Good question GoeffF, looks like it used to be here:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes
But clicking on it just refreshes the page. Clicking on the author’s link takes you to a rather nebulous blog which for all I know has the code for the theme (if it’s even still the blog of the original guy) but good luck finding it.
Was there a legal issue with posting that theme? Did bbPress not approve?
Hi Chris,
It is a WP blog, I just call it a website as I’ve tweaked a tad to be more websitesque and not bloggy.
Thank you for your help 
I had some spam to delete today, and realized that the “Delete” function still wasn’t working for the Keymaster.
I deleted the offending post and topic name from PHPMyAdmin, but I really don’t want to do that!
Can somebody help me troubleshoot this problem? The forum gets a decent amount of traffic, and there are a few trolls waiting in the wings.
This one had me stumped but I just figured it out. I should probably document the solve it here in case others encounter the same problem.
Like many people, I have bbpress installed in a subdirectory below wordpress:
/myblog/bbpress/
I also use the popular wp-super-cache plugin for wordpress. It turns out, you really need to add your bbpress directory to the list of rejected URI’s for wp-super-cache. For the above example, you’d want to add this line to the Rejected URI’s field:
/bbpress/
Otherwise, your bbpress board and the administration panel will be semi-randomly showing you old cached pages. Unsurprisingly, this can cause all sorts of strangeness including apparently activating/de-activating plugins, showing plugins that you’ve deleted, etc.
-Rob
At least I’m not the only one with problems.
I have the plugin activated, and if you type the shortcut, the image does appear. But you can’t click on the image links to make them appear in your post.
Same behavior when I don’t check “remember me”. Logging in one logs me out of the other.
Note: I just today moved the site from a dev area at
coloradoboards.com/appleswitcher/wp/
to
appleswitcher.com/wp/
so further cookie path examples will reflect that.
In wp-config.php, there is this line:
define('SECRET_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
Whatever value you have there is what you need for bbPress.
For WordPress address and Blog address, log into your WordPress control panel and under “Settings” you will find these two entries. Whatever is here is what you put into your bbPress installation.
They are entries three and four I believe.
http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php#siteurl
http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php#home
I’m not sure why, but the file wasn’t there. Perhaps I inadvertently deleted it? I downloaded the install again and bingo, there it was. Uploaded it and the install went off without a hitch.
Conclusion? Bad user on device error.
Matt
Logging in to WP 2.5 logs me out of bbPress 0.9.0.1, and vice-versa.
Cookie information with bbPress .9
name: wordpress_613ba28cb41760cadf1f08a898f98620
contents: xxxx%7C1208969840%7C594bfc5f83a1e8af5dd70d130d4c0b89
website: coloradoboards.com
path: /appleswitcher/wp/
date: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 10:57:19 AM
Cookie information with WP 2.5
name: wordpress_613ba28cb41760cadf1f08a898f98620
contents: xxxx%7C1208969965%7Cba3e6d706d0ec0feff73e34afde5d9f0
website: coloradoboards.com
path: /appleswitcher/wp/
date: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 10:59:23 AM
…where xxxx is a not my username… just using that for security.
Thanks so1o, that’s the quick an dirty fix. That code uses jQuery methods, and jQuery is not available in topic pages.
It didn’t get picked up because that code falls back to non-ajax requests when it fails.
We are half way through removing all prototype in favour of jQuery, and this snuck under the radar.
Looks like you got the $bb_table_prefix wrong when you installed, it should have been different to the wordpress prefix.
Change $bb_table_prefix from “wp_” to “bb_” in bb-config.php then rename you bbPress tables thusly:
wp_forums -> bb_forums
wp_tagged -> bb_tagged
wp_tags -> bb_tags
wp_topicmeta -> bb_topicmeta
wp_topics -> bb_topics
.
Do not rename wp_posts, wp_users or wp_usermeta!
This will still leave you without a bb_posts table. So if you have a way to browse your database (e.g. phpMyAdmin) then go into the bb_topicmeta table and look for the row with a meta_key of bb_db_version. Change the meta_value of that row from 1234 to 1233. Login to your bbPress (hopefully it works) then go to the admin section. You will be asked to upgrade, do so and check the log. You should see a log entry where your bb_posts table is created.
That should do it.
I fixed the error by adding
<?php bb_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>
just before
<?php bb_enqueue_script('topic'); ?>
in header.php in the theme
I’m sure this ISNT the proper solution, heh, but since it worked I thought I’d point it out.
After Step 1 failed many times, I set out to debug it. My travel took me here:
bb-includes/db-mysql.php
$this->$dbhname = @mysql_connect( $server->host, $server->user, $server->pass, true );
if (!$this->$dbhname)
return false;
That was failing and returning false everytime. I couldn’t figure it out. I printed out the hose and user and password, and it looked good. I could connect just fine from a shell prompt.
After confirming that it actually WAS connecting, and that it was simply the lack of $this->$dbhname that was causing the failure, I just commented out the return false; and VOILA! It worked! Installation finished and I can post messages, etc, etc, everything seems fine.
Soooo… What’s up with that?! hehe. $dbhname was == ‘dbh_local’.
Not sure what other details I can provide. Just thought I’d share the rather strange experience and oddness that I’d have to hack the db_connect code to get the install to complete… Weird!!
Let’s say “A good image upload plugin is needed”. I agree with that. A good image upload system is a must for some communities and not for some.
There’s no need to discuss why some users need image uploading and some not. I’ll be migrating a very large community to bbpress in a few months. The only reason for us to migrate to bbpress is its code base; it’s extendable and very easy to use. So we will write custom plugins to our specific needs.
Yes, bbpress needs a very good image uploading plugin just like worpdress’s akismet plugin; developed seperately as a plugin. There are some good bbpress plugin developers over here, so what we need to do is just to donate some money. This kind of plugin will take bbpress one more step ahead.
