[Trent Adams]

With integration, you had to say during the installation what user you wanted to be the key master (adminstrator) in bbPress. Adminstrators in WP don’t automatically get admin status in bbPress. What I would suggest is finding out who is the key master in bbPress, login as them and add the user you want as admin with key master or admin status.

If you are unsure who is key master, I believe a search in the db should let you know, or just check out:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/185?replies=5#post-909

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I have another post in the forum, but if you are interested in using a great software package that limits spam and server attacks before they access the site, then you might be interested in Bad Behavior. I really like it because it really decreases the load on the server as well.

While they do not have a plugin for bbPress and creating one isn’t in the cards right now, you can do it by downloading the newest Bad Behavior release and placing it as a folder in the root of your bbPress installation.

After that, you just need to call it. I did this by adding the following to config.php after the /* Stop editing */ part.

require_once( BBPATH . '/Bad-Behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php');

That is the easy way without a plugin. Just thought I would share it for those that are interested.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

It would seem that this is going to need some testing!

Could everyone try this out if you can and report back? It would be good to test my blog as well (so we can see if one works and one doesn’t).

Forum – http://forum.trentadams.ca

Blog – http://blog.trentadams.ca

I use a Treo 700 Smartphone, so it might have a little better browser than most….

Trent

[ardentfrost]

awesome dude, glad you figured all that stuff out!

[Trent Adams]

I had to borrow a function from the great Alex King and his mobile edition for WP, but I have created a plugin that will allow mobile phones and other common mobile devices to access a page designed for them.

Download: BB-Mobile

All the directions are in the readme.txt file in the download file, so it should be quite self explanatory. It has 2 files and you need to edit your header.php file in your templates, but has no core changes.

NOTE: I don’t think the mobile CSS will validate and I need people to test this out to find any bugs and corrections, but it seems to work well enough for me.

If you need a demo, you can view my forum with a mobile:

http://forum.trentadams.ca

Trent

[thomasklaiber]

Hehe … look here my friend: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/465

merry christmas.

[thomasklaiber]

I just made another quick plugin. You can specify a user to be noticed by mail about the recent topic. Read more here:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/458

To install put the file into your /my-plugins folder and add

<p>

<label for="summon_user_id"><?php _e('Summon:'); ?>

<?php summon_user_dropdown(); ?>

</label>

</p>

behind the last endif; to your /my-templates/post-form.php

Download here:

http://la-school.com/2006/downloads/summon_1_0.zip

merry christmas.

[ryuuguu]

I have not really investigated the what problem in the code is so I am not sure what things should be set to. I set my GMT offset to to get right (+9) and my posts started showing right then changed $hours around until I got freshness right in my case it was -18, but all I can suggest is get the post time right by changing $bb->gmt_offset and then use $hours to bring freshness time into line. This plugin is really only a tempory fix till later beta version bbpress fixes the code properly.

[bakedlogdotcom]

Basically I’m working on a plugin for bbpress that will skip wordpress all together ( no offense wordpress )

Frankly I think wordpress is too advanced for the average “myspace” type user / target visitor. And, I want to have a community like system like myspace or livejournal.

So I want to basically add a blog section to bbpress where you can keep a private journal… with privacy options on each blog entry to either Private or Public, and if you select Public it will put it in a Forum as a new topic for people to discuss.

I was hoping to get a few pointers as to what functions to look at to help me achieve this through bbpress or if I should even continue doing this and try to customize wordpress-mu instead to fit the visitor

Heres what I have looked at so far:

1) Add new topic / Write blog

bb-templates/post-form.php

......

