[chrishajer]

mciarlo: back to the original problem then. When a user registers in bbPress, they’re not registered in WordPress?

Have you searched the forum for either cookie or role?

A couple things sounded interesting:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-integration-logout-problem

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integration-how-to-do-it

[chrishajer]

What do you mean your forum is using gmail for email setting? Do you mean you are using the google smtp server to send out your mail, or do you mean something else?

If you post your forum’s URL, people can try registering and let you know the results.

[bboysmaster]

My forum is using gmail for email setting. However my user can’t received email when registering using hotmail or yahoo but they received it using gmail. Does it has something to do with the email coding that caused the email to be block? If it is, i really hope you guys fixed it for the next version .

[mciarlo]

I’m trying to integrate WordPress 2.5.1 and bbPress 0.9.0.2.

I have matched SECRET_KEY in wp-config.php with BB_SECRET_KEY in bb-config.php and matched WordPress “secret” database option with bbPress “secret” database setting.

I have also setup compatible cookie domains and paths in config files and mapped user roles.

The only thing I haven’t done is share user tables because it isn’t required and my bbPress database is separate.

I am still having problems integrating. When a user registers on bbPress, they are not registered in WordPress.

The site is http://www.cheshirecrossingii.com. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Michael

[aiitee]

hey,

i was thinking about a plug with that hides, cloak, the links to those visitors who are not registered or logged in the website. Its a great idea i think for those who need to get emails or more registered people.

the script needs to detect the <a href=""… etc etc code to “cloak” the links

whatcha say?

[Göran]

I have just started a new forum at http://www.goranlindgren.se/diskussion/

I got a letter with the password with my name Göran but could not log in with, only after giving Gran as my name.

You can log in to the key master account with the following information:

Username: Göran

Password: xxxxxxxxxxxx

This is even worse than before as I think it means that if people with common swedish names register they will get log in information that not work.

Help!!!

[bo-fiddlesticks]

Unfortunately, Detective’s solution doesn’t work with the latest versions. I’m experiencing the same issues (integrated scenario):

User registers on bbpress and logs in there

User can acces the WP Site Admin section, but it says: Welcome, . (a space instead of the user name)

User comments are registered as ‘Anonymous’

I noticed the only way to fix this is to go to WP user management panel, editing and saving the user.

So the user has to be actively (and manually ) updated to have his name listed under his comments.

I haven’t found any way to avoid this, but if anyone can I’d be much abliged!

[chrishajer]

Does this problem happen with the stock theme? Maybe it’s a problem with the customization?

Where do you log in? Normally at http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/ there is a spot to login or register, then logging in as keymaster allows access to the admin panel.

If you log in as keymaster, do you have a link to Admin your forum or can you access http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/bb-admin/ ?

It doesn’t look like you are using permalinks at all for bbPress, which is fine.

BTW, I don’t think this has anything to do with WordPress.

[cordoval]

0. done

1. so far bb_update_usermeta -> bb_update_meta-> and now in lines 38 and 39 of register.php on the root we add a line below 38: bb_update_usermeta( $user_id, $key, $$key ); /*this is where the user gets registered */

As follows: bb_update_user_password( $user_id, “default” ); /* I am assigning here the new password by default which is “default”

This works! So now I just need to get the string from the custom field and assign it here! Can anyone more experienced than me help me?

[timskii]

All the integration code assumes you start with a blog and want to add a forum. However, if you start with a forum, chances are the forum’s user database will be far larger than the blog. The technique below outlines how I did it. This is entirely at your own risk. I’ve not gone over the standard things, like shared secret keys: I’m assuming you’ve read the basic integration guides.

0. You’ll need to be familiar with .htaccess, SQL at raw database level, and template hacks. If your level of expertise is “pressing buttons”, stop reading here. This is very easy to mess up, so make plenty of backups. Ideally test the whole conversion first, and probably prepare scripts to run if a lot of database changes are needed.

1. Block public access to the blog and forum for all except your IP using .htaccess.

2. In the database, rename wp_users and wp_usermeta. These won’t be used, but you will need them later to cross-reference old posts to new authors. I’m assuming a standard install that uses wp_ and bb_ as prefixes.

3. Copy bb_users and bb_usermeta to wp_users and wp_usermeta respectively. Keep the original tables for now.

4. Add the missing column via SQL: ALTER TABLE wp_users ADD user_activation_key varchar(60) NOT NULL default '';

5. Delete the WordPress install, but keep the old database tables (and plugins and themes). Install WordPress in its former position. Use an entirely new user name as your new WordPress admin. (The purpose of deleting and then installing WordPress is to create a genuinely new admin user in the table. For me, this was faster than manually adding an admin user and making sure all the correct permissions were set. You mileage may vary.)

