[jockoe28]

I use bbPress 1.0-rc-3 and WP 2.8. I’m not sure if this is a problem or not. Here is what’s going on…

I installed bbpress this afternoon and things went fairly well. I followed Sam’s screencast on intergrating bbpress with my WP site. (which is superb!) After following the instructions exactly, I could not get to my WP dashboard. (Though I could login) I deleted the “bbpress Integration” plugin and removed the lines it had me put in wp-config.php. I could then get to my dashboard, and logging into my site or forum logged me into the other. (logging out worked too)

I added a “Forum” page to my site that when clicked redirects the user to my forum. I discovered recently that when I log into my website and click the “Forum” link to administer my forum… I am logged in as I should be, but I cannot access my bbpress Admin page. (I can access the bbpress Admin page when I log directly into the forum as well as when I log into my site and type the forum URL into the address bar. Just not by clicking the link on my site.)

Is it because I am not using the “bbpress Integration” plugin or is there a problem?

My site is at http://www.tracyandcarol.com/

[Burt Adsit]

“If you are integrating with WordPress < 2.8 then you ned to make an additional setting in bbPress to get cookies to be compatible. “

Can anyone share what this mystery ‘additional setting’ is?

[mikemcd22]

@Ipstenu

You wrote “You could just edit your theme. Change the header file to have whatever menu links you want.”

Then you wrote “A lot of bbPress’s functions come in the form of Plugins, so it’s easier for people to pick and chose what they want in their forum. “

At which point I wondered “So, is there a plugin for this? “

That would be the “this” I was referring to. Hope this helps and thanks for any info in advance.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

anointed – If I were you, I’d leave it alone and keep vbulletin. There’s no reason to change if everything’s working and you don’t hate vbulletin Now, if you do hate it…

[Ryan Hellyer]

bbPress will likely run considerably faster, has a much more logical/smaller number of templates and bbPress is a lot easier to develop plugins for.

[caribe2kgmailcom]

Hi to all.

I am a newbi on wwpress, I am looking at the default template and worder where can I find info/documentation on

how to work with bbpress tags(syntax) just like wp tags?

Can I use them on wp context?

and the other way wp tags on bbpress context?

Regards,

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

bbPress isn’t a plugin, and if you can’t FTP or SSH in, I don’t think there’s an easy way to install it. What a silly IT department! SFTP and SSH are perfectly safe!

[mightybutton]

Okay, I have been on wordpress since 2006, but just started to dabble with bbpress. I am launching a forum for our company intranet. Due to security our IT department has locked down the ftp to the server. However, we want to install a bbpress plugin like “One Click Updater” (used for wordpress). I have found the plugin browser, but I haven’t found anything for uploading themes. Does anyone know of a plugin that I can use for this? Also, as I have poked around the admin I noticed that there isn’t a theme editor. Does that require a hack or another plugin? This would be very helpful. Please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks!

[Arturo]

in bb-config.php:

define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘mathes WP-config key’);

define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘mathes WP-config key’);

define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘mathes WP-config key’);

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘mathes WP-config key’);

$bb->cookiedomain = ‘www.volleyballnh.com’;

don’t forgot to generate a new cookie key on wp.org site.

in wp-config.php:

define( ‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘mathes BB-config key’);

define( ‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘mathes BB-config key’);

define( ‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘mathes BB-config key’);

define( ‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘mathes BB-config key’);

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘www.volleyballnh.com’);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

STOP.

i’m wp2.8 (not mu) and bbpress 1.0 rc-3 all works without problem with this configuration

[_ck_]

Caching will help for non-members, especially considering that a more popular site has a few dozen bots crawling around it at any given time. But yes, it will have to generate a new file for each page.

However even without wp-super-cache it’s possible to cache parts of pages for all members, especially worthwhile on parts that use a whole bunch of CPU cycles to generate each time.

I wrote some code awhile back to cache the tag clouds, since they are not filtered by logged-in/out and remain static until a tag is added or deleted. The tag cloud took an average of 10-20 ms out of 120 ms to generate on the front page so the savings were worthwhile.

[Arturo]

@mikemcd22

you’ve tried my directions in this post?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookies-bug-with-10-rc-3-and-28-integration#post-37140

[Arturo]

@Sam I did the test on the language and everything seems to work with deep integration. i’ve tested it translating the bbpress pot for rc-3 in italian.

