[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

[chrishajer]

That used to happen here depending on which login box you used. I think it still does. You get a message in Firefox along the lines of “This page is redirecting in a way that will never resolve”.

Discussion long ago about this very problem:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/redirect-error-on-login-at-bbpressorg

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/556

I think since then, I’ve learned second hand that this does not work because referers are blocked by the browser or personal firewall. If referers were enabled, I don’t think it would happen. Maybe that’s why IE acts differently than FF. See this recent discussion:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-a-trick-to-redirect-user-back-to-topic-after-login

[strthomp]

I have installed bbpress on a Mac OS X 10.4 server, and all seems well with the exception of logging in and out using the Firefox browser. When i enter my login information and press login, the page looks as i it refreshes but does nothing. If i hit register, it says i am already logged in and from that page i can get to the main page of the forums and i am logged in.

When i click log out, it also does not seem to change (still shows my user instead of login box).

At first i thought this was only the browser, however after installing the same release of bbpress on a RHEL5 x64 Linux machine, i did not have this issue, even using the same browser/computer, and other combinations etc to try to get it to happen again.

Anyone seen a problem like this?

[_ck_]

This thread is a few weeks old but just wanted to make sure you saw that I made a plugin to do mass deletions:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-edit/

[_ck_]

It’s unlikely to be the bbPress software’s fault.

If you are using a Hotmail or AOL account, they tend to block many independent servers because of configuration requirements.

Try getting a gmail account instead if you use hotmail normally and you’ll find much more of your email showing up.

[abi86]

hi i see that bbpress is the name on the website pig2twig. i am having trouble registering on the website, i have done so 5 times over 3 days but have never received my password. i wondered if anybody could help me please? http://www.pig2twig.co.uk

[harryworld]

horrowshow,

I tried your settings, and it’s funny that if you login on either on side, you cannot log out on the other side.

If I login WPMU first, I can only logout through WPMU.

[aabd]

Thanks. i have the same problem!

[chrishajer]

Wonder why it doesn’t error out here with either quote? Can someone please provide the full text of a post entry that causes this problem, BEFORE it’s inserted, so it can be tested on other platforms?

[Sam Bauers]

@ _ck_

I’ve added information about the new conventions for storing active plugins and the active theme to the notes.

[Craig]

Hello,

I am running a gaming community’s web site. Currently I just have bbPress forums up there while I build up the rest of the site’s content. What I needed is Private Forums!

I know there is a plugin for Private Forums. However, it just restricts based on the three default groups (Members, Moderators and Admins) … this does not do me any good since I need to give access only to the members of the actual group, not just the forum. Is there anything out there to help me?

[mettled]

Ok, here’s what seems to have fixed the problem for me and maybe for you too, Guru06. Using the normal quotation mark – ‘ – caused the error. When I used the apostrophe version – ’ – there was no error. On a Mac that symbol is shift+option+]. I have no idea why it needs to be that way.

[mettled]

I just got the same error message on my forum as well. Obviously I was entering different copy, but everything else was the same. I’ve posted on my forum before without any problem. I haven’t changed anything that I can recall, so this was totally unexpected. I’m not a coder so any help would be great. My bbPress is version 0.8.3.1.

[horrorshow]

nolageek,

In WPMU, did you put the bbpress-integration.php in the “mu-plugins” directory or the “plugins” directory?

I want only the site admin to be able to activate the “bbpress Integration” plugin, but it shows up for all users giving them an option to activate the plugin. That’s not good.

On the bbPress side, I found that the wordpress-integration is not necessary (I’ve asked about this, but no replies so far), and display name plugin requires some code changes to the BBPress code for it to work properly. It causes permission problems, and I had to dig around the forum where it shows you which code to change.. In retrospect, it probably wasn’t worth the trouble. (Gurus, please correct me if I am wrong, as I am new to BBpress)

If you want me to look for that thread again, let me know.

To get single sign-on working properly, you need to make code changes on the bbPress side to bb_cookie() and bb_logout() in pluggable.php along with the config changes I mentioned (which you’ve done already).

function bb_cookie( $name, $value, $expires = 0 ) {

if ( bb_get_option( 'cookiedomain' ) ){

setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, bb_get_option( 'cookiepath' ), bb_get_option( 'cookiedomain' ) );

}else{

setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, bb_get_option( 'cookiepath' ) );

}

}



function bb_login($login, $password) {

if ( $user = bb_check_login( $login, $password ) ) {

bb_cookie( bb_get_option( 'usercookie' ), $user->user_login );

bb_cookie( bb_get_option( 'passcookie' ), md5( $user->user_pass ) );

do_action('bb_user_login', (int) $user->ID );

}

return $user;

}

I hope this helps, and please let me know how it works out.

[da3rx]

I am really looking forward to the new release. Keep up the good work!