Which user system do you want to use… bbPress’ user system? Or another CMS’s?
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I See everybody is busy in integrating bbpress and WP.
I think too many people are confusing the new theme look for THIS WEBSITE (bbpress.org) with the bbPress software
bbpress.ORG is not bbPress 1.0, the first is this website, the latter is the software program
Sam is showing how THIS WEBSITE will look soon, the new theme.
It has nothing to do with bbPress 1.0 (except that of course this website is for support of bbPress 1.0)
Figured out what was going on! I had a hardcoded navigation link in my wordpress header to direct users to the forum (I know, bad habit). It had “www.” when the rest of the side is www-free. Deleting the www. seems to have fixed the issue.
So, if you’re integrating and are having trouble, hopefully this post will be helpful to you. Below, I’ll list what I’m running and what plugins I have in case that helps.
WordPress 2.8.3 installed at webroot, linux server with php5. Shared database between BBPress and WordPress. BBpress 1.0.2 installed in forums subdir.
WP Plugins related to BBpress
– bbPress Integration Version 1.0 | By Michael Adams and Sam Bauers (plus manual cookie info from this plugin put into WP config file)
– WordPress-bbPress syncronization Version 0.7.7 | By Ivan Babrou
BBpress plugins (all, because I enabled some others and then things started not working again)
– Akismet
– bbPress-WordPress syncronization Version 0.7.7 | By Ivan Babrou
– Hot Tags Plus Version 0.0.2 | By _ck_
Right now I don’t have _ck_’s Fix Admin Access plugin on the server, but I’ve used it a few times.
Hi BB peeps!
I have WordPress 2.8.3 and BBpress 1.0.2. (Before people get on my case for having upgraded the software and blah blah, I went through a painful upgrade BECAUSE the chatter in the forum indicated that WordPress 2.8 was needed to integrate better with BBpress and that it would have “native” cookie integration. Whatevs. So, let’s make that a mute point.)
They are pretty well integrated (you can have a look here: http://www.planningpool.com). What I’m finding is that I have a problem and when I fix it, it creates a second problem, and when I fix that I get the first problem again.
To explain better, most of the time the user can log into WordPress and then is not logged into BBpress when they click on “forums.” But, if the forums are opened in a new window, they are logged into it…?!? I’ve cleared my cookie cache and used various users and computers, and it does this every time. So, when I fix this issue by adding cookie info into my WP config file and deactivating Michael Adams’ BBPress Integration plugin, I get the second problem.
The second problem is that the user can log into WordPress or BBpress and be logged into both, but the user can’t access the BBpress “admin” panel or press the “logout” link. When either of these links is clicked, the page refreshes and nothing happens. So, to fix this, I reactivate Michael Adam’s BBPress Integration plugin and upload _ck_’s “fix admin access”. But now, the logout button in BBpress does not work.
So, to fix that problem, I delete fix admin access from the server, and things work great for about 30 seconds. Then, when I go to the wordpress site and then back to forums, I’m back where I started: I’m logged in on wordpress, but not logged in on BBpress.
Strange, huh? Any ideas? I’m thinking I’m going to uninstall and reinstall the integration plugins and try again
It looks hot!
maybe at least a month – as target release? 
I was planning on moving from phpbb3 to bbPress 1.0
but maybe it will be better to wait now …
Love it. Similar but different. I also love the icons, as it is “bee bee Press” after all. Plus, if we’re going to over think this, Bee’s and hives represent a colony, and forums are basically the same thing; a colony of users.
Or, maybe you guys just love sweet, sweet honey… Just a bunch of Pooh Bear’s surrounded by empty glass jars hoping Matt will send another shipment this month to keep you motivated.
DennisH, it sounds to me like you want BuddyPress + bbPress + WordPress. If you’re not using all three, then you’re really not going to get what you want.
Also, if phpBB just has too MANY features, you could trim some of phpBB’s code out, no different than you can add code to any *Press product.
It also is a relatively new concept (Within 1 year) of having all of these platforms working in unison together. BuddyPress has taken giant strides towards providing a personality to the users on your site, to give your bbPress users profiles and information beyond the basics.
Regarding the “promise” of integration, it’s possible to do within a few minutes, with integrated logins, profile info, etc… The major difference is that you can’t expect it to look like a typical forum is going to look, at least not at its current stage of development.
