[refueled]

I am creating a few new bbPress themes and would like to add a couple sidebars to them. Is the PHP include function the best way to do this?

(example: <?php include 'sidebar.php'; ?>)

It’s what I have been using and it works. But I would like to know if there is a bbPress tag out there that does the same thing.

Thanks in advance.

[betwixt]

Hi there. I tried searching a bit, but I can’t seem to find a decent tutorial on how to use the WordPress header, footer and background color (of the main content box). Can you guys help me a bit in the good direction?

I have already installed bbpress, using the same database as wordpress and I configured config.php to match the integration.

Regards,

DM

[bloggerdesign]

fel64, did bbPress automatically add the aviators in the comments when you hooked it all up? Or how did you get that working?

[chrishajer]

I didn’t think you could put bbPress and WordPress in the same folder.

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test’;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test’;

And http://areamom.com/test/ points to a WordPress installation. So, where’s the bbPress? I did find this:

http://areamom.com/test/bbpress/ which results in this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/areamomc/public_html/test/bbpress/config.php on line 29

That’s right after the mod_rewrite line in the config. Maybe you have an extra single quote there or you forgot the semi-colon in your config? Oh yeah, check this:

$bb->mod_rewrite = false <– no semi-colon.

That means this you should add the semicolon to the mod_rewrite line line and then this line should be changed:

`$bb->uri = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test/bbpress&#8217;;

[spacecat4]

Hi,

I am running a WP site and trying to install BBpress, but when I run the install.php file, I keep getting the “already installed” error.

Here are some things I’ve already tried:

I created a new test directory and installed a fresh WP out of box, and then tried installing BB press–same error

I checked my databases–the only two I have are my two Word Press DB’s none of which seem to have any “bb_” references to them.

Any other suggestions? Thanks in advanced!

Here is a copy of my config.php file that I am using in my test directory:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘areamomc_wrdp2’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘areamomc_wrdp2’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘**************’); // …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.areamom.com/test&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Area Mom Forums’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘*********’;

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

$bb->mod_rewrite = false

// 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 = -5;

// 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.areamom.com/test&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.areamom.com/test&#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’ );

require_once(‘/public_html/test/wp-blog-header.php’)

?>

[hostpanic]

9rules has to be the best 😡

[Trent Adams]

Do you have the plugin for wordpress to bring over the registrations of bbpress into wordpress? I think that should do the trick.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

Trent

[chrishajer]

In WordPress, just publish a page with no content in it. That gives you a blank page. That is not going to help accomplish what you want though. You can put an iframe in a WordPress page, but I don’t think the bbPress software will work there. All the links will be “out” of the WordPress page and iframe.

It was discussed here about a month ago:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unable-to-log-in-in-iframes?replies=9#post-11042

Getting your bbPress install to look like your WordPress install takes a bit of work. It’s not as simple as putting it in an iframe.

[jim12345]

Hello again everyone,

Thanks again for helping to get my forum up.

My question now is, how can I add a new page to my wordpress site that doesn’t have my blog entries on it? You know, like it would still have the site logo at the top, and the sidebar on the right, but then the main part of the page would be blank. The idea is that I would then put my forum on that page, inside an inframe. But I just want to know how to add that blank page.

Thanks very much.

[Elias]

http://bbpress.de is not an official site, and they seem not to be interested in a good localization. The “bbPress Deutschland” makers created a language file a few months ago, but this translation is not complete, it contains a lot of typing mistakes, some terms which are easy to misunderstand for a german reader and some wrong texts too. It hasn’t never been updated.

I love bbPress (and sometimes, I hate it), so I decided to create my own and better translation. I had worked only a few hours on it, and the result is a translation much better than the bbpress.de one.

The existance of a language file is a reason to use bbPress. People should know which translations are existing, and I think, they should know it from an official site. At the moment, there is no “official” german site, but only the bbpress.de. This is a project of “inpsyde”, the makers of wordpress-deutschland.de. A few weeks ago, they tried to deliver a “german WordPress version” with an advertising plugin silently, which was called by some people – me included – as a kind of “plugin spam”. (It wasn’t announced and not marked as an advertisement for the german company LinkLift.) This attempt to create an “official looking german WordPress release with advertising” failed, there was a great resistance from the german WordPress users. This is a strong reason for me not to trust those people anymore. I want the translation to be as free as possible from the early days on.

[afdenahy]

The header.php file is from the bbpress-forum template supplied by Trent at http://trentadams.com/2007/02/10/theme-release-onvertigo/#comment-347

I reinstalled everything, including the bbpress-forum theme, but with the anarchy.js line deleted. Now everything is fine. I think you might need to have a word with Trent about the purpose of the onvertigo.com/anarchy_media/anarchy.js

Anthony

[Sam Bauers]

Were you aware of this site:

http://bbpress.de/

?

[afdenahy]

Thanks – yes, I found this in header.php:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://onvertigo.com/anarchy_media/anarchy.js”></script&gt;

I’ll try deleting it and see if it stays deleted. Apparently onvertico.com belongs to Trent Adams, a bbPress enthusiast – hmm.

