[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

I’ve heard several people telling that bbPress wouldn’t be updated anymore, because of a new system that is coming soon.

Those people are grossly misinformed.

By the way, WordPress 2.5 has been delayed a bit due to illness. We’ll release bbPress when WordPress 2.5 comes out (I’m trying to find out a more exact time now).

[chrishajer]

I you are the administrator of the pig2twig forum, I suggest you contact the web host, which appears to be 1&1 Internet. If you are a user of the pig2twig forum, I suggest you contact the administrator of that forum. Since the site is down, I have no idea how to contact that person or who that is although it appears the domain is registered to Penguin Books?

Registrant:

Penguin Books Ltd

Registrant’s address:

80 Strand

London

WC2R 0RL

GB

The bottom line is, it’s not the bbPress software causing the problem. The whole site is down, as are other domains on the same IP address. The problem lies there, not with bbPress.

[citizenkeith]

I’m trying to delete some posts. When I hit “delete” the post turns red. When I refresh the forum, I find that the posts are still there. They do not show up in the Admin panel of Deleted posts. I was able to delete before… the last one was about a week ago. I haven’t done anything to the forum since then. The last change I made was adding the Report Post plugin, but that was BEFORE I deleted my last post (2/25/08).

I’m running the latest released version of bbPress, which is integrated with WP 2.3.

Here are the plugins that I am currently running in bbPress:

Use Display Name 0.7.2

BBCode for bbPress 0.1

Quote 0.2

Show Post Count .73a

Page Links 1.0.3

Indicate New Posts 0.8

Simple Onlinelist 1.5

Move It 0.14

Censor 0.1

Page >> 0.7

Unread Topics 0.4

Comment Quicktags for bbPress 1.1

bbPress Polls 0.27

bbEmoticons 0.72

Enhanced Registration 0.1.0.1

Report Post 0.12

bb-benchmark 0.17

[geld-lenen-1]

Good to see that bbPress stil gets updated. I’ve heard several people telling that bbPress wouldn’t be updated anymore, because of a new system that is coming soon.

[rickybrennanjr]

Decided to make a customized version or post-form.php as a template file that lives in the root folder, adding get_header & get_footer and passing the forum id as a GET var from wherever it’s linked from, which does the trick for me in the context of how our forums are designed. So you can just call it as yoursite.tld/your-bbpress-dir/post-form/?forum_id =n

I’m sure there’s other ways of going about something like this, but this works for me.

[Craig]

Hello,

I am trying to install the newest editions of both WordPress and bbPress onto the same site as of March 10, 2008. The desired URLs for both are:

WordPress: http://www.hooligans-gaming.net

bbPress: http://www.hooligans-gaming.net/forums

I have both running from the same database and thats all setup good. However, I have a few questions:

1) I want a single registration page. Meaning that I want a visitor to the site to click on either the forums Register link or even the front page Register link and be brought to the same page and have both WordPress and bbPress share the same user table … how can this be done?

2)Secondly, I want my registered users to be able to sign in at the front page OR on the forums and be logged in until they timeout or logout… how can this be done?

3)With those two steps, my final request is how can I fully integrate my WordPress and bbPress? I plan to use the WordPress install for front page news and website content and my bbPress to be (you guessed it) my forums. As far as features is concerned, I would just want to display the top 10 most recent threads on the front page as well as another widget I have planned for a different feature that wouldn’t affect the forums so I’ll leave that one along for now.

—

I have no problem editting files if I need to. I’m no pro but I have enough knowledge to get me by.

Thank you in advance!

[shanmuganathan]

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/leodncom/public_html/bbpress/bb-settings.php on line 169

i found this error on installing bbpress on my server.

pls help me to clear it

[jel3]

How would one integrate them if they were on different domains?

Like say wordpress is at http://www.mydomain.com and bbpress is at forum.seconddomain.com

it seems that all the integration instructions out there only work if bbpress is within the same root domain as wordpress.

[harryworld]

I am with you horrorshow.

I use WPMU a lot, but the support on plugins and documentation is far from enough. There seems no official support except the core of WPMU.

In the past few releases, donncha would merge the equivalent WPMU version after the single version was out for several days.

[kalabbpress]

Use it http://www.onetouchinnovation.com/scripting/extending-bbpress-private-forums , is so easy , but don’t turn on “Hide Private Forums and Topics” cause it have a lot of bugs , don’t use too “add users” or “restrict registration” plugin cause it will reset you private forums , if you need add users from admin panel use integration with worddpress and you will don’t have any problem

sorry for my bad english

[horrorshow]

sambauers,

Will there be a new release of WordPress MU as well?

I am not complaining, but I sometimes feel like WPMU is the ugly stepchild in that there is always extra hurdles to get things working with other software.

Don’t get me wrong, I love WPMU since it allows me to create a blog community and do some really cool things. keep up the good work!

[Sam Bauers]

If you can wait a couple of days, WordPress/bbPress integration is a lot easier with a combination of WordPress version 2.5 and bbPress version 0.9

[harryworld]

By the way, I didn’t install any plugin for integration on either side

[harryworld]

horrorshow,

Thanks for the detailed instructions. After,

1. modifying the config.php as you stated above

2. modifying bb_cookie() by not sending the time to setcookie()

I am able to login and logout on either side, in any sequence.

One more thing that I have notified (even not serious, but worth mentioning), is that if

1. login on either side

2. logout on WPMU

3. visit bbPress, the first time will show up the user is still logged in

4. refresh the page, or visit any page, it shows the user NO LONGER logged in

I guess there may be some logic missing in bbPress for checking the existence of cookie and clear the session, on the first attempt.

[harryworld]

Sorry for misleading.

