[kevinjohngallagher]

Morning lads and lasses,

I can’t replicate this problem with an existing/live website, but i may have some suggestions. From the time of the 0.9 to diffrent versions of WP (and SuperAnn and _ck_’s plugins), i’ve found i end up putting in a huge amount of data into my bb-config.php file, and then force everyone to login via wordpress (that way i know i’ve only got 1 point of failure).

If you can’t access the bb-admin admin area when being logged via wordpress try making sure these values are in your bb-config.php file.

define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ‘bb_secret_key’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘auth_key’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘loggedinkey’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘authkey’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘secureauthkey’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘secureauthsalt’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘loggedinkey’);

define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ‘secretkey’);

define(‘BB_SECRET_SALT’, ‘secretsalt’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘loggedinsalt’);

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.**********.com/’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.**********.com/’;

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wordpress_’;

$bb->user_bbdb_name = ‘**********’;

$bb->user_bbdb_user = ‘**********’;

$bb->user_bbdb_password = ‘**********’;

$bb->user_bbdb_host = ‘localhost’;

$bb->custom_user_table = ”;

$bb->custom_user_meta_table = ”;

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress_’;

$bb->cookiedomain = ”;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ”;

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wordpress_’;

$bb->WP_BB = true;

/* Stop editing */

I know this may sound daft, and i can’t pin point the technical reason for it, but with the combination of WP moving to a different security routine in WP2.7/2.8 and bbPress moving to BackPress i find that having that extra data in and predefined has solved 99% of my login issues.

I think, and those of you more technical than i am may debunk the idea, that bbPress does a “double dip” where it tests you as having a cookie on the front end and that the name is associated with a key master or admin, but then on the backend it actually checks your admin credentials against the WP database and cookie has and thats what fails (who do we thank for backPress??).

Sadly bbPress admin area (or any admin function) doesn’t give error messages, so the exact issue we won’t know unless you can run a profiler.

Give my additional code a try, and we’ll see if that makes a difference.

Kev

[Submachiner]

Is there any sort of plugin that prevents threads from appearing on the Latest Discussions area.

Lets say that one was to create a category and didn’t want any threads from that category appearing in the Latest Discussions area. Anyway to make this happen?

[r-a-y]

I’m going to try to answer the OP’s questions.

What is the advantage, of any, of having BBPress either instead of or in addition to BuddyPress?

Advantages of using bbPress – using bbPress plugins, forum categories and sub categories. If you want the traditional forum, go with bbPress.

BuddyPress’ internal bbPress relies on a concept called “groups” (similar to Facebook). You need to create a “group” in order to create a group forum. BP’s internal version of bbPress also uses a flat structure, you cannot categorize group forums into categories (as of now). Also, out of the box, you’ll need to port bbPress plugins to WP/BP in order to use them. Not many bbPress plugins have been ported to BP as of yet.

Advantages of using BuddyPress – template matches the rest of your site. Social networking in a box for WP (if you need it). Check out http://testbp.org/forums to view the forum layout.

Will (bbPress) now work with a straight WordPress install, or is it tied to WordPress MU at this point?

Works in both instances. bbPress integration plugin handles this fine.

(With the upcoming integration of WP and WPMU, at this juncture I simply don’t want to go through the hassle of installing MU.)

BuddyPress 1.2 is now supported by regular WP, so no need to install WPMU if you don’t need it.

[johnhiler]

All I was going to do was activate the original Kakumei theme and then re-test poll creation. Then de-activate Kakumei and go back to your original theme.

I know you mentioned you only changed the CSS, but even that could cause issues. So thought I’d try that, and also review your list of plugins to look for compatibility conflicts.

Feel free to try that stuff yourself! And good luck…

[johnhiler]

Ah sorry, I don’t really do IM support. Was just trying to be helpful…

I wouldn’t worry about 1.1… once you have something working, you don’t necessarily need to upgrade to the latest version unless you want to.

Re: 1.1, Matt’s update last week about the upcoming version didn’t mention polls: “[The] 1.1 release will include email notifications and anonymous posting, both of which are in trunk and would appreciate testing and patches. After that it’s bug fixes, and release.”

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/whats-happening-with-bbpress/page/5#post-64400

But I could’ve missed something!

[Dailytalker]

Monday, December 7, 2009

Facebook hits 350 million users

It’s only been a couple of days since Facebook revealed that it had topped 350 million users — exceeding the population of the United States. Back in September 2009, Facebook users were around 300 millions. Facebook proved to be more popular than eBay, Wikipedia and the U.S.

