[dss]

With both WP 2.3.3 and WP 2.5 under bbpress 8.3.X I was using the Wordspew plugin to present a shoutbox plugin on my front page of bbpress.

It worked fine, and users who registered with my bbpress were included as wp users as well with the bbpress integration plugin.

Once I upgraded to 9.0.1 the call to the script which presented the shoutbox simply didn’t work anymore.

I poked around and tried to manually add the javascript and css calls in the template header, but nothing worked.

I restored my database to the previous condition, re uploaded my files, and it’s working fine.

I’m wondering what’s changed which would interfere with this simple procedure?

To my mind, if it were an integration thing… then the shoutbox would appear, and new users would not be recognized. So they wouldn’t be able to post shouts.

Instead, the get_jal_wordspew function simply doesn’t work.

Any ideas how I could either get this working again with the new version and improved integration?

Or perhaps port the wordspew plugin to become a bbpress plugin?

It’s silly that a shoutbox is so important at the top of a message board… but people really love it.

[12thharmonic]

From the upgrade instructions “The installer will either create a new config file or show you the contents to paste into a file manually. As soon as your new config file is created and validated by the installer, you should be redirected to your bbPress front page.”

This did not occur. It continued as new. I tried a third time with a fresh upload.

The errors at the top of the page I neglected to include in the first post:

bbPress database error: [Table ‘headonra_forum.bb_users’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT ID FROM bb_users WHERE user_login = ‘admin’

bbPress database error: [Table ‘headonra_forum.bb_users’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT ID FROM bb_users WHERE user_nicename = ‘admin’

bbPress database error: [Table ‘headonra_forum.bb_users’ doesn’t exist]

INSERT INTO bb_users (user_login,user_pass,user_nicename,user_email,user_url,user_registered) VALUES (‘admin’,’$P$BvJa/4bE7omVr/FndtNTXivJARhjWM1′,’admin’,’12thharmonic@gmail.com’,”,’2008-04-03 10:58:26′)

bbPress database error: [Table ‘headonra_forum.bb_usermeta’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT * FROM bb_usermeta WHERE user_id = 67 AND meta_key = ‘bb_capabilities’

bbPress database error: [Table ‘headonra_forum.bb_usermeta’ doesn’t exist]

INSERT INTO bb_usermeta (user_id,meta_key,meta_value) VALUES (’67’,’bb_capabilities’,’a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}’)

bbPress database error: [Table ‘headonra_forum.bb_users’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT * FROM bb_users WHERE ID = 67

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/headonra/public_html/forum/bb-includes/db-mysql.php:106) in /home/headonra/public_html/forum/bb-includes/functions.php on line 2248

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I could not log in with new or old details.

Restoring old version one more time till some advice comes down.

[chrishajer]

What are you entering there? And are you using a language file other that the default US English? Any plugins? Are you trying an integrated install with WordPress? What version bbPress and WordPress are you using (if you’re using WordPress at all)?

[tpalombo]

I’ve gone through the steps to install bbPress. At step 1 it asks me to enter a user name for the first administrator account.

No matter what I enter I get this message on step 2:

Bad username. Go back and try again.

Any ideas?

[chrishajer]

> For example, if someone was browsing a support

> forum, and just happened to know the answer to

> the question off-hand, do you think they will really

> take the time out of their day to register, confirm

> their email, then post their answer?

Yes, yes I do. If someone wants to help, they will take 30 seconds out of their day to register. It’s not like you roam the Internet looking for random support forums with unanswered questions and then when you have the answer, you see you can’t just type in the answer without registering, so you run away. I think people tend to have a few places they check in with daily, in their area of interest or expertise, and they register there if they’re going to spend any time there. It’s not a big deal. I mean, really.

[ashewalton]

There are many reasons for having an open forum.

Although there is higher upkeep on an open forum, there are majour benefits for it. For example, if someone was browsing a support forum, and just happened to know the answer to the question off-hand, do you think they will really take the time out of their day to register, confirm their email, then post their answer? No, chances are they are just going to leave the question unanswered and not bother with the trouble.

By locking out people who are too lazy to register their support requests, you’re also locking out people too lazy to register to save you work and answer support requests.

