[chrishajer]

Steven, here is the exact way to do it if you still need help:

<?php include("/www/yoursite/forum/my-templates/your-template/sidebar.php");?>

Then the file you are including just goes in sidebar.php in your template folder. Write the sidebar once, use it anywhere.

[Steven Hodson]

@Taeo Ya I realize that bbPress doesn’t have the same sidebar ‘functionality’ as WordPress. What I’mm looking for is more of hte code re-use idea .. write one (or two) sidebars.php and then just include them so thanks on the PHP confirm – I am pretty much a PHP n00b …..

[chandersbs]

Last night and this morning and the whole day, I’ve been busy trying to figure out where new users where going.

After the integration I noticed that all users where showing ‘anonymous’, I did some reading and I discovered that it was possible that it wasn’t reading the appropiate database.

But I checked and checked, and I know that it IS reading the appropiate database, since the admin account is ONLY available in the wp_users table. I have been able to login with it, in both my bbpress area and my wp area.

My existing accounts, I couldn’t login with that. I kept getting User does not exist.

I created new accounts to see where those went. I couldn’t find them.

I just realized that the new accounts, they replaced random old accounts. But just the USER_NICENAME in the forum, if I check my database, I still the original name corresponding the account ID.

To summarize it:

Integrated wp + bbpress. It was an existing bbpress website.

Integrating went kind of OK. after the integration, I noticed its not reading the users, hence the ‘user does not exist’, all users are showing anonymous.

I really really would love it, if someone could help me out

Anyone?

[Jim R]

@buddha,

I’ve seen this mentioned before. Am I missing something? Because I do have www with no problems.

Once I removed the www from the settings, it all worked.

[chrishajer]

You can do it with PHP. Here’s one example how:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/searchhighlight/

There’s no plugin yet for bbPress as far as I know.

[chrishajer]

They are marked with a deleted status but not truly deleted. If you want to delete them forever, you want to do something like this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permanently-deleting-topocs-and-posts

[Olympus]

Theme integration can still be performed without having to turn bbPress into a plugin, and in fact, it can be done via a simple CSS trick ( that means that the default CSS of bbPress should be rewritten so that it becomes more flexible, and every element ( forum tables, forms etc… ) should act as “objects” which can be automatically stretched vertically independently of their parents or I don’t know, where the parents will be objects in the WP stylesheet ) . So again, for theme integration, NO NEED TO TURN BBPRESS INTO A PLUGIN, because it’s just a CSS issue ( + little PHP coding, nothing serious ) !

Connecting the Admin sides of WP and bbPress ? This can be easily done via an OPTIONAL plugin ( or via XML-RPC calls, so that you can handle your bbPress forum even if it isn’t in the same host ) .

Turning bbPress into a plugin would be a nightmare, think of all the unnecessary WP calls … Why did I choose bbPress again ? To have a light forum or to have TWO frameworks ( WordPress and bbPress ) + unnecessary calls and files ?

The reason I choose bbPress at the beginning ( 3~4 years ago ) is because it’s from the creators of WordPress, so I hoped that it will be as easy to customize as WordPress, and that’s what I got ( even though, at the beginning it was really hard for me because I had to guess the function names, as there’s no Codex for bbPress ) and I’m very satisfied . I had the choice between bbPress, PunBB and Vanilla ( the lightest forums out there, and at the time, Vanilla had a greater number of plugins than bbPress ), but I stick with bbPress because it’s the easiest one to customize . So for those who think that bbPress can’t compete in the light forums market, you’re wrong !

[chrishajer]

If you feel this is a problem with the bbPress core, please open a ticket at trac so the problem can be fixed.

https://trac.bbpress.org/

You can log in there with your wordpress.org login, or get one from wordpress.org if you need one.

[kevinjohngallagher]

The code is also 1 year old mate, and for a version of BBpress long since given up on since the RC1 was rushed out with no beta testing and very little alpha testing.

[chrishajer]

I have no problem paying for themes (well, if it’s a GPL theme, you’re not really paying for the “theme” per se), although I don’t think I will for bbPress. @arpowers, what license is the theme offered under?

https://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/

[kevinjohngallagher]

Regardless of which route BBpress takes, the one thing i think this project needs, and has needed for almost 2 years now, is a project manager.

the whole 0.9 > 1.02a > 1.06a > RC1 was handled so badly its unreal. Months of “stop asking, check Trac” only for Trac to be 6 months out of date, made the whole thing a shambles.

[kevinjohngallagher]

And only $50!!!

How gracious of you.

[Carylbbpress]

Hello,

Really great script !!!but….

I tried the “addslashes” version but it doesn’t work…there is the always same issue for French Forums version :

Erreur générale

SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘abonner au Forum ?’, ‘Toutes les possibilités pour s’abonner sont expliquées i’ at line 1 [1064]

Une erreur SQL est arrivée en chargeant cette page. Contactez l’administrateur du forum si ce problème persiste.

