[citizenkeith]

FYI…

If you are integrated with WordPress, you can use the Maintenance Mode plugin for WP and it will work with bbPress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/

[Billy Wilcosky]

I’ve decided that I’m happy with the way my forum and blog are set up. Users can use the same username and password for both my forum and blog. But, they can not log into one and automatically be logged into the other (cookie issues).

The main problem is the way I integrated my bbpress and wordpress. I already had bbpress installed, then later I installed wordpress. I then integrated the two and they share the same database. I hear from many that this is NOT the recommended way to integrate and that you shouldn’t use the same database, but, the bottom line is, everything works fine, but users can’t log in at one and then automatically be logged in at the other, they just have to log in twice if they are using both my blog and forum.

Can anyone provide instructions/tips on how to set up the cookies for bbpress and wordpress if they were integrated backwards and are sharing one database?

[timjamz]

Hah! I won’t quit so easily, even if it simple for users to log in twice… but, how annoying!

There is certainly something wrong with the cookie… but I’ve got the right wp cookie hash, and verified that bbpress picks it up naturally. I’ve got the secret keys with really simple text strings (for now), so I know they’re OK. I’ve verified the wp database secret is correct in the bbpress install. I’ve got COOKIE_DOMAIN defined as ‘.mysite.com’, and COOKIEPATH and SITECOOKIEPATH set as ‘/’ in my wp-config. I’ve got all 13 bb-> items listed in the 101 set correctly in my bb-config, with cookiedomain set to ‘.mysite.com’, and cookiepath and sitecookiepath set to ‘/’. My blog is in the web root folder (mysite.com) and the forum is in a subfolder (mysite.com/forums). My blog was established before bbpress was installed.

This must be something simple, and I’m just so frustrated that I’m missing it. Do I have to do something different with the cookie path – i.e. define it as the subfolder or something??

Thanks for any help!

[_ck_]

Speaking of the 404’s this is worryingly more common than should be with bbPress for some reason. I’ve found a few dozen installs like that during my top100 spidering (out of 3000 so it’s a small number but still).

I wonder if bbPress could detect if it’s serving 404 response headers or if that happens outside of PHP so it’s not possible to detect.

[817759]

The Whistle & Fish Pub is the watering spot of werewolves, zombies, and dead writers.

Nothing special. Basically a bbpress support forum design straight out of the box (until we decide whether it’s successful enough to warrant investing time in our own design). But we call it home.

[RossB]

Just an addendum that might prove useful to others.

I changed the index page to http, which I thought was all that had to be done. However, after doing so, I was getting a mixture of https and http pages – the home page of the forum was http, but any page inside (eg: forum headings and posts) were coming up with the https prefix.

There was a simple solution: change the URL in the General Settings section of the Admin area! I guess it was assumed I’d done this (never underrate the capacity of a tech uninitiate to not do the right thing!).

The forum uses only HTTP now, and there’s a bonus that comes with this (which is why I thought it worth writing this post) – the pages load MUCH FASTER!

[Billy Wilcosky]

Ok, I followed the steps. It’s still not working for me. I log in at my forum, then go to my blog, and it will say “please log in again” so it’s like it recognizes that I logged in at the forum, because it’s saying please log in again, meaning, we know you were logged in, but, now you’re not anymore so log in again.

Having said all of that… I also did the backwards integration. I had the bbpress forum, then later got wordpress. I also did the “full” integration method which you (_ck_) do not recommend. But, the damage is done. I’m not going to uninstall and re-install anything… it is what it is.

My members will just have to log in at my forum, and if they want to log into my blog, they’ll just have to enter in their username and password again, it’s not going to kill them, it takes an extra 5 seconds. So, I’m not worried about it anymore. At least my members can use the same username and password.

I’m going to call this topic resolved. Because I got my answer. Since I did the backwards full integration method, the ability to stay logged in, isn’t going to work, unless I pay a professional to fix it.

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/successful-convert-smf-gt-phpbb2-gt-bbpress

[chrishajer]

The reason for this is that you bbPress/forum pages are returning a header of 404 (Not Found) instead of 200 (OK).

