Olaf – Just saw your earlier edit. Moving features into the core is no guarantee that development won’t stop… just look at the bbPress Core itself over the past few months!
I checked bbpress for “batching email updates” and noticed that an extra table is needed.
One of the reasons I stopped looking into that feature.
EDIT: Important functions should belong to the core system, otherwise the development of some plugin might stop (like in this case)
Yeah – not much has been decided upon yet, but, by the looks of things, we may see WordPress/BuddyPress/bbPress/ being a fully integrated package, where BuddyPress and bbPress stand as plugins for WordPress.
I think first and foremost, bbPress needs to do what ever it’s going to do with WordPress, and move on from that. Whether it remains as a standalone solution and has a solid integration facility, or becomes integrated with WordPress. I don’t really care which, as either way bbPress will be working side-by-side with WordPress, which is all that I require right now.
You need to drop all the bbpress tables from the database and reinstall. Read from here down in this thread:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-do-i-upload-bbpress#post-62546
Hi, can anyone help?
I screwed up my bbpress upgrade and decided to do a re-install. Instead I got the above error message in the last step. Now I can still access my forum home page (the header only) but admin log in failed and the forum is not there (error “page not found”)
How to resolve this?
All help is appreciated
Thks heaps
There was lots of discussion of BuddyPress at the first IRC meetup:
2009-12-09 Meetup
I don’t think anything is decided, but you can kind of see where things were taking shape there.
Now I hear that buddypress can be used on wp single. What does that do to bbpress?
Sounds like you’re not the keymaster at the forums, so you won’t have an Admin link and won’t be able to access bb-admin.
Try clearing all your cookies or a totally new browser, and just log in to bbPress, not WordPress, and see if it works.
Yes, 2100 GMT on Wednesday:
meetup on IRC at 2100 GMT on Wednesdays
That’s 3:00 PM in Chicago. You can visit this site with a browser, no other software required:
http://webchat.freenode.net/
Is the IRC meetup tomorrow?
Looking for a landing theme/page that has two options, wp blog and bbpress forum. No other junk. user chooses which one he/she wants to access. That’s it, simple, fast and elegant!!!
Thanks, Roger
gerikg,
I saw that post and (foolishly) hoped for a different answer. However, i did follow your advice in the linked post (‘go look in the BuddyPress docs’) and found this answer:
You cannot use the admin panel of bbPress if you use the one/two click BuddyPress installation. If you want a bbPress admin panel and want to install bbPress plugins, you need to install bbPress externally, then use the WordPress integration plugin, then you go to BuddyPress Forum component and click on “I want to use exisiting bbPress forum”
in the BuddyPress forums where i probably should have looked in the first place.
bakercad, another issue I ran into last few days was when you choose subdomain as a MU options.
site.com/blog1 works well
blog1.site.com sometimes does not work
I haven’t found a solution that works so far.
@anandasama This may be a silly question, but are you using two bbPress installs?
I am in the preliminary stages of developing a site with similar functionality using WPMU 2.8.6 and BuddyPress 1.1.3.
I used the BuddyPress UI to install/integrate bbPress (not sure which version) which was dead easy and is working fine BUT forums can only be accessed from a group context and I have no access to the bbPress admin screens. I feel like I’m missing something basic, but can’t figure out what.
Any feedback you are willing to provide will be greatly appreciated.
@dailytalk – thanks for posting your real world experiences. I would like to ask that you also include the version of bbpress that you are using?
@all –
I am under the impression that most of the plugins do not work properly with the current version, so a fresh install today is even MUCH further away from the basic functionality of smforums, phpbb, vbulletin, etc.
A serious problem that plagues wordpress, bbpress, and I should mention similar projects including phpfox, is companies that develop new releases often leave lots of broken plugins and themes – most users get so frustrated not knowing to upgrade and lose functionality – or stay downgraded and have possible security issues. This is a major problem that has me admiring the way vbulletin posts whether or not plugins / extensions will be supported by the core company.
The main thing that keeps me using bbpress in a few sites is the price, along with the glimmer of hope that since it is integrated into buddypress. Certainly at some point there will be functioning photo, attachment, moderation and other functions, that the WP / BP /BB community will have to have – even if new versions of one break the other. – Unfortunately it’s tough to hold one’s breath with these projects, and seeing the nightmares of bugs, lost functionality, and the time it takes to get back to square 2 after one of the other projects has been upgraded to square three – it’s devastating.
I for one would love to see image and file attachments, along with something like tinymce incorporated into the core of BBpress – but even if they are not, I would like to see important plugins like these and moderation, etc, all be maintained and tested and upgraded along with any new releases by the bbpress developers.
The svn is just short for “subversion” which is version control software you can use for checking out code. It’s still a bbpress.org domain: it’s perfectly safe. Just a subdomain.
The link Ben provided works perfectly. If you get an error (404 not found) then try again. The file exists.
Is there another link to download this? Is SVN the safest provider?
The situation is now that I have two bbpress directories, one for 0.9 and one for 1.0. Both share the bb-plugins directory and the rest is native according to their installers. Apparently they share exactly the same database schema as well (the updater 0.9 -> 1.0 did not make changes).
With one symlink, I can easily select 0.9 or 1.0.
Both versions work, but 1.0 has no plugins active (so layout slightly different), and 1.0 does not allow me to enter the bb-admin subdir (to activate the plugins). However I am logged in successfully, both systems acknowledge this even if I flip the symlink “live”.
There is no .htaccess file to be found on this system.
Where to start?
Jeroen
I see, then I’ll wait for a top-level domain. 
Thanks
bbPress will actually be suited for your needs, as it’s simple enough for those who are not tech savvy.
Just as a shortened update (and someone else may correct me on this one, if I’m wrong):
bbPress 1.0.2 has full support by the community, and there are newly developed plugins for it. I can assure you that there are more than 30 plugins that work perfectly with 1.0.2 – and several are still being updated today.
Version 1.1 is planned as a standalone release, so far as I know. It will have a number of stability issues treated, as well as a number of new features; one being Email Subscription (which is live on this forum – see the top area of this post).
In my eyes, it’s very safe for you to go ahead and download 1.0.2. Plenty people are still downloading it today. As per usual (and as with every other well-known PHP package), bbPress does have an upgrade system. For future versions, there will probably be a migration system to move everything from the standalone forum to the plugin based one.
I hope you do stick around – there’s plenty more to come. Keep an eye on the blog – there are informative updates there. There is also an IRC meetup on Wednesday, for which the logs will be posted on the blog immediately after.
Take care
Michael
