[Ryan Hellyer]

Hi,

I wrote a guest blog post over on WP Tavern today about why bbPress is good for SEO:

Why bbPress Is Good For SEO

Will be interesting to see if a trackback from here shows up on the post considering that is one of the points I made about it being good for SEO.

[circulartrend]

I know, I just heard the new one allows for users to update their usernames to anything they want, as many times as they want. Some see it as a problem, but alot of users want to change their names. It was convert from pmachine to bbpress and usernames got changed.

[_ck_]

As long as it’s not my server you are crashing by using too many resources, go for it

(won’t go over so well for users on shared hosts however)

[johnhiler]

Is it urgent to upgrade to bbPress 1.0? I’m still on 0.9 – with all my plugins, I’m not really gonna consider an upgrade until early next year.

If your bbPress is working and you’re happy with how things are going, then there’s no need to upgrade!

[circulartrend]

Hey there,

Currently running 0.9.4 of BBPress and the installation was from several months ago before the new update. However I would like to avoid having to update BBpress to the new version as mine is linked with Word Press. Would there be an issue if I upgraded BBPress with WP linked with it, without updating Word Press?

Anyway, the forum was originally a different forum and alot of users lost their original usernames and it defaulted to their original username. The users want to be able to change their usernames back to what they were before without loosing all the posts linked to them. So is the only way to do that to upgrade BBPress? or go in manually and change it in the database?? There are alot of users that need their names changed.

Thanks,

Adam

[johnhiler]

Are you using bbPress 1.0? The official release only works through 0.9… but _ck_ patched it for 1.0:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-anonymous-posting/page/2/#post-2275

[chawarong]

Hi,

I’ve installed bb-anonymous-posting version 2.2 today and as soon as I activate it I’ve got:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bb_anon_get_bb_post() (previously declared in /home/tanthaic/public_html/wp/bbpress/my-plugins/bb-anonymous-posting/bb-anonymous-posting.php:21) in /home/tanthaic/public_html/wp/bbpress/my-plugins/bb-anonymous-posting/bb-anonymous-posting.php on line 24

Does anyone see this error before? I check the file bb-anonymous-posting.php, but see only one bb_anon_get_bb_post().

[jchildrose]

That seemed to be the only way I could get the integration between multiple wp installs to work without needing to login in separately to each install. Unfortunately, wpmu wasn’t an option.

I guess I will try to modify the wp-config on the other sites to allow the salts to be autogenerated on the root site and modify them on the subdomains to see if I can get the same result. That should hopefully allow me to integrate bbpress as well

[johnhiler]

@shagalaga: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/username-list-for-each-voice

[johnhiler]

From Sam:

“Voices” count on topics reports the number of individuals participating in a conversation

https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/07/bbpress-1-0-final-finally-released/

[_ck_]

Actually, you do not want bbPress development to stop. It must continue to survive.

Even if it was feature frozen today I would not be addressing the problems for at least a month or two as bbPress does not pay the bills (there have only been 4 donations this year despite thousands of users of my plugins).

Simply keep using 0.9 for a few months, it’s very stable and reliable.

[swaymedia]

Please stop changing core code so CK can get all 60+ plugins to be compatible with the new version, please.

It is very frustration, now that WE have to wait till December (when ck updates he/shes plugins)..

this effectively renders the new version useless as the plugins are what makes bbpress.

thanks for your time and godbless xoxox

[csuer]

the theme of “bbpress.org” for v1.0.1?

I love this theme

[crios]

I integrated 2.8 & 1.0.1 and it seems to be working beautifully.

I created a walk through for myself (based off of the screencast), you can see it here. I thought I would post it here for anybody else that might want a set of typed instructions. Maybe this topic should be sticky or put a similar set of instructions on the documentation page?

