[Malice]

That sounds like very good news!

Always found the url.com/forum/forum/ a bit wicked

[Zanti]

Background:

First Post here. Looking for much needed help and assistance.

Latest version of RapidWeaver and WP2.7x, haven’t downloaded BBP yet. Experience, beginner.

WP sits in my blog domain, nothing has been done to it at all since downloading.

Working on 4 sites, we’ll call them sites A, B, C and D. Have not uploaded any of the sites to my server yet so none are live. Sites B and C have the same RW theme. Site A is 80% complete with a RW theme, B and C are only 5% done, but could be finished this weekend. Site D holds the WP blog with no RW theme, just the base WP theme at this time.

What I want to accomplish:

Central Blog and Forum that sites A, B and C are all linked to.

What I think I would like:

Forum based in site B, with the RW theme, Blog based in site D (only because site D, has the domain name of my blog)(it would be great if I could have the same theme for the Blog and Forum). Integration of the Forum and Blog. All sites linked to the Forum and Blog.

Questions:

How to best accomplish this. Should Blog and Forum reside on same Site (like site D)., and A, B and C link to it via an offsite page? Or is there a better way to do this. Where should I download BBPress to, site A, B, C or D?

I’m very open to any thoughts and ideas. I’m kind of at a standstill right now, as I want to make sure I start off doing the right things and having WP and BBP loaded to the right places. And I’m anxious to get started.

I hope I have explained this in a clear way and it’s not to confusing. I would like to download BBP and get started on this project this weekend. If we forget about the RapidWeaver part of this. The real question would be, if I want 3 sites to be able to access and be linked to both bbPress and WP, what is the best way to do this.

I’m also a little confused about integration with WP 2.7x and bbPress. Is there some problems with doing this at this time. I’m really closed to having my sites up and running, but I’m at a standstill right now. I just want to make sure I do things the right way, the first time.

Please offer any advice you think might be helpful. If I need to explain this better, let me know. I’m really hyped on using bbPress, and WP, just want all three sites to be able to function with them equally. If nothing else, can anyone offer, what I need to do next.

Thank you all for your time and assistance on something that is very important to me.

[idnsensei]

I integrated WP 2.7 with BBPress 1.0.6 alpha using my wp theme. The problem I have is that I have thumbnails on bbpress using a wp plugin in the sidebar but the thumbnails dont show on content area below bbpress

My WPTheme / BBPress template is like this

1. WPHeader then

2. BBPress – WPSidebar <=== thumbnails here, finally…

3. WP-Content <=== but No thumbnails here

4 WP-Footer <=== but No thumbnails here, the excerpts from the post you can see as usual, but the thumbnails dont appear

Do i have to add some functions on bbpress or bbheader? @_@ I am clueless why it does show the thumbnails on the sidebar but not on the content area below bbpress.

Thanks for your help! Any hints, suggestions, etc. highly appreciated : )

[idnsensei]

I integrated WP 2.7 with BBPress 1.0.6 alpha using my wp theme. The problem I have is that I have thumbnails on bbpress using a wp plugin in the sidebar but the thumbnails dont show on content area below bbpress

My WPTheme / BBPress template is like this

1. WPHeader then

2. BBPress – WPSidebar <=== thumbnails here, finally…

3. WP-Content <=== but No thumbnails here

4 WP-Footer <=== but No thumbnails here, the excerpts from the post you can see as usual, but the thumbnails dont appear

Do i have to add some functions on bbpress or bbheader? @_@ I am clueless why it does show the thumbnails on the sidebar but not on the content area below bbpress.

Thanks for your help! Any hints, suggestions, etc. highly appreciated : )

[idnsensei]

I integrated WP 2.7 with BBPress 1.0.6 alpha using my wp theme. The problem I have is that I have thumbnails on bbpress using a wp plugin in the sidebar but the thumbnails dont show on content area below bbpress

My WPTheme / BBPress template is like this

1. WPHeader then

2. BBPress – WPSidebar <=== thumbnails here, finally…

3. WP-Content <=== but No thumbnails here

4 WP-Footer <=== but No thumbnails here, the excerpts from the post you can see as usual, but the thumbnails dont appear

Do i have to add some functions on bbpress or bbheader? @_@ I am clueless why it does show the thumbnails on the sidebar but not on the content area below bbpress.

