hi _ck_ i’m using bbpress 0.9.2. yes i’ll do that homework as soon as i have new hosting. one more thing, there was no resolution at all from godaddy.
Talking about this, it reminds me about what godaddy did to my friend 6 months ago. her hosting acc was completely expired and everything lost. when she asked for the backup godaddy charged from her 170$US.
The problem that her acc expired is that godaddy failed to automatically renew the acc. and even she did it manually but still could not. she and i thought that it was a problem with Visa card. i suggested her send an email to godaddy not to delete her acc as she had problem with her card. she also was subscribing new card.
After getting new card, she did the renew again but still failed. finally, the hosting expired.
Then she tried to buy new hosting by using the same card. yes, she succeeded. Strange? anyway, it was her fault that she didn’t do the back up.
Yes. What was I thinking?!? Unlike php.ini, the value can be specified in an optional bbPress configuration field (visible if SMTP is in use?) and set from a script, handling shared hosting environments as well.
Elegant solution. No plugin required.
What version bbPress are you using?
How did you try to integrate them? I ask because if you have wp_head calls in your bbpress files, it may be causing this sort of wackiness.
@Ipstenu
@sambauers – Thanks! I had tried bblive, it never pulled correctly when integration wasn’t working… i’ll give both your ideas a shot with my test integration of 2.7 and alpha 4.
i am also using bbsync with my 2.5.1 to send posts to bbpress as topics… I want to do this and disable comments for easier moderation. I know it doesn’t work with 2.6 or 2.7. Anyone know of other ideas to send posts to bbpress as topics? Thanks!!
If you want to integrate the forum with wordpress latest version, you have two options; bbpress and simple-forum plugin.
If you need a stand-alone forum I’d go for phpbb3. It has everything that a forum should have.
i hope a working “preview post” feature is an integral part of 1.0 
hi there,
i’ve got a Wp2.7 blog (that i’ve unsuccessfully attempted to integrate with BBpress – not a problem right now, i can wait for this to come) working with a BBpress Alpha 4 forum install.
As I thought, everything was working fine, however, i’ve noticed now that the content isn’t being displayed! The titles are coming up, the topic pages are coming up, but they have no contents.
Any help with this would be very helpful.
Try using the magnificent _ck_’s unread post plugin. Works for me. I made my unread posts darker and bold in the topic list, and when you click on them, they rocket you to the most recent unread post.
Note: Unread is NOT the same as undead…
I’ve noticed when you click on a topic with multiple pages in these forums, it still takes you to page one….is this the default for bbPress? If so, is there a way to change it so the user is always taken to whatever the last page is? (ie. if the topic has three pages, the link from the forum takes the user to page three).
Most hosts will not admit and definitely not advertise NFS, it’s a downside, not a plus.
But you can tell if you have an account with them by studying df -a though the shell, php shell or perl cgi shell. Or if they hide/block all that you can write a script to time 1000 reads of filemtime (with clearstatcache) which cannot be cached by the OS and will have telltail lag.
Marketing-wise NFS is usually spun as “unlimited” or “expanding” storage space, like Dreamhost promises extra space each month.
I’m very curious to find out what the “resolution” was.
The latest page show shows 1.432 – 36 queries which is still poor.
Alicia R, are you guys using NFS? I poked around your site but I can’t find the answer.
We have communicated with the customer and he appears to be satisfied with the resolution.
Thanks,
Alicia R.
Go Daddy Hosting
@staats – If you have access to your SQL database (like through phpMyAdmin), it’s much the same as moving any databased app, like WordPress 
The first set of directions I put in the post above are mostly right. I’ve updated them here since there’s a couple things that should be explained differently than my copy replace from WordPress’s directions (why reinvent the wheel?). If you’ve got WP and BB integrated you’ll have to make all the changes to the files (wp-config and bb-config AND the admin settings changes) BEFORE you backup your database.
First, backup your database – https://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database (obviously the bb database, not the wp one for your case) No matter WHAT you want this copy! If you screw everything up (and we’ve all done that) you need a fall back plan.
- Download a copy of the main bbpress files from your OLD forum to your hard drive and edit b-config.php to suit the new server.
- Go back to your OLD forum and go to settings and change the bbPress address (URL) to that of your new site. (You may want to change your email addy here, but you don’t have to just yet).
- IF you’ve integrated bbPress and WordPress, go to your WordPress Integration page and change any domain information there that has changed.
- Download your database (but keep the old backup just in case), upload this new database and the copy of the forum files with the edited bb-config.php to your new server.
