[Justin Tadlock]

I’ll try to help out in any way I can. I mentioned in another topic here that bbPress needs a Codex, so I’m all for volunteering some of my time to work on documenting functions and such. I’d even help out with some inline documentation of the code too (though I’m not as familiar with it as WP).

Most of the work I’ve done with bbPress is for my own use here:

http://themehybrid.com/support

I’ve dabbled in bbPress plugin development, but most of the work I do is with themes.

[buddha-trance]

This is all so confusing. I will use bbPress as long as possible (keeping in mind the security issues) and really hope that it will continue to grow. It’s such an elegant platform and a perfect match for WordPress.

I find it odd that it would die like this… and WP is still using it, though I’m sure we’ll all miss _ck_’s great knowledge and contribution. Oh my…

[buddha-trance]

I just saw that on bbshowcase.org too… oh no!!!!!

Also, I thought that Sam left, not that there was a “removal”….

This is all so odd and sad.

bbPress is a great platform and the true logical companion to WordPress as of now.

Let’s keep it alive and thriving.

[chandersbs]

Wow

The bbPress Showcase has been discontinued.



The removal of Sam Bauers and the halting of bbpress.org 2.0

was a clear and final sign that there is no interest in allowing

bbPress to become a mature, robust program and community.



By now bbPress 1.5 could have been in alpha but instead

bbPress development has been deliberately stagnated,

which should be a very alarming warning to everyone.



In addition, bbShowcase had only six donations in 2009,

which indicated to me there was no interest in my work.



My code will remain on bbpress.org as open source GPL

for those that wish to use it, however I caution you to

consider bbPress's lack of leadership before continuing to use it.

http://www.bbshowcase.org

[shansta]

ok.. will try thanks.

I can’t seem to edit/delete posts in WP anymore… Does anyone know if having admin username set to administrator/keymaster affects this or not?

[arpowers]

What is the main alternative to BBPress?

It seems like the logical choice for WP sites that would like to add a forum…

Considering that, why hasn’t it gained more popularity and support?

[Ben L.]

For me, it’s bb-login.php?action=logout. I think your theme might have the link hardcoded. If so, change the link to <?php bb_logout_link(); ?>.

[hatter]

This is usually due to a cookie issue. Clear your cookies and then try to login / logout.

[thierryyyyyyy]

Seems that bbPress is useful for Automatics, even if it is not really profitable.

On the “sticky” topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress Matt asked YOU for helping bbPress, so if you feel like all of us in this topic the need of bbPress continuation, please put a message there.

At a time, I thought that updates where too frequent. But now, it is really scary too see the slow death of this marvelous forum script.

After her long work for the community, we could perhaps let _CK_ free

She seems to really want to go away from bbPress coding, I fully respect her choice.

[wiseacre]

Folks, bbpress is dead because of it doesn’t make money for Automattic I think. Read one of the last Matt’s topic between the lines –

“… and I just wanted to let everyone know that bbPress is still an important project for the WP community. (It powers our forums and plugin directory, for one thing!) It’s not going away.”

That’s all

[Steven Hodson]

_ck_ while I can respect your pulling out of developing plugins for bbPress is there any chance of what you have contributed so far can be picked up by other developers so that we don’t have to start from scratch to replace many of the great plugins you have written?

[Steven Hodson]

I can’t say exactly where I got this tidbit from but the ‘word’ I have been able to find out so far is that bbPress isn’t quite dead in the water. The rumor is that it might be picked up by another group heavy into WP projects. I’m trying to get some solid confirmation because I don’t want to have to go to all the effort of converting from SMF to bbPress only to be stuck with another dead duck.

[grassrootspa]

@citizenkeith:

Sorry for the confusion, meant ‘Ouch’ re: the site bbShowcase going down (did not mean to direct it at you or anyone else). This is not good for bbPress’s future. It hurts us all.

@Olaf:

You are right on the money. It would be disastrous if a bbPress vulnerability was discovered and no patch was rolled out to combat it…

[hpguru]

Please, don’t move bbPress project to trash. I am big bbPress fan! Wait new updates.

[chrishajer]

errored when installed

Those are just warnings and will not prevent bbPress from running. There are lots of warnings and notices and deprecated messages with PHP software. Normally in a production environment you would not see them. The messages you’ve posted are not errors, they’re just noise which you can suppress.

[Kayak too]

Hello!

I’m having trouble with the bbPress installation, and haven’t been able to get the forum up and running.

I’ve got WordPress 2.8.6 installed on a test site (it’s up and running fine), and I wanted to also have a forum on the same site. I want to try bbPress because of the possibility of integration between WP and bbPress. It would be nice if users could log in once, and be able to post comments on the blog portion of the site or post messages in the forum side of the site, and not have to manage two separate logins.

