[Lars-Christian]

I’ve looked through the (two) plugins that allows us to restrict forums, and sadly, it seems your guesses are correct. The first one which allows you to allow users in to a forum based on member names is hardly compatible with the latest version of bbPress (and seems dead). I almost got it working right, except for the fact that it messed up my forum hierarchy, and some other bugs, which meant that threads couldn’t be posted to a certain forum without being in that forum, which was enough for me to rule it out.

The other option, private forum as you tried out yourself, doesn’t allow us to do anything but restrict it to either members, mods or admins, which is the most viable solution to me at this point. It does mean however that I will need to give all my members who need access to the restricted forum moderator capabilities. Hardly ideal, but I’ll have to go with it for now.

I’ll be looking at it this weekend though, and hopefully I can find a sort of solution to it. Right now I’m thinking of finding a way to strip moderators of actual moderating powers, but I really don’t know. Adding another usergroup (pretty simple) should work too, but it has to be reflected in the plugin as well, but I don’t have the coding skills (I don’t have any coding skills) to do that.

Hopefully a gifted plugin developer will step in and solve this for us

[chrishajer]

There is also a patch attached to this ticket to address the same problem:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/745

Look for 745c.diff:

https://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/745/745c.diff

[iamfyrestorm]

Well, I don’t know, but since there’s a deregister view following the register view function maybe it’s not necessary.

function bb_register_view( $view, $title, $query_args = '' ) {

global $bb_views;



$view  = bb_slug_sanitize( $view );

$title = wp_specialchars( $title );



if ( !$view || !$title )

return false;



$query_args = wp_parse_args( $query_args );



if ( !$sticky_set = isset($query_args['sticky']) )

$query_args['sticky'] = 'no';



$bb_views[$view]['title']  = $title;

$bb_views[$view]['query']  = $query_args;

$bb_views[$view]['sticky'] = !$sticky_set; // No sticky set => split into stickies and not

return $bb_views[$view];

}



function bb_deregister_view( $view ) {

global $bb_views;



$view = bb_slug_sanitize( $view );

if ( !isset($bb_views[$view]) )

return false;



unset($GLOBALS['bb_views'][$view]);

return true;

}

I’m in trouble if I ever need to create my own views or if the views that are being created in the default-filters.php page are ever used. But until I get a response from someone that knows what’s going on, I’m running bbPress without it register views.

[livibetter]

Have you tried this this

to modify line 80 in db-mysqli.php?

[livibetter]

Hi JRussell,

Although, I don’t use WordPress and bbPress in the same time. But I think if you can provide web server logs like error.log from your hosting service provider. We will have more clues.

[livibetter]

I made another approach to fit this need and used it on my forum.

function ChangeRoleDisplayName() {

global $bb_roles;

$bb_roles->role_names['keymaster'] = "Toilet Cleaner";

[...]

}



add_action('bb_got_roles', 'ChangeRoleDisplayName', 10, 0);

?>

The complete code is in role-display-name.php.

[chrishajer]

Do you have the allow-images plugin? Just curious.

I think it’s related to this (still unresolved):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-put-code-between-backticks-after-upgrade?replies=4#post-8736

[slexaxton]

I understand having “something” as far as saving the wordpress comments, but the fact is that only WORDPRESS comments will be saved. Since the forum holds the integrated comments of both, all the comments are relevant, but if you were to look just at the wordpress comments, they wouldn’t make sense because if anyone replied to a message using bbpress, and had a conversation with someone on wordpress, we would only get half of the conversation. They are pretty much worthless, unless we can sync both database tables to store all comments, and in that case, we might as well just have a backup… unless you consider having potentially broken comments as a back up worth having, which I can see a case for, since alot of the information would be perfectly valid. But to me it seems like an all or nothing thing.

[grosbouff]

Hello, I use “Role Manager” plugin with worpress, which is very useful.

I thought that bbpress will work with it, but instead it’s using his own roles.

The problem is that I would like to use my custom-role in wordpress in bbpress too.

I installed the plugin “private forums” for bbpress, and it’s a shame I can’t use my wordpress roles to make forums privates… ?

Any idea ?

[fel64]

Hey vitovarducci. Are you sure you had bbpress post installed? It doesn’t look like you do now. Check whether any old posts you had synchronised through bbpress post are synchronised now. If they are, or you didn’t have any synchronised, well, that’s good. It’s sorted. If they aren’t, can you check your database (through phpmyadmin or similar) and looks for a table called wp_bbpress_post_posts? Also check that you actually activated bbpress post (don’t if you hadn’t).

[vitovarducci]

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

I filled out all of the proper synchronization options and everything registered correctly.

