[Vili]

Just to make sure, you don’t actually use “require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);”, but rather have the “path/to/” bit modified to correspond with the correct folder path to your WordPress installation, right?

As far as I can see (and I am no real coder, either), somehow your current setup still fails to connect to WordPress, and therefore the WP functions, including get_header, are unavailable to bbPress.

[davidbaldiwn]

vilimaunula, I used your method or replacing the <?php bb_get_header(); ?> and bb_get_footer. I am not a php buff by any means, but now I am reciving this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_header() in /home/turner/public_html/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/front-page.php on line 1

Line 1 is the line I replaced, I’m just wondering why it has a promblem with it. I made sure I had the

require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);

set in my config.php.

The only thing I might be doing differently, is that I have my bbpress in a sub-domain. I also tryed installing in a folder on primary domain, and I ran into the same problem.

I’m using the Subte “Subvert” theme:

http://www.gluedideas.com/

Any ideas?

-Baldwin

[anaon]

Hello,

I’m quite happy with my bbpress forum but I just noticed that there are some strange “?” appearing in the forum name for example.

It’s strange, do you know what it is?

http://www.spleenarcana.com/forum/

[bbolman]

Here’s the follow-up we did at Pro Forums, in case anyone is interested in a different view on the top ten must have plugins: Pro Forums Top Ten Plugins

[Vili]

I would personally prefer to have a completely new profile page, not just a revamped bbPress one. The ultimate solution would of course be to allow the admin to choose whether to use the WordPress, bbPress or completely new page for user profiles. But that would again make the whole thing even more complicated.

It’s a good point about redirection — the plugin should indeed make sure that all links to profile pages would go to the one set by the admin as the one to be used. (Whether WordPress, bbPress, or a totally separate page.)

[djuggler]

How’d I overlook this?!

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

If you would like to pull user information from a different database, define USER_BBDB_NAME, USER_BBDB_USER, USER_BBDB_PASSWORD, and USER_BBDB_HOST.

[djuggler]

My dbs are limited to 100MB and I’ve watched a spam attack add 20-40MB in a heartbeat on WordPress alone. Granted part of the solution is having SpamKarma purge more frequently.

I was concerned that if I added bbpress to the same database, and if it received any significant traffic, that I would find myself faced with running out of space in my database.

Naturally, the solution seems to be to have wordpress and bbpress use two separate databases but pull user information from the wordpress db. (Or find a hosting provider that doesn’t limit the db size to 100mb)

[howtogeek]

I’ve been struggling with exactly the same problem myself.

I tend to think that the bbPress profile is the correct place to store and edit this information. Here’s what I see as the requirements:

1) Plugin for WordPress to redirect the “Profile Edit” link to the bbPress profile edit screen, as well as link the profile view to the bbPress profile view.

2) Plugin for bbPress to allow for editing of WordPress profile fields as well as a customizable list of new/extra fields. I believe that there is a plugin that does at least part of this already.

3) The bbPress plugin would need to either know about WordPress settings like notifications, or would need to run the wordpress plugin filters that apply to profile edit. I’m not sure that the latter would be easy.

[Vili]

If you have integrated your bbPress with WordPress, you must have at least once thought about the problem of your users having two separate interfaces for modifying their profile settings.

Furthermore, if your bbPress and WordPress both use a good deal of plugins, you end up with a situation where some settings (say, email notifications for new WordPress posts) have to be set on a WordPress profile page, whereas other settings (for example email notifications for new forum topics or replies) must be set through the bbPress interface. This will confuse your average user so much that they will simply not use any of your website’s fancy features at all.

It would therefore be good to have just one user profile page that would merge everything from the two together. Preferably, this should also be a page that could be displayed within the website template, so that it would really look like being part of the website, and not behind a completely different-looking interface as is the case with WordPress user pages. (Those also scare people.)

Would this be doable?

I am personally not much of a coder, so I don’t know all the details of what is going on when the WordPress and bbPress profile pages get served, and how various plugins get to modify that process by adding new fields and buttons on those pages.

I assume, however, that the most difficult thing for a “one profile page to rule them all” sort of an approach that I am thinking about here would be to keep track of additions to those profile pages. It should somehow be able to notice that some new bbPress or WordPress plugin has modified one of those user profile pages, and incorporate those changes to the merged profile page that is actually displayed to the end user.

