[alexleonard]

Hi there,

I started development on a wordpress + bbpress site quite a while back. Development stalled and I’m only coming back to it now.

I had integrated wp + bbp fairly successfully but I have a feeling upgrading to WP2.5.1 might have broken a lot of that cross compatibility.

The bbpress installed version is 0.8.3.1, but essentially it’s an empty forum (a couple of test posts from myself).

Regarding upgrading to the latest version, I get a feeling I might almost be better off completely wiping the original forum version and starting again – I might run into less problems? I had a look through the trac but couldn’t really work out how much substantial change there has been between current and my older version.

Any suggestions?

Is uninstalling and reinstalling reasonably easy?

[bubblebla]

hi, detective..

nice job!! i’m looking forward for the release too.

[cordoval]

This sounds a past issue, yet I would like to add fuel to this thread. Please make me aware if there is already a plug in for this feature. I saw a note of _ck_ requesting this enhancement but I doubt it has gone through over these months yet.

To txrediakov: I want to enable the user to choose their password, not because of email anymore but because I believe we cannot just deny our users this capability. It is expected in any reasonable website that the user can type her own password.

To chrishajer: Good information. Now thinking logically: If one can display the password in a window returned after registration I think it could be possible to perform one additional step in the php code to take a password fetched from a custom field in the registration page, then take the bbpress generated password and replace it with the new value.

However, there is a slight problem. The user can only change her password after she is logged in. Granting the new user access to the account to post right away after registration may pose some kind of security thread to the system and to the accounts of all users. So how could we go about doing this without compromising the security of the system?

Please you are welcome to contact me as I need to work and solve this issue.

Encouragements,

[timskii]

As the code stands at the moment, it is a little too easy to lock yourself out. There may be a cleaner solution, but the following worked for me:

Try to login to BBPress with the WP admin. If that fails to give admin access to BBPress, the user mappings were either not set, were set at the wrong stage during integration, or were set such that nothing mapped to the Keymaster.

Backup the database (just in case a bad situation accidentally becomes terminal while you’re trying to fix it).

Using SQL access to the database (eg PhpMyAdmin), open up bb_topicmeta and delete the last few lines with meta_key starting wp_. That should reset everything, allowing you to get back into BBPress on the old Keymaster account and start again.

I found the order in which the integration settings were applied was critical. Your mileage may vary, but for me that was:

1. Edit User role map (ensure Admin is linked to Keymaster), and save.
2. Add “wp_” under User database table prefix and save.
3. Hit the User role map button again.
4. Finally complete the cookie setting and save.

[creativeherb]

Well I didn’t break it, I think… I’m currently using the latest version Support-Forums plugin (3.0.4), and the latest BBpress (0.9.0.2)

On the front page, most topics displays fine, with the status bubble ahead of the topic title, but for certain topics I get this error… this error code replaces where the color bubble would have been.

Warning: sprintf() [function.sprintf]: Too few arguments in /home/blog/public_html/forums/my-plugins/pb–support-forum/support-forum.php on line 657

help would be much appreciated, thanks!

[jameson42]

I am also very interested in this. I have an install of WPMU and bbPress integrated, and I’d like all logins to go through WP, and redirect to the previously seen page upon login.

[gabx82]

Hello,

I integrated bbPress with WordPress, soooooo, now bbPress is using WordPress database… that means I have no Key Master nor Administrator for bbPress,

How can I manually convert my WordPress’ admin to a bbPress’ Key Master?

So I can change bbPress settings and stuff.

Please help, thanks!

[dem0o8]

WP and BbPress integration…

WP: http://www.pinoywebstartup.com/

BbPress: http://www.pinoywebstartup.com/forum/

i used external stylesheet, images, scripts for both wp & bbp…

use php include for the sidebar on the bbpress…

will put the latest discussion on the homepage soon…

and maybe post a tutorial about it… feel free to subscribe on the feed… there are some interesting insights about web startup even if you’re not from around

[mciarlo]

How can this be done in bbPress 0.9.0.2?

[cordoval]

After spending some days I found a clear well laid out solution here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profile-user-specified-fields#post-2670

[chrishajer]

Does any of this help?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookie-sharing-between-wp-and-bb

I think since you’ve moved stuff around, you probably want to delete your cookies or try a new browser without any of the old cookies in it already.

[italways]

sorry it is on my local test machine. furthermore, it happens when you try to delete the tag from one topic, you must be a admin user.

The only thing special is that my bbpress is integrated with my wpmu, I logged in using my wpmu admin account (mapped to bbpress admin group already), when I try to delete the tag from one topic, the error occurs, but it is ok when I manage the tags on bbpress backend, I can delete any tag there.

[timskii]

All the integration code assumes you start with a blog and want to add a forum. However, if you start with a forum, chances are the forum’s user database will be far larger than the blog. The technique below outlines how I did it. This is entirely at your own risk. I’ve not gone over the standard things, like shared secret keys: I’m assuming you’ve read the basic integration guides.

0. You’ll need to be familiar with .htaccess, SQL at raw database level, and template hacks. If your level of expertise is “pressing buttons”, stop reading here. This is very easy to mess up, so make plenty of backups. Ideally test the whole conversion first, and probably prepare scripts to run if a lot of database changes are needed.