But when I go to migrate from bbpress post, I receive this error:

WordPress database error: [Table 'db218346346.wp_bbpress_post_posts' doesn't exist]

SELECT * FROM wp_bbpress_post_posts



WordPress database error: [Table 'db218346346.wp_bbpress_post_posts' doesn't exist]

SELECT * FROM wp_bbpress_post_posts

How do I fix this?

Thank you for your help!

[andrew79]

Link doesnt work. 404 error. Anyone have the plugin somewhere else?

[jolaedana]

There is another post about this here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/key-master-doesnt-have-permission-to-add-forum?replies=7

[Graeme]

You may be missing some files in your installation….?

My preferred technique for installing is to upload the zip/tarball to the server and then use either command line (i.e. ssh) or a web file manager on my webhost to extract the zip/tarball.

If you extract the zip/tarball on your own computer and then use FTP to upload the bbPress directory tree then sometimes the FTP client can miss some files if it gets interrupted.

[_ck_]

I think there is indeed a gravatar for bbpress plugin but I like the more developed avatar plugin by Louise Dade.

A locally cached copy of a gravatar is always better than relying on the remote copy, even with the enhanced WP speed. Perhaps Louise’s can show the remote gravatar and give the member the option to use it as the default local. I’ve got a very large blog using gravatars and polling for a couple thousand members is a serious load issue with gravatars.

Then there is the issue of universal avatar support across bbPress<->WP which I don’t quite have working yet, I have to look at what other people have done.

In any case this is a good move for gravatars. But I simply cannot believe they built something with Ruby on Rails and were hoping to scale it for millions of users though. That’s going to have to be changed radically.

[_ck_]

Automattic (wordpress.com) just “acquired” Gravatar

http://blog.gravatar.com/2007/10/18/automattic-gravatar/

Looks like we could have a reliable auto-avatar system for bbPress now? Any existing avatar plugin could ask the member if they want to “import” their gravatar.

I think gravatars can only be 80×80 max and not animated so the existing avatar plugin is still far superior.

[iamfyrestorm]

I’m doing a fresh install of bbpress. I’m not linking it to wp.

I’m getting this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: __() in /home/2816/domains/ridetoremedy.com/html/community/bb-includes/default-filters.php on line 81

My config file is correct. It’s linking to the same db as wp (simply because there’s no reason to use a different db if I can just prefix the tables differents, i.e. bb)

Any help would be appreciated. I don’t want to have to go to a different forum system, but I really thought this would be easier than it’s turning out to be.

Thanks

[JRussell]

Installation won’t launch.

This has my config.php data.

[JRussell]

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/745

This information helped me with the above situation.

Make the changes per 745c.diff and you’ll be set.

Thanks for a great program, Trent!

[JRussell]

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘unrprus1_wp02’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘unrprus1_John’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxxxx’); // …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.unrpredental.com/wp02/forums&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Message Board’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘xxxx@unrpredental.com’;

// 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 = -7;

// 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 = ‘b57b8370ac44’; // 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.unrpredental.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.unrpredental.com/wp02&#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’ );

?>

[JRussell]

Hey everyone,

I need to pick your brains. I have uploaded bbPress in a folder called “forums” within “wp02” (WordPress folder). I am using the same MySQL username and database info that WordPress uses since I want to integrate it. However, I’ve gone over config.php and I can’t seem to find an error. Can anyone offer assistance? Thanks.

[jazbek]

Yeah, I think that did it. I just tested a post as a regular user and it worked without any errors. I am short on time right now so if anyone else has a chance to try it out, that’d be cool. Here’s all I did (all in felsyncpost()):

1) added $bb_current_user to the globals

2) commented out line 36

3) added $bb_current_user = $current_user; in its place.

Try it out.

[SimOnline]

I’ve installed bbpress and integrated it with an existing installation of WordPress, but I can’t add any new forums, even though I’m logged in as the key master. I just get a message that I don’t have permission to do that. What’s the problem?

[jazbek]

Actually, I figured out when in the felfunctions the “member” capability was being set (you may already know this) – line 36

I thought that maybe the globals should be changed to

global $bb_current_user;

instead of

global $current_user;

That seemed to work when I was posting in wordpress as an admin, but I just tried posting with another user account and got an SQL error, so no dice. I have some other stuff to work on right now, but will come back to this later. Maybe the global $bb_current_user needs to be set to the $current_user instead of doing

bb_set_current_user( $current_user->ID );

?

[jazbek]

my rewrite rules for the document root where wordpressmu is installed are (note, my bbpress is installed in the /discuss directory):

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

#uploaded files

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/discuss(.*)$

RewriteRule . – [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

then, in my bbpress directory, i put in my .htaccess:

Options +MultiViews

if the +MultiViews thing doesn’t work for you, there’s something else you can put in there (only needed if you want to use the pretty-permalinks). Described here:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks