Oops, just 2 mins after posting I found a list of BBpress functions, featuring is_bb_admin()
Well, hope this monologue will be helpful to other developers 
Hello folks.
I am quite experienced in WP plugin development, but I am new to bbpress.
I am trying to port a WP plugin of mine to bbpress.
The first thing I need to do is to detect whether the loaded page is in the admin are or not. IN WP I’d use is_admin(). I naïvely tried it in BBpress, no luck.
Any suggestion?
Cheers,
Davide
This doesn’t seem to be working for me, all users seem to be assigned a default profile from my wordpress sync plugin. They are assessed as anonymous for some reason and given a specific profile from that plugin.
Is it possible to add the entire contents of the wrapper in the stock theme “Kakumei” in the navigation bar above it? Will removing the wrapper do it or something else needs to be done too? Click on http://www.invictatrader.com/bbpress to see the nav bar and wrapper.
Thank you.
The bbpress forum is more active than a year ago, so I think it’s time for a clear word about the future of bbpress.
Same (the lead developer on bbPress) has left the parent company of bbPress.
More here:
I have indeed left Automattic. I decided it was time to move on and pursue some of my own ideas and other interests.
I won’t have much time to contribute to bbPress now and I can’t report who is going to be taking over from me or if anyone is even being sought for the role.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/thanks-for-everything-sam#post-58402
We’ve received no word as to who will replace him (or if anyone will replace him). I’m hoping that Automattic will clarify things on that front soon… it’s been a month or so since Sam announced his departure.
So to come back to your original question: nobody knows when or if the next version of bbPress will come out!
Guys, it’s november soon, what about update?
Anyway Thank you for your work.
Thanks Alekseo. Yeah, that was a workaround I was trying to avoid since this is for a client. I did find the solution here though: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/
Worked like a charm!
I’ve been looking the code for a while, I’m not that familiar with bbPress yet, but i’d really like this feature so I’ll keep an eye on this.
Sign out. Then log in from your forum instead of logging in from wordpress.
You might want to check my other thread about this. (I had the same problem)
For some reason, whenever I try to access the bbPress admin area directly I get redirected back to the front page. I do have WP and BB integrated, but if you log in from WP, BB recognizes your login fine. Everything works except trying to access the admin area; I have to log out and then log back in using BB’s log in form. Any ideas? (yes, the user has admin-level access)
This worked in 0.9 to fix issues with admin access… hopefully it works in 1.0 as well!
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/
Hello everyone. I am working on integrating a forum with my WordPress blog, and everything was going fine. Until I finished the install, and started working on the integration settings in the admin panel. In the section where it asks you to input the WordPress database prefix (I think it was to get the proper user tables), I put wp_ which is the prefix for my WordPress blog. Now, it doesn’t matter which account I log in with, I still cannot find the Admin link in the header. I’ve logged in both with my WordPress blog admin account, and my bbPress account. I’ve checked in the mySQL database, and my bbPress account still has the permission to access the admin panel, but I cannot see a link. It simply shows “Welcome, Legacyblade | Log Out”
Normally in these situations, I’d just uninstall and reinstall, but I’m not sure what Word Press tables were modified, and don’t want to mess up my blog. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@johnhiler
Thanks for the help.
I definitely like the potential of this plugin.
The whole idea is that it helps lower the barrier of user interaction on the forums.
Thanks again.
P.S. – I posted a comment on the developer of the plug-in personal forum site: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/forum/topic/bbpress-login-free-posting-doesnt-work-if-you-are-logged-in
@johnhiler
I just installed the Login Free Posting plug-in on my v1.0.2 bbpress forum and it works without problems if you’re not logged in but it doesn’t work if you are logged in.
If you are not already logged in, it works as expected displaying a “name”, “email”, “website” and “comment” fields for a user to post a comment without having to log in.
However, if you are logged in – it still displays all 4 fields (when it seems like the only field it should really display is the “comment”) and you CANNOT post.
You receive the following error after you click “submit” comment button (when logged in):
Error is “Your attempt to submit this post has failed.”
Sorry for the confusion – I just meant that Akismet is a plugin, so as long as the plugin is activated… it should do a decent job of filtering spam.
I dunno if the Human Test plugin works well with “login free posting”, but it has an option to add a math problem to the topic/post posting form:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/
@johnhiler
Thanks for the link.
Looks like this doesn’t work with bbPress v1.0.2 per a comment on the plug-in page by a user named “hpguru”.
I haven’t tested this, but this plugin was just posted recently:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/login-free-posting/
I know this is old but I needed it to, so here is the answer for anyone else finding this on google:
1) Open bb-includes/functions.bb-meta.php
2) Find this line:
case 'url':
$option = 'uri';
3) After it, add:
case 'uri':
return "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/forum/";
break;
Replace the “/forum/” part with the proper URL to your forums. For example
http://blah.com/bbpress/
would be:
return "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/bbpress/";
So both Alekseo and Kawauso can both log in on the bbPress side and it’s fine, the problem exists only when logged in at WordPress?
Don’t put it in the same folder. It doesn’t work well. The subdomain solution is fine.
I just realized another easy solution (not that pimpin tho, sadly) when viewing the thread where people show off their forums. To install the forum on a subdomain. then it would look like http://forums.hi.com/forum/off-topic.
Is it possible to install bbPress in the same folder as WordPress or have anyone tried? I have seen alot of people trying to remove the extra /forum url that appears in bbPress. This really seems like the obvious solution and like it’s what it’s coded for initially. I only fear that it’s too easy and straight forward that it won’t work
Yes. Then it just redirects back to the bbPress core directory. Works fine when i sign in from the forums tho.