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:29:52 GMT

Server: Apache

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

X-Pingback: http://www.sanzdrave.cz/xmlrpc.php

Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT

Last-Modified: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:29:52 GMT

Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

Pragma: no-cache

Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=20

Connection: Keep-Alive

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8



404 Not Found

 

But the page is clearly there. You need this fix:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load

Also described here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strange-404-report-i-firebug#post-9551

[Null]

Hi,

I have the following code that works in wordpress:

<?php $homepage = get_settings('siteurl')."/search.php/";

global $wp;

$wp_received_argument = false;

foreach ($wp->query_vars as $k=>$v) if ($v) $wp_received_argument = true;

if ($wp_received_argument) require(TEMPLATEPATH . “/index.php”);

else { wp_redirect($homepage);

exit(); } ?>

Now this wont work in bbpress, so I’ve made some modifications:

<?php $homepage = bb_get_option( 'uri' )."/search.php/";

global $bb;

$bb_received_argument = false;

foreach ($bb->query_vars as $k=>$v) if ($v) $bb_received_argument = true;

if ($bb_received_argument) require(TEMPLATEPATH . “/index.php”);

else { bb_redirect($homepage);

exit(); } ?>

It now crashes at the foreach. What am I missing?

Thx

[timjamz]

Hello! I am having the same problem. I have successfully integrated my blog (wp2.5) with bbpress (0.9.0.2) using a single database and I even tweaked the theme to match my blog (woo-hoo!). However, even after following all the steps listed in the Integration-101 post (which was very helpful for integration, btw), I am having problems with cross-platform cookie-based login.

I can log in to my blog, yet I’ll navigate to the forum and not be logged in. I can then log into the forum, yet navigate to the blog and I’ll be logged out back there. They’re obviously connected, since logging into one affects the other… and the user data is pulled from a single database.

The bbpress settings all looked right from the admin panel and successfully found the information from installation so I tried manually setting the options (as described in the 101) in wp-config and bb-config – both ways, I get the same result. Logging into one kicks me out of the other.

Any ideas? I’ve been plunking around for hours with this, and it seems like it should be something very simple. You can see the live site here: http://onehigherpower.com

TIA for any help you can provide!

[_ck_]

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

Sam has hinted at the possibility of doing an early 1.0 alpha release which would be compatible with WordPress 2.6 and WPMU 2.6 – no promises and no mention of a specific date yet.

[chrishajer]

Here’s a screenshot of the attachment lists showing the “denied mime.”

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/attachment-mime.png

The ordered list appears to be hanging out to the left of the #main div by a little bit.

[chrishajer]

I saw your comments on the comments page and figured it was being resolved there.

This was the last I heard:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/page/6/#post-1553

I just tried the 0.1.9 version and the JavaScript is working; it inserts the bbcode. But when I resave, the image was renamed to this:

[png] Error_Occurred_While_Processing_Request.png (17.7 KB, 0 downloads) [x]

And it is not inserted into the post.

[energymv]

Has anyone successfully integrated bbPress with WordPress 2.6? If so can you explain how you did it?

[814712]

Hello: I do not know of a wpmu plugin to assist and my knowledge of the working of the db tables is limited (cannot succeed with SQL queries very well – always error).

Okay, that said. Initially I had WPMU db and added BBPress version 0.9.0.2 to the same DB – and all started out ok but then when I logged in (ADmin or otherwise) to BBPress, or “clicked” a forum link, the homepage of my wpmu blog showed up (http://teach-eng.com/wpmu and now also …com/bbpress).

YIKES NOTE: This same problem still persists when I click on a forum link

http://teach-eng.com/wpmu/bbpress/forum/1 (or any page link on the forum)…

Links only go to the WPMU blog and not stay with the forum at

http://teach-eng.com/wpmu/bbpress/#

So I reinstalled (having already reinstalled bbpress into the WPMU subfolder) BBpress using a different DB – same subfolder via ftp – and all is ok – I just changed/added the “integration” for wp settings with BBPress.

Now what? Well, this install was an ‘opt-out’ for using RS Discuss since I could not work well with the tables in phpAdmin for features to allow settings to show up on the backend.

Okay, so my question – How to create a working blog page in WPMU rather than “loading” BBPress with WPMU (have read on forum this is not a great idea and my webhost is not strong, easily creates 404 errors)…

I could I understand, create a “new template” in WPMU but how would I “embed” or “call up” the BBPress pages for the forums?

I could make separate pages for each forum (separate installs) with BBPress but for me it is ok to have one forum, different topics.

But, even with one BBPress forum, I can only create a page link as is in WPMU and would rather have a better way of showing the forum for each blog (there are 3 now)…

Can someone assist?

