[stevebooth]

I managed to get my 1.0 bbPress installed (after having to manually edit the database), and bb-admin works just fine (or appears to), but when I browse to the bb itself, all I ever get is a 404 error. First, I’ve checked the obvious. ‘index.php’ exists in the bb root directory, and everything *seems* to be fine. Is there a log or something somewhere that tells me what it was trying to do so I can debug this?

Thanks in advance, ye BB-ers!

Steve

[daniellejosh]

I am not sure how to determine that

[johnhiler]

Hmm, maybe post the code to the part of the template where the problems are occurring? We can look for potential conflicts with bbPress code…

[daniellejosh]

Thanks, I will. It was after I installed bbPress that this started to happen…

[Atsutane]

@leggo-my-eggo

Sorry i should have update the plugin here in, but if you are download from the plugin from wordpress.org there are 3 filter support release on 22-6-2009 More info can be found here.

http://www.atsutane.net/2009/06/update-bbpress-latest-discussion-v1-5.html

[mrhtn]

Well, there were lots of steps. Mostly it was changes to the CSS so the first step would be to take a look at my CSS. I didn’t change any non-theme related files. The plugins I’m using are BBcode buttons toolbar, BBcode lite, bb topics view, and post Count plus. Probably the main thing I do different is that regular users shouldn’t see the admin pages of BBpress. Instead they get redirected to the wordpress admin pages.

Sambauers put a great video together on how to get wordpress and bbpress working together:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

[_ck_]

One day we’ll start a install4free like wordpress but until then,

if they just want a basic install, start giving out this free service:

http://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/script:bbPress

supposedly works on most major hosts including:

* Bluehost

* Hostmonster

* Fastdomain

* LunarPages

* HostGator

* SiteGround

* GoDaddy

* WebHostingPad

* LiquidWeb

* StartLogic

* iPowerWeb

* Dot5Hosting

* MidPhase

* 1and1

[johnhiler]

Try creating a new role with this plugin (v 1.0 compatible)

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/role-manager/

Then use this plugin to set it up so that your new role always has access to all forums:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

That way, you don’t have to disable registration… new users won’t be able to penetrate the hidden forums, no matter what.

[indivio]

Well, yes, it goes away. B/c that whole space is used by the forums instead. Weirdly, there’s another forum running 1.0 where it works fine. It is just this one that is having the issues…

I saw this thread too – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-login-hide-forum

Which had a similar issue but was then fixed…

[johnhiler]

Maybe try posting to the WordPress forums?

Unless there’s a connection to the bbPress install that I’m missing…

[daniellejosh]

WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) are both set to http://iphonecustoms.com.

I fixed the “Leave a Comment” links that were linking to my forum by changing the settings in Settings>Permalinks to “default”. (It had been set to iphonecustoms.com/forums/ somehow.)

So the comments on my homepage actually work now… however on all my other pages, my “Leave a comment” links are still not doing anything. The comment links came built in with my “Black Splat” theme, and I tried to replace comment.php from original theme and still nothing happened.

[johnhiler]

What is listed under WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL)?

Also – what code in your WordPress template are you using to generate those comment links?

[daniellejosh]

yes… my links are pointing there… and I do not know why! And on this page:

http://iphonecustoms.com/written-tutorials/iphone-3g/how-to-jailbreak-w-redsn0w-on-windows

The comment link just keeps you on the same page but adds a “/#comments” to the end of the URL? I checked Options page, and nothing has changed.. nor does it look like any of those options would change the situation? Here are my options:

Blog Title

Tagline

WordPress address (URL)

Blog address (URL)

E-mail address

Membership

New User Default Role

Timezone

Date Format

Week Starts On

any suggestions? thank you so much for your reply.

[johnhiler]

It looks like those links are pointing here:

a href=”http://iphonecustoms.com/http:/iphonecustoms.com/forums/#respond”

Did something change with your WordPress Address URL here?

http://iphonecustoms.com/wp-admin/options-general.php

[daniellejosh]

I flawlessly installed bbPress yesterday to have a forum to go along with my website: http://iphonecustoms.com. However, on all my posts and pages, I have a “Leave a comment” option towards the end, and it either links to my forum.. or nothing at all!! Can someone help? I just would like my comments option back.

[indivio]

What I did was reinstall bbpress on a new URL and pointed it at the old database. That worked fine.

Could that have messed up this login.php file?

