“what I thought was my database password was incorrect. The correct password will be the same as in wp-config.php”
Wow, that worked!! I changed the password in config.php to the match the one in wp-config.php, and now my forum is up and running!
Many thanks. 
My apologies – I looked through the forum again and found the solution – what I thought was my database password was incorrect. The correct password will be the same as in wp-config.php. Then I just had to overwrite db-mysqli.php with db.php.
After installation I had issues due to pretty URLs – I set this back to false in config.php and everything was fine then. I’ll investigate the required .htaccess settings later to get the pretty URLs working again.
I have tried all fixes posted here and everywhere else in the forum (yes, everything), but still get error messages – no installation past Go.
edited … see below
How would I ping ping-o-matic every time a new thread of post is made?
I think this would be good because I have bbpress kind of setup like a blog in a way.
Hi fel64…
Wow, thanks for the quick reply! I use the Get Custom Field Values plugin in WordPress and this allows me to pull in custom fields that I’ve set up in my posts. I typically use this if a post is going to have some information that needs to be laid out in a format thats a little different than my regular post format. I’m not sure how these custom field values could be pulled into bbpress. Here’s the link to the Custom Field Values plugin if that helps:
Plugin: Get Custom Field Values
Thanks for looking…
Yo Dreamstruck. When you say that you also have bbPress Post 0.41 installed, I hope you realise that bbsync (intentionally) kills its functioning? If it didn’t, you would get duplicate topics.
I recommend pressing that Migrate button in the bbsync admin, as it will mean that bbsync will work on all topics previously synced with bbPress Post. It would, however, also stop bbPress Post working with that old data, so if you’re (understandably; I am 
) hesitant about bbsync you probably wouldn’t want to do that.
Cheers muchly, if you hadn’t pointed that out I would have had that error for all time – I entirely forgot to test if the topic was synced before replacing comments. I’ll upload .91 in a few minutes.
There is unfortunately no way to bulk sync old topics (unless they were done using bbPress Post), as topics can only be posted at the current time (while still using the API) (so you could sync them, but it would flood the forum with out-of-date stuff). But maybe that can be made to work; not in the immediate future, but it’s something that I would also like for my setup so I’ll give it a shot at least.
Custom fields don’t show up right now, but I could come some functionality to do it for sures. What specifically would you want to happen?
One other thing that I noticed is that I have some Custom Fields that I use in my WordPress posts. These custom fields don’t show up on the bbPress posts that bbSync is making. Is there a way for me to add these Custom Fields to the bbPress posts?
Thanks…
I really like this plugin, but I am getting an error on all of my older WP posts. I’m using bbSync 0.9 and bbPress Post .041 with WP 2.2.3.
What’s happening is that all of my old WP posts have this error showing up right above the comment section:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/
bbsync.php on line 465
All new posts that I make to WP are posting fine to bbPress and this error message doesn’t show up for these new posts. I have about 500 old posts that existed in WP before I installed bbSync or bbPress Post and the error message is showing up on all of these old posts. Is there a way for me to bulk add all of these old post to my bbPress forum? It seems that this error is showing up because these old posts don’t exist in bbPress.
Thanks…
Doh!
Hey Fel64, you can get us on hello_B.S.I [at] bombsquadindustries.com
I am waiting to see if _ck_ will be releasing his to new themes as we are keen to use one of them.
For some reason I can’t activate this plugin in WordPress version 2.3.1. Any ideas?
Hi,
Thanks for the update – it fixed a few things I was waiting for – just one thing I’ve found – when you change the Author for a WP post, the Author for the blog post doesn’t change. It’s not a major thing, just something I’ve found…
There is absolutely a solution for it: fel64 explained it above. bbPress is not a forum plugin for WordPress, it’s standalone forum software. It’s configurable enough that you can use the same login and password from WordPress, you can create a link to it from you WordPress installation, and you can style it to look just like a WordPress page. You can even use bbPress functions in WordPress, and vice versa. The thing is, you have to do some work. But at least it’s possible to make it look like your WordPress site. Try that with phpBB or some other forum software.
If you look around these forums you will see many examples of installations where the bbPress installation is formatted to look exactly like the WordPress blog.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strut-your-bbpress
https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press
I’m using the latest version of bbpress, the ‘SuperBold’ theme and I have a problem! The forums all appear on the same line… no indentation separates the ‘containers’ from the forums. From what I can see with FireBug there is NO difference between the containers and forums no difference in terms of CSS at any rate. However with the Kakumei theme it works.
I’ll do it quite happily, but the bb forum policy on this is to ask you to leave your contact details so people can email you privately and there’s no bidding or such going on on the forums. If you could provide your email address Trent would then close the topic.
Hello,
There is really no solution for that ?
It’s a pitty to have a WP companion forum and been unable to really use it….
Hey all,
I at this point in time just don’t have the time nor inclination to install a fresh BB press and get all the things I want to work, to work. I have the time to mess around with a template but that’s about it.
Anyone out there who knows their stuff interested in installing a copy along with getting all the various plugins to work for some cash?
If so I can give you the ‘spec’ of what I am looking for.
Cheers!
On my new site http://www.SportSayer.com , you can check out what I did. I send all logins and profile views to bbpress’s version, the user never (hopefully) sees the wordpress login page or wordpress plugin page. I like how bbpress is more integrated into the site rather than wordpress’s which is a different template.
Check it out: http://www.SportSayer.com
I just finished this new site of mine. Need to get the Forums going so if any of you would like to participate, that would be awesome.
I have them working together at my new site: http://www.SportSayer.com
You can’t install in such a way that ‘Forum’ will be automagically listed under your pages and appear in your WP theme.
However, you can install so that it uses the same user database. You can also add ‘Forum’, say, to your pages list and have it redirect to the actual forum (using a WP Page redirection plugin). You can also make the theme such on bb that it looks just like your wp theme, or use the wp header – trickier, but fairly well documented around here.
Is bbPress 0.8.3 compatible with WP 2.3.1 ?
thanks!
Hello,
I have a wordpress “blog” that I’m using for my website, http://www.discoultimate.com and I would like install bbpress on a seperate page so people can communicate. Is there a way to install bbpress almost like its just another page in wordpress? bbPress sounds great and I’m excited to use it but I’m just not sure how to impliment it on and already existing wordpress blog.
Any help or advice is appreciated,
Dan
