[Trent Adams]

It is related with wordpress.org. Let me explain. Akismet keys are given from wordpress.com (free hosted blog service) and that key can be used with bbPress and the Akismet plugin for WordPress (downloaded from wordpress.org) or with other blog softwares have the Akismet plugin.

bbPress integration is dealt with here or in the wordpress.org/support/ forums and issues with your Akismet key are dealt with through the ‘feedback’ or ‘support’ tab in the wordpress.com forums.

Hope that clears it up a little.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I agree with Fel64 here. The cookie problem is just a couple of lines in config.php because they are not in a subdirectory of WP. Most other issues are with getting functions working at the same time and I ask what other forum package runs WP functions in it without any problems.

Trent

[fel64]

ck, unless you know how many people run bb and wp integrated, when you know only the number of problems any conclusions you draw from them are meaningless. There’s nothing nasty about the cookie issue apart from that some people have to add two more lines in their config.php. The username issue is annoying but doesn’t apply to everybody and all you need is a plugin.

It integrates pretty well in that it integrates users. Somewhat more difficult doing that with forums that use a different table structure to wp.

wp and bb together won’t create a land of milk and honey. But it has its good sides, and it doesn’t just have users because people didn’t know the alternatives.

[_ck_]

Ah I see. It’s the misconception that by name alone, that bbpress integrates easily/well with wordpress. You’ll find several experiences that it does not integrate easily or well by default. Between the nasty cookie issue and the even worse username issue, it makes no attempts on it’s own to integrate. You’ll need a few plugins and some trial and error with members.

I’ll suggest again to the powers that be that an integration sub-forum might be a good idea to warn/help others. The mini-faq doesn’t begin to cover the issues.

[so1o]

The Plugin is update to version 4.0

now you can use the plugin to restrict selected forums to either administrators/moderators/members.

here is the link

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/12?

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

bbPress should be magic_quotes agnostic. I’ll do some tests to see If I can pin down the problem.

Are you loading any other scripts at the same time (WordPress, anything else)? Any plugins?

[fel64]

The reason is that people think it would be bad for the community if this became a place to compete for money.

[fel64]

Can you please report this bug on trac? Thank you

[annathea]

_ck_ : Our PunBB forum dates from the inception of our site, and the nature of our community has sort of moved the interaction out of the forums and throughout the rest of the site. So I wanted to be able to incorporate our past discussions into the latest version of the site and have a little finer control over the data (relating archived forum discussions to archived blog entries and such). Since I am expecting that participation in the forums may continue shifting more toward the blog comments, I am trying to merge the old and the new and a PunBB -> bbPress -> WordPress path has fit perfectly so far.

[Inquirer]

In the bbPress config.php file is the following

You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

I registered with wordpress.com and received an Akismet key, which I have put in the bbPress config.php

I posted a question WordPress.com forum and discovered that there is a WordPress.org and a WordPress.com. I have WordPress.org blog software, which is able to be customized.

I then registered with WordPress.org forums.

Is bbPress related with WordPress.com or WordPress.org?

[_ck_]

bbPress’s auto-close tags is broken by default – though the code and filter is in there, it’s not passed correctly:

add this to a plugin

function force_balance_tags($text) {return balanceTags($text, true);}

add_filter('pre_post', 'force_balance_tags');

or if you don’t know how, use my tweaks plugin:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/bbpress-plugin-bb-tweaks/

[sailorman]

my forum about mini transat http://open650.ru/bbpress

[Inquirer]

I was using WinSCP to connect my server via SSH.

According to the WinSCP web site their SSH protocol core is based on PuTTY.

I entered the command mysql -p in the command text box and clicked the Enter button

It kept timing out.

It is odd the WinSCP FTP client part of the software works fine.

I installed PuTTY and I was able to login to my database and dropped the bbPress tables.

I realize that the phpAdmin software provides a more user friendly interface to a MySql database.

[_ck_]

Every time I see a conversion script I have to ask (and not necessarily in a negative way) “what made you decide to convert to bbpress?”

There are several well developed forum programs that endusers have now made conversion scripts to bbpress and I just have to wonder why someone would take a working setup and covert it?

[Trent Adams]

I have an idea Talbina. Post your work that you would like to have done in a new post with all your contact information and I will close the thread. That is often what happens over in the wp.org forums. We don’t want to have a job board here, so anyone interested can contact you to further discuss what you want.

Trent

[citizenkeith]

Today, one of my users didn’t close his strong and em tags… which made the everything after his post bold and italic!

If you update the plugin, you might want to consider auto-closing all bbcode tags.

[talbina]

Hello,

I have some paid work that i want done, and what i see is people are told to post here http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-pro/ . I was wondering how is the response with that, specifically to BBpress work.

From speaking to people, i found that many people who work with wordpress have no idea about BBpress. Furthermore, there are very few links (or widely visible ones) from the wordpress.com and the wordpress.org websites. Maybe you should look into it and see if you want to market the product further. Thats just my advice here.

Second of all, i just don’t understand what is the reason that BBpress (this site) doesn’t allow ads for paid work.

Thanks,

Talbina

[Trent Adams]

It could be made to look like that for sure, but it would require some organizing of how the data is displayed. Since both WP and bbPress have basic plugin API architecture, they can easily be extended to do many different things with plugins (limited only by existence and time I guess).

Trent

[Trent Adams]

You bet! Indexed no problem with the basic permalinks, the fancy permalinks and with the new ‘slug’ permalinks! It is just a matter of letting google know you exist, just like any like.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

That is excellent! Thank you!

Trent

[Trent Adams]

What the integration in the bbPress config.php does is tell bbPress to use the WP users instead of installing its own users table in the database. No configuration has to go into WP unless later you want to have registrations of bbPress make users in WP (that is a WP plugin) but not needed for an integration installation.

Good luck and let us know how you are making out!

Trent

[talbina]

hello,

I would like to know if BBpress posts get indexed n google?

Thanks,

Talbina

[talbina]

Hello,

I am not a developer and i dont know anything. Just wondering which software to use.

Im wondering if the forum topics can be made to look like over here http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ the “Search jobs by subject area” section?

Also, are there really any limitations with what can be done with wordpress/BBpress ?

Thanks,

Talbina

[bernabauer]

Hi there people!

I just finished translating to Brazilian Portuguese. The file is available for download at my blog:

bbPress em português

I noticed that the default theme has some problems, so I corrected the problems on the theme and packed it for download. It’s the same URL for this download.

O arquivo para download do arquivo de linguagem para português do Brasil está disponível. Basta acessar a URL acima. Recomendo baixar o tema padrão que disponibilizei por que ele tem correções para alguns problemas de frase não contempladas no .po original.

cheers!

[Inquirer]

At the top of the config.php files of bbPress and WordPress these values will be the same.

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

Trent wrote:

[For bbPress and WP to be integrated you have to configure your config.php before install to have your WP specific data in it (there is a portion near bottom) and then install bbPress in the same MySQL database regardless of where the physical files actually reside (your case /blog/ and /forum/).}

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

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://mywebsite.com/blog/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

---

I already have WordPress installed in my public_html directory in a folder named blog.

Above, I put in examples of how to fill-in ‘examples’

Apparently it would be wp_home = http://mywebsite.com/blog/

and wp_siteurl = http://mywebsite.com/blog/

Apparently, only the WordPress has to have the bottom portion filled-in?

If this is correct then I would have to fill-in bottom portion of the WordPress config.php and FTP it before I reinstalled bbPress.

[regardless of where the physical files actually reside]

I was thinking of the physical storage of the files.

[Does that make sense?]

I think so.