Hi all,
First off, I’d like to say wow, this stuff is awesome! Thank you for the effort that has gone into it.
I’d also like to pat myself on the back for having done two successful install/integrations of bbp and wp by following the integration screencast. Both have worked very well — I did have to use the fix admin login plugin on one, but it has worked since. The trick for a non-coder like me is to have the screencast in a separate window and pause it at every step.
For the site in my profile, http://www.herbalremedyforum.com , I’m using the tarski theme on the wordpress side, and the matching geneologies theme on the bbpress side. The two look fantastic together!
So my question is this: what’s the most effective way for me to get the knowledge/skills I need to pimp out my bbpress site like I did with my wp site as a non-coder? I’m not lazy — it just seems like I’m missing some basic information like how to get link into the bp sidebar with a widget as in wp.
As a bottom line, is there a suite of plug ins that gives the an approximation of the intuitive interface of the WP admin area? Or do I (gulp) need to go back to school and get a computer science degree? Somewhere in between? It seems like given the hand holding from the screencast that there must be other handholding that I’m not finding for the other basic stuff.
So two of the basic hand holdy questions: how do I put a link from my forum back to my wp blog? And how do a put an image in the header of the forum to match that of the wp blog?
ps — I just posted this a few minutes ago, then realized I needed to edit a typo, so I hit the edit button and when I tried to save, it saved as a blank post?
Hi all,
First off, I’d like to say wow, this stuff is awesome! Thank you for the effort that has gone into it.
I’d also like to pat myself on the back for having done two successful install/integrations of bbp and wp by following the integration screencast. Both have worked very well — I did have to use the fix admin login plugin on one, but it has worked since. The trick for a non-coder like me is to have the screencast in a separate window and pause it at every step.
For the site in my profile, http://www.herbalremedyforum.com , I’m using the tarski theme on the wordpress side, and the matching geneologies theme on the bbpress side. The two look fantastic together!
So my question is this: what’s the most effective way for me to get the knowledge/skills I need to pimp out my bbpress site like I did with my wp site as a non-coder? I’m not lazy — it just seems like I’m missing some basic information like how to get link into the bp sidebar with a widget as in wp.
As a bottom line, is there a suite of plug ins that gives the an approximation of the intuitive interface of the WP admin area? Or do I (gulp) need to go back to school and get a computer science degree? Somewhere in between? It seems like given the hand holding from the screencast that there must be other handholding that I’m not finding for the other basic stuff.
So two of the basic hand holdy questions: how do I put a link from my forum back to my wp blog? And how do a put an image in the header of the forum to match that of the wp blog?
People should not be registering domain names with any of the Automattic product names in them. While the programs are open source and free, the name is still trademarked by Matt. I doubt he would ever sue little websites but Matt has gently requested this before:
https://wordpress.org/about/domains/
Discussing/promoting the products on your site is one thing, registering domain names with the products entirely different. If you are worried about SEO or promotion you can just use the name as a subdirectory, ie.
my-example-website.com/talkpress/ = okay
my-talkpress-website.com/forums/ = not okay
subdomains might also be a loophole: talkpress.my-example-website.com
And it’s perfectly valid for them to have a commerical product called “TalkPress” that uses the open source bbPress engine. Just like BuddyPress uses WordPress MU and bbPress.
Hey Guys,
I just installed bbPress with integration with WP, everything went well even the login integration.
But now I’m getting ‘Page not found’ for any page I try to access in the Forum.
I’ve installed the latest alpha version Version 1.0-alpha-6.
http://www.ceneffi.com.br/forum (that’s should be the forum)
is someone facing the same problem?
@swaymedia, ouch! 
Ipstenu is right, it would be a world of pain with upgrades, they need to stay apart. The profile integration is great and if you work on it a user would never know where WP ends and BBPress starts. Check out http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/, best example i’ve seen
Well on further consideration I looked at the source on this forum and noticed they are placing a random number to the end of the style sheet. Notice what is currently line 5 of the source of this page:
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://bbpress.org/forum-theme/bborg/style.css?v=2047769217″ type=”text/css” />
So, I decided the bbpress.org developers had the same difficulties with FF3.0. I tried the same thing myself and I can now log in perfect now, so I guess that is the fix. I would still love to hear from anyone else if they’ve had this issue as well though.
It’s like wordpress.com a holding site for forums…
bbpress is bbpress and talkpress is talkpress.
im right huh?
Thanks Ipstenu, I was not aware of this issue in Firefox, presumably because I hadn’t upgraded until recently. The link you sent refers primarily to cache issues posing problems for developers trying to see updates–I’m surprised this issue doesn’t cause problems for more sites that require login for full access to content, like any forum software. If Firefox caching pages and not refreshing is causing this problem it seems this must be happening to the bbpress community at large. Is this something other BBPress folks are having issues with?
I don’t get it, so what will BBPress actually be called… people are probably already registering a dozen or so domains with bbpress*.com in them, and now there changing it to TalkPress … im slightly getting peeved off with the un-officialness of everything.
Ok, i will send you my edited file, use it under your own risk, it’s works like a charm but, nobody knows…
Examine the file and see the changes made by me
PD: PLEASE, back up your db first!
DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmmymgg0z0j
Hope this works for you!
Best regards!
If one ‘opensource’ project has a lack of communications, then bbPress, may take a look at his self 
Millions in funding does not a millionaire make. I think most of it is used to secure payroll at Automattic because full-time employees are expensive for a company.
