[ganzua]

“hi, I have the same problem. Has anyone found a way to integrate and change the language without errors?”

I managed to translate a wp-bb integration but I don’t know if you are going to like my workaround;

1. edit bbpress config.php and in define language section point to your wp language file with this code; ‘ define(‘BBLANGDIR’, ‘wp-includes/languages/es_ES.mo’); ‘ (change es_ES.mo for the name of your language .mo file)

2. edit wp language .po file and insert there your bbpress .po file. In other words, copy/paste all bbpress entries at the end of wp .mo file

3. Open with poedit and try to save this modifed file. You’re going to have +-100 duplicated entries in an error log. Delete all duplicated entries, one by one, so you can save.

4. When you save with poedit you produce 2 files; .po file and a .mo file. This .mo file is the one you want. Now you have translated both; wp and bbpress with just one .mo file.

I do know that this workaround implies a lot of future problems and I don’t like it at all but I didn’t find any other way.

I hope someday bbpress will appear as a plugin for wordpress.

[Anne-Lise]

Thank you so much! Also for the quick response.

I already had the integration plugin installed. The only thing I needed to do was to install the allo spaces in usernames plugin. Now I can skip between blog and forum without any problems and without having to login again if I am already at one or the other.

BTW: the cookie control plugin you reffered to in step 1 is no longer available for download at the site you referred to. But from what I understand from this article it is not necessary anymore.

[_ck_]

Ah nevermind, this is the “allow images” bug:

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

[adriengeille]

Hi guys,

I can’t launch the installation of bbpress on my existing wordpress blog using the same database. The issue I have is, that i have a blank page…

So no way to launch the installation.

It’s on the same server

using the same db

I even created a second user to the DB (didn’t change anything)

I have enabled all the writing right to the installation folder

So what do you recommand. Do a fresch install of wordpress and bbpress or is there a solution for me to avoid that for exemple feeling up a file myself to have the insatallation process behind me.

Cheers for your help.

[_ck_]

I’ve tried hacking a couple wp plugins to bbpress to get better code preservation. But it’s not working.

What is used here? It seems to actually work somehow and that’s not the default technique in the core…

[rosebud]

I have wordpress and bbpress integrated (in terms of users and logins) but they do not share all the functions. BBPress is translated and working fine, however, I don’t have the wordpress code translated, just a po for the theme.

[_ck_]

All these problem are both cookie path

and forbidden character problems.

Both are poorly documented (or not mentioned at all)

but the good news is that fixes exist for both issues.

I have to find my previous instructions on this but

because bbpress search is so poor, this may take awhile.

Could someone please get this into a wiki or faq at some point:

Steps required for more complete and problem-free bbPress+WordPress integration:

1. cookies paths need to be changed to the same path in both WordPress and bbPress (change to domain root recommended)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpressbbpress-single-sign-on?replies=22#post-9010

2. the integration plugin should be installed

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/4?replies=26&more=1

3. the allow spaces in usernames plugin should be installed (also add my underscore hack for characters bbPress by default forbids but WordPress allows – see my message later in same thread)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/usernames-with-spaces-do-not-work?replies=28#post-7904

4. add the ” set default role when registering new user though forum” mini plugin should be installed:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yet-another-integration-bug-no-role-set-on-registration?replies=10#post-8768

5. search your bbpress templates and force all registrations/logins through wordpress from the several places they are buried on the forum (the WP login interfaces are far more developed) – unfortunately at least one bbPress login location is hard coded in the core which will require a direct hack everytime you upgrade. ie:

<?php $request_uri=$GLOBALS["HTTP_SERVER_VARS"]["REQUEST_URI"]; ?>

<a href="/wordpress/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo $request_uri; ?>"><?php _e('Login'); ?></a>

<a href="/wordpress/wp-register.php?redirect_to=<?php echo $request_uri; ?>"><?php _e('Register'); ?></a>

6. optional but highly recommended, install the “use display name” plugin for mods+admin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/2?replies=6&more=1

[adriengeille]

Don’t work,

If i delete $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl both and leave the address blank ”

here is the message i get…

Does it ring a bell to anyone?

Cannot select DB.

[Anne-Lise]

BTW: WP and BBpress are using the same database.