Someone has written a whole essay on the benefits of anonymous (“open”) posting: http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan

[Shagalaga]

thx! it works!

i need this groups for the private forum plugin, i want to give a group, for example ´insiders´, permission to some special forums.

now there are only moderator, registered, adminstrators and keymasters, and i want just an simple renamed group.

[12thharmonic]

We’ve just gone public today. I decided not to sync with Mu. I am planning to implement BuddyPress when it comes to life. I thought bugger it. Register twice. I thought why break everything when teething that down the road. Paranoid? Maybe.

http://headonradionetwork.com/forum/

More pimping to do. Love BBPress so far. Mods are finding it easy to learn.

[pad]

Right I’ve narrowed this down.

I’ve redirected bbPress’ login to WordPress. That’s fine. Now here’s exactly what happens when you register.

1) Go to wp-register.php, fill in fields

2) Check email, get password

3) Login at wp-login.php

4) Go to forum, already logged in – INACTIVE

5) Log out of forum, log back in – ACTIVE

Obviously the last two steps are problems. Is this a cookie issue?

[Sam Bauers]

Go to the WordPress integration options page in the admin and set the user roles at the bottom of the page. Doing so will update any existing users lacking roles in either WordPress or bbPress.

Once the user role mapping is set it will add roles to WordPress as well as bbPress from then on when a user registers in bbPress. WordPress registrations is another matter though, I thought a subscriber would have defaulted to being a member in bbPress. I.e. if they had user data but no role the default is to make them at least a member. Can you check this?

[pad]

I’m running the latest version of 0.9 and WordPress 2.5.

How easy is it to make so that if a user signs up on either WordPress OR bbPress’s register scripts, the correct user role is assigned?

Right now, if a user on my site signs up on WordPress, they get a Subscriber role but no role on the forum. If a user signs up on the forum, they get a Member forum role but no role on the blog.

I dabbled with the plugins to supposedly fix this but succeeding in little more than somehow stripping both my WordPress AND my bbPress admin priviledges, which I had to put back in phpMyAdmin, to much strife. Yes that’s right, I ended up as a bog-standard member on bbPress and a Subscriber on WordPress. It was NOT fun.

I really want to fix this as this is all that stands between me and a fully integrated WP/BBP. Thanks in advacne

[pad]

Oh dear!

I’ve been trying to get my integrated setup to work better. It was all perfect except for how the roles differed so if you registered on bbpress, the WordPress admin panel would fail for you and the new user would have no role.

So what I did was installed the bbpress integration plugin on WordPress. Somewhere along the way though, I’ve lost all admin privileges on my blog. I literally can’t access the Admin area!

Someone help?

[howtogeek]

That plugin didn’t work quite right for me, but I was able to hack together my own hard-coded version for both bbpress and wordpress.

Thanks!

[howtogeek]

@chrishajer

Thanks for that… I’ve been meaning to look that up, but looks like you did it for me

[chrishajer]

Here is the WordPress plugin:

http://www.shiftthis.net/wordpress-swift-smtp-plugin/

[mun33b]

Any chance of getting a no e-mail activation thingy so that e-mails arent sent when people register. Its very annoying and free servers dont support it so my forum is pretty much useless to members as they dont receive their passwords. PLEASE in-cooperate this into a new version or maybe a plug-in.

[Craig]

ATTN: This post appears on both WordPress.org as well as bbPress.org forums so I can get the best response possible!

Alright, well some of you out there have been kind enough to help me via the forums or within the mIRC channel while we waiting on status of the new bbPress. First of all, thank you so much for all the help! After much research, I think I know what I need to do…

I laid out what I want my actual users to be able to do! A very basic overview would be this:

Primarily WordPress Accounts: Posting ability on the “main site” (AKA WordPress install), posting ability on the forums of the site, ability to post comments to WordPress posts and a robust profile.

Primarily bbPress Accounts: Posting ability within the forums, ability to post comments to WordPress posts and a robust profile.

What these two types of accounts need to share is a unified Registration page, unified login/password recovery/login form.

