[gravitydk]

Ashfame, if you check the purpose of that plugin, it’s for cookies to work both ways seamlessly; so it’s “native” for database but I don’t think it’s native yet for all cookies.

[piedpiper21]

Okay, let me rephrase. I want to install my forum on roadtoanimation.com/forums/

When I upload the forums to the /forums directory, I can install bbPress. However, during the installation it insists that the link be roadtoanimation.com/forums/bbpress/. If I try to modify the address during installation, I get the Page Not Found error later on.

How can I install it so that my forums appear on roadtoanimation.com/forums/ ?

Edit: Yes Chrishajer, I followed that earlier on. The problem is that the assigned URL becomes roadtoanimation.com/forums/bbscript. How do I remove that /bbscript from it?

[chrishajer]

At your web host, you already installed WordPress. So, if you’re using FTP, download bbPress to your desktop, then unzip it. It will be unzipped into a folder called bbpress. Rename that to forums on your desktop. Now, upload that whole folder to your web host, putting it into the same place where the folders wp-content, wp-includes and wp-admin are right now. If you do a directory listing there, you will have these directories now:

forums

wp-admin

wp-content

wp-includes

Now, go to http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/ and you should see your forum installation. If you’ve already started the installation in another directory, you might need to get rid of some tables in the database.

[Josh Leuze]

Thanks for the tip incirus, I’ll check that out.

Yeah there is something about the minimalism of bbPress that I find very liberating!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

To have forums in sub-directory, upload the bbPress folder to your root, rename it and then install. You should be fine this way.

[piedpiper21]

Installation Done. But forum doesn’t show up!

I’m facing exactly the same problem as he is. That is, I get a Page Not Found error when I access the link I told it to install to. I would like my forums to be installed at http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/, but bbpress seems to insist I install on /forums/bbpress.

He says that renaming his installation folder (this is the bbpress folder that you upload right?) worked for him. However, I’ve tried different ways of applying that with no results.

1. I tried installing it in /forums and then renamed the directory after installing.

2. I tried installing it in /bbpress and then put in the forum link as roadtoanimation.com/forums/ in Step 3.

Any ideas?

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Both the scripts will be loaded on each page call. That’s surely an overhead one would wanna avoid.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@driftless1

I keep saying that because I have done it without the plugin. I don’t get the point of using anything else when they support integration natively.

[piedpiper21]

Correct me if i’m wrong, but is downloading my database, deleting the bb_ tables and uploading it back again the only way to remove the bbpress tables from my database?

Isn’t there a way to access my database through FTP?

[hercafe]

Looking for someone who is fluent with bbpress installation / integration.

I need pretty simple forum integration in my blog.

Will pay a small fee for the help.

Contact me on webmaster[at]hercafe.net

[mmcomber]

Thanks, that’s all I needed to know. I don’t use bb_ prefix for any other tables. And I don’t need to keep posts that were in bbpress.

Appreciate the help!

Marty

[Rohan Kapoor]

It may say that yes but how slow is wordpress is loading anyways? If you are on a site that already has wordpress installed you may as well load it on the forums just for the benefits that it had.

[Rohan Kapoor]

You could also upgrade to 1.0.1 which is much easier to integrate and install.

[Rohan Kapoor]

Glad to hear you were able to solve it!

[Rohan Kapoor]

Ok. You need to use FPT to go to the location where you have wordpress installed. There you upload the files and rename the folder bbpress to whatever you want to call it.

If you are having trouble with this. Please email me, rohan [at] rohan-kapoor.com and I shall help you by installing it for you.

[anandasama]

I recently tried the different Bb quote Plugins that exists but neither of them fit my taste in a WYSIWYG environment.

I wanted a plugin with javascript that can multiquote, and quote small parts without reload, and insert to a Wysiwyg environment.

Then I remembered that the “quote-comments” plugin in WordPress works even with TinyMCE,

so I copied it over to bbpress and modified it so it would call the bbpress functions instead of wordpress.

Needed to change some calls to the post_content instead of comments too..

It works fine for me now, but the only problem is that I can’t use the quote link from another page than the form itself. So If Im in a thread with 2 pages, the first page won’t redirect me to the form of the last page.