<label for=”forum_id”><?php _e(‘Pick a section:’); ?>

<?php forum_dropdown(); ?>

</label>

<!– DIRT_PRIVACY –>

Set the privacy:

<select name=”dirt_privacy” id=”dirt_privacy” tabindex=”6″>

<option value=”public” selected>Public</option>

<option value=”private”>Private</option>

</select>

<small>**Choose ‘Private’ if you want this to be a blog only readable by you</small>

<!– END DIRT_PRIVACY –>

<?php endif; ?>

<p class=”submit”>

<input type=”submit” id=”postformsub” name=”Submit” value=”<?php _e(‘Send Post’); ?> »” tabindex=”4″ />

bb-includes/functions.php -> bb_new_topic();

function bb_new_topic( $title, $forum, $tags = '' ) {

// function bb_new_topic( $title, $forum, $tags, $dirt_privacy = ” ) {

global $bbdb, $bb_cache, $bb_current_user;

$title = apply_filters(‘pre_topic_title’, $title, false);

$forum = (int) $forum;

$now = bb_current_time(‘mysql’);

if ( $forum && $title ) {

// if ($dirt_privacy==’public’){

// ADD AS NORMAL TOPIC HERE (depending on whether ‘adding new topic’ or ‘writting new blog’, determine whether to add as default normal Forum Topic (public) or include in users blog but also as public Blog Forum Topic

$bbdb->query(“INSERT INTO $bbdb->topics

(topic_title, topic_poster, topic_poster_name, topic_last_poster, topic_last_poster_name, topic_start_time, topic_time, forum_id)

VALUES

(‘$title’, $bb_current_user->ID, ‘{$bb_current_user->data->user_login}’, $bb_current_user->ID, ‘{$bb_current_user->data->user_login}’, ‘$now’, ‘$now’, $forum)”);

$topic_id = $bbdb->insert_id;

if ( !empty( $tags ) )

add_topic_tags( $topic_id, $tags );

$bbdb->query(“UPDATE $bbdb->forums SET topics = topics + 1 WHERE forum_id = $forum”);

$bb_cache->flush_many( ‘forum’, $forum_id );

do_action(‘bb_new_topic’, $topic_id);

return $topic_id;

//} elseif ($dirt_privacy == ‘private’) {

// ADD TO DB AS PRIVATE BLOG HERE

//}

} else {

return false;

}

}

Sorry if I’m a bit confusing as I am a bit confused right now

Again, any functions/documentation/help I should look at would be appreciated.

-BHensley.com

-Bakedlog.com

[Jonathan Landrum]

Well, I’m not using bbpress just yet, but as far as the look goes you can just snag the CSS file, assuming Matt doesn’t care. Also, weirdtherapy has a good point in that pasting the CSS file in your directory won’t necessarily work; you’ll have to put in the hooks and whatnot that they use here.

[ryuuguu]

I wrote a quick plugin to correct this it is at

http://www.ryuuguu.com/wordpress/2006/12/22/correcting-bbpress-freshness-1/

you will need to edit

$hours=-18;
[code]
to find the right number for your offset

[code]

$hours=-18;

to find the right number for your offset

[code]

to find the right number for your offset

[cgavin]

Right, cant fix the timezone as I have no idea what time zone it is in. Its 3000 miles away.

Cant be bothered with this – clicking a topic redirects me to my WordPress homepage? Eh?

Then it says the admin user I created and logged in as 10 mins ago doesnt exhist anymore. Riight.

Think I’ll stick with something more mature.

See you when bbpress gets there init.

Thanks again, but I dont have anymore time to waste ..

I just spunked 3 hrs on this! Thats more than enough ..

[chrishajer]

Also, the config.php editing thing was addressed for version .74 here:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/477

<strong>Description</strong>

There are many common errors made when editing config.php.

We can check for these errors prior to installation refuse to install if things are out of whack.

It’s not an install script, but it does at least validate the config. It won’t prevent the errors but it will catch them.

[chrishajer]

I have WP and bbPress integrated and have no problem logging in as admin in WP then also being admin in bbPress. I have the opposite problem (not really a problem): when I log into bbPress as a normal user, and I try to access wp-admin, it gives me an error about not having sufficient permissions. In wp-admin > users, I edited the permissions for the “normal” bbPress user, and he can act as admin at WP now. Never tried to admin bbPress as that user…

I think it’s probably something else: I did not require the hack you are suggesting to make this work.