The answer is not for me to help less, the answer is for others to be more patient or set realistic priorities/goals (or start contributing to the community themselves).
If someone wants a blog about bbPress, they should seriously make one themselves. You don’t have to be a coder to research bbPress’s history and request interviews with the dev team and Matt.
personally i think CK should stop helping out, it will at least put pressure on the Millionaires of Auttomatic to hire a proper Dev Team.
Right now where all being guinea pigs, being tested out… if we all voice our concerns… The will at least come out of “Target Audience Test Mode” and get the product finally going properly.
Oh they will eventually monetize bbPress, it’s just that it hasn’t been and probably won’t be profitable for them even this year. Hence it wasn’t the priority some people want it to be.
@adeboy
i’d rather sit on a hedgehog than do that.
seriously guys, deep intergration is probably the most essential feature an “intergratable forum” has to have.
All this talk about…. well… Not everyone wants it.. is utter garbage.
An easy way to integrate is to use iframes in your wp pages to load bbpress content. Might not be suitable for many things but is quick and simple to do
Can I hold two databases in same place using mysql, one is for forum and another is for myself (not for wordpress)?
When I install bbpress 0.9.0.4, it can’t been connected with forum-database(stick in step 1), although I use databaseConnect.php to test it that success connecting forum-database. But I use myself-database to replace it, it is work and pass step 1. 2. 3. (myself-database is first, forum-database is second in order.)
But it can’t be loged in, anybody password is incorrect in my forum. After using recovered password it still doesn’t work. I think the problem is forum-tables mixed with myself-tables, they stay in one database. So I want to reinstall bbPress but I worry to stick step 1 same before. Could you give me some suggestion.
I use bbPress 0.9.0.4 , not integrated with WordPress. My server use Linux CentOS, Apache 2.2.3, Mysql5.045 and Php 5.1.6 .
is deep intergration possible on alpha,… yeahs or no?
I use bbPress 0.9.0.4 , not integrated with WordPress. My server use Linux CentOS, Apache 2.2.3, Mysql5.045 and Php 5.1.6 .
I’m not sure exactly when this year it happened but they finally replaced the front page on http://talkpress.com (I think it was on or around March 24th 2009)
Looks interesting. This one is the most interesting to me, because you might notice how much it looks like bbPress:
http://talkpress.com/wordpress-content/themes/talkpress-temp/i/4.png
update: oh and here is the actual website featured:
http://ask-the-expert.health.com/
It is indeed running bbPress (1.0 alpha 6)
So it’s an Automattic hosted bbPress with WordPress.com logins.
The bottom right of the page says “Powered by TalkPress VIP”.
Google first saw it on March 19th 2009
I would have thought Automattic could monetize BBPress in the same way the make money from WordPress, there’s obviously a need for blogs and forums to be combined and people will pay for hosted versions.
Its great to get new WP features, but its now a well developed software and I think there’s much more scope for growth with BBpress. Once you link them together its very good and it solves a lot of the Profile customisation problems you get in WP. The alpha works fine as long as you don’t want too much from it and I don’t get how they don’t want to exploit that much more
bbPress is certainly not abandoned. It’s not going away.
It’s paid for by a company with over a million dollars in funding.
It’s just not developing fast enough for some people and that minority is unfortunately the most vocal.
I think the biggest problem is people start using WordPress when it’s version 2.5 or newer and somehow they figure it’s always had all those features so they see bbPress by the same people and figure it must be as developed and managed like that.
WordPress was nearly exactly like this until version 2.0
I’ve suggested before that bbPress will get more attention once Matt finds a way to monetize it like WordPress.com did for WordPress.
There will likely be a few small releases of improvements to 1.0 and bug fixes for 0.9 this year (with one likely in April), but there will not be anything major in 2009 IMHO. If Sam or Michael asked me for my opinion I would suggest that 1.0 final should not be released in 2009, it’s just not ready and if you think people are complaining now, just wait.
To put it another way, if bbPress doesn’t have the feature you want right now and you aren’t willing/able to write it yourself, don’t start thinking it’s going to magically appear in 2009.
Of course I could be completely wrong and Matt will suddenly take a dozen of his WordPress developers and put them onto bbPress next month – but do you think that is realistic?
I also support the suggestion for a blog/bettter communication.
Because now bbPress looks somewhat abondoned. I’m talking about people involved in the project to some degree but to an outside observer or a new user. People would like to know how the project is going and whether it could meet their needs in future versions without digging into the forums or Trac.
I came to bbPress because it is related to WordPress and shares many similarities (templates, plugins, etc.). I believe many others do that for the same reason. Using another forum platform I would have to learn from scratch.
My rant was not for richcon but for you kevin.
Hello,
I am loving bbPress.. I am so impressed with it.
I have set up a private forum for a project team I run. I installed bbPress and two or three plug-ins later I had almost everything I wanted. It looks and works great.
The only thing I am missing right now is the ability to see a list of users, when the last logged in and there Custom Title. This information would be really handy so that I can see if people aren’t’ checking the forum regularly, and find out if there is a problem. If not the complete lest then perhaps the plug-in could list people who have not logged in for a defined amount of time 1 day, 30days or something.
I have had a look around the extend section on the site, and didn’t find anything that looks like it could do this. Also looking at the tables I see that last login time is not stored (unless this is meta data).
Thoughts and advice comments or offers of help very welcome.
