Ah those two versions of bbPress and WordPress are not cookie compatible, without some extra plugins. Either of these two should work – one upgrades your bbPress cookie, and the other one downgrades your WordPress cookie.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/
http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/
Sometimes bbPress will lose keymaster access during reverse integration – try this to fix that:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/
Update…
I just realized that my account isn’t working properly on either site. I can log into bbPress but now I don’t have full. I wanted to install a plugin but there’s no option to do so (even though there was one a few minutes ago). It says I’m listed as an Administrator, but not the Key Master.
I checked phpMyAdmin and these seem to be the most relevant fields…
dharmaguild_capabilities a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}
dharmaguild_user_level 10
bbPress 0.9.0.4
WordPress 2.7.1
I just followed the automated installer to integrate the two. At first I had issues because I’d mistakenly installed WordPress in the wrong database. So, I wiped the bbPress from my database, exported/imported the WP information to the correct database, made sure WP was working properly, then installed bbPress again. Everything worked fine for bbPress (and it still does) but now WP isn’t working.
I checked the forums a bit and looked at my database using phpMyAdmin to see if there was some setting on my user name that had been tweaked, but honestly I don’t know it well enough to tell at a glance if it’s okay. But, like I said, bbPress is working fine and the *front end* of WordPress is working fine…just not the users.
What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?
And what techniques/plugins did you use to integrate the signins?
Never mind. I got the plugin and installed it and now the cookies look like wordpress_logged_in_12341234…
It’s still not working, but that’s progress.
I just finished successfully installing bbPress and importing the user database from WordPress, but now I can’t log into WordPress anymore. It recognizes my user name and password, but it comes up with a relatively blank page that simply says, “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” I’ve tried flushing my cookies and logging in and out but it’s no good.
Please help!
“Remember you will still need the bbPress Integration plugin on the WordPress side to drop the bbPress cookies.”
What is the bbPress Integration plugin on the WordPress side? I’m trying to set up user integration, but the cookie that gets generated on the WP side is wordpress_logged_in_ only, and not wordpress_logged_in_xxxxxxx, as I think it should be.
Thanks.
I highly encourage the use of 0.9 until (and maybe even through) 2010
1.0 is a different creature internally than 0.9 and while 0.9 has a few years of development and debugging (and compatible with most plugins) 1.0 has none of these things.
IMHO 1.0 should *never* have been called 1.0
0.9 should have been finalized and released as 1.0
and then what is now being called 1.0 should have been called 1.5
People simply do not understand that 1.0 is not some kind of minor upgrade to 0.9 with just incremental fixes – large portions of code have been changed or replaced entirely. Certain database tables have been completely replaced into a much more complex scheme, etc.
Remember, you can *never* downgrade once you start with/upgrade to 1.0
but there is always an upgrade path from 0.9 to 1.0
(someone someday might be crazy enough to write a downgrade routine for 1.0 to downgrade the database tables but it won’t be me)
There is also no clear path for bbPress from Automattic.
They are replacing the WP code base with WPMU, which means the purpose of the extremely labor-intensive drive to integrate BackPress into bbPress 1.0 is now even more unclear.
I’ve yet to see a single feature/ability in 1.0 that you will miss with 0.9
ps. I also think WP 2.5 is the last decent version of WP made but that’s for another forum
“Change Number of Front Page Topics” was formalized into a better plugin here:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/
Apologies! I just re-uploaded it after you downloaded it, so grab it again. I added a needed plugin to the bbVanilla.zip file, which you should FTP to your my-plugins folder (no need to activate it). That provides a consistent warning/error page for various things.
Also, if you really want the Latest Topics at the top of the front page (a mess in my group’s eyes) then I can show you how add back it easily, or do it for you.
Just noticed on your site (looking sxc by the way); there’s a gap in front of .com in the title (intentional?), and you’ve left the default ‘Just another bbPress community’ message in the banner (Admin, Settings to change).
Yes, thanks for the vanilla tip, very nice! I might stick with it. It’s the correct colour and simple!
No, that’s how the theme comes, to fit 800×600 I think. I altered the background image to make it wider, then changed the container width in the css, but it didn’t suit my user group.
Prof, you might like to try my new theme at http://getfiles.letsdoo.org – it’s a very clean layout, with some (very slightly) modified plugins to give a consistent user interface, and also fits 800×600 but doesn’t look squished. Same procedure; just FTP the bbVanilla folder to my-templates, then enable it in Admin. You can always delete it if it doesn’t suit, but looking at your site I think it’d go well with the academic content.
I’m not sure either. But the stylesheet is showing up now! The design is a bit more narrow than the one on bbpress, but hopefully that’s a change you made! 
Well,,,,I looked in header php and found that the style sheet it was looking for was my-templates/bbpress etc… but I saw that on my server it is bb-templates/bbpress etc…. So I just changed ‘my’ to ‘bb’. But I’m not sure why I had to do that…
OK I’ve read that. I have checked bb templates on my server and all the files have 755 permissions.
Still weird though:
http://englishforuniversity.com/forum/bbpress/
chmod is a way to change your file permission settings. More on that here.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
I am also sticking with v 0.9x for now! If your site is working nicely now and you’re happy with how it’s going… there’s no need to change your platform.
I hear that version 1 will have better post-level meta data support? That’s exciting and something I’m looking forward to. Other than that, this is what Sam wrote about version 1.0:
“There is no feature list as such. In fact, you will find that not much has changed at this stage on the front end. The main difference is that we are now using the BackPress library for core functionality. There are some other “under the hood” changes as well, like the introduction of WordPress’ taxonomy structure for storing tags and the creation of a global meta table which can store metadata for forums, topics and posts as well as site options. The global meta table can also store custom meta from plugins.
The major cosmetic difference is the new admin area which is modelled on WordPress.”
erm…”make sure you’ve the chmod 755 to my-templates/ ” can you explain what that means please?
… and the folder the forum is in, come to that. (Mind you, an error there would perhaps stop anyone seeing anything at all..?)
make sure you’ve the chmod 755 to my-templates/
Yes, I uploaded everything. In fact I have deleted it and done it again a few times and it still does the same thing. It is from the place you suggested. Is there something else I have to do?
Well, I got to step 2 in configuring it:
http://englishforuniversity.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=2
and it says page not found.
This is the third time this happened.
Hi.
Have uploaded bbpress to a folder in my server.
It’s at: /public_html/bbpress-0.9.0.4 and I have wordpress in that folder too.
So I just want to visit ‘the intended url’ but it’s not there. Have tried it a dozen times. What am I doing wrong?
