[dthom]

I have a number of issues and questions. I’m new to bbpress and also trying to do an integration with 2.8, so I’m not sure what is a bug or what just may not work at all. I did the integration with WP and it allows me into the pages to post and into the admin. However it won’t let me post or change anything. No matter what I do, I get a box with a message “Your attempt to do this has failed”. Its not very useful it telling me why. It happily sends me back to the admin area, so it doesn’t seem to be the login. Is there some variable to debug permissions, as that seems to be a continuing issue with integration.

One question I have is how do I determine what version I have? I don’t see a version file.

I also don’t see a way of setting permissions for users or forums

Also, email isn’t working for registration. We run Postfix, could there be a problem? Is there a setting?

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@Sam

I didn’t get it. I actually understand that caching for a forum script is not a good idea but I didn’t get anything from your 1st point. Single topics pages can be cached untill a new response comes in. What say? As per me, that will actually help even having some overhead as there is a great difference between the topics answers and views.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

There must be someone who is using bbPress on Nginx or maybe Sam can share!

[John James Jacoby]

The first time through, the speedup didn’t give me $bb->cookiedomain, but after adding it manually I can get them to sync up so the domains are the same, but something is still off. I’m heading to bed now but will be back in a few hours to keep at it. Sam I’ll try your suggestion also.

[Sam Bauers]

Output caching is probably totally unnecessary for 99.9% of bbPress installs.

There are a few reasons but primarily:

1. Most of the users on your site are probably logged in, and that means they can’t get cached versions.

2. bbPress is pretty light on MySQL queries.

At Automattic we have never had any need to run any caching besides MySQL query cache, and sometimes we don’t even use that. Although our hardware might be better than most, we also have more traffic than most too.

[Sam Bauers]

Go into the bbPress directory in a terminal (Mac/Linux/Unix)

All filters:

grep -r -n apply_filterss*( . | grep -v .svn/ | grep -v @uses

All actions:

grep -r -n do_actions*( . | grep -v .svn/ | grep -v @uses && grep -r -n do_action_ref_arrays*( . | grep -v .svn/ | grep -v @uses

[johnhiler]

Super Cache would help for slow-updating forums… but if you get a lot of traffic, I don’t think it’d really end up caching very much? Blogs don’t get nearly as many updates, so I could see it being a lot more helpful there…

Anyway to answer your question, I haven’t seen a guide on converting WordPress plugins to bbPress ones… that would be really useful!

[Sam Bauers]

Try fudging it by adding a subdomain to the WordPress URLs in the WordPress Integration section.

I’m going to look at WPMU integration now to see what else might be up there.

[aberrantphoto]

Hey,

I’m actually quite a few plugins. Simple Google Adsense, Members Online, User Photo for bbPress, Forum is category, bbPress Polls, BBVideo, and bbSocialize to name a few.

[Ramoonus]

have you asked the maker of the plugin?

[johnhiler]

You can do a grep to get a list of hooks/actions:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/list-of-hooksactions#post-22602

We’re going to be documenting all of this more on the upcoming wiki soon… for now, grep is the only way to get this info that I know of.

[massbase]

where are the filters and so on sos i can write my own plugins …

im an intermediate php programmer, i know how to do basic plugins for wp, but not bbpress dont know filters and etc.

thanks,

[Sam Bauers]

There is now a fix in bbPress trunk for an associated issue where bbPress would not clear all wordpress_logged_in cookies that were generated by WordPress.

Seriously, my life is wasting away chasing WordPress cookies.

[John James Jacoby]

Something must be up with the trunk…

If I install bbPress in a sub folder of WordPress, what seems to happen regardless of my settings or fudges, is that the bbPress login cookie is dropped with a “Host: domain.com” and a login via WordPress drops a cookie with a “Domain: .domain.com”

I’ve matched the URL’s, used with and without the integration speedup short-cut, deep/shallow integration, etc… Basically I’ve tried wiggling the settings back and forth, to no avail.

I was actually going to start my integration screen casts, so I suppose this will wait until tomorrow. haha!

I was able to get a WordPress login to drop cookies like “Host: domain.com” but the cookies the integration plugin drops are still “Domain: .domain.com” (If it dropped “Host: domain.com”, or if bbPress knew to look for “Domain: .domain.com” I suspect they’d work just fine.)

Note: I swear this WAS working earlier last week, as I’ve integrated two sites successfully with login/logout working from either direction.

[Tynan Beatty]

Please excuse my previous longwindedness as it seems it was unnecessary. I just tested a site with WP in the base folder and bbP in a subfolder of WP, and a site with WP in a subfolder of the base folder with bbP in a subfolder of WP. Neither site needs anything added to either config file except that the 3 secret keys match between them (my nonce keys also match but that shouldn’t matter). It is also necessary to fill in the wp-admin’s bbPress Integration Plugin settings, and the bb-admin’s WordPress Integration settings.

