This:
<li><a href="http://forums.beardownarizona.com/" title="Visit the forums"></a></li>
The bloginfo just grabs the url of the site in case you ever move to another domain name.
Thanks!
Now what if I wanted to add the forums as a subdomain…like forums.example.com? How does that affect the code?
Would this work?
<li><a>http://forums.beardownarizona.com" title="Visit the forums"></a></li>
Thank you for your help!
How do you ensure? Well, you can look at your wp-config.php and see what the table prefix is there. If you didn’t change it, it’s wp_. bbPress uses bb_ by default. If you don’t change either of them, they will go properly into separate tables in the same database.
There is something simple going wrong with the connection details. It really is as simple as the username, database name, password and host. I think they call the host “advanced database settings” in the installation. If you click that, I think it unhides the table prefix setting and the host setting. I always have to change the host in my installations, so to me that’s not an advanced setting. WordPress recently changed the terminology of that (it used to say something like “99% chance you won’t need to change this”) to something like “get these details from your host.” Maybe you just need to enter the host setting and you are not seeing where to do that.
I’m guessing it’s the host setting you’re not entering, since it’s not visible on the installation screen. If it’s different that localhost in your wp-config.php, my guess is that’s the problem. You need to set that for bbPress.
I’m gettin this same error message when putting my WordPress database name, database user, and database password into the intial setup screen…
chrishajer: when you say “use the connection details for the database you use for WordPress and ensure the table prefixes are different,” how do we ensure the table prefixes are different? Do we do that before we put the information into our database info into the bbPress installer screen?
I’m literally copy and pasting the database/password info from my wp-config.php and putting it into the bbPress install screen, but I’m still getting the error.
Any Ideas?
Thanks!
In that Autumn Almanac theme, you can add a link in menu.php. It can easily be before or after the link to Home, of after all the pages that are listed (so, end of the line.) Just add this to menu.php right after <?php wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li='); ?>:
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/forum/" title="Visit the forums"></a></li>
That will add an additional list item right after all the rest of the pages in your menu.
You could also do it by creating a page called Forum and then just redirect the content of that page to your forums. That way you could control the page order and have it appear in a place other than the beginning or end of the menu.
You didn’t mention what version of bbPress and WordPress you’re trying to integrate. It matters. Looks like you are using WordPress 2.6.3 – I don’t know how to properly integrate the logins with any version of bbPress. If you spend some time looking through these forums, you will see people who’ve had trouble with integration. Maybe someone else can help you with that.
Hello bbPress Community Members,
This is the Arabic translation for bbPress, I’ve done it 5 months ago with 0.9.0.2
I was a little bit lazy about posting it here, dunno why 
Till i checked out this post mintues ago , #thanks _ck_
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/check-out-this-very-nice-r-t-l-arabic-bbpress
All that i do know that alot of people love it in Arabic and already using the Arabic version of bbPress.
Also, I’ve made a complete RTL version with heavy modifications on template files and a completely new Admin Page Design (CSS Edit).
This is the last version of Arabic Translation for 0.9.0.3 with slight modifications.
Hope that the moderator add this translation officially with other bbPress translations.
Arabic Support Forum: (part of my blog itkallem.com)
http://bbpress.itkallem.com/
Project @ Google Code:
http://code.google.com/p/bbpressar/
Arabic Language Files ar_AR:
http://bbpressar.googlecode.com/files/ar_AR-0.9.0.3.zip
bbPress 0.9.0.3 Arabic Pack only (language files + RTl modifications,..etc)
http://bbpressar.googlecode.com/files/bbpress-arabicpack-0.9.0.3.zip
bbPress 0.9.0.3 Arabic Version (ready to use complete bbPress in Arabic version)
http://bbpressar.googlecode.com/files/bbpress-0.9.0.3-ar.zip
[+] Annoying Problems:
– unicode support for usernames 
Thanks.
M.Abdel-Shakour.
I currently have wordpress installed in my root directory, but would like to have bbPress installed into a /forum directory and linked from my main homepage.
I already have the link to a “forums page” set up at http://www.beardownarizona.com, however I’m not sure how to implement bbPress so when the link is clicked the user is taken to the forums. I don’t think I can install bbPress on a WordPress page…so I’m trying to figure out the easiest way to have the forums installed an a directory, and then linked from my WordPress menu.
Also, do bbPress users on my site still use the WordPress “register” link?
Thanks in advance for your help!