1. Block public access to the blog and forum for all except your IP using .htaccess.

2. In the database, rename wp_users and wp_usermeta. These won’t be used, but you will need them later to cross-reference old posts to new authors. I’m assuming a standard install that uses wp_ and bb_ as prefixes.

3. Copy bb_users and bb_usermeta to wp_users and wp_usermeta respectively. Keep the original tables for now.

4. Add the missing column via SQL: ALTER TABLE wp_users ADD user_activation_key varchar(60) NOT NULL default '';

5. Delete the WordPress install, but keep the old database tables (and plugins and themes). Install WordPress in its former position. Use an entirely new user name as your new WordPress admin. (The purpose of deleting and then installing WordPress is to create a genuinely new admin user in the table. For me, this was faster than manually adding an admin user and making sure all the correct permissions were set. You mileage may vary.)

6. How much extra work you need to do to your old WordPress tables depends on the number of authors that were active on WordPress: Using SQL, you’ll need to change all the old author IDs in wp_posts and wp_comments to match that author’s ID from the forum. It is possible there are other user references deep in the system, so be careful. I had little complexity to deal with. If your were the first to register for both your forum and blog, the important IDs may match perfectly already.

7. Most WordPress templates use the user’s display_name. This is unfortunately, because BBPress tends to use user_login. The result is that most WordPress references to user names will appear blank. You’ll either need to populate the display_name column, or hack around with your WordPress templates so that they use user_login. Template call get_the_author_login() is perfect for authors, but for comment references I had to use get_usermeta($user_id,’user_login’) or comment_author_link() where $user_id was 0. Messy. Since the admin side of WordPress uses display_name anyway, it is probably a lot easier to populate that column.

8. Your WordPress install should be now more-or-less working. Let’s return to the forum!

9. It is very easy to accidentally destroy the forum Keymaster, locking yourself out of the forum before integration is complete. If this happens, edit the table bb_topicmeta by deleting the final few lines with meta_key starting “wp_”.

10. On the forum admin, under WordPress Integration: Set the User role map such that Admin links to Keymaster and everyone else is a subscriber, and save. Add “wp_” under User database table prefix and save. Hit the User role map button again. Finally complete the cookie setting and save. The order is important – simply filling in all the boxes and saving can wipe out the old Keymaster access before the new one has been set up.

11. In WordPress, check the user list. I found that some user types did not convert automatically – notably moderators. Hopefully 99% of users will have been automatically assigned as subscribers. If you use a lot of plugins, take care that nothing conflicts. For example two separate plugins trying to write user meta data using the same key name. You may also wish to test a dummy registration and profile change.

12. Remove the old bb_users and bb_usermeta, and the copies of your original wp_users and wp_usermeta.

13. Remove the .htaccess blocks, and celebrate your newly integrated setup.

I’m now having fun trying to marry a second forum to the first WordPress-Forum pair. Everything is easy, until one tries to alter the admin permissions…

[os0wski]

i just want all old entries and comments in wordpress bein changed to topics on bbpress

is it possible mate?

[os0wski]

ok I changed the absolute path to bbPress but

when i klick migrate it still doesnt copy old entries to my bbpress!

why?

[chrishajer]

Does this do what you’re looking for?

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

[Sam Bauers]

What version of bbPress?

Trunk is a bit broken.

The last release (0.9.0.2) should be fine.

[enquirer32]

Hi there. I’ve just moved my whole installation directory for WordPress and BBPress. I thought I had followed all the directions and WordPress works fine. But when I go to the BBPress installation (A sub-directory of WP) it no longer automatically logs me on. I’ve edited any relevant config files. What do you think is the problem?

[bobbyh]

Lateral, look at the top of this page. See where it says EXTEND? Click that and then search…

I just did that for you, and here’s the plugin:

* https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-ratings/

[tdjcbe]

Thanks for this. It fixed our issue with the login cookies.

[os0wski]

i want to integrate my wordpress with bbpress forum as when i write a post i automaticly add a topic on bbpress and comments are the same as posts (you see both comments and posts in both wordpress and bbpress)

is it possible? does anyone know how to integrate bbpress in such way?

cheers

[kineda]

Try this:

http://www.kineda.com/how-to-integrate-wordpress-and-bbpress-in-3-simple-steps/

Be sure your cookie settings match in your config files.

[codeoncrack]

Another update…

When trying to login to bbPress, it logs me into WordPress, but not bbPress. So, the bbPress login and out features are setting correctly the WordPress session info, but not the bbPress session info.

[hernano]

My report is bogus:

-the user_url has nothing to do with the issue, in fact it occurs with almost any .php part of bbpress:

http://www.site.com/forums/register.php?http://www.google.com

throws the warning message.

-the warning of course is shown depending on the current php configuration regarding error reporting

[hernano]

none of the scripts inside bb-templates should be +x

otherwise users will be able to execute them and a path will be disclosed.

example:

http://www.site.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/register-success.php

returns an error and a path is disclosed:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bb_get_header() in /server/path/disclosed/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/register-success.php on line 1

comment:

I had to +x all my files in my hosting environment to make bbpress work; this directory and its content should not be +x’ed.

(bbpress will still work if this directory is not +x’ed)

this is primarily ‘my fault’ but since I think what I did (+x’ing everything to make bbpress work) could have been done by others, I’m just making this note here.