[wwroni]

oh yeah, look at that! I never heard of spotlight.

I really hacked it.

First I followed the instructions here…

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

I was surprised how easy it was. In seconds bbpress was installed and sharing the same user table as wpmu.

I never could get wpmu to run on top of bbpress. Evertime I tried wpmu would think I wanted to create a blog named boards instead of load the installation of bbpress in the directory called boards. (If anyone has a solution for that PLEASE point me in the right direction) So I “faked” it. I included the css file from my wpmu theme. Made some static changes to the header of bbpress just using HTML and there you have it!

[Vili]

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php global $forumpage;

$forumpage = TRUE; ?>

…should be the other way around:

<?php global $forumpage;

$forumpage = TRUE; ?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

You need to set the $forumpage boolean before you call the header, or you won’t be able to use it there.

Alternatively, forget about $forumpage, and use a global boolean such as $bbdb that bbPress uses anyway, as suggested by fel64.

[andyblackburn]

I have installed this on my bbpress, but see no descriptions or keywords on any pages or posts

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[fel64]

How did you do the image gallery thing? Are images simply a special class of topic?

[Jaithn]

i have installed bbpress and the forum restriction plug in, but i can’t see the admin interface.

i put it in /my-plugins/ and have bbpress .81 with bugfix installed. no other plugins nor wordpress.

of course the display-name plugin is installed, too.

any ideas?

jaithn

[kuczek]

Here is my one (Polish site):

http://vip.barlinek.net

Main best feature made by me there are nicer URLs for topics, create images gallery, tags for images, allow upload images by users, create comments for them…

[fel64]

The topic resolved thing is probably because that was written for an older version of bb which had that in it by default. I think installing the forum support plugin will add that column, worth a shot anyway?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/16?replies=7

Otherwise you could edit the php file and remove the bits about the topic_resolved column (remember to back up the original file in case it doesn’t work!).

[davidbaldiwn]

AHHH

I’ve copied what you have above, and modified it slightly (to match my site), but I am not getting updated titles on topic pages like:

http://ppacp.org/forums/topic.php?id=1&page&replies=1

I’m assuming this has something to do with the templete files for bbpress, so I looked at the top of the files and it looks like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>



<?php global $forumpage;

$forumpage = TRUE; ?>

I changed all the files that had <?php bb_get_header(); ?> from the “kakumei” folder.

Am I doing something wrong?

“confused”

-Baldwin

[asrye]

I know this topic is pretty old, but I have a problem … I converted members and forums succesfully, but topics and posts didn’t show up. I got these errors when converting:

#

Warning, there was an error with the following query

#Exporting Topics: INSERT INTO bb_topics (topic_id, topic_title, topic_poster, topic_poster_name, topic_last_poster, topic_last_poster_name, topic_start_time, topic_time, forum_id, topic_status, topic_resolved, topic_open, topic_last_post_id, topic_sticky, topic_posts, tag_count) VALUES ( 4, ‘Pravila!’, 2, ‘Zala’, 2, ‘Zala’, ‘2007-02-13 16:13:01’, ‘2007-02-13 16:13:01’, 1, 0, ‘no’, 1, 765, 0, 2, 0)

Unknown column ‘topic_resolved’ in ‘field list’

…

And a lot more of them. I don’t know much about php really, so I have no idea what is wrong. It’s probably a stupid mistake I made, but I don’t know what it is. Help me, please?

[piginzen]

Well I got it converted to phpBB. Then when I did the phpBB-> bbPress convert it got held up. I guess I’ll just wait until bbPress comes with an included importer.

Thanks!

[providencebooks]

I would like to know if someone can install and integrate BBpress with my WordPress site. I know that people install wordpress on non-commercial sites for free. My site is a blog for professionals, that I may ad some advertising just to pay for the site space. Can someone help me?

However I read (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/1140?replies=28#post-7450 atomAstro wrote) that there were some problems with integrating it. Any suggestions? I don’t know much about php and the like. I know minimal html and most of that has been depracated (I assume).

I am good at following instructions though. As long as they are step by step

[fel64]

I don’t know. Is the phpbb structure identical to the smf structure?

Maybe you want to use an SMF -> phpBB converter, and then convert from phpBB -> bbPress.

[Trent Adams]

It will be fine. From WordPress 2.0.4 to WP 2.2 there were no changes in the wp_users and wp_usermeta tables that would give you an issue using bbPress that I am aware of. I guess the easiest thing to do would be to install bbPress in a directory off WP and see how you make out following all the integration instructions. You can always move folders later by just changing the config.php to have the address that you eventually would like.

