[chrishajer]

The password normally contains special characters and that’s fine. That’s how I can usually tell if the bbPress is an old version or new version, based on the password being sent out when you register.

There is no problem with having special characters in the secret keys: it’s just that if they’re not properly escaped, the server will choke on the config file because the bb-config.php does not have proper syntax.

So, make sure the keys are the same for WordPress and bbPress, make sure the bb-config.php is syntactically correct (php -l bb-config.php from a Linux command line) and then figure out why you can’t log in.

You can also make the secret keys really short and easy to compare while testing to see if that’s the problem.

It’s also worthwhile to check any php file you edited for the proper syntax. Maybe once you log in, you are being served another page that has a syntax error (a template file?) and that is causing the blank screen.

Also, access to error logs will help with this, if you have them.

[cesarvirtual]

tengo un problema, y es que no se me permite el registro de usuarios, me arroja el siguiente mensaje:

Registration is closed for a while… sorry!

Cómo habilito la opción?

aquí la dirección para que vean: http://alumnosutalca.syslive.com.ar/register.php

Agradecería respuesta por este medio y a cesar.rivera.martinez@gmail.com

Saludos.

Nos estamos topando por aquí.

[chrishajer]

Ditto on the bozo feature. Never did understand that or get any benefit from it. At least it’s a plugin now where you can disable it. And the Human Test plugin works remarkably well in the arms race against preventing spammers from registering.

[_ck_]

I turn off Akismet and just use Human Test to prevent bots from registering: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

You just never know when a user will improperly get “bozo-ed” and you might miss their messages entirely. In fact i turn off the bozo feature too, it’s never quite worked right.

[chrishajer]

They have to re-register under a new name. Editing the username is not possible normally. You can do it with direct access to the database, but it’s not possible from the user’s perspective.

[RossB]

_ck_,

May I seek some clarification re your post above, please?

With that line in the register.php template, to reduce the max letter limit lower than 30, would I change both references to “30”? That is:

size=”30″ AND maxlength=”30″?

Or just maxlength=”30″.

Cheers

Ross

[RossB]

This is basic, guys – sorry! I’ve had a request from a new user to change their user name. I can’t figure out how to do this in the User section. Can it be done, or do they have to re-register under their preferred user name?

[f3lix]

in my case I can successfully go through step 2, and the system tells me:

“Your WordPress integration cookie and database settings have been successfully validated. They will be saved after the next step.

…”

After that I name the forum, choose my normal WP-Admin-User,etc.

When I want to complete the next step it prompts me with: Installation Errors:

“Forum could not be created!” and tells in the complete log:

“Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

>>> Setting up custom user table constants

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Modifying database: <my_db> (<my_host>)

>>>>>> Table: bb_forums

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_meta

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_posts

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_tagged

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_tags

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_terms

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_term_relationships

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_term_taxonomy

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_topics

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_topicmeta

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: wp_users

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: ID

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_login

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_pass

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_nicename

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_email

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_url

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_registered

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_status

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: display_name

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: wp_usermeta

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: umeta_id

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_id

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> WordPress address (URL): http://www.fl3x.org/blog/

>>> Blog address (URL): http://www.fl3x.org/blog/

>>> WordPress cookie keys set.

>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt set from input.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt set from input.

>>> Fetching missing WordPress cookie salts.

>>>>>> WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt not set.

>>> User database table prefix: wp_

Step 3 – Site settings

>>> Site name: fl3x Forum

>>> Site address (URL): http://www.fl3x.org/blog/bbpress/

>>> From email address: <my_email>

>>> Key master role assigned to existing user

>>>>>> Benutzername: <admin_user>

>>>>>> E-Mail-Adresse: <my_email>

>>>>>> Passwort: Your existing password

>>> Beschreibung: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum could not be created!

>>> Key master email sent

There were some errors encountered during installation!”

Thats all, and afterwards I won’t see a forum, I only get error messages on Firefox regarding a redirection loop.

[chrishajer]

Well – you can have specific forums restricted to certain users right now with a plugin. It’s easier than using .htaccess.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

That’s not what you asked initially though.

require a password before someone can register and see the forum

Both are possible, the first request just doesn’t make any sense unless there will be a company wide memo with the username and password on it. If it’s truly for internal use only, just put it on an intranet rather than the Internet, or use .htaccess to restrict by IP address rather than passwords. If you have a fixed range of IP addresses, you could allow only those to access the bbPress forum.

You can do both.

[jon775]

I can’t seem to get this to work. I followed the instructions and put in the paths to my SwiftMailer directory, but the plugin just errors out when I try to activate it.

I really would like to get this sorted out, new users are registering on my forums, and many are not getting registration emails…

[_ck_]

That’s another one of those silly things that got carried over from WordPress. The database limits it to 60 characters and the default template limits it to 30 characters but it’s still overly long.

Fortunately in bbPress (unlike WordPress) the registration form is done in a template and not in the core, so the easiest way is just to modify the register.php template under my-templates (or copy it from bb-templates) and change the line that looks like this:

<td><input name="user_login" type="text" id="user_login" size="30" maxlength="30" value="<?php if (1 != $user_login) echo $user_login; ?>" /></td>

And instead of 30, make it the size limit you want.

