[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

If bbPress can’t find user data for someone who’s made a post, it marks them as Anonymous

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unexpected-anonymous-posts

[brightcoconut]

Cool; phpMyAdmin I can do.

So, I could probably upload that file into the same database as the WordPress install, right, since the prefixes are different? That would help integration immensely, if I’m not mistaken… and then configure bbPress to use WordPress’ user tables (which has been described before in many places)?

What happens then w/ the old bbPress users? Not that I actually care, much, if we’re using WordPress’ user tables… I guess I just don’t know what happens for the posts made by defunct users. Any advice there?

(and thanks again, everybody… this is supremely helpful.)

[Mark]

@adamkayce – you might want to look into an application called phpMyAdmin, it provides a visual interface for database interaction. From there you could easily export your original bb_ tables to an .sql dump file, and then simply reupload the file to the new database via import.

[Mark]

If your theme doesn’t already have a functions.php, you can create one and add that code to it – it will automatically be found and run by bbPress, and it’s a lot safer than adding it to the core code (next time you upgrade, it will overwrite).

1. bbPress doesn’t have signatures by default, so I’m guessing you’re using a plugin for this? If you are, hopefully the designer has added a filter which you can hook into, but we’d have to take a look at the specific plugin you’re using.

2. You should have a style.css file in your bb-templates/yourthemename/ directory. Find that file, and do a search for ‘textarea’. It should possibly be under ‘.postform textarea’ to be more specific. Look and see if there’s a font-size attribute there, and up the size.

[brightcoconut]

Great – so how do I do it?

[johnhiler]

That would greatly simplify the work involved!

[brightcoconut]

@gerikg – how do we import bbPress database info into an existing database? (I’m no database pro; I can find my way around phpmyadmin, though.) I’m totally familiar with the WordPress side of things, but not so much w/ bbPress.

@johnhiler – yeah, that might be okay… at this point, I think the client would be thrilled if I can pull off the phpBB › bbPress conversion and have a single login between WordPress and bbPress. If the existing forum info ends up being “archived”, so to speak – not associated with their current usernames – I think they’d be okay with that.

[johnhiler]

Is it critical that a user have their old phpbb posts tied to their new WordPress/bbPress identity? Is it ok if their old posts are tied to their old username?

[gerikg]

I would leave both databases and then import both information to new DB. I’m not sure if anyone has tried doing this.

OR

Import the BBpress info into a New Database. Then intergrate it with a fresh WP. WP’s info is exportable through the admin section you can try to export all the information (posts) and then inport it to the fresh install.

[brightcoconut]

How much overlap between your userbase is there… how many of the 115 WordPress users also have phpBB accounts?

All of them (except maybe one admin account). There won’t be anyone in WordPress who isn’t in bbPress.

The only ones with separate accounts might be the three admins, and they’d need to be the same across WP & bbP.

[johnhiler]

How much overlap between your userbase is there… how many of the 115 WordPress users also have phpBB accounts?

Also – if “Mister X” has two accounts (one on each system)… is it critical that the comments in WordPress and in bbPress be merged into the same account? Or would you be ok with having them be separate accounts…

[brightcoconut]

There are ~115 in WordPress, and even though there are ~400 in the old phpBB forum we’re about to bring over, we really only care about the current 115 (the ones in WP).

[johnhiler]

The latest WordPress is definitely the most secure, b/c Automattic has not released security patches for earlier versions. But bbPress 1.0 is not clearly more secure than 0.9 – in fact, because bbPress 1.0 uses BackPress, it’s possibly less secure. Plus 0.9 has been stable for a long time, while 1.0 is new and still has a fair number of bugs.

Integration is easiest when you share a user table. It’s possible to integrate bbPress with other software (WordPress, or even something else) without sharing a user table but it’s not easy and there are no publicly released plugins which allow it.

How many users do you have on your WordPress install?

[batrachoid]

The latest versions of wordpress and bbpress are the most secure and bbpress is designed to integrate with wp. The only possible advantage to keeping an older version of bbpress is the amount of plugins that have not been updated to ensure compatability (in other words, if you want a lot of plugins, stick with 0.9 until the ones you can’t live without are brought up to speed. My recommendation – upgrade now that you don’t have too many plugins to worry about).

If you’re going to upgrade bbpress, do it first.

Install wordpress and integrate with bbpress. Basic (shallow) integration eliminates the need for users to log in to each seperately.

[francesh]

Hi, I’m a total novice at this. Trying to set up a closed member only forum for a group. Will bbpress work for this? We currently have blog set up for group (irecee.wordpress.com) and want to add link in to access member forum from it. As we have no server for this site, I have uploaded bbpress to my org website (www.moldovavision.org) and hope to link from there. I have uploaded ok into new dir called ‘talk’. What now? I can’t access the weblink to activate it – tried http://moldovavision.org/index.php/talk which is returning an error code:

CGI Error

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

Confused. Can anyone help?

Thanks a mill

[johnhiler]

Ah the red X… the solution to that is mentioned in the comments of the plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/

[InvTrdr]

I am using the “Structure” theme with the header.php file code below. This is the link http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ to see the layout of the template. Just change the theme to “Structure” at the bottom of the page to see it. I am trying to change the links on top to different links pointing to my sites. Like “home”, “Example1″, Example2” etc. Where and how do I do it in the code below?