[Anne-Lise]

I have more or less the same problem. My forum is only accessible to WordPress users of the blog the forum is linked to. They cannot register themselves. Therefore registration is not possible on the forum either. All user names consist of two words. When I, or another user, is logged in in WP and then switches to the forum, he or she has to login again. When user name and password are filled in correctly and the login button is clicked, the user is redirected to a page where it says that the login failed and that he or she has to try again. But this time the space between the words of which the username consists is deleted (‘tester twee’ becomes ‘testertwee’). Logging in with the newly formed username doesn’t work either, of course. Logging in with a username that is made up of one word is no problem (for example ‘admin’).

This problem didn’t exist in the previous version of BBpress and it doesn’t have anything to do with the browser either since I tested this with Firefox as well as with IE. I also tried deactivating all plugins, but wasn’t the solution either.

I hope there is anyone who can help me fix this, because it’s really annoying. I was so glad I finally found a rather simple forum that could be integrated with WP.

[w3creativa]

Hi again Rosebud, Is it an integration of wordpress and bbpress or you just installed bbpress and changed the language?. I am asking you because I integrated and when I try to change the language I get an error. I have done some research and I looks like there´s no solution yet.

[w3creativa]

hi, I have the same problem. Has anyone found a way to integrate and change the language without errors?

[benbeltran]

Uruguay is such a lovely country, It’s good to impulse the arts, specially film. BBPress is everywhere open to embrace from gaming to arts, from code to random discussion. Code, indeed, is poetry.

[ronjroy]

The set up is simply http://localhost/bp_web/forums/bbpress and the site is up with no style sheet. I have looked through the templates and I have viewed the source and the style sheet is coming-up as error 404 not found. It seems to me that somewhere in the bbpress coding that the style sheet is not linked properly. I’m not very well versed in php but I have a good handle on css and xhtml.

[chrishajer]

I responded in your other thread. Also, you can search the forums for template and CSS talk.

https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/templates

[chrishajer]

Sounds like the path to the site is wrong in the config. Do you have a URL where this is occuring, or any info about your hosting setup.

You have access to the HTML in all the template files and the CSS too. You can make bbPress look like whatever you want.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites

https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strut-your-bbpress

[rosebud]

I am having problems with the character encoding of my bbpress install. I have it integrated with wordpress and when I use the “Latest bbpress discussions” plugin I see the weird characters you get when you mix collations and charsets.

I have wordpress in utf-8 thanks to this plugin: utf8 dtaabase converter.

Before it I had it set to utf but still, the database was showing weird characters (the collation was alright though). So this is probably a MySQL problem somewhere.

Should I try to adapt the wordpress utf8 converter for bbpress?

[rosebud]

Thanks for the words, both of you.

@ w3creativa:

Actually, the translation I am using is from a bbpress related site. I can’t remember which one though. I’ll try and upload the files if you want them.

@ benbeltran:

Dodecá is indeed from Uruguay.

[youngmicroserf]

Hi, I’m having problems with the character encoding on a WP/BBpress integrated site. In WP, I can tell the system to encode the page in ISO-8859-1 (which is necessary in this case), in bbpress I don’t know how. I declare the doctype and the meta-content-charset in the theme’s header, but as opposed to the WP pages, the bbpress generated ones are encoded as UTF-8. Looking at the page properties in Firefox, I can see “encoding: UTF-8” and “meta information… charset:ISO-8859-1”.

Can someone help, please? Thanks in advance!

[chrishajer]

Where is it displayed now? Chances are, it’s in the config.php:

$bb->name = 'New bbPress Site';

That is used for what might be called the ‘name’ of your site.

[benbeltran]

incredible design. One of the best bbpress themes I’ve seen untill now.

[ptrkmkl]

Rather simple, but does what I need:

http://support.newschoollearning.com

Fits in with the rest of the site quite well.

[dens]

Hi there – recently installed bbPress and picked a placeholder forum name and now I can’t figure out how to change it?

I would expect to find some “general forum prefs” under the Admin screen of my forum, but no luck.

any advice?

[baptiste]

Here’s the ticket – hopefully the function or some form of it will get added. Possible improvement would be to limit the depth for forums with deep children

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/733

[baptiste]

http://onthepitch.org/talk/forum/food-and-nutrition

Not in production yet – still ironing out various bits, adding stuff that’s missing (oh how I miss AJAX posting), etc. But the breadcrumb stuff works for the forum and topic view.