You can use and configure bbPress locally if you like, but it needs to be in a server environment. You need PHP, a web server and a database. It’s easiest to have it on the same type of system it will eventually be hosted on, to minimize problems when you go live, but it’s not essential.
On Windows there is WAMP:
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
On OSX (and for many other systems) there is XAMPP:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
On Linux, well, if you have that I don’t need to tell you what you have.
The machine you build, test and configure on doesn’t need to be on the Internet, but you do need to have a server environment to make this work.
Any news on this? I have the Simple:Press plugin but I love BBpress better (even though Simple:Press wraps around my WPMU/BuddyPress site perfectly…)
Do I need my website to be uploaded onto a server in order to start using and configuring bbpress or can i work on it while i’m building my site without having uploading anything onto a server?
I soved the problem of logn request on paginated topics using the EWp plugin mentioned here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101/page/5#post-24571
I can’t understand why with normal integration the whole system didn’t work… but I have no time to investigate for a non payed task 
The customer have the same problem of quote adn double-quote double escaping thamentioned in the same link…
This topic can be considered closed.
Hello,
I have wp 2.7.1 and the last bbPress, i install this and i create a forum but when i want to open the new topic is going me to a 404 Error page from my blog.
Can anybody tell me what is wrong?
Thanks
Hi !
I need 2 WordPress themes for bbPress.
First “comunizine” from http://www.kriesi.at/archives/wordpress-theme-communizine
and second PureType from http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/puretype/
I can give the theme and can make a small donate.
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Unbelievable. I was able to figure out what the problem was. WP-Super-Cache plugin was screwing everything up. All I did was add /forum/ to the URI strings to be ignored and it worked fine.
Now it’s time to fix up the theme.
Thanks for all the responses
I am using WordPress 2.7.1 and bbPress 1.0 Alpha
If you’re seeing WP logins work, and BB logins fail, then BB is probably logging you in and setting the wrong cookie path.
(You can debug this sort of thing by using a proxy which lets you inspect the headers as they pass from client to server – I recommend the excellent Charles Web Debugging Proxy.)
I fixed this using the WP Cookie Root plugin. Changing the COOKIE_PATH defines for me hadn’t worked, but the plugin did.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/root-cookie/
Q: With deep integration, I see any postings to BB get double-quoted, eg an apostrophe posted to the forum will appear as ‘ …
Here’s hoping BBPress doesn’t munge the line above. Apostrophes appear in the forum with a backslash to escape them, because both WP and BB are running the apostrophes thru their escaping function. How can I avoid this?
To me, this would be the single most important bbPress feature imaginable. Facebook, not OpenID.
–myballard.
OpenID is a means of authentication. Facebook is an authenticator. The problem is that the autenticator has opted for it’s own proprietary means of authentication, rather than using OpenID. In addition to its own API, Facebook could, should and probably will support OpenID. As of last month, Facebook has joined OpenID, but they’ve not implemented anything that I know of yet.
Next time you’re on Facebook, search for “Facebook should support OpenID” – there’s 800+ folks who agree. Which is a start, given that it’s developers, not hoi polloi, who are going to be concerned with this.
at the moment i think the only way to keep wordpress, bbpress and FB connect togheter is through an iframe that shows wordpress fb connect widget in bbpress.
somebody knows how to do that?
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if I could get some help on an issue I am having. I am trying to integrate WP functions into bbPress. I put in the following code in my bb-config.php, and wp-blog-header.php is being accessed fine.
<?php require_once('/home/noreason/public_html/youthbloggers.net/wp-blog-header.php'); ?>
Now, for some reason I get a slew of strange characters when accessing my bbPress installation (the frontpage). I can’t even access /bb-admin. I can’t figure out what the problem is, I think it may have something to do with my server settings/configuration because the exact code works fine on my local machine running WAMP Server. Does anyone have any idea?
You can see what’s going on at http://youthbloggers.net/forum/
I have buddypress Rc1, WPMU 2.7.1 and BBPress 1.0.6 Alpha installed and have it configured perfectly as far as I can tell.
My problem arises on the BBPress side of things.
1. From the Group Admin page in BuddyPress, when I create a new group and select “Enable discussion forum”, it creates the forum perfectly. Confirmed by seeing a forum with the group name associated.
2. I post a topic to the forum using BuddyPress’ Group Forum page, it posts, but says there is an error in posting. However when I look at the forum HOMEPAGE, it shows there has been a post made.
3. Here’s the problem : When I click on the forum that shows that they have posts, it’s empty and it shows the create new post form.
Any help would be appreciated!
Chad
Phil
I seem to be having a problem where the topics are being created in the database and the number of topics on the forum homepage are correct, but when you click on the forum itself to see the topics, it just says that you need to create a new forum AND every time I try to create a topic from the buddy press groups admin pages, it gives me an error that says “There was an error posting that topic.” but the topic is created in the database.
Confusion abound!!
Chad
Well, I figured that I would only have to re-write a few functions for authentication, but this would still require me to use the bbpress user table, no? For example, after I re-write the authentication functions, how does the bbpress software know who the user is… the user’s name, and so forth. Where are all of those functions that get that information? Are they included in the pluggable.php too? Is that bb_current_user()?
I know enough PHP programming to make my own functions, but I’m just not familiar enough with how WordPress works to know what is doing what in detail. Thanks for your help _CK_. I appreciate it a lot.
