[lookfab]

Just fired up our new forum: http://www.youlookfab.com/welookfab

Love to know what people think. I’ve stripped out a lot of the great features that work for a techie crown, but might confuse newer users (e.g. tags, favorites, etc.). We might bring those back in over time.

Everything is achieved in the template/theme, except for a minor hack to create an alternative post form.

The experience is integrated with a WordPress blog, but this is no deeper than sharing the same header. Databases are separate and users only sign up to bbPress.

There are many potential improvements, but one thing that bugs me in particular is that there are two signups on the site: one for bbPress and another for the blog post notification. I would love to integrate these two things. Any pointers on how to do so would be appreciated.

Thanks to the bbPress team for a fun and flexible forum system!

[chrishajer]

I think you want bbSync, a WordPress plugin:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbsync?replies=214#post-7922

[Erica Kapoor]

I want to show wordpress recent posts list on BBpress forums.

Can anyone help me?

[chinkerfly]

It’s been two days since I started trying to install bbpress and I’ve scoured the forums and the internet to try to find an answer without much luck (isn’t there a FAQ somewhere for people like me?)

Here’s the details on what I did.

1. Created a new database called “bbpress” in cpanel, the database name it gives me is thechonx_bbpress

2. Added user from my wordpress database, thechonx_chinker

3. downloaded, unzipped bbpress, edited config-sample.php and renamed it to config.php (how I edited it is shown below–I think I should change BBDB Host, but don’t know what to change it to)

4. Created a folder in my public_html root (where all my wp files are uploaded) called “forum”

5. Uploaded all the files (minus original “bbpress” folder) to “forum”

6. Opened this address in my Firefox browser (I am running Mac OS Leopard 10.5.1): http://www.thechonx.com/forum/bb-admin/install.php

–attempted other URLs like localhost led to blank pages or 404 pages

7. Received “Cannot Select DB” error

I’ve tried a dozen other variations of the above, mostly changing config file info but no dice. Help please!

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘thechonx_wordpress’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘thechonx_chinker’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxx’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.thechonx.com/forum/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Rumble in The Chonx’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘thalia.kwok@XXXXX’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘slugs’;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = 8;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ”; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.thechonx.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.thechonx.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

[Olaf Lederer]

yes right, at the moment the login name is used on all places in the forum, in WP you have the option to choose what user information will show up on the blog pages.

BTW. using an email address as login is not smart, just imagine you will loose the email account and you can’t recover the password because teh mail is send to the old email address.

I wrote some authentication class and most of the users are happy with a separate login name. In bbpress it’s possible to use multiple login names with same email address, this is sometimes very helpful…

[hollywoodgrind]

It was 0.8.3.1

[chrishajer]

What games did you play with the blog to get it to appear correctly, and why would it be different than what you need to do for bbPress?

Is it possibly a collation or character set issue with MySQL? Can you look in the database and see how the characters are stored (with something like phpMyAdmin.

Also, look at the dump you have from the old database and make sure the characters are present there, first.

[talgalili]

Hi peoples.

I translated my bbpress to Heberw. Recently I moved a host (from goDaddy to site5, if you are curious).

and moved my Db from one to the other.

I used the wp-backup plugin to create the SQL, and imported it using the phpMyAdmin at site5.

After some games it worked fine with my blog:

http://www.humus101.com/

but the forum’s text is all question marks:

http://www.humus101.com/forums/

Any ideas as to what to do ?

Tal.

[percept]

Doesn’t work overhere though:

I put the file nl_NL.mo into

bbpress/bb-includes/languages/

changed the config file to:

define(‘BBLANG’, ‘nl_NL’);

and it doesn’t work.

[Sam Bauers]

Because of the restrictions on the bbPress logins in the current version I suggest using bbPress for registration/login. Logout can be either.

With WordPress 2.5 and the next bbPress 0.8.x they will be as good as each other.

Please don’t bump.

