@johnhiler: That makes a lot sense to me. I have three servers full of wordpress blogs and for the last three months I have been hammered with viruses and hacks. This is something I need to pass onto my server admin!
However, for the specific project I’ve mentioned above our forum will reside on the company intranet. We are behind a firewall and only those from our company can access the forum. So, I would still like to add an editor. Can anyone point me to documentation on how to do this?
By the way, I really appreciate the input from both Ipstenu and johnhiler. It helps as I stumble around figuring out bbpress!
When upgrading to RC3, can I just replace the files in the bbPress directory, or do I need to delete the folder, drop the bb_ tables from the database, and then reinstall?
Yeah, seen a million posts like this. But it’s making me curious as to why they pop up here and there…
There was another one a couple of days ago offering cash for help to install bbPress. I gave my email address, and the guy contacted me. I said I didn’t want money and emailed him some simple instructions on installing bbPress to his server. I’ve heard nothing since, so I hope he got it sorted and just forgot to let me know.
Yet there’s another request offering cash for someone to just change the colours on his bbPress forum. What’s with this..?!
Cheers Sam, buuut… Don’t you think just putting the H2 titles in the appropriate templates makes more sense? I guess I could put;
post_form( array( ‘h2’ => ” ) );
here and there, but it’s adding stuff where I shouldn’t need to.
Surely putting the H2s in the relevant templates makes more sense, as they can be edited once and forgotten? Having the H2 titles appear by default – and outside of the templates – makes no sense to me at all. Mind you, I didn’t write bbPress, so it’s only a suggestion. 
Hi!
Having the same problem here: I can´t login to bbpress & wordpress at the same time. I´m using wp 2.8, bbpress 1.0 rc3 and the bbpress integration plugin 1.0-rc-3
I don’t think there’s a theme editor built into bbpress… but I would highly recommend against it.
There’s been a recent WordPress virus which has hit thousands of of sites, and used the theme-editor as an attack vector:
http://ckon.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/bablooo-spammer-attack-on-several-wp-blogs/
My WordPress install was hit, and I was able to confirm from my access logs that the attacker attempted to use theme-editor as an attack vector. I’m actually deleting the theme editor from my WordPress install, even though I haven’t enabled write permissions on the theme folders… just because the whole experience was so traumatic.
@Ipstenu: Yeah, I was excited to see further functionality like One Click Updater added to wp2.8. Now the only thing missing from 2.8 is an uploader for 3 party plugins and themes (which One Click Updater has), but I guess you can just download it to your computer and than upload it with 2.8. However, it is nice to be able to upload straight from the url.
Another question concerning bbPress. Do you know a hack that will allow us to put the theme editor into bbpress (like how wp does it)?
ok download the latest version of bbpress integration plugin bu Sam now is available the version rc-3 too…
Will bbPress 1.0 integrate easily with WP2.8 when it releases? Currently I have WP 2.8 and bbPress .9.0.5 installed. I’m wondering if I should keep pulling my hair out trying to get these two to work together or if I should just wait for 1.0 to release.
Hey chaps
I’m looking to hire someone to painlessly change the colour formatting on my BBpress forum to match in with my main website.
Also I want to add a new header if possible again to match the main site.
Main website is at: http://www.spreadtraderpro.com
BB is at: http://spreadtraderpro.com/bbpress/
Make copy of files and database, upload new files, run example.com/bb-admin/upgrade.php and you’re done . I’ve done it many times and never had any problems.
Oh, I missed a couple of replies. 
Thanks for the compliments. I feel like my forums are hanging by a thread some days, but nothing has completely broken. Mostly, I’m just ready to upgrade to the final release of bbPress 1.0.
Fresh WordPress 2.8 and bbPress 1.0RC3 installation.
I have assigned the ‘Authentication Unique Keys’ correctly in WP (auth_key, secure_auth_key, logged_in_key, nonce_key).
Now when I check options.php in WordPress I have the following:
* auth_salt
* logged_in_salt
* nonce_salt
Thats it! No secure_auth_salt!!
@burtadsit, I think this is what you need for compatibility with WordPress < 2.8:
define('WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1);
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-release-candidate-1#post-30330
Ah I had never seen the One Click Updater for WordPress… that’s a neat plugin!
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/
I haven’t seen anything similar for bbPress. Has the plugin been audited for security holes? If it was compromised, that would be one scary situation!!
I’m guessing it could be ported over to bbPress pretty easily… plugins and themes work pretty similarly across the two *Press platforms.
@mikemcd22 – You crossed two of my posts, which were about different things.
You could just edit your theme. Change the header file to have whatever menu links you want.
This was in reference ONLY to the question of how to make your menu links the sme on BB and WP.
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.
This was as reply to his second concern of:
… I can’t really delete posts or move to the appropriate area. This scares as me as I am sure there are a ton of other basic functions you should be able to do but can’t.
So … both answers are right, but they’re neither the answer to what I think you’re asking which is: “Is there a plugin to make my header look the same between WP and BB?”
Answer: No.
johnhiler thank you for your reply. Until you brought up the point asking which plugin is displaying the information I thought it was a core bbPress feature. Yes, it is the Members Online (0.0.1) plugin that is installed.
I don’t seem to see any related issues over at that plugin’s forum. Perhaps when I do upgrade to bbPress 1.0 the issue might ‘magically’ fix itself? I’ll report back either way.
I’m also using the default theme and I don’t recall making any modifications to the templates that may have causes the dates to show this way but I’ll check.
Please let me know if you have any ideas for me to check out.
Thanks.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I know that bbPress is not a plugin. This is abundantly clear. However, I am looking for a plugin similar to what you can find in a regular wordpress blog (One Click Updater) to add to bbPress that will give uploading capability inside the bbPress admin.
When you are supporting a large company of 1,000+ employees restricting access is very prudent. We have learned in the past the damage many hands can do to a site (particularly, if they are marketing hands, which are the one’s who want to change the bbPress theme).
Any insight on finding such a plugin would be very appreciative!
Does anyone know of a way to sync up the BBpress tag list with the WP tag list? I’d like to have a group of standard tags our users can choose from in addition to the ones they can add.
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/
“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?
@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.
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…
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.
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,