On any sites I’ve tested where I have WP in a subfolder of the base folder, and bbP in a subfolder of the WP folder, bbP sets 2 logged_in cookies, one with a trailing / and one without, which poses a problem since WP doesn’t get rid of the one without a trailing / and thus WP cannot logout from bbP if the user logs in from bbP. After I made the change mentioned above to bb-settings.php and tested it on both sites mentioned I found both sites integrating as expected and the double logged_in cookie from bbP login was no longer a problem. That’s why I submitted the patch to Trac.

[thegiancarlo]

I think I have come across a bug or something. Here is my problem. I can only sign into bbpress or wordpress at a time. I have no idea as to what could be causing it. By log in I mean access the Site Admin Dashboard of either.

[John James Jacoby]

hempsworth, if your only problem is not being able to access the bbPress admin panel, then you’re experiencing the last little bits of a cookie issue. Check the paths, domains, and hash’s of your cookies, and make sure that all of them are getting dropped from both sides.

[norights]

I was having the same troubles as the original poster. WordPress 2.8 and BBPress 1.0 RC2, whenever I logged into BBP I couldn’t log into WP without logging out of BBP first. All the settings matched in both configs and adding in the suggested code (be it from the WP plugin which gave me a COOKIEHASH, a COOKIE_DOMAIN, a SITECOOKIEPATH, and a COOKIEPATH or from the BBP integration page which gave me just a COOKIE_DOMAIN and a COOKIEPATH) didn’t change anything. I tried junsuijin’s suggestions and now when I log into one it logs me out of the other. Anybody know how to get this running properly?

[John James Jacoby]

I’m able to integrate WP2.8 and BBP1.0 without this.

The settings put out by the Integration plugin are not REQUIREMENTS, they are RECOMMENDED. Basically automated guesses based on your wordpress/bbpress configuration. I can’t say I’ve integrated any two sites in the exact same way, as the cookie and domain setups are almost always different between installs, so it requires some trial and error to get them lined up.

[Tynan Beatty]

Ok arturo84, make the changes Sam suggested by dropping the www from your cookie domain settings in each config, then put the Integration plugin code back into wp-config. In wp-config the Integration plugin recommends the following settings among others:

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/wp-admin');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

change SITECOOKIEPATH to match COOKIEPATH like this:

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

Then for the bb-config you should include the recommended integration speedups from the bottom of your bb-admin/options-wordpress.php page, and make sure that the cookiedomain doesn’t have www, and that both cookiepath and sitecookiepath are / as well:

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '/';

Then go into bb-settings.php (in the base bbpress folder). Look to line 768 if you have rc-2. Change line 768 from:

$bb->sitecookiepath = rtrim( trim( $bb->sitecookiepath ), " tnrx0B/" );

to this:

$bb->sitecookiepath = rtrim( trim( $bb->sitecookiepath ), " tnrx0B" );

$_bb_sitecookiepath = rtrim( trim( $bb->sitecookiepath ), " tnrx0B/" );

Notice the removed / before the ” and that you need to add the second variable below it as that variable is used to set the other cookie paths.

Upload the altered bb-settings.php over your current one and it should fix the problem. Please come back and let us know if it works for you too

peace~

[Alex]

Okay, I’ve managed to get it working (kind of) by installing without integration and putting it in later from the admin panel.

Even though I defined the ‘user abilities’ mapping, so that Admin = Key Master, when I’m logged in as the WPMU site admin I cannot access the bbPress admin panel.

Any way I can change the database directly to give me access? bbPress is definitely using the WPMU userdata, I just need these role mapping to work!

[ghengisyan]

Hi, I just started a bbpress forum. I have been messing with the php files (mostly guessing). My question is how do I change the Profile Fields, I don’t want people to put in their Occupation and whatnot, I want them to put their Name and maybe Date of Birth or something, where do I change this?

[chrishajer]

I would say they are completely different. You can download them for yourself from here:

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/pot/tags/

Then compare.

[johnhiler]

This report sounds similar, although it sounds like they may have been using an earlier RC:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-mu-271-and-bbpress-10-rc-integration-problem

There was a solution linked from there … hope that points you in the right direction! There was also an integration guide someone created here:

http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

Hope one of those helps!

[Alex]

What are the current installation instructions for bbPress, BuddyPress and WPMU?

Using the RC2 of bbPress, and the current trunk revision of WPMU, I go through the install and add the secret keys etc, define the primary WPMU blog (1), and get to the end but it asks me to create an admin account – it always used to use ‘admin’ automatically.

Am I doing something wrong? When I use the username ‘admin’ it brings an error that the user already exists….