[_ck_]

update: I’ve now included this functionality in the topics-per-page plugin so use that instead which is maintained and not this mini-plugin which will not work properly with 1.0a

Here’s something I had made a mental note of quite awhile ago but forgot to do, add pagination to the front-page for the latest discussions. You can see a demo near the bottom of http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

(the following two functions are included in the 0.0.4 version of topics-page-page plugin, so don’t use them if you have that)

add_filter('get_latest_topics_limit','front_page_pagination',999);

function front_page_pagination($limit="") {

global $page;

if (is_front() && $page>1) {$limit.=" OFFSET ".($page-1)*bb_get_option('page_topics');}

return $limit;

}

function front_page_pages() {

global $page, $bbdb;

echo get_page_number_links( $page, $bbdb->get_var("SELECT SUM(topics) FROM $bbdb->forums"));

}

1. add to your front-page.php template

<div class="nav"><?php front_page_pages(); ?></div>

AFTER

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

</table>

2. If you use rewrite slugs you MUST add the following rule to your .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forums/?page=$1 [L,QSA]

anywhere before </IfModule>

where /forums/ is the path to your bbpress install.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Those plugins come default for 1.0alpha2 under the plugins tab, you have to turn them on. I suspect it’s POSSIBLE if you downloaded the alpha version, they might work in a non-alpha install, but it’s untested.

But really, if you’re just moving your domain, you can pretty much do what you’d do for WordPress or any other PHP/SQL driven site. You have two basic options.

1. Download a copy of the main bbpress files from your OLD server to your hard drive and edit wp-config.php to suit the new server.
2. Go back to your OLD forum and go to options and change the url (both of them) to that of your new site.
3. Download your database (but keep the old one just in case), upload this new database and the copy of the wordpress core files with the edited bb-config.php to your NEW server.

Or…

1. Install a new forum on the new server.
2. Export the forum content from the OLD server into a BBXF file
3. Import the data into the new forum.

[agitainment]

Hey, there.

Well I finally got around to validating my feeds. They do in fact validate, but I’m still getting the document tree intermittently on Firefox 3.0.3 for Mac OSX. I don’t seem to be having a similar problem on Safari (though I haven’t tested it as extensively). Here’s the output for the feed at http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/rss.php?forum=3:

<!– generator=”bbPress” –>

−

<rss version=”2.0″>

−

<channel>

−

<title>

Agitainment Forum: Forum: Stan and Jess – Recent Posts

</title>

<link>http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/</link&gt;

<description>Pulse-Pounding Agitainment Letters-Page and Forum!</description>

<language>en</language>

<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:36:29 +0000</pubDate>

−

<item>

<title>admin on “Stan and Jess is on the way!”</title>

−

<link>

http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/topic.php?id=14#post-30

</link>

<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:57:57 +0000</pubDate>

<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>

<guid isPermaLink=”false”>30@http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/</guid>

−

<description>

<p>If you haven’t already been to stanandjess.com, there is currently a place-holder cartoon on the site. Rest assured, the real cartoon is coming soon and will be updating weekly. I’ll be sure to let you all know when I roll out the first strips.

</p>

</description>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

As I mentioned before, if I page back on the browser and hit the feed again, it usually works.

Is it possible this is a Firefox issue?

Any ideas?

[globetrotterdk]

Help, please. A very basic question, maybe a sticky would be a good idea? I have successfully installed and integrated the latest alpha version (as of today) with WordPress 2.6.3, (congratulations to the team) but I can’t figure out how to get into the administration area.

[globetrotterdk]

Hi,

I am in the middle of the install of bbPress (latest alpha as of today) and I get asked for the user database table prefix. Looking at my wp-config.php file, all I see is the following:

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix

$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

Does that mean that I don’t have a WP user database table? What do I need to do? This is my first site and I don’t have any users yet except myself as admin – translation: I am an extreme newbie and just want to get the rest of this install finished.

I am using WordPress 2.6.3

Cheers

[_ck_]

Anyone willing to give an early version a test for compatibility?

There is no account creation feature yet but you can attach OpenID identities to any existing account, and then login with the OpenID instead of your regular bbPress login (the regular login remains intact).

