[deltaqo]

ok — I’m a newbie to bbpress, and a relative newbie to wordpress, so please bear with me.

I have wordpress installed in my site’s root directory. I installed bbpress into root/bbpress. I made all the needed settings to changes to call the wp headers from my bb-config file, and vice versa.

Then, I made a newbie mistake of trying to rename my bbpress folder to root/forums, and also changed the setting in my bbpress admin > settings of my bbpress directory to “root/forums.” (thinking this would somehow magically just work) Now, when I try to access my bbpress admin page, I simply get redirected to my wordpress homepage. It seems that the header information is screwed up now, I suspect it has something to do with the filenames and absolute paths, but I have no idea how to fix it or to begin diagnosing it.

Please help!

[chrishajer]

If you want to call bbPress functions from WordPress, you need to include bbPress in WordPress. It’s described here for including WordPress inside bbPress. You would do the opposite to include bbPress in WordPress (make the changes to wp-config.php and require_once('path/to/bb-load.php')

[chrishajer]

bbPress is not currently compatible with WordPress 2.6 for integrated installations:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17409

[patrace]

I updated WordPress to 2.6 and now the config file doesn’t have a SECRET_KEY for me to match when integrating bbpress. Instead I have these fields:

---

AUTH_KEY

SECURE_AUTH_KEY

LOGGED_IN_KEY

How does this work now?

[kirabug]

By that definition, the categories and tags would also be matching/transparent and the back-end UI (where visible) would match. Editing a wordpress post that didn’t exist on the bbpress side would still create a post on bbpress, but it’d date it for when the wordpress post was created, not when the edit took place. They’d use identical login pages and registration pages out of the box instead of forcing me to spend hours hacking together a template, or better yet would find a way to leverage the templates (especially the CSS tags) so that the UI would look closer to transparent, and the “comments count” on the wordpress side would work.

So like said, dual log-in is the least of my integration problems.

I’m still learning PHP but plan to at some point down the road dip in to the dev side to try to help, so these aren’t criticisms so much as “kirabug’s someday to-do list”.

[eporedieis]

On the plugin page there is this script to view new messages

<?php if (bb_current_user_can(‘write_posts’)) : ?>

<?php pm_fp_link(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

In bbpress is all ok. But what can i do to view new messages also in wordpress? Anyone can help me? Thank u all!!

[chrishajer]

Can you create an image showing exactly where in the header you want the button? You can just scribble on one of these screenshots, showing where you want the button to be. I am unclear on what the correct position for the button is.

Here are two screenshots, IE7 and FF3. Is either correct?

IE7

FF3

I think putting that button outside the header by using a negative margin is a bad thing to do. It also seems to me that a button is probably not a very ‘usable’ solution to return to the home page of the website. Why not a text link in the header, or in the footer?

If you are set on the button hanging off to the left of the forum in the header, then please describe which of the two screenshots is closer to or exactly what you want.

[_ck_]

Well the definition of integration is that the two softwares operate as one. If a user has to log in twice, then they do not perceive the website operating as one big system but two different programs.

[kirabug]

Oh, OK, yeah, that makes sense. I am using BBPress and I’ve got it set up so that my two installs share the same user table, so I’ve got the same users and the same posts on both sides of the wall. As far as I was thinking, that *is* integration.

If users have to log in and “remember me” on both sides, well, that’s the least of my problems.

[_ck_]

If you read the levels of integration I posted in the beginning here you will see that even the most simple level of integration requires cookie sync. It is impossible to sync the cookies between bbPress 0.9 and WordPress 2.6 because they literally use different cookies. A user cannot stay logged in between both. They will have to login twice. Log out twice. The db may be similar and the user table may be used by both but the login cookies are different.

I don’t know how to state it more clearly than that.

[chrishajer]

The problem I think is with integrated logins. You can’t log in on the bbPress side and be logged in on the WordPress side, or vice versa. If your experience is different, please tell about it.

Sounds like you are using bbSync which is for something totally different: no cookies required to accomplish that.

