[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Now, all this aside: I still can’t figure out why people want integrated logins, why they have users that both post to a blog and post in a forum. But, I don’t ask why.

On the blog, I (and my editors) post news stories of interest to the community. On the forum, everyone posts whatever. I use the same ID to moderate them all.

I suppose eventually I’ll end up with BuddyPress for some level of community, but right now people who want to chat with friends about like subjects hit the forums, people who want to comment on the news. It fits I agree this doesn’t fit every site, but y’know, that’s the beauty of the intartubes.

I can’t understand the benefit of cross posting the same blog post into the forum, personally I kind of see why people want to, but I’m not convinced it’ll work.

[johnhiler]

AFAIK, nobody’s worked out the WordPress 2.7/bbPress 0.9.x cookie/signin integration yet. If it comes, I’m betting it will take the form of a user-generated plugin… I don’t get the feeling that it’s on the official roadmap.

I agree that point upgrades to address compatibility would be nice! But I’m pretty sure that bbPress isn’t enough of a priority within Automattic yet to get the resources to make that happen. It sounds like that may happen within the next year tho.

As for the current state of things: I don’t think bbPress 1.0 is stable yet and more importantly, a good number the most popular 0.9 plugins aren’t yet fully compatible with 1.0. But that may change in a few months! In the meantime, I am hoping that bbPress 0.9 cookie/signin compatibility with the latest WordPress versions becomes possible with a plugin.

[chrishajer]

> Has anyone worked out the details in running WordPress 2.7

> with the current stable release of bbPress 0.9.x?

Not that I’m aware of. There was a reply describing someone going through the WordPress code to see what needed to change. I can’t find that reply right now.

[richcon]

I’m setting up a new web site, which is running WordPress 2.7. (Older versions aren’t an option because keeping them up-to-date with security releases is much harder.) The site’s going to need a forum, and I would like to use bbPress if I can.

Has anyone worked out the details in running WordPress 2.7 with the current stable release of bbPress 0.9.x? I know that seamless integration won’t be ready until 1.0 is ready, and if the developers say don’t use it yet, I won’t use it.

But if I do try to go with the current bbPress, what are the gotchas? Is there any integration possible at all, or do I have to wall them off as completely separate products with separate logins? If my client wants integration now, do I have no choice but go with something else like SMF?

There is one additional concern I have, though:

I had integrated bbPress 0.9 with a WordPress 2.5 site about a year ago, and loved how well they fit together — you guys really did an awesome job. Then 2.6 came out, and the incredible delay in bb’s WordPress integration seriously burned us. The web site got hacked twice due to 2.5.x security flaws that seem to be fixed in 2.7, and in the end we finally had to bite the bullet, delete the forum (it wasn’t getting that much use anyway), and upgrade WordPress. While the purist in me would love to work with bbPress again once 1.0 is available, I can’t shake this suspicion that when some future version of WordPress comes out, those of us who are using bbPress would get burned again because the developers are simply more interested in an ambitious future release that’s more than a year out. While 1.0 looks like an incredible release, a point upgrade to address compatibility would have been a really, really nice thing.

(Sorry if this sounds like a rant — I just would really like to trust this product again!)

Thanks,

Richard

[meinwalter]

Hi guys,

i want to have the same theme from WordPress in my bbpress forum. Therefore i add require_once('../wp-blog-header.php'); in my bb-config.php . Then i can load the bbpress forum but it have the old kakumei theme. What should i do ? Delete the last three lines from bb-config :

if  ( !defined('BB_PATH') )

define('BB_PATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );

require_once( BB_PATH . 'bb-settings.php' );

But then the forum doesnt knoe the bbpress functions. Can somebody please help me?

Thank you in advance.

[OthelloBloke]

Hello

I use Eblah SQL Beta 4 for a few forums and so far it hasn’t let me down over ANY of the major forum packages out there.

But I want a php forum for various reasons. Has anyone written a converter? Or is anyone willing to look at writing one?

You’d have a very greatful bloke right here if so.

[Trace]

Thanks for your help Chris! I’ve gone through that tag with a fine toothed comb…

Anyone interested in taking a quick paid job sorting out this cookie integration issue, please ping me at tracedef @ gmail … Thanks!

[Trace]

I’ve spent two days trying to integrate BBPress Alpha 6 cookies with WPMU 2.7…… I’m not really wanting to do day three, is it against the rules to ask for paid help here? If not, I would love to give my money to be able to move on and actually get some work done! If it is against the rules… I’m sorry… couldn’t find anything regarding this and am kind of desperate

[PJ Brunet]

A little background info:

Good friend of mine is touring around France. Between the two of us, we know a ton of musicians/artists all over the USA and Europe, should be a fun forum

[PJ Brunet]

In it for the long haul with bbPress:

http://www.satnightspecials.com/

Hook me up with some link love please

Installed the alpha last night, hacked the theme all day today, my friends don’t even know it’s live yet.

