[dustin999]

Hey guys! Just wanted to get some feedback on my newly redesigned deals and coupons site, bargainjack.com. I’m using wordpress, coupled with a lot of customization/plugins, as well as BBPress for all of my forums. I’ve even integrated feedback on each product/deal landing page which goes directly to bbpress.

Please let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions!

Thanks,

Dustin

[johnhiler]

Are you installing bbPress as a plugin in a WordPress site? That would trigger an error like the one you reported…

[marjolein]

Nope, they don’t work….. Anyone has this themes online yet?

[masonictraveler]

I am attempting to install bbpress as a forum for an already existing site thechinaboxer.com. Essentially, I want to integrate it into the site itself. When I do the .zip install, it goes through the motion of intallation, completing the process, but when I hit activate, it flips to a blank screen that says:

The plugin does not have a valid header.

Any ideas or suggestions on what I’m missing or on what’s not installing right?

[Mark]

@olaf, muchos appreciado senor, but I’ve already written my own workaround. Just more of a suggestion based on situations I’ve ran into, something to consider as a future feature to make it easier for those who aren’t at home with PHP.

The problem with simply truncating such a thing is you could wind up with a front page description of something like “The following forum is a good place to…” or something of the sort. I’ve looked at a lot of other bbPress sites in the last couple of months, and they all seem to be fairly out of the box setups, so I’m not so sure this is really widely being sought out, just something that would be fairly easy to implement and might aid in future scalability of bbPress installations.

[gerikg]

part 1. This will work in BBpress only: <?php if ( !in_array( bb_get_location(), array( 'login-page', 'register-page' ) ) ) login_form(); ?> put that in the header.php I’m not sure how to do it in WP to make it work.

part 2. edit the logged-in.php in your bb theme

[nada122]

I have bbpress integrated with my wordpress… and I’m trying to have a register link and log in with username and password box at the top of my homepage like this: http://www.thefrozencake.com/wp-content/themes/urbanelements/images/Picture%201.png next to my logo above my navigation here: http://www.thefrozencake.com/wp-content/themes/urbanelements/images/Picture%202.png

I also want it to say Logged In | (view profile page) when a user is logged in. And I want the register link to take the user to a register page that I create (with more than just username/password.) I only want people to log in when they want to post to the forum, but they can leave comments on posts and read all they want.

How do I go about coding that and where? As you can tell, I’m definitely new to the php thing and learning as I go along. Any help would be great!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I explained this on my blog some time back – http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/09/show-content-logged-in-status-users-bbpress/

[AphelionZ]

I need to create a few urls from my forum root at /community like so:

/community/forums/ – shows just a simple list of all forums

/community/leaderboards/ -custom functionality

/community/achievements/ – more custom functionality

It’s easy enough to achieve this with a query string and if statements in front-page.php, but I’m trying to use .htaccess to achieve this like so:

RewriteRule ^forums/$ index.php?view=forums [L,QSA]

I was getting the bbpress 404 page until I drilled down into bb-admin/functions.bb-core.php and changed line 667 from

$issue_404 = true;

to

$issue_404 = false

It worked fine but I’m not comfortable changing the core code like that, as it’s indicitave that I’m doing something wrong – but what exactly? What should I change about my approach to get the page to serve correctly?

[adrianomelobbpress]

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

[snails07]

When somebody visits my bbpress forum http://storeeboard.com , they are presented with the login form at the top of the page. Once they login, the form disappears and what appears is the ‘Welcome, *username* | Logout’ information.

My question is, how do I get other text on the page to ‘disappear’ once somebody has logged in.

I have a ‘Sign Up’ link on the page that I would like to disappear once a user logs in.

My php skills aren’t all that great but I know my way around xhtml and css.

[Gautam]

Now you can download the plugin from here:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/ajaxed-chat/

The above download link for beta version is now dead.

[gerikg]

what are they user level in bbpress?

you might need to use this: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wpmu-enable-bbpress-capabilities/

[Mark]

Just an idea for the future, I wonder if it wouldn’t be an idea to have a seperate ‘excerpt’ and ‘description’ for forums.

A lot of existing bbPress forums, including my own, have chosen to display a list of forums in the sidebar of their template. For this to remain readable and uncluttered, you pretty much have to include a 10 word or less description (give or take).

