Hi Trent:
[You don’t have WP installed somewhere do you?]
Actually, I installed WordPress blog 2.2 first. It installed on the first try.
I have WordPress 2.2 installed in my public_html directory.
I haven’t customized or begun blogging with WordPress blog 2.2 yet.
I decided to use bbPress for my forum Discussion software, but the install failed.
I want to set it up and implement it first.
[There is a plugin that adds the newest phpMyAdmin as an admin page for WP. Lifesaver for me since I don’t like logging into my host admin and then phpMyAdmin and then working. I just login to WP and do what I want.]
What is the plugin?
Where is the plugin download?
Is it tricky installing the phpMyAdmin plugin?
If I go this route do I have to or should I integrate WordPress 2.2 with bbPress?
Thanks.
I am new to this forum.
I had a corrupted bbPress forum install.
I have to drop the bb_ tables and do a reinstall.
Hopefully, it is ok if I post this.
My web hosting servers are Unix.
The servers have php v 4.4.0 installed
phpMyAdmin isn’t installed
Apparently, I have to download phpMyAdmin 2.10.2.tar.tz
It is unclear from my web hosting service support if I should
place phpMyAdmin 2.10.2.tar.tz in the public_html directory.
Should I create a directory phpAdmin?
I am running Windows 2000 Professional on my computer.
Then I should download and use PuTTY: A Free Telnet/SSH Client to telnet to my server.
Then use a command to unbundle the phpMyAdmin 2.10.2.tar.gz file
Then access my php database
issue the command show tables
then the command drop bb_ tables which are the bbPress tables
then try a reinstall of bbPress forum software
Hey guys,
wordpress already has an attchment uploader, doesn’t it? is there a chance to build a plug-in for bbpress using that code?
grz,
jaithn
This isn’t about the files. This is about the databases.
You need to use phpMyAdmin or another tool to get rid of the old tables. If you do not know how to access your databases in this way, contact your host.
The “already installed” message occurs after bbPress checks your databases for an entry in, I can’t remember, bb_forums or bb_topics. While there is data in those tables, you cannot install again. That’s why you need to get rid of them. You also need to get rid of the other bb_ tables because it will try to create new ones with the same name.
Someone else had a similar problem.
I have deleted the old bbpress on my server bcuz it wouldnt work and i cleared out all my database and uploaded the new version of bbpress. now after i install and try to do anything all it says is “Already Installed. Try Upgrading.” nothing works at all.
Hope someone can help me. thanks!
Brandon
Posted 3 weeks ago #
I did an install.
The link to my site wasn’t correct.
The next portion of the install didn’t look like
The Ultimate bbpress Guide
There wasn’t a clean Adminstrator login and the web page was barren with links.
How do I clean out my orginal terrible install, then install again?
I decided to delete all the files from my server.
I edited the config.php again.
I FTPed the directory again.
I entered http://www.mysite.com/forum/bb-admin/install.php in my browser
I received a message that I had already installed do you mean upgrade?
Not a clue. Maybe that host’s MySQL version doesn’t support SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS on *? Or something. Your best bet is to report this problem on trac as the bug it is. 
I have posted several changes and fixes, over here since there seems to be two threads on this plugin (and apparently bbpress won’t be able to merge topics anytime soon)
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/46/page/2?replies=34#post-352
#4 is a doozy. You might want to make that a priority in the next version. Filenames *must* be unique for every uploaded change to ensure proper caching and then image updates in the browser when the image changes.
I’ve been studying to see if there’s anyway via plugins instead of hacking the code for both WP and BB to consolidate the common javascript routines they both use.
Not only do they load half a dozen scripts at certain times, one of them, prototype.js is 50k in size. But they seem to be common for both.
All we would need is choose a common script path.
I guess it’s possible to
remove_action(‘bb_head’, ‘bb_print_scripts’);
and then plugin your own.
But what kills me is bbPress doesn’t need ANY of those scripts except for thinks like deleting posts to forward correctly and the ajax actions.
I really dislike ajax, especially when it’s used where it’s not needed.
Don’t forget _ck_ to add these plugins to the repository!
https://bbpress.org/plugins/add/
Trent
Just tested a youtube embed copied right from their site and it works tested in IE and Firefox.
I don’t use the default bbpress template however, I wonder if that is affecting it somehow.
Are you using the updated v0.02 that I posted, not v0.01 ?
If it still doesn’t work, can you view source on the outputed page and copy just the part with that one post with full html here (between code tags obviously) so I can see what it is doing?
Can anyone tell me how to begin to address this problem? After installing on web server getting this error:
bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax near ‘FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status = 0 AND topic_sticky <> 2 ORDER BY topic_time’ at line 1]
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status = 0 AND topic_sticky <> 2 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 30
I don’t even know where to begin to fix this. I’ve run bbpress on local environment and other hosts flawlessly, but on this company I’m getting these errors. I’m a SQL novice so if anyone can babystep this for me I’d appreciate it.
