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!
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 
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.
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
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?
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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/
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
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.)
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.
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)
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.
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?
