[sockmoney]

We invested in bbPress since it was open-source and we could take it whatever direction we wanted. I would recommend the same for those here worried about future support (if you like the product).

If you still want to move to another forum software, I would first pick a new platform… and then find out if they have a import utility. If they do, find out the format of data required and build a script to dump the data from bbPress in that format.

If you are not able to do this yourself, hire a programmer. Someone fluent in MySQL and php/perl should be able to pull this off fairly easily.

[Macmenddotcom]

I just put my idea of 5 top forums on my blog with bbpress number 1 see it here http://www.macmend.com

[Tomcraft1980]

It’s a shame…

[Elias]

Use the .pot-file for the bbPress version you are translating – you can import it in your poedit project.

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/pot/tags/

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

Thanks Buddha,

I tried all of these, to no avail. I also tried that other page, worked my way through it, but that thread just kind of fizzed out with no resolution either. I’ve tried to read that 101 page before. it’s too long with too much conflicting info.

One of them led me to this page, to generate a SALT:

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt

I tried that, put it in both config files, and it didn’t work.

The only headway I made was that in adding your “speedup” rules, I was unable to log out of bbpress. At least it was something.

The cookie hash I generated here:

http://www.adamek.biz/md5-generator.php

Some said to include the www. in these url values (cookiehash, COOKIE_DOMAIN, etc), some said not, I tried both and still couldn’t get it to work.

I appreciate your help Buddha, it might be that I need to learn more about cookies; as it is, I’m just stabbing in the dark here, I’m not totally familiar with how all these things work.

[buddha-trance]

@arpowers – I deep integrated my local installation, just to test, and I have the same problem. All template tags work fine, but the Page Mash plugin is displaying all hidden pages, and the sidebar is only displaying the default place holder widgets, but not the other ones.

I believe that the problem is that the plugin settings and other data are stored in the wp_options table, and this is not being pulled into bbPress. It seems like deep integration allows for the use of the wp template tags, but not much more beyond it… Maybe there is a way to make the wp_options table available to bbPress, by defining something in bb-config.php?

[lokrin2000]

Well, I took the header, footer, index, style sheet and image folder from the WP theme and transfered them over to the bbP theme folder. I then renamed index.php to forum.php and combined both css files into one which is currently pretty bloated. After clearing out my browser cache the bbP page is pretty good looking, just like the WP page.

There are a few things that need tweaking, such as a blank line near the footer on the main page and the tag list on the message pages.

http://wp.angelwoodpines.org

http://bbp.angelwoodpines.org

Still have to add a physical link between the two. (Although the header image will still take you to the main blog site.)

[johnhiler]

You can see that here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/statistics.php

[johnhiler]

Try this?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/check-if-a-user-is-logged-in#post-19953

[af3]

Same issue here. I think its related to adminbar.css … all menu appears but vertical! The calvary is yet to come….

[miletjs]

They have importers only from phpbb I think.

[Elias]

I wrote a long German text on my german bbPress-Website to draw some attention to the current, sad situation from German bbPress-Users — many of them can’t read English easily…

[buddha-trance]

I remember struggling a bit to make it work, and I have tried several different recommendations I found in these forums. Now there is this guide that may be very helpful

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

Let me tell you what I have defined in my config files, to make it work seamlessly:

1 – wp-config

SECRET_KEY your value

AUTH_KEY your value

SECURE_AUTH_KEY your value

LOGGED_IN_KEY your value

NONCE_KEY your value

then, at the end of the wp-config file

define('COOKIEHASH', 'your value');

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.www.yourdomain.com');

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/wp-admin');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

– on the cookie_domain there must be a . (period) before the url

– sitecookiepath is for root installations, if you have WP in a subdirectory, then change the path to, for example /blog/wp-admin

– cookiepath is OK with just ‘/’ (also if WP is in a subdirectory, at least this was my case, even if the integration plugin told me otherwise, which did not work for me)

2 – bb-config

BB_AUTH_KEY to match the WP key

BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY to match the WP key

BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY to match the WP key

BB_NONCE_KEY to match the WP key

then, at the end of the bb-config file I have

// Start integration speedups



// WordPress database integration speedup

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'yourprefix_';



// WordPress cookie integration speedup

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'url to match what you have in WP general settings';

$bb->wp_home = 'url to match what you have in WP general settings';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_here goes the same sequence of numbers to match the cookiehash in wp-config';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_here goes the same sequence of numbers to match the cookiehash in wp-config';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_here goes the same sequence of numbers to match the cookiehash in wp-config';

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/forums-directory/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums-directory/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums-directory/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins';



// End integration speedups

– the last two if WP is installed at the root, otherwise

‘/blog-directory/wp-admin’

‘/blog-directory/wp-content/plugins’;

to get sets of keys

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt

I can’t remember how I got that cookiehash value…

a possible helpful thread, just in case

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-do-i-define-user_cookie-pass_cookie-auth_cookie-secure_auth_cookie-log

Currently on WP 2.8.6 and bbPress 1.0.2

I hope this helps.

