[johnhiler]

Yah I definitely agree! You have to be pretty computer literate to use bbPress… and there isn’t great support, other than us volunteers.

But it’s like that quote from Churchill: “Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

bbPress is the worst message board software ever – except for all the others I have ever tried.

[petertoshas]

Hellooo!

Well, i recently change to bbpress (this rocks) and i’m trying to make a theme compatible with the current theme in my wordpress blog. It went pretty well, until i came across the post-form to create a new topic and i’m in blank…

Let me explain: i’m using the theme kakumei, and instead off the hottags on the left, i’m going with a sidebar with other features (tags, the ‘fav this’ feature, link to main forum, etc…). This works well in the front-page, in the topic, profile, and other, but i’m having some problems put this working in the post-form.php !

The way i use to style was: the sidebar in <div id=sidebar></div>, and the content (infobox, post, topic meta, etc) in <div id=”content”></div> just like the kakumei theme.

My problem with the post-form.php is the function that is used in the functions.bb-template to the ‘pre_post_form’ and ‘post_post_form’. Using the <div id=”content”></div> in the post-form.php the <div> actually appears in the middle of the code of the form in the post-form and the content dont stay aligned. Putting the <div> in the functions.bb-template, just makes the <div> repeating in the others pages where the post-form is used, and the content dont stay aligned anyway.

i’ll really appreciate if you could suggest me some ideas. tks

[Ben L.]

I’m making a moderation/administration log feature for the bbPress Moderation Suite and I’m wondering what actions you consider “important” enough to log.

So far, I have plugin (de)activation and forum deletion.

[Cyndy Otty]

I suppose this is a matter of opinion, really. Granted it’s not the most user-friendly software out there and it can be much more complex to customize, but it is also a project that is in development and such things do take time to perfect.

However for what it is – a no-frills, basic forum software – it is actually exactly that right from the start.

[bruinfelix]

Youre right!

[gmrtech]

I looked at several other forum posts – but my problem is slightly different:

I have WordPress 2.7.1 and installed bbPress on a separate database. So I have 2 databases on my server (WP, and bbPress). My forum is http://www.waltribeiro.net/forum – and I can’t log in, create new user, etc.

In the ‘User Database Table Prefix’ section of the bbPress>Settings> I changed the WP Admin as Key Master, WP Editor as Moderator, etc. in User Role Map (according to http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/23/integrating-a-bbpress-forum-with-your-self-installed-wordpress/)

So I realize now that when I incorrectly entered ‘wp_’ as my Table Prefix instead of leaving it blank that bbPress can’t find the correct directory: ‘ForumWalt.wp_users’ should actually be ‘ForumWalt.users’ (right?)

As a result, I get this:

bbPress database error: [Table ‘ForumWalt.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT ID FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = ‘Walt’

bbPress database error: [Table ‘ForumWalt.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = ‘Walt’

So I can’t log in to fix it, and I trial-and- error the bb_config.php file to $bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; and $bb_table_prefix = ”; and $bb_table_prefix = ”;

but no luck. I tried going into myPHPadmin and changing the SQL names’ prefix.. still nothing.

Here’s the pic from myAdmin

http://waltribeiro.net/pictures/SQL-Problem_Screenshot.png

I’m convinced that somewhere its’ looking for wp_user when in fact it needs to look for bb_user or else it won’t find me. Should I reinstall, is the solution easier than what I’m making it out to be?

Any help?!

-Walt

[atkins]

it is very difficult to use and to get support if you are not computer literate. There is no support apart from some dedicated volunteers. People would be advised to use another Forum option unless you are very technically inclined or have someone on retainer that knows how to use the software.

[Ivaylo Draganov]

I’m also looking for that feature. Is there a working plugin?

Or maybe there could be a solution which uses some kind of feed parsing to display latest posts?

That is what I use to display latest discussions from bbPress into WordPress – just use the built-in RSS-parser. Is there something like that in bbPress?

[canadian-dutch]

this is a neat plugin, but is it possible to go backwards?

Is it possible to import new threads from bbpress as posts in the wordpress blog? Not all of them, but ones labelled/tagged/etc in a specific way?

[canadian-dutch]

I haven’t done any kind of integration. I just have the two things installed in the same home directory and then tried to make this plugin work. My wordpress is using a theme as I set it up before the bbpress but I did not do anything with bbpress, it is a clean install.

The site is temporarily at http://www.alwaysbeenagypsy.com/thefashionstudent/

and http://www.alwaysbeenagypsy.com/thefashionstudent/forum/

(though I am playing a lot with it so it may or may not be up if you try)

I’m wondering if maybe I got some of the keys wrong, would that do it?

