Quick update: after upgrading from 0.8.3 to 0.9.0.5, upgrading from 0.9.0.5 to 1.0.1 in a second step went smoothly. Except for:
– The “New bbPress installation” email message still had “Please give me a name!” in the from field.
– The first time I went to the upgraded forum it had “Please give me a name!” in the header where the name should be. After I logged in as keymaster this fixed itself.
I just tried to upgrade a 0.8.3 forum to 1.0.1. I am experimenting, so I did the following:
– Created a copy of my production forum db (didn’t turn off plugins or anything first) – call it “DBCOPY”
– Copied the 1.0.1 bbPress files to a domain I use to stage upgrades – call it “stage.com”
– Browse to “stage.com/forum”
The first strange thing was that after the first step in the upgrade process I checked “bb-config.php” and BBDB_NAME was *not* what I specified in the form. Somehow the upgrade process had found a previous bbPress database that I had associated with stage.com and used that instead (!). This seemed so strange that I repeated the entire process, with the same result.
I manually set the DB to the correct name, and then the upgrade then appeared to complete without a hitch, but…
1. When I browsed to “stage.com/forum” I see the message “Could not determine site URI”
2. The “New bbPress installation” email message has “Please give me a name!” in the from field
I then started from scratch with bbPress 0.9.0.5 and everything went as expected. Upgrade completed flawlessly.
Is upgrade from 0.8.3 not supported? I don’t see that written anywhere. If bbPress is really overriding my BBDB_NAME specification then this is a pretty serious bug.
I’ve noticed that when I’m commenting on bbpress.org, there’s also a “tags” field.
Does that allow me to tag the topic itself? Or just my individual post? Or maybe the goal is to encourage commenters to help tag the topic?
Wondering if this is a new option or if it’s always been there but just off by default (it doesn’t show up on my 0.9 installs). I worry that it would be slightly confusing for new users… but thought I’d check what everyone else thought!
I have a site with a wordpress/bbpress integration using a modified Atahualpa/Kakumei theme. My wordpress is version 2.8.1 & my bbpress is version 0.9.0.5. and it all works fine.
I want to upgrade to the latest version of bbpress( version 1.0.1 ) but when I tested it I get backslashes before any single or double quotes no matter where I’m at in bbpress. It happens in topic titles, topic contents, when putting in the name for the site etc..
Both work fine with the integrated logins and cookies. The problem only comes after I’ve put my reference to wp-blog-header.php in the bb-config.php file.
I could do the hack that was suggested earlier but the downfall to that is that you won’t be able to have backslashes at all in anything.
I’m thinking maybe the problem is that bbpress is using wordpress’s apply_filters function instead of its own, but that is a guess.
Anyone got any ideas?
Oh and besides the bbpress-integration plugin in wordpress i’m not using anything else on the test I did.
I have switched off all plugins except the following:
Allow Images 0.7.1
BBCode Buttons Toolbar 0.0.9
BBCode Lite 1.0.3
bbPress Smilies 0.0.8
Human Test 0.9.2
I haven’t had a problem for 24 hours. Will slowly switch on plugins until I do.
Yah it’s a bug with 1.0… chrishajer reported it to trac recently:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1139
You can manually change the permissions for now… and hopefully it will be fixed in future releases!
Bummer, I took a closer look at the YAF forum thread, and it’s actually to convert from phpBB to YetAnotherForum…
Anyone else have any other wild ideas?
Hi,
I did not see information on how to upgrade from 1.0-alpha-x to 1.01. Are there any problems? Someone already did this?
I’ve bbPress 1.0-alpha-2 with WP integration (v. 2.
SMS
Which version of bbPress are you using?
If you have phpMyAdmin access, then open the usermeta table (should be bb_capabilities if you are not using shared user tables and should be wp_capabilities if you are using shared tables) and change the value of bb_capabilities to a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;} for your user.
Hope that helps.
P.S. – Change the default table prefixes as your case may be.
@toosalty & @navjotjsingh
WordPress 2.8 integrates easily with bbPress 1.0
I just wrote a post today : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/07/integrate-bbpress-10-with-wordpress-28/
I will also be writing a post on how to upgrade existing integrated installations (most probably tomorrow morning). Let me know if you are facing any issue, I will try to help.
P.S. – No plugin is now needed for integration. 
@Ipstenu – thank you for the clarification regarding the upgrade!
About the recount issue, there was also Simple Onlinelist causing the conflict. If a recount is needed, it will work by deactivating it.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/recount-errors
Fistly excuse my english ….
Hi, i have integrated bbpress inside my wordpress installing on the same database.
The problem is that i have made all the integration except the user relation, so now i can logon like admin user on bbpress but i can’t change nothing 
it seems to be a normal user
Can i do manually (changing the database) to assign admin user as administrator ????
Loving the addition of Voices into the core. Just figured out how to display them 
Well _ck_’s excellent Hidden Forums plugin will get you started. Let me know if you need help with the Custom Role plugin. Or if you’re using bbPress 1.0, there’s a Role Manager plugin that should do the trick!
You can make a view to filter just about any way you want. Just bypass the proprietary internal bbPress query system and make your own mysql query. Study the My Views plugin set to see how it’s done.
I may have to start doing it manually, then either adapt an existing plugin, or get my head around it myself at a later stage. They’re really banging on about it at work right now as a must have ASAP feature. It’s all about the monies!
The standard version of approve user registration does not work in V1. This may be breaking registration.
There’s an updated version of this plugin here: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/page/2/#post-3902
I’ve got V1.0.1 working great with that and human test. But if you’ve tested with the plugins disabled I can’t really offer anymore help. Sorry.
For anyone interested, I’ve got the Approve User Registration plugin working for V1. With the help of _ck_ of course (big thanks!). There’s more work to do on it, but for now it works…
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/page/2/#post-3902
You could do that with a third plugin for sure. I haven’t automated it because rebilling through Paypal is a pain… so I have someone manage it manually.
I think WordPress MU has a plugin that does something similar. Maybe you could adapt that?
Have you looked into automating the procedure at all with the PayPal recurring payments system? I was thinking about creating a separate ‘advanced’ roles table, which WP and bbP check to see if that user should have access to certain content.
This table would log the user ID and keep the callback from PayPal, and when their time was set to expire so they would lose access should they cancel their auto renew payments.
Is it possible you have lost the proper integration and WP is making one cookie name and bbPress is making the other?
This isn’t BuddyPress-specific.
You can accomplish changes for the title, meta keywords, and description with a bbPress plugin or custom bbPress code.
I answered this in your post on the BuddyPress forums:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/group-forums-meta-data
I also can’t login to both installs simultaneously. I am using WordPress 2.9 rare and BBPress 1.0.1 version. Please help.
Hi there,
I’m using bbpress with buddypress. Its great but there is no meta data:
1. Page title is simply the name of the forum for evey topic in that forum
2. No meta description.
3. No meta keywords
I found this post http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-bbpress-seo-friendly where chrishajer and _ck_ show how to insert keywords in to a bbpress topic. But does anyone know how I can get this working for bbpress when it is integrated with buddypress?
It would be great to have topic title=page title, first post in topic=page description (perhaps limited to 255 characters) and tags=keywords (as above).
Does anyone know how this might be done?
Thanks a lot!
Here’s a plugin that allows you to restrict access – I use it together with a custom Role to run a premium pay-only forum for one of my sites:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/
But we have to handle the Paypal subscriptions manually… it’s a bit of a pain, but worth it of course!
