[M]

You just create a folder titled my-plugins in your bbpress directory and upload a plugin into it. There is no activation for them as in WP, they are active automatically once they’re in the folder.

[skowwi]

that IS the problem

i downloaded and installed bbpress today (i think this is the newest version) and then downloaded the 3 files from https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/555/trunk?old_path=%2F&format=zip

but then: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_serialized() in [..] bb-includes/functions.php on line 364

[ardentfrost]

You need to update to the newest version of bbpress I think.

[Trent Adams]

There have been quite a few issues lately getting this to work. maybe take a look at the following post:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/389?replies=10

As well, click on the ‘integration’ tag at the top of main page, as there are many different things to try to get it going

Trent

[spencerp]

Yeah, any word on this being “Updated”, or..? Just was curious..

spencerp

[Trent Adams]

Pilks,

Just looking through the config file, everything looks good. I may try adding some cookie information into config.php

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

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

As well, if you are not trying to load WP functions in bbPress, you probably can do without the:

define('WP_BB', true);

require_once('/home/xxxxxxx/public_html/wp-config.php');

Maybe take it out and see if you can get it going and then add it in later. Let’s try it at the lowest common denominator….

Trent

[pilkster]

Hi Trent, thanks for the response

After installing WP (via fantastico) I uploaded the bbpress files to /forums/, set up database&user, ran the bbpress install script.

I then added the WP plugin as described above, activated it and configured it with bb_ (taken from my config.php).

I added a directory /forums/my-plugins/ and put the described bbpress plugin in there (although I probably didnt need to as it is a fresh install)

Below is my config.php that I edited as described (maybe I misunderstood somthing here?)

Thanks again for your help…

code

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxx’); // …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://awspress.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 = ‘/forums/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Amazon plugin for WordPress’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘simon@xxxx.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

// 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 = ‘xxxx’;

// 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://awspress.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

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

define(‘WP_BB’, true);

require_once(‘/home/xxxxxxx/public_html/wp-config.php’);

/* Stop editing */

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

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

?>

/code

[Trent Adams]

We hope to have a template system (like WordPress) in future versions, but until then we have to make changes using the system described in previous posts. This is something that may help out:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/customization/

As well, here is my little workaround for themes.

1) If you change templates files out of bb-templates/ folder, make sure you save the changes into the my-templates folder. That way, you can delete the file in the my-templates folder and bbPress will go back to working with the original file out of the bb-templates folder.

2) If you are not sure what style tags are being used on a page, I like to look at the ‘source’ of the page in my browser. Gives great clues on what you should be looking for when later editing the global stylesheet.

3) header.php includes all the information for calling meta information, CSS sheets, javascript scripts, etc.

4) footer.php has the information for credits, ending style tags from above, etc.

5) front-page.php is where the bulk of information that is produced on the main page is. This is where you can arrange what information is shown and where

6) style.css is the main stylesheet for how bbPress looks on every single page. It is actually layed out pretty well in terms of how each page is in bbPress

7) post.php is for individual posts and reply forms for those posts.

When we have a better and easier template system, it will be much simple for the end users, but please be patient as we try and get it working for you!

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Currently, bbPress is built so that all users must be registered to post. I have heard talk of a plugin for anonymous posting, but nothing in development to my understanding.

So far, registration on the bbPress side is wide open, but if you are integrated with WordPress there are hacks in WordPress to have admin approval for registration, but only if you change all registration for the forums to the WordPress side versus bbPress.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

In terms of integrating completely with WordPress, you need a couple more plugins and information. You should find everything that you need in the following post Ron. If you have any questions about it, please let me know.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/12?replies=12

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Matt I am glad you got this going. Installing bbPress inside of WordPress makes the cookie sharing easier, but the link I provided above for integration with WordPress out of the bbPress documentation. It has great information on cookie domains and WP sharing.

Trent

[intellivision]

Success. I redid everything, dropped the db’s bb_ tables, started over, and it worked.

This time I put the forum folder inside the WP folder. (I tried to log in with another browser, so make sure it wasn’t just my WP “admin” cookie getting me in, and the other browser worked.)

That by itself shouldn’t necessarily have provided a magic fix, only share cookies, right?

So what was it? I don’t know for sure… maybe the my-plugins folder didn’t have the correct permissions, or the bbPress plugin inside it, and re-doing everything helped.

I wish I could be of more help here to those who can’t get it working. Maybe just being a real example of a person who had a no-login issue and resolved it is enough motivation. My advice: start over.

Thanks to Trent for your assistance offer!

