[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)

[Trent Adams]

Not very had to write plugins if you are a coder and look at pluggable.php as it uses a similar structure as WordPress. Right out of the box, bbPress may never work straight away with WP plugins without a core change in code.

Trent

[bakedlogdotcom]

I have successfully setup my site to integrate registrations/logins between wordpress on its own DB and domain (blog.bakedlog.com) and bbpress on its own DB and domain (forum.bakedlog.com).

Files:

WP: wp-content/plugins/bbpress-integration.php

BBP: my-plugins/wordpress-integration.php

• I can create a user in wordpress and log into bbpress with it.
• I can create a user in bbpress and log into wordpress with it.(although the default role set for wordpress does not let me write (how do i change this?))

However, I too cannot get cookies to authenticate between the two systems.

I have included the following in bbpress’s config.php:

$bb->cookiedomain = 'bakedlog.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

I monitored the cookies created on my computer as I logged into each system, and noticed that bbpress was creating the cookie correctly, domain: bakedlog.com, while when I logged into wordpress it would set the domain on the cookie to blog.bakedlog.com.

So the problem is with WordPress..

Looking in WordPress’ wp-settings.php I see:

if ( !defined('USER_COOKIE') )

define('USER_COOKIE', 'wordpressuser');

if ( !defined('PASS_COOKIE') )

define('PASS_COOKIE', 'wordpresspass');

if ( !defined('COOKIEPATH') )

define('COOKIEPATH', $current_site->path );

if ( !defined('SITECOOKIEPATH') )

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', $current_site->path );

if ( !defined('COOKIE_DOMAIN') )

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.' . $current_site->domain);

So, in WordPress’ wp-config.php I inserted:

// BBPRESS INTEGRATION

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'bakedlog.com');

Clearing my cookies and logging into WordPress, I see the cookie domain is correct and matches my BBPress’.

But, there is still another problem, the cookies set by BBPress appends an md5 hash based on the site url and table prefix to the cookie’s name (ie: wordpressuser_bf17f59023eb22f…..) while WordPress’ cookie name is only: wordpressuser

I looked around in bb-settings.php and found:

define('BBHASH', $bb->wp_siteurl ? md5($bb->wp_siteurl) : md5($bb_table_prefix) );

if ( !isset( $bb->usercookie ) )

$bb->usercookie = ( $bb->wp_table_prefix ? 'wordpressuser_' : 'bb_user_' ) . BBHASH;

if ( !isset( $bb->passcookie ) )

$bb->passcookie = ( $bb->wp_table_prefix ? 'wordpresspass_' : 'bb_pass_' ) . BBHASH;

So, the next step is to define $bb->usercookie and $bb->passcookie in BBPress’ config.php:

// COOKIE SHARING WITH WORDPRESS

$bb->cookiedomain = 'bakedlog.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

I cleared my cookies and tested it, VOILA! I can log into either section (bbpress or wordpress) and switch to the other without losing authentication!

==========SOLUTION===========

BBPRESS CONFIG.PHP:

// COOKIE SHARING WITH WORDPRESS

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

WORDPRESS WP-CONFIG.PHP:

// COOKIE SHARING WITH BBPRESS

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'bakedlog.com');

==========********===========

Thats it I believe, let me know if it works for you or if you see anything I have done that could crash either program.

-BHensley.com

-Bakedlog.com

[Trent Adams]

Rod,

Right now, the integration with wordpress is strictly login related. The plugins for WordPress currently do not work with bbPress because of the differences in how they work with the system. I have requested the YouTube plugin for bbPress from the author of the Anarchy Media Plugin for WP and I hope this gets out there soon! Plugins don’t take too much to convert over to bbPress, but they still have to be converted to work with the system.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Very nice job so10! Looks great! Start of WP and bbPress theme release!

Trent

[veb]

This forum I am creating for a small indie game (www.toribash.com) and SMF just didnt cut it. Way too difficult to change core code, and to me, make new plugins!

This is a temporary link, seeing I’m not anywhere NEAR finnished. As you can see I am using the emotions plugin, avatar plugin, PM plugin and a few of my own.

http://veb.bounceme.net/bbpress/

Comments welcome

[chrishajer]

I may have downloaded the wrong version. This is from the file notification_all.php

* Plugin URI: http://www.la-school.com/2006/bbpress-notification/

* Version: 1.1

Oops! “notification all” – haha

I will download the new version now, with the enhancement on the last poster’s name. Thanks a bunch. Merry Christmas.