[Marius-]

Has anyone got BBPress Polls working perfectly with version 1.02?

I tried it a few months back, and didnt turn out good.

Is there any other poll plugins that works?

[batarista]

Increased memory_limit in php.ini from 8Mb to 16Mb & restarted wampserver: bbPress installation then worked perfectly.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Resource Limits ;

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds

max_input_time = 60 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data

memory_limit = 16M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

Many thanks for your very impressive software and excellent support :>)

[Denis de Bernardy]

@Matt: I’ll be needing a new forum on my own site shortly; one that fully integrates with multiple WP installs. So I can certainly babysit the code base if you need someone to oversee BBPress for a day per week or so.

It *would* be much more appropriate if CK and Sam were around, however. My understanding is CK got pissed. Where is Sam at?

D.

[Marius-]

Glad you’re in on it folks.

I believe that if BBPRess was included in the WordPress install, as a default plugin or something, it would force higher interest.

[buddha-trance]

@kriskl, @sockmonkey – There are many plugins that work with 1.0.2, though they were developed up to the 9.0x version. I am currently using 26 plugins (and have a few more inactive at the moment), there were also several others that I tested to work, but didn’t need.

Here is an initial list to get started, when they were testing the alpha version, before the official 1.0 release

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/list-of-plugins-that-work-on-rc1

Sometimes, it is also mentioned in the discussions on the individual plugin page.

Of course, having a local test install allows me to test them, before using the plugins on a live site…

[f1f]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I can’t find any file called php_errorlog in my bbpress installation. Where is it usually stored?

[Denis de Bernardy]

Where did Sam go? He felt all alone and decided to stop, or was he assigned something else?

[shansta]

Hello,

I have successfully integrated bbpress 1 and lastest wordpress but having trouble with the header and footer in the forum..

This is what I have done so far…

Copied and renamed kakumei to my-templates/newtheme/

Added <?php get_header(); ?> & <?php get_footer(); ?> to all the required php files.

I then added

define(‘WP_BB’, true);

if ( !defined(‘DB_NAME’) ) {

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wp-config.php’);

}

define(‘WP_BB’, true);

if ( !defined(‘DB_NAME’) ) {

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wp-blog-header.php’);

}

to the bb-config.php

& then added

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”/discussions/my-templates/newtheme/style.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”/discussions/my-templates/newtheme/style-rtl.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />

to the WP theme header.php

The forum shows up in the with what looks like the header and footer of my WP theme…

I have a problem with all the css not working… Does adding the url for the css in the WP theme header work or do i need to do this another way?

Thanks

[hatter]

Here’s a good starting point: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

[sockmoney]

kriskl – You could always go with version 9.06. Most of the plugins work with 9.0x versions right now, no need to wait for the developers to upgrade to 1.0x. Then once the plugins catch up, upgrade to 1.0x.

We run 9.0x right now and have no problems so far (beyond a few cosmetic tweaks) with any of the plugins we are using… which is about 20 or so.

I don’t think bbPress is going anywhere. It is a great little piece of community software. If WP decides to stop supporting it, I bet someone (maybe one of us?) will pick it up and fork off into a new direction for it.

Just today I got an email from someone who visited my bbPress site and they wanted to know what software I was running. They said they really liked it and was hoping it was a plug-in to WP so they could run it. It is feedback like this that WP needs to hear…

[buddha-trance]

I guess it depends on the complexity of the WP theme, but when I matched the looks of the forums, with some trial and error, it wasn’t too complicated. In short, it was a matter of matching header, footer, and use the “hottags” section as the sidebar. If I can backtrack my steps, I will post about it, in case it may help other people, while we are waiting for the official docs.

This WordPress plugin by Sam Bauers also looked very interesting, but I think it’s not working with the latest version of WP, after 2.6.2. It would be nice if the plugin could be updated.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/

[buddha-trance]

@arpowers – from your site:

iBlogPro now is one of the only WordPress themes with its very own matching BBPress forum Template.

This is a wonderful idea that any theme developer should keep in mind! Kudos for that.

Themes that already come with the matching forum templates for bbPress, will help in keeping the momentum going for this great platform. Such implementation will make bbPress the logical choice, rather than having people looking around for forum platforms, and getting confused.

As for the looks of the theme, what can I say…. I am a mac addict… Very cool!!!