Thanks for your help! Any hints, suggestions, etc. highly appreciated : )

[idnsensei]

I integrated WP 2.7 with BBPress 1.0.6 alpha using my wp theme. The problem I have is that I have thumbnails on bbpress using a wp plugin in the sidebar but the thumbnails dont show on content area below bbpress

My WPTheme / BBPress template is like this

1. WPHeader then

2. BBPress – WPSidebar <=== thumbnails here, finally…

3. WP-Content <=== but No thumbnails here

4 WP-Footer <=== but No thumbnails here, the excerpts from the post you can see as usual, but the thumbnails dont appear

Do i have to add some functions on bbpress or bbheader? @_@ I am clueless why it does show the thumbnails on the sidebar but not on the content area below bbpress.

Thanks for your help! Any hints, suggestions, etc. highly appreciated : )

[John James Jacoby]

Just thinking of a place to link to places I’ve found that are using bbPress, as I found one recently and was happy to see them using it.

http://forums.getdropbox.com/

[John James Jacoby]

It would be nice if the /forum/ could be totally removed

…and to be given the option to be changed to be the name of the forum you are viewing when viewing a topic, similar to WordPress…

[John James Jacoby]

On the site you’ve included above, you have a “current_page_ancestor” class. I have never seen that before, and it also isn’t what the bbp and wp sites use, making this even curiouser. You also have “page_folder” for the pages that have sub items, and again, I’ve never seen this before.

Looks like I have homework to do?

[ganzua]

The main difference that is coming is the ability to change the directory names, e.g…

http://example.org/forum/first-forum

Can potentially be…

http://example.org/fora/first-forum

It would be nice if the /forum/ could be totally removed

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I am looking forward to design my college website with WordPress as CMS and bbPress for forums. The fact that they can be integrated is superb as it solves one of my purpose of only allowing registered users to comment (having the same username and password throughout the site) but I am also in need of providing user accounts to students and faculty members. I was wondering if WP or bbP can be moded or there is any plugin that can add additional functionality to user accounts. If not how can i retrieve the username & passwords from bbP database? Any workaround will also do.

Waiting for your replies!

[chrishajer]

I disagree on the WordPress page function not being powerful enough to understand parent/child. It always seems to work for me. For example, check this page:

http://www.woods-metal-shaping.com/machine-shop/machining/risers/

Those are WordPress pages, grandparent is machine-shop, parent machining, child risers. Check the left nav for the current page highlighted, and check the top tabs for the grandparent highlighted. So, it’s certainly possible to do whatever you want with the current class in WordPress.

On this site, when you are on the blog page, they are probably just using the WordPress current_page_item class to highlight (home, about, documentation, blog, download.) When you click forum, you go to bbpress. So, in your bbPress template, you hard code that nav item as current. I’m not certain how the extend section works, if it’s bbPress or WordPress.) But, basically, you hard code current for the forum/forums/bbpress tab since once you click it, you’re outside WordPress.

Now, with integration, and including the WordPress nav, I have no idea how it would work. I always thought if you had a Page called “forums” and then you installed bbPress in a directory called “forums” that the directory will override the WordPress Page, so the forum is shown, but I don’t know what happens in the nav, i.e. if WordPress still thinks you’re on a Page called “forums”.

HTH

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Have just read another post advising to check http://bavatuesdays.com/integrating-wpmu-buddypress-and-bbpress/#The_COOKIEHASH – apparently that fixes it. I will try after lunch and let you know.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

I have the same issue as detailed in this post. As far as I can make out, the cookie names aren’t matching. My current /trunk/ install of Buddypress/MU names the cookies “wordpress_”. BBPress’ cookies are named “wordpress_HASH” where HASH is a long hash that doesn’t match any of the various keys in the wp-config.php.

[John James Jacoby]

I know this is a question geared more towards the WordPress.org forums, but because it also could be a bbPress integration question, I figured I’d post it here.

Case:

1.) When you are within the Blog area of the site, that the Blog tab always displays a “current” class.

2.) When you are within the bbPress/Forum area of the site, the “Forums” tab also always shows “current.”

To my understanding, the WordPress page function isn’t powerful enough to understand the parent/sub relationship. Curious if anyone knows of a way within WordPress to make this act in a similar fashion apart from hard-coding it. I don’t believe the WordPress.org site is hard-coded that way, but of course I could be wrong.

[travelsuperlink]

johnhiler, you are awesome. that is exactly what he is asking.

[chrishajer]

Can you disable the CAPTCHA plugin temporarily and see if cookies are shared properly between bbPress and WordPress?

[chrishajer]

Ah, a bbPress version of the wptuner plugin for WordPress. I follow now.