6. How much extra work you need to do to your old WordPress tables depends on the number of authors that were active on WordPress: Using SQL, you’ll need to change all the old author IDs in wp_posts and wp_comments to match that author’s ID from the forum. It is possible there are other user references deep in the system, so be careful. I had little complexity to deal with. If your were the first to register for both your forum and blog, the important IDs may match perfectly already.

7. Most WordPress templates use the user’s display_name. This is unfortunately, because BBPress tends to use user_login. The result is that most WordPress references to user names will appear blank. You’ll either need to populate the display_name column, or hack around with your WordPress templates so that they use user_login. Template call get_the_author_login() is perfect for authors, but for comment references I had to use get_usermeta($user_id,’user_login’) or comment_author_link() where $user_id was 0. Messy. Since the admin side of WordPress uses display_name anyway, it is probably a lot easier to populate that column.

8. Your WordPress install should be now more-or-less working. Let’s return to the forum!

9. It is very easy to accidentally destroy the forum Keymaster, locking yourself out of the forum before integration is complete. If this happens, edit the table bb_topicmeta by deleting the final few lines with meta_key starting “wp_”.

10. On the forum admin, under WordPress Integration: Set the User role map such that Admin links to Keymaster and everyone else is a subscriber, and save. Add “wp_” under User database table prefix and save. Hit the User role map button again. Finally complete the cookie setting and save. The order is important – simply filling in all the boxes and saving can wipe out the old Keymaster access before the new one has been set up.

11. In WordPress, check the user list. I found that some user types did not convert automatically – notably moderators. Hopefully 99% of users will have been automatically assigned as subscribers. If you use a lot of plugins, take care that nothing conflicts. For example two separate plugins trying to write user meta data using the same key name. You may also wish to test a dummy registration and profile change.

12. Remove the old bb_users and bb_usermeta, and the copies of your original wp_users and wp_usermeta.

13. Remove the .htaccess blocks, and celebrate your newly integrated setup.

I’m now having fun trying to marry a second forum to the first WordPress-Forum pair. Everything is easy, until one tries to alter the admin permissions…

[hernano]

My report is bogus:

-the user_url has nothing to do with the issue, in fact it occurs with almost any .php part of bbpress:

http://www.site.com/forums/register.php?http://www.google.com

throws the warning message.

-the warning of course is shown depending on the current php configuration regarding error reporting

[hernano]

accessing:

http://www.site.com/forums/register.php?use_url=http://www.amazon.com

returns the following error:

Warning: parse_url(/forums/register.php?use_url=http://www.amazon.com) [function.parse-url]: Unable to parse url in /server/path/disclosed/forums/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1796

workaround:

call error_reporting(0) in functions.php or disable php

error reporting altogether (if you are in a hosted environment, you probably won’t be able to do this last thing).

[hernano]

none of the scripts inside bb-templates should be +x

otherwise users will be able to execute them and a path will be disclosed.

example:

http://www.site.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/register-success.php

returns an error and a path is disclosed:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bb_get_header() in /server/path/disclosed/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/register-success.php on line 1

comment:

I had to +x all my files in my hosting environment to make bbpress work; this directory and its content should not be +x’ed.

(bbpress will still work if this directory is not +x’ed)

this is primarily ‘my fault’ but since I think what I did (+x’ing everything to make bbpress work) could have been done by others, I’m just making this note here.

[vas]

When I login as admin I am not able to see the ‘design’, ‘settings’ and ‘plugins’ menus. I am able to see only ‘Dashboard’, ‘Users’, ‘Manage’ in the site admin. I recently integrated the bbPress with wp. Some one Please help. thanks.

Earlier I had problem with the admin user name in the wp (all post of the admin started to get posted on some other user registered user ). I was suggested to delete the user name (which also is the username of the admin in the bbpress) and recreate the same user name.

[chrishajer]

It might be the plugin. Have you tried without it? I tried accessing your forum, but I get a message:

“Sorry, only registered users may access the forums.

If you are registered then please login on the left.”

If I can’t see the forums, I don’t know how I could see the feed. Why not try disabling the plugin?

[joneywalker4u]

Oops then the username got deleted from database!

Is it true that both jen and admin don’t work either in wp or bbpress?

If yes then you may have to add that to database via some SQL query or register again. But if you register again it will be registered as normal user and you won’t have admin rights, since there is no admin present so who will assign this new user, the admin powers.

Register as some username xyz and look in the userlist the entries that exist wheather or not admin/jen is listed.

[hijen]

I can’t use the forgot password option; it just says this:

“This username does not exist. Register it?”

[rinashah]

Hello,

I am currently integrating bbpress and wpmu.

When a new user registers, the username duplications are not allowed but email address duplications are allowed, meaning I can loggin with two different usernames and same email address!

Any plugin to restrict registration per email address?

