[chrishajer]

I saw something about a PHP function checkdnsrr being disabled in the latest build. That function is used in the bbPress function bb_verify_email.

I think the problem is that checkdnsrr is not available on Windows, and I’m not sure if it’s available on XAMPP. Here is how they fixed it in the latest trunk build:

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-includes/registration-functions.php

Here is the original bug report:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/856

[chrishajer]

1. Use the same database if you want to integrate registrations.

2. Yes. Call the folder whatever you want.

3. Not sure. There was a post here at one point that mentioned directing all the registrations through WordPress since the registration plugins were more robust, but I can’t find it now.

[Ryan]

I’m calling the blog-header.php file from WordPress, which from what I’ve read is part of the problem. I’m doing so because I’m using the same sidebars, header, and footer in my forum as the blog. If there’s another, relatively easy, way to do that then I’m all ears.

When using permalinks for the bbPress pages a 404 header is being returned. The page displays ok in Firefox & IE7, but the 404 is going to cause issues with search engines.

Any suggestions on how to fix the problem?

[affacat]

OK, so it looks like the plugin version 0.8.3 still works in bbPress 0.9.1 – though I have not yet put it through heavy testing. I found the install directions left a little to be desired so I added more detailed directions below.

However… I still have a question. Some of my users have adopted Gravatars since WP 2.5 was released. The plugin currently does not seem to check for gravatar existence, let alone provide some sort of control over precedence of different sourced avatars.

The installation instructions DO provide you with the function to call to see if a plug-in uploaded/created avatar exists. However, in order to get the precedence working the way I’d like, I need to know how to test for a Gravatar existence as well. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Any ideas?

Install instructions:

1. Download Plugin here:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/avatar-upload/

Version 0.8.3 is current at time of this writing.

2. Create the following two folders in your bbpress install:

/my-plugins

/avatars

3. follow instructions (specifically, step 5) in the readme file which tells you where to copy files. Some files in the zip aren’t mentioned (such as indenticon.php). I put those into my-plugins and so far, so good.

4. Activate plugin.

[Bloggsbe]

You can get a Norwegian translation of 0.9.0.1 here.

Norsk oversettelse av bbPress 0.9.0.1 kan du finne her.

—

Rune

[dka]

I’m trying to install bbPress on a local Intranet Server (Its on a local network for my employees to use for collaboration.) And I’m getting caught on Step 3. When i put in any email address it says that the Email Address “Appears to be invalid” and doesn’t let me continue, My main email ends in .co.uk which i thought might have been the problem but even .com and .info addresses dont work. Any ideas? (Using the latest version with XAMPP / Apache)

[doreen]

I used the same data base for both as using separate ones locked me out of bbpress for some unknown reason so redid it with one db. the other questions I.m not sure on

[doreen]

I had that problem except I couldn’t log into bbpress after intergrating but my 17 yr old daughter(smarty pants!) re did the whole thing using the same data base for both and now it works

[tombiro]

Same problem here. As far as I know, I followed the instructions to the t in integrating these two DBs – I have the blog running on one db, and the bb running on a second, but the users being “pulled” from the blog db. Once I did that, I lost all rights to access the backend. Have changed everything I can find on the backend to make this work, made edits in phpmyadmin to the user settings in the server, and even tried the plugin that was made available, Fix Admin Access – no avail.

Would love some other pointers if people have gotten buried on this. I’m not sure what else to pull together here.

[patrace]

Hi, I’m experimenting with embedding some of the bbPress commenting features into an existing website and I was wondering how to set a topic ID.

If I do something like this it will return the topic title just fine:

$topic = get_topic( 162 );

$topic_id = $topic->topic_id;

echo $topic->topic_title;

But as soon as I try something like this I realize that I don’t have an active topic because it no longer returns the information:

$topic = get_topic( 162 );

$topic_id = $topic->topic_id;

if (is_topic()) echo $topic->topic_title;

Hope that was clear,

Thanks!

[raygene]

Hi,

I have upgraded my WP blog to version 2.5 and would like to integrate a bbPress forum. Before I do so, I would like to hear from people who have done this and could give me a few tips on how to go about it.

A few things on my mind:

1- Is it better to use a separate database for the forum (which I would prefer if possible)?