[konandoil]

oh

[intellivision]

bump

[slowmankyle]

I’ve been trying to hack the 2col_fixed_left theme provided by bbpressraw.com (many thanks) to fit into the website for the small nonprofit that I work for. I’ve gotten pretty far with it, but I’m stuck on a weird ordered list issue that looks fine on FF but is pretty screwy on IE.

The site can be accessed at http://www.belovedcommunitycenter.org/forums. The frontpage looks fine, but the topics.php displays the post number and author name over the post content.

Any tips folks have for a amateur designer would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Kyle

[Sam Bauers]

Put this in a plugin file and activate it. It’s a drop-in replacement for bb_mail() from the current trunk

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Fix bb_mail function

Plugin URI:

Description: Temporary replacement for bb_mail() function

Author: Sam Bauers

Author URI:

Version: 0.0.1

*/



if ( !function_exists( 'bb_mail' ) ) :

function bb_mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers = '' ) {

if (!is_array($headers)) {

$headers = trim($headers);

$headers = preg_split('@r(?:n{0,1})|n@', $headers);

}



if (!count($headers) || !count(preg_grep('/^from:s/im', $headers))) {

$from = parse_url(bb_get_option('uri'));

if ($from && $from['host']) {

$from = trim(preg_replace('/^www./i', '', $from['host']));

$headers[] = 'From: "' . bb_get_option('name') . '" <bbpress@' . $from . '>';

}

}

$headers = trim(join("rn", $headers));



return @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

}

endif;

?>

[nbglobetrotter]

Is there any way I can use an email address as the user name?

This is OK in WordPress but not in BBPress, so integrated logins dont work.

Hope someone can help. Thanks.

[Sam Bauers]

Which version of bbPress was this? 0.8.3.1 or latest trunk?

[Göran]

I have started a forum at http://www.goranlin.se/bbpress/

I created a folder in the bb-includes folder and called it languages. In it I placed the file sv_SE.mo (for Swedish) and changed the config.php to

define(‘BBLANG’, ‘sv_SV’);

But the forum is still in English, what did I do wrong? Please, help!

[rslater]

http://thomasklaiber dot com/bbpress/post-notification/

is where I got the plugin. I would compare these but I do not know what to look for.. by the way.. the plug in works very well!!

[Warwick Booth]

Hello Everyone

I have integrated WordPress with bbPress and skinned them the same, but when I log into bbPress, or add a forum/topic/post i get a redirect error. I dont know what it wrong.

Warning: parse_url(http:///mobile.feedmymedia.com/forum/) [function.parse-url]: Unable to parse URL in /home/mobile/public_html/forum/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 208

Warning: parse_url(http:///mobile.feedmymedia.com/forum/) [function.parse-url]: Unable to parse URL in /home/mobile/public_html/forum/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 209

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/mobile/public_html/forum/bb-includes/pluggable.php:208) in /home/mobile/public_html/forum/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 164

Thanks

Warwick

[Martino]

I’m using bbPress Integration and Use Display Name and BBPress is a shiny new 0.8.3.1 .

Switching templates doesn’t solve the issue…

[dotdj]

Hello, I need urgently a designer to port WordPress theme to BBpress with some little modification. Please let me know (of course pay for work).

Many thanks!

[chrishajer]

Are you using the “Admin can post anything” plugin?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/apostrophe-issue?replies=7#post-12841

It’s almost certainly a plugin issue. A stock bbPress install won’t do that, unless perhaps it’s really, really old. What version are you using (if you’re not using that plugin, or deactivating it doesn’t fix your problem(?

[chrishajer]

Where did you download the plugin from. If someone can download the plugin and then compare it to the mail function in bbPress and see if there’s a reason it works in the plugin.

[chrishajer]

Glad you found it.

[hollywoodgrind]

I found the problem. In the install form I set the Site Name and Forum Name the same, which caused a conflict. Perhaps the install.php script could be updated to catch this error, and prompt to use different names.