[okohll]

Hi,

Downloaded bbpress to http://gtwmbackup.dh.bytemark.co.uk/bbpress

However, clicking ‘Go to step 1’ doesn’t do anything. There’s nothing logged to Apache’s error.log. I’m using PHP 5.2.4 on Ubuntu with Apache 2 and MySQL 5. Any ideas please?

Regards

Oliver Kohll

[chrishajer]

Ohhh, for the first post, toddmccalla, you were installing bbPress as a WordPress plugin, that was the problem. bbPress is not a WordPress plugin.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/header-invalid#post-60960

[chrishajer]

bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress. It should not be in your wp-content/plugins folder. It will be installed right along side WordPress, not inside WordPress as a plugin.

Right now you have WordPress installed in a folder called “Blog”. You need to put bbPress in a folder called “Forum” or whatever public URL you want your forum to be known as, and start the installation there.

http://latestartermusician.com/Forum/ is you put it into a folder called “Forum” at the same level as Blog in the directory tree.

It’s not a plugin for WordPress, that’s why you received that error.

[xanderashwell]

Hi all,

I’m used to using conditionals within PHP if/else arguments such as is_page_template, is_page, is_front_page, and so on within WordPress. However, I’d like to apply some within my bbpress theme (to change the title of seperate sections of the forums) and I’d love to know which conditionals are appropriate/different within bbpress.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Many thanks,

Xander

[xanderashwell]

If anyone is still looking for the solution to this, there is a suitable fix (creating a plugin to do the heavy lifting)

here

Basically, create a new plugin by saving the following code as “my-plugin.php” or whatever you might like to call it, in the my-plugins folder:

‘

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Profile Details

Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/

Description: This plugin adjusts the information required at registration, and which information is displayed on the profile page.

Author: A.Example

Version: 0.333

Author URI: https://bbpress.org/

*/

function set_my_profile_info_keys($myarray) {

$myarray = array(

//’first_name’ => array(0, __(‘First name’)),

//’last_name’ => array(0, __(‘Last name’)),

‘display_name’ => array(1, __(‘Display name as’)),

‘user_email’ => array(1, __(‘Email’)),

//’user_url’ => array(0, __(‘Website’)),

//’from’ => array(0, __(‘Location’)),

//’occ’ => array(0, __(‘Occupation’)),

//’interest’ => array(0, __(‘Interests’))

);

return $myarray;

}

add_filter(‘get_profile_info_keys’, ‘set_my_profile_info_keys’);

?>

‘

I hope that helps someone out, full credit must go to Olaf for this fix.

Namasté,

Xander

[latestart]

So, I went to the intended URL after uploading the files to my server, and I still received a “Page Not Found” error. My host company says the following:

“Hello,

I have noticed that the website at the URL http://latestartermusician.com/bbpress is loading with the Page not found. I have noticed that you are using the third party application. The application is not installed properly. The folder ‘bb-admin/install.php’ is missing. It appears to be an issue with the Application package. The package itself does not contain the required file for the proper functioning of the site. Could you please contact the application vendor and verify this from your end? Please contact the vendor or application support.

If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.”

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

[Gautam]

Please note that bbPress is not a plugin.

It is a standalone forum software.

[latestart]

I have the same problem. My website is completely new with no design yet. http://www.latestartermusician.com/Blog/

I am using wordpress 2.8.4 and I downloaded the zip file bbpress1.0.2.zip.

Thank you,

[latestart]

I downloaded the plugin for WordPress 2.8.4, and tried activating it. However, when I activated it, I was taken to a page that said, “This plugin does not have a valid header.” What does that mean? I am so excited about using bbpress, but I can’t.

[buddha-trance]

Take a look at this plugin, to synchronize WordPress and bbPress

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/

This is the WordPress end of the plugin

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

Both have to be installed, one in bbPress and the other one in WP, to function

[federalist1]

I was matching the various keys per the integration options and once I save the “secure_auth” key bbPress shut down logins.

All my admin logins fail.

The forums still appear but I cannot register or login.

2 problems to fix:

Restore admin login and admin panel

Figure out how to share the wp database

Help is appreciated!

[chrishajer]

For issue # 1, you might want to try hidden forums:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

For # 2, in the “started by” data column, just use this in your template’s front-page.php:

<?php topic_author(); ?>

You said “started by” right, since “last poster” is already there, right?

[Lethality]

I’m looking to actually tie a forum system to a blog (Preferably WordPress)

Preferably all of the comments associated with each article would be viewable on the page as normal, but the user could also link over to the forum to read/discuss there.

The ideal situation would be that when a new blog post is posted, a new thread is created at the same time in the forum with the same title as the blog article.

Is bbPress up to this task, or is anyone aware of something that is more or less “off the shelf” with similar functionality?

Thanks for any help!

