[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?

[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