[ganzua]

I sum up to the toll; recent registered users through wordpress can’t post in the forum. The “add new” link doesn’t appear whenever one of them logs in.

I tried to manually assign roles but whenever I go to the profile page I get a function error there. Forum death

[John James Jacoby]

Where is this discussion taking place? I’m always game for a good discussion!

[chrishajer]

bbPress is GPL v2, so they can’t *require* you to display it. If you haven’t been watching, there’s a huge discussion going on regarding WordPress and premium themes, the GPL, etc.

[John James Jacoby]

@the both of yous

Sambauers is the main programmer responsible for updating and maintaining bbPress, the rest of us seem to serve more as bug testers and trac reporters. You’re both correct to assume that the goal is to have it work both ways, with a registration at one platform to assign a role to the other.

@globalkris

You’re lucky, I haven’t been able to get either/or to automatically tell the other what roles to assign, despite my efforts. To be honest, it can’t be happening anywhere on the WordPress side of things, because WordPress has no idea that bbPress exists. It’s just doing what it always did. bbPress needs to look for capabilities, and assign them according to the WordPress role map provided it has been set.

It seems like a good idea to have the role-map setup as part of the installation process, if choosing to integrate that is.

The other side of this, which I’ve said before in different topics, is that automated integration of bbPress is difficult to predict, because there are several configurations that anyone could or would use, and it isn’t just WordPress that bbPress is intended to work with. There’s BuddyPress too, which is a whole other assortment of configurations. You can see how having bbPress automatically assign a role to a user that doesn’t have a role at all can be a strange situation, since there are times where WP users might not have roles either. There are about 250 different types of arrangements that users can have that must be trapped when I think about it, considering registrations on either side, the role map, and what the results of each situation would be.

Maybe when they register through WordPress, I don’t want them automatically given access to the forums, or vice versa. Even though they are integrated, maybe I don’t want them to have a role at all. What if WordPress registrations are closed but bbPress ones are open? I mean when you think of all of the possibilities, it’s a wonder/miracle that it works at all. Ha!

Long story short, Sam is working really hard on getting this integration up and running for us, and I suspect there will be an alpha6 coming shortly.

[calman]

Thank you so much guys! .. that’s a great help on my very first question. *thumbs up*

[Famous]

how? Where? I think I have everthing setup okay, but everyones account on the bbpress side states:

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/user/public_html/forums/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 2009

and shows the user as inactive??? Help, please.

[globalkris]

Well, glad to see I’m not the only one with the problem at least. Hopefully someone has a solution for us… anyone?

[Ganzuelo]

is this fixed yet?

[_ck_]

It’s encouraged but not required.

[tiago-s]

It’s open source, you can remove it. (I think?)

Still, there are lots of places you can’t put such a statement in. It’s polite to talk about those whose work you benefited from. An about page on your blog/forum with a link would be enough. Or maybe somewhere near where you put your advertising, a link with the logo of bbpress. Unitrusive and can even be pretty if you make a nice banner.

[calman]

Hi Guys!

My first question today, is this statement a legal requirement, or can it be removed while customising your forum?

All the best,

Cal

[marky]

Just wanted to send a quick “thank you!”

The queries worked perfectly, as far as I can tell. (I had to change some of the table names from wp_ to bb_, since I’m not using integration, but other than that it all worked flawlessly.)

Some of my spam users went as far back as 6 years from when I imported everything to bbPress from phpBB, so it was definitely time for some housecleaning.

Thanks again for the assistance.

[ganzua]

Hi!

I want to change the name of the user that started a topic.

I went to bb_topics table through phpmyadmin and there, I changed topic_poster_name field. However, when you go to the forums, the topic author appears as “anonymous”.

Do I need to change any other field in bbpress database? or maybe this has anything to do with the role assingment issue?

[chrishajer]

Do you have a backup of the database before trying integration? Did you indeed use wp_ for the bbPress table prefix?

[Famous]

what can I do? I tried integrating bbpress with buddypress/wordpress and was unsuccessful. I don’t want to damage my database. What can I do to get it working? Best solution??? Thanks

[tiago-s]

HEAVILY modded forum warning. I only use bbPress because of the WordPress integration, and I want it as close as possible to other forums, so I did this (with only amateur self-learned skills):

http://nocontinues.net/forum/

Feel free to use it as reference, but it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen done in bbPress. Like, at all. And not only the looks, functions too. I’m especially proud of the support of bbcode, including nested

Quote:

tags

[tiago-s]

Works perfect for me in bbPress 0.9.0.2. Maybe it’s a specific issue of 1.0?

