[djuggler]

Thank you for bbpress!

This thread comes close to answering my question but misses an important concept “where should bbpress code reside to integrate best with wordpress?”: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/38?replies=29

The directory structure I am planning on using:

domainname.com (splash screen, redirect to /blog or whatever)

   |

   |—/blog/ (wordpress code in this subdirectory)

   |

   |—/forum/ (bbpress code in this subdirectory)

   …

Incase the spaces compress I’ll show that another way:

http://domainname.com/blog/ (wordpress)

http://domainname.com/forum/ (bbpress)

Am I making a mistake to not use this directory structure:

domainname.com

   |

   |—/blog/

   …      |

            |—/forum/

            …

http://domainname.com/blog/ (wordpress)

http://domainname.com/blog/forum/ (bbpress)

OR here’s a silly one. Noting that wordpress and bbpress seem to share the same filename only with index.php, should all code be in the same directory: http://domainname.com/ (wordpress and bbpress code here with some magic done to the index.php file? like index.php for wordpress and renaming bbpress’ to index-bb.php)

Which directory structure is going to make for the happiest co-existence of wordpress and bbpress with the intention of having them seemlessly interact? My gut feeling is that it just doesn’t matter as long as wp-config.php gets included within the config.php for bbpress.

Thank you!

Doug McCaughan

http://sidesigns.com/

http://blog.siliconholler.com/

[gsnixon]

Hi everyone, I’ve just had one hell of a night trying to figure out this bbP/wP integration stuff. Eventually, I thought I’d do a clean test install and work from there to see if I could isolate the issue, so I installed:

BBpress 0.7.3

WordPress 2.0.5

on

Apache 2.0.59

mySQL 5.0.19

PHP 4.4.4

via MAMP on Mac OS 10.4.8

with WP in root and BBpress as subdirectory “discussions”.

I then configured wp-config.php and config.php like so:

<?php

define('DB_NAME', 'database');

define('DB_USER', 'root');

define('DB_PASSWORD', 'root');

define('DB_HOST', 'localhost:8889');

$table_prefix = 'wp_';

define ('WPLANG', '');

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

require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');

?>

and

<?php

require_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/wp-config.php');

define('BBDB_NAME', 'database');

define('BBDB_USER', 'root');

define('BBDB_PASSWORD', 'root');

define('BBDB_HOST', 'localhost:8889');

$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';

$bb->domain = 'http://192.168.0.149:8888';

$bb->path = '/discussions/';

$bb->name = 'the Forum';

$bb->admin_email = 'email@email.com';

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

$bb->page_topics = 30;

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

$bb->gmt_offset = -8;

define('BBLANG', '');

$bb->akismet_key = '***********';

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://192.168.0.149:8888';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://192.168.0.149:8888';

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

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

?>

(the 8888/9 ports are MAMP defaults; 192.168.0.149 is the LAN IP of the computer I’m running this on)

Then I ran the install scripts, and lo and behold, everything seemed to be working great. Then I began to add plugins one by one, and, to make a long story short, found that:

Whenever the Sidebar Widgets plugin was activated along with a separate widget (including those included with it, del.icio.us and google, as well as akismet, which has a widget built-in), trying to load a BBpress page would yield a blank page. However, if Sidebar Widgets was activated but no widget plugins were, it would work fine–I could even use the integrated widgets (RSS, categories, calendar, etc) on the blog. Likewise, if Sidebar Widgets is deactivated, but all the widgets are activated, it still works fine.

Also: the Front Page Topics plug-in for bbPress, regardless of any other plugins in wP or bbP, yields a similar blank page on posting a new reply, starting a new topic, making a new forum, or logging out. If I go back and refresh, the topic/reply/forum HAS been created… but the logout attempt is UNsuccessful. Like I said, I tried this with no bb or wp plugins, as well as a variety of them, and its always the same result.

Ok, its 4:15 in the morning, I have class at 8 and I’m going to go pass out, but hopefully this is enough information for someone to tell me what gives…

Thanks for reading/any help.

-G

[suleiman]

is there anywhere i could just copy and paste the code? maybe into a header.php file?

