[Sam Bauers]

bbPress 0.9 requires WordPress 2.5 “out of the box” but I have just released a couple of plugins that allow for integration with earlier versions of WordPress (e.g. version 2.3).

Although you can use these plugins to get integration with earlier versions happening, it is still strongly recommended that you upgrade your WordPress installation to version 2.5!

Only follow this guide if you are using bbPress 0.9 or higher and are trying to integrate it with a WordPress installation with a version earlier than version 2.5!!!

The problem with using earlier versions of WordPress is two-fold:

1. The password hashing algorithm has changed.
2. The authentication cookie is now different.

The solution is to install these two plugins into bbPress:

1. “MD5 Insecurity for bbPress” – downgrades bbPress’ password hashing back to MD5.
2. “Mouldy Old Cookies for bbPress” – Reinstates use of the old cookie styles in bbPress.

Download and install each of these into bbPress. No plugins should be necessary in WordPress to enable integration.

I recommend you make these plugins “autoload” by pre-pending an underscore “_” to the plugin filename. This means the plugins will always load and can’t be deactivated from the plugin page in the admin area.

[retrospec]

Hello,

‘Admin Add Users’ plugin (I’m using latest 1.2) doesn’t work. When you are in the administrator window and edit a profile created using the plugin, it takes you to your keymaster account.

The problem is the new version of bbpress now populates ‘nicename’ field whereas the old one doesn’t, and so this plugin doesn’t either. Adding a ‘nicename’ fixes the problem.

However, while you can login using the new user I don’t understand how because it uses md5 for the password, and I thought 0.9 now uses a different encryption system?

I imagine there are some other serious problems that you should really disable this plugin until it is fixed.

One is that it uses direct sql to add the user, which may not be compatible with 0.9…

Hope this helps.

[sb73542]

Hello,

Is there any good plugin for bbPress admins who don’t need a complete WordPress installation, but want a simple portal with news, forum stats, and articles? How about a “promote to frontpage” sort of plugin?

Thanks for the help!

[retrospec]

There’s a bug in the style sheet. Though to be fair it was in the last version too. If your post is only a line or two, the ‘Custom Title’ merges with the RSS feed option, making it look bad and you are unable to click the rss link

This is with the standard themes.

What would also be useful is somewhere in a user’s profile something telling him how to update his avatar.

[michaelpfox]

I am new to bbPress. I was pulling my hair out all day trying to get integration with WordPress to work. The problem was the cookies not matching.

I had inserted the lines bbPress gave me to set COOKIE_DOMAIN and COOKIEPATH in my wp-config.php file at the very bottom. Examining my cookies I saw that the domain was not adjusting to the value I wanted. I thought my problems were elsewhere and spent hours barking up the wrong tree.

The solution is to insert the necessary lines higher up. When I put them just under the standard define lines (just under define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”) ) the correct domain was then set properly in the cookie.

I hope this helps others.

[feldman]

Doesnt latest bbpress require wp 2.5 ?

[douglashadfield]

Hi: I’m getting the following error (I’ve search through the threads here but can’t find anything on this):

bbPress database error: [Table ‘miningan_ss12084.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT ID FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = ‘admin’

bbPress database error: [Table ‘miningan_ss12084.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = ‘admin’

my blog is at http://www.miningandmoney.com

and the forum is at http://www.miningandmoney.com/forum/

This comes after installing via bluehosts script and getting to the integration stage.

Can you help?

[n1x0n]

I’ve installed the 0.9.1 last night. Integration with WP went smoothly and fast.

The problem popped up when i’ve logged on into bbpress with my WP user:pass. It did log me in, but later on attempt to log back into WP said “ERROR: Incorrect password.”

I’ve reset the WP password, logged in, logged out. Logged into bbpress. Than tried to log in to WP with same password and again “ERROR: Incorrect password.” popped up. So it appears that every time i log into bbpress it messes up the WP password.

If i change WP password by resetting it, it works. If i edit my user password in WP – bbpress will accept it.

But if i log into bbpress – WP starts giving me the “incorrect password” message. So bbpress accepts all changes that WP is making to the password, but WP stops accepting the password even after simple login to bbpress with it.

I use WP 2.3.2, latest BBpress, shared databases, shared cookies. UTF8 on both installations. I use “admin” as a login name.

[purplecow]

I wish there was some wordpress plugin atleast to bridge this.