[chrishajer]

It looks like you used wp_ (instead of bb_) as your table prefix, and WordPress was already installed, which means bbPress tried to install into the WordPress tables?

By default, WordPress uses these tables (in 2.7):

wp_comments

wp_links

wp_options

wp_postmeta

wp_posts

wp_terms

wp_term_relationships

wp_term_taxonomy

wp_usermeta

wp_users

And bbPress uses these in the alpha version:

bb_forums

bb_meta

bb_posts

bb_terms

bb_term_relationships

bb_term_taxonomy

bb_topics

bb_usermeta

bb_users

bbPress 0.9.0.* versions used different tables:

bb_forums

bb_posts

bb_tagged

bb_tags

bb_topicmeta

bb_topics

bb_usermeta

bb_users

And when you integrate, bbPress uses the wp_users and wp_usermeta tables instead of its own bb_users and bb_usermeta.

[hotforwords]

I am running 2.7 and alpha 5 with the same problem and can’t get the roles to work either. I did everything the way it was described to do.. even did a clean install of a website and bbpress to test it out and it didn’t assign roles there either.

I used the bbpress integration plugin as well.

I have 44,000 members, so this is a bit of an issue for me. I had to manually go in and assign roles to about 15,000 members and have to manually assign roles for all new members, which is about 100 a day, and a real pain.

[chrishajer]

I just validated the feed for one of the pages for this forum, and it came back as valid. The data format looks the same to me. I noticed in your date, there is a character missing from “Friday”:

<pubDate>Fr, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:20 +0000</pubDate></blockqoute>

This date format is correct for RFC 822 from a Linux command line:

[~/ch/bbpress]$ date -R

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:12:42 -0500

So, I think there is just some problem with your date function, missing the “i” in Friday, or you typed incorrectly instead of pasting, and the missing “i” is just a typo.

[chrishajer]

Depends on what version you installed. This is from the alpha versions:

http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/admin-dashboard.png

It sounds like when you log in, you’re not a keymaster, so you’re not seeing the keymaster (admin) functions.

[chrishajer]

That is correct. Here are the moderator capabilities from bb-includes/capabilities.php:

'moderator' => array(

'name' => __('Moderator'),

'capabilities' => array(

'moderate' => true,

'participate' => true,

'manage_tags' => true,

'delete_topics' => true,

'close_topics' => true,

'stick_topics' => true,

'move_topics' => true,

'view_by_ip' => true,

'edit_closed' => true,

'edit_deleted' => true,

'browse_deleted' => true,

'edit_others_tags' => true,

'edit_others_topics' => true,

'delete_posts' => true,

'throttle' => true,

'ignore_edit_lock' => true,

'edit_others_posts' => true,

'edit_favorites' => true,

'edit_tags' => true,

'edit_topics' => true,

'edit_posts' => true,

'edit_profile' => true,

'write_topics' => true,

'write_posts' => true,

'change_password' => true,

'read' => true

)),

You could add the permissions you for your moderator there, but it’s generally a bad idea to modify a core file. You probably want a plugin to modify the capabilities for your moderators. I didn’t see one specifically for that, but I did notice this plugin was added yesterday.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-moderation-suite/

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Warren – Thank you for bumping multiple posts.

What version of WP and BB are you using? There is a plugin for WP that should ‘fix’ this for you on WP 2.7 and BB 1.0-alpha-5

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

[WarrenScott]

Again, look at when this was posted. 4 months ago. How long is it going to take bbpress to get the user roles intregated? I would suggest somebody write a plugin or better yet, update the core to match the same user roles in wordpress 2.7 or bbpress is going to lose alot of users.

[WarrenScott]

bbpress 0.9.0.4 and wordpress 2.7 intregrate but bbpress doesn’t hanlde the roles at all. If a user gegisters through wordpress, all is good but if they register through bbpress, they get an “you don’t have permission to view this page” when they try to login to wordpress.

I think this should be addressed asap, but as I’m ready through the forums, I see Sam or any other developer has addressed this issue at all. There are some .htaccess 301 redirects and a small code change you can make to redirect users from the bbpress registration page to the wordpress registration page, but in my humble opinion, one should not have to do this because the whole reason to use bbpress with wordpress was the fact that they intregrate.

Bottom line…bbpress needs to update the user roles to that of wordpress user roles period.