[soundofsilver]

I’m running WordPress 2.6 under root; bbPress under /forums and also using K2 1.0RC7 as my WordPress theme.

I have made a new page called ‘Forums’ on WordPress which is now in the navbar and have used the plugin ‘Page Links To’ to make this page point to /forums.

However, what would be the best way to get the blog acting like this one, for example:

http://onvertigo.com/ …. clicking ‘Forum’ lets bbPress load underneath the header.

There is a K2 theme floating around for bbPress but it doesn’t have the top nav…..

Any help would be appreciated!

[_ck_]

I thought I made a mini-plugin to fix this.

Yup, I did.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/registering-with-another-users-email

[_ck_]

I think that’s one of the default javascripts scripts loaded in the topic.php page.

It only shows in mini-track because it’s generated by a php file.

Most of the javascript in bbPress can be disabled and makes for faster loading pages (ajax goes away however).

So the answer is no, it’s not hacking. But you will see the attempts sooner or later – there are thousands of bots out there scanning sites and most people are unaware.

I’ll put in some code to exclude bb-includes in the next mini-track.

[Sam Bauers]

@kannued

We hope there will be no difficulty at all.

[cartmanffc]

I just checked the plugin (Edit History) and it might be quite useful (I wouldn’t mind having this integrated in next version of bbPress …) which I can’t tell about Post Revisions in WordPress….

IMHO every new feature should have option to disable it within admin panel without resorting to tinkering with wp/bb-config files

hopefully the stable version packed with new features (like the i-Phone related one) will leave users the choice to use them or not

[brad_langdon]

I am using mini track and am getting people listed as navigating towards random urls such as

/bbpress/bb-includes/js/list-manipulation-js.php?ver=440

That doesn’t sound like somewhere they should be…are they bots?

One has signed up and is navigating to strange places such as the one above.

Sorry if this is a stupid question.

[chrishajer]

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/894

[hyapadi]

I agree with the ideas of having a plugin that will do the integration of both standalone BBPress and WordPress.

One of the strength of WordPress is its easy installation & expansion through plugins. But the only missing thing is good plugin that will do the integration with forums seamlessly.

I’m really looking forward for this.

[Clicknathan]

So here’s what I found, though I wasn’t personally able to get it to work myself, I’m almost positive that someone with a bit more PHP knowledge would have been able to:

This plugin: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-last-poster/#post-1538

+ _ck_’s advice in this post: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-last-poster/#post-1546

He details how, using substr, you can truncate the amount of words being pulled from the any piece of content. Theoretically you could use:

post_text(forum_last_topic_id());

But with the truncation method he mentions. I, unfortunately, just don’t know how.

[chrishajer]

One of these?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/page-links-for-bbpress/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/my-views/

[nekita]

Hello Sam,

yes I thought as much, but I had a database backup ready so it’s all good.

So is it safe to assume that one is better adviced to wait with deeper integration until 1.0 or a stable beta is released?

Thanks

Lars

[_ck_]

Super-Search is currently over 20k and only about halfway done in what it needs to do. All the bbPress core needs is a proper way to and/or words and disable partial matching instead of defaulting to just searching for every single fraction of each word.

[kannued]

With so many structural changes underway in 1.0, will there be difficulties in upgrading from .9 to 1.0 stable?

[Sam Bauers]

https://bbpress.org/blog/2008/09/bbpress-10-alpha-series-update/

[Sam Bauers]

@Nekita

Don’t modify your bb-config file until after you have installed bbPress.

Even then I can’t guarantee it will work with Trunk as it isn’t tested for deep integration yet.

[thion]

I just can’t wait for 1.0 Stable, as I’m going to use it as core for new version of my Open Cafe.

[nekita]

The essence of this is that it screws with the usermeta data in the database once you try and integrate WP functions, up to a point where even your admin account for WP doesn’t work anymore.

Here’s an example:

Variant1:

1. Upload bbP to the Server

2. Change the bb-config.php including the require_once line

3. Run the Installer

4. After Installation is finished you can’t log on to your WP admin anymore because the admin user suddenly has insufficient access rights, requiring a database restore.

Variant 2:

1. Upload bbP to the Server

2. Change the bb-config.php excluding the require_once line

3. Run the Installer

4. Add the require_once line after installation is finished

5. Your WP admin account is still working as it should and you can even use it for bbP, but with the Inactive user status.

