Perhaps a submission to cnet about bbPress and it’s VERY easy integration with WordPress?
Also the stupidly simplistic modifications needed to make a WordPress theme work with bbPress?
I’m doing mine at the moment and I’ve changed maybe a total of 10 lines in the CSS (some lines multiple times) to make it convert.
I agree! This is Wikipedia’s policy, not my own… they are really conservative when it comes to sources.
WordPress gets a lot of press on tech news sites!
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.cnet.com+wordpress
bbPress really gets almost none though… it’s kinda shocking. Even BuddyPress gets more press!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/30/buddypress-launches-may-a-thousand-social-networks-bloom/
http://mashable.com/2009/04/30/buddypress-social-networking/
Well – using my rather limited coding knowledge… I’m taking the original theme included with bbPress and altering it bit-by-bit to the look I want… Ok SO far, now need to position the site title a bit higher…
Would be nice for an addon for bbpress and WP that will make the themes magically match up!!
Problem is, where would you find a site that talks about new software? BLOGS!
Review sites are blogs essentially if you think about it 
I mean, I don’t recall seeing phpBB in the news anytime recently..
Thanks for the links! I’m hopeful we can find non blog sources, but reputable blogs are a close second!
On that note, there are some good articles on bbPress here:
http://www.blogherald.com/tag/bbpress/
Non – wordpress / bbpress owned sites I believe.
1: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/bbpress-for-wordpress/
2: http://www.iterating.com/products/bbPress
3: http://adrianshort.co.uk/2008/10/26/246/
Mind you – to get information those 3party sources usually source their information from the original website… go figure!! ^.^
We need your help to get the bbPress page reinstated on Wikipedia!
Sadly, the bbPress page was deleted last August:
http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/wikipedia-overlords-delete-bbpress-page/
The reasons given for the deletion included this: “Fails WP:RS as sources are self published.”
The “WP:RS” notation is short for “WikiPedia:Reliable Sources”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS
“Wikipedia articles should rely primarily on reliable, third-party, published sources (although reliable self-published sources are allowable in some situations – see below). Reliable sources are credible published materials with a reliable publication process; their authors are generally regarded as trustworthy or authoritative in relation to the subject at hand. How reliable a source is depends on context. As a rule of thumb, the more people engaged in checking facts, analyzing legal issues, and scrutinizing the writing, the more reliable the publication.”
In other words, most of the references cited were hosted on bbpress.org:
http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=BbPress_(deleted_31_Jul_2008_at_00:19)#External_links
I’d like to recreate the bbPress page on WikiPedia, but this time with a bunch of “reliable, third-party, published sources”. I did a bunch of Googling though, and most of the mentions of bbPress were on blogs.
Has anyone seen reviews or mentions of bbPress in non-blog sources? If so, please post a link here… thanks!
How relevant is the above linked guide?
Will it still work with current wordpress and bbpress versions?
If not… is there a guide for converting WP theme –> BBP Theme?
If it doesn’t happen automatically by naming a page the same as your directory, then just use one of the page redirect plugins to direct the page to your bbPress installation. No need to rip it out and start over.
I’ve only seen the index.php permalink problem on Windows servers. What sort of server are you on?
It didn’t redirect in 2.8RC2, even with the slug, however I am having problems with the permalinks showing index.php as part of them. I might just have to rip out WP and bbPress and start again (not a bother since the site I used them on its not even off the ground yet).
~Andrew~
Hi,
I just installed bbPress “out of the box” without any site-specific changes (the website isn’t officially launched): http://forums.horrid.org.uk
~Andrew~
Did you integrate with WordPress? If so, this plugin can help restore keymaster access after an integration:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/
Good luck!
use the RC-1 version of bbpress if you want to integrate the two
use the RC-1 version of bbpress if you want to integrate the two
Ok, I’ve implemented a quick / dirty fix:
In bbpress/bp-admin/install.php, change line 196 from:
$bb_install->input_text(‘user_bbdb_password’, ‘password’);
to
$bb_install->input_text(‘user_bbdb_password’);
Yes, yes they can. You should NEVER have blank lines outside the wrapping <?php ... ?> (they cause all sorts of weirdness)
Good catch, magicgirl.
Hey,
Hmm, frustrating isn’t it? I can’t offer anything else I’m afraid. Cleared your cookies and tried again? I guess that’s the obvious stuff…
“secure_auth_salt” doesn’t show up unless you’ve configured WordPress for SSL stuffs (apparently).
Sorry I can’t help anymore!
it seems i have no secure_auth_salt listed in options.php :S
@byles; ive replaced all security codes a few times
I’ve got the exact same problem, and it’s driving me mad.
I’ve tried to get this working on several fresh installs and it just ain’t happening!
Update: Oh! Fixed! I went to wp-admin/options.php and changed the salts to something else (button mashed), and updated those in bbpress too, and now it works. Don’t quite understand why nobody mentions this in any of the tutorials… Never mind
Yes, you should create a page with the same name as the directory where you installed bbPress. So, if you installed bbPress in a directory called /forums/ create a page called “Forums” with a slug of “forums” and WordPress will use that directory before it ever shows your blank page.
If that does NOT work, there are simple plugins to redirect any WordPress Page to a URL, so you could use one of those if you wanted to do that instead.
With bbPress you don’t access bb-admin directly. You log in with your keymaster account, and next to your name, if you are truly a keymaster (or someone with admin capabilities) you have a link to Admin. Click that and you are in the bbPress admin. If you don’t have that link, then the account you logged in with is no the keymaster account.
What version of bbPress are you talking about, and are the logins integrated with WordPress?
empty lines can`t make a difference
After I set up the db settings in bb-config.php the forum works like a breeze.
The only trouble is I cannot access the admin module of bbPress.
Any attempt to access /bb-admin/ files redirects me to /bb-press/ directory via my browser.
MANY thanks for any help, I ve been really stuck here..
Many thanks John, this is awesome advice.
