Maybe your server does not support sending mail. I think there have been people who have chosen to display the password rather than emailing it when their server cannot send email:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/82
I don’t think so. Blogs and forums serve two different purposes and I don’t know that anyone has written an exporter to get WordPress blog posts into bbPress.
It looks like WordPress uses the same exact syntax for the connection, so, it SHOULD work. Are you certain the string is exactly the same as the one you have in wp-config.php? If it works in WordPress, I think it should work in bbPress.
louisedade, thanks so much for getting back to me on this and yes, I’ve emailed the other plugin developer but no response as yet.
I am enormously appreciative of you going to the trouble of working on a possible fix. I hear what you’re saying about your views on its chances, but I will give it a try and head back here to let you know if it works or no.
Other than that, I only hope the BBPress Post plugin author gets back to me on this. But yeah, thank you!
Is there information on or a plugin on exporting wordpress posts into bbpress?
I’d like to export an old wordpress blog into my forums.
Did you modify any of your template files to call any of your plugins? Sounds like a template file is referencing a plugin that no longer exists.
Let’s see, which of these require a modification to the template:
NO: allow-images.php
?: bb-avatar.php
NO: comment_QT_4_bbpress.php
NO: fix-bbpress.php
NO: js_quicktags.js
Maybe the bb-avatar plugin required a change to a template and that is causing trouble now?
For sure the link for my blog entry is here. How do mean “doesn’t work”? You mean the download version or the actual theme? The theme works. I have my forum on it right now…..will change this in a day or so back to my main theme though….just showing everyone it works!
http://onvertigo.com
Trent
In my plugin directory I have the following
allow-images.php
bb-avatar.php
comment_QT_4_bbpress.php
fix-bbpress.php
js_quicktags.js
Where else should I look for something wrong? I don’t know php or all that stuff. I know basic HTML and how to modify css but I’m not a programmer or anything like that… I’m only a plant grower (horticulturist) 
HELP!
I’m still having that problem. I tried all solutions on this page, but had no luck getting pretty URLs. Forum is working fine, but whenever I apply .htaccess settings, either copy-pasted from this forum or from rewrite-rules.php, I get an error
Not Acceptable
An appropriate representation of the requested resource /forum/topic/1 could not be found on this server.
Available variants:
* topic.php , type application/x-httpd-php, language ru
What could that be? I have the latest version of bbPress, it’s using wordpress database for authorization & authentication, but runs in a separate directory.
I have heard this before, and it was a problem with the user-timezones plugin (version 1 – apparently version 2 fixed the problem.) Are you using that? Are you using any other plugins?
Looking through the source for https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php I don’t see the provision for setting a port number (someone correct me if it is actually accounted for somewhere else.)
MySQL normally operates on port 3306, not 1337, so I don’t know if you are making up that port or if your host actually runs MySQL on that port. If he does run MySQL on that port, then I don’t know what to do.
If it’s actually port 3306, everything will work fine if you set this in config.php:
define('BBDB_HOST', 'blabla.bla.pl'); with no http and no colon and no port.
HTH
I just followed your directions. Every time I delete bb_online, it shows that I’m online but soon switches to “no users.” It’s still showing that I am online, but I’m waiting for other members to show up.
In the meantime, here’s my plugin list:
Allow Images 0.7.1
Avatar 0.73a
bbEmoticons 0.72
Show Post Count 0.73a
BBPress Private Messaging 0.73
BBCode for bbPress 0.1
Comment Quicktags for bbPress 1.1
Fix bbPress 0.8.1-1
JS QuickTags for bbPress version 1.0
Online List 1.4
Quote 0.2
Very strange!
Maybe do the following:
Have you installed any other plugins?
They used to be ajaxed… or was that wordpress?? well ajexing this would be great to have as default!!
Any bbpress programmer who wants to comment this?
Also editing could be made ajaxed… 
I’ve been using WordPress for years so when it came to adding a forum to my site bbpress made sense to me. However I’m having some integration issue which I would appreciate some help on.