Thank you.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”&gt;

<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”&lt;?php bb_language_attributes(‘1.1’); ?>>

<head>

<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />

<title><?php bb_title() ?></title>

<?php

// Feed header

bb_feed_head();

// Get functions

require_once(bb_get_template(‘functions.php’));

op_script_loader();

// bbPress head function

bb_head();

?>

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>” type=”text/css” />

</head>

<body id=”<?php bb_location(); ?>”>

<div id=”body-container”>

<?php require_once(bb_get_template(‘main-nav.php’)); ?>

<div id=”header-container”>

<div id=”header”>

<h1>” title=”<?php bb_option(‘name’); ?>”><span><?php bb_option(‘name’); ?></span></h1>

</div>

</div>

<div id=”container”>

<div id=”<?php if(is_front()) echo “content”; else echo “forums”; ?>” class=”forums left”>

[brightcoconut]

Here’s the situation: I’m moving a membership site from an old static HTML site w/ a phpBB forum over to a WordPress install and a bbPress forum. The WordPress site is set up, users added, membership issues handled w/ the WishList Member plugin, and my phpBB › bbPress conversion questions have been answered; my questions are about integrating that newly converted bbPress w/ the WordPress.

• Is it possible to use WP 2.8.4 and bbPress 1.0.2, or should I stick with bbPress 0.9?
• Is there any way to integrate the two that would allow for a continuous login?
• And perhaps the biggest question is: how do I upload/merge the converted bbPress database with the existing WP database?
• And once that’s done, how to deal with the disparity of users in WP with the old bbPress?

One idea I have is to create a new bbPress install that’s integrated with WP, and then once the conversion of the old forum is complete, to try to import that data into the existing install. Would that make sense?

Or, is it possible to just have the two databases separate, but use plugins (assuming I’m sticking with 0.9) to create the continuous login? Is that even possible? How would that share user data?

So, what would you do if you were in my shoes? Thanks for all your help.

[batrachoid]

I’m a little confused by your post. When you say “activate the WP integration,” do you mean completed all the steps during your initial install to integrate bbpress with wordpress, or do you mean you activated the WP/bbPress integration plugin?

Were you able to access the dashboard before?

[circuit]

in wordpress’ admin screens, many author names are displayed in brackets or are entirely blank.

in the user profile area of the wordpress admin interface, these users appear to have a display name – but when checking phpmyadmin, i realise they actually have a blank display_name field in the wp_users table.

if i save their profile in wordpress (without touching anything), the display name is set again in the database and all is fine. if i then save their profile in bbpress, their display name disappears again.

this suggests that saving profiles via the bbpress profile page blanks out the display_name field.

could anyone suggest how i might go about tracking down the problem?

[Ivaylo Draganov]

well, I found out part of the solution myself. The code in the plugin is quite simple and it actually uses the same bbPress function that generates in-topic pagination (paginate_links).

And that function has several parameters on of which is show_all – set that to false and it will not print all the links but just the links relative to the current page.

Setting the current page for the plugin is also through a parameter – current which is set to 0. That way we get a link only to the last page but it still is better that having a long row of useless page links.

=Edit=

So, I cracked some more of it. I wanted to make it display links only to the firs page and to the last 2-3 pages. So the current parameter had to be somehow dynamically set to last page + 1 to trick the function. Here is the code I used (starting line 74 of the plugin):

$links = paginate_links(

array(

'base' => $uri,

'format' => bb_get_option('mod_rewrite') ? '/page/%#%' : '%#%',

'total' => ceil($posts/$perPage),

'current' => ceil($posts/$perPage) + 1,

'show_all' => false,

'type' => 'array'

)

);

And it works We get links to the first page and to the last two pages.

* if you set current to 1 you’ll get links to pages 2,3,4 and the last page which is also usable.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Unless I’m very mistaken, the bbPress.org website is just built around a WordPress / bbPress integration, so you could do something like that. There’s also bbPages which I’ve not used.

[Ivaylo Draganov]

Hey, anybody still using that plugin? I mean – anybody with a bbPress 0.9 install…

Because I’d like to know if someone can help me with a little improvement. The plugin works great except for that it shows all the pages for a topic. And certain topics have more that 20-30 pages!

So I wonder if it is not too hard to make that plugin display links only to the first page and the last 4-5 pages? Just like the default in-topic pagination.

I wonder if it is possible to port that functionality directly form bbPress 1.0?

Thanks

[gigas]

Hello,

I installed bbpress on my website, but I have this problem:

if I click on ‘ADD NEW TOPIC’ without logged in, the system give me back this error:

Warning: parse_url(/vdv/forum/bb-login.php?re=http://vitadivillaggio.it/vdv/forum/?new=1) [function.parse-url]: Unable to parse URL in /home/vitadivi/public_html/vdv/forum/bb-includes/functions.bb-core.php on line 596

can you help me, pls?

[Olaf Lederer]

bbpress is a forum software, the other links are custom and part of the bbpress website (or is your question related to promoting your own website?)