[Olaf Lederer]

Best wordpress hosting I have ever seen: webfaction.com

must be good for bbpress too

[financialnudity]

i just added bbpress to my website and the admin pages aren’t working at all. in fact, nothing really works other than the main page comes up and clicking on any link just makes the page do a never-ending refresh. the install said there were some “minor” errors in the install, but i couldn’t figure out what they were. i did install it to connect to my wordpress site with a separate database, if that helps any.

[Sudchai]

bbLaTeX

You can find the plugin from above website.

[yaysloths]

Hey all –

Just started playing with bbpress last night & I am both totally hooked and somewhat frustrated, which seems to be my standard reaction to new software. I’m fluent in HTML, conversational in CSS and have worked with WordPress code before so I’m not completely in the dark, but there’s enough of a learning curve here that I have a few things I’d love some help with, if someone had a moment. Here’s the first two:

1. I would like my forum to be completely private – i.e., people would have to register or login on some sort of splash page before they reached the forum. In searching around these boards I found this plugin, but I just get a big ol’ 404 Not Found when I try to download it (and it looks like it’s a ways behind bbpress v1.0.2 anyway). Is this what I should be using instead? And if so, where exactly would it go, and on what page(s)?

2. I’m trying to add a “topic started by” field to the list of threads; I can get it to show up in the header row but I can’t get the fields in the actual table to show up. See what I mean? That’s no good. It’s probably some stupid PHP thing missing a thing (man, PHP is unforgiving) but I just can’t find it. Here’s the code I’m using:

<?php if ( $topics || $stickies ) : ?>



<table id="latest">

<tr>

<th><?php _e('topic'); ?> — <?php new_topic(); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('started by'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('posts'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('last poster'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('last post'); ?></th>

</tr>



<?php if ( $stickies ) : foreach ( $stickies as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?><a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_author(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><a href="<?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>"><?php topic_time(); ?></a></td>

</tr>



<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

Lord knows I have more questions, but let’s start with those. Any help would be very much appreciated…thanks!!

[af3]

I have modified the original script to work with a bbpress integrated with wordpress. but the password is not working!

http://svn.adrianomelo.com/labs/Wenetus/phpbb3tobbpress.php

– uses the table wp_users instead bb_users

– the users in the wp_users are not lost!

– conficts resolved (user exists on wp database and phpbb database)

PROBLEM: the phpbb password is not working when imported to wp database

Same here — all worked out fine, except password. The _phpbb3p_pass.php file was autoloaded in bb-plugins folder; seems to be not working. Anyone has a workaround this (other than asking users to reset their passwords) ?

[quasiamodo]

Just similair problem as yours…. may be the same….

I installed the latest version of WordPress on one of our servers, and thought it would be a nice thing to get it cooperating with bbpress.

Accordingly you have to install bbpress and configured it to cooperate with wp.

Then on wp you have to install a plugin called WordPress-bbPress syncronization and configure that thing too.

On top of this module you will find a box asking you for the directory of the bbpress installation.

Now given the right address of the bbpress installation, it will build up a link between both by using the

/bbpress/my-plugins/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/bbwp-sync.php program, as there is obviously needed some code to execute syncronization.

In my case this file and directory is completely missing, so even with everything coded the right way, missing the program nothing can happen.

I have even set permissions to up to 777, meaning readable, executable, writable for whoever, but the file is neither generated nor downloaded nor extracted.

Accordingly I guess it is missing in the installation package, or the routine to write that thing hangs somewhere…

Hope it was clearer…

In any case as soon we get an answer here ,and if you need assistance , it will be a pleasure to help…

Regards

Quasiamodo

[Taeo]

I have a WordPress site with a bbPress install on the side. Design has been integrated.

http://www.taeoui.com

[syborgod]

So i should add: require_once(‘path/to/wp-load.php’); in bbPress’ bb-config.php?

Now would I need to add this to the WordPress’ wp-config.php file as well?

[syborgod]

I have already installed and integrated bbPress to WordPress MU on my site, and I need to know if i can add the following:

require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ bb-config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same

directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).

without messing anything up or do I need to reinstall bbPress again and do this process at the beginning?

[clarklab]

My install of bbPress has been acting this way since I first set it up. Ive got a custom theme running and a huge list of plugins so I really don’t even know where to start hunting. Pretty annoying but not the end of the world.

[abcaa6]

Sorry Quasiamodo, but I didn’t get what you tried to say.

Thanks for great reply, but please note that I’m still a beginner in bbPress.

Thank you.

[quasiamodo]

Same Problem … but not a question of databases

just missing the file :

/bbpress/my-plugins/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/bbwp-sync.php

in your distribution, or not build

Suse Linux 11.1 userid etc ok 777 (even exagerated)

both config.php updated

WordPress “auth” cookie salt

and

WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt

and

WordPress “logged in” cookie salt

some problems on the relative WordPress page you can find just :

wpbb_secret_key

last version of wordpress installed

Please advice when you update your installation script

Best regards

Quasiamodo