I’ve gone through the process of integrating bbpress with wordpress following these instructions http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/ which seemed to work fine but…
When I look at my users in bbpress I can see them all there but if I try to edit any of them (to create a modorator for example) by clicking edit (http://www.forums.geekpulp.co.nz/profile/1/edit), I just get a 404
I also have the same issue when I attempt to view any posts/forums create. The url looks like this http://www.forums.geekpulp.co.nz/topic/3?replies=1
Any ideas?
I’ve just installed the last version of bbpress on last version of wordpress, its all ok but, when I click on “view your profile” or other links the result is: “Not Found The requested URL /forum/profile/1 was not found on this server.”
Why?
Many Thanks
I thought about having separate headers, but concluded that sweating blood and tears now is easier than having to remember later that I have near-identical info in two different places. But it is really up to your own preferences, I suppose.
Now that I’m able to make WordPress recognize when it’s serving bbPress pages, I can also modify the sidebar and other design features accordingly on the fly, which I think is really quite nice.
With new version of plugin, u dont need to edit the file directly anymore. U can always get the new version from https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/39
From what i can see. SELECT * FROM topics WHERE It seem the bb table prefix is missing. Maybe u miss the setting.
I dont know what u mean by “i still have the SMF forum that reads the forum topics” but u can find the option page inside wordpress option under “BbLD Option”
I’m just going to add onto this post with my error about the plugin.
I edited the php at these two lines:
Code:
$bbpath = ‘/forum’; // Adjust the path to suit your bbpress
$forum_slimit = ’10’; // Adjust the limit to show
uploaded the plugin into wp-content/plugin and then added
Code:
<?php wp_bb_get_discuss_sidebar(); ?>
to my sidebar. activated the plugin to get the following error:
Code:
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM topics WHERE topic_status = 0 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT
i still have the SMF forum that reads the forum topics with the line code:
Code:
<?php include (‘/forum1/extern.php?action=active’);?>
so i have no clue what I did wrong… i’m thinking maybe its something I didn’t edit. Also i keep hearing about a option page for the plugin and can’t seem to find it.
Trent your theme doesn’t work plus your download link doesn’t work either I had to search elseware for the template. Where can I get a working version? your link should be http://onvertigo.com/downloads/bbpress-forum.zip
My site has a similar integration. I tossed around the idea of doing a conditional header like you describe, but in the end it was just simpler to have a second header file specific for bbpress, which is basically a copy of the WP one with some of the required bbpress stuff thrown in.
OK well I did a new install.
The link do work now but the other problem is that the last posts I made do not show up in the Latest Discussions section. There is a new tag ‘trying’ which does display along with the tag ‘BBPress’ but when clicking on it does not seems to find any posts.
http://forum.webscratches.com/
Oh and BTW, in the Dashboard, when going to Topics or Posts, nothing is listed there. I am correctly listed as a Moderator and I am not in the Bozos list
On a sidenote I had to set all files to 755 because I got a permission error (this is related to my hosting though I’m not sure it might have sth to do)
Damn right!
bbPress can’t toast your bagels, but a plugin for it sure could!
Thank you very much for the detailed response. I’m sure this will help out many folks who have this issue. Let me ponder a lazy man’s approach. That lazy man being me, since I already have said bye to phpbb and have bbpress up and running. Couldn’t I run mysqldump to extract the bb_users table, then go in and modify the first few user ID’s (across the data I know 
) and then just import that table into wp_users?
Or since my WP install is still fresh with only a couple users, it might be easier to change their ID’s in the database, then import bb_users into wp_users?
I think the point of bbpress is to allow ultimate customizability (same as wordpress). If you want all-in-one forums, then bbpress is certainly not for you because you’ll spend 3 years installing and writing plugins to get you to that point.
If you want a slim forum software that allows you to pick and choose what functions you want, then bbpress is really good. You don’t NEED to know php unless you want to add something specific for you.
And, of course, as bbpress grows so does its plugin list. Plugins is what makes bbpress particularly special because if, for instance, you don’t find private messages useful, then don’t install that plugin. The base software is just enough to have forums that are easily navigated and posted to. Everything else is up to you (and plugin creators)
