Please include the version of bbPress you’re using when asking for help. If you are having trouble with WordPress integration, please post the bbPress version AND the WordPress version. If you are using an alpha or trunk release, please include the revision number. It will cut down on the time wasted answering questions that don’t apply to your version, or the back and forth of “what version are you running.”
Thanks.
What version bbPress and WordPress are you using?
I am going through the process of filling out the integration form in the bbpress control panel. It suggested that the users prefix was likely to be wp_ so I tried that out. Now I can’t login to bbpress, it’s complaining “bbPress database error: [Table ‘addiva_bbpress.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]”
So I want to keep experimenting with what it needs, but I can’t progress since I can’t log back into the control panel. How do I get around this?
Sorry I posted some incorrect/incomplete info. Until recently, it was only possible to have one database with both the wordpress tables and bbpress tables shared inside.
It’s now possible to force separate databases since 0.9
However I recommend against separate databases unless you have some kind of weird configuration that demands it. It’s just more overhead, more configuration, more to backup and worry about. Some hosts even limit the number of databases you can have (though tables inside are not restricted).
bugs:
When logging in using the BB-Press form, goes to white blank screen. It doesn’t allow user to log in. Can however log in using the WP form.
Using the ThemePress them, doesn’t show options for new posts or the option to reply. (but this may just be a theme issue).
Once I get this forum installed, I plan to manually add a number of users from an old yahoogroup, and I’m wondering if we’d be better off entering them into the wordpress database, or into the bbpress database?
I was confused on this issue, reading the installation instructions. It may be helpful to others to add an explanation there on whether it’s preferred to use separate databases and why. Thanks much.
Thanks _ck_,
I’m not integrating with WordPress. I thought to install the stable and then (after released) the 1.0 but with too many changes between 0.9 and 1.0 series I’m afraid that the process of updating leave some unnecessary dirt on the database.
Do this make sense or I shoudn’t worry about it?
The trunk version is very polished (mainly the admin area) but at this time some points seems strange to me (well, is all new to me at this point) like the search form above the title of the forum instead of be placed above hot tags.
[sorry my english]
If you know how to use SVN, the trunk is your best bet.
There will likely be regular updates this month by Sam and MDA until it’s more polished.
The only catch is there are still a few plugins that don’t work with 1.0 and you may not know what’s wrong until you fiddle a bit.
Then again, if you are not integrating with WordPress, 0.9 should upgrade almost effortlessly to 1.0 when ready.
Hi guys,
I want to start a forum from scratch and was going to install phpBB but after too much reading I decided that is best to me (and to the forum) use the bbPress.
I installed both stable and trunk versions on my local machine and was playing around for a couple hours. bbPress is really what I want, but I’m a little bit undecided about what version upload to my host.
I know 1.0 final release is coming soon but have too many tickets to close and I don’t want to wait.
In your opinion guys, for who wants to start over theses days… should I install 1.0 Alpha or latest stable version to put on production.
Thank you so much.
Joel Teixeira
I’ve installed wordpress and bbpress im using the plugin call register plus attached to the wordpress installation. both wordpress and bbpress are integrated but i cant get regsiter plus to integrate. It works with word press and clients can use there user name and password on bbpress… BUT…. when cleints try and register on bbpress it uses th default bbpress registration. can anyone help me redirect bbpress registration to the reister plus plugin?
In all methods of integration, they both have their own [databases] (correction, tables) and simply share the user table (and usermeta).
3. WordPress and bbPress each in their own directory
|–blog <– WordPress
|
|–forums <– bbPress
(I like this methed best, seems the most “logical”)
In this scenario, do both wp and bbpress have their own, separate databases?
BTW, I can’t get the blockquote to work. I’ve tried <> [] and
Thanks. So am I right that to put everything on the same database I should uninstall the bbpress I have currently installed, then re-install, specifying the same database I used for wordpress?
Or is it unecessary, since I can get cookies to recognize users whether they’ve logged into wordpress or bbpress?
blockquote
You only need to share databases to have integrated user logins.
/blockquote
Thanks for responding, Chris. I’m still confused about this. It sounds like, from the documentation like above, integrating the cookies will accomplish the same thing:
blockquoteIntegrating cookies allows your users to log in to either your WordPress blog or your bbPress forums and be effectively logged in to both.