When you consider that phpBB is 3.0.5, and it stayed in the 2.0 branch for over 7 years, apply that logic to bbPress that JUST turned 1.0 a month ago… There’s still LOTS that can be done, but for now bbPress is a stable and powerful product that is a developers dream platform for forum software to start with. You can mold and shape it to handle just about any task (wait until you see what BuddyPress is going to do with it 
)
Long story short, I’m sorry you’re disappointed at the moment, but I’m willing to bet you won’t always be. If you need something besides bbPress right now, no one’s feelings are hurt, but my suggestion to you would be to make friendly with it now so you can be better prepared to use it later, when it better meets your expectations.
@Ipstenu
I’m trying to have a central signon at my site, where users must sign onto WP first and access bbPress via a page link. The logic you’ve provided looks like it can be incorporated to include the bbPress login page, is this correct?
Also, I’m waiting for the revised Admin SSL plugin to be published for WP. This should allow be to secure the WP site and hopefully the bbPress. Are there any other backdoors or pages users can directly access from the outside that may need redirection?
Wow! The future bbPress looks incredible. Fantastic work Sam!
Is there a planned target date set for it?
Simon,
Looks to me like the code in wp and bbpress says you need NONCE_KEY in wp and BB_NONCE_KEY in bbpress to match. Then the salts BB_NONCE_SALT and NONCE_SALT have to match. If the salts don’t exist, wp and bbpress generate random ones. Of course they will not match.
@Ipstenu: Deep Integration worked nearly out of the box for me on BuddyPress. I don’t do it on WP because really I don’t need it when I can easily reproduce my theme for bbPress. But still, no hacks were needed, just a tweak of the bb-config.php and some jiggering of a theme. Took me all of an afternoon.
We have lots of glitter text and animated gifs of unicorns on our site so it may take more than a afternoon.
@Ipstenu: Gravatar works fine.
Gravatars are great for some sites, but I was looking for more of a custom solution. I think customizing their profile even if it’s just a avatar gives members a sense of belonging and therefor more likely to comeback.
I have mydomain.com
My bbpress is at
mydomain.com/bbpress
but I use a subdomain
forums.mydomain.com which redirects on it.
I put an .htaccess file inside /bbpress with this content
Redirect 301 /register.php http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=register
Redirect 301 /bb-reset-password.php http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
But it does nothing. Chmodd is 755.
I try too with
Redirect 301 /bbpress/...
and
Redirect 301 (no start slashes)
and it does not work either.
Any idea ?
Thanks !
Any idea ?
I’m talking about having to hack almost every bbpress php file to include the wp header and footer or having to hack the config files.
Deep Integration worked nearly out of the box for me on BuddyPress. I don’t do it on WP because really I don’t need it when I can easily reproduce my theme for bbPress. But still, no hacks were needed, just a tweak of the bb-config.php and some jiggering of a theme. Took me all of an afternoon.
As far as Avatars I’m using the wp-united on the live site (phpbb avatars). For BB I have not found a solution yet that will work or integrate into both BB and WP.
Gravatar works fine.
You have the WordPress plugin for bbPress installed?
Risking putting my foot in my mouth again but…
modifying _ck_’s plugin here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-remove-the-posters-ip-address-from-the-post-display#post-55575 (thanks, Ipsentu) will probably do the trick.
At this point I’ll take 1 out of 3.
I’m not talking about plugins. I’m talking about having to hack almost every bbpress php file to include the wp header and footer or having to hack the config files.
The phpbb solution at the time (a year ago)was a HUGE F@#*ING HACK, but now that phpbb has a automod (or whatever they are calling it) it’s basically as easy as a plugin.
I’m not looking for the login form (I’m building a lightbox for that), I’m talking about:
“Welcome, _ck_ ! View your profile (Admin | Log Out) 5 New Private Messages”
As far as Avatars I’m using the wp-united on the live site (phpbb avatars). For BB I have not found a solution yet that will work or integrate into both BB and WP.
Got this problem too and it doesn”t change anything when I re save the role map…
With #1.0.2.
“Easy integration with your blog” <- if that’s the biggest problem you have with what bbpress promises, you are doing great. I actually have a problem with two of the three words in the upper right hand corner of every page on bbpress.org due to 1.0
Why is it hard to put a bbpress login box in wp? Pull up the bbpress login page in your browser, view the source and copy everything between <form... </form> and paste it into WP wherever you’d like and add a little bit of PHP code to detect if the user is logged in or not to offer them the form. 10 minutes tops.
What are you using now for avatars in WP?
Plugins are not hacks. Hacks are when you hack the core.
Is the phpbb solution a clean copy of phpbb with plugins or is it’s core heavily hacked, hence cannot keep up with upgrades/security fixes easily?
Buddypress group forums run on bbpress. Besides, wp-united hooks into more than the user table.
