[whitewall]

We are looking for a new bb-platform for our online community which has over 20.000 registered users and our phpBB has now 1,2 million posts on 52 forums. There are 30.000 new posts every month and about 1,2 million pageloads per week. In the rush hours there have been over 500 users online at the same time.

I find bbPress very interesting but will it be able to handle the load our bulletin board will have?

[revilo78]

I currently have user data stored in the wordpress tables of my merged bbpress/wp site. Does anyone know how I can get that data in bbpress? Is there a function or a plugin? If not, would there be any problems if I did a MySQL query?

[norbyson]

Hi all,

Lately, I been contemplating switching to BBpress from MyBB1.4 (http://www.mybboard.net/) . I am wondering if it is worth the move.

I compared the two here: http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/bbPress+MyBB

It seems to me that the main difference is there are more plugins I would have to install with BBpress whereas on MyBB they are included.

The reason I am considering the switch is because there seems to always be problems with plugins on MyBB, otherwise I am happy with it.

So I am wondering, how reliable/user-friendly is BBpress? More specifically, are plugins and other Mods relatively trouble-free to work with? and overall, is relatively easy to manage?

Of course, I understand this probably isn’t the best place to ask about this. I would appreciate it if you could keep your opinions as unbiased as possible.

On a similar note, is there anyone that switched over from MyBB? and if so, Why did you switch over?

[meinwalter]

Hi guys,

i want to have the same theme from WordPress in my bbpress forum. Therefore i add require_once('../wp-blog-header.php'); in my bb-config.php . Then i can load the bbpress forum but it have the old kakumei theme. What should i do ? Delete the last three lines from bb-config :

if  ( !defined('BB_PATH') )

define('BB_PATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );

require_once( BB_PATH . 'bb-settings.php' );

But then the forum doesnt knoe the bbpress functions. Can somebody please help me?

Thank you in advance.

[OthelloBloke]

Hello

I use Eblah SQL Beta 4 for a few forums and so far it hasn’t let me down over ANY of the major forum packages out there.

But I want a php forum for various reasons. Has anyone written a converter? Or is anyone willing to look at writing one?

You’d have a very greatful bloke right here if so.

[chrishajer]

@KnowingArt_com

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-signatures/

[Trace]

Thanks for your help Chris! I’ve gone through that tag with a fine toothed comb…

Anyone interested in taking a quick paid job sorting out this cookie integration issue, please ping me at tracedef @ gmail … Thanks!

[chrishajer]

You can post your contact information here. If you do, the topic will be closed and people can contact you outside the forum. But first you might want to browse the WPMU tag:

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

[Trace]

I’ve spent two days trying to integrate BBPress Alpha 6 cookies with WPMU 2.7…… I’m not really wanting to do day three, is it against the rules to ask for paid help here? If not, I would love to give my money to be able to move on and actually get some work done! If it is against the rules… I’m sorry… couldn’t find anything regarding this and am kind of desperate

[PJ Brunet]

In it for the long haul with bbPress:

http://www.satnightspecials.com/

Hook me up with some link love please

Installed the alpha last night, hacked the theme all day today, my friends don’t even know it’s live yet.

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/custom-user-groups

[chrishajer]

Also, looking at the path to the files, it appears they are using NFS which has generally poor performance (SLOW) for software like bbPress and WordPress.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-is-slow-like-godaddy-says#post-21750

[Process of Illumination]

Hello,

i just integrated my 1.0-alpha-6 BBpress installation with my WordPress 2.7 blog.

After the integration my bbpress admin disappeared, but i could log in as an admin using the wordpress admin ID and Password, so no big deal.

The problem is this: when i log in with my WordPress admin account there is no way i can see my “settings” label, that used to be on the top row, extreme right, of the control panel: /forum/bb-admin/

Any suggestion/advice, please?

the Process

[_ck_]

One final addition to this that I didn’t think of mentioning earlier.

To use bbPress queries like these on a foreign (non-bbPress / non-WordPress) PHP page, all you need to do is include the bbPress core like this at the start:

<?php require('/local-path-to-bbpress/bb-load.php'); ?>

or to load WordPress core use this

<?php require('/local-path-to-wordpress/wp-config.php'); ?>

(change the ‘local-path’ bit to your local path)

and remember to use $wpdb on WordPress pages, vs $bbdb on bbPress pages.

[_ck_]

Yup “order by rand()” is very handy.

I used it for a mod for WordPress years ago to make a “random” category which is very useful.

It could even be done to make a “random topics” view in bbPress but not sure how useful that would be.

It’s fine for casual use but keep in mind for larger tasks it’s very slow and makes mysql purists shudder.

[deadlyhifi]

As an aside, some hosts such as GoDaddy can take around 30 minutes for the .htaccess file to be read and implemented.

[frank1000]

Hi chrishajer,

Thanks!

I added the additional Options line and it works now.

Regards

Frank

[chrishajer]

Yes, that’s permalinks and what you did is what I expected would fix it. Are you having any other problems?

If you ever want pretty permalinks set up, you can follow this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/created-a-new-forum-but-profile-viewedit-not-working#post-24005

[chrishajer]

There was also this more recent discussion. Read the post from sambauers:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/important-notice-about-10-alpha-7-and-_ck_-plugins#post-23813

[chrishajer]

Sounds like several problems that are all fixable. First, I would turn off permalinks until you set them up properly:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/created-a-new-forum-but-profile-viewedit-not-working#post-24005

I would do that first so you can actually work with your forum.

Also:

1. What version bbPress did you install?
2. Did you integrate with WordPress and if so, what version?
3. Does this happen with the stock them?
4. Does this happen with no plugins enabled?
5. What server software, PHP version, MySQL version are you using?

If you can start with the permalink issue (I think) and then answer some basic questions, I think we can get it sorted without reinstalling.

[patrick10128]

Hi,

I’m looking for someone who has had a bit of experience with theming bbPress to help me port a HTML/CSS template (which I have also made into a WordPress theme) over to bbPress. It should be relatively easy seeing as the design is simple and already coded.

Please contact me at patrick.devivo [at] gmail.com if you know someone or are willing to help me out.

[Mr. Grim Reaper]

Is there anyway to define a custom URL structure? Specifically, I was looking to get rid of the “topic” and “forum” directories.

I found it shortly after from another topic: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hack-to-remove-forumsforum

[jmilli]

Greetings,

I just installed BBPress today and was totally psyched because I have heard such great things about the WordPress products.

But . . . I am having major problems:

– New user testing – password doesn’t work. Login failed.

– I created forums and when I select the topic I get a “The requested document was not found on this server.” error.

– When I select a user profile (including mine) I get the same error.

– This is where it is strange and makes me think that maybe I need to reinstall the whole thing. I can’t create a new post. Nowhere does it say “Create post” on the forums.

I did install the Approve User Registration plugin by Aditya Naik, but I deactivated it and I am still having the above problems.

Thoughts?

thanks in advance,

Jeff

[_ck_]

FYI, the if ($i <= 4) { is not needed because you already do a LIMIT on the query.

Related topic:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration

[dpante]

Hello,

I installed BBPress yesterday, and it’s working great. The only problem I’m having is that it won’t let me log out (when I’m using Safari)! When I click the “Log out” link, it refreshes the admin page, but I’m still logged in as admin. In Firefox, I can log out fine- it’s just in Safari that I’m having troubles.

Any ideas to log out would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Derek