[johnhiler]

You posted once before about modifying your login:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hide-loginsign-in-page

Is it possible something was changed with your login code or templates?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

From the blog

The admin area is currently lacking a lot of design nuance in the content areas, but all the forms and controls are at least functional. Let’s call this the “excuse the mess” release candidate.

It’s not you, it’s RC.

[leggo-my-eggo]

@sambauers – Yep, I get that, thanks. I think where I’m coming from is that I am a long-time WordPress developer, and I have just had the need to create a forum, so I (almost automatically) chose bbPress, thinking that all the talk about integration would allow me to do some cross-platform things that I had in mind. I didn’t read far enough into the forums to discover that the “deep integration” only went one direction (bbPress->Wordpress), and now I’m way too far down the the path of developing this site to turn around, and I’m not sure I could get the interaction I wanted with anything else anyway. Any chance you’re updating the bbPress Live plugin for 2.8?

@johnhiler – Agreed about avoiding deep integration. Given what I now understand about how it works, I would prefer to avoid it entirely, merely pulling content between platforms. I actually can mod the Latest Discussion plugin, and that’s probably what I’ll end up doing. I kind of hate doing that because I forget later what I changed when I want to upgrade. Basically all I really need is a way to limit one of my forum’s topics and counts to those topics begun today (I have a “Today Only” forum to talk about topics for a single day). I have this working fine within bbPress, and what I wanted to do was simply filter the output of the Latest Discussion plugin like that from within my own plugin.

[johnhiler]

There’s rumors of a wiki-based codex coming up after bbPress 1.0 goes gold! Hopefully that should help with documentation…

This tag plugin looks somewhat similar to what you mentioned:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/list-tags/

But there are reports of bugs with it. I’m guessing the plugin only works in .8 and .9 versions – tags completely changed in version 1.0, so that may be the issue. Still, might be worth studying the code for inspiration!

[johnhiler]

legg-my-eggo – I totally agree that basic functionality should be easier to call between the two platforms! Pulling content back and forth between WordPress and bbPress… sharing header/footer/sidebar templates… that stuff should be a lot more seamless, and hopefully it will be over time.

Deep integration does have its own set of problems. _ck_ mentions two of them here:

Two huge strengths for stand-alone (simple) integration over deep integration are:

1. your forums can be still running even if your blog is temporarily down (or visa versa)

2. speed/performance – deep integration will crush a shared server if you get a surge in visitors

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/display-bbpress-on-wordpress-page-inside-the-blog#post-25353

Anyway my personal sense is that if you can avoid deep integration, you’re probably better off that way. But if you absolutely need it, it’s possible… but only in one direction. It’s up to WordPress to decide if they want to offer deep integration of bbPress – I guess some of us could post over at the WordPress forums and ask them for it?

What kind of filters are you looking to run on the Latest Discussion plugin? Maybe we can find a way to mod the plugin to be more flexible… and remove your need for deep integration!

[jconley]

I want to integrate my bbPress forum into the WordPress blog just like you have. Please tell me the steps you took to do this. My blog uses WordPress 2.8 and works great. I just downloaded bbPress 0.905, installed it, and it too is working great. I just want to marry the two.

Thanks

[Sam Bauers]

johnhiler nailed it and there’s nothing particularly hardline about my statement. It’s a matter of prioritising the features that bbPress supports and in turn the features that I support as the main developer of the software and the various community members support on this forum and in any future docs.

We could make bbPress do lots of things, some would stray not far from the expected feature set, like this. I’m just drawing the line, that’s all I’m saying.

[AndrewRich]

Oh, and I am using version 0.9.0.5 from the Download page.

[leggo-my-eggo]

Yeah, that makes some sense. However, there’s a conceptual problem here, right? Because the recommended structure is to install WordPress and then install bbPress as a subdirectory (say, /forums). Which works great, but then I’ve got a home page created by WordPress, and since the deep integration only works the other way around, no way to use any bbPress content on that home page.

I also tried using the Latest Discussion plugin, but I have a modification that I need to filter some of the output supplied by whatever functions output the discussion and forum lists, and that plugin does not include a filter which allows me to do what I need to do, so I was trying to find a way to use bbPress functions on my WordPress home page.

For “deep integration” to be really relevant, I have to have a way to include bbPress content within my WordPress pages, right? Or am I really thinking of this the wrong way?