[xeroxss]

I’m using wordpress 2.6.3 and just upgraded my forum to 1.0-alpha-2 integration works perfectly by following the docs to the letter. The first time I upgraded I didn’t manage to make the integration work the main reason probably is because I just copied the bb-config.php from my old installation. This time I deleted it and do the install again, I put all my database information and just follow the prompts it will detect that bbpress is installed then proceed with the database upgrade. Just make sure that settings for your bb-config.php and wp-config.php are the same for AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY’ under the bbpress integration menu in the admin panel also make sure that the “auth” = “auth_salt”, “secure auth”=”secure_auth_salt”, and “logged in” =”logged_in_salt” in WordPress /wp-admin/options.php are the same.

The only issue I found is that when i logged out in either bbpress or WordPress i’m still logged in on the other. Probably a cookie issue i’m not sure though, so I have to logged out manually from both.

–Update: After additional testing I found out that when I logged in using WordPress I can only logged out completely using WordPress logged out meaning I am logged out both from bbpress and WordPress. Same with bbpress if I logged in using bbpress I can logged out completely by using bbpress logged out. If I use WordPress login I cannot logged out from bbpress by using bbpress logged out but can completely logged out if I use wordpress logged out. If I logged in using bpress, I can logged out in WordPress by using WordPress logged out but I’m stil logged in in bbpress so if I want to logged out completely I have to use bbpress to logged out completely.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Viewing source was the first thing I tried. Old habits die hard But really, there was nothing.

I did not check the error logs, so I did that right now.

On Server:

Make sure error-log is set to verbose for now.

On bbPress:

Enable XML-RPC – YES

On WordPress:

Install plugin – Done

Activate Plugin – Done (no errors)

Configure Plugin –

URL (http://jorjafox.net/forums/)

ID/Password (Ipstenu / 555Nope!)

Caching Enabled - NO

Enable forums widget - YES

Enable Topics widget - YES

Copy new WordPress posts to bbPress (not implemented)

Then I went into widgets and picked ‘bbPress latest topics’, put it at the bottom of my sidebar. I gave it the title of ‘Latest Topics’ and saved my changes.

The header shows up on the bottom of the side bar, no content.

Error log is empty. Frustration resumed

By the way, if the standalone function is called to be echoed like print_r($myarray);, shouldn’t that output something?

[_ck_]

I just wanted to announce I have a primitive prototype of OpenID working with bbPress and should have a more stable version for experimental testing within a few days (likely by the end of the weekend). The only requirement is your PHP needs CURL with https (ssl) support, which many servers have or can easily add ie. via cpanel’s rebuild PHP (check your PHPINFO to be certain).

I finally got an old openid 1.1 framework working with openid 2.0 so this makes it possible to use it with all the newest providers: aol, yahoo, microsoft and now even Google (as a “consumer”, not as a server).

The biggest problem was making it work without extra libraries like the complex math support and even DOMXML which is not available on many shared hosting PHP4 servers. But found a way around that too I’ll eventually add fsockopen support with ssl so even CURL is not a requirement.

ps. OpenID on WordPress.com needs to be fixed to offer a secure login when a cookie is not present like every other provider. This is annoying

[Deadpan110]

Im not sure if I have set my bbPress 1.0.alpha2 to work with WordPress MU 2.6.3 correctly, but its working.

http://domain.com = my WordPress MU

http://forums.domain.com = bbPress sub domain

As you can probably see, there are things within the config files that might not be needed.

WordPress/wp-config.php

define('AUTH_KEY', 'authkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'secureauthkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'secureauthsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'loggedinkey');

define('SECRET_KEY', 'secretkey');

define('SECRET_SALT', 'secretsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'loggedinsalt');

I copied and pasted the existing lines straight into bb-config.php replacing what was already there and then added the BB_ to each.

bbPress/bb-config.php

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');

In BOTH bb-config.php AND wp-config I added:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.domain.com'); // remember the '.' prefix

define('COOKIEPATH', ''); // this is empty

Then I visited http://forums.domain.com/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php (Settings > WordPress Integration) and scrolled down to ‘Manual bbPress config file settings’ and copied all the text below ‘WordPress cookie integration speedup’ and pasted into bbPress/bb-config.php.

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://domain.com';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://domain.com';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.domain.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_'; // DELETE the hash part

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins';

Oh, and I added the$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; too.

NOTE

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_';

The hash was removed and the line reads EXACTLY as above.

To test, just make sure you are logged out of both and then log in and visit your other site.

Final Note, as stated above – there is probably a lot of unneeded clutter in the bb-press config, but all works for me – no matter which domain I log into!

I hope this helps someone

[Sam Bauers]

@rensenieuwenhuis

Awesome to see bbPress Live in use.