I would love to hear some input from those of you who know more than I do about the behind-the-scenes activity when it comes to user profiles in bbPress and WordPress. What do you think, how difficult would a plugin like this be to code?

[maphew]

Hi All,

When I go to “bbpress dashboard > Content > Akismet Spam” I’m told “The API key you have specified is invalid. Please double check the $bb->akismet_key variable in your config.php file. If you don’t have an API key yet, you can get one at WordPress.com.”

Which I’ve checked and double-checked. I’m positive I’m putting the same string in that I see when I login to http://wordpress.com/profile/

When I check my wordpress blog, running on a different host and different domain from bbpress, the same key is there and wp reports the akismet plugin is working.

Another post from 6 months ago said replacing single quotes with double quotes in config.php fixed the problem for them. Doesn’t work for me though. http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/146?replies=4

I’m running bbpress 0.8.1 on Sourceforge.net.

Any ideas what’s wrong?

thanks!

-matt

[tecfre]

I love BBpress. I have tried to compile the top 10 must have plugin for bbpress. Hope it will be useful.

http://www.tecfre.com/top-10-plugins-for-bbpress/

[tecfre]

lots to be done in the forum . Its at initial stage. Theme name is refresh.

have used , avatar_upload plugin , quicktags , smiley , memberlist etc.

“So get Technology Freaked “.

BBpress rocks .

[davidbaldiwn]

This is what the config file looks like:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘turner_wrdp3’); // 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

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = ‘http://forums.ppacp.org&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Professional Photographers Againsts Copying Photographs’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘*********@ppacp.org’;

// Set to true if you want 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 = -4;

// 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 = ‘*************’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave the rest as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://ppacp.org&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://ppacp.org&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

[davidbaldiwn]

Are you supposed to install bbPress with the same or different Database information as WordPress?

I want to integrate the two, so I used the same database information as wordpress.

When I try to run the install, I get this error:

“Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bb_install_header() in /home/turner/public_html/forums/bb-admin/install.php on line 11”

Any ideas?

[chrishajer]

When the post is created, the tags are split on spaces, so foo and bar would have been created as separate tags. When you add tags to an existing topic, you can use spaces and enter tags one at a time. So you would enter foo and get a foo tag, and then bar and get a bar tag. My guess is that ‘foo bar’ was entered as a tag on an existing topic, and that’s how it stayed. If they were expecting the tag to be split on the space (like a new topic handles the tags) they would be surprised maybe to learn it works differently with existing topics.

Also: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/472?replies=7

Maybe?

[nicola86]

Hi there,

where can I find an italian translation of BBpress?

[Arlo]

For some reason, when users enter multiple tags in their posts at my bbpress site, they are becoming a SINGLE tag. Is there a way to fix this? Here’s a sample post:

http://automatorworld.com/forum/topic/correcting-exif-data

“foo bar” was entered in the tag field, but appears as a single tag.

[delete]

I just downloaded this plugin and used with the current version 0.8.1 and it seems to work for me. At first I was marked with 1 but after using this plugin and saving myself as 0 and creating some test accounts no new accounts seem to be marked as “1” anymore. So, It seems to have work for me. Thanks for releasing this.

[anaon]

Oh thank you very much for your help. I followed your advices and then, I saw that I had a very old version of BBpress!

So it works great now as you can see: http://www.spleenarcana.com/forum/

Thanks again!

[Vili]

Hmm. Actually, the code that I copy-pasted from the above seems to be different from what I have on my hard drive. At least a number of “<p>” tags appear to be missing.

[Vili]

There’s something odd there, as the code is 193 lines long, i.e. the line 193 includes only “?>”.

Anyway, I’ll send you the code in a sec by email.

[Vili]

Ah. Yes, I use “require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);” in my bbPress config.php.

[fel64]

I don’t know. I doubt it, because bbdb (the object used to do any database stuff) is hardcoded all over the place and you need a new bbdb object for every database you connect to, as far as I’m aware. So integration – which consists of sharing the users and usermeta table I think – would be impossible, unless you changed all references to the user tables to use your second bbdb object.

Why do you want to?

[djuggler]

Has anyone tried to do a WordPress / BBPress integration using 2 separate databases?

Is it possible? Any caveats?

Doug

[fredvee]

Is there a relatively easy “bbpress way” to add a radio button instead of a text field?