“s’abonner au Forum….” is the title of the first forum with a – ‘ – between – s – and – abonner -….

Did anybody find a solution for that ?

Thanks in advance…

[buddha-trance]

there can’t be a www. in the URL’s

I’ve seen this mentioned before. Am I missing something? Because I do have www with no problems.

[Jim R]

I moved from an SMF forum, using SSI to distribute content through a handful of PHP pages. Making any theme changes was a nightmare. I was introduced to WordPress in the summer and loved it. I spent a month looking for a good forum that I obviously wanted integrated, but that was not easy. I found bbPress and was very disappointed it wasn’t more easily integrated. In fact, in the beginning, I couldn’t get it to work.

(side note) GerikG was one who helped me a lot, and the odd thing was I was doing everything properly, but as we troubleshot the issues, we found a simple mistake, there can’t be a www. in the URL’s. (/side noate)

I’m four months into WordPress, and I have switched forums twice. I came back to bbPress with the assumption it would eventually be more integrated with WP.

To me, someone who isn’t much on the coding side but understands it a little, the WP / bbPress integration isn’t an issue of whether it’s a plug-in or separate. It must be about these features right out of the box:

1) Unified login.

2) Theme / navigation integration

3) Post / Tag synchronization

4) Widget integration

As a code novice, I could never understand how these issues weren’t present out of the box. (Much the same as I don’t see how WPMU could be born separate from WP code.) It’s not like the people who designed these products are dumb, so maybe there was a reason for it that made sense to them, but as someone coming into it just never made sense.

Other things it should include, and to my understanding this would be inherent in any PHP based system, the ability to handle WP conditional and template tags. Admin integration would be nice as an option. In my case, I would use it. I know the plug-in makes it possible, but a simple setting would ask, “Would you like to use bbPress admin panel in your WP admin panel?” That would come with an obvious explanation of what bbPress is.

All of that said, without a strong opinion on plug-in vs. stand alone, if the above features are ready to go out of the box, I’m not sure why it couldn’t remain stand alone. But again, I’m a complete code novice.

I mean my gosh, with the PHP widget and Widget Context, I can do just about anything to my WP pages. It’s very nice. No reason bbPress can’t be that simple too….for users. (wink)

[citizenkeith]

I posted this in the bbPress Attachments thread, but thought it would get a little more exposure here….

I have a small community of musicians who are collaborating on music. We decided to start using bbPress Attachments to share Torrent files. This way, we can use Bit Torrent to share large WAV files (40-100MB each).

I would love to be able to extend this plugin to display the contents of the torrent file. As it is, one person might share multiple files in one upload and we need a way to navigate the torrents. Since there are ten of us sharing files, you can imagine that it is getting confusing. You have to download every torrent just to find one file.

I realize _ck_ isn’t working on bbPress Attachments anymore, but am hoping somebody in the community has the ability to add this functionality. I suppose one could even re-use code from bbPress Attachments to write “bbPress Torrent” or something…

I found some php scripts that will parse torrent data, but I’m no programmer.

[scribu]

Read this (it’s for WordPress but it works just as well for bbPress):

http://www.devlounge.net/articles/reset-a-wordpress-password-from-phpmyadmin

[radovanx]

I lost my password for admin bbpress in local = mail dont working I serch in database but i dont trouve…where is this ? thank

[Taeo]

bbPress does not have a built in “get_sidebar” function like WP but you can use a regular PHP include.

include ‘sidebar.php’;

I’ve opted to include my sidebar within my footer template but I can imagine that might not always be doable with a more complex layout.

[Steven Hodson]

is there the ability to use the WP type INCLUDE in bbPress in order to include an custom php file? What I want to do is take the repeating “sidebar” code into a separate file so I don’t have to update all the files that include the sidebar code

[jurasiks]

Wonderful Simple skin. Very nice.

[Darfuria]

Awesome!

[jurasiks]

At my project i use bbpress as simple CMS with comment system. And bbpress works great.

I create custom pages:

1) make files [custom_page_name].php with:

<?php

require(‘./bb-load.php’);

bb_repermalink();

bb_load_template( ‘intro.php’ );

?>

and place it to root folder

2) making [custom_page_name].php with

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

…some content…

<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

and placing it to template folder

How to make uniq title (which search bots loves) for custom pages?

Thank you.

[gerikg]

Try installing this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-bbpress-default-role/

for wordpress -> bbpress

and

the wordpress integration option in BBpress should take care of the other.

[gerikg]

Also another problem is when you upgrade from an older version (wordpress/bbpress) the XX-config.php files are different than what you already have. Check wp-config.php against wp-config-sample.php & bb-config.php against bb-config-sample.php should be fairly simple.