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Well it’s been six month now so we’re long overdue

for another (completely unofficial) TOP 100 report!

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

Top 1000 requires free registration/login:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000

New this year is the ability to vote on sites, based on quality/content, so even if a site is not in the regular Top 100 list, be sure to “vote it up” and I will post another list soon with the highest votes. There are some really nice looking forums running bbPress out there that deserve some votes. You must be a member to vote but registration is free of course. The Top 1000 list can also be searched when you are logged in, as well as an experimental Tag Cloud

When we last left the list, it had just topped over 4000 websites.

In the newest list, despite roughly 1000 sites disappearing (small test installs, etc.) the list is now over 6000 strong! This means an average of 15 sites per day are installing and sticking with bbPress. About 10% of these forums are running the new 1.0 alpha (and half of those have not upgraded to the newest 1.0a6, so they need to keep up with the releases).

At this rate, next time I am going to have to make it the Top 10,000 list.

However I am sad to report a dark side has emerged in bbPress’s growth. Because of how much easier bbPress is to control and manipulate with just a basic knowledge of PHP/MySQL compared to other forum software, some “black hats” have latched onto bbPress in order to create a big content spamming network, nearly 200 sites strong. They aim these sites at search engines with topics such as gambling, lottery and foreign currency exchanges. You can see them at the very end of the Top 1000 list, where they sit demoted. This really doesn’t affect the average forum operator in any way, it’s just unfortunate to see. WordPress went through this kind of event too, I just hate to see it happen.

ps. This list also marks the first inclusion of a TalkPress powered site and while it only has a couple dozen posts because it’s brand new, it has the easy access of 7.5million WordPress.com members so it’s bound to grow quickly!

[chrishajer]

Need way more information here please. Where do you see this error, what is the error, what URL is being reported as 404? What versions of bbPress and WordPress (if you integrated)? Can you post a URL to your forum? Does everything but this work?

[chrishajer]

The closest I know of is this:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/restrict-registration-for-bbpress/#post-173

[rafael_g_v]

I use both and can work alone

[chrishajer]

@tannar, I will only share this with you if you post a link to your forum. I would like to see this working because many people have asked about it, and I’ve never seen it working.

From here: http://brondsema.net/blog/index.php/2007/06/06/100_height_iframe#c4631

Add this to the bottom of the page you are including in the iframe.

<script type="text/javascript">

parent.window.document.getElementById("youridnamehere").height = document.body.offsetHeight +50;

</script>

You need to change youridnamehere to the id of the iframe in your wordpress page. So, if you did something like <iframe src="whatever.php" id="bbpressforum" ... /> you would change youridnamehere to bbpressforum because that’s the id of the iframe.

Also, the +50 at the end just adds some space to the bottom (it’s probably in pixels I imagine.) You can try different numbers to be sure the forum fits in the frame. I can’t recall exactly what number I started out with there, but +50 worked for my application (not bbPress, BTW.)

Good luck.

[chrishajer]

Which 1.0 alpha are you using? There was an issue with this but I forget with what version.

This is the only thing recent I can find right now:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-edit-the-keymasters-profile

[grasn]

Ok i’m using the embed-iframe plugin to integrate the forum, it looks good. I reduced the width of the forum theme in the css file so it fits the page. The only problem i have, in emped-iframe you can assign a width and height for the iframe. 100% doenst work for height, cause if the forumpage has many threads the iframe becomes a scrollbar on the right side. Any solutions to fix this, and let the iframe automaticly get the height of the forumpage height?

[stockefeller]

My version of BuddyPress has bbPress installed successfully…. with only one glitch. Whenever I login through the WordPress login I get the following error message. If I then hit the back button and visit the site I never see the error again.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks

Byron

—-error message below

---

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/c/o/s/cossettera/html/wp-content/mu-plugins/oci_bp_group_forums.php on line 346

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/c/o/s/cossettera/html/wp-content/mu-plugins/oci_bp_group_forums.php:346) in /home/content/c/o/s/cossettera/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 856

[chrishajer]

What versions did you integrate?

[chrishajer]

That is a very clear error message: the system cannot find the file you are trying to include in bbPress. You started the file path with /blog. which is an absolute path, starting at the root /. You will probably have more luck with this:

require_once( '/home1/endingho/public_html/blog/wp-blog-header.php' );

The $bb->WP_BB = true; part I am unfamiliar with. But the error is indicating that you have the path wrong.

