[John James Jacoby]

or just because I upload bbpress to directory /bbpress/?

That is exactly why.

[bigcanoe]

fixed. after set the forum url to the default http://…/bbpress/. it works. why ? we can’t change it? or just because I upload bbpress to directory ‘/bbpress/’ ?

[AminSanaei]

Hi, I have a weblog that powered by wordpress in these address http://www.caspiantools.ir, add I install bbpress in these address http://www.forum.caspiantools.ir successfully. Can you see me a plugin that show my 10 or 15 last forum posts in side bar on my blog theme? I use Persian language in my forum, and it must to be right to left, what can I do for RTLing?

[bigcanoe]

Hi ,

I just installed bbpress 1.0-alpha-2 with wordpress 2.6.3, but not intergete with wordpress. the installation is very smooth. but when I access my forum, got Http 404 error(page not found). and my server supports permalink . following is my bb-config.php, please help to take a look.thanks a lot.

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<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘******’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘******’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘******’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old bb-config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change each KEY to a different unique phrase. You won’t have to remember the phrases later,

// so make them long and complicated. You can visit https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

// to get phrases generated for you, or just make something up. Each key should have a different phrase.

// If you are integrating logins with WordPress, you will need to match each key to

// the value of their equivalent keys in the WordPress file wp-config.php

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

// If you are running multiple bbPress installations in a single database,

// you will probably want to change this.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BB_LANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BB_LANG’, ”);

?>

[_ck_]

I vaguely remember there is an undocumented switch in bbPress to reverse the order if I am not mistaken.

Otherwise, try this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/reverse-the-display-of-the-messages#post-6525

[chriswilliams]

I am trying to install the bbpress tool. I am not very skilled at what I am doing, kind of learn as you go. I have a site vuuch.com and a wp blog at vuuch.com/wordpress. I now want to install bbpress. I have downloaded the install, extracted it and copied to /forum. When i go there I am asked a bunch of things I am not real sure about. This is where I am stuck. My wp blog was installed using godday app installer, so I was removed from so details…

I get “There doesn’t seem to be a bb-config.php file. This usually means that you want to install bbPress” which I think is normal. There is a bb-config-sample.php file at the location.

Questions:

What is the database it is looking for? My guess is i either point it at the wp db or create another one. I would like to create another, I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO THIS???

If there are other things I will need to know on the next few step, please point them out.

I think I need to use something call c-panel to create the db but I am not sure nor do I know how to run this…

Thanks so much

[Paulo Espíndola]

great post problem solved

[Paulo Espíndola]

I’m using a translator, I would like to import my phpbb 3 for wordpress the easy way and practice …

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I have this:

$bb->wp_home = 'http://ipstenu.org';

Since I did this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory ages and ages ago.

But the rest, essentially, yes

[John James Jacoby]

@lorenzo: Let me ask a question to clarify. If I understand correctly, it sounds like you want to import your blog posts from WordPress and make them topic posts in bbPress?

@everyone: I am dedicating this evening to trying to work out where the process is failing. Right now, if you do NOT need to use ANY of the WordPress functions in your bbPress theme, the integration works perfectly. Logging in and out of either/or works perfectly with wp2.7 and bbp1.0a2. If you skip step 5 in my above process, there are no operational issues, only theme integration issues by not being able to use the WordPress functions.

[lorenzocoffee]

Thank you very much for sharing this experience and your knowledge,

at this point I have to take advantage (lol)

with a simple question:

given I (eventually) do not need to have registered users to let them post (as in WP ,it’s all ‘open’ ) ,and my only needs is to automatically import from WP to bbpress the posted articles (it’s like a mag) ,any chanches to ‘automate’ this quickly with the 2.7 and the 1.x ?

thanks

[jwxie]

let me clean up what i said above

i just did another test

it happened that, if you created abc123 from bbpress

you can’t login wordpress (it will turned to cookie error, i am using firefox)

you will have to first use admin account, and then go to site-admin -> users, and make abc123 from No role to one of the role, let’s say editor.

now, you can login

and also, i can’t login at the same time

i can’t login abc123 in wordpress but bbpress is still not login yet.

why

[787consulting]

Note: Compared to wp, I don’t see a wp_options database entry so I can’t see where the base URI is being saved at…

I am new to bbPress so maybe I am just missing it.

[jwxie]

hey klarko, thanks a lot

just another quick question

everything went fine, i did everything in the admin panel

now, when i tested registration in bbpress, it worked, but i tried to login from wordpress, doesn’t work

i mean i created a new user name abc from bbpress

it worked in bbpress,. but i can’t login in from wordpress mu

is that the case? or something went wrong?

[787consulting]

I know your a busy person _ck_ so thanks for the quick reply.

it is a true subdomain, no mod_rewrite. There are no .htaccess files associated and I did have the forethought to add an .htaccess page in the root directory.

Tried RewriteEngine and RewriteBase.

I am not using multiviews.

I am using the same database for several WP installs for them to share the same User data. Yet I have not used the integration functions for bbPress. All files have their bb_ prefix and should not be interacting with any other ones.

And you are right , doesn’t look like it is allowing Index.php file to run through.

Any other ideas?

[fontadoni]

What would the RewriteCond be in this case?

[mithrandir321]

Jeez, the thing why I couldnt log in was caused by year long cookie plugin. Deleted it and its okay now…

The thing with rating in FF persists though

[_ck_]

My very first guess would be a problem with the way subdomains are being handled. Is it a true subdomain or a mod_rewrite subdomain?

There may be parent direct htaccess rules that is messing something up with a conflict.

It doesn’t even feel like bbPress is getting to execute, index.php is not even being called.

You’re not using multiviews correct?