How to create a page in WPMU and use the BBPress so when a blogger clicks a “subpage” they will see the BBPress forum? I did set it up already so when a WPMU user logs into BBPress it will use their ID from WPMU (have not tested it yet,but nothing failed).

Okay, thanks for any help.

Claire

[hhberthelsen]

I’m also looking for an update, and so far found these links:

https://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2008

http://www.stealyourcarbon.net/2008/07/midterm-progress/

http://www.stealyourcarbon.net/2008/07/bbpress-importer/

and SoC ’08 discussions going on here:

http://groups.google.com/group/wordpress-soc-2008

Not sure if these are good signs … v0.1A seems a long way to a stable version 😮

[_ck_]

Various people have requested threaded over the past year but it’s not a priority right now. Only a handful of forums can do threaded. It’s a bit tricky but bbPress could be made to do it eventually. It’s a matter of storing each post’s parent id and changing the display order (and formatting). The hardest part is pagination which requires some complex look-ahead calculations.

After 1.0 gets stable, maybe threaded will be revisited, at least as a plugin.

[_ck_]

You will need bbPress 1.0 to integrate with wpmu 2.6 (or even wp 2.6) which is only available via the trunk. It’s also not stable yet, so not recommended for live sites.

Sam has mentioned possibly doing some kind of early 1.0 alpha release soon to help/please some people who insist on using 2.6 but I don’t know the specifics of the timetable he has in mind.

[_ck_]

This plugin could be modified to do that https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/censor where it could set a topicmeta if bad words were found after a new post is saved or edited.

[_ck_]

Sam invented this https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/plugin-browser-for-bbpress which is quite good (though I’m unsure if it’s broken under 0.9) so I suspect we’ll get plugin browsing/updating eventually. But I doubt it’s a high priority right now as there is plenty else on his plate.

[_ck_]

Note the names of the settings in bbPress and WordPress is slightly different. Also, never, ever, edit bb-settings.php, what you want is bb-config.php on the bbpress side and wp-config.php on the WordPress side.

Follow ALL the steps here and you’ll get cookie integration in just a few minutes:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17410

Note step #8 is where you edit wp-config.php, the rest are for bb-config.php

[Billy Wilcosky]

Similar posts have been made about this subject, and I’ve read the documentation, but no matter what I do I can’t get the cookies to work. I’m sure you hate working with newbies like me because we’re always like, “gah, i can’t get anything to work” but, please, I don’t want to keep tweaking it because I don’t want to mess anything up… One solution here at this forum says to go into the wp_settings.php file and change something… do things like that have be to done, or is there an easier way? By the way, I did actually do that… I went into the wp_settings and changed that cookie_domain line from false to ‘.myurl.com’, if you know what I’m talking about… well, that tweak didn’t work for me either.

I just want to be able to log into my blog, then go to my forum and still be logged in. Or log into my forum and go to my blog and still be logged in, then also be able to successfully log out from either location.

I put

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

in my wp config and it is also in my bb press config.

Now, some posts here say that for the cookie_domain, you have to actually put your domain, like:

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.myurl.com’);

is this true?

If someone has the time and successfully has cookies working properly between their wordpress blog and bbpress forum, could you help me out?

I’ve stayed up many nights trying to get this to work just right… it’s sad Whats weird is, when I first did the integration it worked BUT I couldn’t log out, so since then I’ve been changing things to fix that, but now, I’m back to square one. I can log into my forum. then, I can log into blog, and I can log out of both with the same username and password, but again, if I log into one and go to the other, I’m not logged in.

I’ve just seen a few different posts and all the posts recommend doing different things. Then the actual documentation of course just says to use the built in integration feature in bbpress, which I used. Since there are so many different posts offering different solutions, can any one give me a step by step fix for this?

[811568]

For what it’s worth, I think bbPress is a great piece of kit, and I send out a big thanks to the developers and members of this forum

It’s just outright rude to complain about bbPress – it’s completely free for pete’s sake! If you haven’t got the guts or the knowledge to work with it (and reap the rewards I assure you!), go use another forum!

[811536]

I’ve been looking for forum software that meets my needs, and it looks like bbPress is going to be it. One small piece I’m not sure of yet: is it possible through a plugin, or CSS, or something, to support threaded comments? The example sites I’ve looked at so far have all comments at the left margin, and I prefer nested indents to keep track of threads.