[Malice]

I tried to link the comment author’s name on my wordpress to the wordpress profile page (or “author” page), yet I have not yet found a solution for this. I posted my issue in the wordpress forum as well: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/235251?replies=1

A wonderful alternative would be to just link a commenter’s name to the bbpress profile page instead.

I have no knowledge of php, yet even I can imagine that fetching data from one platform to another can be quite complicated.

Any thoughts?

[deadlyhifi]

All integration guides appear to have the userbase in WP. I was in the situation where my userbase was in bbPress, so I needed to get all my bb_users into wp_users.

The following refers to WP2.7 and bbPress 1.06a.

The process is actually quite straight forward but do make backups of your database beforehand!

1. First delete ‘wp_usermeta’ and ‘wp_users’ tables (having made that backup!)
2. Change the name of ‘bb_usermeta’ to ‘wp_usermeta’ and ‘bb_users’ to ‘wp_users’.
3. The tables structures from bbP are the same as WP apart from one field in the ‘_users’ table. So we need to add FIELD: user_activation_key TYPE: varchar(60) NULL: NO after the ‘user_registered’ field.
4. The problem now is that none of these users have their WP roles defined.
5. To do this we need to insert the ‘meta_key’ and ‘meta_value’ to ‘wp_capabilities’ and ‘a:1:{s:10:”subscriber”;b:1;}’ for each user.
6. wordpress_capabilites.sql contains an SQL insert statement for 5000 users. If your userbase is less than that you only need to run it for your number of users (although we deal with overruns in a minute).
7. Once this has run each user will have ‘subscriber’ status within wordpress. You need to manually change your bbPress key holder (most likely user_id 1) ‘wp_capabilities’ to ‘a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}’. This gives that account administrator status within WP.
8. It’s highly likely that you’ll have deleted some users in the past, or run too many INSERTs from the wordpress_cabalilities file, so we need to delete all those ‘wp_capabilities’ that aren’t mapped to an exisiting user.
9. SQL: ‘select * from wp_usermeta where user_id not in (select ID from wp_users)’ will list all these non-existent users.
10. It probably a good idea to do a full backup of your tables right now just in case.
11. Now run this SQL: ”delete from wp_usermeta where user_id not in (select ID from wp_users)” – this will delete all those stray entries.
12. Done.

All worked out with the help of someone I work with, so I can’t take all the credit

Good luck.

[deadlyhifi]

Functions (optional)

…In order to do it, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ bb-config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).

Doing this will add quite a lot of weight to your bbPress installation as it will cause WordPress to load in it’s entirety. Your best option is to try to emulate the functionality you require inside a bbPress plugin.

Adding wp-blog-header.php to my bb-config causes lots of functionality issues.

Therefore has anyone made any of these plugins? I’m mostly looking to get wp_list_pages working.

[John James Jacoby]

Lets say in theory I was going to try and integrate bbPress’s functions into WordPress.

Theoretically, where would I look if I didn’t want bbPress to clear out the wp_head function?

[eclipsenow]

Hi,

I am using phpbb3 for now, but I’m not really good at database stuff and admin stuff. I love all open source projects, especially phpbb3, bbpress, wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc… even though I’m not very “Geeky” yet and am only just beginning to learn the basics of CSS (let alone php etc).

So… I am speaking from the perspective of a non-technical forum administrator frustrated by various interactions of various software. I don’t mind doing the grunt work of setting things up IN the software, but don’t know the code to work ON software. EG: Once phpbb3 is installed, I can easily set up forums, permissions, etc. It’s just easy point and click stuff. But messing around in mysql and database stuff still terrifies me, I’m afraid of breaking something. It’s all too big. I just want to install it and have it work.

I appreciate that there are various philosophies behind each style of software, but here goes…

MY ULTIMATE WISH LIST

1. Nothing to do with you guys, but number 1 on my list is to have Fantastico (or something equivalent) that can make installation of WordPress / Joomla / Whatever EASY! (My client is a volunteer campaigning group that just happened to choose Brinkster which don’t use Cpanel, let alone have Fantastico).

2. After EASY fantastico installation, I install WordPress.

3. Then within WordPress I browse across to the various add-ons pages in the WordPress Control Panel (A VERY cool new feature of WordPress that Drupal and Joomla should add to their systems!) and then click “INSTALL FORUM?” and WordPress suddenly installs a completely compatible forum, just like that, with all the power of phpbb3 built-in.

4. I then choose 1 of say 20 or 30 “looks” (templates, themes, whatever) that are already pre-configured to allow sign-in of users on all pages, especially the forum page. If I want to change the colour of a background element or use a new image in the header, I just point and click to template editing and do it ala Blogger. (No CSS required).

This sort of software is on the way. Joomla now has “Agora” which is already fairly advanced. Once Joomla is installed through the 50 second Fantastico installation, Agora only takes about 50 seconds to install as well. EVEN I CAN DO IT! But the Joomla / Agora combination does not yet have Step 4, which is killing me… I have to muck around with all sorts of plug-ins and extra bits to get a horizontal log-in menu I can put up just under my header (so it’s in the same place no matter what template I’m in).

I saw the video of how to integrate WP and BBpress, and ran a mile screaming! It just looked very intimidating.

