Thanks to sambauers I got the login working across both systems now. The important trick is to add the following line to bb-config.php, unless you are using WordPress 2.8:
define(‘WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION’, 1);
Now I have only one problem left: I cannot access the bbpress admin area anymore. I instantly get redirected to the forum. Any ideas what might cause this?
Oh, I checked my webserver’s log and found that my rather obsolete German translation is still downloaded frequently. So I decided to rework it for the latest stable bbPress 0.9.0.4.
You can download my language file on my German blog.
And now for the folks that understand German better than English:
Oha, ich habe einen Blick in die Logdateien meines Webservers geworfen und musste dabei feststellen, dass meine ziemlich veraltete deutsche Übersetzung immer noch häufig heruntergeladen wird. Deshalb habe ich meine Übersetzung für die aktuelle stabile Version 0.9.0.4 von bbPress überarbeitet.
Wer mag, kann meine Sprachdatei in meinem kleinen Blog herunterladen…
Here are the working plugins that I’m using with RC1:
- Allow Images 0.7.1
- bb-chunk 0.1
- BBcode Buttons Toolbar 0.0.9
- BBcode Lite 1.0.3
- bbPress signatures 0.2.0
- bbPress Smilies 0.0.8
- bb Topic Views 1.6.4
- BBVideo 0.24
- Censor 0.1
- Change Number of Front Page Topics 0.1
- Check For Updates 0.0.2
- Hidden Forums 0.0.8
- Human Test for bbPress 0.9.1
- Move It 0.14
- Post Count Plus – Dynamic.Titles & More! 1.1.11
- Quote 0.2 with add-ons by fel64
- Simple Onlinelist 1.5
- Strike 0.1
- Unread Topics 0.4
- Wiki Post 0.1.5
Plugins that AREN’T working:
- Admin add user 1.3
- Approve User Registration 0.3
i have installed bbpress in the root directory itself! now the problem is i want a user to login from a different page say index2.php and before getting redirected to the forum’s mainpage i.e index.php he should be redirected to index3.php. All the 3 index pages are in the root directory itself.
Basically i need a login box on the mainpage of the website and then after being logged in the user should be redirected to the backend of the website! Not the forum mainpage. The forums have been installed in the root directory so as to overcome the problem of bbpress not being able to share cookies over sub directories apart from wordpress! I use the database of the bbpress itself still haven’t got any success!
Hoping for a quick response!
Thanks!
Vipul
Hi Guys,
I so want to move my forum from smf to bbpress but not sure how do I go about d0ing this. Is there any converter yet in place to handle this or any other solutions around?
please advice
thanks
dave
Oh yeah!!!!! It works!!!!!!!! Thanks a lot))
I’ve just synced cookies on bbPress 0.9.04 and WordPressMU for the second time. I’ve read a few places that it doesn’t work or is difficult, so I wanted to share my solution. It’s really very easy. I wrote it up in a blog post:
http://www.callum-macdonald.com/2009/05/17/bbpress-09-and-wordpressmu-27/
It was remarkably simple (at least to me) to get it all working. Summary of steps:
1) Set all _KEY values to the same in WordPress and copy to bbPress.
2) Repeat for _SALT values.
3) Set COOKIE_DOMAIN and COOKIE_PATH
4) Settings > WordPress Integration > Show manual config settings, copy into bb-config.php.
5) From 4, change the authcookie value to wordpress_logged_in_
Step 5 won’t work exactly on WordPress standalone because it uses a hash in the cookie name. You can probably check the WordPress cookie in your browser and set it manually. Or maybe it’ll “just work”.
Then I whipped up a plugin to set / unset the other 2 WordPress cookies on bbPress login / out. It only works for WPMU right now. Somebody could probably improve it to work for WordPress. Code here:
http://www.callum-macdonald.com/download/wpmu-cookies.php-0.1.zip
This might be useful to somebody… 
I just realized it is doing the same thing on another bbpress forum I installed last year. I know it used to work however. Ugh.
chrishajer, I installed bbpress 0.9.0.4 , and they are sharing a database, use the same login, etc.
sambauers posted this in another thread:
Oh, I forgot, add this to your bb-config.php
define(‘WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION’, 1);
When you upgrade to WordPress 2.8 later, you will need to remove that line.
Worked like a charm for me!
When my users click the same link while signed out, they get sent to a similar link:
http://boards.weddingbee.com/bb-login.php?re=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.weddingbee.com%2F%3Fnew%3D1
So it looks like bbPress is sending users to the right place. So I played around with your URL a bit:
http://www.endsofearth.com/forum/bb-login.php?re=http://www.endsofearth.com/
That didn’t work either, so I stripped off the re= part completely:
http://www.endsofearth.com/forum/bb-login.php
That worked… suggesting that the problem is with the re= part and your htaccess file.
