Hello.
I installed bbpress forum (0.9) on wp 2.6. Everything went smooth till even adding forums etc etc.
But when I post the permalinks / links do not work. It says page not found.
You can see the installation here http://headstart.in/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/
Please help me out at the earliest. Really critical!
Narrowing down on the problem, I’m now able to log in even with the integration code added (by using the exact same setting for WordPress address and Blog address as used in General Settings), however the account is extremely limited in use.
It’s basically the same issue described by user doyle640 here (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101/page/3), the Admin screen is unaccessable (blank page) as well as the Profile edit options, even the form to add a new topic is completely missing.
This is true for the Admin account as well as any user account.
Once the line “require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);” is deleted from bb-config.php, everything is accessable as usual.
The login synchronization now works both ways as it should though.
> Is this the reason why bbPress 0.9.0.2 shouldn’t be
> intergrated with WordPress 2.6 and I need to try bbPress
> 1.0 Alpha instead?
Yes. bbPress 0.9.0.2 and WordPress 2.6.* are not cookie-compatible.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17409
Hi there.
I just installed bbPress 0.9.0.2 and integrated it with my WP 2.6.2.
I also added WordPress functions via require_once in bb-config.php so I can utilize my blog’s header and footer for the forum.
Now everything looks the way I want it, but I just can’t login to a bbPress account anymore (direct login via bbPress interface). When I enter wrong login data, it takes me to the failed login screen as expected. When I enter the right login data it will just return me to a blank login form.
Is this the reason why bbPress 0.9.0.2 shouldn’t be intergrated with WordPress 2.6 and I need to try bbPress 1.0 Alpha instead?
Or should I still be able to login via the bbPress interface, just not synchronized via WP, and the problem is located elsewhere?
Thanks a bunch
Lars
If the browser is blank when you load a page, it’s probably due to a 500 error. Do you have access to error logs to see what’s causing that error? I have not hear of that before when including WordPress in bbPress.
Can I upgrade from 0.8 series of BBPress to 1.0? I did some sandbox upgrading and ran into some issues.
Specifically an upgrade from 0.8 series to 0.9 required additional uri path variables in bb-config.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unable-to-upgrade-081-to-0902#post-16890
But even after uncovering that special little surprise I am still having issues.
Before I debug further to find outstanding problems, other than the path variables that needs to be inserted in bb-config prior to running the database upgrade- can I go from the .8 series directly to 1.0 alpha or do I first need to upgrade to 0.9, then upgrade THAT to 1.0.
Does anyone know why the admin section is displaying blank when the wordpress functions are included in bbpress?
I did say “or regions” which should cover Europe 
“Europe” is triggered by the use of the .eu domain
15. Europe
He? Europe is a continent not a country
Slightly intrigued to come across this. I’m behind find-answers.net although it’s not in my profile, because (a) it’s not a personal site, and (b) it’s not officially released.
_ck_ How did you find it? I’ve not linked to it nor told anyone about it! Check the administrator profile, you’ll find the site has only been up four days! (So it wasn’t even live when the September top 100 was put up.) That is one reason I’m not yet sharing the code. Quite simply, it doesn’t work properly yet.
The other reason I’m not yet able to share the code is that I need to make sure the licence I want to use is compatible with the licences of the borrowed nntp libraries.
If it’s any interest, one of the forums currently has around 475,000 posts. That equates to 411Mb of MySQL data in all the bbpress tables (including indices). The posts table has 208Mb of data and a 162Mb index.
_ck_ They’re not fake sub-domains. I’ve simply grouped forums into helpful ‘clusters’ and added a subdomain (actually a separate bbpress installation) for each cluster (why buy a new domain for each site?). They look fake because find-answers.net just contains a tiny bit of php code which scans my database tables for the separate installations and presents it in a forum like view. But each site is a separate installation.
Finally, the main purpose of this was to present data from non-propagating newsgroups which most people can’t access. It was largely curiosity that led to me create subdomains for publicly accessible newsgroups. I’ve no idea whether Google will like it or not. There’s certainly other NNTP mirrors out there that do get indexed.
And you’re quite right about me needing the SuperSearch plugin! It is me that you’re talking to here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fulltext-searching-very-slow
Oh I see you want to turn any post into a wiki by wrapping the text in [wiki]. There is a huge problem with your logic as the wikipost plugin allows anyone to edit a post by assigning a generic user to the post, which is the trigger. Replacing that with bbcode as the trigger instead would be far more difficult.
bbPress would not have any way to know to let another user edit the post until it scans the post_text for [wiki]. That’s going to be a huge problem.
by the way is translated to <strong> not <center>
I’m curious about this issue as performance problems always intrigue me. You must be using 0.9 as 1.0 has an index on stickies by default.
As far as fulltext search there is a trick I use because of the multiple issues with fulltext (not only speed but fulltext can’t do words less than 4 characters until you customize and rebuild mysql). The trick is to use regex and do a two pass query where you first exclude all the posts without the words and then allow mysql to do a regular scan of the remaining posts.