2- Should bbPress be installed in a WP sub-folder?

3- Is there a plugin or setting which would prevent users to register via the forum (disable forum registration) and would redirect the user to the WP registration panel?

Any advice (and good plugins) would be well appreciated.

Cheers,

Gene

[citizenkeith]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/origianl-keymaster-lost-privlages-to-create-forums#post-13838

[arlene476]

There is an answer here, https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/require_oncepathtowp-blog-headerphp

Saying:

Put in the full path from the server root instead of the relative path.

But I don’t know how to code it and what line to place it

[arlene476]

I followed this

bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. In order to do that, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ bb-config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).

and it looks like this

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-config.php’);

this is located in http://domain.com

my bbpress is on http://forums.domain.com and I am using Cpanel

[philgreen]

I used to run a blog using blogger called veryserious.org that had various contributors. I wanted a forum, so I used bbpress and set up board.veryserious.org. I liked the interface and having more control etc, so I switched from blogger to wordpress.

Then, I tried to integrate wp and bbpress. It worked okay, but what I think happened was that user numbers from WP were used to assign posts and info to users on BBpress. If you see from this thread:

http://board.veryserious.org/topic.php?id=34

There is a post (2nd post on page) from a girl named Phoebe, but the post is attributed to Jake. Can I reassign posts, or should I just erase all the posts and start over?

[arlene476]

I am having troubles with integrating WPMU in with BBpress in a subdomain. Whenever I integrate the BBpress portion. It always says that password incorrect on WPMU. Imust have missed something or it isn’t possible to install it on a subdomain with WPMU wilcarded

Hope you could help me. Thanks

[precious-forever]

this order: WP 2.3, bbpress 0.8 (no integration with plugins at that time!), WP 2.5, bbpress 0.9

I patently waited with integration until 0.9 was out since I did not understand the whole thing before. And everything seems to work fine. Just as soon as I add the WP_ prefix setting to my bbpress config, it seems as if bbpress can only access the WP users anymore (with the correct role mapping i set up etc.).

maybe I should just ask all registered users to reregister after integration, since the forum is pretty new anyway

[joeyv]

I love the simplicity of bbpress, but my needs require file attachment. If I had the knowledge, I would write a plug-in, but I don’t, so I can’t.

[so1o]

I have created a wordpress plugin that moves most used bb admin tab functionality to the wordpress admin section.

the plugin is available here

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-admin/

any feedback will be appreciated..

cheers

[skehoe]

Ok so I take back my last statement, those that register through bbpress get a bbpress role and those that go through wp get a wp role. Again, is there a file where these functions are written that I can check to make sure the table prefix is right? My user registration is integrated in that users show up on both, but the roles only are assigned in the form which a user registers.

[citizenkeith]

You can try bbPortal:

http://www.bbportal.org/

I’m not sure if it works with v0.9 or not. Haven’t seen Null around here for a while now…

[gmaddock]

I’m not sure that it’s the “fault” of bbpress, but i just successfully set up

an installation and integrated the user db with my wordpress install.

However, now I find that I can’t get into my admin page for wordpress.

I get the error:

“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

With my admin username. Same with any other username I have. I can log in, but I don’t have the right access.

I can however get into the bbpress admin page.

I have access to phpMyAdmin and checked out the db. In the usermeta table I have this entry for my admin user:

wp_capabilities a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

Which looks right to me.

Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated.

[Covi]

Woot for JQuery, I love this framework ^^!

U have prototype+SAU with JQuery in half the size.

Bump for this trac ticket.

[_ck_]

This would be fairly straightforward to do and make a good plugin.

Some flag could be added via the topic meta and then a list would be generated that could be placed anywhere in a template. Also in the topic meta could be placed a custom summary for the topic. As a bonus, RSS could be generated for the list.

[_ck_]

I am not sure why Google would be seeing redirects. bbPress only redirects after form submits via wp_redirect to the best of my knowledge. Some plugins do too, but usually again after only form submits. Even tag URLs don’t use redirects.

Are you saying the sitemap plugin does not generate permalink urls but rather the non-slug type ie. ?topic=123 If so, it’s outdated and if you are using slugs it should be modified to generate results that take advantage of slugs.