[agitainment]

I’m trying to figure out a way to give users the option to select from a small number of pre-set avatars (say, five or six). As the admin, I want to be able to upload the avatars then give the users a choice, but I don’t want to allow users to be able to upload their own avatars to my site.

Does anyone know if bbpress already allows this (and how to accomplish it) or if there is a plug-in out there that allows for this (if it’s something like Avatar Upload, I’d need a way to turn off general uploading and only allow the admin to do the uploading)?

Thanks for the help.

Cheers!

[Johanhorak]

Hi I am using wp 2.7.0 trunk (2.7.1) bbpress Version 1.0-alpha-6 Buddypress Core: 1.0-RC1 And I have the same problem. To try and resolve the issues I will show you the cookies for buddypress/wp and bbpress but instead of sharing the cookie I will call it “cookiestring”:

At bp/wp I have:

2x worpdress_logged_in_cookiestring at /

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/bb-plugins

wordpress_cookie string at /forums/my-plugins

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/bb-admin

wordpress_cookiestring at /wp-admin

wordpress_cookiestring at /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_test_cookie at /

PHPSESSID at /

_utma at /

_utmb at /

_utmc at /

_utmz at /

at bbpress the I have the following cookies

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/bb-plugins

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/my-plugins

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/bb-admin

wordpress_cookiestring at /wp-admin

wordpress_cookie string at /wp-content/plugins

As you can see I have the same cookie string but I have a few extra cookies at buddypress.

Thanks for sharing your experience with me.

Johan

[bruinfelix]

Currently i’am working on a own BuddyPress theme, based on the original theme provided by the BuddyPress developers. And yes, it will include a matching bbPress theme

http://wordpress-blog.nl

[Johanhorak]

Hi mypop I followed your advice on buddypress. Thanks it all worked. Before I had mu 2.7 and I could unlock discussions and then allow it again. This created the forum etc. But when I upgraded to WPMU branch 2.7.1r1715, all else as you have it, I could not follow the procedure. The only way was to delete the group and re-create it.

I am with Hostgator on a shared server.

My issue now is to find why my logins are not shared.

Gone of searching…

[_ck_]

More news today here:

https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/04/talkpress-and-bbpress/

[Sam Bauers]

Setup should not be any different to the case where they are on the same server besides the obvious need to change the URLs in the admin area of BuddyPress/WPMU.

You will have issues if you can’t somehow share the same user database from these servers though or at least somehow replicate that data reliably to the bbPress server.

[alehawk]

Hi!

I normally use VBulleting forum, several of my sites runs it but I algo use wordpress in some sites and for a new one I was looking for something in the middle betweeen forum and blog and I thing I got it with bbpress.

I know it isnt like WordPress but I like it.

To the point, in VBulletin I got a automatic thread tagger, it will add tags automatically to the posts, it works just fine, you can exclude words like TO, FOR, THE, etc.

I guess something like that is missing here. I dont know how to code it.

Tnx!

[_ck_]

If you are user # 1, use this:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

[Nate]

So, I get to be a newbie (it’s been a while …)

The problem: I did the integration, but in the bbAdmin area (where you determine the User Values), I merged the administrator of WordPress (uh, me), somehow, with a value that doesn’t have access to the ‘Settings’ link within bbPress.

Not sure how I did it, or how to fix it. But while I seem to be recognized as the ‘admin’ on bbPress, the ‘Settings’ tab is no longer visible.

Help!

Thanks guys,

Nate

[_ck_]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/something-happening-on-talkpresscom

[simpleanecdote]

Still got them.

I’m not a php newbie.

Not an expert, but in a comfortable place in the middle

I think I’ve pretty much got over all the bugs in the system.

If anyone wants my style of integration – this is what I did:

Installed bbPress in root/forums/

in header.php of forum template put the following before everything else:

<?php include('../lib/includes/header.php');//Website template ?>

in header.php of your own website:

$forumexplode = explode('/', $_SERVER);

if($forumexplode == "forums")

{

bb_feed_head();

?>

#You can also put in here you own, relative path style sheets from the main website.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>" type="text/css" />

<?php if('rtl' == bb_get_option('text_direction')) : ?>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bb_stylesheet_uri( 'rtl' ); ?>" type="text/css" />

<?php endif;

bb_head();

}

else

{

?>

Anything you want to load from normal relative path (if not forums)

<?php

}

?>

</head>

<body id="<?php ($forumexplode == "forums" ? bb_location() : ""); ?>">

in footer.php of forum template put the following after everything else:

<?php include('../lib/includes/footer.php');//Website template ?>

I also prefixed all the forum template’s XHTML id tags with forum_ so they won’t mess with my website’s structure.

