[jcharles]

Tonight I tried to install bbPress, following the detailed instructions from the following screencast: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast. I’m running the newest version of wordpress and downloaded the newest version of bbpress as well.

I set all the database options based on the settings in my wp-config file and then ran into a snag. I couldn’t figure out if I needed to rename the default “bb_” database prefix to what my database prefix was “wp_” or leave it as the default “bb_”. I was planning to complete the integration route, so I changed the prefix to “wp_” thinking it would just add a few tables to my current SQL datbase. I also had a weird hostname, ” $_ENV{DATABASE_SERVER}” so I added that in the bbPress config hostname space.

I then went through all the other screens and bbpress said it installed with a “minor errors.” message. Unfortunately, I closed the screen in error and didn’t note the specific error.

Once I closed, I went to the site and while the article names we there, clicking on them resulted in a 404 error. In addition, I couldn’t log-in to my admin (said I didn’t have permission.) At this point, I assumed I did something wrong and deleted the “forums” folder, and restored my database.

I’d really like to use bbPress instead of Simple:Press because I heard it’s faster and fairly easy to customize. Any ideas on what went wrong? Is there a better set of instructions someplace?

Also, should I keep the prefix bb_ or change it to wp_?

Any help is appreciated. I’m pretty new at all this!

Jerry

[grassrootspa]

bbPress is currently not a WordPress plugin (you don’t access it on the WordPress plugins page, etc)

You need to download it here and follow those instructions:

https://bbpress.org/download/

[J_Salazar]

I installed bbpress fine but then when i went to plugins i did not see bbpress on their. So i try reinstalling it FAILED.. I think i did something wrong can someone help me.. If anyone needs anymore info just ask.

-Thanks

Jesse

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[bingsterloot]

Sounds great paulhawke. I would very much like to beta test if possible ;O)

Keep up the good work

[chrishajer]

This was the solution for letting WordPress know about your bbPress installation to prevent 404s:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load

I didn’t even get that though: I was getting a 302. That specific solution was for a 404 header being returned but the forum content still being showed.

[paulhawke]

There are plenty of 3rd party libraries that deal with the feed reading. Thus far I have a working admin screen that relies on AJAX services to validate a given feed URL. Combination of a GOOD rss library on the backend, and the encode_json() method from PHP means I’m golden for right now.

Milestone 1 of the plugin is complete – administration page to handle a single feed. Milestone 2 is starting – using that data to actually monitor the single feed. When Milestone 2 is completed I’ll grab a couple of people to beta test.

[kevinjohngallagher]

hi bb-lover,

1) Google is not indexing your “http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forums/” because your wordpress sitemap is telling it to look at “http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forum/” which exists, works, and is not using BBpress.

Also the spam at the bottom of each page to ‘improve’ your search ranking is probably hurting it.

2) itt appears to me that you’re attempting to run BBpress with “deep integration” (i.e. inside wordpress), and to do that you’re running the wordpress header. As wordpress doesnt know about “/forums/” its throwing a page not found error in the title.

Good Luck,

Kev

P.S. Please don’t bump topics because you’ve not had an answer in two hours.

[paamayim]

Ok I found the problem.

“bbCode lite” is NOT working while “bbpress SEO tools” is activated. Those plugins are not compatible each other.

[Ryan Hellyer]

Hi everyone,

I’ve written a WordPress plugin which allows you to integrate your WordPress theme, widgets and many plugins into your bbPress theme. This is an alpha launch, so it’s probably buggy. Please file bug reports in the comments of the blog post please.

http://pixopoint.com/theme-integrator-alpha-launch/

This system DOES NOT require deep integration and does not suffer the performance hits that deep integration normally applies. This simply copies your HTML markup over after you set a bunch of things in each theme. If you don’t know how to do a 100% perfect integration of your theme already the old fashioned way (copying HTML and CSS across), this new system will not help you at all as you need to set that up already. Once it is setup however, the changes you make in your WordPress theme will be automagically applied to your bbPress site, along with changes such as plugins, widgets etc.

I’m not providing free support for this. Doing these types of integrations is very time consuming and I can’t afford to spare that much time to help you all integrate your themes sorry. I am keen to see bug reports etc though and will try to get them sorted as soon as possible.

The system works across a range of different softwares, not just bbPress. You can see a demo of it in my own support forum which uses SMF … http://pixopoint.com/forum/index.php?topic=1385.0

[grassrootspa]

@ sambauers:

This is great news! Way to go Sam!

[Sam Bauers]

matt, I’ve sent those files on to MT. The bbPress theme was actually pretty close to complete.

[Mike]

Can someone share this theme with me? http://bbshowcase.org is dead. and http://onvertigo.com is protected site that I can’t access. Thanks.

[Mike]

Actually, I did google for that theme. All pages are linking to bbshowcase.org which is dead site. and http://onvertigo.com is also a protected site that I can’t login.

Is there any other link that I can download?

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-theme#post-61453

[Raize]

That looks awesome, but please make the “Add New” button more prominent in future releases. Most of my new users can’t figure out how to make a post because it’s such a small text button.

[kevinjohngallagher]

May i suggest that this NOT be a BBpress plugin but rather a WordPress plugin. It seems like a cURL post might be a better solution, and alot less hassle than an RSS feed parsing.

Just my two cents.

[pham]

Hi,

I’m currently running WP 2.9.1 and integrated with bbPress 1.0.2 successfully.

WP URL is installed at URL: http://www.example.com/

BBpress is installed at URL: http://www.example.com/forums/

I have a problem when I enabled HTTPS login in bbPress via

define(‘BB_FORCE_SSL_USER_FORMS’,true);

When a user SUCCESSFULLY login into bbPress via HTTPS, it redirects the page to:

http://www.example.com/forums/forums

which means 404 not-found page because bbPress is installed at URL http://www.example.com/forums NOT http://www.example.com/forums/forums

User can login SUCCESSFULLY when define(‘BB_FORCE_SSL_USER_FORMS’,true); is DISABLED

I have searched/read several posts about bbPress HTTPS login from this forum, but could not find any solution.

Any help will be appreciated.

[josh16]

What happened to it? I found the WordPress theme and liked it but I can’t find the matching forum theme now because bbShowcase was shut down. Does anybody still have the original zip file? I also looked through this topic but had no luck.

[nickaster]

Sorry to sound impatient, but I’ve had my forums on hold for months betting that some of the little bugs would get worked out and it seems like things are just a big stall at the moment. I can’t really tell from the dev sites if anything’s going on. Does anyone have a real idea as to when bbpress (plugin or not) is going to make its next phase? I’m kinda tempted to go back to the drawing board with phpbb or something like that unless something is imminent…

[Sander B]

Amazing website!

Or in Dutch:

Ziet er echt heel erg goed uit. Dit is maar weer een goed voorbeeld van hoe makkelijk bbPress en WordPress aan te passen zijn naar wens!

[Gautam]

The plugin is now released – https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/easy-mentions/

[snickn]

“Bbpress Latest Discussion” is the plugin. It works fine – I’m pretty convinced this is some weird bug. There’s definitely nothing wrong with the db info.

[still giving]

What are the updates to make it all work in 2.9.1 and above?

Thanks

[Michael]

I found the smilies here: http://pinvoke.com/

They seem to be a remake of the default WordPress ones – the others were just from all over the web. I plan to make my own set one day, once I have more experience in Icon Design.

Glad you like the compilation.

[Navin]

Those are some bad ass smilies Michael, nice work.