So anyway, the Joomla / Agora combination is hardly perfect, but as you know these things keep on developing and Hazzaa over at Agora is MANIC in the rate he’s developing his product. Version 3 is nearly out, and it’s only been 10 months.

Just thought I should give you guys the heads up. The competition is great, because it forces us all to evolve.

EG: I LOVE the sound of WordPress’s new one click upgrade function, and hope Joomla gets that soon! (It’s just me and database stuff again… eeerrgh!) Combine that with easy forum upgrades, backups, etc, and software that’s Mac-like in that it “just works”, and I’m a happy camper.

PS: I forgot to check this thread in case there were replies, because I automatically get an email from every other forum I belong to. Old habits die hard. Agora has an automatic emailing function built in, it’s not a plug in.

[ilo]

checked the database and it seems the following line went from

bb_capabilities a:2:{s:13:”keymaster”;b:1;s:8:”throttle”;b:1;}

to

bb_capabilities a:2:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;s:8:”throttle”;b:1;}

The first one being when it was not working

[ilo]

Ok i logged out of wp and logged back in and I am now able to log in to bbpress again, is there any reason for this?

[ilo]

Fyi this seem to be affecting all users rather than just the admin!

[ilo]

Hello, I seem to have lost ability to login to bbpress. The only changes i did this afternoon where to add bbsync to wp and it seems possible i lost access after the first post went through. I had set bbsync to a forum that had a space in the name and that was not working so changed it to another and that worked but now when i go to the forums i am logged out and when i try and login it just takes me back to the main page, no error message. not quite sure what to do.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[chrishajer]

What version of bbPress are you using and are you talking about a specific plugin that allows you to upload?

[chrishajer]

@ganzua – do you have examples of plugins that do that?

[deadlyhifi]

just found this post regarding the ‘inactive’ thing, although their fix hasn’t fixed my issue.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/successful-convert-smf-gt-phpbb2-gt-bbpress#post-14831

[supreme87]

Hi all,

we have launch the new version of ours blog with added integration with bbpress (alpha 1-6). We would appeal to us to have some opionions about this and others opionions to improve bbpress and even to make it better

thanks!

url http://www.strabello.it/forum/

[_ck_]

Not only won’t it work, you’ll find caching a forum vs a blog rather pointless unless you have very few members.

[giofilo]

Hi!

I installed wp 2.7 and bbpress 1.0 (alpha 6) and all seem to work.

I have only a little problem: when a user changes his website in his profile editor, bbPress doesn’t show the website link but the profile link!

Anyone can help me?

Thank you,

Giovanni

Italy

[ganzua]

Ahhh, he istalled wp plugins in bbpress folder. Sorry, my post was referring to wp plugins that are installed in wp plugins. Some of them cause errors when you browse bbpress.

[ganzua]

BBpress 1.06a and Topic views plugin 1.6.3. I couldn’t paginate last posts in front-page.php

If you know how, please share some knowledge What I wanted is to have an unlimited number of posts in the front-page loop and set a pagination. I think this feature would be a great improvement for bbpress.

I’m interested too in a last 10 posts loop for my 404 page

[criketos]

i use wpmu 2.7 and bbpress 0.9.0.4!

I reinstall everything from scratch. Now it works! for information should be recorded wordpress site in the form https://monsite.com. for users of WPMU.

thank you

[chrishajer]

> I read that WordPress wp-caching plugins should work

Where did you read that? I never had the impression that WordPress plugins would work when installed in bbPress.

[ganzua]

There is a bunch of wp plugins that doesn’t work with bbpress. You click whatever bbpress link and you find out that you have installed a wp plugin that doesn’t work with bbpress. Last one I found was wp “Feed statistics”, it causes an error whenever you click a view in the views section.

[frooyo]

How do I setup on the front-page.php to list pagination?

Meaning, if I have more than 30 threads – I would like it to say “Page 1, 2, 3…” as links

I assume this is a bbPress function call but can’t find it

[frooyo]

I just downloaded and installed bbPress ALPHA.

All is working okay.

I read that WordPress wp-caching plugins should work, I just installed the WP SuperCache into /my-plugins/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

I logged in as Admin, went to ACTIVATE the plugin and received the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /home/uptownelite/forum.uptownelite.com/my-plugins/wp-super-cache/wp-cache.php on line 30

Any ideas why?

I thought WP caching plugins are suppose to work in bbPress ALPHA

[brad_langdon]

I have this error message on every post…

bbPress database error: [Table ‘harrismarineblog.wp_lvtwfff_usermeta’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT * FROM wp_lvtwfff_usermeta WHERE user_id = 3 AND meta_key = ‘post_count’

bbPress database error: [Table ‘harrismarineblog.wp_lvtwfff_usermeta’ doesn’t exist]

INSERT INTO wp_lvtwfff_usermeta (user_id,meta_key,meta_value) VALUES (‘3′,’post_count’,’353′)

.

Also no one can log in even admin it keeps saying username not registered.

Does anyone know how to fix this???

[ganzua]

I can’t make this plugin work

Do you have it working in your bbpress installation?

[deadlyhifi]

Can you check your database to see that you permissions states

bb_capabilities a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}