I’ve never seen a hosting company visit a forum topic before, much less post there. It would be really cool if more companies did that. I won’t bad rap GoDaddy so much in the future if they’re really willing to resolve this on their end, if it’s their trouble.
I have set up my blog. I now want to set up a BBPRESS forum. Do I select a NEW database while going through the simplescripts set up or do I de-select that?
Abe
Um, no you missed my point. I didn’t enter an htmlentity,
I simply entered the ampersand symbol. bbPress converts it to an htmlentity
and then your plugin converts it to a trac code.
only way now to get a real & is to enter & or put it in backticks &
& & & &# & & &38;
@johnnydoe
bbPress has a stable version which is currently 0.9.0.3
bbPress has an unstable “alpha” version which is currently 1.0-alpha-3
In a sense the “alpha” version is like beta software in that it is for testing and shouldn’t really be run on a live server.
may I ask what the beta part of bbpress actuall is? is the “beta” thingy core related or more 3rd party related?
There’s is still a problem with htmlentities, you either call your filter too soon or too late after bbPress does it’s autop, etc.
demo of bug:
WordPress & bbPress
(the and symbol is converted into an htmlentitiy, then your plugin sees the # and makes it a link) Broken all over bbpress.org
You could make sure the pattern doesn’t end with a semicolon or maybe set priority 9.
Thanks! I abandoned trunk bbPress months ago because I couldn’t do the “deep” integration without too many core hacks. It will be good to come back.
Hi Trent, it’s been a long time. Good to see you around this neck of the woods.
Thanks for sharing the plugin.
Is Buddypress any good?
Maybe they gave the topic link to GoDaddy?
I wouldn’t mind having company techs getting the proper info from here to solve the problem.
There’s a huge amount of competition out there and a good customer service attitude might prevent a bad reputation. Now if they can actually solve the issue, I’ll be impressed.
However Vannak needs to do their part too
and fix the bb-config.php option I mentioned.
A first attempt at getting WordPress 2.7 and bbPress 1.0 to play nice again is now in trunk [1862].
I’m specifically talking about “deep” integration, i.e. when you include WordPress inside bbPress to gain access to WordPress’ functions.
This will need a lot of testing, so please post any issues you have on the relevant Trac ticket, #972 (which will stay open until some more testing has occurred).
I recommend using the following code at the top of your bbPress bb-config.php file to include WordPress inside bbPress:
if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
include_once( '/Full/Path/To/wp-load.php' );
}
Note that this includes “wp-load.php” not “wp-config.php” or “wp-blog-header.php”. This avoids running WordPress’ template loader which presumably isn’t needed inside bbPress. Some implementations may want it though, so if you find you need it then give it a go and let us know how that goes.
Also note that all filters and actions set in WordPress whether default or added by plugins or themes are cleared out completely. That means that plugins and themes installed in WordPress cannot add filters or actions to bbPress at all. This may have some implications I’m not aware of yet.
Go nuts!
Finally figured it out… I was going about it all the wrong way… What I was trying to do was take the forums in location A and integrate them with a website at location B… after tanking my local copy of my website, I finally had a realization that I was going about all the wrong way. Instead of trying to take what was essentially two websites and linking them, I should have just scrapped both sites, re-installed bbPress on the main site, and then created the radio station as plugins around bbPress. So that’s what I am now doing. And it’s going much more smoothly than it was before. Sometimes the easiest answers are the hardest to see.
-tg
Now that WordPress 2.7 has revamped the admin panel, is bbPress going to follow suit with a matching one? I came along after it had been made to match 2.6, so I never got to see what it used to look like.
Good feedback on that system.
Better than modifying a core file (which won’t survive an upgrade) is to use a plugin that allows you to use an SMTP server:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/smtp-mailer-for-bbpress/
There are also threads in the forum about using Swift Mailer, IIRC.
I just installed bbPress on a Windows XP system without incident.
Went in very easily.
However, the PHP ‘mail()’ function on Windows uses an MTA.
That is, it communicates directly with an SMTP server rather than using any intervening software.
This means that the ‘From:’ header format must be very simple:
‘From: user@domain’
instead of:
‘From: “Name of bbPress system” <user@domain>’
Otherwise, the SMTP server returns an error and does not send a message.
An easy change can be made to bb-includes/pluggable.php::bb_Mail().
Change:
$headers[] = ‘From: “‘ . bb_get_option(‘name’) . ‘” <‘ . $from . ‘>’;
to:
$headers[] = ‘From: ‘. $from;
The change will work with all systems or it can be placed under a
Windows-specific switch.
