[chrishajer]

Having built sites in both Joomla and WordPress, let me steer you toward WordPress.

You mention:

User Moderation

Comment Moderation

User Profile

User Moderation, not sure what you need to do that’s not built in.

Comment moderation is built in.

This plugin extends the built in user profile:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extended-user-profile/

I have 10x more confidence that you could do this more easily with WordPress than Joomla and I think I would select WordPress over bbPress for this as well.

What did you see in WordPress that was a limitation for you?

[_ck_]

Another thing that I believe it is that sooner or later bbpress will have a wp plugin version or that it will be a plugin bridge to put it inside of wordpress.

This will never happen because it’s physically impossible as the code is designed. Also the deep integration would use so many resources that a busy forum will get you kicked off of most shared hosts. bbPress 1.0 + WordPress 2.7 running at the same time with deep integration and several plugins is over 1 megabyte of code PER INSTANCE (per user visiting, per page load).

This is why I always say don’t deeply integrate.

However when WordPress eventually switches to the backpress core (think version 3.5 perhaps?) it will be easier to have them deeply integrated without so much excessive resource use.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

famous you use the ones from your wp-config file and put those in the bbPress admin page for WP integration.

ganzua that is … weird, but okay.

[Fender]

I am considering that approach as well. Part of the problem I face using WordPress is finding the plugins to allow the user moderation, comment moderation and user profile features I’m after. Perhaps I’m looking in the wrong places for WordPress plugins, I dunno. I’ve been spending most of my time looking at Joomla for another major site replacement so haven’t got much time to explore WordPress.

I mentioned over on _ck_’s forum that I’m willing to pay someone to help me nut this out … whether it’s WordPress comments-based or bbPress matters little to me, I’m just looking for a solution

Cheers,

Chris.

[chrishajer]

You should probably post that comment on this thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-alpha-6-released

[chrishajer]

What are the security issues you are concerned with in 2.5.1?

There is no date I know of for releasing bbPress 1.0, and there has been an alpha release almost weekly, which means it’s a moving target as new things get addressed in every alpha release.

[ganzua]

regarding the post_author_link issue, I solve it, you need to change post_author_link for topic_author.

This link is ver handy; http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/_functions/

Nevertheless, I don’t know if it is kept up to date.

[Famous]

I am a bit confused? I have these in my wp-config for mu.wordpress–do I use these:

define( ‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘gggggggggggggg’ );

define( ‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘ggggggggggggg’ );

define( ‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘gggggggggggggggggggggg’ );

or the ones in:

domain.com/wp-admin/options.php

which one’s do I use? They are different from each other…

And then do I just update my phpadmin tables? Currently, I am using the 2nd option, but there is no connection. Thanks

[mikey1]

I have several wordpress blogs and have upgraded all but one to 2.7

I still have one using 2.5.1 to upgrade, which has bbpress 0.9.0.2

linked to it. When will I be able to upgrade, as I’m aware that 2.5.1 has apparently some security issues.

If I upgrade the blog now will I lose he forum, any help greatly Appreciated.

Thanks. Mike.

[ganzua]

BTW, I changed post_author_link for post_author_id and all IDs appears as zero.

[ganzua]

check the bb_topics table in that db and check what it says for the ‘topic_poster_name’ column

Checked. Below topic_poster and topic_poster_name columns are all the right starter user IDs and usernames.

With the default theme I have the same error. Actually, my custom theme is a stripped kakumei

[ganzua]

The default kakumei template has no post_author_link in front-page.php or forum.php. Perhaps it is that post_author_link doesn’t work anymore inside the forum loop because the topic loop is different.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

That’s what I have too. That’s really wild.

Do you have access to your SQL database? If so, check the bb_topics table in that db and check what it says for the ‘topic_poster_name’ column. The default for that on my table is ‘Anonymous’ so it’s like it’s not writing to that field. Which would mean even if you flipped the bit to the old theme, the database still has it wrong.

So, try making a test post while using the default theme?

[ganzua]

I just checked both. I removed the language file and the same error.

For showing the topic starter I have <?php post_author_link(); ?> in my template. Is this wrong?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Okay, I’ve got 1.0-a-6 and no problem with posts.