The post to a forum stuff is coming really soon. It may require you to update bbPress to the latest Trunk though…

[thion]

http://forums.astateofmind.eu

Plugins:

– Human Test for bbPress

– Forums Moderators

– Allow Images

– bbSocialize

– bbPages

– bbPress Smilies

– bbFlickr

– Forum Last Poster

– BBPress Private Messaging

– BBcode Buttons Toolbar

– Private Forums

– bbPress signatures

– bbPress Polls

– BBcode Lite

Modifications: A lot! bbSocialize and bbPages plugins has been created specially for this website, there is a lot of conditional php tags (if, else, etc.), I’ve created a function to create a sidebar, and I’ve integrated some jQuery stuff, and more .

If I could only attract members as I’m coding things .

[Mark Thomas Gazel]

Thanks for the test.

Upgraded to Alpha and found out it was a plugin-error.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

So I was thinking about this in the shower, if I can get bbPress to set a cookie for / instead of /forum I think my woes would be over (See Step 2 above…)

Now, before looking into it further, I don’t think this is how it works. If the script calling for a cookie to be set is in folder ‘/forum/’ then the domain scope for that cookie is going to be set to ‘/forum/’ by the webserver.

But to test the obvious, I rushed to bb-config and tried variations on

// Cookie Scope

$bb->cookiedomain = '';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '/';

No joy.

Maybe if I had the wp-login code on the forum site…with bb-admin cookies… let me try some things…

The ‘/’ cookie to rule them all is the way to go. If I can just get it to work…

[Vietson]

Its my first time using bbPress and first time theming it. I must say, the easiest forum to theme I’ve ever come across.

I mimic WordPress (.com and .org) forums layout structure and color palette. Still working to iron out some css issue.

I wanted to update jquery to the current latest but it broke a few things. So I’m currently writing a plug-in that will hopefully update the jQuery and fixes the few broken items.

BBCode Lite,

BBCode Button

Allow Image

BB Smilies (maybe I should change this to something better)

BB Video

Askimet

TOS (Terms of Service)

Demo: http://idolsavenue.com/forums/

[kannued]

I did use web developer tool. The buffalo’s outer box is div class=”threadpost”. Then the next box which the picture sits in is div class=”post”. For the text only post, the outer box sits outside of the threadpost, inside the thread li.

I would be willing to email the link to the moderators or to yourself. But I’m not willing to post the link here for the test site.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Until someone who know what they’re doing chimes in… you could use CSS Selectors (of your own making e.g. ‘foo’) to trap and apply styles to elements with the ‘foo’ attribute…

[foo]        -- Has an attribute named "foo"

[foo="bar"]  -- Has an attribute named "foo" with a value of "bar" ("bar")

[foo~="bar"] -- Value has the word "bar" in it somewhere ("blue bar stools")

[foo^="bar"] -- Value begins with "bar" ("barstool")

[foo$="bar"] -- Value ends with "bar" ("I was at the bar")

[foo*="bar"] -- Value has bar somewhere ("I was looking for barstools")

So I guess, if you had <img foo='inpost'... and

[foo ="inpost"] { background-color: transparent; max-width:100%;} that might work.

If you posted an actual link to the test site (or emailed it), folks could use FF web developer plugins etc to nail down the CSS tree for that theme…

I hope this helps.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

It’s like trying to open the wrapper on a new CD you’re dying to listen to…if I can just get it open without using a hammer…

This is a thread. There are many threads like this thread. This thread is my thread.

Follow the cookie path please. Visit with the config file settings. See the pattern and you will bend the spoon. Then let me eat ice-cream with that spoon, please.

Paths:



WP: http://mydomain.org/

bbPress: http://mydomain.org/forum/



Apache version	1.3.41 (Unix)

PHP version	5.2.5

MySQL version	5.0.51a-community

Architecture	i686

Operating system	Linux



#########################################

bb-config.php:

// URI’s

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://mydomain.org&#8217;; // No trailing slash

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://mydomain.org&#8217;;

// Cookie Scope

$bb->cookiedomain = ”;

$bb->cookiepath = ”;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ”;

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

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

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

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

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

// The name of the cookies

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = ‘wordpress_sec_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$bb->logged_in_cookie = ‘wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘ahhpushit’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘pushpushit’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘realgood’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘andpepper’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘arehere’);

#########################################



wp-config.php:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘ahhpushit’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘pushpushit’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘realgood’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘andpepper’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘arehere’);

