@Wendel: im curious to what you think is better SimplePress or BBPress?
It appears that the ‘deep integration’ between bbPress and WordPress will provide the basis for doing this, I’d need to be able to re-code the registration screen to make the ‘occupation’ field a required field. I also want it to be coded so it’s a dropdown list of choices that I determine.
This issue is way huge for anyone wanting to monetize a website through advertising. Advertisers on the web want to know who your audience is before they will pay reasonable CPMs. I’m showing videos that will eventually incorporate ads, and I want the site to know how to identify a registered visitor so that the video ads can be targeted based on their self-identified occupation.
I also need the forum to be incorporated into a WordPress page, the way I have a test of Simple:Press set up here:
http://architecturecartoon.com/forum/
Is there a relatively simple way to make bbPress look like that?
Hello,
I have bbPress installed but not yet really active. I also have Simple:Press installed, and it is set up the way I want bbPress to look here:
http://architecturecartoon.com/forum/
Is there a theme or way to get bbPress incorporated into a WordPress page like that?
Thanks
Sounds interesting, but Adsense should be contextual out of the box. However, if you are looking to do something with affiliate banners, I would think there might be a variable you can attach to a registered user, although that is far above my realm of knowledge.
who wouldnt want PM in a forum anyway.
its like if you the PM feature part of BBPress, than you could update it easier with the newer releases. it doesnt make sense , but anyway..
Just remove any line you added to bb-config.php or wp-config.php that includes the other program. If you added a line to include bbPress in WordPress, or added a line to include WordPress in bbPress, in the config files, just comment them out and see if this still happens.
For starters my site runs the following WPMU 2.7, Buddypress RC-1 and BBpress 1.0 alpha 6 – if you’ve had problems with any of the following then this is worth a read …
This is a weird one but totally worth mentioning. I just re-installed bbpress for the fifth time and found a wee error that seems to bugger everything up.
If you’ve got everything working properly and you’re in the admin screen on bbpress ‘Settings/Wordpress Integration’ DO NOT hit the ‘Save Changes’ button at the bottom of the user integration menu.
The reason being is that it breaks everything and you have to reinstall bbpress. I can’t remember the exact error as I did this late last night but the error occurs in ‘bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php’ on line 123 and 377
I also noticed that (once you get it back up and running) you can’t post on existing group forums but if you create new groups then everything is hunky-dory 
Just as well I hadn’t populated the site LOL
It’s been a hell of a learning curve this but not a bad one by any means – I’s say I’m very proficient now at reinstalling bbpress and integrating!
After all this rant I’m not sure if this is a problem specific to me but please let me know if you’ve suffered the same. I’ll put something on the BBpress forums too shortly.
Cheers,
Phil
as you can see in many post outta there, bbpress 0.9 and wordpress 2.7 aren’t integrated well to each other without a special plugin. you have three options to get your integration working:
1. upgrade bbpress to unstable 1.0 alpha version
2. downgrade you wordpress to 2.5
3. use a plugin to get your current versions working together.
following thread should help you out
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101
did you noticed the new way of integration in bbPress 1.0 and wp 2.7.x ?
You can use some plugins to get the stable 0.9 of bbpress working with wp 2.7.
whatever i think this thread should help you much more:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101
Installed new WP 2.7.1 and bbpress 0.9.0.4 just fine – I see my WP users in bbpress; I believe I integrated cookies correctly too.
However when I log into WP as another user and click the link to bbpress the new user is NOT logged into bbpress.
What am I missing?
Thanks much for any help.
I guess we can’t post a security warning on the PM plugin… I just gave it one star instead, in the hopes that a lower rating would discourage people from installing it.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/private-messages/
Actually, if it’s this plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/simple-onlinelist/
There are lots of people with the same issue, or there were lots of people a year ago. Looks like it always tries to use bb_ as the table prefix instead of $bbdb (i.e. $bbdb->online). Take a look at some of the replies.
bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress. Get it out of your WordPress plugin folder. It does not belong in /home/m4inform/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/ it belongs here /home/m4inform/public_html/wordpress/bbpress/ as a sub-directory of WordPress.
In your template files, wherever there is a call to post_form(); just change it to
post_form('Custom Title Here'); – you can even put a space in the single quotes and not have any title at all. The “New Topic in this Forum” is part of bbPress, but you can override it in your template wherever post_form is called.
New to WordPress and certainly am not impressed with this Plugin.
Installed new WP v 2.7.1 and uploaded this module bbpress-0.9.0.4 and it fails with the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_option() in /home/m4inform/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bb-plugins/akismet.php on line 72
I just can’t imagine I did something wrong but assume this plugin works.
Appreciate any pointers.
If rewriting a PM plugin I would try to use as much internal stuff that bbPress has as possible. For example use the same hooks actions/filters that the new post form uses (and specify post id #0), which would make it work with many plugins. And run the message through pre_text before saving and then output through post_text when displaying.
It’s also technically possible to do the whole thing inside of one single file for easy maintenance and make it part of the profile tabs. Look at bb-reputation to see the trick to making profile tabs within a single file, it requires a “wrapper”.
Updating post-count-plus fixed the issue! Thanks a lot!
I thought about linking to profile field but bbPress uses a template tag to retrieve all profile data and I found it not reasonable to change:
<?php bb_profile_data(); ?>
I’m having the same issue. Any other suggestions?
My setup:
Integrated:
WP 2.7.1
bbPress 1.0-alpha-6
Using the default bb-config charset & collation:
define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”);
Using the defauly wp-config charset & collation:
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);
Using the default language file. In other words, I haven’t changed anything and it should be using the English.
Database is:
UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
utf8_unicode_ci
If you want to use any type of permalinks, you need to create the .htaccess file with the rewrite rules.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/created-a-new-forum-but-profile-viewedit-not-working#post-24005
Remove the second forum link/page.
Hardcoding the first forum link in your WordPress header.php is fine. Without any styling, that means it will just be a link to your forum page, and inside WordPress, it would NEVER need to be styled as current, because you’ll never be in WordPress when you are in your forum, right?
How are you getting the WordPress navigation in the forum? That’s where we need to focus on getting the current class on the forum page tab. If you’re including the WordPress navigation by integrating WordPress inside bbPress, then there needs to be a little work done on getting the current class on the forum tab (since you won’t actually ever be on a page called forum for is_page('forum') or is_page('190') to work properly from WordPress.
Hey guys,
I just installed bbpress at http://www.halifamous.com/staff for writers of a new blog to discuss ideas for the site. I am able to view the main forum page, and get into the admin section. The problem is that I’m getting a blank page any time I try to click through to the test post or into the ‘Introductions’ forum section I created. I also get a blank page when I try to access my user profile.
I haven’t touched the code. Any idea why this might be happening?
Thanks,
Greg