I would hope that Automattic would at the very least see where there is user demand and make some effort to fulfill that demand. After all it’s their users a developers that are responsible for their huge success. I guess I can understand them feeling that we give you the software for free so you shouldn’t complain, but those users/developers create, extend, promote and for the most part supply customers service for them.
Nevertheless, statements like this can lead to the wrong impression:
Easy integration with your blog
WordPress and bbPress are siblings, and they get along together a lot better than you and your brother did when you were kids!
I don’t think I’m alone in this. Just look at your tags.
We have been able to pull off much of what I described here. We have integrated bbpress into our theme. We have converted phpbb forums posts and users and have integrated them. We have been able to list new posts in WP. We have been able to do about 75% of what we need so far. Avatars are still a issue. And I can’t see why it’s so hard to put a bbpress login box in WP.
So its not that much of this can’t be done. I just fear with so many hacks it could be trouble down the road.
As far as I know, bbPress adds no special abilities or requirements to BuddyPress, it’s simply able to use the usertable directly, so you in theory should be able to use your phpbb solution with BuddyPress too.
You have to understand bbPress was never designed originally to deeply integrate into WordPress, only use the user-table. Deep integration was an afterthought – years after it was originally released and a mish-mash of legacy was established. Matt had a 180 degree turnaround on that process with bbPress 1.0 being rewritten to use BackPress instead. If WordPress ever is redesigned to use BackPress itself (don’t hold your breath, it could be years) deep integration could be even easier and much lighter weight.
I’m not saying this to be mean or unfair, but very simply, if you don’t like something you see in bbPress 1.0, don’t adopt it now thinking it will change sometime soon, it won’t and you’ll only be very disappointed. bbPress development is quite obviously NOT developed around user requests, it’s developed around Automattic requirements. It’s the exact same thing for WordPress and nothing new policy-wise. Everything else is left to plugin developers.
That said, I would stop using bbPress in heartbeat if they started throwing in many of the features that people are demanding be included as built in. I already have a big enough problem with many of the hardcoded “features” already.
Hi all
I’m looking into creating a kind of online consultation system using bbPress. The idea is that the body doing the consultation will create the topics which they would like people to give their views on/discuss, but they don’t want users to be able to create topics themselves.
So, there’ll be a few subforums (one each for a project) and within them a few threads, say up to 10, each being a question or topic within the project that views are sought on.
Here’s an example of the kind of thing I’d like to create: http://talklaw.co.nz/topic/are-you-being-watched
(alas the software used for that site costs £14,000 and we’d like to do is F/OSS if possible!)
Does this sound reasonably easy to set up with bbPress?
@_ck_: So are you using that phpbb3 integration?
If it works so well, I am curious why you are here?
It does work well.
There are several reasons I’m here.
First, although it has been recently taken over and updated that mod was abandoned for over a year by its creator . During the period it was MIA we where locked in and it was very had to upgrade to new versions of WordPress. It wasn’t compatible with 2.6. All that has changed recently and upgrading and installing is much easier. But, even though it is “under new management” I didn’t want to be held hostage by one developer.
Second, I wanted a lighter site. Phpbb is great but it can be overkill sometimes.
Third, at some point in the future we want to move to Buddypress. I thought moving to bbpress would get us ready for that next step.
Forth, we are adding about 500 new members each month so if we where unable to move those users and posts it was better to start over now rather than later.
Fifth, Although phpbb was well integrated in terms of users and themes there was still a sense of 2 different sites. I was hoping that because bbpress was made by the same people as WP we could better integrate both style and function.
I knew going into this that WP-United was currently a better option, but I was willing to overlook those smaller details in order to be with a platform that would grow with us. Now my fear is that bbpress will grow in the wrong direction (if at all).
PS
I want to thank you personally. Your contributions are a main reason we decided to give this a try… and continue to try.
PSS
The reason I bring up WP-Untied is not because I want people to drop bbpress for phpbb. I bring it up as and example of what bbpress could be or at least inspiration for new plugins.
Thanks. Sorry, that was my typo.
I have ‘define( ‘BB_LANG’, ‘ja’);’. The language files are installed and they are recognized.
I am trying to build in dual language support for the 1.0.1.
Its seems that neither bbPress Language Switcher by _ck_ nor User Languages by alex work on v.1.
Does anyone know if there is a work around for this?
Manually, I can define either, say, ‘ja’ or ‘en_US’ … but it does not seem possible to do any switching at all, either via user admin or Switcher bar.
I really am sorry to discover this as I was looking for dual language WordPress/bbPress integration and to be free of the bloated phpBB for ever.
Thank you.
I confirm that after converting from phpbb 3.0.4 to bbpres 1.0.1 the user passwords don`t work anymore..
