Hello, while trying to install I get the following error at the second step
bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ ”, , ”, ‘200]
INSERT INTO bb_topics (topic_title, topic_slug, topic_poster, topic_poster_name, topic_last_poster, topic_last_poster_name, topic_start_time, topic_time, forum_id) VALUES (‘Your first topic’, ‘your-first-topic’, , ”, , ”, ‘2007-12-12 00:10:27’, ‘2007-12-12 00:10:27’, 1)
:
I have applied the patches for the msqlI warning, therefore nothing seems to be wrong until this step.
I have also filled all the fields from the previous step.
Any idea?
Thank you!
Nothing easy comes to mind because it requires just the first post to have a poll and nothing else. It would be a call on the topic creation only which might be easy enough, but I don’t recall anyone doing anything with that. Isn’t there a poll plugin for bbPress now? Maybe changing it a bit?
Trent
I am sure that people will report back on a TRAC version if nothing else that it will work with, but I would imagine that the WP release will come out followed closely with a bbPress release as that is what happened when the compatibility issues showed up with WP 2.3, but I guess time will tell!
Trent
Thanks… looks like it is a big deal then. No Wp2.4 upgrade until a new bbPress then.
I saw the following post on WP2.4 – coming in Jan.
WordPress weekly digest 26th November to 2nd December 2007
It sounds like WP2.4 will use a new hashing scheme to store the password.
Will this interefere with bbPress users who are running WordPress User integration?
That function isn’t in bbPress core. You may need to ask template’s author about that function. But I think just removing it is ok.
Maybe that is about this plugin: Support Forum?
Nah – I would think anyone looking to write a plugin should already know some PHP. I would start at a plugin for bbPress since there are already lots of PHP tutorials online. With bbPress, we need stuff like this.
Thanks.
That’s a good topic, however I think PHP 101 should be come next?
PS. I am re-uploading .flv and .mp4.
Here it is:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: My own tweak for my forums
Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/
Description: Fine tuning codes for my forum
Author: Your name
Author URI: http://www.myforum.com/
Version: 0.1
*/
add_filter('post_author_link', 'bb_rel_nofollow');
?>
Basically, you can put many fine tuning codes within one PHP files, and this file is for your forum only. Remember to activate this plugin.
I haven’t watched this video yet, but I think an idea for another one would be how to write a plugin 
Hi!
I made a new podcast show and the first episode’s topic is “Integrating bbPress into WordPress.” This is my first video, so I’m really need your suggestions. Maybe you can tell me what are you expecting in such podcast show? I am looking forward to hearing from you!
PS. I haven’t decided what’s next episode and when will it be released.
PS2. You may want to download .ogg (I might convert .ogg to .flv and .mov without appropriate parameters, so the qualities are not good).
Can you post what you did and what resources you used, so others with the same problem might find this post when they are searching for a solution to their problem?
Basically though, you would install WordPress first, then use the same database for bbPress, but with a different table prefix for the bbPress tables. Then there are configuration options in config.php in the bbpress folder. Some of those can only be answered AFTER installing WordPress, like these:
$bb->wp_table_prefix = '';
$bb->wp_home = '';
$bb->wp_siteurl = '';
I wouldn’t put them in bb-templates at all (no good reason for saying that other than “they don’t go there.”) Just drop them into my-templates.
The my templates folder should be 0755.
The template folder itself should be 0755.
The files in the template folder should be 0644.
(well, that’s what they are in my installation, by default, and they work)
If those permissions are correct, then is it possible you didn’t create a folder under my-templates? Should be something like:
my-templates (directory)
-crystal (directory)
- all the php and css for the crystal theme here
-superbold (directory)
- all the php and css for the superbold theme here
The other thing is that the style.css needs to have a line in it like this:
Theme Name: Crystal
If the Theme Name is not unique, I think bad things happen. At least you see what appears to be a theme of the same name in multiple places in the admin panel. I know WordPress doesn’t like themes with the same name too much, and I suspect bbPress is similarly picky.
Please post when you find the solution because I am sure it will help other people. Thanks.
WordPress has a really nice authentication method: by user’s email. No password or registration. Is it possible to use similar authentication in bbpress?
Really, registration is unnecessary and creates a problem of spam nicknames cluttering the admin panel. Akismet deals with spam comments well.
Wouldn’t it make sense to switch to the wordpress-type authentication by poster’s email?
Please note that this is not the same as anonymous posting.
Additionally, bbpress really lacks wordpress’ moderation options. It would be surely a good idea to moderate all comments which contain links since almost all of them are spam comments which make it through Akismet.
That’s what I did, when using the generated bbPress htaccess code it works, but not with MultiViews.
Thing is, everything worked just fine with MultiViews, except that Next link.
Ah well, resolved now. Thanks for the help guys!
I have this issue. I tried to copy the “crystal” and “superbold” themes into
//bb-templates
and
//my-templates
yet, on the admin console , i only see the default kakumei
what am i doing wrong? is there some CHMOD issue?
I don’t know if my forums qualify to be listed here, but I’m going to anyway. Trent has helped me quite a bit and I figured some other things out myself. I’d appreciate any comments, or suggestions.
http://jackhammr.org/bbpress/
I’m using Trent’s onvertigo theme, which works well with my blog theme, regulus.
Does anyone know how I can edit the search_form? I’d like the input box to be shorter and I’d like the button to say “Go!” and be on the same line as the box. And I’d like all of that to be on the same line as the User Information.
Thanks,
This is such a nub question, but what goes first the WordPress install followed by bbPress? Or do they install at the same time, the documentation is confusing me because all it say is configure the config.php file in the bbPress folder, but doesn’t say much else? Any help past this would be great! Thanks.
If you overwrote the wp_ tables with the bbPress installation script, I think the best (only?) solution is to restore your WP database from a backup, then install bbPress with a proper table prefix, like bb_.
Maybe the installation script should check for someone setting the table prefix in bbPress to wp_ and question it or warn that bad things can happen. Or possibly it could check for the existence of those wp_ tables already, and warn that they’re going to be modified or overwritten?
I think the most likely route is to find something that will convert SMF to phpBB format, then import that to bbPress. I think the most work has been done there, on a phpBB importer. If you search this forum for phpBB or SMF you will see some previous discussion. Here’s one thread:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-smf-to-bbpress?replies=20#post-4541
Shared hosting works fine assuming you have a good host. As you get more forum activity, you would need more server, and shared hosting is not going to be enough. For starting out though, bbPress works fine on a shared host.
I’ve been using 1&1 (affiliate link) for 4+ years now without any trouble at all running WordPress or bbPress or anything else, for that matter. If you get an account on a shared host, I would recommend getting one with ssh access to a command line. It makes a lot of things much easier. If all you have is FTP access, that’s OK too.
I currently have a forum using Simple Machines Forum. Is it possible to transfer that data to a fresh copy of bbPress?
About MultiViews, I recently re-read FAQ. There is a note for not working MultiViews.
3. Try it out. If it doesn’t work, your web server does not support MultiViews. Instead, you’ll need to remove that line from your .htaccess file and replace it with the several lines bbPress generates for you when you browse to your bbPress installation’s /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php.
Maybe you can try it and let us know if that works?