Read more: http://www.blogtactic.com/2009/12/facebook-hits-350-million-users-latest.html#ixzz0gOfOpQCo

This could also be a chance for bbpress. Some cooperation sometimes could help more than a fight against a superpower. Saddam Hussein didn’t have any chance against Bush Jr. Therefore we should acknowledge that Facebook is the clear leader at the moment.

Facebook has become so huge that even some of its applications are drawing more traffic than many major Web sites

[gerikg]

LizFilardi, doesn’t sound like it has to do with integration. Reinstall bbpress and test it out first before integrating.

[LizFilardi]

This all works fine for me. However, I don’t get any emails from bbpress or wordpress, including new user passwords, password resets, comments, etc. I’ve checked out past forum posts about that topic, and the latest I could find was a year ago, including a topic in which Sam Bauer says that the problem has been solved by adding a solution to the core package in the latest version of bbpress. any reason why integration would interfere with emailing? (i didn’t test email anything pre-integration).

[uhclem]

Thanx Kevin, I don’t feel you’re being anything but helpful. No sweat!

Back before the beginning I used to hand code with a GeoCities website. And long before that I had a Vic20…I hate to admit it but I’m responsible for far too many of those useless Usenet ng’s that still exist (alt.worms.out.of.a.hot.cheese-log ,etc.) So I kind of know a little. Anyway, I’m not scared to break the interwebs. …Algore can just build another one.

I could probably snag some code from somewhere, paste it *somewhere* and tweak it to work as I desire (or close to it), I just need to know where to do this.

Like these “php” files; Where are they and how do I edit ’em? (with NotePad like a batch file?)

I’m a 50+ year old bench jeweler but with a little help from kind folks I learn little bits of other interesting stuff. If I knew where/how to edit these files I’d chance messing up my bbPress board. I can always just make another one and stick it in the same directory on my server. The few people who have joined the various boards I’ve been testing out get a little panicky when everything changes all of a sudden , but they’ll get over it.

Thanx!

[johnhiler]

If you give me keymaster access, I can run some quick tests for you? The site wouldn’t be affected for more than a few minutes…

EDIT: Please don’t feel obligated in any way… if you’d rather not give access to a stranger, I completely understand!

[johnhiler]

Wait a second, I just tested it on a 1.0 install and it worked!

So it looks like it may be a configuration issue after all… maybe a plugin conflict?

[johnhiler]

Ah thanks for resetting it to default! Hmm, it definitely looks like an issue with the plugin/version compatibility. I also just tested it on a 1.0 install, and saw a similar issue.

Your best would be to ask a programmer to take a look at the plugin and see if they can spot the issue! I bet it’s a pretty minor one, if everything else works except for that one button.

[Marius-]

So tell me when you´ve done the testing and if you´ve found something out then…

[Marius-]

John Hiler, I have activated it now, to prevent further annoyances. There is a test thread, and you´re welcome to create a new test thread to see how it is.

[kevinjohngallagher]

its now active on my forum for the next four hours

With all due respect, you’re asking for our help to fix a bug only you are having but you won’t let us see. I asked you for a link to see the issue to help you and it took you 7 hours to respond (even though you replied to 3 other threads in the next hour), and when you did reply you gave a 4 hour window of when we could give up our free time to fix your bug.

Can you give us a link to your test site please?

[kevinjohngallagher]

WordPress has a tendancy to throw a it’s toys out of the pram if it has an activated plugin that isn’t there.

BuddyPress is quite an intricate setup, and randomly deleting stuff won’t really solve the issues. Given that this wasn’t tested on anything but a live site, deleting things from a live production site when you don’t know whats going on is not a great idea

That’s not to say it couldn’t work though

[kevinjohngallagher]

The other thing you could do, and the people at BuddyPress will be able to direct you to this, is to de-activate the plugin directly from the database via something like phpmyadmin.

Realistically though, my biggest bit of advice is not to do things like this on a live production site. Test test and test again

Take care and good luck

[citizenkeith]

Askimet is optimized for WordPress blogs.

I disabled Askimet, and instead I use a variety of other plugins to control spam. Human Test for bbPress, Project Honeypot, New User Notification… they all do the job better than anything else at the moment.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Marius mate,

Testing these things on a local/development enviroment first is really going to help you. bbPress plugins sometimes require quite a bit of web-dev knowledge, and being able to work out all the hic-ups on your own machine before letting your users see it will make your life alot easier

By the looks of it, yourself and JohnHiller could be on different timezones, I’m on all day fixing the last few bugs in the bbProgress admin section, so shout if it goes back up and we’ll try and help.