Your individual topics are fine. The only thoughts that jump to mind is that it’s your theme or your language pack. Maybe it’s pulling the wrong field?

[ganzua]

You’re using an anon-posting plugin?

No, I didn’t start to install plugins yet, only bbsmilies is engaged.

[ganzua]

I understand famous point of view because I was there too. I’m pretty sure that sooner or later it will be a plugin to give bbpress all mainstream forums features.

Another thing that I believe it is that sooner or later bbpress will have a wp plugin version or that it will be a plugin bridge to put it inside of wordpress.

[chrishajer]

It’s interesting to me when people say “absolutely essential” in regards to software.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/the_top_5_red_flags_of_software_development.php

The functionality is available in a plugin, it’s just not built into bbPress. bbPress’ philosophy is to leave stuff like that out of the core, and I’m glad for that. I don’t need it. If you do need it, install a plugin. Or, if you disagree with the philosophy, you’re free to install other forum software that more closely aligns with your needs.

Now, if we want to talk about the lack of documentation, telling you how to do all these things with bbPress, well, that’s a whole different story. I’ve heard before that there probably won’t be much documentation before version 1 is released.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

You’re using an anon-posting plugin? It may no longer be compatible. Try turning that off.

[chrishajer]

1. I don’t believe those versions will integrate. 2.5 goes with 0.9.0* and 2.6+ goes with the 1.0 alpha versions.

2. Where to find the logs depends on your host. Is there access to logs from your hosts control panel?

If you’re not a techie, adding the code for custom error reporting might be a bit over your pay grade, so I won’t post that. Right now though, if you are not seeing the forum, and it’s giving a 500 Server Error, you need to see what that error is to help resolve this.

[~] $ curl -I http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/bbpress/

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:54:12 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/html

[trex33]

famous, I agree with you. The vast majority of users have no idea how to use RSS. Email notification is absolutely essential. Do we really expect users to check a forum on daily basis for responses? It would be wonderful if they did, but reality says otherwise.

[chrishajer]

Hopefully, with an active blog, you have a good database backup.

I’m confused on this point:

my bbpress tables are inside of wordpress (obviously)

That’s not obvious to me, at all. Do you mean the bbPress tables are inside the same database where your WordPress tables are? That’s OK. You can put as much stuff as you want into a database, so long as you use different table prefixes for the different applications. For example:

WordPress: wp_

bbPress: bb_

Joomla!: jos_

etc

You can call your database whatever you want, then just keep loading tables into it for different application, like WordPress and bbPress.

If you integrated WordPress and bbPress, then your bbPress installation used two existing WordPress tables: wp_users and wp_usermeta. That’s to allow integrated logins.

Regarding where you put bbPress files, you said you put them into the phpbb directory. Does it look like this?

/var/www/htdocs/website/phpbb3/

/var/www/htdocs/website/phpbb3/bbpress/

If so, someone else recently found that bbPress finds an existing config.php (the one for phpbb3) and won’t go any further. In that case, just rename the phpbb3 config.php to something else for just a minute, so installation can continue.

There is some confusion about database names, table names and folders, for me anyway. Any information you can post to help clarify will help. Thanks.

[wmnasef]

am talking about database tables. both phpbb3 and bbpress should use the same database.

first, get a backup of all of your files, so you can restore everything back if anything went wrong.

now install a new copy of bbpress, make sure you use the same database as the current phpbb3 installation is using.

finish the installation then run the converter, and there should be no problems.

[chrishajer]

That is a really poor analogy. This isn’t Slashdot, so we don’t really need another car analogy, but, here’s one I think is more applicable:

It’s like creating a car that is beautiful, sleek and fast, but deciding up front that things like tinted windows, remote start and stainless tips on the mufflers should be possible, but will be supplied by the aftermarket, not delivered with the new car.

[ganzua]

I did a second test using my live installation and it worked. A new user registered through wp and after login he appears as member in the bbpress control panel.

However, since 1.05a all new posts appears as started by “anonymous” user. I do know what to check to correct this behavior.