[johnhiler]

I have been getting reports that registrants on my bbpress forum aren’t receiving their auto-generated password emails from my server.

I’ve read a few threads on this forum that suggest workarounds. But I’m more interested in allowing my users to set their own passwords.

There’s a neat WordPress plugin that does exactly what I want:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-password-register/

I don’t even need the email confirmation/validation code part. I just want users to be able to specify their own passwords. If bot registrations become a problem, I’d just install a captcha plugin.

Can someone adapt that code into a bbpress plugin that allows for user-defined passwords? I’d be glad to pay $100 to anyone who can deliver a working plugin! Plus I’d be eternally grateful and would have no objections to open sourcing any code that came out of this.

Please let me know!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

As I mentioned before, I have xml turned on.

And even using the widget supplied by the plugin, I see nothing. Zip. Nada.

sambauers, thank you for the example. I may try it again later.

[Sam Bauers]

The standalone functions in bbPress Live don’t print anything to the screen, they return an array. You need to do something like this:

<?php

$bbl_topics = bbpress_live_get_topics();



foreach ($bbl_topics as $bbl_topic) {

echo '<a href="' . $bbl_topic['topic_uri'] . '">' . $bbl_topic['topic_title'] . '</a>';

}

?>

[chrishajer]

Why? I think it’s because bbPress is not a WordPress plugin. There are already other forum plugins for WordPress. bbPress is not one of them.

[zappoman]

I am also looking for such a thing.

I’ve been hacking on a WP plugin that will embed a forum into a page, but it’s not working yet.

I’d love to find out if someone else has already built this.

I am looking to embed a full fledged forum not just a feed. I want posting, navigation etc.

So, let’s say you had wordpress at:

http://example.com/

And you made a wordpress page call /forum/

And you wanted to embed bbPress there.

Why is not not the same as running bbPress at /forum/?

Well, I want wp to handle the rendering of the header, footer, sidebar, etc. I just want the page content to be bbPress.

[chrishajer]

How about using the 1-column fixed bbPress raw theme and customizing it to look like your blog?

http://bbpressraw.com/bbpress_blank_themes/

I don’t think I’ve seen anything like Kubrick for bbPress at all yet.

[chrishajer]

I think the user can mark their topic as a favorite, then use this plugin to get an email when there is a reply to the topic:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-notification/

For an alternate view on this, search this page for the word “email”:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html

[chrishajer]

Have you read this?

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Thanks Deadpan11,

The core behavior of bb-settings.php is to append BB_HASH to the cookie name on line 638:

$bb->logged_in_cookie = ($bb->wp_cookies_integrated ? 'wordpress_logged_in_' : 'bbpress_logged_in_') . BB_HASH;

Even in a non-WPMU installation such as this one, I would agree that this is a good coding protocol to follow. I did try your suggestion though, because I do want to understand, but the cookie was still created as wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8.

This caught my eye over the weekend…

In bb-settings.php line 592:

$bb->wp_cookies_integrated = false;

$bb->cookiedomain = bb_get_option('cookiedomain');

if ( $bb->wp_siteurl && $bb->wp_home ) {

if ( $bb->cookiedomain ) {

$bb->wp_cookies_integrated = true;

I even tried setting $bb->cookiedomain=” to allow the code to construct the value… no joy. No problems logging into bbPress, which is just fine for the moment.

The code is alpha! Since others had had success I was trying to nail down my server environment deltas…

I’ll push on with other projects for now

[danbbpress]

I just installed BBPress and it’s working fine with the default numerical URLs. When I change the Permalink type to the 3rd one (textula URLs) all I get are 404 errors, even in the admin backoffice. What to do?

Thanks.

Dan

[hotshottwo]

Can anyone point me at some instructions on how to create a bbPress theme that loosely matches the WordPress default (Kubrick) theme, i.e. 760 px wide with rounded page corners and space for a header image with rounded corners? Looking for a quick way to integrate bbPress so that it has the same look as the rest of my WordPress site.

[timskii]

Technically, it’s not just about pretty links and sitemaps. BBPress can produce much cleaner, better structured page code than certain other forum software.

Meta descriptions and keywords are still used by search engines where available. Personally I take the tags associated with each topic and add them to the list of keywords. In the keywords meta:

global $tags;

if($tags) {

foreach ($tags as $t) {

echo $t->raw_tag.', ';

}

}

That said, I still believe that asking whether something is SEO-friendly is asking the wrong question. Work on making forums user-friendly, which then attracts “quality” posts, and the search engines will follow.

[_ck_]

What I meant by that is pretty-permalinks are not turned on by default.

