I`m not seeing these files in my word press config file(below), I have installed the integration plugin for WP and gone to configure it. I have deleted my cookies in firefox, I do see them in my BB_press config file. I upgraded my WP to 2.8.6 & have installed the 1.0.2 version of bb-press.
WordPress bbPress
AUTH_KEY <=> BB_AUTH_KEY
SECURE_AUTH_KEY <=> BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY
LOGGED_IN_KEY <=> BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY
Also I have seen on the forum I should not use WWW in my urls, why is this & what should the format of the urls be, does this apply to all urls used in WP/BB press
Thanks
Cold in Canada
Thanks for your reply, just like you said Akismet has identified those posts as spam. I contacted the user and asked for a report and he replied that every time he tried to submit the topic he got an error message stating “no subject”, which is strange since all five posts had a subject(the same). I understand if Akismet reacts on five messages in a row with the same subject in a short time, but the real question is why bbPress presents an error message when a subject is both submitted and inserted? Lets hope this will not happen again 
Maybe a one time error?
Have a current, daily-visited board on a site that I am moving to a new webhost….. where I want to use a different format. There are almost 1400 posts/threads on the current board. Can we import them into bbPress? Need info please.
I went live with my bbpress forum a few days ago. Today I noticed five topics with identical name and author in the admin panel, topics that does not show up in the forum. When filtering topics those are not visible using the normal flag, the only way I can see them is with no filtering (all). Did a lookup in the database and they all have topic_status=2.
Anyone having a clue?
Thanks
/Erik
I have a new bbpress installation. When a new user registers, no email is received by them, so they have no password and cannot login. I’m not sure how to proceed in figuring this out…
Any suggestions?
I find that Buddypress does not add any members blogs that existed before I installed Buddypress.
For example, if you go to Members > User > Blogs (http://example.com/members/example_user/blogs/ … does it show a pre-existing blog, or does it say something like, ‘this user has not made a blog yet’?
Thanks
I have a tutorial for that coming online on my series WP as CMS on my blog – http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/11/wordpress-cms-series/
I will be demonstarting how to do it without deep integration. You might want to check that out if you are comfortable with code and love to do it yourself 
The best thing that could happen with bbPress is having _ck_ on the dev team. I am a freelancer web developer who uses WordPress & bbPress to power sites. So xHTML/CSS & PHP is my cup of tea. Getting close to being proficient in PHP. I would like to develop more plugins for bbPress (3 tiny ones so far)
There was this plugin, but it was for up to 0.9
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/terms-of-service/
You could probably do a little javascript validation to be sure they tick the box before the submit button is even clickable.
I just did a new install of bbpress at: http://angerwise.com/forums. The whole thing is off center, and I have to use my bottom left to right scoll to see the whole page.
Any suggestions?
yeah im stupid. can anyone tell im a newb
I am trying to get members to agree to the terms and conditions by ticking at a checkbox before he can be logged in. Can someone tell me how to do this in the login-form.php? I added a few lines of code after the password label and before the <input name=”re” type=”hidden” value=”<?php echo $re; ?>” /> in the login-form.php of my template but not sure how to do the check if member tick on the checkbox when he click on the submit button.
<label>
<input name=”terms_of_service” type=”checkbox” id=”terms_of_service” value=”agree” style=”vertical-align:middle;width:1.40em;height:1.40em; margin-top:4px;” />
<font size=’1′><?php _e(‘I agree to the Terms & Conditions’); ?></font>
</label>
Is there a better way of doing this by using a simple plugin? I am new to bbpress and not good at programming.
Thank you in advance
i upgraded bbpress and converted wordpress to MU, then added buddypress on top. i didn’t run into any major issues, but then again, i made sure to back up before i made any major changes to the database, so a few disasters were avoided that way
“the latest forum posts on the right hand side are visable on your wordpress pages. Was this achieved by calling bbpress header after wp header?”
no, it’s a plugin called bbpress latest discussions.
i dislike unhelpful meanies who hang around on techy forums, and i don’t mean to be one of them, but you honestly need to search the forum (and google) because the answers are out there! if you don’t do the research you’re going to waste time on things that have been done for you already.
just migrating my wordpress+bbpress install to MU+buddypress+bbpress took me around 30 hours. that’s not including the initial setup of wordpress+bbpress, or the re-theming of template files to acommodate the upgrade. most of that 30 hours was spent searching google for plugins and hacks and reading around.
thanks for the compliments on my site. believe me, i am not a coder, i am just persistent!
@r-a-y – Is _ck_ “she”???