1. Install WP 2.8 on domain, in this case http://example.com (I’m going to skip the WP install. I know how to do this.)

* database: exampledb

2. Open wp-config.php in a text editor.

3. Go to https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/ and copy the provided keys (the entire text).

4. Paste the copied keys into wp-config.php above the text “/* Stop editing */.”

5. Save wp-config.php to web host.

6. Install bbPress files into a subdirectory. In this case http://example.com/forum. (I’m going to skip the bbPress install. I know how to do this.)

7. Fill in step 1 of bbPress setup.

* database: exampledb (use same database as WP install.)

8. Step 2 of the bbPress install.

9. Check “Add integration settings.”

10. Check “Add cookie integration settings.”

11. Open wp-config.php again and copy and paste “AUTH_KEY” , “SECURE_AUTH_KEY” and “LOGGED_IN_KEY” (just the long string of letter, numbers and symbols in between the quotes) into the appropriate fields in the bbPress Step 2 page.

12. Go to http://example.com/wp-admin/options.php (there should be a link in the ? section of the salt fields)

13. Find the appropriate salts and copy and paste them into the appropriate fields in the bbPress Step 2 page.

* If there is no secure_auth_salt leave it blank.

14. Check “Add user database integration settings.”

15. Look in wp-config.php again and copy the “table_prefix” into the appropriate field on the integration page. (in my case it was not just wp_ , it was wp_xxxxxx_ (the x being other numbers and letters.).)

16. Click the save button and you should see “Your WordPress integration cookie and database settings have been successfully validated. etc…”

17. Click the Step 3 button.

18. Fill in the Site name: Example Forum.

19. Check the URL (should be http://example.com/forum/).

20. Select a Key Master (if integration was successful the WP admin should show up here and can be selected).

21. Fill “First forum name” (First Forum).

22. Click “Save.”

23. Click “Complete Installation.”

24. Go to the brand new forum.

25. I was already logged in to WP so when I went to bbPress, again I was already logged in.

26. Click on “Admin”

* It shouldn’t work.

27. Click “Log Out.”

28. Log back in to bbPress as the admin.

29. Click on “Admin.”

30. You should be able to enter the Admin page of bbPress now.

31. Go to “Settings” / “WordPress Integration.”

32. Setup the “User Role Map”.

* WP Admin: Keymaster

* WP Editor: Moderator

* Everybody else is a member.

33. Click Save.

34. Go to the WP install (http://example.com)

35. Install bbPress Integration (WP Plugin): 1.0

36. Activate the integration plugin.

37. Go to “Settings” / “bbPress Integration.”

38. Check the “bbPress URL.”

39. Leave “plugins URL” alone.

40. Check WordPress type.

41. Click Save.

42. Scroll down to “Manual Cookie Settings” and copy the code in the grey box.

43. Open wp-config.php and paste the copied code above the text “/* Stop editing */.”

44. Save wp-config.php to the web host.

45. Voila everything should be set up!

46. log in and log out of WP and bbPress and move back and forth between the two to make sure that the integration is working.

[Marcomail]

i’d check in bbpress if a user is in a specific wordpress category or not

[John James Jacoby]

BuddyBar in bbPress

It requires “deep integration” which I know I will catch hell from _ck_ for requiring, but for anyone that’s integrating BuddyPress and bbPress, and wants to have their BuddyBar in their forums, this is my solution.

Happy testing!

[John James Jacoby]

Won’t work. What would end up happening is your user tables would be out of alignment.

What do you do when that user WANTS to register at your WordPress site then? Just curious…

Best thing to do, is create a plugin on the bbPress side of things to add a usermeta value for that user that you can check on the WordPress side of things, and disallow access based on that usermeta value existing.

[jchildrose]

OK, I have sort of a weird problem that I am hoping I can get some help with.

I have multiple WP sites integrated with each other – 1 install on the root domain, and numerous installs on subdomains.

