[ashes999]

Yeah, I have shell access…

I had a shell script before to back up my whole schema; but I just want to back up the bbpress schema now, not the wordpress schema.

[chrishajer]

Do you have access to a shell at your host? If so, you can do it pretty easily. If not, I don’t know of an automatic backup plugin for bbPress.

[ashes999]

WordPress has a great plugin called wp-backup that allows you to schedule a nightly backup of your database. Is there something similar for bbPress? If not, how should I back up my data regularly?

[723891]

Why switch to bbpress? WordPress is highly configurable and there are a lot of plugins. And if you want you can change the source code on your own server…..

[Sam Bauers]

I don’t think they are even using WordPress. Looks like it is all custom code.

[Sam Bauers]

We will probably start using some form of display name in bbPress in the next version.

There is already a built-in way to map user roles between WordPress and bbPress within the admin area under WordPress Integration.

[jfz]

Hi. Can someone tell me if emptees.com is using bbpress for their talk section? I love the layout and theme of the forum their using. It reminds me of wordpress blog posts & bbpress? but it might be a customized version they made themselves. Is there anyone who would be willing to work on a free bbpress theme that looks like that? I’d pay for a theme that looked like that! Thanks.

[chrishajer]

I think you need to set up permalinks on your server if you want pretty or name based ones. False works fine, so it’s definitely a permalinks issue. Not sure why it was working before, but this is what needs to be done now:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

[f1f]

No I haven’t moved the forum. The last thing I changed – which must have been a week ago or longer – was adding the following code into the .htaccess file for WordPress (not BBPress):

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

Could that have had an effect? If so it seems odd that it took so long to manifest itself.

Thanks for the speedy response by the way

[chrishajer]

You can make the data dynamic, but you need to use bbPress functions, not WordPress functions.

If you are intent on using WordPress functions, read this and this.

[chrishajer]

I don’t know of a plugin yet that will take an RSS feed and display it in bbPress.

How about creating a plugin out of something like RSS2HTML and using that in bbPress?

http://www.rss2html.com/

[chrishajer]

To anyone reading in the future:

Please use different table prefixes for bbPress and WordPress. bb_ for bbPress and wp_ for WordPress are the defaults, for good reason. You can change them to something else if you like, but make sure they are different for WordPress, bbPress, and anything else you might install in that database.

Integration does not require the same table prefix, and using the same table prefix means bbPress will try to use WordPress tables (of the same name) that have already been created.

[chrishajer]

I think you want bbSync, at least to start:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/

[f1f]

My BBPress installation has been working fine but suddenly today I can’t access the content on any of my posts. All the post titles are listed, but clicking on them gives a 404 error:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/forum/

I have no idea what’s caused this. It’s been over a week since I made any changes to BBPress or the WordPress installation it’s integrated with.

I’ve checked my MySQL database and all the forum data appears to still be in there, it just isn’t displaying. Any ideas what’s broken?

[annagb]

The bbPress forum I installed sometimes sends wrong passwords to new users.

I mean, the user receive a password, but this password does not work. So I have to change the password as admin and to tell them the new one.

May this depend on a plugin? Is there any solution to this problem? Thank you.

[bobbyh]

laran, can you please post a link to your wordpress and bbpress installs?

[laran]

I installed bbpress. I (tried to) followed the instructions for integrating with wordpress. When I was done with the installation the forum worked fine but I couldn’t log into wordpress. I resolved that issue by changing:

a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

to

a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

in wp_usermeta for my user.

This allowed me to log into wordpress. Not sure what it did to bbpress because I figured I’d just re-install.

I dropped the non-shared bbpress tables in the database (forums, topics, topicsmeta i think, tagged, tags).

Now, when I’m logged into wordpress my blog shows up a little wierd. The blog index page (index.php) shows published and unpublished posts. It didn’t do this before and I don’t want it to do it now. Also, none of the pages show up. They all give me a 404.

If I’m logged in I’m allowed to view the pages. But if I’m not logged in the pages show up as 404s.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to clean up this mess I’d love to hear them. Thanks.

[laran]

I got my wordpress working again by making the following change.

I changed this: a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

to this: a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

Now I think I’ve got to figure out how to undo the bbpress installation and do it again properly. I too suppose I didn’t read the instructions carefully enough.

In my case, I want to integrate wordpress and bbpress. So I thought I was supposed to have the tables names be the same.

[threevisual]

Hi,

I’m currently working on a website which is powered by wordpress, it will have a forum which will be powered by bbpress. I’ve designed the layout to exactly how I’d like it to look (and partly coded the forum index).

Is there anyone out there who would be willing to complete customisation / styling of my bbpress theme?

If anyone is interested please let me know your costs and turn around time and I’ll be in touch.

Cheers!

[reclaimyourskin]

I am experiencing the same problem as well.

I think it has something to do with user roles, as a registered BBpress user does not have get a defined role in WordPress (i.e author, contributor, editor etc…).

It would be easier if a default wordpress role was automatically assigned to a user that registers via bbpress.

If anyone has any ideas/solutions it would be much appreciated.

[Catia Kitahara]

I tryied that solution too and it didn’t work either.

By the way, the php version in my server is 5.2.6.

Anyway, the thing is I want to upgrade my bbPress, but the instructions say I must deactivate all plugins first. I can’t deactivate them without the errors. Is there any other way I could upgrade my bbPress? Could I backup my bbPress tables, delete bbPress files and simply install the newest version (0.9.0.2) from zero and after that, import my tables?

I just can’t believe I’m having such a hard time just to do something that should be easy.

Thanks in advance

[Catia Kitahara]

Well, sorry,

I said that too soon. It didn’t help. I tryied both things. Uploading a file called _nothing.php prevented the first error, but it didn’t the second one.

I deleted that row from bb_topicmeta and I still get the same error messages.

Any other suggestions? Should I try this sollution?

[bradsucks]

I have WP 2.5 and bbPress 0.9.0.2 working together. But when a user creates a new account via bbPress, the display_name column in wp_users is blank.

When logged-in users post a comment on my blog, they’re marked as “Anonymous”. Anyone know how to fix this?

I can copy the user_login data over to display_name manually, but I’d like it to populate display_name automatically when the record s created.

[tbrams]

I have a forum running as an appendix to the wordpress blog we have at lyngbytaekwondo.dk and people love it.

Now after upgrading WP to version 2.5.1 it seems like all my html examples in the forum are being ruined when I try to add something. Right after installing the forum I did a post where wrote a post about how to use som of the html codes available and it worked nicely with the backtick to keep bbPress from formatting.

When I tried to modify something yesterday by editing the post, all the html examples in backticks were destroyed and I cannot get the backtick to work again.

If anybody can recommend a starting point for me to debug this, it will be appreciated.

[chrishajer]

The getmypid function being disabled has been discussed before. Since it’s used to generate a random state, you can safely remove (I think) that function call and still be able to continue. You just lose the pid being concatenated with the other number when generating the random state.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/error-forum#post-16234