In bbPress, does it say:

Welcome, admin! View your profile» (Admin | Logout)

up top?

If it does, clicking the Admin link there will take you to the bbPress dashboard. Is that not happening for you?

[chrishajer]

Glad you fixed it.

edit: you’re going to want to look at this thread to fix the freshness -1 years problem on your forum.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/147?replies=11

[bakedlogdotcom]

I have successfully integrated WordPress and BBPress (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/12?replies=25#post-2502) but I am having 1 problem..

When I log in as admin in BBPress, it seems to be logging me in with the ‘admin’ account from WordPress, and not giving it admin privileges on the BBPress system, (ie: i can’t go to /bb-admin to edit anything).

The only thing i can think of is somehow excluding the ‘admin’ account integration when you log into bbpress, something like

if ($user=='admin') { #skip integration }

Or is there something I am missing..?

Thanks,

-BHensley.com

-Bakedlog.com

[bakedlogdotcom]

are you looking to display 2 seperate instances of bbpress? or just multiple main Forums with sub-category forums?

[cgavin]

I edited them all to FALSE

now I get!

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/virtual/site122/fst/var/www/html/bbpress/config.php on line 58

!!

What the heck?!

I’ve installed hundreds of php/sql portals and boards before and never had anything like this.

You guys could do a lot worse than just put together a complete php install script where you fill in the fields interactively ..

The amount of time I have to waste with this sort of stuff really affects my software selection. I could have installed PhPBB a hundred times over already.

Line 58 is:

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

[cgavin]

I took the config down because it was publishing the entire file before the function error – ie all my passwords were freely advertised!

Anyway I tried again with a fresh config:

http://www.cjgavin.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/virtual/site122/fst/var/www/html/bbpress/config.php on line 53

Better than undefined function.

(line 53) $bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.cjgavin.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

Whats wrong with that??

Lines 52 > 54:

$bb->;wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_;’

$bb->;wp_home = ‘http://www.cjgavin.com&#8217;;

$bb->;wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.cjgavin.com&#8217;;

[chrishajer]

When I go here:

http://www.cjgavin.com/bbpress/

I get this:

There doesn't seem to be a config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Open up config-sample.php, fill in your details, and save it as config.php.

Did you rename config-sample.php to config.php?

When I try to load config-sample.php directly, I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home/virtual/site122/fst/var/www/html/bbpress/config-sample.php on line 53

Maybe that colon is related to one of the wp_ URL lines (URLs must be quoted.)

Hang in there: you’re close.

[cgavin]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: _e() in /home/virtual/site122/fst/var/www/html/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php on line 17

Here’s my config:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘edited’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘out’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘ok’); // …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://www.cjgavin.com&#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 = ‘/bbpress/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘CJGAVIN.com’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘edited@out.com’;

// 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 = 0;

// 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 = false;

// 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 = false; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

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

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

/* Stop editing */

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

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

?>

I get this error even if I dont comment out the wp integration stuff.

I have no idea why, I have checked to make sure the permissions are correct.

It isnt working and I dont know why – more worrying – I can’t find anyone else who’s experienced this issue.

[chrishajer]

I wonder if the problem with this line:

bb_get_user($bb_post->poster_id)->user_login

is related to this style syntax and could be fixed in a similar manner (if necessary):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/401?replies=42#post-2140

[ardentfrost]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/385?replies=24

Plugin by s010

[mjbruder]

What is the best way to secure a forum so that only individual users can view and post to it?

As far as I can tell this is not a native feature of bbpress, so I would probably have to go about it a different way.

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thank you.

[chrishajer]

I was over at http://trac.bbpress.org/ looking for a way to report a bug of submit a diff. I signed up for the bbdev mailing list, but that username and password does not work for logging in here http://trac.bbpress.org/login

I don’t want to submit a bug here, unless it’s appropriate. Can anyone point me to where I can submit a bug at trac?

Many thanks. (sorry, selected the wrong forum too – accidentally hit enter too quickly)