In order to integrate users and cookies to maintain a login valid across all the installs the Authentication Unique Keys section in my wp-config is set up like this:

define (‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.mydomain.com’);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘mygeneratedkey’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘mygeneratedkey’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘mygeneratedkey’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘mygeneratedkey’);

$baseurl = ‘http://www.mydomain.com’;

$cookiehash = md5($baseurl);

define(‘COOKIEHASH’, $cookiehash);

define (‘AUTH_SALT’,’AUTH_SALT’.COOKIEHASH);

define (‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’.COOKIEHASH);

define (‘AUTH_COOKIE’, ‘AUTH_COOKIE’.COOKIEHASH);

// define (‘SECURE_AUTH_COOKIE’, ‘SECURE_AUTH_COOKIE’.COOKIEHASH); // If you use connection SSL

define (‘LOGGED_IN_COOKIE’,’LOGGED_IN_COOKIE’.COOKIEHASH);

define (‘TEST_COOKIE’, ‘TEST_COOKIE’.COOKIEHASH);

As a result, I can’t find the salts needed in wp-admin/options.php as they are not listed. I’ve tried using the same settings in bbpress as above in the bb_config file (see below), but no love. I’ve also tried changing them to BB_%WHATEVER% which doesn’t seem to work either.

define (‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.mydomain.com’);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘mygeneratedkey’ );

define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘mygeneratedkey’ );

define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘mygeneratedkey’ );

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘mygeneratedkey’ );

$baseurl = ‘http://www.mydomain.com’;

$cookiehash = md5($baseurl);

define(‘COOKIEHASH’, $cookiehash);

define (‘AUTH_SALT’,’AUTH_SALT’.COOKIEHASH);

define (‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’.COOKIEHASH);

define (‘AUTH_COOKIE’, ‘AUTH_COOKIE’.COOKIEHASH);

// define (‘SECURE_AUTH_COOKIE’, ‘SECURE_AUTH_COOKIE’.COOKIEHASH); // If you use connection SSL

define (‘LOGGED_IN_COOKIE’,’LOGGED_IN_COOKIE’.COOKIEHASH);

define (‘TEST_COOKIE’, ‘TEST_COOKIE’.COOKIEHASH);

All of the users can login to bbpress using the same username and password as on the wp sites, but the cookie integration doesn’t work, and again – I cant find the correlating values in wordpress.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Driftless]

Hi –

I want any user who I register on my WPMU site to automatically get the cookie-share-log-on-goodness that bbpress provides.

HOWEVER!!!

I do NOT want any user who registers at my bbpress site to get a WPMU account. I don’t even want them to get a “subscriber” account.

Any ideas?

[rich! @ etiviti]

I’m trying to protect page on another subdomain… but unfortunately bbPress is not authenticating the cookie. (they are set for .domainabc.net)

for test.domainabc.net:

Cookie: bbpress_logged_in_00aa30280fe74d40ca269b5b2efffba3=rich%7C1247421898%7Cfbd785e0974af74814b56550af9c49dc



for forums.domainabc.net

Cookie: bbpress_logged_in_00aa30280fe74d40ca269b5b2efffba3=rich%7C1247421898%7Cfbd785e0974af74814b56550af9c49dc

on test.domainabc.net i have something like this:

require_once ('../forums.domainabc.net/bb-load.php');



function add_allowed_redirect_hosts() {

$allowed_redirects = array('test.domainabc.net');

return $allowed_redirects;

}

add_filter('allowed_redirect_hosts', 'add_allowed_redirect_hosts');



bb_auth( 'auth' );

It will properly redirect to the login page, enter info, redirect back to test.domainabc.net – but then it will issue another 302 redirect back to forums.domainabc.net.

and if i place a die statement within this bb_auth else on test.domainabc.net it will echo

if ( 'auth' === $scheme && !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {

//redirects fine to login page the first time...

} else {

//echo - this happens when returning a 2nd time

}

BUT… if i return to forums.domainabc.net i’m logged in… and everything works.

[Greg]

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.

[Greg]

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.

[johnhiler]

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!

[Croyd]

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.

[citizenkeith]

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.