[johnhiler]

Post a link to your site? I’d like to run some quick tests…

[Scott Kingsley Clark]

I wanted to let everyone know that I’ve been working on a clone of bbPress which is built entirely in Pods. I’m not intending it to replace bbPress, but I am intending to continue development of the functionality to bring it to more of a vBulletin level. That’s the big picture anyway, I’m nearly done with getting bbPress functionality done itself.

You can see my progress here:

http://www.scottkclark.com/forums/beta-testers-unite/current-status-of-the-forums-package/

Once I’ve completed it, I will post the package on the Pods site so you can just import the package into your own site.

For info about Pods, go to http://pods.uproot.us/

[David-]

I achieved this within 30mins or less. Here’s how to go about it:

The first thing you need to do is download the latest phpbb, and install on a subdomain (I name mine phpbb, like this: http://www.mysite.com/phpbb).

Then download the Smf 2.0 to Phpbb converter here: http://dicky.askmaggymae.com/files/SMF_20B3_to_phpBB3.zip

Now upload the zip file to the root directory where you installed phpbb (in my case: http://www.mysite.com/phpbb)

I suggest you upload the zip file directly, then extract from your cpanel file manager in order not to mess up with the folder structure.

Now point your browser to where you installed phpbb, in my case: http://www.yoursite.com/phpbb/install/index.php and then click on the convert tab, and a list of converters will come up, you’ll see smf 2.o listed there. Just continue from there following the instructions listed.

During the convert there’s a stage where phpbb would be asking for the path to your smf 2.0 board, simply enter it. In my case smf was on: http://www.mysite.com/forums, so I entered: ../forums. Initially my smf was installed at: http://forums.mysite.com, I kept getting errors, so I just moved it with my cpanel file manager to: http://www.mysite.com/forums. And the whole process went smoothly.

But if your smf is on the root, just enter this value there: ../

If you follow the above instructions, you should get your smf converted to phpbb without a glitch.

Now it’s time to convert to BBpress (the mighty bbpress).

Download the latest version, and install exactly where you want it to be, in my case I installed it on the root which is http://www.mysite.com. You must install bbpress using the same database with the phpbb you just converted.

Now download the phpbb to bbpress converter here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/wmnkhayal/files/phpbb3tobbpress%20converter.tar.gz

Extract the zip on your desktop, and you’ll end up with two files.

Upload the phpbb3tobbpress.php file to the root directory of your phpbb (in my case: http://www.mysite.com/phpbb)

copy the other file which is: _phpbb3_pass.php to your newly installed bbpress plugins directory. Copy this to bb-plugins folder and not to my plugins.

Now point your browser to where you installed phpbb, and add the link of the converter at the end, in my case this was: http://www.mysite.com/phpbb/phpbb3tobbpress.php and follow the instructions to convert your phpbb board to bbpress.

As simple as that. I’m no expert, so anybody should be able to do this. Anyways I’m available to questions.

Welcome to bbpress!

[jasbg]

Thanks a lot ashfame !

As you observed I managed to get rather confused about the connections between the different systems here.

I will follow your advice and test the combination you mention here !

Jens

[jasbg]

Hi

Been trying to install Buddypress onto a clean BBPress instalation – but it keeps giving me an error:

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Warning: require_once(WP_PLUGIN_DIR/buddypress/bp-core.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:wampwwwbbpressmy-pluginsbuddypressbp-loader.php on line 19

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘WP_PLUGIN_DIR/buddypress/bp-core.php’ (include_path=’.;C:php5pear’) in C:wampwwwbbpressmy-pluginsbuddypressbp-loader.php on line 19

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Does anyone know if this installation is at all possible (clean BBPress + BuddyPress forum) ?

I would like to avoid using WordPress Mu – to keep things as lean (simple) as possible !

Thanks in advance for any advice on the subject !

Jens

btw. – I have for a couple of weeks been doing research on how to run the best and most sufficient frontend bases open posting site (or almost open) – and has ended with bbPress (has 12 different test systems running on wamp and easyphp – among them Word MU – Drupal version 6 and 7 and others. It’s close to chaos for sure)

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Trunk is the bleeding edge version which is under development. Like a newer version under development. Trunk means the latest code in development stage. I am running a little busy right now. If left with some time tonight, I might try to catch it on trunk