[braddock16]

I have the following plugins installed:

1. Private forums:

http://www.adityanaik.com/projects/plugins/bb-private-forums/

2. Akismet

3. VIPUsers:

I downloaded this on bbpress.org somewhere.

I don’t have the bbpress signups separate from wordpress. The 2 is integrated. But you probably know that from my first post.

In wordpress every user has the option to give themselves a “nickname”. I would actually like the forum to display that….if possible.

[renkei]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/unread-posts/page/2/

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/new-plugin-unread-posts?replies=2#post-1269

yep exactly the same …

[Ben L.]

It’s not the template. Line 4 of post.php is <strong><?php post_author_link(); ?></strong><br />, so it should be showing the post author’s name, not email. There’s no functions.php, so it has to be a plugin.

What plugins do you have active on your bbPress installation?

[braddock16]

I don’t think it’s the template either because inside the forum area, bbpress shows that the username is the same as the email used when signing up to wordpress. that doesn’t make sense because when they signed up with wordpress they chose a real username.

[braddock16]

My WORDPRESS theme/template shows the usernames correctly.

The BBPress forum template does NOT.

The template I’m using for BBpress is the “blank 3 column

1.0 by refueled”

BBpress version 0.9.0.4

I’m using wordpress 2.6.2.

I cannot change my wordpress version under any circumstances because I have certain vital plugins that only operate under that version and it’s a paid membership site.

So what can the problem be here?

Thanks for the support so far!

[chrishajer]

Wherever the username is displayed properly – what theme is in use there? And what version of bbPress and WordPress did you integrate?

If you are seeing the username displayed incorrectly in bbPress, maybe the template author used the wrong function to display the username, or something like that.

[braddock16]

Are you talking about the wordpress template theme or bbpress?

I wouldn’t mind paying for help also.

Regards,

Braddock

[fidflan]

My bbpress forum was working just fine for about 1 year – then last week this message came up when i went to to my forum :

Oh Dear!


An invalid configuration file was found at bb-config.php
The installation cannot continue.

Usually this is caused by one of the database connection settings being incorrect.

Make sure that the specified user has appropriate permission to access the database.

I did not set this forum up originally – a previous web designer did – who i can’t get a hold of –

now i need to fix this problem and have no idea how to do it.

I hope some one out there can help me.

Thanks in advance,

K

[Hermiony]

Yay, it works!

Thanks so much!!

[Hermiony]

Ok, that sounds a bit scary so I’m just going to double check with you… (Love the Llama, I thought it was a chicken at first)

So the folder in cpanel that’s called bbpress, I change the name of it to forums? Have I got that right?

[Ben L.]

First, go into settings and change the url. Then, the folder bbpress to forums.

[Hermiony]

Hi,

I’ve installed bbpress, and my forum is now called http://www.mydomain.com/bbpress

How can I make it so that it’s called http://www.mydomain.com/forums or something similar?

Does anyone know?

[braddock16]

The latter yes. instead of braddock16 it shows braddock16@email.whatever.

I viewed user profiles in bbpress and the usernames are also the emails.

I have no idea why or what to do to fix it?

[frooyo]

I read nearly 4 months ago from Sam himself that ALPHA #7 was “weeks away” from being release.

Curious to know what the current status is on ALPHA #7.

And yes, I have already read up on: http://bbpress.org/forums/tags/10

So please don’t post that as a reply.

[bobbyh]

Sure, that’s real easy. The hard part will be figuring out what UPDATE statements to write, and then writing and running them.

You should probably take your sites offline while you run this maintenance…

[lookfab]

Thanks bobbyh. This is very helpful.

user_id and username conflicts should be managable since the number of WP users is very small.

On schema, it looks like I need to add the user_activation_key field.

> That extra index on user_nicename is the least of your problems.

So I would just add it using phpMyAdmin?

[Shagalaga]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/#post-760

[mynursing]

Hey Greenshady, I thoroughly enjoy your site! Your bbpress is by far the best that i’ve seen.

[chrishajer]

Using it now. Thanks a lot for doing it. I might even play with it a bit further.

[Ben L.]

Compare what you’re seeing now to http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1219/bborgbig.png

If you like my version, you can use http://userstyles.org/styles/17707 to transform bbPress.org completely!