[Elias]

I miss a forum here which allows bbPress users to announce their bbPress localizations.

Today, I’d done a localization of bbPress 0.8.3 to the German language (that link goes to my german blog posting with a post explaining my “translation philosopy”) which is available for free download now, but there is no good place to announce it. It isn’t exactly an installation issue, not a plugin and (hopefully) not something that causes trouble. At the moment, there is no good place for posting it, not even a “General” forum…

[pwdrskier4]

Yes, the two are fully integrated – users and functions.

Sorry but I am not using MU so I don’t think I can help you there.

[Slamlander]

I got this [http://slamlander.caselle-vpn.net/?p=21] :

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:InetpubVwebSlamlanderwikiextensionsAuthPress.php:352) in C:InetpubVwebSlamlanderwikiincludesWebResponse.php on line 11

What I did:

On current install on integrated WP and BBP, added a “wiki/” directory and unpacked mediawiki 1.10.1 there, ran the install, and used the same DB. The wiki, at this time works stand-alone. What’s happening here is a version incompatibility issue, methinks, betwixt Authpress and MediaWiki. There are some code structure changes from 1.9.x to 1.10.1 but I don’t know what they were.

I do know one thing, no one has submitted this to the MediaWiki team, why not? I should have been able to download it from there and I could even get help from them, if it were submitted.

[pwdrskier4]

You may use my site Snownation. However, it is only a week old and does not have a lot of traffic yet. It is the latest wordpress integrated with the latest bbpress. Let me know if you have any questions.

[fel64]

Since you haven’t had any other offers: if you’re comfortable with saying Loinhead (that’s Loins for short) to the audience, go for it. Traffic is … just about reasonable, the forums tend to stay alive at least.

[chrishajer]

The best way I know is with a linux system to use the patch command. If you don’t have access to that program, I could patch the file and email it for you. Or you could download a later release where the problem is already fixed. Check my profile for contact information if you need help.

There were other solutions as well in this post:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installing-bbpress?replies=14#post-11787

Did you try anything else?

[kjted]

Thank you It’s starting to get full of stars now. It’s been up for a couple of months now.

[chrishajer]

It’s not in the config that I know of, but you can look at bb-includes/capabilities.php and find 'edit_others_tags' and 'edit_tags' – I think you could edit the capabilities to allow members those two functions. I’m not sure if there’s a plugin that allows the same thing or not. That would be a modification to a core file which is a bad thing in general. You lose that modification if you ever update your bbPress installation.

I would not take my advice to edit capabilities.php and would instead look for a plugin that will allow you to change the capabilities of a member.

[chrishajer]

If you are looking for secondary themes, you want subforums, which are built in. When you do as I suggested above you have the ability to select a parent forum, and when you do, your new forum becomes a child. Try it and see – I really think that’s what you want.

[chrishajer]

I think the posts tagged 745 might help (745 is the trac ticket where the solution is discussed).

https://bbpress.org/forums/search.php?q=745

Maybe this post in particular:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installing-bbpress?replies=14#post-11787

[openartist]

Hello,

This is my first bat at installing BBpress. I’m looking forward to playing with it if I can figure out what’s wrong with it. Can someone help me troubleshoot here? I think I read somewhere on the forums that someone had a similar issue but I can’t find that post again.

So first of all I’m integrating it a previous wordpress installation. I put everything in a subdirectory called /forums/. For the database info in the config file I put all of the same info for the wordpress install, I hope that was correct.

I have no clue what this is:

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”);

So I left it blank, is that correct?

Lastly, at the bottom I entered this:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.airshipleague.com/forums&#8217;;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.airshipleague.com&#8217;;

Is this correct??? I’m not sure what the difference between _home and _siteurl is. I’m assuming that home is where I want the forums to go and the url is the domain of the site as a whole…But that’s totally guesswork. A lot of this database stuff is greek to me.

So I uploaded everything and went to install it and would continually see the error above the install wizard:

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/usr/local/mysql-5.0/data/mysql.sock’ (2) in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php:80) in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-admin/install.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php:80) in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1898

I figured I would try and install anyways crossing my fingers it would disappear. The install completed and sent me a confirmation email. When I logged on for the first time above the forums it says:

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/usr/local/mysql-5.0/data/mysql.sock’ (2) in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

If I try and log in it will hang and nothing will happen. If I refresh it will bring me to a login page with similar error messages hanging above.

If it matters at all I’m using Godaddy’s service which allows me to have multiple domains on a single IP, so the site is really a subfolder of my main url that airshipleague.com is forwarded to. I don’t have problems with that at all when I install wordpress though.

Many thanks for any help you can give me!

[JeffVoegtlin]

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘********’); // …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://jackhammr.org/bbpress/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘JackHammer Forums’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘jeff@jackhammr.org’;

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

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

// 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: -6 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = -6;

// 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.

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

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://jackhammr.org&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://jackhammr.org&#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’ );

?>