[Atsutane]

@leggo-my-eggo

Sorry i should have update the plugin here in, but if you are download from the plugin from wordpress.org there are 3 filter support release on 22-6-2009 More info can be found here.

http://www.atsutane.net/2009/06/update-bbpress-latest-discussion-v1-5.html

[leggo-my-eggo]

@sambauers – Yep, I get that, thanks. I think where I’m coming from is that I am a long-time WordPress developer, and I have just had the need to create a forum, so I (almost automatically) chose bbPress, thinking that all the talk about integration would allow me to do some cross-platform things that I had in mind. I didn’t read far enough into the forums to discover that the “deep integration” only went one direction (bbPress->Wordpress), and now I’m way too far down the the path of developing this site to turn around, and I’m not sure I could get the interaction I wanted with anything else anyway. Any chance you’re updating the bbPress Live plugin for 2.8?

@johnhiler – Agreed about avoiding deep integration. Given what I now understand about how it works, I would prefer to avoid it entirely, merely pulling content between platforms. I actually can mod the Latest Discussion plugin, and that’s probably what I’ll end up doing. I kind of hate doing that because I forget later what I changed when I want to upgrade. Basically all I really need is a way to limit one of my forum’s topics and counts to those topics begun today (I have a “Today Only” forum to talk about topics for a single day). I have this working fine within bbPress, and what I wanted to do was simply filter the output of the Latest Discussion plugin like that from within my own plugin.

[johnhiler]

legg-my-eggo – I totally agree that basic functionality should be easier to call between the two platforms! Pulling content back and forth between WordPress and bbPress… sharing header/footer/sidebar templates… that stuff should be a lot more seamless, and hopefully it will be over time.

Deep integration does have its own set of problems. _ck_ mentions two of them here:

Two huge strengths for stand-alone (simple) integration over deep integration are:

1. your forums can be still running even if your blog is temporarily down (or visa versa)

2. speed/performance – deep integration will crush a shared server if you get a surge in visitors

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/display-bbpress-on-wordpress-page-inside-the-blog#post-25353

Anyway my personal sense is that if you can avoid deep integration, you’re probably better off that way. But if you absolutely need it, it’s possible… but only in one direction. It’s up to WordPress to decide if they want to offer deep integration of bbPress – I guess some of us could post over at the WordPress forums and ask them for it?

What kind of filters are you looking to run on the Latest Discussion plugin? Maybe we can find a way to mod the plugin to be more flexible… and remove your need for deep integration!

[leggo-my-eggo]

Yeah, that makes some sense. However, there’s a conceptual problem here, right? Because the recommended structure is to install WordPress and then install bbPress as a subdirectory (say, /forums). Which works great, but then I’ve got a home page created by WordPress, and since the deep integration only works the other way around, no way to use any bbPress content on that home page.

I also tried using the Latest Discussion plugin, but I have a modification that I need to filter some of the output supplied by whatever functions output the discussion and forum lists, and that plugin does not include a filter which allows me to do what I need to do, so I was trying to find a way to use bbPress functions on my WordPress home page.

For “deep integration” to be really relevant, I have to have a way to include bbPress content within my WordPress pages, right? Or am I really thinking of this the wrong way?

[johnhiler]

Hey guys – there are different levels of integration between WordPress and bbPress (these definitions are from Sam):

* User database integration – Sharing of user data tables with WordPress

* Cookie integration – Sharing of login cookies with WordPress

* Deep integration – Including the WordPress codebase (PHP) inside bbPress to allow use of WordPress functions inside bbPress

bbPress supports all of these (although cookie integration between some versions wasn’t supported until user plugins were created fairly recently).

I think what was asked was reverse deep integration, so to speak? Where instead of normal deep integration (allowing you to call WordPress from inside of bbPress), it would work the other way around (where you could call bbPress from inside of WordPress).

I think that’s where Sam is drawing the line re: integration, although I could be misunderstanding. He’s definitely said recently that he’s supporting normal deep integration (allowing users to call WordPress functions from inside of bbPress), so all deep integration isn’t off the table. My guess would be that it’s easier for Sam to program bbPress to support WordPress… than to demand that WordPress engineers program in full deep integration for bbPress.

Incidentally, I pull bbPress discussions onto my WordPress using the Latest Discussion plugins and it works great!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp/

[leggo-my-eggo]

Gotta say, that was not the answer I was expecting, since there are so many posts on these forums advising exactly that solution. I also am a little confused about why you would intentionally limit the interaction between these two–obviously intended to work together–apps, but I’m sure there are complexities here that I don’t understand, and I certainly understand needing to draw the line somewhere, especially at this early stage of development.

As for using bbPress Live, that’s what I initially tried to do, but it hasn’t been updated since October of last year, and doesn’t work with WordPress 2.8, so that’s not really an option. If it did work with 2.8 I would be more than happy to use it instead of including bbPress in WordPress, as it apparently provides all the functionality I would need. Any chance an update is on its way soon?

All I really need is the ability to pull the latest discussions list and the forums list into my WordPress home page. Any other suggestions are welcome.

[johnhiler]

You can add the search form to your frontpage using the instructions here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-search-form-or-link-to-searchphp-on-home-page

The Super Search plugin (with Advanced Search options) appears at search.php, and will be linked from your search results page – as it is at ck’s demo site:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/search.php?search=test&advanced=0&exact=1&posts=1&highlight=1&users=0&located=0&forums%5B%5D=0&maxcount=9999999&age=999999&direction=0&sort=date&order=0

Hope that helps!

[arthaseo]

this sounds great thanks John.

I am installing on a new domain, so i will be installing latest releases.

I have integrated WP + BBPress in past but for same domain.

any more suggestions ?

[Anonymous User]

Hi… hmmm…

I’ve no idea yet, if its possible to implement this function to a bbPress Board.

If you take a look deep into http://www.streeteasy.com you can see this forum saves the input into an cookie file (discussion_category_id=3007; discussion_title=Test; comment=test;). So – there it’s possible to log in or to register – and then use your input for a new entry.

[citizenkeith]

Thanks John, I’ll check it out.

MT reported back saying they could not recreate the problem. They ran some tests but came up empty.

[Anonymous User]

Hi …

for the stable 0.95 release there is a plugin to allow anonymous user to post:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-anonymous-posting

I use this plugin in combination with:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test

But in my test environment the plugin don’t work with the bbPress 1.0 Release Candidate.

[deadlyhifi]

Take a look at https://browserlab.adobe.com/ for basic (non interactive) testing.

[infected]

Well done, it seems to be working now. I had to remove the clear:both in .poststuff. Then i had to realign some paddings (for positioning the dashed borders between each post). Now it looks okay in Firefox 3, Opera 9 and IE8. I hope it looks the same in IE7… I can´t test it.

Thanks for your help tomdebruin! Now i can go on with some other customization to suits it to my wp-theme.

[infected]

@chrishajer: Thank you, that works fine!

@johnhiler: You´re right. If i set the value to -1 i´m always able to edit the posts. But this is something i doesn´t really need.

Okay, then there´s only one point left, the edit thing… I will have a look at the plugin and will see how it works.

Although… I got one more point to figure out. It´s a css thing. At the moment this is my testforum: http://www.test.be-infected.de/forum/topic/test-der-bbcode-buttons

If you take a look at the 2 post with the smilies in it, you can see that there´s a lot of space in this postings. I tried several things to strip this, but can´t find a solution. I think it´s the css class .threadpost that i have to edit. I know it sounds strange, but in this free space the bbsignatures plugin was showing the users signatures before. Could this relate to it?

Any help is welcome

[Tynan Beatty]

RC3 works flawlessly on integration with WP2.8 on all my sites now. Great work Sam! As for images, I could never use them unless using both allow images and bbcode lite in combination (bbcode buttons helps here). I just tested it with RC3 and that combo still works just fine

peace~

[jimgroom]

Hey everyone,

Testing out RC3, and it works in terms of bbPress/BuddyPress/WPMu 2.7.1 integration far better than RC2, which had me stumped. I do have one lingering issue with the integrated signon between WPMu and bbPress for anyone who might have a lead. When I login to either WPMu or bbPress it logs me into both applications, however, if I try and logout of bbPress when I originally logged in to WPMu, for example, it won’t log me out. I have to actually go and logout of WPMu to be logged out of bbPress. This was a similar/common issue in a version that was in the 0.7.x or 0.8.x series. And I have the sneaky suspicion there is something in my config files that is baling it. Anyone having a similar issue? Anyone know of a fix? Below are my config files for both wp and bbPress.