Again, if WordPress and bbPress are integrated and sharing a database, do steps 1-3 for bbpress, and then steps 1 and 2 here, and THEN do the last DB download step just once.
And if it’s all confusing … yeah, it’s a lot of fruit to be juggling at once.
Apologies for the attempt at bumping that was deleted. I should note though that I tried just a straight install of bbPress, skipping the WP integration, and it said forum failed to be installed.
I guess it depends on what you want a forum to do.
Make a list of what you need, being firm with yourself to separate your WANTS from your NEEDS. For example, for me a PM system is nice, but it’s not a deal breaker for me. Whereas sharing IDs and Passwords (and cookies) with WP is a must have. Include things like ‘cost’ and support. Do you want to be able to call up the company, or is a support forum okay.
Then check out a place like http://www.forummatrix.org/ to compare some of them. Like a quick check comparing SMF, bbPress and Vanilla may help you out (see my results).
bbPress is a young product, it’s not even ‘live’ yet, and having been there as a user for SMF back when it was YABB and then YABBSE and THEN when it moved on to SMF (not to mention IPB, the big bad daddy of fat forum software) … well, I’ve tried a lot of forums. They all start out about this level and some improve and some don’t. It’s hard to tell at this stage, but bbPress feels like it’s headed the right way to me I do understand why it’s not right for everyone, though!
I’m aware of that but sooner or later, template things should be placed in the templates folder, I don’t know, perhaps a new functions.php in all templates.
BTW John, do you know where can I find some info in custom loops? I’d like to build a loop like this one that I described here; https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/separating-the-first-post-of-each-topic
A week ago, before bbpress 1.04a I tried all forums for wordpress that I know and the only one that I could make it work was simple-forum plugin.
I was on the point to start working on this forum but I don’t like it at all because it is too complex and because I wanted to accurately match the template of a new custom wp theme, forms, buttons…
With simple-forum this task is a hard work as result of all its bells and wistles
Fortunately, bbpress 1.04a came out and I can develop my projet quite easily, despite the fact that it still needs more development and perhaps more literature.
Firstly, what versions of WP and BBP are you using?
I apologize beforehand if this isn’t the proper section for this – it’s the best that I thought fit.
I’m starting to look for alternatives to bbPress. I went with it initially because I was impressed by WordPress – so much functionality in one package, all basics included, and the offbeat requirements were largely fulfilled by third-party plugins. bbPress as a forum were also innovative, quick, and the “new generation” designed with the mistakes of current forums in mind.
However, unlike WordPress, the basic package doesn’t quite provide the basic functionality – and having 3rd party plugins do the essential jobs needed is unreliable. For some things, there is no such plugin yet, for others the plugins are outdated, or poorly designed.
Does anyone know of similar forums – designed to be lean, and up to date on today’s web design and technology?
I’ve looked at a whole bunch lately, and am eyeing Vanilla right now. However any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks!
edit: sigh, my ampersand is being replaced with & which leads to some trac ticket…
Hrm. On the nightly build, I still can’t rename topics. Also I see the option to delete, undelete and mark as spam. Seems to me that ‘undelete’ should be hidden.
On the SVN ‘build’ I can rename topics, but I still see ‘undelete’ as an option for … non-deleted posts.
In bb-config.php
define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'WP's AUTH KEY halmstad');
define('BB_SECURE_KEY', 'WP's SECURE KEY halmstad');
define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'WP's LOGGED IN KEY halmstad');
Also make sure you have the salts:
define('BB_AUTH_SALT', 'WP's AUTH SALT');
define('BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'WP's LOGGED IN SALT');
And that you have these defined:
$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_456c71223b3bb9958349ec3d65b850f6';
$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_456c71223b3bb9958349ec3d65b850f6';
Personally, I set my cookie domain to .domain.se for both WP and BB.
vannak, if you activated load options, something is still wrong because it’s using 36 queries on the front page. Are you using bbPress 1.0 or bbPress 0.9 ?
Make sure your bb-topic-views plugin is the latest version (1.6.3)
The old version before I took over used excessive queries.
If you are using an earlier 1.0 alpha version, it also had excessive queries (still does on the newest version in some places).
Before you run to hostmonster or other provider, make sure you do your homework and check those suggestions I gave you.
Oh one more tip for choosing a hosting provider – if they use the word “unlimited” in any of their advertising, find another provider.
@sambauer
Think I have that prefix issue aswell, is this fixed?
