My advice would be to install it in a test instance and use it. See how unstable it is for yourself. Only you can make the determination if it’s ready enough for you or not.
I have a fresh installation of the latest release of WordPress and integrating it with an installation of bbPress seems to be easy enough for a non-hacker like myself.
But, how unstable is the 1.0 alpha of bbPress really? The site I’m working on is to be a soon-to-be-released homepage for a choir that will use it mainly for news, recruiting and general talk. Would you rather advice me to go for the wp 2.5.1 + bbPress 0.9 version?
Everyone put this in your bb-config.php
$bb->load_options = true;
and that number will go down radically.
For some reason I don’t understand they refuse to make that the default and therefore bbPress just “lazy loads” each option as each plugin requests it.
If you are using the 1.0 alpha they still have a bit of work to do with query reduction as they rewrote half the routines and storage layout but left it unoptimized. For example each forum on the front page is loaded as a separate query and then the meta for each forum is loaded as a separate query. It’s a bit crazy because if you have a dozen forums that’s 24 queries but I have high hopes Sam or MDA will tackle that soon and do it all in just two queries.
Last but not least there is a serious optimization problem IMHO in all versions where bbPress will “read before write” every time a meta option is saved, regardless if it’s just been loaded and sitting in the object cache. I have to put a bit of extra code in all my plugins to work around this issue. The reason why they do that is to determine if they should do an INSERT vs an UPDATE because you can have duplicate keys on meta data by design and mysql can’t be told what to do if the key already exists. But there are better ways to do that – since 99.99% of the time it’s going to be an update since the data already exists – do an update and just check for a mysql error on the return (or count rows affected) – then do an insert instead that one time it’s needed.
Correct me if I am wrong but you have ALL forums set as categories, which means it can’t hold topics, so bbPress is messed up.
Change the forums to regular foums.
I’ve seen tutorials about “how to” setup osCommerce, and put WordPress inside.
My question is:
Can you setup bbPress, then put ocCommerce INSIDE bbPress?
How do you recommend I setup these two components? (bbPress & osCommerce)
Thanks
I use it in WP and bbPress 
It’s easy to adapt, and as you have both integrated …
Of course you could also print the “about” text entered by the user in their Profile page in the Dashboard. So you only really need a plugin for the gamertags.
I just installed the latest stable release of bbpress and integrated it with wordpress 2.5.1. After setting up the integration, I immediately was logged out and couldn’t log back in with my keymaster. I searched the forums and tried everything that was suggested such as the plugin, adding a line to bb-config.php, and trying to edit phpmyadmin usermeta. I don’t know why the plugin didn’t work since my keymaster is at ID#1. And editing through phpmyadmin was useless since my usermeta was already set to keymaster. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled and keep getting the same results.
Pilola, you could use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gaming-codes/
I use it here: http://www.ryuuko.cl/bbpress/ (see the “nuestros usuarios” links).
Hmm, I’m pretty stupid, I think. Didn’t even see the sticky, so I’m trying BBPress 1.0 alpha now. Hope that will work.
I have a band messageboard that’s worked flawlessly for a year now… but when I tried posting myself just now, it didn’t appear on the board. When I checked the dashboard, this is what it said for the latest post:
Post on
bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND meta_key='views'' at line 1]
SELECT meta_value FROM bb_topicmeta WHERE topic_id = AND meta_key='views'
bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 'views', )' at line 1]
INSERT INTO bb_topicmeta ( meta_id, topic_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ( NULL , , 'views', )
Gavin DeGraw by neddi.
Any idea what’s going on? I’ve never seen this before… and I think I’m the only one with access to the backend.
Hello,
I just managed uploading and installing BBPress in a subdirectory of WordPress. Everything works just fine, and when you sign up on WordPress, you will also be able to log in with that account on BBPress, but there’s one problem:
When you log in on WordPress, and you go to BBPress, you have to log in again. So, members have to sign in 2 times, on the same account, one time for WordPress and one time on BBPress.
I’m running WordPress 2.6. In wp-config.php there was no SECRET_KEY. There was an AUTH_KEY and a SECURE_AUTH_KEY, but there was a BB_SECRET_KEY in bb-config.php. So, what should I do in wp-config.php?
I tried to define SECRET_KEY myself, but that didn’t work. The ‘code’ in SECRET_KEY in wp-config.php is the same as BB_SECRET_KEY in bb-config.php, but it still doesn’t work.
I hope it’s a little clear what my problem is.
Thanks,
Ramy
This is completely out of left field with this suggestion, but I had similar problems with the redirection errors like you but I don’t use WPMU so this might not apply.
I honestly can’t remember if I changed any of the chmod settings, I think I might of changed them all the files to 777.
But also in the setup when it asks you in the wordpress integration stage when it asks you to fill in the xxx_xxx_salt settings from the wordpress just leave them blank.