[787consulting]

I am trying to install bbPress version 0.9.0.2

Installation URL: http://forums.seocoalition.com

Hosting data:

Operating system Linux

Apache version 2.2.10 (Unix)

PHP version 5.2.6

MySQL version 5.0.51

So it goes through the whole process and completes it, but when you go to the main page, there is nothing. No error messages, no output, nothing at all.

Since I don’t know what the problem is, I am at a lost as to what to do. I search of the forums hasn’t provided any answers.

Here is the end of installer message:

Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Create table bb_forums

>>> Create table bb_posts

>>> Create table bb_topics

>>> Create table bb_topicmeta

>>> Create table bb_users

>>> Create table bb_usermeta

>>> Create table bb_tags

>>> Create table bb_tagged

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> Integration not enabled

Step 3 – Site settings

>>> Site name: Internet Marketing forums

>>> Site address (URL): http://forums.seocoalition.com/

>>> From email address: seocoalition@gmail.com

>>> Key master created

>>>>>> Username: admin

>>>>>> Email address: seocoalition@gmail.com

>>>>>> Password: XXXXXXXXXXX

>>> Description: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum name: SEOC

>>>>>> Topic: Your first topic

>>>>>>>>> Post: First Post! w00t.

>>> Key master email sent

Installation complete!

For security reasons I have X’d out the password.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Rex

[timskii]

This topic is an interesting read.

I don’t see that BBPress should fit established norms for “forums”, which I personally think are horribly outdated: Trying to apply a nice neat academic/usenet ontology to the “Twitter generation”, who would rather just communicate. Now.

So I believe the prime role of “forum software” is to allow users to freely express themselves. Structuring and organising the information they post is a different challenge. “Categories” is essentially a response to that challenge. But can’t we do better?

Which ironically is where things like XML-RPC become interesting. Can I make use of that now? Probably not. But it surely has potential to cross-reference discussions.

BBPress is clearly still an early stage product. It’s certainly not there yet, even if technically it works. And almost by definition nobody is going to have clear view of where it is going.

(And for the record, personally the biggest annoyance with the core of BBPress (0.9.x) is that users cannot register using a unicode-style username – Russian, Chinese, Arabic, or even oddball European characters. It’s just… rude, right? Or is there a solution I’ve missed that doesn’t involve rewriting the core?)

[my-apartment-map]

I’ve been working on this for a few weeks and its finally complete. There are still a few small bugs left and I’m sure I’ll find more, but I have launched the forum in its present state.

I’m using a few of _ck_’s pluggins. “Instant Password” and “Human Test”

I made quite a few modifications to the core to support what you might call “Virtual Forums” for lack of a better term.

My site lists apartments, I have pages for around 26,000 cities in the U.S. I wanted to have forum content on each page but didn’t want to create 26,000 forums for a few obvious reasons. The main being that probably 99% of the forums would never get any content.

My solution. I created 2 generic forums and 51 state forums. On each one of my apartment city pages I integrated the forum content from the state forum in which the city resides. For example, the Boston, MA apartment page would show content from the Massachusetts forum.

The trick is that if someone creates a topic from the Boston, MA apartment page, the topic is inserted into the bbPress DB with a new column that contains the latitude and longitude of Boston,MA.

If someone creates a topic from the Newton, MA (10 miles from Boston, MA) apartment page. The topic is inserted in the bbPress DB with the latitude and longitude of Newton, MA.

What this allows me to do is show forum content from any City in the U.S. with the forum topics sorted by distance (and secondarily by date) from the City the user is currently viewing.

To show you an example. (Scroll down under the map to view the forum content on the right hand side)

Boston Apartment page

Newton Apartment page

Each forum topic has the City and State that the user posted from prefixed to the actual forum topic.

As you can see the forum posts change order based on what city you view. This is not that useful without many forum posts, but once the forum starts to fill up it will appear that each city page contains a “Virtual” forum based on that city and the cities that are nearest to it.

Hopefully this will not only allow me to engage a much larger audience as most of the forum topics will be relevant to the page they are viewing.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comment. This is very much still a work and progress and can definitely be improved. The #1 thing I’m not happy with is the location of the city forums. I’m working on a redesign that would move the forums, or at least a link to the forums, up near the top of the page.

You can also view the regular apartment forum which has a modified very of the default template.

[jwxie]

klarko, may i ask you a question

for the wpmu, did you just use the default integration provided by the bbpress installation?

and for the wordpress url and blog url, what do you write?

i mean, if i have a couple blogs already,which one should i use?

will i miss any user if i choose one not the other 3 blogs?

[_ck_]

I’m not a fan of XML-RPC myself but it’s a feature Matt wanted to pioneer. He mentioned it in one of his first announcements about bbPress. He wanted some features no other forum has. Given that it’s his “baby” he can guide it in any direction he feels fit of course.

bbPress is just like WordPress in one major way – if you don’t like something, or want to make it better – get coding.

WordPress didn’t have documentation for YEARS. You can find many complaints about it. Even as recent as 2.0 I believe. But look at it now.

bbPress is the same way. And in a couple years, newcomers will wonder what the heck you were complaining about.

Last but not least, in fact most importantly, you’re working with a pre 1.0, pre-release project – what exactly are you expecting? Features aren’t even locked in yet.

I only learned PHP a few years ago and I figured out how to code for bbPress, 100% without documentation. If I can do it, anyone can.

[Silvanovicz]

Hi John – _CK_’s pluging bring up related topics, but this plugin only works in bbPress.

I’m after a plugin that shows related topics on a WordPress article (so you’d be able to show related posts and related topics on the forum).

[fontadoni]

Thanks Chris and Ipstenu for your reply. I will give it a try and report back!