Matt

[Trent Adams]

Take a look at a post like:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/345?replies=4

As well, make sure you have the plugins for integration loaded. One in WordPress and the other in bbPress.

Also, it integrates well if you have bbpress in a subdirectory of your blog. If it resides somewhere else on the server, you might have to also take a look at:

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

Start there and if you have more issues, please post more details on what you have and have not tried because there are many different things that could have went wrong for you.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

mbyte has released a special version of this plugin (that I requested) that adds the ability to use the Custom Field options in WP to add tags to your posts in bbpress. It is available at:

http://dev.mbzeus.net/forum/topic.php?id=10&replies=5#post-33

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Arrariv,

bbpress can moderate posts. By default, the administrator (key master) can moderate posts and if they go into the admin, you can set other members of your forum as moderators.

Trent

[intellivision]

hi blake,

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/4?replies=1

i tried that, no dice.

i also found my WP install to be at version 2.0, so I upgraded to 2.0.5, still no dice.

if you come up with anything, please respond in this thread.

thx

[ear1grey]

I have an experimental bbPress instance which I’m using as a feed reader (it beats Google reader because several of us can annotate and discuss the things it discovers). Something I’m learning quickly is that some feeds are unstable, and this is resulting in dupes, so I’m thinking an admin tool that highlights duplicate articles (based on content or title perhaps) and then makes deletion easy might be useful.

Then I started thinking that it would be a good anti-spam tool. Then I wondered if anyone had developed something like that as a plugin already… or fancied giving it a go… my hands are tied for time at the moment, or I’d hack it up myself.

[pilkster]

I have done a fresh install of the latest WP (2.0.5) and latest bbPress (0.73) earlier today and installed the WordPress plugin as described. I have also added the code described above to bbPress’s config.php.

Wordpress is installed on my root domain, and bbPress in a folder named /forums/

User registration integration is not working, is there something I have missed?

Thanks – pilks (AWSpress.com)

[zentehflash]

Any progress update on this?

[intellivision]

Do I need to install the WP-bbPress integration plugin(s)?

Maybe I’ll try them anyway. TIA.

[topiq]

i get this error with the new version:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in /srv/www/httpd/phost/c/com/pytalhost/cessi/web/bbpress/my-plugins/onlinelist.php on line 26

[arrariv]

Hi there all,

I have to moderate posts!

Is it possible to do in bbPress, I have no idea. I found out that vBulletin does that, but I use WordPress on my blog, don’t need any other php script interfere with my blog. I just add a simple forum in it. Not a shiny thing!

Anything will be too helpful.

Thanks in Advance!

[topiq]

ok. uploaded the new version of private forum. then there was this message that i have not installed the newest version of bbPress. i downlaoded the 3 new files and uploaded them. now i get this kind of error if i want to access the forum:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_serialized() in /srv/www/httpd/phost/c/com/pytalhost/cessi/web/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.php on line 364

greets topiQ

PS: since this is as far i can guess not related to your plugin i posted it here and not on your site…

EDiT: i solved the problem by installing the new version of the site options plugin. thanks a lot!

but if i install the 3 new files in the bb-include i get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function option() in /srv/www/httpd/phost/c/com/pytalhost/cessi/web/bbpress/bb-templates/header.php on line 44

[andrabr]

So, I uploaded bbpress, configured config.php, punched bb-admin/install.php in my browser and saw… nothing. Not even an error message.

Ok, I went poking around. Deleted config.php and got the error message as expected.

Next line in the code is: require_once(‘../config.php’);

I do not believe I get over this hurdle (if I recall correctly, require_once dies quietly).

I changed it to require config-sample.php, and got as far as database error message. config-sample.php and config-php sit next to each other with exactly same permissions.

I cannot think of a reason for require_once to see one but not the other…

Mystery…

Any ideas?

[benebomber]

Thanks a lot, Trent!

But I did it like You told me, loaded it up once again with another table prefix and when I tried to start the install, there was an empty page.

Do You have an idea what I did wrong?

Here’s my config.php:

`<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxx’); // …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 = ‘pfeilfor_’; // 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.fh-augsburg.de/~steinle/Pfeil&#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 = ‘/Forum/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Das Forum zum Pfeil’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘benedikt.steinle@fh-augsburg.de’;

// 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 = +1;

// 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 = 40b50b4582b5;

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

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~steinle/Pfeil&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~steinle/Pfeil&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash

/* Stop editing */

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

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

?>

… I’ve got no idea what’s going wrong.

Thanks.

Bene