Now while I realize this is our choice to do it this way and it’s also in no way a limitation of bbPress, it might be a welcome addition to have the two fields. This way on our forum list we could use the excerpt, and on the forum page itself call a much more detailed description (especially when you’re running support forums or the like).

Anybody else?

[chandersbs]

The down part of that plugin is, that you can’t add custom titles/description for topics.

[chandersbs]

WordPress + bbPress is not always easy, but sometimes, unavoidable…

[copperblade]

I still have a phpBB2 forum I need to convert over… does this script work on the current versions of bbPress?

[chandersbs]

I think webmasters that run a forum, and wanna have “normal” pages for information, should look for a different way, for creating single pages with a reply form, integrating with WordPress is not a good thing IMO.

The reason why I’m saying this is, is that WordPress is under a constant development, but bbPress not, atleast that’s what I read. If WordPress gets updated and bbPress doesn’t and if that breaks the integration, you’ll be stuck on that for a while for support.

[boone-g]

r-a-y, you’re a lifesaver. I was having the same problem (and pounding my head against the wall) until I found this post. Thanks.

[chrishajer]

I thought bbPress just added to the count the number of times a tag was used. If it’s a duplicate, the tag just becomes more popular, and grows in size in the tag cloud. Are you talking about something else?

[InvTrdr]

Does bbPress have the ability to weed out duplicate tags just in case they might be submitted by two or more users again?

Thanks.

[gerikg]

Josef, take out in wp-config

/**bbpress integration **/

define('USER_COOKIE', 'wordpressuser');

define('PASS_COOKIE', 'wordpresspass');

define('COOKIEPATH', $base);

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.thisissite2.com'); // same as bbPress

and bb-config

$bb->wp_home = 'http://thisissite2.com/';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://thisissite2.com/';



// Integrating with mu

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.thisissite2.com'; // leading . allows subdomain sharing

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser'; // WPMU doesn't hash cookies

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass'; // WPMU doesn't hash cookies

Use this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

If you’re using MU you will get 4 lines, cookiehash, cookie_domain, sitecookiepath, and cookiepath.

get the information from there and put it right AFTER this line in wp-config

* @package WordPress

*/

then paste only cookie_domain, sitecookiepath, and cookiepath in bb-config file. leave out cookiehash right after

* @package bbPress

*/

Then get new keys, use this link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt it has 8 keys put it in both like you did before. Don’t forget the BB_ prefix in bb-config.

Clear your cache and cookies. Give it a try. if that doesn’t work then look in your BB dashboard and check your settings on wordpress integration. make sure if you left out “www” in wordpressd to leave it out on bbpress.

[01020230302]

I have two requirements I want to inact with my BBPress. I am unable to figure out how so any help would be greatly appreciated.

1. I want only members logged in to post threads on the forum. Now anyone can.

2. No one is able to make a reply to a post. How can I allow this, and follow the requirement of #1 where the user needs to be registered to do so?

[gerikg]

The integration wasn’t hard. I found only one theme that I wasn’t able to make look like wordpress because it was a complex WP theme to begin with, one with many WP header options. BBpress stand alone is great but if you have a site already and you looking for a forum for just help, like this one. Right now if you click on EXTEND, you will have to login again. It can get annoying especially when you don’t understand that this is more than one “software” working at one site. If your site is a forum site great. If your site is not a forum site, like THIS ONE. The forum is just for help. Plus, with WP you can create multiple pages, gallery, forms, etc etc.

[raumgleiter]

Hi,

With the help of a lot of posts about this topic on this forum I was able to come to a point where I have useres between Wp and BB integrated and I also started the deep integration of WP template and BB press on a test site here:

http://www.itouchaudio.com/forum

I added code to my bbpress config to be able to call wordpress functions. Then I copied over the Wp header.php from my wordpress theme into the bbpress theme folder (hope that was right). Now what you see on the above link is the result so far. still got quite a bit of problems I guess. The CSS of the forum seems to be not available so ….

I am wondering this: What do i do with the CSS files… At the moment I am loading the CSS file from wordpress theme but also the CSS file from the bb press theme…. Of course that doesn’t work 100% as you can see but what should i do? How can you have the CSS for both the Wp and BB theme integrated to work together?

BTW: In case this is important I am using the bbpress forum theme (the one that mimics the look of the bbpress forum, the one right here).

I know this goes a bit already into a CSS problem, not specifically BB press anymore but I was hoping some of you might be able to point me into the right direction looking at what I got so far.

Thanks for any help.