[Billy Wilcosky]

I’m scared. I want to keep my bbpress forum updated, so I want to upgrade it, but I’ve upgraded other forums in the past and lost all the posts, or lost the way my current theme works, or lost all my plug-ins.

What is the easiest way to upgrade without losing anything?

[malfhok]

I have some very neat users who like to edit their posts when they make spelling/grammar errors. But bbPress will only allow them to edit until a specified time is up. Is there a way that I can set the time limit to none or something like that? If not, is there anything bad about setting the limit to something like 999999?

[chrishajer]

It’s funny. I have a bbPress forum at 1&1, in a subdirectory of WordPress installation, and I never did get permalinks working (I last tried 18 months or so ago.) Now that you have shown it can be done, I will take my own advice, which was provided here first by hmcnally, and see if I can get them working again.

Glad it worked for you.

[cliffmaster]

OMG ! It worked ! Thanks so much chrishajer. But I must add that I moved bbpress to a upper level above my WP install and used a sub domain for the forums. Because following 1and1 instructions stated above in their email response, it did not solve the problem until I placed

Options -MultiViews

At the top of the htaccess file.

Now permalinks work just fine.

Thanks again !

[chrishajer]

Does this help:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16050

Your setup is just fine with the directory structure you have setup (WordPress as the root for the domain, bbPress in a subfolder.)

[cliffmaster]

Anyone else have this problem with 1and1 ?

I cannot get pretty permalinks to run, even after following directions.

I wrote to them

I am running wordpress and bbpress in the same root directory

http://mysite.com is wordpress install and

http://mysite.com/bbpress/ is bbpress install each install has

it’s own .htaccess for using permalinks. WordPress permalinks work fine

but I cannot get bbpress pretty permalinks to work at all. I have tried

different variations of htaccess codes for both files without any

success. It seems to me that the main root htaccess is overriding the

/bbpress/ htaccess.

Any suggestions ?

This was their reply to me.

“Dear Cliffmaster, (Customer ID: 6XXXXXXXX)

Thank you for contacting us.

With regards to your query,

we would highly suggest that you install BBpress on a different folder

and not on folder where you have installed a different CMS (WordPress).

Please separate the two CMS’s by installing them on different folders

under the root directory (/.)

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

—

Sincerely,

Technical Support

1&1 Internet “

[reclaimyourskin]

Thanks Detective, good luck with your lap top – looking forward to the release.

Regards

[Detective]

Hi!

I will release everything: the template (though it needs customization because it’s pretty ugly without it), all the plugins i use (except the specific settings for Ryuuko), including the User Photo modification.

I would have released all of them this weekend, but my laptop died Fortunately, i didn’t lost any data

[reclaimyourskin]

Hi Detective,

I have tried sending you a message using your website but I think I might have submitted a comment instead of an email in error

I really like your website/forum (http://www.ryuuko.cl/bbpress/). It’s definitely one of the best bbpress/wordpress integrations I’ve seen, looks very professional – great job

Would you be able to give us some more information on how you used the wordpress User Photo plug-in inside bbpress? I’ve tried for a while to work out how to do it with no success. If you could help it would be very much appreciated, or if anyone knows how to do this?

I’ve done a few Google searches but there isn’t any information on how to integrate the User Photo plug-in into bbpress.

Thanks,

Will

[citizenkeith]

Maybe we should chip in some money for _ck_ to make a really nice emoticon plugin. Some of my forum users would probably chip in as well.

[djp]

lol, sorry, just read about how to submit in the forum. My bad.

[djp]

How do we make a bbpress forum submission? I am going live in less than a week & have made quite a lot of interface tweaks to suit the style of my site. I’d love to submit mine for inclusion on the showcase.

Let me know.

Fanx

[chrishajer]

Put all the bbPress files that are in the archive you downloaded into a folder in your webspace. If your website is at http://www.example.com/ and the files on the server are at /var/www/vhosts/yourname/ and you want your forums at http://www.example.com/forums/, just create a directory called /var/www/vhosts/yourname/forums in your webspace and upload the files there.

Put all the bbpress files into one folder though, exactly how they came out of the archive. By default, when you unzip the files, they are in a folder called bbpress. You can use that or rename that to forums, then just upload the whole thing to your webspace.

[chrishajer]

This is an old post about converting from PHPBB2:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb

The Google Summer of Code project for bbPress is going to focus on importers for bbPress, so if you are not using PHPBB2, you might want to wait until the GSOC project is over. There will probably be an announcement if they complete the tools.

https://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2008#Web_Forums_Export.2FImport_Standard_and_Tools

[kenjiwing]

Is it possible to convert PHPBB posts/user db to bbpress?

Any help would be appreciated.

[chrishajer]

If you look at the plugin, it’s pretty simple. Line 12:

if (bb_current_user_can('administrate')

If you want to allow other users to do everything that this plugin allows, you would need to change ‘administrate’ to whatever permission your users have. I am not going to post exactly how to do it, since I think it could be a potential security hole, but that line right there is the key. Take a look at the plugin and see what I mean.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/admin-can-post-anything/

[chrishajer]

I think you need to include WordPress in your bbPress so you have access to WordPress functions like get_header:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func

Then, in your template, you need to do something like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>

That will include the WordPress header. If you do the second part without the first, it will fail because get_header is a WordPress function.

I think…

[Sam Bauers]

Actually, the bbPress secret can live in the database. But you are right that the WPMU one cannot, mostly for login compatibility between blogs within WPMU.

Obviously you should choose your own secret and salt values, not the one’s given above.

[sepidol]

my mistake,

make sure your BB_SECRET_KEY and BB_SECRET_SALT value on your bb-config.php are the same with SECRET_KEY and SECRET_SALT value on your wp-config.php

cheers,

—

rh

[sepidol]

i just solved my login cookie issue after one night debugging…

i found these things:

– by default, wpmu generate auth_cookie as “wordpress”, but bbpress generate as “wordpress_xxxxx(hash)”

– wpmu not using “database secret” for cookie hashing, but it use the SECRET_SALT constant defined in the wp-config.php, bbpress using “database secret”. so the cookie result will never be the same.

you need to update your bb-config.php file to meet these situations.

assumed you’ve successfully install wpmu + bbpress, then edit your bb-config.php and add these line:

define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ‘yourreallysecretkey’);

define(‘BB_SECRET_SALT’, ‘yourreallysecretsalt’);

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress’;

$bb->cookiedomain = ‘.yourdomain.com’;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ”;

and try to login… voila.. you can switch to bbpress and wpmu without re-login…

good luck,

—

rh

[exchequer598]

_ck_:

The insert function in Comment Quicktags for bbPress can easily be reused to insert smilies.

Can you please show us how? Thanks

[bboysmaster]

How to change it to all user can post embed object?

[antoniop]

I’m still trying to get my bbpress installation to match http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/wordpress. What steps/php commands do I need to import my wordpress header/footer into my bbpress template/installation?

[manomalt]

OK, I have the bbpress login and the wp login using the same user database under wp. The only issue that I have left is my loss of keymaster under the bbpress install. My problem with this is that I did auto-installs of both programs…so I didn’t get any options to set the keymaster/admin settings. I have read this post: wpbb-integration-admin-problem#post-2539 and I think that that it’s what I need to do. Problem is…I don’t know how to change this. I don’t see any code that looks like that which is being referred to. Anyone have a more detailed description of what I’m trying to do? Thanks.

[kineda]

Thought this may help those that are still having trouble integrating the two:

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