What you are probably looking for is Flickr-in-a-box as a separate application with a common user database. Just as I’m looking for a Facebook-in-a-box application to run alongside the forum to foster the more personal social side. I don’t believe these should be core parts of the forum software, but there is a need for them somehow.
This notion of modular is important, because it is easy to get side-tracked and try and build the entire internet into one application. That might ultimately happen (mirroring the history of the Microsoft platform model), but at this stage of the game, nobody has the resources to do everything, so doing one part of the jigsaw well is the best plan.
BBPress should focus development on its core, which still has weaknesses. IMHO the most urgent is augmentation of futuristic geek-only features with the traditional ones that most users understand. The need for these functions has been acknowledged in BBPress’s design, however the current implementation is lacking because they are too complex for “normal people”.
So RSS needs to be mirrored with bespoke email notifications, because the only people that “get” RSS are ‘bloggers. Gravatars need to be mirrored with uploadable avatars, because the only people that get Gravatars are ‘bloggers.
Ok, I generalise on the “bloggers” part. But I know moderately technical people that can’t manage to set up a Gravatar, and have no idea what to do with an RSS feed. So the clueless masses stand no chance of using these features for the purpose they were designed.
BBPress’s killer feature at the moment is spam control without forcing users to jump through hoops just to register and post. Easy to work with code, and general lack of bloat are good to. But take a look at this, and tell me the #1 feature requirement of forum software (and if anyone can point to why that’s affecting phpBB 2 sites more than other software, I’m curious). That’s literally hundreds of spam posts an hour. Most admins faced with that kind of nightmare won’t be too worried about forcing users to host files elsewhere.
What I did was edit the header file to include the code to load the WordPress stuff and then just included the header file from the WordPress theme. Then edited the footer.php file to just include the footer from WordPress. I did go through and add a few conditionals to the header.php so that different stuff would be in the <head> section depending on whether I was in forum or out of forum.
I’m newer to bbPress but I promise I’ve read all the threads on fixing login problems for the key_master, but they aren’t working for me with the latest version.
First, everything worked great with a vanilla install. I then used this converter to import my phpbb forums. Unfortunately, this converter has a couple of issues, including messing up the ID of the admin user.
So, I simply upgraded a few of my users to keymasters and got rid of the original admin user. Unfortunately, even though I have multiple keymaster users, when I log in as one, I cannot access the control panel.
I’ve been looking through the databases and everything looks right to me. My example user is “rob” with an ID of “3”. In bb_usermeta user_id 3’s bb_capabilities are set a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}.
I tried this solution in the bb-config.php file, since there isn’t a config.php file anymore, but it didn’t seem to do anything. Oddly, I couldn’t get it to emit an error either and I don’t see the function new_keymaster referred to anywhere in the current code so I’m not sure that still works.
Thanks in advance for any help with this. Right now, I’m stumped.
-Rob
Answer to the first question is that you need to add a SECRET to your wp-config file.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Secret_key_for_salting_password
As fascinating as it is, unfortunately the setup that automattic uses can’t be compared in any way to a single stand alone server (or VPS) running it’s own mysql processes since you can use a radical amount of caching ram on the dedicated db servers.
However bbPress could benefit someday from a port of wp-super-cache (or even just wp-cache2) to send non-logged in/non-members cached pages. There’s a big difference between a forum with 1000 active logged-in users where pages have to be customised via the core and plugins vs. 1000 guests/bots who all see the same pages.
It bothers me that my fully loaded demo at bbshowcase.org has now beached the 100ms mark for front-page generation (bare bbPress is like 40ms) but I can’t think of any easy ways to speed that up further without removing features. Maybe when PHP 5.3 comes out which seems to promise a 10-15% code speedup.
You need to create the Secret Key in your WordPress config.
Read the WordPress Codex for more info.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Secret_key_for_salting_password
I can only give you a vague idea of loads we experience in our environments. They aren’t exactly standard setups.
On WordPress.com the forums are served by the same infrastructure as the blogs. The forums don’t really make a dent in the load on that setup (hundreds of servers). Average of all queries is about 45 queries per second, over 90% of this is handled by MySQL query cache.
WordPress.org and bbPress.org are run from the same cluster which has three active load-balanced web servers and two database servers (one for writing and one for reading). The majority of the database load on this cluster is reads initiated by the forums and to a lesser extent reads initiated by the WordPress Codex (MediaWiki). Average load is about 700 reads per second, about 80% of those reads are cache hits.
Most of our servers have 2GB of RAM and 4 processor cores. Some DB servers might have more RAM. But there is nothing particularly special about the hardware otherwise. Pretty much the same as you would rent from a dedicated server provider.
Your bbpress htaccess in /forum/ looks fine EXCEPT for what I hope is just a manual typo
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
case matters in htaccess if I recall correctly
It should be
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
note the IfModule
(eta: the apache manual does say “Directives in the configuration files are case-insensitive” but give it a shot anyway – bbPress doesn’t generate it like that so I am not sure why it’s lower case in your setup?)
If changing that does nothing, the htaccess in the webroot that runs wordpress is also bit messy and my bet would be it’s got rules conflicting with bbpress’s
Is your site active or can you temporarily rename/delete the htaccess in the webroot and see if suddenly the bbpress slugs start working correctly? MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP THE FILE FIRST.
ps. next time use something like pastebin.com for that long of a copy/paste and just post the link
_ck_ – you make it sound so easy! 
How would I go about making just one of my forums admin-post-only and member-read-and-reply-only? I’m comfortable enough with editing the templates, I just don’t know what part I’d need to change.
Hope you can help me with this!
Thanks!
Yes, I have this problem too. Where does post_author_link(); come from?