Somehow I need to make a link with the quote info to get saved (somehow?) and then called into the javascript function.

As im not the best at PhP / javascript maybe some of you here can help me.

I managed so the PHP outputs the necessary info for the javascript to grab. But problem is how to call it from another page with a link to the last page with the form.

1. First I need to make a Php function that outputs a different link if im not on the same page as the form. Alright but how do I send it to the last page and how do I call the javascript from the last page?

I put the files into the my-plugins folder with a folder called quote-comments

Here is the PHP file (It gets outputed below the post) :

quote-comments.php

http://pastebin.com/f6743a79c

2. As you can see the javascript gets called from the Link, so I need to call it in another way when it’s redirected to the last page.

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Here is the JS file:

quote-comments.js

http://pastebin.com/f74d57ac5

Mark that the addQuote function ISNT used if you use TinyMCE and I set to use TinyMCE = true in the php file.

As im not so good at php im kind of lost here. But it would be nice to make it all work and clean it up and make a plugin out of it.

[Perry]

Thank you _ck_ I manually added a forum to the database and now it works fine.

[incirus]

well, I used excel. here is the dummy script for excel

trim(cell)

replace blank, and all other unwanted characters with the underscore

create your sql and you are good to go

I couldnt find the perfect converter but I am so happy that I convert to bbPress.

simplicity is the poetry

[_ck_]

I’ve now made a plugin to do a few kinds of fast recounting much faster than bbPress does it and with only a few queries vs the hundreds or thousands bbPress can do.

I highly recommend you backup your database first since I’ve only barely tested it (in theory if it went wrong you could do the recount the long way via the regular functions)

http://bbshowcase.org/plugins/fast-recount.zip

The new recount selections will appear under the regular recount menu.

DO NOT use this plugin under bbPress 1.0, it’s assumes bbPress 0.9 table structures.

[onel0ve]

cant delete permanently post?

and how to take database on 1.0.1 bbpress

[chrishajer]

Let’s say I have a WordPress site. I don’t want it to be http://www.example.com/wordpress/ – maybe I want it at http://www.example.com or maybe http://www.example.com/blog/. Making WordPress the root of your site is easy, and I think you’ve already done that.

To mask bbpress, just rename the folder to something other than the default when it’s unzipped of bbpress. Call it ‘forums’ or ‘discussions’. If you rename the bbpress folder before you start, you don’t need to change anything later. If you’ve already installed it, then there are a couple config hoops to jump through to move it.

You could also do a subdomain installation, like forums.example.com and not even show that it’s in a subdirectory at all. Then just map that subdomain to the directory where you’ve installed bbPress on the server. No need for directories at all in the URI/URL.

Masking is pretty silly, since one look at the source (if you even need to go that far, for WordPress and bbPress) will give away the secret (wp- and bb- anyone?) If you’re just trying to remain application-neutral, then I agree that this is worth doing (i.e. let’s say you want to use punBB or something later. If you used /forums for your bbPress installation, you can retain /forums and just install punBB in there.)

[_ck_]

The way bbPress does recounts is horribly bad to this very day, even in 1.0

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1146

It does a separate query for every topic instead of doing it all internally via mysql.

Be sure to only do one kind of recount per attempt, don’t check them all on an active forum or you’ll make your mysql cry and your php timeout.

I might have to try to write the special mysql query for you.

[_ck_]

John pointed out something interesting.

even though bbPress 0.9 doesn’t use bb_meta, there still could be corrupt bb_options, which would be topic 0 in the bb_topic_meta table in your database.

You are getting the poll error from your template because the plugin doesn’t exist anymore and the function is missing.

If you have phpmyadmin you can inspect under bb_topic_meta, meta_key active_plugins

In theory you could delete that and then you’d have to reactivate all your plugins.

(I would backup the db first)

[QuickD]

I am using Bbpress 0.9.0.4

[Sam Bauers]

@Rohan

I don’t think that is what teamamy is asking for.

@teamamy

I think we need more explanation of exactly what you are trying to achieve in your final setup.