I have problem in displaying utf8 characters from wp_usermeta. My bbPress 0.9 installation is integrated with WordPress 2.7 and uses wp_users and wp_usermeta tables from WordPress.
I use this hack to display information about user that is stored in WordPress built-in fields like first_name and last_name on profiles page. Also I use bb_get_usermeta function to print that data below username on topic page.
As you can see in this screenshot, wp_usermeta uses utf8_general_ci and on this screenshot you can see that values are correctly saved in fields. But on bbPress pages those utf8 characters are not displayed correctly. Also on profile editing page in bbPress, those characters are also nnot displayed correctly.
Finally, on topic page, you can see that utf8 from usermeta is also not displayed correctly.
Note that my registration is handled through WordPress since I redirect bbPress registration page to WordPress one, and on WordPress users fill their profile info, where everything is shown normally.
Also to note that utf8 characters in topic titles and posts are displayed correctly.
One strange thing I spotted is that if user edit it’s profile on bbPress profile editing page, and replace those question marks with correct characters, after that those characters would display normally on bbPress.
So my question is why is this happening and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance
When I first switched on Gravatars, and selected a gravatar from gravatar.com, things looked great.
Until I tried to change it a few days ago. I uploaded a new one and selected it, but BBPress insists on showing the old gravatar! I’ve even gone so far as to delete my original gravatar from gravatar.com; it still shows the old one! What’s going on??
I have a bbPress install which is sharing user tables and cookies with WordPress.
I’m trying to create a link in bbPress which will allow my users to log out using the WordPress logout page, To do this I think I need to make a nonce in bbPress which WordPress will recognise. So far my attempts have failed. I’ve aligned the salts, hashes and keys in wp-config.php and bb-config.php.
Any suggestions?
resolved hadn’t had to delete my wordpress install but have to check whether the integration works or not 
well it is due to the keys character support may not be the problem but keys surely are because of
1. wrong defining of salt key
2. mismatch of keys
had defined secure auth key salt longer than the secure auth key cookie and wordpress LOGGED IN salt was not matching the bbPress LOGGED IN salt cookie, this wasn’t the root but wrong definition might have been.
advice:
while filling up these keys be patient and double check them.
i am currently facing Fatal error: Call to undefined function in almost every file virtually 
that i think is due to functions integration with wordpress
this all is due to this little function:
require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);
https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/
thanks for the help
Announcements would be READ ONLY forums, not Hidden Forums.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/
You can also just post a topic and close it so regular users can’t reply.
Thank you SO much! I went in and just deleted all tables that started with bb_ then I was able to reinstall my forum.
Woot!
Well, I deep integrate most sites I end up installing so the page makes sense as a link to the forums,
Your problem is the bbpress database tables. you can directly change the bb_optionmeta table to show the changes to the new location. That should fix it. Also delete your .htaccess fiel.
bbPress 1.0 and WordPress 2.8.2
It’s not the database in the bb-config.php file that changed. It was the Worpress 2.8.2 database that got migrated.
https://trac.bbpress.org/ is pretty neat. Thanks for that.
well what happened at :
http://www.atcv.net/
it is up and running!!!!!
did you reinstalled wordpress? and bbPress??
well i am facing similar problem i used wordpress 2.8.2 and bbpress 1.0.2,
similar error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /……./wp-blog-header.php on line 18
it has shifted to line 18 because i did functions integration
https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/
earlier bbPress was running but not the wordpress, after doing this Functions integration bbPress too started showing a warning about this require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); and a fatal error.
but then i removed the function require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); and now i have bbPress up and running, earlier there was a SECURE AUTH cookie salt mismatch which i changed, but i didn’t solve the problem with wordpress install, earlier while installing bbPress, i checked wordpress config file it had three cookie keys and salts weren’t there so i defined 70 letter long strings with the characters
1,2,3…0
a,b,c…z
A,B,C…Z
!@#$%^&*()_+=-:”‘;<>?/.,
true wordpress keys don’t have these special characters
could these be the cause of the problem?
or filling in a wrong key at installtion process could have done it,
i don’t think defining a new salt key could have initiated all this
i have two wordpress MU installs and bbPress works well with them.
why problems with standard wordpress maybe character support?????????
So my bbpress is broken, and I don’t know how to fix it.
I built my site with wordpress in a sub directory. I integrated my bbpress with my wordpress and it worked great!
