Works perfect for me in bbPress 0.9.0.2. Maybe it’s a specific issue of 1.0?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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/
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.
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.
I have the exact same problem but even when they login to wordpress 2.7 they are shown “You don’t have permission to view this page”.
I have to manually change their role to subscriber which is not ideal at all. It seems to me that bbPress should make a user who registers through the forum a “subscriber” in wordpress but it’s not. I think bbpress should have the same roles as wordpress to cut the confusion down. The whole purpose of using bbpress was because it intregated with wordpress but if it doen’t habdle the roles automatically, I may as well install phpbb or vbulletin.
I love bbpress, but if I have to perform task manually, what is the benefit of using bbpress?
Same problem here. The bbpress roles need to match those of wordpress roles. I played with this for hours to the point I’m ready to ditch bbpress and just install vbulletin or phpbb. I love the intregration though. Everything else works great except when user register through bbpress.
Hi folks!
Just wanted to say hello and that I am looking forward to getting into the workings of bbPress. I newly created my forum last night, so a lot of learning ahead.
All the best,
Cal 
This poll is intended to gauge usage levels of older versions of PHP, with a view to maybe bumping the lowest supported version in bbPress up to PHP 4.4.9 (from PHP 4.3.0).
The two options below are the latest stable versions of PHP 4 and 5. If you are using another version, please be specific when entering it’s version number.
[polldaddy poll=1247862]
Update: I was able to integrate bbpress 1.0 alpha 4 with wpmu 6.5 and buddypress beta.
I created a new directory and copied the files from bbpress-latest.zip to it. I was able to install bbpress 1.0-alpha 4.
However, there was no screen about creating a user or your first forum or any integration.
The nightly build/bbpress-latest.zip has the MBCS warning screens after step 1 of the installation.
There’s no official documentation or codex yet.
A few people have done phpxref for bbpress but I find that kind of output fairly useless.
If you have access to linux shell you can do a grep to get a function list in the template include like so (or install the grep for windows)
grep -oe ^function.*) bb-includes/template-functions.php | sort > functions.txt
modifying that you can also get the filters/actions
grep -oe apply_.*) bb-includes/template-functions.php | sort > filters.txt
grep -oe do_.*) bb-includes/template-functions.php | sort > actions.txt
If you use the grep for windows, leave out the escapes (backslashes) or it won’t work.
So, I finally got the revamp of my site launch completed on January 1st. The “News” portion of the site is driven by wordpress, and the “Messageboard” portion is bbpress with some marriage between the two.
We migrated from a phpbb2 install that was using phpbbfetchall for pulling “News” to the front page. I think the new set up is much better. 
I’m still ironing out glitches and adding features, but I thought I’d share it here to show it off so far. We get between 10,000-12,000 unique visitors to the site per day, and bbpress is handling that traffic beautifully.
http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/
Thanks for the responses,
it looks like I’m gonna to be going with bbPress soon, once I get a nice design.
I’d say try the nightly build ( https://bbpress.org/nightly-builds/bbpress-latest.zip ) but I’m not really sure when that’s updated anymore…
The SVN is open to be downloaded by anyone.
Hello.
WordPress version 2.7 and use same user table width WordPress for bbPress version 1.0 Alpha 5. (Integrated wordpress bbpress) If user name all characters number then cant login bbpress else login.
For Example:
user name “admin” then login.
user name “123abc” then login.
user name “123456” then cant login bbPress. Error “User does not exist”.
Hey Patrick10128 – bbPress actually has a design philosophy which puts most features in plugins, not in the core engine itself.
Which features are you looking for? We could let you know if there are plugins that do it or not…
No one else can answer what is best for you.
It takes ten to twenty minutes tops to install bbPress.
Install both, play with both for a weekend, delete the one you don’t want.
Here is someone who tried six different forums and went with bbPress:
http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=591
http://themehybrid.com/support/topic/best-wordpress-forum
Which is better bbpress or wp-forum plugin ?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-alpha#post-18532
I also feel that Simple:Press has many more features than bbPress currently. So maybe I should wait until bbPress is developed more?
Matching the bbPress theme to your WordPress theme isn’t trivial… at first it really bothered me. But once I realized how different blogs and forums were, it made a lot more sense to me.
The initial conversion was the hardest part. After that, little tweaks to my blog theme didn’t take that long to incorporate into my bbPress theme. But I’m getting ready to do a redesign of the blog, and am dreading converting it into a bbPress theme again. It probably won’t be that bad; it’s just inconvenient.
Overall though, it’s been definitely worth it . Frankly I am liking bbPress much more than I ever liked WordPress!
