Hey Everyone,
I have read through tons of posts with email problems…and I have still not been able to resolve the issue I’m having.
If you goto this URL, you will see that the mail test php file I put on my server works fine: http://www.crookedhook.net/forum/mailtest.php
I recieve the email and everything.
But when you try to reset your password (any user!) or just wait for EMAIL conformation about the forum. The email is never sent and it never reaches the clients address. JUNK MAIL folders are EMPTY, the mail is not getting caught up in that.
I had wordpress installed for this site, then we decided not to use wordpress and to go with BBPRESS. So basically I deleted the wordpress folder, and uploaded the BBPRESS Files. Put in my mySQL infor chaned a few things in config, so it has my email etc… and it worked! just the email isn’t!
Maybe I missed a setting or something in the setup?
Hopefully someone can help!?
Talk to you all soon!
CHEERS
Thanks fel64, I got through the setup now. 
I installed BBpress without WP integration because it told me that I’ll be able to do after install, in the admin menu.
So I did. After install I logged in and went to the Integration with WordPress menu and filled in the required fields. After saving changes I couldn’t go back to the Admin menu, because the option went away.
In the upper left corner it says: “Welcome, admin! View your profile (Log out)” Before integration there was an Admin option too to access the Admin menu.
The only thing now I can do is to post into the default forum as a member. Any idea?
Hi guys!
I’m new to WP and BBpress too. So far I couldn’t integrate the forum into my WP install, but I found the secret value:
I logged in as admin into WordPress, and visited the options menu. In the addressbar modified the options-general.php part of the url to options.php and it showed the secret value. Is that right or I did something wrong?
With WP integration, at the third step of the bb install, I can’t select a Key master from the dropdown list because there’s no user listed. So I can’t finish the setup. At the first step, do I have to set the BB database table prefix to match my WP installs table prefix?
So, why the PHP error then? Is it related to the PHP version (I think this was happening with PHP version 4.x vs servers with version 5.x)?
Did anyone review this solution?
bbPress has a fledgling xml exporter. We had a discussion on IRC#bbpress recently about creating an importer of the same format.
This would be great for migrations and backups, and if we wrote some code for other forum software to export to this same format, we would have greater ability to cross-grade.
The “secret” in the installer is only relevant once the new cookie creation methods in WordPress trunk are ported across to bbPress.
That should be soon.
Matching it with the secret in WordPress is only necessary for integrated installs.
Furthermore, there are two secret values. One in the config file, and another in the database.
The only way to retrieve them from WordPress at this stage is to look at the config file and to manually query the database.
I realise this is messy at the moment and I am trying to get things up to parity with the current WordPress trunk.
I’ve seen two or three seemingly unrelated problems pop up related to something like this:
if ( is_callable( 'glob' ) )
foreach ( glob(BBPLUGINDIR . '_*.php') as $_plugin )
require($_plugin);
Seems like if there are no underscore plugins, this fails. I don’t follow the code exactly, but further up in that file, it defines BBPLUGINDIR if it’s not already defined as (basically) my-plugins/. But this line just says “if glob is callable, then go through the directory for all underscore plugins”. What happens if there are no plugins there? This would return false, maybe, instead of an array?
And, is there a good reason NOT to include a blank directory for my-templates and my-plugins? At least then people would know where to put stuff. I mean, what IS the reason? WordPress comes with wp-content/themes/ and wp-content/plugins/ directories, and by default, two themes and two plugins. That eliminates the possibility of something missing. Of course, people could delete those, but right off the bat, they wouldn’t and things would just work when they started out.
At the very least, I think this should be fixed to have a conditional looking for underscore plugins before looping through them (i.e. if there are none, you can’t loop through them.)
Maybe someone with a better read on it can explain to me exactly what’s happening.
I am interested to hear what this is. I’ve never heard of a secret between bbPress and WordPress…
What is it that you’re unable to do (other than access phpMyAdmin)?
First: what is the “secret” option set in the WordPress database that bbPress asks for when setting up WP/BB integration in the installer?
Second: Is there some sort of easy way to access the “secret” value? At the moment, I can’t access phpmyadmin, so I’m wondering if there is some WordPress plugin or script that could do this for me?