[chrishajer]

@tannar: you can make iframes appear without borders, if you like. You need this in the iframe tag: frameborder="0"

I have heard of a couple people trying it, but I have not yet seen it done. Can you post a link to this when you have it working? Thanks.

@RichBrown: If you want bbPress to *look* like your WordPress installation, you are going to need to use a bbPress theme that matches or approximates you WordPress theme. There are a couple of matching themes out there for bbPress and WordPress. What versions of bbPress and WordPress did you install?

The best way I know of right now to integrate the look of bbPress with the look WordPress is to create a theme for bbPress that looks like your WordPress theme. We’re spoiled with so many good themes for WordPress right now, and not so many for bbPress. We’re not used to creating themes; we’re used to installing themes (at least that has been my experience with WordPress.) bbPress is not quite there yet in terms of popularity and community support (i.e. themes and plugins.)

I don’t believe you can make bbPress live inside a WordPress page: bbPress is not a forum plugin for WordPress. And I have not yet seen the iframe hack work.

[richbrown]

I completed the integrtion.

I cannot be logged into both at the same tiem.

For example, if i am not logged into WP I can get into the admin section of bbPress.

If I then log into WP and exit the admin page I am unable to get back to it.

Is this normal?

If not how do I fix it?

[richbrown]

As a newbie I am looking to have my bbpress appear seamlessly in WordPress.

How can this be done?

[mStudios]

after re-installing about 5 or 6 times and fiddling around I finally got it to work. if I would now only know what the secret was!

[grasn]

Ok guys, thanks for your posts, but i didn’t understand: is it possible to integrate bbpress into my wordpress blog like on this site and on http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ ? I see its possible, does no one have an idea how to do it?

I don’t care about themes, i just want to integrate my /forum/ directory in a wordpress page. i tried using iframe but its not that great cause it has borders.

[deadlyhifi]

All new users in bbpress are being automatically set to “inactive” instead of “member”

I found this happened if I tried to pull in wp_head() or anything else WP related into bbP. You’re best replicating the theme…

[Filipe Deschamps]

Hey guys, I really recomend you to stop trying to make 2.7 work with BB alpha.

Use the undergrade cookie plugin to wordpress and everything is resolved. It’s so simple that you don’t need to do nothing.

Besides that, you will be able to use CK plugins without any problems and be able to make a much safer upgrade when 1.0 is released.

Sorry for english

[Tecca]

A music & gaming blog using wordpress + bbpress. The forum layout isn’t quite done yet, I’m trying to make it look more appealing, especially for those used to other forum software.

http://teccahigh.com/

[backsword]

我来咯。请移步到我的版面讨论，欢迎！

bbpress中文讨论区 http://cartoon.lamost.org/forum.php?id=2

[chrishajer]

RichBrown, please start a new thread explaining your problem thoroughly. Please list the versions of bbPress and WordPress that you integrated.

Thank you.

[nicolas_fr]

Hello, thx for your answer.

I use the default template (theme) named kakumei.

I tried the blue version : same result.

I tried to use alpha 6, but from scratch, i had many issues. Unable to share user session with WP.

Not the same version from bbpress integration module, on the WP side. (only alpha 4.1, not alpha 6).

I tried to upload directly, but I had problems.

It’s really difficilut, an finally, i spent a day of work, and my forum doesn’t work.

I hope i’ll run ^^

[richbrown]

I am also having the same problem and the meta value is a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}.

What can i do to get this to work?

[nicolagreco]

cookie integrations are available on wpmu 2.7 (or above)

[chrishajer]

Are you using the default theme? If not, try the default theme and see if you have the same error. Someone else posted this recently and I can’t recall what it turned out to be. Here are a couple relevant posts:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/can-not-post-new-topic-in-this-forum#post-25509

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-error-closed-topic#post-22226

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/problems-with-forum-is-category-in-10-alpha-6#post-25526

Also, why are you using alpha 4? I thought the basic integration screencast used alpha 6 and WordPress 2.7. There may be some bugs that were fixed between alpha 4 and alpha 6.

[chrishajer]

Cookie issues? Have you tried clearing all the cookies?

Also, there are probably places in the database that have references to file system paths and things like that (I know WordPress does this, for uploads for example.) Maybe there is something in the bbPress tables like that that is preventing it from working correctly?

What I usually do is search the tables for a string that was unique to my old host (a customer number or something else in the path that is unique) then once I find those records, I do a global search and replace on the whole string.

Maybe it’s something like that. I don’t think the database dump will just work straight-away on a new host without modification.