Then I decided that I wanted my URL to look like its own domain, instead of a subdomain. My wordpress went from being
brandonmdennis.com/oxhorn
to
oxhorn.com
I saved my pagelinks and presto, everything is snazzy. I went to check my forum, however, and it was broken. My forum was missing, but I still saw the admin section. So no sweat, I logged into the dashboard and proceeded to change the URL in settings from
brandonmdennis.com/oxhorn/forum
to
oxhorn.com/forum
Thinking that this would solve the issue. I clicked update, and got to an “oops! page not found” screen. But now I can’t even log into my bbpress install dashboard. Everything I do now sends me to an “oops” error page.
I tried uninstalling bbpress by removing the folder and removing the wordpress bbpress integration plugin. I tried doing a new, clean installation of bbpress, but when I get to step two I see the message “Woops! Looks like you already have bbpress installed” and it wont let me go further. I even tried installing it in a different subdirectory and got the same problem. My questions are:
1) How do I re-install bbpress?
2) Is there some code I need to remove from my wordpress installation?
3) How do I re-integrate my bbpress with wordpress so that they share the same database? I had it working splendidly until I changed my WordPress domain name.
WordPress site:
oxhorn.com
Bbpress installation:
brandonmdennis.com/oxhorn/forums
Thanks all!
Then you can create a PAGE in wordpress called Forums and it will link to the forums folder automatically.
That entirely depends on your permalink structure. You shouldn’t need to make a page for ‘forums’ at all, if WP is set up correctly, even as a subfolder under the main wordpress folder. I never do
You’re not snoooping around enough. bbPress development is still occuring, just on a much smaller scale than WordPress. In the past couple months we’ve had a couple alpha version of 1.0, a 1.0 release, 1.0.1 release, 1.0.2 release, 0.9.0.6 release and a new theme at bbpress.org.
You can always watch for activity here:
https://trac.bbpress.org/
Or subscribe to the bbDev mailing list if you really want the nuts and bolts:
https://lists.bbpress.org/mailman/listinfo/bbdev
What versions of bbPress and WordPress did you integrate?
Need a little more information. What software did you integrate bbPress with? Is the warning a browser security warning or warning from that software? Can you post a URL?
Some progress. According to my geek, it seems the installation process reset a variable showing all posts as unpublished. He reinstalled WordPress and did some tweaking of the modifications bbPress did to the database, so now at least we have the archive back and all the old posts are visible. The front page seems to be working as well.
However, I still can’t publish any new posts.
We’re working on it.
I figured it out. I had access to the server logs, but they were still returning 200 ok and looked fine. After disabling plugins, it looks like WP-reCAPTCHA was conflicting with bbpress’s reCAPTCHA. I should have realized that, haha.
Hi everyone,
I just want to know how to integrate bbpress with other CMS like Frog CMS, Jaws ,Concrete 5 etc.,
I mean I want installation steps ( although I love WP but still want to know how to install bbpress with other simple CMS that are available)
don’t works with google translate http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=ru&u=
works only at main page
So Godaddy(my host) updated/migrated all of their databases recently and now my forum at http://www.redvets.com/forum gives me this error:
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘p50mysql77.secureserver.net’ (4) in /home/content/m/i/k/mikeumus/html/redvets.com/forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 123
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_die() in /home/content/m/i/k/mikeumus/html/redvets.com/forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 614
and the same error when I try to access the back end at: http://www.redvets.com/forum/bb-admin
Now http://www.redvets.com/forum/bb-login will successfully open the login page, fully rendered with no errors, but I believe that is because this page has nothing to do with integration or the databases.
Is there a way I may be able to tell the database directly through PHPmyAdmin that the database name has changed?
Also, why does it feel like all developement for bbPress has died? Is this just my comparing it to Worpress or am I just not snooping around this bbPress.org enough?
Hello friends.
I am using WordPress since lst 2 year has I must say it just AWSOME. I have just installed bbpress a week back just wondering that bbpress has many thing missing as a complete forum.
1. Moderator. Any user post a topic it must not be published without activation by moderator. I tried the plugin”moderator suite” but its nt working.
2. Number of view: Each post in the forum must display the number of times it has been read. I Could not find any suitable plugin for this.
If I am wrong some where, please guide me for the same
Hello, i need to use current page link for some code, how to get it from bbpress?
bb_uri(); returns main page link, but i need to get link where is user now.
it’s possible?
bbpress 1.0.2
thank you
upd1: found after 1 min: <?php bb_location(); ?> don’t works (returns only current name of page, etc: topic-page, forum)
I have bbPress running for a class reunion program but some users are having trouble loging on after registering.
“I had a password sent, but when I tried to log on, message was that I had to send message from non secure site? and would not accept. Thanks.”
What can I do to fix this?