[so1o]

This is a wordpress/bbpress integrated theme. This theme will work only when you have integrated wordpress and bbpress. for details visit

http://www.adityanaik.com/blog/bbpress-and-wordpress-integration/

Screenshots

http://www.adityanaik.com/projects/themes/bloody-gray-theme/#bbpress-ss

download the bbpress theme from here

http://www.adityanaik.com/download/bb-my-template.zip

download the wordpress theme here

http://www.adityanaik.com/projects/themes/bloody-gray-theme/

Note: the header in wordpress will need to be changed to add link to forum

[thomasklaiber]

@chrishajer:

This Plugin doesn’t care if you’re admin or not. So you should only receive emails on your favorite topics.

Maybe you’ve downloaded the wrong version? There is one, which sends an email on every post!

You had an great Idea! I just put this into it. Now it displays the last posters name in the mail.

Download latest Version here:

http://la-school.com/2006/bbpress-notification/

[implicated]

Your PHP version is rather old, use this:

if (!function_exists('file_put_contents')) {

function file_put_contents($filename, $content) {

if ($fp = fopen($filename, 'w')) {

$result = fwrite($fp, $content);

fclose($fp);

return $result;

}

else {

return false;

}

}

}

[ardentfrost]

New release of my Avatar Plugin (version .73a). Core files no longer have to be adjusted! Just drop the file into your plugins directory, adjust your css file (as shown in the readme) and you’re good to go.

Get the new release here: http://faq.rayd.org/bbpress_avatar/

View use of the Avatar Plugin here: http://www.rayd.org/forums/

[ardentfrost]

veb, I don’t mind hosting your plugins until something on bbpress is made. Just let me know (feel free to go to my forums at http://www.rayd.org/forums/ and send me a pm about it)

[Rod]

BBPress and WordPress = same creators … so a simple question : why, during the install, would be not possible to have 2 buttons radios with …

Option One : create a new DB users

Option Two : use the actual WP DB users

?!

[drtech]

Yes it’s working now.

[suleiman]

hmmm…I’m having the same problem, where I get the error about the bbpress database not existing. I’m integrating with WPMU instead of regular wordpress but that shouldn’t really cause an issue should it?

Is there a place we can hardcode it to wp_ instead of bb_?

[Trent Adams]

If someone can help me with the code to call the right browser in a plugin, then I will work on the templates needed to show up in the browser. It is just the plugin code and calling /mytemplates/mobile/ for the templates that would be difficult for me!

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I have been using Alex King’s Mobile edition for WordPress for quite some time and love it! I was wondering if someone would like to look at the plugin and see how it could work with bbPress. It seems pretty straight forward.

http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/plugins/wp-mobile.zip

Another plugin called WordPress PDA is similar and might be easy as well.

http://imthi.com/wp-pda/

Interesting stuff! Any takers?

Trent

[veb]

😮 thanks Trent, I was wondering about this and I was going to try make my own, but I never look at a simpler way!

[Trent Adams]

So it is working the way you want now?

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Nothing that is written yet to my knowledge. Does SMF go over to phpBB format? If it does export to that, then you can use:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/402?replies=10

Hope that helps.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

In terms of integrating site with calling WP functions, it is a little out of my realm. If you search this site and can’t find anything useful, you can always head over to the forums with massive information!

https://wordpress.org/tags/bbpress

Trent

[drtech]

I think i have it. By removing the www from the wordpress link fixed it . (http://koma-inu.org/bbpress) Now comes up with welcome header if you are logged in.

[drtech]

I have set up a web site integrating WordPress and bbPress.

Integration seems to be working – we have added a link back to the wordpress pages.

What I am noticing is when we link (htttp://www.koma-inu.org/bbpress) in from wordpress to bbpress, even though I am logged in, the front page displays the user name password and login windows. When I click on a topic or forum link, the header displays that I am properly logged in with a welcome message. Is there a way of adding a check to the front page to see that I am logged in already, right from the beginning?

[ardentfrost]

anything is possible… I highly doubt it’d be easy though (I’ve never used Lyceum, but it’d need the exact same table layout as bbpress to be easy, and I doubt that’s the case)