[gera3d]

Hello Everyone,

So let me start with I am on day 3 trying to get this working right. I have tried 5 different methods to getting the forums to workd with my WordPress MU install but I just cant get it working. Please Help.

Everything is fresh and current.

Latest Attempt:

Following this guide.

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt

At the end of bbpress install I got this error. Check Code below.

I also cant do step 6 because buddypress-enable.php is not there. What should I do?

Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

>>> Setting up custom user table constants

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Modifying database: 40knetwork (mysql.dbmethod.com)

>>>>>> Table: bb_forums

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_meta

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_posts

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_terms

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_term_relationships

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_term_taxonomy

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_topics

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> Fetching missing WordPress cookie salts.

>>>>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.

>>> User database table prefix: wp_

Step 3 – Site settings

>>> Site name: Warhammer Social Network

>>> Site address (URL): http://warhammernetwork.us/forum/

>>> From email address: gera3d@gmail.com

>>> Key master role assigned to existing user

>>>>>> Username: admin

>>>>>> Email address: gera3d@gmail.com

>>>>>> Password: Your existing password

>>> Description: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum name: Warhammer Social Network

>>>>>> Topic: Your first topic

>>>>>>>>> Post: First Post! w00t.

>>> Key master email sent

There were some errors encountered during installation!

[johnhiler]

Ah are you using an older version or theme? There have been some reports of the 39 year issue here:

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

[Ben L.]

This seems like a job for the view functions.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/view/updated is a good example, although I have no idea how to make it happen.

[bobbyh]

This sounds reasonable but painful.

Some tips:

* Only upgrade bbPress to 0.9

* Upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1 almost made this impossible, but ck and superanne saved your bacon with plugins for WP 2.7 <=> bbPress 0.9 cookie compatibility.

* Don’t forget to assign your WP users privileges (e.g. Keymaster) by adding a row to the usermeta table

* How are you going to handle user_id conflicts between bbPress and WordPress? For instance, if the WordPress “asdf” user/author has a user_id of 17, and there’s also a user on bbPress with a user_id of 17, you’ll have to do a bunch of UPDATE queries to wp_posts (post_author field) and wp_comments (comment_author and user_id), because when you create a new author with a user_id of 1000, it won’t match up with the post_author_field (etc.) which will have the old 17 number in it.

* Also what about username conflicts, e.g. two users named “asdf”, etc.? That might result in more UPDATE queries… You’ll have to rename the WordPress user, probably.

* The benefit to integrating the databases completely is you don’t have to make two connections to two databases. I’d go for it.

* That extra index on user_nicename is the least of your problems.

* Are you sure that bb_users and wp_users has the exact same database schema? Confirm this! Also, make sure to add any “missing indexes” that are currently in wp_users to “the new wp_users”.

Good luck!

[lookfab]

We have a 3+ year old WP install (2.7.1, 100s of posts) and a bbPress install (0.8.3, 1000s of users). Currently the integration is only skin deep. Separate databases, no user integration. We are thinking of taking the plunge and deepening the integration. I think I have read all the relevant threads here (some of them more than once), but given that some of the advice has dated and that the “reverse integration” option isn’t covered in a lot of depth, I need to ask a few questions.

First, I saw chrishajer ask why one would integrate. In our case there are two reasons:

1. So that forum member identity carries over to commentor identity on the blog

2. Because we want to do some customization of the profile information and there are a lot of WP plugins that can get us started on this

Second, the approach I have in mind:

1. Upgrade BBPress to 1.0 (for simplicity sake let’s pretend it is out of Alpha)

2. Export the “bb_user” and “bb_usermeta” tables from the BBPress database (using phpMyAdmin)

3. Import these tables into the WP database and rename them to “wp_users” and “wp_usermeta”

4. Recreate the WP users I lost in the process (only a few of these)

5. Point BBPress to the WP database for the user tables in the BBPress admin settings page

6. Take care of all the cookie settings stuff (won’t focus on this one for now)

My questions for now:

1. Does this sound reasonable, or am I missing something important?

2. I know my steps oversimplify the process – where is it going to get tricky?

3. Is there some benefit to integrating the databases completely, or is the user-only integration ok?

4. How do I handle the fact that “wp_users” has an extra index on “user_nicename”?

5. Will this complicate future upgrades of WP and BBPress?

Thanks in advance for any advice.