not sure what is going on here, but i am also a bit of a newbie with bbpress.
i created 9 main forums and when i went into the admin section > content > forums i only had 5 listed. i messed around with the “position” number, and now i have three. i have 2 questions:
1) what does the position field actually do
2) how can i get to see all of my forums
for the record, i am the only admin user and the rest of the users are members only. therefore i assume (always a good idea) that i am the only one who could make any edits.
also for the record, i now realize that i didn’t have to change the “position” number to change the order of my forums!
thanks in advance!
yes it’s working with all the bells and whistles full bang on.
excellent work guys.
I have seen mention of the theme the bbpress.org site uses on this forum and on a theme preview site. The theme is called bbOrg I think.
Where can I download this?
At least I’m not the only one with problems. 
I have the plugin activated, and if you type the shortcut, the image does appear. But you can’t click on the image links to make them appear in your post.
OK, so it looks like you have matched the domains and paths correctly. Have you matched the bbPress “BB_SECRET_KEY” in bb-config.php to the WordPress “SECRET_KEY” in wp-config.php?
Do the secrets stored in each database match?
In bbPress it is the “secret” meta_key for topic “0” in bb_topicmeta.
In WordPress it is the “secret” meta_key in the wp_options table.
(Keep in mind that the cookie contents aren’t meant to be the same as they are hashed against the login time.)
I can’t edit the previous post but before I hire for this project, should I do it straight from IPB to bbPress (which is what I need) or should I have a current phpBB to the latest bbPress created instead? The latter assumption being it’s easier for most to convert to phpBB first, from various others with the phpBB community being so active.
Doesn’t work for me in 0.9.x either!!
Its time someone built a plugin here..
Sam, I have both of these plugins running on the latest version of bbpress .9.0.1 and I’m using wordpress 2.3.3. Even before I installed any of your plugins, the user databases transferred between the two but the user roles have never been assigned correctly. Ever since I installed the moldy cookie plugin, I can login on my forums and go to wordpress but when I got from wordpress to bbpress it logs me out. In addition, I can only log onto bbpress now and not wordpress, wordpress says my password is invalid. So I can login through bbpress and go to wordpress fine, but I can’t do it vice versa. Any suggestions?
EDIT:
Scratch that, it works perfectly now, the problem was that I setup a subdomain forum.chroniccorner.net and it only carried the cookie if I made it chroniccorner.net/bbpress
thanks!
If it’s not a WordPress blog (I didn’t even really consider that), integrating with bbPress really won’t work out of the box. Integration just utilizes the wp_users and _usermeta tables. If you don’t have those tables since you don’t have a WordPress blog, then integration at this step doesn’t matter much. There is more work to do if you want an integrated look and integrated user logins.
Posts work now.
No longer have the admin option, I went to
/forums/bb-admin/
clicked upgrade, posts in forum now work
I no longer have admin privileges
Listed as member
Thanks, getting closer.
So when integrating with wordpress we use bb, not wp.
I also lost admin priv. in wordpress
I get: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page. Doesn’t even give me choice to log in. I had no problem logging in as admin either place before changing the tables, etc
I did use the wordpress secret key phrase.
Used 0.9.0.1 downloaded fresh copy yesterday
Okay, I see what the trouble is — I’m using bbOrg, the bbPress theme (the one that looks like this site).
Any tutorials on how to easily adapt a theme to work?
Thanks Chris, I’ll give that a go.
Sam, I’m planning for bbpress to be part of an existing website, so I think (sorry, learning as I go along) that it means I need to integrate the two together.
Thank you both for your input.
You should skip step 2 unless you are specifically integrating your bbPress installation with a WordPress installation.
If you don’t know what a blog address is, then you don’t have one. There are lots of notes in the installer telling you exactly what the options are.
In wp-config.php, there is this line:
define('SECRET_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
Whatever value you have there is what you need for bbPress.
For WordPress address and Blog address, log into your WordPress control panel and under “Settings” you will find these two entries. Whatever is here is what you put into your bbPress installation.
They are entries three and four I believe.
http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php#siteurl
http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php#home
I just reinstalled BBPress. Now the forum appears with the correct style. But I still can not log in. I’m using WordPress 2.5. I installed the latest version of BBpress. I’m using the same password that I use with WordPress.
Is the secret different between WordPress and bbPress? I’m not sure how this works, but, I’m “willing to learn“.
I just tried to upgrade by forum and it is now broken. I see the forum but the style does not show. When I log in I get the message:
bbPress database error: [Table ‘webdeadm_main.bb_users’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT ID FROM bb_users WHERE user_login = ‘admin’
bbPress database error: [Table ‘webdeadm_main.bb_users’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM bb_users WHERE user_login = ‘admin’
“bbPress includes built-in support for Gravatars, you can enable this feature here.”
…so I have, but I don’t have the Gravatars plugin. Do I need it with 0.9 to make this work, or is support supposed to be native?
Logging in to WP 2.5 logs me out of bbPress 0.9.0.1, and vice-versa.
Cookie information with bbPress .9
name: wordpress_613ba28cb41760cadf1f08a898f98620
contents: xxxx%7C1208969840%7C594bfc5f83a1e8af5dd70d130d4c0b89
website: coloradoboards.com
path: /appleswitcher/wp/
date: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 10:57:19 AM
Cookie information with WP 2.5
name: wordpress_613ba28cb41760cadf1f08a898f98620
contents: xxxx%7C1208969965%7Cba3e6d706d0ec0feff73e34afde5d9f0
website: coloradoboards.com
path: /appleswitcher/wp/
date: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 10:59:23 AM
…where xxxx is a not my username… just using that for security.
User role mapping may not work. I’m not entirely sure of similarity differences between WP and WPMU roles.
It should work. But I haven’t tested it. Database integration should be fine. Cookie integration will almost certainly work if you only have one domain that you run wpmu on. e.g. WPMU main site = example.org, WPMU blogs = *.example.org
Looks like you got the $bb_table_prefix wrong when you installed, it should have been different to the wordpress prefix.
Change $bb_table_prefix from “wp_” to “bb_” in bb-config.php then rename you bbPress tables thusly:
wp_forums -> bb_forums
wp_tagged -> bb_tagged
wp_tags -> bb_tags
wp_topicmeta -> bb_topicmeta
wp_topics -> bb_topics
.
Do not rename wp_posts, wp_users or wp_usermeta!
This will still leave you without a bb_posts table. So if you have a way to browse your database (e.g. phpMyAdmin) then go into the bb_topicmeta table and look for the row with a meta_key of bb_db_version. Change the meta_value of that row from 1234 to 1233. Login to your bbPress (hopefully it works) then go to the admin section. You will be asked to upgrade, do so and check the log. You should see a log entry where your bb_posts table is created.
That should do it.
yet another step.
if you want pretty permalinks you’ll need to fill in topic_slug in bb_topics.
Is bbPress 0.9 user integration compatible with WP-mu 1.3?
