I’m struggling with this as well. The difference is I installed a vanilla WordPress 2.9.2 and bbPress 1.02 as a test and got the integration working easily. However I have a blog I just upgraded from WordPress 2.8 to 2.9.2 and from bbPress 1.0 to 1.02 and nothing I do will make it work. I can’t see any particular difference and I’m just about to die of frustration here.
@Michael R:
Thanks, but this one is the BuddyPress 1.0 Theme, BuddyPress 1.2.x now oncludes a new default theme: http://testbp.org
@Gautam:
Yes, of course, but I want to run an external forum installation with the same design. BuddyPress has group forums, but there should be an external forum that has nothing to do with group forums.
My site: http://musikinstrumentenbau.net
External forum: http://musikinstrumentenbau.net/forum/
@wemaflo
The link that @Michael R gave is for previous version of BuddyPress. (Good Resource!)
But I see you want for the latest version 1.2+
@Gautam is right about installing bbPress within BuddyPress or if you already have one, then you can link that too (I haven’t tried that yet but it should work easily).
And if you want to run a standalone version with BuddyPress for some reason (may be because the limit that forums are within group only), then you are out of luck as nothing exists for now.
Any updates on this pal? I’ve copied the code you use on your website to test, but the icon appears on all forums and not just the category ones (I noticed this is also the case on your forums)
OK, we fixed it. I’ll find out details and post later. See how it looks here: http://www.cwnp.com/forums
Our purpose in doing it is twofold:
1. privacy/security, obvious reasons
2. we just implemented the Leaderboard plugin found on bbpress.org so we can have a participation contest. Leaderboard by default shows username, which in our case is email.
Bottom line is we also require “nickname”, so we’ve used that instead.
Now, anyone know how to make Leaderboard a widget?
Replace all your existing files with the trunk download. It’s not a diff or a patch, it’s just a complete testing version of the software.
Just open the front-page.php file in your template folder and move (cut and paste) the “latest disussions” section down which will move the “main theme” section down.
It will look like this when you’re done:
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/a2y4FunW
Just copy and paste that into the file called front-page.php (replace everything that is there now.) That will put the main theme on top and latest discussions on the bottom.
I moved lines 11-45 down so the main theme comes up first.
How do I move the forum “main theme” to the top, and “Latest discussion topic” to the bottom? thank u.
Already got it, this function was already integrated in the sidebar widget. See: http://www.jahw.nl
Hi,
Is there a way to get the avatar showing in the bbPress_Latest_Discussion plugin?
Thanks for your answer…
@deejaywoody
it just shows up the latest discussions
Yup, you can definitely repost derivative works. Oh and also – if you click the “subscribe to topic” link at the top of the page, that should give you email alerts!
I would love to help you test… just let me know! One of my main goals is to figure out how to turn off TinyMCE in mobile browsers… so my users can comment from their iPhones and Android browsers.
Sorry guys this forum really needs a notify on reply via Email function.
So GPL derivative means I can repost derivative works? Its not that crazy different from his code but hacked up quite a bit to compensate for the differences between BBPress and WP.
I will try to clean up the plugin a little bit before release since it has some serious custom code that I need ot cut out since it wont work on another site. The template is up to you to edit away but you will need to know a little bit about how BBPress templates work.
I will try to get something for you guys soon. Anybody want to volunteer to test it out?
As for the bbPress canonical plugin, I think that is a ways away.
But I just checked, and the latest version of BuddyPress does actually work with WordPress 2.9!
https://buddypress.org/blog/news/introducing-buddypress-1-2/
I wonder how this can be:
“I just attempted to do a perfectly clean upgrade: still getting the db connection issue after bb upgrade tells me I need to upgrade my DB. “
How can the bbPress upgrade/install know the database is out of date if it cannot connect to the database? I thought the version was stored in the database in the first place. I might have to try breaking my bb-config.php and attempting to upgrade a 0.9 installation to see how this works. Haven’t tried in a while.
Are you upgrading bbPress just to make integration with the latest WordPress easier?
I just registered on your site and then tested the signin… it worked for me on the first try! 
I’m using Google Chrome…
Maybe there’s a known issue between your browser and the “saved passwords” option… which browser are you using?
Just when I was ready to throw in the towel for the weekend! 
I just attempted to do a perfectly clean upgrade: still getting the db connection issue after bb upgrade tells me I need to upgrade my DB. These are my only instructions: https://bbpress.org/documentation/upgrading/
Chris – I do have a solid / tested 0.9 backup. That’s where I was headed before checking the boards one last time. I’m installing this on a test sub-domain of my production website – so no LAMP. I use the Media Temple Grid Server (poor man’s server) and have scoured the other Media Temple quirkiness posts here. I tried hard-coding the db host https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mysql_connect-cant-connect-through-socket with no luck.
Regarding the 0.9 bb-config…I did find some remnants of a WP integration attempt (keys and whatnot). But, because my 1.0.2 upgrade ‘overlays’ the old bb-config – I’m starting with a new, clean (non integrated) bb-config doc. My problem is that, I can’t get to Step #2 of the install – that’s where I hit the db connection issue every time.
I’ve gone through the bb-config doc, and the DB host / user / pw settings a million times. I’ve updated all my schemas to UTF8 and the UTF8 charset – and I’m applying those config settings into my bb-config. Nothing works.
I’d like to blast my tables too…but that feels pretty invasive to me. A real test of my backup / recover abilities. I may not have the legs to get it done today.
Thanks as always for any help.
You can get a zipped version here:
https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2401/trunk?old_path=%2F&format=zip
Or you can check out the latest via subversion:
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/ .
Either of those two methods will get you the latest trunk (development) version.
I downloaded the latest stable version right here. And I didn’t do anything about it, only changed the name of the folder bbPress to forum.
Do you mean themes and plugins for WordPress or bbPress?
Where do we find latest dev version for those of us on localhosts?
I don’t recommend editing core bbPress files. This is fixed in the latest development version already as well.
forums will be within groups and not site wide in BuddyPress’s latest version
@BerryReview I’d love to use that plugin if available, I don’t mind editing the codes at all.
I tested your page with this website http://iphonetester.com/ and it’s looking good.
Good work, man!
I just tried including wp-load.php from another WordPress site on the same server, like this, and it worked just fine:
require_once('../../dev/wp-load.php');
Maybe our PHP or server configurations are different. But this worked fine and did not error out. I also tried just including a test.php file that I created in the same directory (the file is empty) and that works fine too. PHP doesn’t care what’s in that file (or if there is even anything in there at all), so long as there is no syntax error.
Can you try to require_once some other random file in the same directory as wp-load.php? Just create a file called test.php in the directory as wp-load.php and try requiring that without requiring the wp-load.php. If it does not error out, then you probably have the path right and the system is configured to allow this type of file inclusion.
Also, if anyone has access to php error logs, that will help pinpoint the problem. Or, you can temporarily display errors to the screen, or create a custom logging. The blank screen tells you there IS a problem, but not WHAT the problem is. We’re just guessing without knowing the actual error.