/blockquote
I do want it to be pretty seamless for our users. I want them to only have to register once, and not to have to log in again when they cruise to the forum. On the face of it, it would seem like we need to share one database. BUT, that seems a bit scary, like the kind of scenario where I could wipe out our existing WP installation.
If that’s the route I should go, how do I go about it? Uninstall the bbpress I just created, then go through the installation again, except this time enter our wp database info?
I tried doing the integration last week for the two databases I have currently set up, and had to add a line into my wp-config about a secret key. With that, an error message came up instead of the blog, choking on that line. It was a day before I got wind of it, so it didn’t look very good.
I want to have a clearer understanding this time before I start messing around with these settings.
BTW, what am I missing with the markup here? It says to put the code between backticks `, but it’s not working.
I asked only because I was wondering what you expected to see and maybe I could try the same plugin.
I installed the BB Attachments plugin
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/
Activated it and was able to add attachments. So, either you have a different problem with all your plugins in your installation or the plugins you are trying to use aren’t compatible with the alpha release, or maybe they are being activated and they are mostly invisible (like Akismet.) BB Attachments is a good one because you can see if it’s working when you go to make a new post.
Activating Akismet, BTW, gives me a new admin submenu called “Akismet Configuration:.
Yikes, this is a WP bug that breaks bb_auth(‘logged_in’).
I patched the appropriate file in WP and created a ticket and posted the patch. See this URL:
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7521
Whoah, there’s a ton of stuff not working fully yet with bbpress/wp now, right? I hope I don’t find anything else…
Hey go to http://www.proveit4cash.com/bbpress and you willl see that everything is all texty looking. It worked fine when i went to sleep I think. Any Ideas?
Where did you originally generate the keys, from the WordPress random url? I'll report that bug to them if that's where you got them from.
Yes, keys are from the WordPress random url. I’m not sure if this is a bug, I think ¡t’s a problem with bbpress utf-8 encoding and foreign computers that are iso-whatever.
Besides, I’ve found more problems in my bb 1.0alpha – wp 2.6.1 b2 integration attempt;
1 I can’t find a secure key salt in the last wp version.
2 Logins integration seems to work fine but as soon as you include
require_once('.../wordpress/wp-blog-header.php')
all is messed; I lost the settings link on the dashboard, add new topic didn’t work, when no logged in I get this meesage instead of the last poster of a topic;
Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in 
wampwwwwordpressbbpressbb-includesbackpressclass.bpdb.php on line 360
I’ll report more errors if I find any
Well, I’ll make a more precise question, how do you generate the Cookies you need to be logged-in??
you need a cookie like this:
[bbpress_8a7b3d3267f984e2d4be3c82d5fea61b] => Daniel|1218899361|23a2fa093bd37b537d0306cab8e649c7
but how do you have to hash the password to get the last part (23a2fa093bd37b537d0306cab8e649c7) and is the number in the name of the cookie allways the same?
See the FAQ for some suggested URLs:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/terms-of-service/faq/
The problem is legal TOS has to be adjusted per site.
this is the most obvious “free” one but it has to be adapted:
http://wordpress.com/tos/
You could use this plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/terms-of-service/
CC is not really about the type of behaviour to expect on a forum though. CC is for licensing. Why not find T&C you like from another forum and copy the best ideas?
Some inspiration:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/08/13/total-immersion-how-i-learned-to-swim-effortlessly-in-10-days-and-you-can-too/#respond
http://mlb.mlb.com/fan_forum/msgboard_guidelines.jsp
http://www.google.com/search?q=forum+terms+and+conditions
But honestly, just tell people what you expect and what you’ll allow. Customize it for your site.
Hi
Does anyone know the whereabouts of any creative commons licenced terms and conditions that can be used/adapted to be used in conjunctioun with bbpress? Just generic stuff like “Don’t spam, Don’t harrass other users … etc
Grifter
Very odd. I can see what you’re talking about now. There is the <h2>Reply</h2> but then something goes wrong.
This is in the source:
<h2 class="post-form">New Topic</h2>
</div>
<!--
If you like showing off the fact that your server rocks,
<h3>0.150 - 15 queries</h3>
-->
Looks like bbPress has it until the <h2 class="post-form">New Topic</h2> part, then WordPress takes over for some reason. At least it looks like that’s what’s happening. If you look at the source of the page you’ll see what I mean.
Sorry I don’t know what’s causing the problem, but it’s interesting to look at nonetheless.