In the documentation it says to use the “secret key” from the wp-config file but there is no secret key so I guessed which one sounded the most like it could be a secret key. The keys are:

AUTH_KEY

SECURE_AUTH_KEY

LOGGED_IN_KEY

NONCE_KEY

I have seen other forums that integrate with wordpress but to be honest I like the simplicity of this one, the others have way too much shit in them so I hope I can figure out how to get this working!

[javalotodo]

Hola a todos!

Me he tomado la libertad de modificar y terminar la traducción de la versión 0.8 que cogí del directorio Subversion. Los archivos se pueden descargar de: http://www.javalotodo.com/2009/04/25/bbpress-en-espanol/

Si alguien sabe cómo subirlos al Subversion que me lo diga.

Un saludo!

[johnhiler]

Hmm, those are the versions that I think these plugins were designed for.

Is it possible you’re using seamless integration? Other users have reported similar problems between Freshly Baked Cookies and seamless integration:

* https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/page/2/#post-2951

* https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/seemless-wordpress-integration

[canadian-dutch]

sorry I should have mentioned that. I am using WordPress 2.7.1 and bbpress 0.9.0.4

These were both downloaded and installed yesterday.

[atkins]

I am not able to post a youtube video with this program and I am the admin.

I have latest stable version of bbpress

thanks

[Enzo]

So I’ve successfully integrated WordPress and bbPress, and have been messing around with it! It’s great, but I’ve been receiving this error every time I delete a topic. (The topic still gets deleted, it’s just. . . I have to hit “back” in my browser, but having an error at all still bugs me.)

bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘WHERE status=0 AND user_id>0 AND size>0 AND post_id IN (SELECT post_id FROM bb_p’ at line 1]

SELECT count(*) as count FROM WHERE status=0 AND user_id>0 AND size>0 AND post_id IN (SELECT post_id FROM bb_posts WHERE post_status=0 AND topic_id=25)

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /my/absolute/path/forum/bb-includes/db-mysql.php:130) in /my/absolute/path/forum/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 232

Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

[johnhiler]

It sounds like your server is using PHP4?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode

If you upgrade to PHP5, it should work!

[scottfresener]

I downloaded the latest release of bbPress. I uploaded all the files/folders to my site. I even deleted them and uploaded them again to see if it fixed it. I get to the install screen and when I click “let’s get started” I get the following error about 200 times.

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/content/t/b/i/tbiznet1/html/bbpress/bb-includes/wp-functions.php on line 113

[johnhiler]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?

[canadian-dutch]

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_validate_auth_cookie() (previously declared in /home/alwaysbe/public_html/thefashionstudent/wp-includes/pluggable.php:497) in /home/alwaysbe/public_html/thefashionstudent/wp-content/plugins/freshly-baked-cookies.php on line 52

what could be causing this? I am able to log into wp and bbpress with the same username/password but I would really like to be able to only have to log in and log out one time.

I tried using the other plugin (Ann’s plugin) but when I activated it I could no longer access the website and got a fatal loop error page until I deleted the plugin file.

[dodo]

It seems that bbPress didn’t have the sidebar & widget system.

Why?

[_ck_]

Install bb-benchmark but that won’t show why the sheer connection number has increased.

bbPress only uses one connection per page load, but the number of queries can vary.

[bruinfelix]

3. Is it possible to use WordPress blog’s header on bbPress (Replacing forum header with blog’s header) without integration?

Yes, it is possible. I did it for my own website, and i dont experience any kind of performance problems (yet).

4. Page Views is not appearing in the forum menu. How to fix that?

There’s a plugin for that …

And for the rest i must say. Use the search button more often, there’s a whole world of answers on youre questions, just throwup a searchphrase, and you will be amazed what you could find

[chrishajer]

Are you just talking about moving a topic in your bbPress install to a different forum in the same bbPress install? At the bottom of the topic page (in 0.9.0.4) there is a drop down “Move this topic to the selected forum: ” with a list of forums. That is how you would move a topic from one forum to another in the same bbPress installation. If you don’t have that link at the bottom of the topic page, you probably don’t have permission to move it (i.e. you’re not keymaster, admin or moderator.) Members can’t do this on their own. Some one in charge needs to do it.

[chrishajer]

1. No, that is to prevent search engines from caching a copy of your site. It will still be indexed, you’re just telling the search engine not to cache the site.

2. PHP. You need to do a little PHP that says “if this is the first post, then show the adsense, otherwise, don’t.”

advertisements after the first message

3. It’s not that easy. It’s better to create a bbPress template that looks like your WordPress template. But you can read others experiences by browsing the integration tag.

4. Why do you think page views should be showing up? That’s not built in.

What version of bbPress did you install, and what plugins did you install?

[chrishajer]

0.9 supports subforums, but in 1.0 categories are built in. To me, a category is a parent forum that does not allow posts. It’s not built in to anything but the 1.0 alphas right now.

This plugin states that it works up to 0.9.0.2:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-is-category/