[Sam Bauers]

Well, for what it’s worth it doesn’t look like I’ll be changing any filenames. The main difference that is coming is the ability to change the directory names, e.g…

http://example.org/forum/first-forum

Can potentially be…

http://example.org/fora/first-forum

Or some other langauge. Also there are going to be a few additional permalink styles like…

http://example.org/post/27/edit

http://example.org/new

And I’m experimenting with URL driven intersections, so…

http://example.org/tag/ice-cream/tag/chocolate

http://example.org/forum/support/tag/alpha/search/release+date

…might be something we see in the future.

The newer styles are very hard to detect with existing functions which are available to plugin devs, but I am trying to supply the tools required for easy detection and interaction with the new setup.

[Stephanie Leary]

I’m having the same problem with a new 0.9.0.4 installation. In addition, I have an error message in my Latest Activity box on the Dashboard:

bbPress database error: [Unknown column 't.topic_id' in 'on clause']

SELECT p.* FROM bb_posts AS p JOIN bb_topics as t ON ( t.topic_id = p.topic_id ) WHERE p.post_status != '0' AND t.topic_status = '0' ORDER BY p.post_time DESC LIMIT 5

[chazbeaner]

I successfully integrated WP and BB and mapped the user roles and everything was going swimmingly. A user went in today (roughly 24 hrs later) and noticed that the forum was asking him to login to post a reply even though he was showing as logged in on the WP and BB sites. I went into the CMS (was recognizing me as being logged in as admin obv) and noticed that the User Roles had been reset to default, as if they had never been mapped.

So, I remapped the User Roles between WP and BB and now everything works as it is supposed to on the front end, but on the back end BB is now telling me that I have “No Users Matching That Request” under the Users page and no matter what search I run there are no Users listed anywhere on the back end.

Thoughts? I have integrated bbPress within the framework of WP, so maybe that is the issue, but it seems to be a DB disconnect.

[MrPeteH]

I’m a not-quite-noob on WP/WPmu, and a total noob here on bbPress. I’m attempting my first integrated install, from scratch. WPmu latest (2.7 trunk as of a couple weeks ago) and bb 1.0 alpha 6. I thought I’d share a new-user experience… knowing that this kind of stuff is hard to remember later.

I’m wanting integration of users and logins, and went through the install with that in mind.

Anomalies, strangeness and bugs found:

1) It asks for both the site URL and blog URL. WPmu doesn’t have both items, so that’s confusing. Should mention that the same value can be copied in.

2) It doesn’t suggest the URL needs “http://&#8221; attached until after you save settings and get an error.

3) [suggestion] why not ask for the location of the WP/WPmu install, and pull the keys etc from wp-config.php??? That would save a ton of typing and confusion.

4) Once I got everything entered, it let me login ok… HOWEVER:

5) It quickly LOST all my settings and the database appeared broken. Here’s how:

* I clicked on “Admin” to go to the admin panel

* Went to Settings->WordPress Integration

* Set up role mappings and saved

* Either at that point, or with one more click (Save in User Integration), I was suddenly locked out and getting mysql connect errors in the header.

* Examining the page I was on showed the “advanced database settings” had defaulted to different info: apparently it used my admin login (user admin) rather than the WP db user/pass I had provided.

* It was impossible to reset this info on that page due to the DB connect error. [suggestion: maintain ‘admin’ login/pw in a bb_* table for emergency admin use of the WP connection breaks!]

* Confusingly, the DB info in bb-config.php is correct and I could not find the (wrong) wp DB info in any text file. Presumably it is stored in the bb-* database?!

My workaround, which is now in use: hand code the settings ($bb->user_bbdb_user etc) into bb-config.php. That works.

Bottom line: either the integrated installation process, or perhaps the settings->Integration page, is busted.

Hope that helps!

[PS: I’m the author of the wptuner performance analysis/debugging plugin for WP/WPmu. Would a BB version be helpful?]

[chrishajer]

@maliasif:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/

[travelsuperlink]

awesome. Will give a try tonight. hopefully that helps to get rid of all spamers.

btw, anybody know a better and quick way to mark user as bozos?

[Wardee]

This did not work for me. In fact, it was the thing that hindered my integration from working properly. That is just my experience, though.

Following these instructions:

http://bavatuesdays.com/integrating-wpmu-buddypress-and-bbpress/

I finally have WPMU-bbPress integration working.

There are several tips and an additional plugin mentioned there that are essential with WPMU integration.

Sam’s screencast helped with everything else.