[nielowait]

Wow, this is a bit of a headache.

I’m busy trying to get the integration sorted out and got along quite well (WPMU, BBPress, BuddyPress combo), although I still needed to log in twice, when my luck ran out and now I can’t seem to log into bbpress. Bit annoying. I’ve reinstalled the whole thing, but still no luck. Trying to debug it at the moment, but it’s tough going.

I did come across something that needed fixing though; I’m not sure where to submit this fix, so I’m posting it here for now.

The bug was this; the latest release candidate never displayed the dropdown from which one selects the keymaster during installation due to a mistake in line 2569 of bb-admin/includes/class.bb-install.php.

Previously the line was;

$wp_administrator_meta_key .= $this->data[2] . ‘_’;

which meant the meta_key it tried to query the db on looked something like this; ‘wp_capabilities1_’.

I changed it to:

$wp_administrator_meta_key = $bbdb->escape( $bb->wp_table_prefix . $this->data[2] . ‘_capabilities’ );

so now the key will be ‘wp_1_capabilities’.

This is obviously (when you look at the code) only relevant when setting the default blog id.

Hope it helps someone!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

No issues! Jump ahead and make it happen. Its nothing that can’t be done

[Rodrigo]

Hi guys,

I was facing the same problem here, but I could solve it. Basically, I put this on wp-config.php:

define('COOKIEHASH', '65f9fb5b6e5df178e02402af4495ed46');

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.www.rodrigoghedin.com.br');

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/teste/');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/teste/');

And this in bb-config.php:

$bb->cookiedomain = '.www.rodrigoghedin.com.br';

I’m running a test installation. Main WordPress is in a directory (/teste), and bbPress is a sub-directory (/teste/bbpress). Right now, it’s working fine.

[]’s!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@manguni

For integrating WP 2.7.1 with bbPress 0.9.04 or 0.9.0.5, you can use this tutorial of mine :

http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/05/integrate-bbpress-forum-with-your-wordpress-setup/

I have integrated several setups using this tutorial.

Let the bbPress 1.0 come out and I will write a tutorial for its integration with WordPress 2.8 too. At the moment WordPress 2.8 can’t be integrated by using the method I wrote.

[aditya2311]

I am also facing the problem related to login. I have installed both wordpress blog and bbpress forums. But on integrating them, i am facing a problem of login into my account while using firefox. Although it is working properly in other browsers. Please check http://bits-oasis.org/blog and http://bits-oasis.org/forum

[manguni]

i have instal & integration bbpress 0.9.04 & WP 2.7.1 and there have wrong way,

instalation mesage:

>>> WordPress cookie secret key not set.

>>>>>> Your “bb-config.php” file was not writable.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “BB_SECRET_KEY” in your “bb-config.php” file.

Key master email not sent!

i just copy four WP secret key to bb_config.php:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘^y?+[8|=-QR1cngc>:Kd:%8:ob/67|{#Trw1wV}{YDUngFP 2DL5ibGmfp8CiknU’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘3C%:+qR(Jkuan5oA#Eq2 vq;siUcsF- D^,fij:pV0<|ZD!gHZjlHO8k?(7`sh’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘A;nBjuz%qGr$F<]{G_L8%tM?{PT5+_{a?lkBs%)4]t_)9;vZgy,s)m<W=/l+9M$*’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘V-_=k,n).uzdcm65)f)2jAdST8s4EARpWMhOX26Q0e8x8[UB|LI|hcyptQtYbw’);

but login still different betwen WP and bbpress. what ur think?

[floch69]

Hi,

I’ve been searching this forums yet but could’nt find any explanation to my problem so here it goes:

I’m a newbie at developping for bbpress, and trying to customize it for my needs.

First, I’m running bbPress 0.9.4; I’m also using a copy of the default theme that i’m modifying (located in my-templates/mysite).