However people that are sneaky and bypass the registration form can still make it 60 characters (ie. spammers). But they will stick out, so you’ll notice it right away.

This can be fixed via a plugin but it would be way too much code to justify the fix. The template method is best.

[RossB]

If it can be done, how would I go about password protecting a forum? I want to have the main website open to the public, but the forum to require a password before someone can register and see the forum posts.

[balgo]

better not do it that way, as updates will break your work. create an .htaccess and put the following in:

Redirect 301 /yourbbpressdirectory/register.php http://yourdomain.com/yourwordpressdirectory/wp-login.php?action=register

[superann]

Replace register.php with:

<?php

header(‘Location:http://your-wordpress-url.com/wp-login.php?action=register&#8217;);

?>

[conspirewire]

I’ve installed wordpress and bbpress im using the plugin call register plus attached to the wordpress installation. both wordpress and bbpress are integrated but i cant get regsiter plus to integrate. It works with word press and clients can use there user name and password on bbpress… BUT…. when cleints try and register on bbpress it uses th default bbpress registration. can anyone help me redirect bbpress registration to the reister plus plugin?

[keress]

blockquote

You only need to share databases to have integrated user logins.

/blockquote

Thanks for responding, Chris. I’m still confused about this. It sounds like, from the documentation like above, integrating the cookies will accomplish the same thing:

blockquoteIntegrating cookies allows your users to log in to either your WordPress blog or your bbPress forums and be effectively logged in to both.

/blockquote

I do want it to be pretty seamless for our users. I want them to only have to register once, and not to have to log in again when they cruise to the forum. On the face of it, it would seem like we need to share one database. BUT, that seems a bit scary, like the kind of scenario where I could wipe out our existing WP installation.

If that’s the route I should go, how do I go about it? Uninstall the bbpress I just created, then go through the installation again, except this time enter our wp database info?

I tried doing the integration last week for the two databases I have currently set up, and had to add a line into my wp-config about a secret key. With that, an error message came up instead of the blog, choking on that line. It was a day before I got wind of it, so it didn’t look very good.

I want to have a clearer understanding this time before I start messing around with these settings.

BTW, what am I missing with the markup here? It says to put the code between backticks `, but it’s not working.

[chrishajer]

Instead of this WordPress function:

<?php wp_register(); ?> 

You would have a link to bb-login.php. Then bb-login handles the whole thing. In the login form, you would add that hidden form field to redirect then after login, as explained here.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-a-trick-to-redirect-user-back-to-topic-after-login#post-14268

[mattbaehr]

How do I change the reg links? In my theme, here is the reg code:

<li id="meta" class="widget">



<h2><?php _e('Members') ?></h2>



<ul>



<?php wp_register(); ?>



<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>



<?php wp_meta(); ?>



</ul>



</li>

What would I do to get it to redirect to the bbpress registration page?

[Hellweaver666]

You can just change the register links in the wordpress template to point to the bbpress login and registration forms… that’s easy enough (you can even copy the login form code into the template directly and it seems to work).

The problem is, how to get users back to the URL they came from after they login (by default they seem to get bounced to the forum home page instead)… any ideas?

[_ck_]

Well we know what causes “anonymous” to show up, it’s because bbPress is not creating the display name for the user when the user registers on the bbPress side and then goes to use WordPress.

The question is, why is this suddenly happening when bbPress is supposed to create it already. This might be a question for Sam – but I hope he can reproduce the problem.

Did you add the above code to insert the display name?

I hope I didn’t lead you wrong by implying you should try 2.6 because that will be incompatible with bbPress 0.9

2.6 has compatibility with bbPress 1.0 alpha but a few plugins won’t work with the alpha yet (like bb-topic-views)

Oh and the display name persists in 1.0 alpha and is on line 487 in pluggable. I’ve filed a trac report:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/922

[mattbaehr]

Me too. My main page is WP. I would like users to be able to click the register button and get the BB registration that both would ideally share (once I get that bug fixed).

[843008]

is it because i’ve just registered? :S how do i edit my profile? tks a lot

[chrishajer]

Just register again. I don’t think you can change the username without access to the database. If you’re talking about your own forum and have access to the database, you can edit the username directly.

[810798]

thanks _ck_,

It seems to be a problem with when you include the wp-config… There must be a check somewhere in one of the files included in it that checks if that has been registered or is a banned blog, and wp-admin must be hardcoded in somewhere to be a safe directory.. i just havent had time to go through and look for where that happens.. been making a bunch of other customizations instead, as this problem can be solved by just using sub-domains..

James

[thion]

Show last registered user? Here y’go:

<?php include_once("bb-includes/statistics-functions.php"); ?>



Our newest member is <?php if ( $users = get_recent_registrants(1) ) : foreach ( $users as $user ) : ?>

<a href="<?php user_profile_link( $user->ID ); ?>"><?php echo get_user_name( $user->ID ); ?></a>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>