I downloaded bbPress 1.0.2, uploaded it to my web server, ran the bbPress installer, and entered the info requested, including the MySQL settings for database name, database username, database password,

MySQL hostname, and clicked “Continue” (or something to that effect). The message I got back was that it had a problem opening the database. At this point, I noticed there was a checkbox or something like that on the installer page where I could enter additional details, so I clicked on that, and it asked for ‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, and ‘NONCE_KEY’.

I remember generating these keys the last time I upgraded WordPress, so I had to download the wp-config.php file from my server and poke through it for these strings, but I found them, so I entered them into the bbPress installer page.

In addition to those key strings, the bbPress installer page was also asking for “salts” for each of those keys. I had no idea what the “salts” might be, but when I clicked on the help button next to the entry field, it said that if you didn’t have this it would check with the server during installation.

So I left the “salt” fields blank, and clicked “Continue.”

An installation log was generated, and I saved it as a text file. I won’t put the whole thing in this message, but the installation process modified the database tables without problems. In Step 2 of the process (WordPress integration), it reported “WordPress cookie keys set” and went on to “Fetching missing WordPress cookie salts.” It said that the WordPress “auth” cookie salt was successfully set, but the next one was where the trouble may have begun, as it reported WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt NOT set. The WordPress “logged in” cookie salt was set OK.

Finally, in Step 3, it listed the site settings for me. But one of the lines read “Forum could not be created!”

Following that line were two lines reporting that directories were established for my plugins and themes. I used my FTP program to check my server, and those two directories were indeed created.

And, of course, it summed things up by saying “some errors encountered during installation!”

But at the same time, there was a message that I should go to http://www.mydomain.com/bbpress, and that the forum should launch.

I went to that page, but every time I do, I get redirected to:

http://www.mydomain.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php

Where the message says:

Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?

Well, no, I don’t want to run the upgrade script, since I’m trying to do a first-time install.

So, I don’t know where to proceed from here.

One question in my mind is if the installer script was able to find and set the salts for three of the keys OK, why couldn’t it set the “secure auth” cookie salt?

Second question is why do I get a page telling me bbPress is already installed, when the installation script says the forum could not be created?

Any guidance anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.

[citizenkeith]

Well this really sucks. I just sent her a donation yesterday and now she pulls the plug. I was hoping my donation would encourage her but I think I just reminded her to shut things down.

I appreciate everything she’s done for bbPress, and hope she’ll come back when things are sorted out with bbPress.

[shansta]

oh i worked it out….

Added

a:2:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

to the admin user in phpMyAdmin

edit: Only problem is cannot logout using bb-login.php?logout=1

anyone know why?

[vanesta]

@Olaf talks is cheap, matt needs to respond with action, i bet if WP lead developer left the project, within 24 hours matt would appoint someone else to take over. I know bbpress is not a main project to automattic but at least it should not be ignored like this

[shansta]

Hello,

I think I have these two integrated and working but seems to be a problem with the bbpress keymaster having access to the wp-admin area. The only solution I have so far is to have 2 admins…

one for WP ( a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;} )

&

one for BB ( a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;} )

I have set the role in the bbpress-admin for wp-admins to be keymasters but it doesn’t seem to work…

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

[radovanx]

When I installed bbpress I am trying login in to administration but its imposible with this code

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-settings.php on line 186

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesbackpressfunctions.wp-object-cache.php on line 108

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesbackpresspomomo.php on line 171

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesfunctions.bb-l10n.php on line 484

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesbackpressclass.wp-taxonomy.php on line 581

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-settings.php:186) in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesbackpressclass.wp-auth.php on line 273

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-settings.php:186) in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesbackpressclass.wp-auth.php on line 273

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-settings.php:186) in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesbackpressclass.wp-auth.php on line 273

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-settings.php:186) in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesbackpressclass.wp-auth.php on line 273

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-settings.php:186) in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesbackpressclass.wp-auth.php on line 273

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-settings.php:186) in C:xampplitehtdocsbbpressbb-includesfunctions.bb-pluggable.php on line 232

[josh16]

I don’t mean to sound picky but SimplePress looks like a cluttered mess. It’s like trying to integrate an SMF board with wordpress and they don’t even look the same.

I guess I got used to the simplicity of bbPress. I’m still going to use it, however, as long as bbPress.org is up and running and the WP.com forums uses it. This only means less themes and plugins.

[Olaf Lederer]

actually there is a response from Matt:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/future-of-bbpress

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress

both topics are not so old and tell me the that something is going on.

I’m more concerned if someone “evil” has found some security issue in bbpress and there is no one who will provide an update…

[johnhiler]

You can work around the bug by installing the topics-per-page plugin, and then editing your template:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/navigation-not-working-only-for-page-1#post-56239

You can find the plugin here:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/

[Olaf Lederer]

… just checked simplepress, looks much more like a forum than bbpress