Trent

[jetshack]

I’m at a loss as for what to do and would love a little direction.

For a number of reasons about a year ago I transitioned a site from Geeklog to WP. I made a big mistake when choosing the forum software to use for the site. I looked at BBPress but ended up using RS Discuss. I don’t remember my rationale, but needless to say it was flawed. Currently the site is running on WP 2.0.4 and RS Discuss version .52. The forums are working and have become moderately active.

RS Discuss looks to be dead and isn’t going to work with anything higher than WP 2.0.x series… I’m scared to death to upgrade WP for fear that the forums will be fubared.

So I’d like to correct my earlier mistake and install / integrate BBPress into WP. However, in order to keep everything kosher I want to install BB onto the existing site before upgrading WP so as to be able to migrate all the RS info into BB…

Long story short… Would it be safe to Install BBPress onto WP 2.0.4 and then upgrade the site to WP 2.2?

[piginzen]

I am a bit confused. Can you use the script here: http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/

And just change all the instances of phpbb to smf?

I am still trying to convert my SMF to bbPress. I have thousands of messages I’d hate to lose.

Thanks!

[Sam Bauers]

Things certainly seem to be quiet. I’m also guessing that mdawaffe is busy with WordPress work, I saw a few notes mentioning him in some of the recent WordPress commits.

I haven’t been doing much bbPress work recently either, I’ve been too busy on another open source project that is actually my full-time employment. I only have one outstanding ticket on the bbPress dev site without a patch attached (I don’t have commit access), and I have already developed a plugin for that. I only pick up tickets that interest me though, and none have come up recently that I have liked the looks of and thought I could commit time to.

I do plan to hit the bbpulp.org documentation site with a few more updates soon though.

[davidbaldiwn]

Anouther stuipd question:

How do I make the title update to the appropriate page?

When in WordPress the title in the browsers “title bar” is updated with the title of the particular post. In bbPress this isn’t happening. I’m assuming this has to do with the header change, but this topic has the correct title in the titlebar, so there must be some way to fix it.

If Google didn’t exist I wouldn’t care…

-Baldwin

[c00l2sv]

Thanks for comments guys, I was just wondering how are the things going in bbPress camp, by the way I suppose the paying attention to this project is growing day by day so I can wish you nothing but luck… Ooh, and thanks of course.

[Trent Adams]

Since with integation you are having bbPress use the WP users, it would be easiest to write a plugin for either WP or bbPress to use the other’s profile page. It has the same userID, so I think that pulling a WP user page would be the easiest, but it might not be hard to do the opposite and have WP use bbPress’s page. Whichever ‘profile URL’ is the most pluggable I would guess.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I actually have done this and those definitions will work, but it sometimes takes some working with your host to get the proper syntax for being able to connect!

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Our TRAC development has come to a grinding halt, so I can assume that mdawaffe has been crazy busy on other Automattic projects and we went to the backburner! So10 and Sam might be working on things, but we haven’t had any commits in almost a month…..hopefully soon!

Trent

[Trent Adams]

bbPress was created with simplicity in mind and was able to be extended through plugins. Posting and replying by email will require someone to create a plugin that needs the functionality. If you are at home, you wouldn’t reply or create by email because you would be just as easy to login to your forum. So, it the main issue here about mobile communications? The 2 mobile plugins help users on the road (I use it at least 4 days a week) for posting on the road. Can anyone tell me what the biggest advantage to them would be to post or reply by email because I don’t quite understand what the main reason to do it would be! ?

Trent

[so1o]

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/49

This plugin will enable features to hold topics and posts for moderation. This will particularly be useful if the site has anonymous posting. The administrator can set preferences to hold either new topics or new posts or both. Administrator can also specify email addresses for each of them to be notified in case of new post or new topic moderation hold

[Sam Bauers]

I think fel64’s point is that it would be preferable to store the value in the users meta-data, this would reduce the database load by removing those trivial queries. This is generally the way bbPress handles these sorts of things (e.g. keeping post counts in the tables for forums and topics) – not that I necessarily agree with that approach in all cases.

[Sam Bauers]

Try:

alert(commodAjax.transport.responseText);

I’m not sure if it will work though.

Would it be too insulting to refer you to the source code of the WPAjax class? There are answers there if you are able to interpret the code.

Also, if you are not actually returning some output at the page you are requesting, then it might be returning undefined. Again I’m not sure, being that I (like fel64) volunteer my time to answer queries here, I am not necessarily able to fully troubleshoot your issue (especially since you only present half of the equation – i.e. the client side AJAX request).

You catch more flies with honey. Etc., etc.