[bryan868]

Just realized I can’t do it, the phpBB3 -> phpBB2 converter doesn’t bring over the users. And I don’t want to lose my userbase.

So it looks like I’ll just be waiting until a phpBB3 -> bbPress converter is finished! Whenever that’ll be!

[rensenieuwenhuis]

In addition to the above, sitemaps give google an indication on how often the URL will be updated, so how often Google should send in its crawlers …

[chrishajer]

My point was that having a sitemap doesn’t make your forum more search engine friendly. I mean, if you have bad page titles, bad meta tags, poor keyword density, none of those things change by listing all your URLs in a file and submitting that to Google.

Don’t get me wrong; I think the sitemap is a good idea, but it can’t fix anything wrong with your site. It just lists all the content that is available on your site and submits that to the search engine. It’s almost a crutch for having BAD SEO:

“including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.”

If the site were optimized, Google’s normal crawl process could handle it.

Again, don’t get me wrong, I think sitemaps are a good idea. I use them. But it doesn’t *fix* any SEO problems with your site. That was my only point.

[beernews]

Chris, why don’t you think bbPress sitemaps would make forums more SEO friendly?

From Google:

“Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.”

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318&hl=en

[beernews]

Did the SEO-Meta plugin work? That site appears to be down so perhaps someone could be so kind as to re-up it.

CK, what are the few SEO options that you have turned on?

[rensenieuwenhuis]

@ Ipstenu,

yes, now I remember. I did have the same problem, which I solved (eventually) by going to the admin of the BBpress forum, then settings, and then click the checkbox: Enable XML-RPC

That should do the trick (sorry, I forgot to mention it in my previous post).

Good luck

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Yeah. I did all that, rensenieuwenhuis and got nothing. Zip.

I even activated both widgets, even though I only wanted one. It’s not that they vanished, it’s that they were blank. I’d get my custom header, but then nothing. No data. No commented out data in view source. It simply did nothing.

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-count-plus/

[rensenieuwenhuis]

Hi,

I recently installed BBpress live on my blog (http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl), and it worked like a breeze. I’m using WP 2.6.1 and bbPress version 1.0-alpha-2.

I downloaded the WP-plugin from wordpress.org/extend, installed it, then activated it in the plugins-screen, then to the settings-screen in the WP-plugin section, then activated both the widgets (it’s a check-box), and then added the widgets to my sidebar.

I did encounter minor problem though, which I described here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-live-widgets-fail-when-changing-other-widgets

[rensenieuwenhuis]

@ TexasH: Thanks! BBpress Live is a cool addition indeed.

@ Sambauers: Looking forward to it. I considered installing something like bbsync, but already anticipated on the next update to be coming soon. So, I decided to wait.

Do you know whether it will be possible to send only a selection of the WP posts to the BBpress forum? I.e. only posts within a specific category, or with a specific tag? That would be really great.

[joshbruce]

hey guys, been incredibly busy the past several days. work, home and freelance design work has been crazy…will get back as soon as possible… – Josh –

[Deadpan110]

Im not sure if I have set my bbPress 1.0.alpha2 to work with WordPress MU 2.6.3 correctly, but its working.

http://domain.com = my WordPress MU

http://forums.domain.com = bbPress sub domain

As you can probably see, there are things within the config files that might not be needed.

WordPress/wp-config.php

define('AUTH_KEY', 'authkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'secureauthkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'secureauthsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'loggedinkey');

define('SECRET_KEY', 'secretkey');

define('SECRET_SALT', 'secretsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'loggedinsalt');

I copied and pasted the existing lines straight into bb-config.php replacing what was already there and then added the BB_ to each.

bbPress/bb-config.php

define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'authkey');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'secureauthkey');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'secureauthsalt');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'loggedinkey');

define('BB_SECRET_KEY', 'secretkey');

define('BB_SECRET_SALT', 'secretsalt');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'loggedinsalt');

In BOTH bb-config.php AND wp-config I added:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.domain.com'); // remember the '.' prefix

define('COOKIEPATH', ''); // this is empty

Then I visited http://forums.domain.com/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php (Settings > WordPress Integration) and scrolled down to ‘Manual bbPress config file settings’ and copied all the text below ‘WordPress cookie integration speedup’ and pasted into bbPress/bb-config.php.

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://domain.com';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://domain.com';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.domain.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_'; // DELETE the hash part

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins';

Oh, and I added the$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; too.

NOTE

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_';

The hash was removed and the line reads EXACTLY as above.

To test, just make sure you are logged out of both and then log in and visit your other site.

Final Note, as stated above – there is probably a lot of unneeded clutter in the bb-press config, but all works for me – no matter which domain I log into!

I hope this helps someone