[PJ Brunet]

Honestly, I looked at the advanced options, if the “localhost” setting was there I brain-farted (after 3am) or didn’t make the connection in my head. But if you’re saying it’s there, that’s obviously the more poetic solution

Not sure I can do anything about the NFS. I’m pleased with WP performance on MT. Looking at my GPU usage (their internal metric) I’m pretty sure I can pull off a million pageviews/month on the basic (gs) “grid service” account. With a typical shared hosting account, you’ll probably get kicked to the curb at 10k pageviews/day.

[chrishajer]

Why didn’t you set a host name when installing? It’s on the same page as the database name, username and password, it’s just not shown by default. I think it’s a link that says something like “show advanced database settings.” I wouldn’t modify the core at all to connect to the database.

The error comes from not having a host name and the software trying to connect to localhost via port 3306, but that’s not where your database lives, it’s on a machine called internal-db.s41093.gridserver.com.

[_ck_]

One final addition to this that I didn’t think of mentioning earlier.

To use bbPress queries like these on a foreign (non-bbPress / non-WordPress) PHP page, all you need to do is include the bbPress core like this at the start:

<?php require('/local-path-to-bbpress/bb-load.php'); ?>

or to load WordPress core use this

<?php require('/local-path-to-wordpress/wp-config.php'); ?>

(change the ‘local-path’ bit to your local path)

and remember to use $wpdb on WordPress pages, vs $bbdb on bbPress pages.

[_ck_]

Yup “order by rand()” is very handy.

I used it for a mod for WordPress years ago to make a “random” category which is very useful.

It could even be done to make a “random topics” view in bbPress but not sure how useful that would be.

It’s fine for casual use but keep in mind for larger tasks it’s very slow and makes mysql purists shudder.

[deadlyhifi]

and my final correction on the random thing!

$stories = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT post_title, guid FROM site_posts WHERE post_type='post' AND post_status='publish' ORDER BY post_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 0,10");

shuffle($stories);

previous example was getting a random 10 from all posts.

This get’s 10 latest posts, then randomizes them with the ‘shuffle’.

cheers!

[deadlyhifi]

On my version I’m fetching 10 latest rows, randomizing, then displaying 5 stories.

$bbdb->get_results("SELECT post_title, guid FROM site_posts WHERE post_type='post' AND post_status='publish' ORDER BY rand() LIMIT 0,10");

Admittedly, I didn’t make the correct alterations to the previous example. Anyway, it should give people an idea of what to do.

oh, and _ck_ I hadn’t spotted your earlier post – it would have made it a lot easier for me to figure out if I had!

[patrick10128]

Hi,

I’m looking for someone who has had a bit of experience with theming bbPress to help me port a HTML/CSS template (which I have also made into a WordPress theme) over to bbPress. It should be relatively easy seeing as the design is simple and already coded.

Please contact me at patrick.devivo [at] gmail.com if you know someone or are willing to help me out.

[_ck_]

FYI, the if ($i <= 4) { is not needed because you already do a LIMIT on the query.

Related topic:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

FYI, this only lists 4 posts but is FREAKIN AWESOME!

[deadlyhifi]

Just made a query in my forum functions.php to display the 5 latest stories from WordPress. Pretty basic but it may help someone:

// get WP news

function wpnews() {

global $bbdb;

$stories = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT post_title, guid, post_date_gmt FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type='post' AND post_status='publish' ORDER BY post_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 0,4");

foreach ($stories as $story) {

if ($i <= 4) {

echo '<li><a href="' . $story->guid . '">' .$story->post_title . '</a></li>';

$i++;

}

}

}

then call it on your forum with <?php wpnews() ?> and style to suit.

[rockin]

I’m looking for talented coders/designer who can help me theme a bbPress forum to my needs.

Contact me directly at:

andreas [at] jaxvine.com

[WPAlex]

Ipstenu, thanks. To solve this problem I delete all messy code from profile-edit.php of Refresh theme and replace it with default one from Kakumei.

[_ck_]

Good fix, I got distracted after I posted that and never did it myself.

There’s also a border issue on images but I think most themes have that problem and it’s another thing I have to enforce in it’s own stylesheet.

actually, you are causing it here:

#posts .post .content a img {

border: 1px solid #ccc;

}

You may way to limit it to topic pages and not any kind of table like latest-discussions.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Heh Politics are a different beast all together in terms of readership. BUT to be constructive:

SALON (political left)

– Blog posts are presented like forum topics here: http://open.salon.com/cover.php?view_sort=recent

– The authors’ blogs are listed here: http://open.salon.com/people.php

Actually that’s just a blog. It’s probably a WPMU sort of blog, but it’s ‘presented like forum topics’ because that’s their design. A very straightforward one at that. That’s it. Same with Pajamas, actually. Which I find a much nicer design, as I prefer blogs to give a little excerpt hint at what’s to come.

[mvds]

Works like a charm for me Saves me about 5 bot registrations per day