After you’ve done all that, you’re free to style your forum via the css file in the templates directory like you would normally, as well as the structure via the other files.

And your website, via your own stylesheets.

Or you can load everything from either stylesheet as long as you remember to load them from their relative path in the header.

Hope this helps someone ;P

Peace everyone, hope bbPress will release a version soon which will be easier to integrate.

Because my system doesn’t really allow for easy user authentication integration on the rest of the website. Can be circumvented via regular user auth integration but that’s more work.

SMF (Simple Machines Forum) has ssi.php file which you just load into any page and everything is integrated right there and then. Maybe in future versions?

Me.

[Vizworld]

I’ve just setup BBPress and integrated it with my WordPRess blog (www.vizworld.com and vizworld.com/forum ). The integration worked perfectly.

However, I find myself today unable to access the Admin area. I could get in yesterday by doing the recommended logout/purge cookies/login , but Today every time I click “Admin” it just bounced back to the main forum page.

Any help would be appreciated.

[simpleanecdote]

Problem was, I declared a variable by the name of $forum which overwrote a native variable in the system.

My mistake people. Sorry to waste _ck_’s time.

_ck_ – what do you think about my integration? I’m cheating because I’m not integrating the forum into the website, but the website’s header and footer into the template of bbPress.

Do you see any major setbacks to this cheat?

Because integrating bbPress into my website will take me days.

I’ll appreciate your opinion on the matter,

Me.

[_ck_]

http://bbxf.org/

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/import

[esemar]

Hi,

I need to import forum data from an unknown forum system. Is there a data tree for bbpress out there somewhere, and is there a way to import xml forum data into bbpress?

Thanks-

Scot

[johanh]

Even with these errors my bbpress is working and all my users on MU were integrated with bbpress. Thanks for all your suggestions and advice and especially to my new friends above and @mypop

[mattpeckham]

Does anyone know if bbSync is working properly with bbPress these days?

[zeronix]

I tried to include my Header.php content (some codes of it) to my bbpress header.php but always got trouble with the scripts.

It seems the codes are different and wont work together.

Maybe someone can help us because i am a beginner too.

Maybe there´s a way to create a new Page in WP and include bbPress there?

I hope so.

[zeronix]

Is there a wayy to get this Tool you talked about in your Tutorial?

I´d also love to integrate my WP theme to my forum but the link you posted is down

PS:

I run WPmu and the latest bbPress release

I hope this tool will work with it (if you could send me).

Best regards, Sebastian

[martines]

Hi!

Can somebody help with easy explanaition how to WordPress header get into bbpress forum.

Thanke!

[_ck_]

Here’s what you should have read before posting this question:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/10

Not sure what your rush is for alpha 7 unless you aren’t using any of my plugins.

I will not be supporting 1.0 any further until it is final release which may not happen this year. You should only be using 0.9 on live sites, it’s very stable.

[grassrootspa]

I love you guys, but will Alpha 7 be out anytime soon?

It’s been around January or so since the last beta.

Realistically speaking, will we see the Beta version in a month or so, or more like a half a year or more???

I’m really excited about bbPress and can’t wait to utilize a stable version on a live site.

[chrishajer]

Sounds like port 111 (RPC) is disabled on your host. Have you tried contacting them?

[agitainment]

Thanks, _ck_. I appreciate the feedback.

By the way, I’m running several of your plugins, including Human Test, bbCode, Subscribe to Topic and more.

For anyone wanting to extend your bbPress site, I suggest looking first at _ck_’s plugins under the Extend tab. Really great stuff.

[mypop]

I’m planning (/ trying !!**!!) to run WPMU branch 2.7.1r1715, bbPress 1.0-Alpha-6, latest BuddyPress, r1324.

My Hosting provider won’t allow RPC calls on the same server, so I have to mount bbPress on a different domain and server.

Will it work?

Assuming, it will:

Is it better to put bbPress in the root, or in a folder (usually root/forums )?

What (apart from the cookie hash) are the issues that I’m going to face?

How would I configure the cookies?