Thanks
Been meaning to do this for awhile, didn’t realise how easy it was. This makes bbPress behave more like WordPress in that admin (keymasters/administrators) can post any content regardless of tag restrictions for the rest of members. This includes images, javascript, objects like flash video player, etc.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Admin Post Anything
Plugin URI:
Description: allows keymaster/administrators to post any content regardless of tag restrictions
Author: _ck_
Author URI: http://CKon.wordpress.com
Version: 0.02
*/
function bb_admin_post_anything($text) {
if (bb_current_user_can('administrate') ) {
remove_filter( 'pre_post', 'encode_bad' );
remove_filter( 'pre_post', 'bb_encode_bad' );
remove_filter('pre_post', 'bb_filter_kses', 50);
$text=addslashes($text);
$text=bb_autop($text);
}
return $text;
}
add_filter('pre_post', 'bb_admin_post_anything',9);
?>
Okay I finally sat down and wrote it myself.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-plugin-admin-post-anything?replies=1#post-8848
Didn’t realise how easy it would be or I would have done it sooner.
What were you trying to do.. allowed all blogs to have a bbpress? I have bbpress playing very nicely with WPMU at blognola.org (and If I wasn’t so broke It’d even be online right now.)
I bet they mean like in wordpress where the cookie will be set for a year instead of a week?
What’s the bbpress cookie default, I’ll have to go look at the code.
I get around this problem by forcing the wp login from everywhere.
There was another request for this feature here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remember-me-option-at-login?replies=3
I’ve yet to see forum software that makes it hard for members to use/post?
My problem is not really spam but a bunch of pre-teens running around and posting massive, rapid, rabid chats with each other like it’s a chat room. bbPress completely lacks any management tools to deal with that. If you ban them, they can re-register with a different nickname in less than 30 seconds. If you ban their ip, they just use a randomizing proxy.
On my wordpress side I have it completely programmed with stop-words, how fast each member can post and decent moderation tools. But the forum, which from the start needs those abilities the most, does not have them.
I think the moderation functions are definitely severely lacking… but with Akismet integration you shouldn’t get much spam.
The whole point of bbPress from my view is that it’s really simple for the users to actually use, and will hopefully generate more interaction because of that, especially from people that aren’t as forum-savvy.
This is so simple I bet I am duplicating what someone else has already done. I am not sure why this isn’t in bbPress by default and it doesn’t even begin to address what I would consider basic moderation tools but it’s a start.
Install and check under “content” submenu. Why the posts menu =deleted posts in bbpress’s default I have no clue.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbPress Recent Posts
Plugin URI: http://bbpress.org/plugins/
Description: shows most recent posts with (extremely limited) moderation options
Author: _ck_
Author URI: http://CKon.wordpress.com
Version: 0.01
*/
function recent_posts_admin_page() {
if ( !bb_current_user_can('browse_deleted') ) {die(__("Now how'd you get here? And what did you think you'd being doing?"));}
global $bbdb, $bb_posts, $bb_post, $page;
$bb_posts=get_latest_posts(0,$page);
$total = bb_count_last_query();
?>
<h2>Recent Posts</h2>
<ol id="the-list">
<? bb_admin_list_posts(); ?>
</ol>
<?php echo get_page_number_links( $page, $total );
}
function recent_posts_admin_menu() {
global $bb_submenu;
$bb_submenu['content.php'][] = array(__('Recent Posts'), 'use_keys', 'recent_posts_admin_page');
}
add_action( 'bb_admin_menu_generator', 'recent_posts_admin_menu' );
Well akismet support can be added to virtually any forum or blog software so that’s not really a claim to fame. I tried installing the moderate posts plugin but it’s not working right and preventing all posts from being displayed.
There’s also no way to tie any kind of “bad words” list into auto-moderation, and then how do you find any list of moderated posts? Sigh. All of this is already in wordpress so it’s really strange to me it’s not in bbpress by default.
Well I’ll stop here and won’t tie up this particular topic with this further since you can’t move individual posts to other/new topics with bbpress (another missing moderation need).
The Support Forum plugin has been updated to allow the assignment of individual forums as support forums, instead of your whole bbPress install.
So if you have a bbPress site with two forums:
1. Jokes
2. Support
Then you can add the Support forum capabilities to just the second forum, or the first one if you like, or both.
Available now here:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/16
Ah thanks Trent, I thought I saw that list weeks ago but couldn’t find it again.
I’m still not convinced bbpress’s “selling point” is speed or management as other forums seem just as lightweight and definitely more robust. But the biggest problem on any large forum is the sheer number of people doing searches at any given time.
BBpress kinda cheats in this regard (keeping search overhead down) as it tries to enforce tags over searches (I’m not a big believer in user submitted tags when you have a lack of quality control over your members) and it’s search feature is so poor that no one will seriously use it right now (it cannot find whole words, limit by member, limit by forum, limit by subject, etc. etc. etc.)
To me, I thought bbpress’s benefit was WP integration and I was familiar with the functions used after months of hacking wordpress. Wasn’t convinced the wordpress forum plugins were going to keep evolving or be flexible enough.
I guess my problem is jumping in too soon, waited a year to add a forum to let projects like this mature but it’s still a bit early. By the winter the forum I setup should be as big as technorati – it definitely needs better management features.
“The advanced moderation and spam protection features of bbPress save the WP mod team tons of time.“
What advanced moderation features? Am I missing something? You have to actually go into each topic, go to each post and manually moderate. It kinda blows me away that there’s nowhere in the bbpress admin panel to see the last 50 posts like in wordpress. I’m coding the feature for myself right now…