$wp->authcookie = ‘wordpress_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$wp->secure_auth_cookie = ‘wordpress_sec_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$wp->logged_in_cookie = ‘wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

// bbPress WP integration

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ”);

#########################################



1)Clear all cookies



#########################################



2) Log into bbPress: (mydomain.org/forum/): role 'member':

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

#########################################



3) Visit WP site: (not logged in)

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

various 3rd party cookies from picasa etc



#########################################



4) Visit wp-login.php: (not logged in)

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



5) Log into wp-login.php as 'subscriber' user (same user as bbPress) which puts me /wp-admin/

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



6) 'Visit site' from wp-admin

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



7) Click on '//mySite.org/forum' link on main site (bbPress install dir)

Forum's first page displays: No extra cookies made.  These cookies are from WP in the previous step:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



 Log out from bbPress:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

STILL LOGGED INTO bbPress!



#########################################



9) Visit wp site

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



10) Logout from WP site: (wp-login.php?loggedout=true)

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



11) Visit forum site.



logged out.



#########################################

12) Clear all cookies



#########################################



13) Log into bbPress:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

#########################################



14)Log out of bbPress:



All cookies cleared.



#########################################



15) Visit WP site + clear cookies.



#########################################



16) Log into WP

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



17) Visit bbPress site.



Already Logged in as wp user.

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



18) Logout from bbPress:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

Still logged in to bbPress!



#########################################



19) Logout from main site:

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



20)  Eat stapler.

[hornymelon]

The test profile that I created cannot Reply to a comment or post a new topic. However they can post a comment in WordPress. Under the User tab in the Admin panel the profile is listed as having no role. When I update the users role, click save and return to Admin user tab they still have no role. In the bbpress/wordpress intergration tab All wordpress roles are marked as member (aside from admin). What is going on?

Also while user info is shared between the two you have to log onto wordpress and bbpress seperately. Also if you are logged on to bbpress it won’t let you log on to wordpress. You have to log ouut of bbpress first then you can log in to wordpress. How do I fix this?

[kannued]

I had the 404 too when I tested from the post. Then I wondered if there was a no follow. So I copied the link, then pasted it into a new window or tab. It worked then.

[chrishajer]

beernews: yes, that’s what pretty permalinks look like. Looks like the options in trunk are now:

None   …/forums.php?id=1

Numeric   …/forums/1

Name based   …/forums/first-forum

It used to be “none, true, slugs” which correspond to the above options in order. I’m not sure if they’re on by default when you install the latest version. There was talk of creating the mod_rewrite rules automatically when turning permalinks on (like WordPress does right now), but I’m not sure if that happens automatically or not yet.

But, with name based (the old slugs option) I think the links would be pretty good for SEO. The slugs might still contain stop words or otherwise be too long, but, they’re still pretty good.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

meitershaker – In theory, the principle that worked for Adding default Gravatars to WP 2.6 should work for bbPress.

Haven’t tested it yet.

[chrishajer]

Looks like the 503 error was coming from the mini-track plugin (I confirmed this by changing the message slightly to see if the message was being generated by Apache or this plugin.) So far, it looks OK, but it’s only been a day. More testing to follow.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Just to be clear, guys: I’m working on a WP2.6.2 site, not the WPMu version…

@eagano: I hear you man. I did as you suggested and I made sure /wp-admin/options.php matched as well.

I’m using FF3 and the error console shows only warnings generated by the theme’s CSS (doesn’t like the asterisk in declarations: Kakumei 0.01 theta-beta by Bryan Veloso)

I’m not using Google Gears to cache anything.

@Ipstenu: I linked to the cookiefix in the first post. Now that you both pointed out that it’s a WPMu-specific fix I have removed it from the WP code. Did you mean a link to the test site?

I appreciate you looking into this.

Is there some sort of trace I can place on the submit button? A setting I can toggle to make it/something verbose?

Cheers.

[keress]

I’ve checked and double checked all the steps to coodinating wp-config.php with bb-config.php but no-go. I can only log into bbpress if I’ve already logged into wp, but even then it doesn’t let me into the admin.

One possible area of confusion, I couldn’t figure out how to get the .zip file that would display cookies to work. How is it supposed to be implemented?

I got the bookmark cookie check to work, but it gave a number of different sets of numbers.

/r__utmc=162181740

__utma=162181740.1942902695.1222437978.1224615332.1224620799.21

__utmz=162181740.1222437978.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)

__utmb=162181740

wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check

Which string is relevant?