I think I know how to go about this… basically I want my header.php to be the same throughout the website AND forums. That way it is the same login form, same link to register, same password recovery. And to change the register form I just need to use the WordPress one and just have the WordPress Intergration plugin, display name plugin and name with spaces plguin for bbPress … I believe.

I’m still kinda new to all this so I could use any input possible.

Thanks in advance and sorry for the long read!

[Beau Lebens]

@McKrazie – I just removed the bbPress registration stuff and require my users to register through my WordPress (MU) installation, although I’m actually running its registration through a totally customized process as well.

http://mybabyourbaby.com/

If you set up your cookies in bbP and WPMU properly, then users should only have to log in once (as long as it’s all on the same domain/subdomain) – see here for how i did it https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wpmu-integrated-installation#post-14346

HTH

[chrishajer]

I you are the administrator of the pig2twig forum, I suggest you contact the web host, which appears to be 1&1 Internet. If you are a user of the pig2twig forum, I suggest you contact the administrator of that forum. Since the site is down, I have no idea how to contact that person or who that is although it appears the domain is registered to Penguin Books?

Registrant:

Penguin Books Ltd

Registrant’s address:

80 Strand

London

WC2R 0RL

GB

The bottom line is, it’s not the bbPress software causing the problem. The whole site is down, as are other domains on the same IP address. The problem lies there, not with bbPress.

[Craig]

Hello,

I am trying to install the newest editions of both WordPress and bbPress onto the same site as of March 10, 2008. The desired URLs for both are:

WordPress: http://www.hooligans-gaming.net

bbPress: http://www.hooligans-gaming.net/forums

I have both running from the same database and thats all setup good. However, I have a few questions:

1) I want a single registration page. Meaning that I want a visitor to the site to click on either the forums Register link or even the front page Register link and be brought to the same page and have both WordPress and bbPress share the same user table … how can this be done?

2)Secondly, I want my registered users to be able to sign in at the front page OR on the forums and be logged in until they timeout or logout… how can this be done?

3)With those two steps, my final request is how can I fully integrate my WordPress and bbPress? I plan to use the WordPress install for front page news and website content and my bbPress to be (you guessed it) my forums. As far as features is concerned, I would just want to display the top 10 most recent threads on the front page as well as another widget I have planned for a different feature that wouldn’t affect the forums so I’ll leave that one along for now.

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I have no problem editting files if I need to. I’m no pro but I have enough knowledge to get me by.

Thank you in advance!

[itissue]

Nevermind. I figured it out. All I needed to do was create this:

<?php if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

ENTER CODE TO HIDE FROM REGISTERED USERS

<?php endif; ?>

A simple not was all it took.

[itissue]

I know there’s a way to hide a certain part of the front page by using this:

<?php if ( bb_is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

INSERT HIDDEN CODE HERE

<?php endif; else : // $forums ?>

but I was wondering if you could have a section that only nonregistered users can view. This will make more sense after visiting my site:

http://tapestry.endless-sonata.net

At the bottom, I have a table that contains Hot Tags, Views, Users Online, and Top Posters. What I want is for that view to be only visible to registered users. Then, when a nonregistered user views this site, I want just the Hot tags to show in an expanded version, not off to the left. Is there a way to do this? I tried entering the alternate code after this:

<?php endif; else : // $forums ?>

but it didn’t display anything.

[strthomp]

I have installed bbpress on a Mac OS X 10.4 server, and all seems well with the exception of logging in and out using the Firefox browser. When i enter my login information and press login, the page looks as i it refreshes but does nothing. If i hit register, it says i am already logged in and from that page i can get to the main page of the forums and i am logged in.

When i click log out, it also does not seem to change (still shows my user instead of login box).

At first i thought this was only the browser, however after installing the same release of bbpress on a RHEL5 x64 Linux machine, i did not have this issue, even using the same browser/computer, and other combinations etc to try to get it to happen again.

Anyone seen a problem like this?

[chrishajer]

I received my password email about 15 seconds after registering, using a gmail account.

[abi86]

hi i see that bbpress is the name on the website pig2twig. i am having trouble registering on the website, i have done so 5 times over 3 days but have never received my password. i wondered if anybody could help me please? http://www.pig2twig.co.uk