[michael3185]

Not sure I grasp all that, but I’ll have a shot at it and see where it goes, so thanks for the advice. Hacking around in the files is as good a start as any. Not sure what you mean by ‘do a global’ though… (Never done any php programming, and am new to bbPress too).

A related question (for anyone); is there any simple documentation for how to hook things into bbPress via plugins, etc., that is, the correct way?

[_ck_]

This would be a very good beginners plugin to write, it’s very simple (other than the admin interface).

bbPress fetches stickies via a separate query (which I have always found to be a waste, except for this case) and you could manipulate the results before the final template is loaded.

For example on the front-page if you looks at index.php

you’ll see that

$super_stickies = get_sticky_topics();

and then there is

do_action( 'bb_index.php', '' );

so you hook the action bb_index.php

and then you do a global on $super_stickies

and then you manipulate the order of the array as desired.

for forum pages it’s

$stickies = get_sticky_topics( $forum_id, $page );

and

do_action( 'bb_forum.php', $forum_id );

same concept

That part would take less than an hour to write.

and you’d store the order in the topicmeta

But the part that will take much more time is the admin interface.

Instead you could simply add an extra field on the post edit page that only admin would see and let them chose the topic stickiness priority.

(this is not a plugin I will be writing)

[Ramoonus]

@parallax view;

my provider uses subdomain vhosts …

i presume the problem is in cookies / vhosts + bbpress + wordpress

[michael3185]

Ouch. I’m pretty savvy at some computer stuff, but not php or css. I’ve been working on two forums for community groups, one of which may grow quite large if it works out as hoped. So, I tested just about every forum package out there. I settled on Vanilla, but had problems with plugins crashing it, and having to hack around for days to try and get something working. Their support is good from a few community members, but there isn’t enough and it often isn’t timely.

I’ve settled with bbPress because I found it very simple to install and set up. My problems were minor, forum members have helped me very quickly indeed, and in a non-geeky manner. I’ve read lots of other posts where people have had WP integration issues, and the help given has been quite extensive. One other thing that I like is the fact that they use it with 100,000 members and 500,000 posts, and it’s still zippy. Also, modifying themes isn’t so bad if you delve into just a few files and play around. I love simplicity as well as my user group, so I created a vanilla clone(ish), which you can get at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-minimalist-theme-available. (Check the posts at the bottom).

If you have some spare time and a nice cup of tea/coffee, click ‘integration’ in the front page tag list and have a good read. I don’t use WP, but I get the impression that many haven’t found it too difficult with a little assistance. There’s an integration plugin too. PS. Read some of your blog; just a body? Nooo…

[chrishajer]

I wonder how hard it would be to do something like a bbMU? Not hosted (like wordpress.com) but just like WMPU?

[woodlandstar]

The complexity of discussion boards simply exceeds my patience level for user “Unfriendly” software. I have played with a few of them (phpBB, SMF,bbpress) and have concluded that they are just to damn difficult to integrate into a web site. Most will install easy enough, and the default themes are about as ugly as you can get. Every one of them claims to have easy configuration etc. What a pile of crap. The worst of the lot is the BBpress board. Which is surprising since their blog is so easy to install and changing themes is a snap.

The “how to” support pages for all of them must have been developed by computer geeks who rarely speak English. Instructions which should be simple are garbled and about as user friendly as a wet cat.

My intention was to attempt to integrate a discussion board with my blog (http://woodlandstar.net/WSblog/): something Word Press should have developed a long time ago. How difficult can it be to extend Comments into a simple discussion board? Until something is developed that easily installs and easily integrates with the existing web site, I will hold off on using BB.

[skrisztian]

Thx, bruinfelix!

I’ve read a post about installing languages into the bb-includes/languages folder in in bbpress, but it simply doesn’t work for me. I think it was an older version (not 1.0 RC, which I currently use). In the RC your setting was the good solution. (“my-languages” folder). And of course the editing of define(‘BBLANG’, ”); in the config.php.

[thekmen]

You should just be able to edit your bb-config.php in /forum/bbpress/

Look for $bb_table_prefix = ‘englisl5_’; and change englisl5_ to what ever is set in your WordPress wp-config.php

[michael3185]

I tested Vanilla for a while, and liked its simplicity, as do one group I’ve set up a forum for. One neat thing Vanilla has is a Sticky Order plugin. It allows you to drag-move sticky topics in Admin, so that important ones stay where you want them. I can’t find anything like this for bbPress. Is anyone up to creating it? (Hey, _ck_!)

Vanilla’s plugin modifies the sticky db field from 0/1 to 0-9, then uses the value in outputting sticky topics. I’m not up to coding it, but I’m sure many would find it very useful.

[Windhamdavid]

the first thing I would do at this point is get a backup of your database. In Cpanel, (i don’t use) i’m sure there’s a myphpadmin button somewhere. Call you’re host and get em to point you to it. once there.. hit export, and get a .sql format and export again to one you can read (excel). I’m guessing here, but it looks like the prefix on the user tables is the problem. englisl5_bulletinboard. is not being found but the rest of your tables are.. or perhaps when you tried to “doing something” with wp-admin, you meant wp-config.php check in that file .. and this line. “$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;” .. or if you can give me more info on what you did perhaps i can help.

[jpmendoza]

It would be nice to have only one point of signin.

If nothing else works, I guess I’ll just use Hidden Forums and a custom message or something.

