[mazzhe]

I made the same mistake. It would be a great idea to indicate “You must choose a NEW admin, that doen’t exist yet” at this point of the installation.

I fixed it by reinstalling bbpress but I needed to clean the database first :

– I removed the bb-config.php file

– I looked into the database (using the hosting service tools) and removed all the tables starting with bb_

– then I started back the installation.

I guess you can do it another way, without reinstalling : the problem is that you have bbpress installed without any administrator. You can define one manually in the database (using the hosting service tools) :

– the table wp_users contains the users (I integrated bbp and wp, else I suppose there should be a bb_users, but then we shouldn’t have this error…)

have a look at it and remember the ID of the user you want to put keymaster (for me, it’s 1)

– the table wp_usermeta contains some values about the users.

add a new line containing :

* umeta_id : a non-used umeta_id

* user_id : the ID of the user (1 for me)

* meta_key : bb_capabilities

* meta_value : a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;} (I don’t know what it means)

– then try to connect to your forum and look if you can administrate it !

Can someone says if it works ?

[Duke]

Hello, I have a working translation for bbPress 1.0.2, and Im having the topic_time() issue too.

It doesnt translate into my local language, even though months, days etc, are translated in the lang file.

When I use _e(‘something to translate’) everything is fine, but calling directly topic_time() doesnt translate anything.

How do I wrap topic_time() into _e() ? or… what is the correct way to translate time?

[eclipsenow]

For me, this is why I’d love to see a BBpress version that came with “Everything in it out of the box”, and another version that functioned identically, but was a PLUG IN for WPMU. Oh, I’d like to see WP have MU support in the core, so that one could just “tick a box” and it would be in.

In other words, I’m looking for a COMPLETE social forum portal that one can just plug in and it works.

As far as I can tell, only SMF + various Portal plug ins do that. I haven’t made a choice yet, because I love wordpress.. and the *look* here of BBpress forums is interesting. I’m just not a skilled enough hacker to get all the bits to fit together properly, and threads like this only confirm the confusion to non-hard-core developers, who have all probably gone with Expression Engine anyway.

[slobizman]

Thank you very much for your response. I would be integrating (I assume that’s what I’d do if I wanted to have WP users be able to use the same login as the blog users) the two.

Sounds rather messy.

[tiny-1]

I found the offending code that I added in my BBconfig file in order to pull the same header as the rest of the site.

here’s the offending code:

if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

else

if (file_exists(‘../../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../../wp-blog-header.php’);

which is place at the end like so:

/**

* bbPress Database Table prefix.

*

* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique

* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

*/

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;

/**

* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.

*

* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen

* language must be installed to a directory called “my-languages” in the root

* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to “my-languages” and set

* BB_LANG to ‘de’ to enable German language support.

*/

define( ‘BB_LANG’, ” );

$bb->WP_BB = true;

if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

else

if (file_exists(‘../../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../../wp-blog-header.php’);

?>

anything glaringly wrong with this?

[Ryan Hellyer]

If you don’t integrate the users database then bbPress will only be installed in it’s own section of the database, or it could have an entirely separate database so if you do it that way then it’s just a matter of deleting the bbPress specific bits.

If you integrate the user tables then the two sets of users will be merged and removing the bbPress added users could be quite time consuming if you have many forum users. I assume (not 100% sure here) that the only way to remove them would be to manually remove them or to rebuild the WP ones from scratch.

[johnhiler]

Wish I could help – I don’t know how IIRF ISAPI stuff work!

If you want to use bbPress and don’t know much about rewrites, your best best is probably to switch to an Apache server. Then everything should “just work”! (At least, that’s the hope.)

[slobizman]

I run a WP install and would like to try bbpress. But my question is, after trying it, should I decide to uninstall it, doe sit leave behind much debris in the WP database? Or does it use it’s own database or set of tables without disturbing the WP database?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

bbPress does use cookies. Go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy and click on ‘Remove individual cookies’

In there, search for your URL.

[pikatore]

correction: trying to view cookies. bbpress doesn’t even use cookies.

[pikatore]

anyone know how to change the label on the tab ‘Avatar’ to something like ‘Picture’ without screwing up the entire plugin? A simple change of that word screws up the plugin.

[Mohit Kumar]

p /p br br/ tags showing up in bbpress as well as buddypress groups

integrated everything well,but this is a bug how can i fix it

[yangers101]

Hi Markus,

Thanks for the tips. I followed the steps outlined in the above string, and I tried new cookies, but it’s still not working. I’ve pasted this code in the bb-config.php $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true; too and it’s still not working. Any more ideas? I appreciate the help.

[pikatore]

i’ve always had 1.0, but it is still creating read only directories in ftp! and i can’t delete or modify them in ftp with the domain name account!

[anandasama]

I use Buddypress+bbpress and in the topic or post view I want to make a link from a post author in BbPress forums to the /members/ area in Buddypress.

Basically I just need to write a static url :

http://www.homepage.com/members/<?php get nice_username from post author ?>

How I can echo the post author’s nice_username? I need the “nice_username” or else, with post_author_name the link gets broken.

Please help me!

[maxbmx]

What about queries, php etc.

[johnhiler]

Hey collmonster – it’s definitely possible to change this. This plugin should do the trick.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/

You can also increase your chances of making it through any spam algorithms if you’re using an SMTP mailer:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/smtp-mailer-for-bbpress/

Good luck!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

bbPress isn’t a plugin. It should have been installed in the http://www.mydomain.com/forum directory. You should move it there and then remove that bb->uri setting.

Any integration from WP to BB may need to be re-set at this point (just changing the locations etc).

[Anonymous User]

Hi yangers101,

i migrate my wordpress & bbpress installation yesterday to wordpress mu & bbpress. After the migration i have also problems with the cookie integration. The same problems i have 2 months ago for the normal cookie integration.

This article about the integration of buddypress, wpmu and bbpress helps me a lot:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/30/integrating-buddypress-10-wpmu-and-bbpress

For me – it was necessary to try new secret cookie keys. I changed all keyphrase in wp-config und bb-config:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘keyphrase’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘keyphrase’);

Greets

Markus

[Ryan Hellyer]

Any tips on the best way to create <b>bbPress</b> theme options pages? Any example themes out there?

[Ryan Hellyer]

According to _ck_ bbPress is faster. According to Sam phpBB is “probably” faster in some situations, in others bbPress is faster. In most situations I’d assume bbPress would load paages faster simply because it generally has a lot less to do, both content wise (less features = less HTML/CSS) and processing wise. The only way to tell would be to bench test two identical setups, but I haven’t heard of anyone doing that before.

In most practical situations I doubt the performance issues are a real issue though. The way you code your theme will probably have more effect on page load times than anything in the backend.

This is all just guess work though.

[Olaf Lederer]

The registration works like for wordpress, the user can change the password afterwards.

If you change this function bbpress will not work with wordpress

[kraig]

I think bbpress is relatively faster when compared to phpbb.

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[collmonster]

Hello,

I installed bbpress and its working great. One thing though. I think its better if the user picks their password at the beginning, currently a random one is generated adn then the user has to change it which is a pain for some. Is it possible to change this?

Also, when I registered a second account for myself, the registration email went into my gmail spam folder! I hope this does not happen with my users as they will give up!

Thanks

[Olaf Lederer]

I think you can’t compare both forums, bbpress is still in an early stadium.

bbpress is very cool because it’s very easy to combine bbpress with wordpress (and buddypress)

EDIT: and bbpress is more spamproof (at least for me)