[johnhiler]

Sam mentioned that he might set up a codex for us to start documenting bbPress… so I thought it might be useful to round up useful links with info we could cleanup for a bbPress codex:

Versions:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-stable-version-version-0905

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-release-candidate-1

http://bbpress.org/forums/tags/releases

WordPress and bbPress signin integration:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

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

Theme integration:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/seemless-wordpress-integration

php compatibility issues:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode-in-home2

Writing plugins:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/overwriting-template-functions

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/list-of-hooksactions

Importing data:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb

Translation:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-translate-bbpress-to-another-language

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages

Roles:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/adding-a-new-user-type?replies=6#post-9210

Miscellaneous FAQ’s:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums-started-39-years-ago

Please chime in and share what you’d like to see documented in a bbPress codex… and also, any links you’ve found particular valuable!

[Greg]

Sam, very interesting. Could you possibly quantify that a little more? I think it would be really helpful for folks who have growing forums and are thinking about how they will scale.

A rough user count and the infrastructure investment (servers) for each bbPress installation, for example.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

bbPress isn’t a plugin anyway. It’s a separate app.

[lukeishere]

The place I work have started using BBpress so I thought I’d give it a go on my doctor who fansite,

http://www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/forum/

I have to say it’s really easy to use and customize (like wordpress) so thank you to everyone involved!

[John James Jacoby]

This isn’t that difficult, and there are many sites that have been doing this for months now, including my own if you excuse my defense.

Glad to see someone is taking charge of this however. Best of luck to those guys.

[wordsmithbob]

I installed the bbPress plugin and that went fine using the auto install. (I have WP 2.7) Then I activated it and got a fatal error. I tried re-installing it but now it won’t install because it’s already in the directory. All I remember about the fatal error was that it concerned Line 72 and said something about Akismet. I’m pretty clueless about this stuff. My WordPress expert is incomunicado so I’m hanging out here on my own. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[chrishajer]

Are you certain the bbPress files are in a subdirectory of your WordPress installation? Can you post a directory listing showing where the files are located?

[michael3185]

Cheers tinskii – I’ll try that right away. Atsutane’s idea worked great, but to have it automatically updated is really neat.

I’ve read in a lot of places that the Meta HTML tags are ignored by Google and others, but it’s got to be useful if some search engines still use them. Many thanks. I’ll even hack around with the code and see if I can learn anything. Though I think there’s something wrong with bbPress. Whenever I modify anything, it stops working (hehe).

[Arturo]

this is very good, my only problem with integration is shown the buddybar on forums page… i’m waiting the start of this project, thanks for the news chris!

[michael3185]

Ah, I think I’ll have to look at this idea again after some months of learning Javascript, bbPress and more CSS. Thanks for the help though!

[exchequer598]

I have WP-MU 2.7.1 + BuddyPress 1.0.1 installed and set up at http://huddle.inversekarma.in. I have copied bbPress 1.0 Rc-1 to http://huddle.inversekarma.in/forums. Now when I try to navigate to this address, I get the “The page you were looking for was not found” error. Is there something wrong with my htaccess? Please help! Thanks

[johnhiler]

_ck_ prepared a list of the top 100 sites here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-april-2009-update

The largest site has 1.6mm posts; the site with the most users is wordpress.org, which has 7.5 million users.

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

Hope that helps!

[manishneo]

has anyone tested bbpress scalability in terms of no users,topics and comments

[Atsutane]

Actually u can archive that using JavaScript, CSS and Bbpress action hook. You can use CSS to hide the “Post Form” and make it visible back using JavaScript.

It kinda like using JavaScript to expand navigation menu. Well that should give you some idea

[chrishajer]

At WordCamp Chicago today I heard a presentation by Jeremy Wright of b5media about their integrated WPMU, BuddyPress and bbPress installation. Word is that the plugins that were used to accomplish the integrated logins and BuddyPress bar in the forums will be released in the near future at http://labs.b5media.com/

Right now, the only thing I can find about the installation is here:

http://www.icedteapowered.com/blog/wct2009-presentation/

I believe the user who will post this information is Terry J. Smith (registered here, but no posts yet.)

[emfulz]

Was going to give me information by editing but the edit button is now gone.

I have redone my bbPress and everything is working perfectly and no errors besides the simple fact that I still don’t understand how to link 2 account together so they can be used as a whole on both sites instead of separates. I really would love to use the tutorial you have posted before about integrating them but I am just not that smart on these things. Any help would be appreciated.

Also how do I go about making my forum look as my website? Is that part of the integrating process?

[michael3185]

Still can’t find the site I saw which did this in a neat way, so tried my own noobydoo version. I copied forum.php to forum-post.php, then replaced the php call which shows the Create New Topic area with; <blah href=”forum-post.php”>Create New Topic</blah>

I thought that would then load the full (original but renamed) form and show the input area, but it just jumps back to the front page. Do I need to use a bbPress function to load the copied forum-post.php? Stumped!

[_ck_]

I had started to write my own xref type of code to show how bbPress worked with a function reference and a action/filter reference but I never finished it.

But you can use grep to grab a list of all the function names and all the actions/filters.

Some people have run bbpress through phpxref and you can find that around the web via google, I don’t find such listings helpful myself though.

[fooddude]

For some reason, RC1 is having a problem connecting to my database. Followed the instructions to the letter. Ran the install and set all the database info to the same as before. Clicked the additional settings because I’m on dreamhost, which doesn’t use ‘localhost’. Everything saves just fine. Config file appears with proper settings in my bbpress directory. Go to step 2 and get “ERROR: Could not establish a database connection”. Double checked everything, did another clean install, still doesn’t work.

BBPress shares a database with my wordpress installation, and wordpress sees the DB just fine.

Any ideas?

[michael3185]

I saw a bbPress forum somewhere, where the ‘Create New Topic’ and ‘Reply’ sections were not a visible input box, but a link like; ‘Reply »’ When you click the link, the input box appears in its place. Does anyone know where it is so I can look at the code? Or is it a plugin? (Can’t find anything like that). Thanks.

[johnhiler]

Try this plugin and see if it does the trick?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

[johnhiler]

Try the instructions here?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

WordPress 2.7 uses a different type of cookie, so you can either downgrade the WordPress cookie (using SuperAnn’s plugin) or upgrade the bbPress 0.9 cookie (using _ck_’s plugin). Both are linked from the instructions!

[emfulz]

I am using the latest versions of bbPress and WordPress which are 2.7.1 (wp) and 0.9.0.5 (bbp)

The instructions are rather inside in the installation of bbPress which you can make the integrating processes through the databases.

[johnhiler]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?

Also, what did you do to “make it where members of my site could use 1 account for both instead of separate ones”… was there a specific set of integration instructions you followed? If so, please post a link to that too!

[emfulz]

I have just recently installed bbPress so that I could make it where members of my site could use 1 account for both instead of separate ones. When I did so it caused me to lose my admin but didn’t actually integrate them. What can I do to get my admin back and integrate wordpress and bbPress? I don’t know much more to say about this but if needing more information I will be gladly to give.