I mean I got a similar case as you do, thus case 2

and thanks for the link.

[chrishajer]

Everything is possible. I suspect no one here has tried to do it, or at least not mentioned that they had done it.

[chrishajer]

I know next to nothing about integration, but if you check the source for a forum page, you’ll see that all the header stuff is from WordPress not bbPress. I would guess it has something to do with the way the header is being included. Hopefully someone who knows how to do this will come along soon. But I think it’s safe to say the header is your WordPress header not your bbPress header.

[kernpunt]

So is this not possible? Or has just no one tried to do it before?

[chrishajer]

Looks like you’re using the WordPress header (blogheader) and WordPress would be looking for bloginfo(‘name’) and wp_title() where bbPress looks for bb_get_title() and uses whatever forum or topic you’re viewing. So, the bbPress data is not available to WordPress.

Just a guess. Not sure of the best way to fix it, but I would guess that’s what’s going on. The header is supplied by WordPress but the titles need to be supplied by bbPress functions.

[leeppp222]

I customised my bbpress forum to fit in with the look of my blog.

I am 99% finished now but noticed one problem.

If you go to http://www.thecvstore.net/community/ all forum pages have the same page title.

What have I done wrong and does anyone know how to rectify it?

[chrishajer]

1. Good. The easiest way is if the installations are like this:

http://chickspeak.com/ (which is actually WordPress)

http://chickspeak.com/bbpress/

(the bbPress installation is in a subfolder of your WordPress folder.)

2. Search this forum for integration or view topics tagged integration. Here’s a good one:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/seemless-wordpress-integration

3. Maybe bbSync https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/

[ironbound]

1. I have a wordpress blog and a bbpress forum. Independent of eachother (different directories).

2. How do I integrate the two? By integrate I mean: Have bbpress be a page within the blog. (chickspeak.com style)

3. It would be cool to integrate the blog comments into forum posts too but lets just work and word this out one at a time.

Thank you in advance for clearing this up.

[Beau Lebens]

Actually I’m not using any plugins for the integration process, as bbPress and MU seem to handle it reasonably well “out of the box”.

I’m running r1197 of WPMU and 0.8.3.1 of bbPress.

Here’s some of the things that are modified/running though:

config changes in bbPress:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home         = 'http://url.to.wordpress.install.com/';

$bb->wp_siteurl      = 'http://url.to.wordpress.install.com/';



// Integrating with mu

$bb->cookiepath      = '/';

$bb->cookiedomain    = '.domainname.com';  // leading . allows subdomain sharing

$bb->usercookie      = 'wordpressuser';  // WPMU doesn't hash cookies

$bb->passcookie      = 'wordpresspass';  // WPMU doesn't hash cookies



// Load WordPress so we can use the same templates.

define('WP_BB', 'true');

require_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/wp-blog-header.php';

config changes for WPMU

// Adding custom settings to force cookies to be shared with/accessible to bbPress

define('USER_COOKIE', 'wordpressuser');

define('PASS_COOKIE', 'wordpresspass');

define('COOKIEPATH', $base);

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.domainname.com'); // same as bbPress

Plugins in bbPress

– A custom one I call “NoLogin” that just attempts to remove all reference that’s built into bbPress (and block actual attempts) at logging in via bbPress (rather than via MU)

– MD5 insecurity for bbPress by Sam Bauers

– A quick fix called “MainDomain” that redirects requests to a subdomain instance of the forums to the canonical version which is hosted from mybabyourbaby.com (rather than babyname.mybabyourbaby.com)

– A quick and dirty “FixKSES” which allows the left/center/justify/right paragraph buttons to work in TinyMCE, because I’m using that for post formatting.

– Display Names by Michael Adams et al to show the MU display_name, rather than the bbPress username

WPMU plugins/hacks

Because I load the WP engine in addition to the bbPress engine (not very performance-friendly, but makes life easier for sharing code etc), I have access to a lot of the functionality I rely on in the rest of the site – grabbing friendly usernames, user icons/avatars, links to profiles (which are handled completely outside bbPress and WP functionality), etc etc.

I use the TinyMCE editor bundled with WP in bbPress for posting, which is surprisingly easy to add – just load the JS file and add a class to the TEXTAREA. The only thing I haven’t fixed just yet on this is that if you edit an existing post with multiple paragraphs in it then TinyMCE seems to squash it all back down to one.

I also found that I had to add a quick function to stripslashes() onto the hooks “pre_post” and “pre_topic_title” to prevent annoying slashes appearing in them.

One last thing that I discovered was that because the WP engine is being loaded to display bbPress pages, but it doesn’t really “know about” those pages (they’re not internal WP pages), it technically triggers a 404, even though it displays just find. I explained this a bit here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load including a way around it.

Templates

I’m actually using the same templates for bbPress as I am for MU. I accomplish this by symlinking those files directly from the place they normally live, into my-templates/mbob/header.php and footer.php, then make custom files for all the internal bits.

HTH someone

Beau

[rickybrennanjr]

I’m trying to do exactly the same thing. I’m really surprised that there’s not an easier way to just add a new page/template & tell bbpress to load the template based on the URI, there must be an easy fix via mod_rewrite, toying around with it now …

There’s an interesting approach in this thread although thus far I haven’t been able to quite get that method behaving the way that I’d like, but will keep playing with it.

Not sure if that helps, good luck & would be curious about any further insight anyone may have ?

[horrorshow]

Funny that my settings are screwy and there are better ways at accomplishing single sign on?

Or funny: “yes, this is the closest that I am able to get to single sign-on, and I get the same results”?

If it’s the first case, then please enlighten me.

If it’s the second case, then this link might help you.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookies-subtle-bug-single-sign-on-bbpress-and-wordpress