[johnhiler]

I’m guessing that Automattic built something similar to bbMU for TalkPress?

https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/04/talkpress-and-bbpress/

Not sure what if they plan to release that or not… I’m guessing they will, but that it’s not a huge priority?

[chrishajer]

bbPress was not built to work like that with WMPU. As for how to enable that functionality, I’m not sure. I think you would have to install bbPress on each blog. I’ve not heard of a way to have something like WPMU for bbPress (i.e. BBMU.)

[englishlangprof]

Hmm. I think that because it doesn’t recognise anybody I can’t get to that page at all.

[Windhamdavid]

let’s take that as a no. go to this page bb-admin/options-wordpress.php

go down to User database table prefix the value there should be “wp_” is it?

[englishlangprof]

Ermm, is that my sql database in the cpanel of my hoster?

[Windhamdavid]

i just tried to register and see you’re problem..

[Table ‘englisl5_bulletinboard.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]

…so you were installing to share your user table with wordpress,

are you able to look at your database?

[Windhamdavid]

maybe a bit more about what you did “something to do with wp-admin”? are you sharing the same database for wordpress and bbpress?

[englishlangprof]

I forgot to give the address:

http://englishforuniversity.com/forum/bbpress/

[englishlangprof]

Please can anyone help. I tried to integrate bbpress with my wordpress blog by going into bbpress admin page and doing something with -wp admin

Now none of my users or me as admin are recognised and it won’t even send me an e mail.

Is there any way back in?????

[Detective]

The plugin doesn’t work right out the box in my installation. I’ve configured the settings and added the needed lines to my wp-config.php file, but after doing that I can’t even login in WP (after entering user & pass I just get the same login screen with my username already filled).

However, if i change the defined ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’ from ‘/wp-admin’ to ‘/’ it works good. I don’t know it this is the right thing. Is it ?

edit: i have WPMU 2.7.1, BuddyPress 1.0 and bbPress 1.0 RC1.

[Christopher]

I just installed bbPress and created a username and entered my e-mail address on the install screen. Everything installed fine, but I cannot login with the password they gave me. I copied and pasted the password directly and entered it with the correct username, admin, but it will not work. Also, I never received an e-mail, neither the first one or the password recovery e-mail I requested, and I am sure I entered the right e-mail address.

I need help very badly.

[fpierron]

Hi,

I have a wordpress mu install + buddypress. All the stuff works fine. I have installed bbpress. As it was difficult to tune the installation, I don’t know if what I can’t do if the consequence of a bad installation or only a limitation of bbpress.

I thought bbpress was buillt to work with wordpress mu : then I should be able to automatically enable a forum per blog created. But it is not the case : there’s one forum belonging to the first blog wp mu, and other blogs do not have one’s.

I don’t know if I am clear so I describe what I need.

Let’s say I create a WordPress MU on example.org.

I install bbpress to the example.org/forums path. Ok, it works.

Now, I create another blog, let’s say myblog.example.org.

When I enter the url myblog.example.org/forums, I should get a new forum space, not the forum that belongs to the main blog.

How to do that ?

Regards,

Fred

[theparallaxview]

Ah….In what way re VHOSTs?

[RWB]

I dleted the tables. I deleted the user files for bbpress.

This is the error message I get now.

The database failed to install. You may need to replace bbPress with a fresh copy and start again.

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_forums (

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_name varchar(150) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_desc text NOT NULL,

forum_parent int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

forum_order int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

topics bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (forum_id),

KEY forum_slug (forum_slug)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_meta (

meta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

object_type varchar(16) NOT NULL default ‘bb_option’,

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,

meta_value longtext,

PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),

KEY object_type__meta_key (object_type, meta_key),

KEY object_type__object_id__meta_key (object_type, object_id, meta_key)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_posts (

post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,

poster_id int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

post_text text NOT NULL,

post_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

poster_ip varchar(15) NOT NULL default ”,

post_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

post_position bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (post_id),

KEY topic_time (topic_id, post_time),

KEY poster_time (poster_id, post_time),

KEY post_time (post_time),

FULLTEXT KEY post_text (post_text)

) TYPE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_terms (

term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

name varchar(55) NOT NULL default ”,

slug varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”,

term_group bigint(10) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (term_id),

UNIQUE KEY slug (slug),

KEY name (name)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_term_relationships (

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

term_order int(11) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (object_id, term_taxonomy_id),

KEY term_taxonomy_id (term_taxonomy_id)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_term_taxonomy (

term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

taxonomy varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,

description longtext NOT NULL,

parent bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (term_taxonomy_id),

UNIQUE KEY term_id_taxonomy (term_id, taxonomy),

KEY taxonomy (taxonomy)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: lilienbr_wpmu (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_topics (

topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

topic_title varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_poster bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_poster_name varchar(40) NOT NULL default ‘Anonymous’,

topic_last_poster bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_last_poster_name varchar(40) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_start_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

topic_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_open tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_last_post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_sticky tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

tag_count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (topic_id),

KEY topic_slug (topic_slug),

KEY forum_time (forum_id, topic_time),

KEY user_start_time (topic_poster, topic_start_time),

KEY stickies (topic_status, topic_sticky, topic_time)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘uft8_general_ci’;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ‘uft8_general_ci’

Database installation failed!!!

Is bbpress compatible with wordpress or am I wasting my time?