That’s not the only way you can do this.
You can either use the wordpress header replacement technique, by which you use the wordpress header and any number of theme files, meaning that you can have your forums exactly where your wordpress content is, surrounded by your wordpress header and sidebars and footer, using the wordpress theme file, with a supplemental file to style bbPress differently. This is great because not only the stylesheet is shared but so are a bunch of the HTML-generating files, and your bbPress stylesheet is seperate so it doesn’t get in the way of anything.
You can also just copy your theme by duplicating the look in bbPress. I’d say it was a lot easier to change the CSS than it was to go through all the HTML-generating files and changing those to use the WordPress CSS, and then still adding more CSS.
Having just done both for two different clients, I’d personally recommend the first option; it’s going to be slower on the server, but faster to do (ie. cheaper to have done) also a lot more maintainable and thorough.
leeppp, I offer this sort of thing professionally. If you want me (or even someone else) to do it, just post your email and I’ll get in touch.
Yes you can however it is fiddly as it requires coding! It involves crafting a bbPress theme manually to make use of the same stylesheet and page structure as your WordPress theme. Your theme stylesheet will also need certain rules for bPress.
I found when developing my themes that bbPress will use template files from the default theme if they are non-existent in a theme. This means that you can keep the number of .php template files in the theme to a minimum of 3 php files for a 1 column theme or 5 php files for a 2 column theme (i.e. with sidebar).
If you had someone create your WordPress theme for you, then direct theme to bbpressraw.com since these themes are a bare-bones starting point for creating a new bbPress theme. They save some time in stripping down a bbPress theme to its bare essentials.
It doesn’t do much of anything to add define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.llamaslayers.net'); or define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'llamaslayers.net'); to the config.php file.
Edit: It works to remove the values of $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl
For some reason bbPress seems to think your theme is in root. I’d ask you to set the theme again, but, you know, what with not being able to log in …
so first of all, please add define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.llamaslayers.com'); to your config.php. Hopefully that’ll let you log in.
Can you link to the subdomain and copy your config.php to http://bb.pastebin.com/ so I can have a look please?
It’s just $bb->uri that I have to update, right?
You need to update your config.php file.
I had a custom-made theme designed for my blog and now want to install BBPress. Is there a way I can use the theme from my blog on BBPress so it all looks the same?
Thanks in advance for any help!
I want to move my bbpress installation from a subfolder to a subdomain, but every time I try, I can’t log in and the theme is broken.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
I had wordpress installed, i removed WP and uploaded BBPRESS to the same directory, put in my mySQL info, and it worked. I havent changed any setting,
but, i have actaully changed this already to fix another problem:
Your error *sounds* like this one:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-invalid-argument-supplied-for-foreach-in-bb-settingsphp-on-line-173
Site Management section under admin.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in 
domainsrcct.bizwwwrootcrookedhook.netforumbb-adminplugins.php on line 7
I have installed the online list plugin, and the print password to screen plugin. Could it be one of theses? If i check the forum, all the blugs are working properly.
I think it could just be my very raw install of bbPRESS, maybe I just have to change a few settings.
I’m running the latest version of BBPRESS
Any help is most appreciated
That fixed that one particular problem, but im still having the same problem with
I think what you’re looking for is bbSync, a WordPress plugin. Check this thread:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbsync?replies=214#post-7922
Read all the way to the end, or start at the end and work backwards, since a lot has changed since he original post 7 months ago.
Can BBpress and WordPress have integration that allows for:
-Automatic forum postings driven from WordPress posts?
-Comments in WordPress posts powered by BBpress (so that comments left on WordPress posts also show up within the BBpress forum post of that article.
Your error *sounds* like this one:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-invalid-argument-supplied-for-foreach-in-bb-settingsphp-on-line-173
Although the file and line numbers are different, that was related to underscore plugins. Maybe that’s related?
I was thinking about looking at the techsailor plugin for RSS import/export for wordpress and see if it would be possible to get bbPress into that format so you could even export bbPress and import as blog posts and comments (or vice versa). Obviously I would have trouble doing this with my minimal coding, but hopefully someone else has something to add!