Doesn’t make much sense, does it?

[_ck_]

Post revisions? You mean like my Edit History plugin?

[_ck_]

You can also do it this way:

http://google.com/search?q=RossB+inurl%3Abbpress+org+forums+site%3Abbpress.org&num=100&filter=0

[doyle640]

By the way, i am also having the problem with the some of the forms, like the reply forms, disappearing. No html is posted whatsoever. I haven’t looked into it thoroughly yet though.

[RossB]

I am making this enquiry on behalf of the tech guy who is supposed to be migrating over to a uni intranet a bbPress forum I customised.

I originally hosted it on the server of my own web host, and all was working fine. There were also a few posts by various members of the uni faculty I was designing a website and the forum for.

The tech guy has been having trouble getting the customised version of the forum working on the uni intranet. I know very little technically, but I was thinking maybe it would be easier for him to simply download a new version of bbPress then copy and paste my customised pages.

Not sure how he’d get the posts to show up with the posters’ names and dates of their posts etc, though. I did email him the database of the bbPress forum I customised for them. Would this be all he needs?

I can’t recall for certain which pages I customised, but I can look back through this forum to find out, I guess. Anyway, interested in the advice of techies here as to the easiest way for this uni tech person to approach the migration task.

Cheers!

[doyle640]

The absolute path works completely, I don’t understand why, but it does.

Thank you so much.

[cartmanffc]

I was tired of self pingback and just a few days ago I installed no-self-ping for wordpress and now it turns out it’s going to be a new cool feature in final version of bbPress! omg…

so how abou adding some kind of post revisions? good idea as well…

[nekita]

Chris,

thanks for your reply. You are right, there’s not much general sense in that problem to begin with.

Unfortunately the issue already starts with the use of a relative vs. an absolute path because the absolute variant isn’t even recognized. The only two options available seem to be either the relative take with

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

or something that could be called absolute, but is pretty inconvenient to use:

define(‘WPPATH’, dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . ‘/’);

require_once(WPPATH . ‘wp-blog-header.php’);

Both of these result in the availability of WP commands like get_header etc. which would be needed to visually integrate bbP with WP, but with the major problem that all my accounts in bbP are Inactive for some weird reason.

Every other attempt where the path to wp-blog-header.php would really be false would just result in the forum link to not work any longer. Therefore it does seem much more likely that different elements of bbP are more or less able to deal with this way of WP integration or access to that file. I would love to give you more detailed error information about the 500 error but I’m not sure where to aquire it.

Furthermore, that problem with Inactive accounts doesn’t seem to be entirely new. I did some research via google and it does pop up every now and then, here’s an example even from way back in 2006: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/bbdev/2006-September/000719.html

> > > There is an issue with posting:

> > > bbpress shows the users (admin) as Inactive.  This lets me login, but

> > > I cannot post since the post form is hidden.

> >

> > You must have integrated an old bbPress install with WP (that is, you

> > must have run the bbPress install script before integrating the

> > two).  If that's the case, none of your bbPress users exist anymore

> > (they're not defined in WP's user table), and your admin account is

> > inactive.  To fix your admin account, you'll have to change the usermeta

> >

> > bb_capabilities = a:1:{s:8:"inactive";b:1;}

> >

> > to

> >

> > bb_capabilities = a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}

> >

> > for your admin account.  (Where 'bb_' is your $bb_table_prefix.)

Unfortunately the usermeta in my database is already set as a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}, but it’s still acting as if users are inactive.

It really is pretty tiresome and after many many database restores and bbP reinstalls I come to the conclusion that integration of WP Functions is somewhat poorly treated so far.

For now my best bet seems to be to either try and replicate my WP scheme within bbP which would take a lot of double work and maintenance when I apply changes to my blog or go with a different forum solution altogether. : /

[_ck_]

This topic is old – bbPress has not been hacked – there was an exploit for all of a day or two back in 0.8 that was quickly fixed.

What’s happening is that OTHER programs on the same account or server are being hacked and what they do is attach themselves to the bbPress templates though those other programs.

In over 4000 sites, I’ve only detected 8 XSS hacks so it’s obviously coming in through other programs and not directly (or the problem would be far more widespread).

(And by the way, if you keep getting hacked, that means your server has been compromised and need to be wiped and re-configured. Just re-installing the PHP programs won’t fix the issue if there is a a hidden backdoor elsewhere. )