Yeah, I had the same problem when I updated to the most recent version of BBpress until I noticed this post over at https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/avatar-upload/
transom wrote
To get Avatar tab in the profile working under Alpha-2 –
edit avatar-upload.php in the bbpress root
change line 7 from
bb_auth(); // logged in?
to
bb_auth(‘logged_in’); // logged in?
It worked like a charm for me.
I was able to resolve the problem and get it working thanks to my sloppiness.
The problem was created when I generated the four keys. I simply copied and pasted them to the wp-config file and the bb-config file. However, the defined keys are different in each file. For the wp-config file the auth key is defined as AUTH_KEY. Whereas, in the bb-config file it is defined as BB_AUTH_KEY. Once I put the BB_ prefix in for the four keys in the bb-config file it worked.
I do have the two programs working without the bbpress plugin.
I still have it setup as separate databases. The users are shared by defining it in the bbPress WordPress integration page by checking the “Show advanced database settings” and input your database information.
Thanks for your help.
On to the next step — Theme Integration!
@grassrootspa – I’m not sure why they did it that way… I guess so that you could restore the post if you wanted. WordPress doesn’t have a comments trash – if you delete a comment, the comment is gone. I think blog posts work the same way too.
So I guess the two systems work somewhat differently? That’s not the only difference either – WordPress also has a “moderated comments” layer in addition to the Akismet Spam layer, but bbPress only has the Akismet Spam layer. Dunno why bbPress doesn’t have a moderated layer either… maybe because bbPress doesn’t (yet) easily enable anonymous comments, so spam isn’t as huge a problem as it is in WordPress.
but you use bbpress in a subdomain ?
thanks, yes, load the environment it’s simple, but i’d bbpress quickly
Hi
Just uploaded the bbpress files to a folder I called /forum
went to mysite/forum/index.php and got this odd error report:
Secure Connection Failed
‘mysite.co.uk’ uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for web34.secure-secure.co.uk
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
Im lost here – any ideas?
Thanks
I think the script is one of those rare ones that works only with 1.0.
There’s no official support for permanent deletion of posts, but it’s a fairly often requested feature:
http://www.google.com/search?q=permanently+delete+post+site%3Abbpress.org
The only clean solution for now is to do it through phpMyAdmin?
Thanks for help. I’m using bbpress 0.9.0.2 any idea if this script works with that? I guess I can always do a backup and try it anyways.
There’s no official support for this… but someone wrote a script a while ago to unofficially pull this off for 1.0:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permanently-deleting-topocs-and-posts
I haven’t tested it though and it hasn’t been packaged as a plugin. If you try it out, definitely backup your database first – and test carefully!
It looks like my bb_posts table is growing out of control in size. As I was browsing I noticed most of the posts in it are spam/bozo/deleted posts that do not actually even show up on the forum. It looks like bbpress is really good at moderating spam and blocking bozo posts, but how do I delete all those posts from my bb_posts table?
You probably need to look into this wordpress file wp-includescapabilities.php and mimic that function in bbPress or alternatively load WP environment and use it. I would recommend avoiding the latter option due to performance issues.
Hope that helps! 
@Marcomail
I have successfully integrated them without a plugin as per my tutorial in the 2nd post.
i have wp 2.8 and bbP 1.0 and without cookie integration plugin on wordpress i couldn’t access to bb-admin after the login in wordpress…if you use only the bb press login it’s not necessary, but if you use login on wordpress, like me, it’s necessary
user category, for example contributor, administrator, author….bbpress have the corrispective, but i’d create a new user category in wordpress
Now bbPress 1.0.1 is available for download in Italian at: http://www.wordpressmu-it.it/downloads/
There are 2 package, the only localization files and the full package with the bbPress files and the localization files.
Ora bbPress 1.0.1 e’ disponibile al download in Italiano su: http://www.wordpressmu-it.it/downloads/
Ci sono 2 pacchetti, solo i file di localizzazione e il pacchetto completo con i files di bbPress ed i files per la traduzione.
No plugin is needed for integrating WP2.8 with bbP1.0 and no need of playing with COOKIES setting too if you have bbP in a sub-directory.
no, i’m not loading bbpress on a wordpress page…i’ve created an identical theme for bbpress
have you intasllaed the plugin in wordpress for cookie integration ? And after this, have you modify the wp-config.php in the wordpress root folder with the COOKIE_DOMAIN and COOKIEPATH ?
I didn’t get it. Are you loading bbPress on a WordPress page? In any case, WP functions can be accessed on WP pages. Please elaborate.
I didn’t get it. If you are not using the same databases, then how come the users are being shared? Are you sure on this?
Ashfame,
Thanks for replying. Here’s some more details that might resolve the problem after reading your tutorial.
I have WordPress and bbPress installed on separate databases. I know bbPress is connecting to the WP user tables because when I add a user I see it added on the bbPress side.
I did not change the default table prefixs for WordPress or bbPress per your tutorial.
On the bbPress WordPress Integration page I have all the fields filled out except the following:
– secure auth cookie salt
– WP MU Primary blog ID
– User database “user” table
– User database “user meta” table
Let me know if think the above items maybe the cause. Thanks.
yes, but i’m not using wp-blog-header…i have integrated bbpress in the layout without using the WP environment loaded
sorry but my english is very bad
can anybody please help me..
Do you know i could check in bbpress if a user is in a specific wordpress user category ? I must create a new user category in wordpress, and i’d use this in bbpress.
for example
if user_id in category=example_category
make this…
else
I integrated my site the other day. Here’s a few things that helped me when developing my bbPress theme.
1. Point its CSS to the corresponding WP themes CSS so that there’s a common stylesheet between them. For example: http://mysite.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/style.css
2. Do the same thing with images. For example in your bbPress theme use http://mysite.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/image/image.jpg
3. As mentioned above you will need to duplicate content from WP theme. I find that if I cram everything before the forum content into header.php and everything after into footer.php it clears up the rest of the bbPress templates for me to modify as I wish.
Hope this helps.
You can see what I did for my site here: http://tiptaptip.com and http://tiptaptip.com/forum
