Got BBpress and WordPress set up for a small school in Alaska. Almost ZERO customization (outside colors) since I just started using both WordPress and BBpress a month ago and I don’t know my butt from my elbow. But I have big grandiose ideas that hopefully will see the light of day (if my brain can ever absorb all of this).
I’m just happy they are both integrated with the user tables and (log–in/outs) are working perfectly. The school is happy so far too. Yay!
http://atheneum.org
I always scratch my head at this one and ask myself “what’s the point?”
Not trying to sound like an ass, but I really do not understand why.
Logically I think to myself that if you really want it to work that way, then why even use WordPress at all? Just use bbPress and have a forum sans all the blogginess.
I have the same question. The latest mod post regarding bbSync said “it’s broken right now.” Any other options?
Ideally, I would like a new WordPress post to create a new forum topic and for all comments to be handled by bbPress. Possible?
i am running wp 2.7 and bbpress alpha 6 with no issues… not really sure how i did it, but i’ll help if i can…
as far as i can see, by studying the code, wordpress has introduced a salt for hashing the passwords since 2.5
bbpress (my version is 0.9.0.4) has not updated it’s functions to include this salt.
the alpha release of bbpress 1.0 seems to take care of this problem, but the file structure, as far as i can see is completely different from the older versions, so a simple copy & paste wouldn’t do.
maybe the stable 1.0 release will take care of this issue, but since then (i don’t recommend using the alpha version on production web sites) i will try to modify the pluggable.php file of bbpress 0.9.0.4 in order to allow the usage of salts.
i’ll be back these days with further details.
I am currently running a website which was initially built around e107. I also have a forum (e107 plugin) integrated in that website which reached over 1,000 posts. I am now planning migrating the hole solution to wordpress and bbpress. The biggest issue was to preserve the existing data (users and posts). I tried looking for a tool that acomplished this, but it was all in vain. I really wanted to migrate from e107 and wordpress with bbpress seemed to be a really good choice so I have built some migration scripts. They are written in PHP and are released under GPL.
There are two scripts. One that migrates the users to wordpress tables, and the other that migrates the posts of the forums. I would like to share these scripts with the community, hoping that there are users that could use them.
Please let me know what is the preffered way to share them.
Thanks!
My BBPress installation cannot find my salt cookies even when I plug them into the install from wp-config.
They do not appear in my WPMU admin options menu.
I always get this message at the end of install:
>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt not set.
>>>>>> Could not fetch “auth” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.
>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “auth” cookie salt in your database.
>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.
>>>>>> Could not fetch “logged in” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.
>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “logged in” cookie salt in your database.
Forum could not be created!
Nevertheless, I get an email saying that the install was successful. But when I go to the BBPress admin in the WPMU dashboard it doesn’t see the installation.
OK — I stumbled upon the FAQ and saw the htaccess code to add. I LOVE the URLs, could never get to this in phpBB. If this thing is secure, I’m going to love bbPress. Kudos to the dev team, very cool forum software!
And thanks Angie!
Angie: I’ve not touched the htaccess file, and I probably need to do it. WordPress usually updates it automatically… what should I put in it? I want to use the name based option …/forum/first-forum.
Is there a massmail plugin avalable for bbPress?
Did you update your htaccess file?
there it is… hide little pot file.. hide.
thanks a lot!
here it is
German language file:
http://www.sumit-online.de/2009/bbpress-sprachdatei/
I just setup v0.9 and the default URL structure works. However if I try to select another permalink option and save settings, it saves the settings but then breaks all external URLs = page not found. All I have right now is 1 category and the 1 sample post. Both break, and become functional again when I revert back to default permalink.
Any idea how to make this work?
OK thanks. So I’m reading “run 0.9 GA for now”. I hope there is a bridge from 0.9 at some point for integration from legacy sites into single login WP-Press, for those that run 0.9 now.
Hi all: I’m a WP2.7 user and find the idea of running our forum on bbPress very interesting. Only issue is the Alpha level of 1.0 code and inability to use the 0.9 GA with WP2.7.
– any idea when we can expect a stable enough beta?
– if I decide to install the Alpha release on a separate DB (just to insulate our live WP site), will there be an easy path later on to consolidate for single login when bbPress 1.0 goes GA?
For one, bbPress isn’t a WordPress plugin.
It should be in it’s own folder outside of the WP structure.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bb_get_option() in wp-contentpluginsbbpressbb-pluginsakismet.php on line 72
This is the error im receiving (i removed the full path). First time trying these forums out and I get this error when trying to activate the plugin.
Also, there’s this opposing view of allowing people to get email notification of replies to their topic:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/email-notifications#post-20324
If you mark an item as a favorite, you can have an email notification sent when there’s a reply to one of your favorites.
Post Notification:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-notification/
or
Subscribe to topic:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/subscribe-to-topic/
1 Documentation
2 Installation
3 http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/
4 pot
5 trunk
Sumit1988 has it right.
yokima, how did you share login with MediaWiki and bbPress/Wordpress?
If people want threaded comments, that’s fine, but please always keep the non-threaded option in bbPress as well.
I have had numerous requests from users to remove threading from forum software (not bbPress obviously). This seems one of those things where “advanced” users like it and my grand mom hates it.
Threaded as a plugin is perfect. Same level as “comments with their own title”.
Jeroen
Never mind. I restored the database from backup, did it all again and it came good. No idea what I did wrong last time.
This thread never happened.
I haven’t tested this, but at least one person was able to get this plugin to work:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/threaded-posts/
