If only that one table is open when MySQL crashes, you might have exactly this problem. Posts, users and topics are all stored in other tables, but the theme and plugins you’re using are indeed recorded in bb_topicmeta (in my 0.9.0.4 installation). So, if bb_topicmeta gets corrupted, I could see this happening. The database version is stored there as well, and if bbPress doesn’t find that, I think you would get the “upgrade the database” message as well.
I think the question is to find out why MySQL or the server is crashing.
What version of the software are you talking about Marcomail?
What is your question exactly? Do you have existing WordPress users and you’re wondering if they will be integrated with bbPress after integration?
If you post your email address here, we can close this topic and people can contact you directly.
I think you could do it with a plugin and a template, with no changes to bbPress at all. I get the vision and I think it’s pretty interesting.
Or, the FAQ here:
https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks
Note, for people who cannot get this to work on a 1&1 server, you need to put this at the top of your .htaccess file:
Options -MultiViews
The Options +MultiViews does not work (IME) at 1&1, so in addition to creating the rewrite rules manually as in the FAQ, you need to DISABLE MultiViews to make this work. Worked for me.
Can you explain exactly what you’re looking for here? I don’t see any friends function on areforum.org/forums/ (but I didn’t look too hard) but I am familiar with Facebook. What would you like to see in bbPress?
Those are bbPress 0.9 cookies. Don’t know why there are so many though.
Frooyo, to answer your question, you can remove that dropdown as you did, but first you need to add the forum name as hidden value to the form. You can look at the source of a rendered page, find the select, grab the form field name and value, and just code that into the form as a hidden value. That way, when you submit the form, it looks the same to bbPress as if someone had actually selected one (of one) value for a forum name.
Mine looks like this (your forum ID might be different):
<input type="hidden" name="forum_id" value="1" />
I thought at first the permalink thing was because it was a Windows server maybe, but then I noticed these headers. Is it normal to have this many (seemingly) duplicate cookies?
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/freelanceswitch.txt
I wasn’t even logged in.
To be honest though, I’ve never tried integration across SSL sites, it may not be possible with currently existing tools.
Setting bbPress to also force SSL might do it, but I can’t do any testing right now.
In bbPress to use SSL you need these in your bb-config.php:
define('BB_FORCE_SSL_USER_FORMS', true);
define('BB_FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);
WPMU Trunk + bbPress Latest RC + Integration Plugin with:
define(‘FORCE_SSL_LOGIN’, true);
define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);
Does not work. Setting the values to false (disabling SSL/HTTPS), integration works great. However when it comes to SSL, forget it. I’m going to say it’s impossible. 
We need SSL to work across software packages, security is paramount.
Any help from anyone or the devs, let me know.
Again, this is a SSL WPMU install.
_ck_ could be right about NFS. Also, bbPress does a few extra MySQL queries which seem redundant, but speed things up when you actually have posts in there.
It’s hard to tell what you mean by “slow” when there is no quantitative information to go by.
Let us know who your webhost is as well.
Install the bb-benchmark plugin and look at what’s slowing you down.
If your host uses NFS storage, bbPress will be slow but there are other possibilities like a plugin misbehaving (since you aren’t using any, I suspect it’s NFS)
Theming is not coding. Well, it’s HTMLing, which isn’t really coding.
See: https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/
All you have to really do with your new theme is a style.css (in which all you have to do is specify the name of your theme etc) and the header.php (where all you need is to add the header you want). The rest of the files will be pulled from bbPress’ default theme, Kakumei.
In bbPress 1.0 you can use post_position() inside the loop of posts.
bbPress is sooooo great – the board of my dreams, but without Caching-Plugin its nearly useless for me because its soooooooooooo slow. Are there any major tips to improve the performance? Or is someone just working on a Caching-Plugin?
Uhhh…I’m no programmer. Messing with actual code could get me in a lot of trouble. Is there an easier way? WordPress has tons of Plugins to make things like this simple. I can’t find much in the way of Plugins for BBPress.
That’s just adding in the link in your theme.
Seriously You can edit your header.php to have this, no plugins needed.
Has anyone found/experimented with creating a plugin that would allow users to add friends like facebook or areforum.org/forums/?
This would be a great addition.
Running:
WPMU + Latest RC of BBPress, User tables integrated, v1 of Integration Plug (on wp side) installed. Latest RC of bbpress was installed directory fresh but over an existing bbpress 9.x (latest stable) tables.
Tests Passed:
– Logging into each site individually works fine. Can’t log out without errors (understandably as there is a cookie issue see below).
Tests Failed:
– Log into bb-press via https
– Log into wp blog.
– Should go to Admin.
Debug:
– Stepped through to find wp was looking for “wordpress_sec_[long hash string]” cookie. Thinking it was ‘mal formed’ it redirects to the wp login.
Question:
– Why would the “wordpress_sec” cookie not be created by bb_press?
I will be stepping through the bbpress code but wanted to put a heads up in the forums if maybe someone already knows whats going on.
Btw Is there a developer forum?
Is there a simple way to insert the first post of the topic with an individual command? And then start the loop with the other posts, starting with the second one (as the first post is the question and the following posts are the answers)?
Just to be clear about what I want to achieve. Here is the site I am trying to make work:
http://www.test.rimava.sk/bbpress/topic.php?id=2
I want the first post to have e.g. green background, different question mark icon, while all the other posts remain as they are now.
Silly me, a few more minutes of searching and I turned up an answer:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/no-htaccess-file-for-pretty-urls
I can’t seem to get the Pretty Permalink Type setting to work. When I change it to name based, none of the pages threads/forums/etc will load. After some reading, it seems like I need to make an htaccess file and fill it with some rules.
Are these officially provided anywhere? I found some in a thread from a couple years ago (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permalinks-1) but they don’t seem to work. What exactly do I need to do to make my permalinks work?