I’ve attached a hook to the action ‘bb_index.php_pre_db’ which is ran on bbpress/index.php; My goal is to display only forums (without latest discussions and sticky topics) so i’ve copied the content of index.php and removed calls to latest discussions and sticky topics:

add_action('bb_index.php_pre_db', 'home');

function home(){

$forums = get_forums(); // Comment to hide forums

do_action( ‘bb_index.php’, ” );

bb_load_template( ‘front-page.php’);

exit();

}

The problem is that once in the file front-page.php, the $forums variable doesnt exists anymore. Actually i tried to print it out in the bb_load_template as well and the variable is empty too. It seems that because i’m using a hook (called by do_action), globals variable do not exists anymore in this context. I might be wrong but i’m actually stuck to this point and can’t really move forward. Any tips?

Cheers.

[Ryan Hellyer]

Is it not possible that adding caching will actually put MORE load on the server? Writing new .html files every time a new post is made could potentially slow things down, not speed it up. With blogs it makes some sense as there are many more views of a page than there are posts written, but with a forum that is not necessarily the case.

[damonwhitsell]

Hi ya’ll I had something so weird happen that I need help. Using simplescripts,, I installed bbpress on my blog @ http://www.thewordonthewordoffaithblog.com/forum

This is what happens when I try to log in,,, it does not login and it adds my address to the URL. Like this http://www.thewordonthewordoffaithblog.com/forum/16022%20spinaker/bb-login.php

I don’t know how the hell that happened. I did get to login once and just browsed around. I don’t think I changed anything that should have made it add my address. Which I have no idea how that happened as I only entered my address when I first signed up for my hosting account.

I was just testing the install at this site,,, I am starting a wpMU/buddypress/bbpress site and I have a developer that is going to do the installs for me. When I asked about the bbpress install he said,,,,,

“If you don’t mind, please don’t install bbpress, as it’s a bit hard to configure properly; i had one install that required 1 full day of php-in to make the compatibility and integration, as the two versions were not fully compatible.”

He quoted me a price for the wpMU/buddypress install and I told him I was going to do the bbpress install myself,,,,,, because I had read in this forum and in other places that as soon as WP2.8 come out that the install/integration should be pretty seamless. Plus I had found simple scripts and thought,,, why should I pay him if I can auto-install and it go smooth,,, well as you see it did not.

I have seen several videos that show more than one way to do a manual install,, It seems the install goes easily for some and not for others.

SO should the install/integration go smooth now that I am running WP2.8?

AND does the integration plugin that I seen around here work well?

I know this info is around here somewhere to be found,,, if I dig again. I am just stressed from over a weeks research,, and suffering from information overload,,,can ya’ll help?

Any information would to help me get this installed would be great,, AND if anyone could explain to me how the heck it adds my address to the url,,, I would really appreciate that,,, cause either I am NUTZZZZZ,,, or my computer is possessed. LOL

Thanks ya’ll, damon

[Ryan Hellyer]

Thanks for the themes

The links to your demo’s don’t seem to be working though

[johnhiler]

Hey Michael – I struggled with something similar, but then I found a plugin by ck which enabled this… along with some suggested template tweaks which allow you to hide the posting link if you’re not allowed to post:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/#post-1025

Not sure if that touches on what you were asking about… but thought I’d share the link in case it was helpful!

[johnhiler]

SPAM

It’d probably be useful to have a section on registration and post spam, along with the various techniques to fight it:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/request-to-the-experienced-what-anti-spam-tools

PERMALINKS

Some general stuff on htaccess and pretty permalinks (and how support for different approaches to permalinks vary across hosts):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalinks-not-working

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalink-type-change-gives-me-a-404-error

VERSION DIFFERENCES

It’d also be helpful to have a summary table showing major differences between the different versions, especially for people using plugins and unsure if an upgrade will break their plugins.

For example, version 1.0 uses BackPress plus it uses WordPress’ latest taxonomy stuff. Plus it has a new approach to meta data. So if an 0.9 compatible plugin depends on any of this stuff, it will probably break in 1.0 unless the plugin’s been specifically updated for the latest version.

TAGS

Tag permissions – who can add and remove tags:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/members-can-add-tags

How hot tags work and can be formatted:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hot-tags

Reordering of hot tags:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/alphabetical-ordering-of-hot-tags

Multi-byte characters (this may have been addressed in recent versions):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unable-to-add-mutibyte-character-tags

[Sam Bauers]

Most 0.9 themes will work in 1.0 – they just may not have all the latest bells and whistles.