[djp]

Hi Leemon

As far as I am aware, the email addresses of the people who register are not visible in their profiles by other registered users. It seems to be a default setting in bbpress.

The email addresses are only visible to the Keymaster & people who have been given Administrator access.

Hope this helps

[chrishajer]

Has anyone seen profile spam like this? In the past couple days, I have been getting a different sort of spam registration. Instead of cramming just one link in their occupation and interests fields, they are cramming 4, 5 or 6 links in there. When you view their profile page, the links all appear there. If you go to edit their profile page (which is where I go to delete the user) you can’t see the links displayed in those fields, but the links do appear in the source of the page. Take a look here:

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/profile.txt

This is the source of the user’s profile page (caution, porn links in there.)

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/profile.png

That is the profile view showing the data they crammed into the occupation and interests fields.

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/profile-edit.png

That is the view you get when you click the [Edit] tab link. The only data shown in the occupation and interests fields is “My lovely sites:”, but if you view the source, it’s all there.

When registering a new user, the max length is 140 and the display length is 30 for the occupation and interests fields. When viewing the profile, the field lengths are the same. But here are 577 characters in this spammer’s occupation and interests fields, but when viewing that page, all you see is “My lovely sites:”.

It’s trivial to get around a form’s field length restriction with something like the Web Developer Toolbar, or maybe they’re doing it in a different way. I have an integrated install so the value is held in the wp_usermeta table, and the field is defined as longtext, which is a LOT of characters.

Has anyone else seen this, and does anyone think there should be some validation done on the data that’s input to ensure that it’s less than 140 characters before inserting it into the database?

This was Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Windows XP SP2, running bbPress 1.0-alpha from around March 2007, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 4.0.27, Apache 1.3.34.

Thanks for reading.

[irr1449]

It would actually be best if upon entering the registration info and some sort of captcha, the user was automatically logged in and returned to the point where they hit the “Register” button.

People are lazy. They don’t want to sign up, wait for the email, copy and paste the password (because good luck remembering “D7e98DF”), sign in, and then return to the spot that made them register in the first place.

I know this would probably cause some technical issues and would not be the most secure, but I think it would greatly increase user attach rate.

[edwinfoo]

I’m totally with you on this but maybe for different reasons.

People are impatient and on the internet, they want it NOW. I’ve got hundreds of never logged on sign ups plus I paid good money on AdWords to acquire them.

With emailed passwords, there’s 2 weak points. Your mail server, and the new members mail server. If the email doesn’t arrive within their expectations of time, they register a new username. If either mail server experiences an outage, there are 2 registrations on the memberlist that ‘Never’ logged on and aren’t likely because “that site sucks”.

A registration form, customizable fields user chooses their own password and a captcha in the form. Now that makes sense to me.

[_ck_]

With the 0.9 release, and now six months after the first roundup, I figured it was time to take another look at the (completely unofficial) bbPress Top 100 list:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

While about 200 sites have gone missing from the previous list, I managed to find about 600 more to make up for it, so the list is now at just under 1500 (a 50% growth).

If you register/login you can also see the sites that may have just missed the top 100, or see the whole deal via the top 1000:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000

Some really nice looking sites among the bunch. I enabled “snapshots” so you can mouse-over the their little logo and get a general preview. I hope to improve the list someday with the ability to vote on the design of any site to raise it higher in the list (or a separate list for top design).

If I missed your site, be sure to let me know for the next update…

[richcon]

I updated my web site today to bbPress 0.9.0.2 and WordPress 2.5.1. Cookie integration settings got out of whack and I put them back, but now the two are in conflict.

I’ve verified (by clearing cookies and watching as new cookies are registered) that both bbPress and WordPress are using the same cookie for login info — same name, path, etc.

However, when logging into WordPress I am logged out of bbPress, and when logging into bbPress I am logged out of WordPress. So they appear to be using the same cookie and overwriting it as I login to each section.

Note that the SECRET_KEY and BB_SECRET_KEY definitions in each respective config files are identical.

The cookie seems to be broken up into three parts: user name, a shortish numerical code (in decimal), and a long hexadecimal code. The name and shortish numerical code are identical between bbPress and WordPress but the long hex code changes every time. Does this help provide a clue?

[webmagnets]

When installing bbpress I was asked if I wanted to integrate. I successfully added the secret keys and such.

But, when I went to enter the database info so that the users would be synced, it said my database info wasn’t correct. So I went on without doing that part.

Then when I logged in to bbpress for the first time I went to Manage>integration (or something like that). I tried entering the database info again. It took me to the login page. I tried to login and it said that my username is wrong.

So, I tried to register a new account and I got the following error:

Warning: mysql_insert_id(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/webmagne/public_html/unlimitedbusinesscards.com/forum/bb-includes/db-mysql.php on line 156

How can I fix this?

Should I just start over with a new install?