Right now I have this in my wp-config:

define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.umwblogs.org’ );

define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘#################’ );

And this in my bb-config:

// WordPress cookie integration speedup

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://umwblogs.org’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://umwblogs.org’;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress_###################’;

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = ‘wordpress_sec_###################’;

$bb->logged_in_cookie = ‘wordpress_logged_in_###################’;

$bb->admin_cookie_path = ‘/forums/bb-admin’;

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/forums/bb-plugins’;

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/forums/my-plugins’;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = ‘/wp-admin’;

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/wp-content/plugins’;

// End integration speedups

define( ‘WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION’, 1 );

[dss]

• bb latest discussions wordpress plugin now reports an error.

This was not actually true… Seems I only needed to remove the trailing slash on my bbpress URL and voila! It works fine.

• No more images… bbpress just eats the code. allow images plugin installed, and activated.

This, however, is still true. Has anyone else encountered this trouble?

Trying to determine if it’s a plugin in need of update, or if it’s an error on my part, or an actual issue in RC3

However, it looks like integration actually works (for the very first time ever!)

This remains true. So happy about that!

[dss]

Just updated to RC3 with WP2.8

• No more images… bbpress just eats the code. allow images plugin installed, and activated.

• bb latest discussions wordpress plugin now reports an error.

However, it looks like integration actually works (for the very first time ever!)

[jfcarter]

I am using bbPress 1.0-alpha 6 and the bbpress-forum theme (same as the one used on these forums).

I have forums and subforums and have hidden the subforums on the main page, so that only the parent forums and latest topics are showing.

The challenge is that the parent forums are showing 0 topics and 0 posts, even when their subforums do have topics and posts.

How can I get the number of subforum posts and topics included in the parent forums’ count on the main page.

Thanks in advance.

[dthom]

“I’m still getting this message whenever I post:

Your attempt to submit this post has failed.

Please try again.

I can log in as admin and access the panel. Can someone at least point me at what to look at please. Im proficient in php and mysql”

Yes, I upgraded to the latest version. Please tell me which file and while tables are involved so I can track it down.

[zapata]

may not be helping if the user is already logged in before the status was changed from Member to Blocked. I have the Online status plugin and I still see a few blocked users in there, who had logged in before their status was changed. Any info on this?

I have the database relation in bbPress set to if WP Contributor = then bbPress Blocked ; if WP Author = then bbPress Member

At times the way our site works some users in WP are moved from “Authors” to “Contributors”. Will bbPress automatically move the status of that user from “Member” to “Blocked” or will we have to manually convert the status of the user in both WP and bbPress. We though did try testing a few and found that in WP if we changed the user from ‘Author’ to ‘Contributor’, there was no change of bbPress user status (they still remained ‘Member’ though they should have ‘Blocked’)

[coca_cola]

Hi, just tried to install bbpress 1.0-RC3. Step 1-3 was no problem but after step 4 I got the following info:

“Your installation completed with some minor errors. See the error log below for more specific information.”

“Show installation messages”

Installation errors: “Forum could not be created!”

Is there anybody who knows how I can solve that problem? I’ve no idea why it could not be created…

Installation log:

Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Database is already installed!!!

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> Integration not enabled (I made this before….thats not the problem I know where to find keys and how copy/paste works)

Step 3 – Site settings

Site name: page1

>>> Site address (URL): http://ssssss.com/

>>> From email address: dxd@dffff.com

>>> Key master created

>>>>>> Username: admin

>>>>>> Email address: dxd@dffff.com

>>>>>> Password:

>>> Description: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum could not be created!

>>> Key master email sent

There were some errors encountered during installation!

I use latest wp mu version and latest buddypress version.

[Arturo]

dthom you use the latest rc-3 version?

[kaap0116]

My forum names(main themes) are locations where forum is held.

I want to replace post counts in the column at the latest discussion with the forum names(mine is locations) so that they will be able to know where the topic is posted.

Can anybody teach me how to do that?

front-page.php line52

<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> “><?php topic_title(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_posts(); ?></td> <!– I want to replace here with something like forum_names –>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_author(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”>“><?php topic_time(); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>

[Arturo]

ok download the latest version of bbpress integration plugin bu Sam now is available the version rc-3 too…