When installing bbpress (for wordpress integration) i changed the bbpress url to /forum instead of /bbpress (they say there guess is usually correct, but you can change if you like) not realising that i would screw everything up by doing so. Now when i try to login to bbpress i get a big 404 error. I can manually replace /forum with /bbpress and it sort of works, but when i try to login i reverts back to /forum/whatever and i get the error again. How do i change this back to /bbpress so everything works? I looked in config.php, and setting.php but could not find the path or whatever it is that i need to change.
http://plocaclimbing.com/bbpress/
Thanks for the quick response, i’m looking at just transfer of the posts to WordPress not just synchronizing.
Are you trying to synchronize posts between the two, so that you can continue the discussion in the forum? If so, you can use the plugin found here: http://bobrik.name/code/wordpress/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/ Or are you just trying to transfer from bbPress into WordPress completely?
Has anyone been successful in transfering data/posts from BB Press to WordPress. Infact I had a PHPBB3 and wanted to convert to WordPress, and I found a script and was successful in transferring the whole to BB Press, but finally I would want it to be on Word Press. Can someone plz help me out.
Funny thing is that is what I’m planning on delving into next. I’m new to bbPress but decided to try it out because I was familiar with WordPress. I don’t have any formal training in code, I’ve pretty much just learned by piecing things together and seeing if they work.
Back to my original train of thought, I’m planning on implementing something like queries, which I think is what you mean by loop of topics. I was actually browsing around the forums looking for ways to pull related topics together not by keywords but by relation to forums. I plan on putting this within the topics template to display similar topics to members. Will definitely be looking for help on that one as I’m sure it won’t be as easy to implement as in WordPress.
I was planning on using <?php if (in_category() ): ?>, that is what I used in WordPress to pull similar posts together. However I’m wondering if this approach is possible in bbPress because I’m not sure if there is such a thing as in_category. I guess this will be another thing to get into. Will check back after I take a much needed rest. Thanks again.
You beat me to it Glad you figured it out. Just to clarify, what I mean was you need to pass the proper topic ID depending on what you are doing. In this case, you are using get_topic_id(), which will get the current topic ID being worked on based on the global topic object. In other cases, you may be within a loop of topics, in which case you would need to use something along the lines of $topic->topic_id, depending on your topic object name. This will start to make more sense as you progress within php and bbPress. Until then, don’t be afraid to ask questions for help, everyone has to learn somehow.
Well I am back to square 0.8. As of this morning I was on bbPress 1.0.2, but now I am back to 0.9.0.4. It is at least working again. I think it must have something to do with the bb-config.php file. If I load up 1.0.2 and keep the old config file (as instructed) it tells me that my usernames do not exist (admin, etc.). If I pull everything (including the same bb-config.php file) from my backup and switch back to 0.9.0.4 everything is fine. I did notice that everything in the newer versions of wp and bb refers to the four different keys, whereas my config file for bb has only the “SECRET” key. In the old version it talks about WP integration using just the one key.
Any ideas on how I should proceed? Also I see many mentions on clearing out the wp and bb cookies, but I don’t understand how to do that and can’t find it in the forum.
Sorry, I missed the discussion of this topic, I am not a developer and so excuse me if I have this wrong … but can I underline what seems to be a missing element across the board of WP/BB/BP products …
an integrated search facility.
so that a search at the main portal recovers searches from ALL blogs, user pages, forum posts etc.
I say ‘main portal at least’ but I would have a filtered choice at every search bar, e.g. ‘just this user’ versus ‘whole site’.
Without an integrated search facility, without being able to find related content, it is pointless and frustrating. One may as well have a series of unrelated domain names with bespoke softwares and depend on Google. If the whole WP/BB/BP thing is about building community then those communities have to be linked. Without linking there is no community.
I am a great fan of the WP conceptual approach and am desperate to use and have BBpress work. I have been wasting weeks of my life trying repeatedly to make it all work together. It does not at present and it is deeply depressing.
It looks to me that it all needs to be integrated into one single application with the choice to switch on or off parts. That would also allow for the other big omission to be more easily addressed …
multi-linguality
Let us not forget that English language users are actually a minority and help up to make our communities multi-racial.
@nickaster: A couple of questions to help out diagnose this.
When you say deactivating does nothing, does that mean that new posts after deactivating still show the slash, or are you referring to old posts? The reason I ask this is that old posts may have stored the slash in the db, in which case the plugins may not affect this. Try deactivating the plugins and creating a new post to see if the slash is still there / appears in the new post.
What version of bbPress are you using?
Are there any other plugins you are using, or only those 3?
Are your plugins up to date?