Might help for you.
Is there a problem with your wordpress install too?
To fix bbpress, you need phpmyadmin or a similar tool. Login, go to your bbpress database. Not certain what it’s like on 0.9, but you probably need to go to the bb_topicmeta table and perform a search (or browse through) to find a record where the meta_key is wp_table_prefix. Try deleting that record. Without that setting I think bb would look for its own users again.
how can i include bbpress in another system? the scope issues are confusing me.
Fatal error: Call to a member function get_results() on a non-object in bb-includes/functions.php on line 1761
TEST.PHP:
<?php
bb_load();
function bb_load()
{
global $bb, $bbdb, $bb_current_user, $page, $bb_cache, $posts, $bb_post, $post_id, $topics, $topic, $topic_id, $forums, $forum, $forum_id, $tags, $tag, $tag_name, $user, $user_id, $view, $bb_roles, $bb_table_prefix, $bb_locale, $bb_timestart, $timeend; #….???
require(‘./bb-load.php’);
}
?>
Just a total guess on my part but it’s probably because your re-write rules are conflicting with the fact that forums.xyz.com is really xyz.com/forums/
when the rewrite rules change the content, it tries to route it to xyz.com/index.php which is wrong and should be xyz.com/forums/index.php
So first, temporarily turn off pretty permalinks in the admin (or via bb-config.php)
Then re-generate the mod-rewrite rules and you may have to hand edit them.
As per title, bbsync is now dead with the 1.0 release, is there a working plugin with roughly the same features?
When I go to publish the post(does not matter if I have set it to post to it or not)
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /bbpress/bb-includes/functions.php on line 20
I really have no idea, but I thought I would toss this out there:
[~]$ nslookup brynmawr.edu
Server: 172.19.254.4
Address: 172.19.254.4#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: brynmawr.edu
Address: 165.106.1.8
[~]$ nslookup forums.brynmawr.edu
Server: 172.19.254.4
Address: 172.19.254.4#53
Non-authoritative answer:
forums.brynmawr.edu canonical name = blog-serv.brynmawr.edu.
Name: blog-serv.brynmawr.edu
Address: 165.106.1.51
Then I remembered this post:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-to-sub-domain-error-400#post-65
If you search these forums for subdomain and wpmu, you might find something useful. I don’t use WPMU or subdomains, so I am just guessing here.
I’ve tried this a number of times. I can get bbpress 1.0 alpha installed on a test server without wordpress integration. When I move to another server, I’ve run into a number of problems. They aren’t the same problems every time, which is driving me crazy.
The most common problem I have is at some point during the installation process, I get a “The page isn’t redirecting properly” error. I get this most often at the very last stage of installation, but I’ve also gotten it after the first step. The last time I got this error at the last stage, I received a chmod and a could not modify headers error.
The current page is at http://forums.brynmawr.edu
I’m guessing we could have an error with our web server. I’m not a sys admin, so I’m not entirely sure where to check. Any ideas that I can pass on to our sys admin would be most appreciated.
Subforums are built in. Can you please explain more what you’re trying to do?
http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/kakumei.png
download:
http://www.mcshockency.com/themes/bb_modmat.zip
demo:
http://www.liricistas-asura.com/bbpress
Hello! This is my very first bbpress theme. It is based off of the WordPress theme “Modmat” (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/modmat#post-27) by chrismou (http://mou.me.uk/)
Like I said, this is my first theme, so ANY constructive criticism is MUCH appreciated. Also, if you find any kind of mistakes, please let me know!
This theme was designed for both 0.9.0.2 and 1.0 Alpha.
Does bbpress allow for… or is there a plugin to allow for…
holding a topic entry for Admin to approve before displaying on the frontend?
I’m wanting to create a ‘picture contest’ entry page.
Memebers login, open then page, and upload an image to be voted/rated.
I’d like for Admin to approve each before making each entry visible on the frontend.
Wow I can’t believe you hand copied all those messages.
There’s something weird about your server’s load.
The first page takes a long time to respond. Then once you have a connection you can browse fairly smoothly until it stalls again. It’s not bbpress doing it because it happens on the other side too.
ps. you are going to need the “allow images” plugin
Have you tried clearing your cookies? Since you changed the keys for WordPress and bbPress, the cookies will be different and your old ones might be fouling things up.
You can also contact me off list and I might be able to help you.
Ok i tell you what i did… i replaced the BB_Secret_key with only alphabetic and numeric but even then i couldnt login.
Then i changed the keys of wordpress too with alphabetic and numberic only but then i couldnt login to wordpress too. I was having same login problem and same error message as i am having with bbpress.
So then i replaced the wp-config file with old one and then i was able to login. Problem still exists with bbpress.
Please read my above post too and tell me what to do thanks a lot for this help.