Query example from my Super-Search plugin:
WHERE post_text LIKE '%".$term."%'" AND post_text REGEXP ':<:".$term.":>:[^']' "
Compare the performance of that against a fulltext search that uses "MATCH post_text AGAINST $term" I don’t have enough data to do a huge benchmark but some simple tests with the cache off shows 0.4 seconds for the trick and 0.9 for the fulltext.
The only downside to the trick is you cannot do partial word searches that way. ie. $term="cat" will only return posts with the exact word “cat” and not “cats” or “category”. But it should be way faster.
Searching a huge number of posts is a non-trivial problem. It’s been known to crush other forums like vbulletin which has fancy code to prevent users from searching too often/too quickly and even disable search temporarily on high server load. Sites like Wikipedia have to go through several technically complex tricks to keep the search fast on that much data.
Many large sites end up using sphinxsearch to replace fulltext search. You could interface it to bbPress via their PHP api.
You can read more workarounds on the mysql fulltext search page (with far more knowledgeable people than me) http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html
I’ve done some research (and actually got an email from the find-answer owner out of the blue today) and I believe the site/request are unrelated.
But it does prove that it would be a wanted plugin.
Google/Yahoo might not like all the duplicate content however so “noindex” might be a good idea to prevent being search-engine banned.
Another consideration is that I believe bbPress keeps a full index on post text, so the table size for posts would become non-trivial for such a forum.
@ck:
based on my recollections, as i’m on a road trip and can’t readily pull up the code, WP2.6 (maybe older, too, i don’t know), in the midst of their new cookies, has an action hook that can be tapped at cookie-creation to make an additional cookie for bbPress to read (in my instance, bbPress is in /forums/ so the new cookie is restricted to that path). the function that destroys the cookies at logout doesn’t have an action hook, so it has to be overridden (it’s pluggable). on the bbPress end, it’s virtually identical–use an action hook at login to create the various cookies that WP expects, override the pluggable cookie-destroying function.
there’s also some work in syncing up all the various secrets.
it’s worth noting that the cookie that’s now restricted to wp-admin/ in WP2.6.x is the same cookie that was unrestricted in path previously, so the mechanics of the cookie contents and whatnot aren’t any different, just the path restrictions.
that works, however, i can no longer access the admin section, it only loads as blank, any ideas why? thanks for your help with this.
the rest of the functions work on the main pages of the forum.
Isn’t trying to get help from the developers of the bbpress the best place to get information? Isn’t that the whole point of the forum? In howtogeek contact page, he discourages to contact him directly…
Anyways, I fixed the stupid mistake (from my part), I only copied the table instead of the php entry. So it’s fixed.
Thanks.
To use the WordPress functions get_sidebar and get_header, you need to include WordPress inside bbPress:
https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func
This might help as well:
http://www.adityanaik.com/integratepress-part-i/
I wonder if the find answers site is related at all to this inquiry:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-newsgroups
I successfully integrated bbpress alpha with the latest wordpress. The install is pretty flawless.
Now, I want to pull in the header and sidebar from wordpress. Does anyone have any tips for me on how to do this?
September also features the first site to be purposely excluded from the listings. Not that I am passing judgement on it as there are other sites far more dubious that are in the list where the content is not their own.
find-answers.net
It’s impressive in that someone wrote a bbPress to Usenet gateway. But its not right to include it on the list since there will be millions of posts in no time at all and they use a fake subdomain for each group.
At least it proves bbPress can handle such a load. They are going to really want my Super Search plugin (not released yet).
I do wish they’d share the code they made to accomplish that however, especially considering they seem to be using my theme, my plugins, my favicon, etc.
(What I really want is a Mailman to bbPress gateway!)
Hows your theme coming along?
I wish I knew how to develop/edit bbpress to make it into a theme like that.
logout and use bbPress login not wordpress.
I’m Still Learning! I installed the Forum with little or no problems. Now However I cannot Get the admin to work. That is to say I can’t get into admin. To Be Honest I’m not Sure Just How To Get Into the admin section. When I enter “…bbpress/admin.php” I am directed to the index file for the director I attempted entering “…bbpress/bb-admin/index.php” when I do I’m directed to to Index file. Can someone help me?… Please
“.mysite.com” should cover all subdomains.
Techincally .www.mysite.com is a subdomain.
I don’t know why it didn’t work for you
unless perhaps it was already “.www.mysite.com” on the WP side. They have to match.
Got integration working under WP 2.5.1 and bbpress 0.9.0.2
I’d just like to make an observation regarding integration instructions for power users –
Instruction part 8 says: Copy all these items into the bottom of wp-config.php and edit as required:
$wp->cookiedomain = ‘.your-domain-name.com’;
define(COOKIE_DOMAIN,’.your-domain-name.com’);
// note the leading DOT – this is important
// we list both for WordPress legacy compatibility
Originally, I took this to mean:
$wp->cookiedomain = ‘.mysite.com’;
define(COOKIE_DOMAIN,’.mysite.com’);
It wasn’t working. However, once I changed it to:
$wp->cookiedomain = ‘.www.mysite.com’;
define(COOKIE_DOMAIN,’.www.mysite.com’);
and in bb-config.php:
$bb->cookiedomain = ‘.www.mysite.com’;
(adding the www part) It works perfectly fine now.
Hope this helps.