Thanks

[kirabug]

Let me repeat and clarify – it’s IMPOSSIBLE to integrate bbPress 0.9.x with WordPress 2.6 – the cookie methods are now completely different. You must use 2.5.1

I was running BBPress 0.9.0.2 when I upgraded to WordPress 2.6, and, well, it’s still working. I post to WordPress, it appears on BBPress no problem. I post a comment on BBPress and it appears on WordPress no problem.

So is the problem that it’s impossible to integrate a NEW installation? Or is there some other sort of background mess going on that I don’t know about that’s making my installation insecure or something? My site’s here and there’s a link to the bbpress install in the top right corner if you want to check it out.

[chrishajer]

The wp-pro list might be a good place to ask:

“A list for professional consultants providing WordPress services.”

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http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-pro

[_ck_]

It occurs to me that while the for-hire market is very small on the bbPress side, it’s much more likely you might find someone on the WordPress side who does it for a living. You then might be able to convince them to give bbPress themes a try since they are so similar.

In any case, you’ve posted your email which is what the “rules” here require and then I guess I’m supposed to close the thread, so good luck and best wishes.

[Null]

This is the problem: $bb->query_vars, what is the proper bb code?

[threevisual]

I started a post a while back asking if anyone here would be willing to code a bbpress theme for me (it’s already been designed). It will be a paid job (of course).

I’ve still not had any luck finding someone to help me out and I’m now getting quite desperate.

If you are able to help please email:

daleanthony.com [at] gmail.com

Thanks!

[818487]

Hello,

I’ve finished the hungarian translation for 0.9.0.2.

It can be downloaded here:

http://adsr.hu/pub/bbPress-hu_HU.zip

Enjoy,

Zsolt | http://adsr.hu

[andreapinti]

look at this

http://validator.w3.org/..

[817574]

I love you! That plugin described here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load completely resolved my problem:). Thank you!

[timjamz]

I guess it’s a problem with the install wizard. I was able to get cookie-based cross-platform login going by performing a clean install without running the integration during install.

1. Perform a clean, standalone install and log in with the provided admin login.

2. Go to Settings . WordPress Integration – Input the blog URL twice, enter the blog ‘secret’ from [blog_url]/wp-admin/options.php, and enter the blog prefix.

3. Update the blog wp-config.php with the two lines suggested by WordPress Integration Settings page, and you should be in business.

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Used WP 2.5 & 2.5.1 – bbPress 0.9.0.2

[timjamz]

Well… apparently, the hangup is in using the “wizard” installation (which results in some silly “duplicate table” error regarding wp_users – users_nicename).

My fix was to perform a clean install, without checking the option for integration during the install ‘wizard.’ Once I was in with a standalone version, I went to the Forum admin page – wordpress integration settings. I input the WP URL twice, the secret from WP and the user table prefix. Added the two lines suggested for wp-config.php and bada-bing… that did it.

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Used WP 2.5 & 2.5.1 – bbPress 0.9.0.2

[RossB]

I’m using the Kakumei Blue theme. I can’t understand how this could happen, but without my doing anything, overnight the header on my forum has changed when viewed in IE – it remains as it should when using Firefox.

A navigation button I positioned (by messing with some numbers in some CSS code that Chris kindly provided) has shifted to the right so that it is now too close to the User Name.

But most strangely, the forum name has shifted so that it now overlaps the “Login” box. This was perfect until now, as you’d expect, since it’s part of the original design – I just typed in the name of the blog in the space provided in Admin.

Here’s the link, which will make it clear what I’m saying (open with IE): http://ashb.proofreadercentral.com/bbpress/

User: tester

Password: testing123

Can anyone offer any explanation for this stuff? More importantly, how do I get the header back to what it was yesterday given that I haven’t actually changed anything in the meantime? I’m afraid that if I start tampering with the CSS again, I’ll end up messing up the header in Firefox as well!

Cheers

[citizenkeith]

We have WordPress acting as a CMS and we’re using bbPress for the forums:

http://www.wvko1580.com/forums/

[chrishajer]

Congrats.

[chrishajer]

I wish I understood more about why it actually happens on integrated installs. Is it when you include bbPress in WordPress, or the other way around?