[Sam Bauers]

Is there a reason why you are loading WordPress inside bbPress? If not you should stop. There is no need to do this for standard integration to work.

Also, remove all your plugins and see if it stops. If it does, add them back one by one to see which one is causing the problem.

[Sam Bauers]

A bunch of options are now pulled from the database.

You will see a significant reduction in queries if you add this line to your bb-config.php file…

$bb->load_options = true;

[Sam Bauers]

The short answer is no, it’s not possible out of the box, but it is probably possible using a tricky sequence of redirects between the domains.

[Tim Bowen]

I believe they answer your question here: https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

bbpress does not come with permalinks working out of the box, you need to set it up.

[purplecow]

I installed latest version of bbpress on mybrandinc.com and enabled the URL re-write from the admin settings page.

But i am getting 404 errors when i click on links from forum.

My host has enabled mod-Rewrite.

Any help?

Thanks

[andersson]

Is it just me or did bbpress just get 3 times heavier, querywise?

I’m running a couple of sites with bbpress 0.72 as baseline. It uses around 10 queries per page for the forum:

<!– p>server time and queries
0.016 – 10 queries</p –>

and just now I tried out installing 0.9.0.1 and for that very same page I get:

<!– p>server time and queries
0.083 – 31 queries</p –>

—

Did I miss something when installing or is this intended?

[purplecow]

Hi,

Just installed bbpress latest version on mybrandinc.com. I want to integrate it with my wordpress on featuritis.com and have the users logged in both if they log in at one of the sites. Looks liek for this to work, both the wp and bbpress shoudl be under same domain.

Isn’t there any way to get it to work on different domains.

Thanks for any help/workaround.

[dss]

With both WP 2.3.3 and WP 2.5 under bbpress 8.3.X I was using the Wordspew plugin to present a shoutbox plugin on my front page of bbpress.

It worked fine, and users who registered with my bbpress were included as wp users as well with the bbpress integration plugin.

Once I upgraded to 9.0.1 the call to the script which presented the shoutbox simply didn’t work anymore.

I poked around and tried to manually add the javascript and css calls in the template header, but nothing worked.

I restored my database to the previous condition, re uploaded my files, and it’s working fine.

I’m wondering what’s changed which would interfere with this simple procedure?

To my mind, if it were an integration thing… then the shoutbox would appear, and new users would not be recognized. So they wouldn’t be able to post shouts.

Instead, the get_jal_wordspew function simply doesn’t work.

Any ideas how I could either get this working again with the new version and improved integration?

Or perhaps port the wordspew plugin to become a bbpress plugin?

It’s silly that a shoutbox is so important at the top of a message board… but people really love it.

[Sam Bauers]

Not if you want to share cookies between WordPress and bbPress.

I think you need to ask on the WordPress.org forums why adding a secret key messes things up. Technically, even though you are using an integrated installation, bbPress does not touch WordPress.

Side note: if you have the integration plugins installed, you will need to remove them. They are no longer required.

[Sam Bauers]

The bbPress role will not be applied for users created in WordPress until the user logs in to bbPress.

[Sam Bauers]

The documentation on this site has been updated to reflect the recent changes to installation, upgrading and integration.

Please consult the documentation before posting a question here. There is a good chance that your question will be answered there.

http://bbpress.org/documentation/

[Sam Bauers]

See this page in the documentation.

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

[Sam Bauers]

You have just described one of the Google Summer of Code ideas that might be going ahead.

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

This is something I will be pursuing to create better interoperability between different forum platforms.

[lostdeviant]

Sam, It doesn’t let me log out or log in once I add a secret-key. as long as the secret-key is in the wp-config, it just says I don’t have sufficient permissions.

Can’t the bbpress install allow that field to be left empty?

[_ck_]

For those that already downloaded 0.9 there is only one file that changed (pluggable.php)

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F0.9&old=1399&new_path=tags%2F0.9.0.1&new=1403

If you already had 0.9 you only need to replace these two files to move to 0.9.0.1 (and the second is just for the version number change)

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset?format=zip&new=1403&old=1399&new_path=tags%2F0.9.0.1&old_path=tags%2F0.9

[jimluu2]

Hi. Can you help design a simple vbulletin theme that matches the default wordpress theme? If you know of one that looks similar already please let me know.

Thanks.