deep integration” has become, it’s at least one thing to look at. Throw us your error log iff possible.

[thelobbyist]

I followed this guide: http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/23/integrating-a-bbpress-forum-with-your-self-installed-wordpress/

Did a fresh install and did everything the same except I did not use www at the start of my url’s and I did not deep integrate yet.

Worked flawlessly. And integration is seemless. But the forum theme I’m using requires deep integration.

So when I went to add: require_once(‘/../wp-load.php’); for deep integration it blows up again and nothing shows up at the link for the forums.

I think the problem is obviously something I’m doing wrong to get deep integration working.

Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

[chrishajer]

There was a “hidden forums” plugin, but it’s from a while ago:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/page/6/

There was also “read only forums”:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/

Maybe one will still work or give you ideas for your own plugin.

[chrishajer]

Just redirect the users to register for WordPress instead of bbPress. If integration is done properly, when the user logs in to WordPress, they will be loggged in to bbPress.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-bbpress-register-plusgtgtgtgt

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-redirect-all-registration-to-wordpress#post-19596

There were a couple other topics as well, but basically make all your register and login links point to WordPress, and remove those functions from bbPress files.

[radiothomas]

I have a WP/bbPress install that uses a custom WP plugin based on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-database-authentication/ to auth against our external account system.

This works perfectly well for WP, where the plugin will trigger on WP login. However, I don’t want my bbPress users to have to log into WP first in order to access the forums. Ideally, bbPress could use the same plugin (or follow the same logic) to externally auth and create the shared WP account if needed.

Is there a quick way to repurpose or simply invoke the WP plugin from bbPress? If not, can I hook the bbpress login in the same way as wp (in a “bb_authenticate” action)?

[thelobbyist]

Think I’ll just start from scratch and see what happens. Not too far into anything yet. Had this concern from the beginning. Want to get bbpress integrated and running before I leap into adding our custom theme, etc.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll let you know what happens.

[Dailytalker]

@Il Gatteo

Regarding smilies…how about this smilies:

http://www.dailytalk.ch/forum/stammtisch/ddd/

You need the bbpress smilies plugin and the smilies you want. Than you can replace the ugly wordpress-bbpress smilies with the smilies you want. Its easily done.

Regarding polls: Take the plugin “bbpress Polls”.

What I need is a much better BB_code toolbar Plugin and a facebook connect plugin….

[Il Gatto]

Hello

I recently updated my wordpress installation with a new theme; for the occasion plus some SEO reasons I moved the bbpress forum from forum.domain .com to http://www.domain.com/forum – the moving went ok and I have the website working fine (i’ve replaced all entries in the database relative to the forum position change – now the forum is in a subfolder of the wordpress installation, which is in the root)

except for one problem:

if a user is logged in in BBPress, it automatically logs out of WordPress; and viceversa: if a user logs in WordPress, it’s automatically logged out of BBpress – This is very annoying and confusing

also because in this new theme I developed for BB/WP, I’ve placed a link to register/login in both wordpress and bbpress pages; when the user logs in, it should display “Hello, Username!” – When the user logs out or is unregistered, displays another message plus links to register or log in – therefore it’s confusing for users because they are logged in BBpress but from the WordPress page they are told they’re logged out (in fact they are)

I’m making all users registering from BBPress – however sometimes they might want to comment the WordPress blog posts

the integration is working otherwise fine, because I’ve also the BB/WP synchronization plugin installed (blog posts are republished in the forums and forum discussion replies appear correctly in the blog post comment thread)

the only issue is cookies – how to solve this?

thank you very much

[David-]

bbpress should remain a stand alone forum script while still being able to integrate with wordpress.

I love this script so much even with all the brouhaha and non-leadership.

[Pomy]

reply me at

roshnikayaqeen (at) gmail (dot) com

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

email me ashishsainiashfame[at]gmail[dot]com

You can see my bbPress resource page here – http://blog.ashfame.com/bbpress/

[chrishajer]

John, some of it was here (not the URL though):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/database-connection-errors

[chrishajer]

Wendy, please post your email or contact form URL and I will close this thread. That way people can contact you outside the forum.

[johnhiler]

A few questions:

1) What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?

2) What plugins do you have active on your site now? Make a list and we can flag any ones that generate problems!

3) What’s the link to your website?

That should help us troubleshoot your problem!

[sweetiessecret]

I am not sure if this is the place to ask or not. I need someone who works with BBPress who can work with me for my site. The original person who set it up for me got too busy and cannot help me now. I need someone who understands WordPress, BBPress, and the integration of both together. That is how I have it setup.

I need someone I can go to when I have problems and of course, I will pay you.

My site works most of the time but there is a problem that I cannot solve on my own right now. BBPress locks up sporadically, usually for 5 minutes at a time. It gets a database connection error most of the time. It does not appear to be the web hosting that is the problem because I have literally been on the phone with them daily for the last month and they cannot find anything wrong on their end. It worked fine when it was setup but as of 2 months ago this problem has been happening without anyone to help me figure it out. It does not appear to be a plug-in but cannot be for sure with that either.

This is the problem I need help with now but there will be things that need to be developed over time that I can use help with as well so I am looking for a “go to” guy or gal.

Thanks. Feel free to write here and I will respond. I don’t know if there is a private message option here but if there is please use that instead.

Wendy