[preckie]

my wordpress site is located at my domain name/wordpress. god, i need to figure this thing out. i also renamed the config-sample.php huhu! let me try this later and see if it works.. thanks so much for the help!

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

I’m sorry, I misunderstood your original post. Ignore my first reply

[peiqinglong]

I would start styling the table. Copy and paste the original code from the style.css from the bbpress into your new theme and then go from there.

[ear1grey]

td {

text-align: center;

}

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Looking good

(As an aside, I see you’ve edited the core files to allow image tags. There is also a plugin for this: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/5 )

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

I would make a copy of your functions (wp_admin_bar and wp_admin_bar_style) and put them in a bbPress plugin.

I you want to make sure the code is always the same, you could use a symlink or instead make a bbPress plugin that just includes the one needed mu plugin.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

$bb_post->poster_id should work, but there are some convenience functions as well:

get_post_author_id() returns the ID, and post_author_id() echoes it.

[suleiman]

that was MUCH needed…thanks

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Done – thanks

[suleiman]

My WPMU and BBpress setup is 99.99% complete. The *only* remaning issue is this:

Across all the blogs in my WPMU install I have a header that uses the following code to hook into every wordpress blog on my site:

add_action(‘wp_footer’, ‘wp_admin_bar’); /* part of hack to make this show at the top of each blog */

add_action(‘wp_head’,’wp_admin_bar_style’);

I need this header to show up at the top of my bbpress install without having to load wordpress on top of bbpress.

In short, I like my bbpress the way it looks on its own, I just want the header at the top. Is this possible?

[peiqinglong]

Ok, I’ve been racking my brain on this one. How do I align the text so that it is in the middle of each icon? http://www.abunchofcars.com/forum/

I know people usually do td align, but that isn’t valid for xhtml strict. I can’t figure out what the CSS code for that is…

Thanks!

[fuknrekd]

Thanks. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that before. Ah well. (I edited my web site in my profile to use that link so I’ll have a link for it on this site. Perhaps I’ll link to it from my BB too. )

‘Rekd

[lordcoder]

Hi all ,

this board is very nice , and the support also , they respond me very fast !

i am customizing a little my Bbpress to give it a strange new look , but to continue , i need to know how to get poster’s ID to get the profil URL , i tried this , but it doesnt work ( on post.php ) :

echo $post->poster_id;

So what’s the problem ?

TFYT .

[peiqinglong]

I think it would be very cool to have a quote button on each post so you can quote what a person has said like in other forums.

[tgpuckett]

Atsutane: Thanks so much for your help!! I really appreciate it

[Atsutane]

From what i see. I think it only css problem and some html problem. It seem before <div id=”footer”> u got 1 extra </div> … well i think so Anyway i need to go now. Good luck with your bbpress

[tgpuckett]

OK, so I keep getting closer Atsutane, I don’t use K2 unfortunately

http://www.macuserblog.com/boards/ is where I’m at now. Is the remaining problem CSS or PHP-related? Thanks again!

[talkaboutdesign]

tried the code you provided, doesnt work.

http://www.talkaboutdesign.com/forum/topic.php?id=2&replies=2

[tgpuckett]

OK, I can follow that, where do I need to put get_sidebar()? In the header?

[metavalent]

try:

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define('BBDB_NAME', 'n22_n22');

define('BBDB_USER', 'n22_n22');

define('BBDB_PASSWORD', '123456');

define('BBDB_HOST', 'db2.awardspace.com');

$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';

$bb->domain = 'http://n22.awardspace.com';

$bb->path = '/bbpress/';

$bb->name = 'N22 Forums';

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

$bb->admin_email = 'haiyuezhang@hotmail.com';

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = 'true';

[tgpuckett]

OK, in my header.php file I have <?php get_header; get_sidebar(); get_footer(); ?>. Everything is OK, but now bbPress is shoved below the WP theme. Is this a theme problem or a CSS problem? How can I fix it? I really appreciate all the help you’ve offered Atsutane! It’s much appreciated.

[Atsutane]

To center it u need to play with css .. try look into default bbpress style.css and see which code u can use to suit your theme