Just when I was feeling clever, I did a quick Google search and ck had already figured it all out:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/latest-discussions-add-new-link-problem-if-not-logged
Maybe try disabling MultiViews or checking your htaccess file?
Looks like you integrated with WordPress 2.7.1 – did you integrate the logins? What version of bbPress did you install?
Looks like your installation is missing the bb-load.php? Did you try to include bb-load.php into WordPress? If so, you probably just have the path to the file wrong.
Are the xxxx’s the path to bbPress or WordPress directories? Obfuscating that makes it hard to see what your error is really saying.
Also, what version of bbPress are you talking about?
No, I don’t. I’m still pretty new to WP and would like to integrate them both. I have Facebook Connect running on the main site for comments and would like to do the same for the forums. Since I couldn’t port the site over from my old software (e107), I opted for Facebook as an easy way to comment.
Is there a way to integrate Facebook Connect into bbPress?
Very nice. I see you’re using WordPress 2.7.1. Do you have integrated logins between the forum and the WordPress site, and if so, how did you integrate them?
I just launched my site on WordPress and am loving it. http://kingscast.net (We’re about 98% complete with integration)
I also launched our bbPress forums site found at http://kingscast.net/forums – custom theme but playing around with integration of plugins, etc.
I’d appreciate any feedback! Thanks!
Here is an untested variation of Mark’s WP plugin for bbPress, it’s a little more sophisticated in that it tries to return the person back to the topic they were in if it exists or if they were starting a topic, to the forum they were posting in.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Moderation Notification
Author: _ck_
*/
add_action( 'bb_post.php', 'moderation_notification', 999);
add_action( 'bb_head', 'moderation_notification_alert', 999);
function moderation_notification($post_id) {
if (empty($post_id)) {return;} // invalid post
$post = bb_get_post($post_id);
if ($post->post_status==0) {return;} // not moderated
if ($post->post_position>1) {
$link = get_topic_last_post_link($post->topic_id); // return them to the last known good post in the topic
} else {
$link = get_forum_link($post->forum_id); // return them to the forum that they posted in since there's no valid topic yet
}
$link=add_query_arg('moderated','true',$link); // set the flag
wp_redirect($link);
exit;
}
function moderation_notification_alert() {
if (!isset($_GET['moderated'])) {return;}
$out = <<<EOF
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
alert ("You post was successfully processed, \n\n however it was placed on hold and will appear once a moderator verifies that it is not spam.\n\n Please be patient and do not resubmit your comment.");
//-->
</script>
EOF;
echo $out;
}
?>
You can see the notice by putting ?moderated=true on one of your urls
I don’t recommend trying to purposely cause spam to test it because akismet might flag you globally as a spammer and you’ll end up being bozo’ed across multiple forums/blogs.
I’m in the same boat. I’ve tried every suggestion I’ve come across in the forums, the cookie hashes match, the settings match, and still it refuses to work. It’s rather frustrating to say the least.
Not sure about BuddyPress at all…
Because bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress, it’s not really possible, as far as I know, to make your forum appear in a WordPress page. Someone posted here once about putting bbPress in an iFrame and putting that in a WordPress page, but I’ve still not seem it working at all.
Most people create a theme for bbPress that looks like your WordPress theme and then they integrate the logins so you can log in once for both bbPress and WordPress.
Ipstenu, my skip-akismet plugin works on wordpress installs too, though there is some kind of subtle bug I can’t seem to find where it doesn’t catch everyone on the wp side, works great on the bbpress side however.
If you meant what will notify users of comments being held, this will do it:
http://txfx.net/files/wordpress/notify-users-of-moderation.phps
What’s crazy is that was written back for WP 1.2, and yet it’s still needed, 5 years later.
bump
Sam’s code works but still it displays the time in GMT rather than in my timezone. That doesn’t seem right cause it display the proper time since. How do I get that correctly?
(same thing with _ck_’s code – off the time zone and into GMT)
EDIT:
looking through some bbPress code I think I’ve got it right at last! The time has to be filtered through bb_offset_time, so the code should be(for post times):
echo date("date-format-goes-here", bb_offset_time(strtotime($bb_post->post_time)));
Still wonder why isn’t the time filtered when using sam’s code…
EDIT again:
and it does not localize – the date is in English… wonder how to set that up?
Ah, that might be it, thanks. I had only checked the bbpress repository 
Is this needed/required for the dreaded WPMU/BP/BBpress integration as well?
