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?
This “argument” is silly.
It would take a person reasonably knowledgeable about wordpress/bbpress internals only a few days to write an attachment plugin. It’s just that no-one has the need/desire (including myself) so it’s never been a priority. bbPress has everything needed to make this fairly easy.
If I get bored and have some time this month I might look at the issue. But attachments are very straightforward. They would be similar to the “avatar upload” plugin but the files would be tied to posts instead the user. Since there is no post metadata, the topic or user meta would have to be used instead (I recommend usermeta since posts one day could be moved around to other topics via a moderation plugin like move-it).
Attachments open big security issues which is another reason why I have not been in any hurry to make such a plugin – I simply don’t want the responsibility. I was also hoping that by now there would be other plugin developers around to make some of these things. With 0.9 being so solid, perhaps it won’t be long before there are more to tackle these requests.
Let’s say “A good image upload plugin is needed”. I agree with that. A good image upload system is a must for some communities and not for some.
There’s no need to discuss why some users need image uploading and some not. I’ll be migrating a very large community to bbpress in a few months. The only reason for us to migrate to bbpress is its code base; it’s extendable and very easy to use. So we will write custom plugins to our specific needs.
Yes, bbpress needs a very good image uploading plugin just like worpdress’s akismet plugin; developed seperately as a plugin. There are some good bbpress plugin developers over here, so what we need to do is just to donate some money. This kind of plugin will take bbpress one more step ahead.
I need to find a way to fix the errors, not so minor, getting data base errors for posts.
bbPress database error: [Unknown column ‘post_id’ in ‘where clause’]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_id = 0
Thanks, seems I had a bad copy, downloaded and installed a fresh copy.
Seems to be working with wordpress, I was already logged into wordpress and I’m the forums shows me that I’m logged in. Now to test and customize.
It did show minor errors:
Incorrect table definition; there can be only one auto column and it must be defined as a key
Key column ‘post_id’ doesn’t exist in table
Duplicate key name ‘user_nicename’
>>> User tables will already exist when performing a database integrated installation.
Anything I should be concerned about?
Thanks again.
I disagree.
The reason I’m going with BBPress is because I like the clean and simple look. I don’t want users to post images and turn the forum into a graffiti wall, and I don’t want BBPress to be loaded up with the ability to post pictures when I’m not going to use it.
Keep it in a plugin and let me install it if I decide that I want to install it.
What you are probably looking for is Flickr-in-a-box as a separate application with a common user database. Just as I’m looking for a Facebook-in-a-box application to run alongside the forum to foster the more personal social side. I don’t believe these should be core parts of the forum software, but there is a need for them somehow.
This notion of modular is important, because it is easy to get side-tracked and try and build the entire internet into one application. That might ultimately happen (mirroring the history of the Microsoft platform model), but at this stage of the game, nobody has the resources to do everything, so doing one part of the jigsaw well is the best plan.
BBPress should focus development on its core, which still has weaknesses. IMHO the most urgent is augmentation of futuristic geek-only features with the traditional ones that most users understand. The need for these functions has been acknowledged in BBPress’s design, however the current implementation is lacking because they are too complex for “normal people”.
So RSS needs to be mirrored with bespoke email notifications, because the only people that “get” RSS are ‘bloggers. Gravatars need to be mirrored with uploadable avatars, because the only people that get Gravatars are ‘bloggers.
Ok, I generalise on the “bloggers” part. But I know moderately technical people that can’t manage to set up a Gravatar, and have no idea what to do with an RSS feed. So the clueless masses stand no chance of using these features for the purpose they were designed.
BBPress’s killer feature at the moment is spam control without forcing users to jump through hoops just to register and post. Easy to work with code, and general lack of bloat are good to. But take a look at this, and tell me the #1 feature requirement of forum software (and if anyone can point to why that’s affecting phpBB 2 sites more than other software, I’m curious). That’s literally hundreds of spam posts an hour. Most admins faced with that kind of nightmare won’t be too worried about forcing users to host files elsewhere.
I am having the exact same problem now. Trying to integrate, added wp_ in the Admin control panel for BBPress under the WordPress Integration settings and I’m getting the same errors.
Can you show me an example of how these lines should look in the wp-config.php and bb-config.php files?
Is it absolutely necessary to rebuild the database?
Thanks!