Hmm, yeah someone should definitely try to get the current repository transferred to another person. I’m pretty new to bbPress so someone else would be a way better candidate than me for rewriting this plugin.
Btw, what did detective’s mod add? I’m not even sure what I’m using…
Anyway while I was replacing pm_new_message with ck’s mod I decided to hack email notification in there at the end (formatting stolen shamelessly from the existing notification plugin):
$to = bb_get_user_email($id_receiver);
$pm_link = bb_get_option('uri') . 'message.php?id=' . $bbdb->insert_id;
$message = __("You have a new private message: %1$s nFrom: %2$s nn%3$s ");
mail( $to, bb_get_option('name') . ':' . __('Private Message'),
sprintf( $message, $pmtitle, get_user_name($id_sender), $pm_link ),
'From: ' . bb_get_option('admin_email')
);
What Chris suggests is definitely possible! I have four bbPress installs sharing a single user database… along with a WordPress install and a MediaWiki one. I’ll probably be up to 6 or 7 bbPress installs on the same user database by the end of the summer!
It’s not so bad to maintain, but it’s definitely worth is so far – especially since the functionality of each install is very different! For example, one bbPress install supports a Classifieds feature… while another one is a standard message board. If the functionality across the bbPress installs was more similar, I’d just combine them into a single installation…
Good luck!
You just type in a complete image tag, the full html, and it should work. Like this:
<img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif" />
The plugin was sort of particular about the case of the file extensions; JPG did not work (IIRC) but jpg did. Also, some image hosting services that show images but don’t have an image extension on the URI won’t work with the plugin. The plugin looks for filenames ending in common image formats and allows those.
Also, the image needs to already be on the Internet already, hosted somewhere. If that’s not possible for your users, then you probably want the bbPress Attachments plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/
A possible compromise might be to have the PM functionality officially available (but as a plugin, not as part of the core). It would be written (or at least vetted) by bbPress staff… and even downloaded as part of the standard distribution. But each user could choose to enable or disable it, and it wouldn’t be in the core.
I think we’re getting close to that actually. BuddyPress has a PM plugin on its roadmap… maybe that can be adapted for bbPress.
The authentication system in bbPress is completely adjustable via plugins.
Look in the pluggable.php file, there are 4 routines that have to be replaced.
If you look at a plugin like my “freshly baked cookies” you can sort-of see the 4 replacements you need. Actually you only need 2, because the other two are used by the first two. One creates the cookie, the other reads it. If you only want your other software to create the cookie, then in theory you only need one function replacement.
WordPress works the same way, except after WP 2.5 they added 2 or three other kinds of cookies. The older method that WP 2.5 and bbPress 0.9 uses is easier to hook into.
Note that a few obscure WordPress plugins like to read the cookie to gather the username which is a bad approach. No bbPress plugin that I am aware of does this yet, and I hope they won’t so we can switch to a httponly cookie which is more secure and less XSS vulnerable.
ps. technically the auth system doesn’t even have to be via cookies but the only other ways I am aware of would be HTTPS Client Authentication which is impractical for public systems or maybe LDAP
I’ve searched and there isn’t a lot of *detailed* responses on how to do this. I realize that it’s very very specific to the system and the needs of the site.
I have my own authentication system and don’t need the bbPress system at all. How can I use only my system? I’ve read up on how WP does authentication– with one cookie containing the username and password hash (double hash I think). Do I need to create this same cookie… or can I easily just disable/remove the authentication built in and use my own?
If so, what do I need to change? Any help would be appreciated.
LOL, my thoughts exactly! Now I’m in contact with an outfit in India to see what it would take to code the site in Joomla!
What a rabbit hole this stuff can be!
Earlier I tagged this a BBMU, which is sort what this was sounding like, bbPress Multi User (like WPMU.) That way, you have one installation to update, but multiple blogs (or in this case, forums.)
I don’t think that is currently possible. There was some work involved to create WPMU, although it reuses a great bit of WordPress code.
So, I think you are stuck using multiple installations of bbPress, or just using the built in Forums that exist in bbPress. If you use the built in forums that exist, then you don’t have to worry about logins working in all forums. The logins will work in all forums because it’s all just one forum.
But, to have multiple bbPress installations, but just one user database, you might want to investigate the advanced database options upon installation, in step two where they talk about user integration.
Custom user tables
Only set these options if your integrated user tables do not fit the usual mould of wp_user and wp_usermeta.
User database "user" table
The complete table name, including any prefix.
User database "user meta" table
The complete table name, including any prefix.
I think here you would be able to enter the same settings for every installation of bbPress to point them all to the same user database. You could try it with two forums to see if that works.
Also, managing 10 forum installations is not too bad if you have command line access to use something like subversion. Then it’s just a matter of doing an svn up or svn sw and accessing the update in a browser. You can do 10 or 20 installations pretty quickly. It’s even faster when there are no database changes. Then it’s just svn updates.
If you’re looking at monetizing, maybe you have the ability to pay a programmer to accomplish what you’re looking for? Everything you’re looking for is doable (except making bbPress work like a WordPress plugin), but it might not be on anyone else’s radar right now. That’s not to say it can’t be done or won’t be done, but your priorities might be different from those maintaining the software packages.
If you want 10 separate sites, you can have 10 separate installations of bbPress, and they can all use the same database. You just need to use a different table prefix for each one (instead of the default bb_.) But, are you going to need to share anything between the different installations? If so, then this is not the way to go.
