[Krystian]

Hi.

First of all, thanks a ton for all the hard work that you guys have done making our live easier. I apologies if there is other discussion about this issue (I did a search and didn’t find an answer).

I’m integrating my WordPress blog with BBpress forums and I would like to have the Latest Discussions list in the sidebar for all pages. I already put it in the blog with a WP pluging, now I’m trying to put it in the forum.

I tried copy and paste the code from front-page.php to sidebar.php. It works fine when I’m in the front page, but disappears when I enter in a topic or other page.

So, could you give me a clue, a code or a pluging I can use to have this done???

Any help is appreciate. Thanks.

Krystian at decnex.net

[chrishajer]

I have heard of WordPress widgets being used to show the latest bbPress entries in a blog, but nothing I know of that will create a new entry in bbPress from an RSS feed.

Could you use bbSync to follow the RSS items that are imported into WordPress to create the new bbPress topics?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/

Or, would RSS2HTML help at all (it wouldn’t make new topics in bbPress)?

http://www.rss2html.com/

[aiitee]

hey guys, how can i add a sidebar (left or right) where i can put the latests comments, links, etc?

this is a example of how it has to look like:

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/3310/dibujoqn1.th.jpg

the red squares are the sidebars i would like to add.

[chrishajer]

You want the Human Test plugin by _ck_:

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

[chrishajer]

I’m not sure, which is why I said “I think.”

Take a look at the user tables and see if there is something there that will affect logins. I’m quite possibly wrong. You could also try a test installation using the same procedure you’ve already used, but add the shared user table, and see what happens.

[pokerlover12]

it seems like wordpress deleted the post slug function in the latest version of wordpress?

[pokerlover12]

i feel a bit retarded now but i dont get it…

i have the latest version of wordpress but still i cant find anything called slug when i create a new page… i still dont know how to link the forum to my wordpress site…

[bramruiter]

Sorry, I don’t check this forum daily, so here’s a late answer:

1. From what I know, it has always been like this. It’s only when I perform a search.

2. The version is bbPress 0.9.0.2 and it was installed somewhere between june 26 and june 31.

3. I didn’t. I only screwed around with the template files.

4. No, they did no update or change whatsoever.

5. Like I said, it was there before the plug-ins, but here’s the list.

Private Forums, BBPress Private Messaging (not working), Post Count Plus – Dynamic.Titles & More!, Akismet, Avatar, Last-Post, Limit Latest Discussion, Bozo Users, BBcode Lite, Move It, Quote, Simple Onlinelist, Allow Images, Human Test for bbPress & Front Page Topics.

6. The second error appears only when someone perform a search. The first error is only noted in the admin area, in the first tab, beneath ‘User Registrations’.

7. Yes. It does happen.

The MySQL version is 3.23.58.

I’m not a big guy when it comes to coding/scripting, so I have no idea what these errors mean. I’m glad somebody wants to help.

[bo-fiddlesticks]

Unfortunately, Detective’s solution doesn’t work with the latest versions. I’m experiencing the same issues (integrated scenario):

User registers on bbpress and logs in there

User can acces the WP Site Admin section, but it says: Welcome, . (a space instead of the user name)

User comments are registered as ‘Anonymous’

I noticed the only way to fix this is to go to WP user management panel, editing and saving the user.

So the user has to be actively (and manually ) updated to have his name listed under his comments.

I haven’t found any way to avoid this, but if anyone can I’d be much abliged!

[lazy79]

Since the latest Trunk changes (Changeset 8069) in WordPress Core, the bbPress Login (if shared with WordPress) is not working anymore.

I think its because of the logged_in cookie, isn`t it?

I know, trunk.. but 2.5.x will sure come soon

Have a nice day

Chris

[bankans]

Hello,

I have successfully installed and integrated my wordpress 2.5.1 with BBpress latest version today.

WP is at http://calcuttatube.com

BBpress: http://calcuttatube.com/forum

Everything looks good. However, I was wondering if there is any way to post images. The Image attachment plugin says it only works up to BBpress .7 version.

Any help/suggestion?

[dvdvideosoft]

After upgrading to the latest engine (0.9.0.2) it logs out automatically I close the browser.

So I have to type my name and password each time I visit my forum.

How can I make it to remember me?

With a previous version it remembered me, and did not ask to log in each time I closed and opened the browser window.

[dailytestimony]

I just installed bb press at dailytestimony.net/forums with the latest stable version of WPMU in the root directory. When I goto a page such as dailytestimony.net/forums/profile/user I get the main blogs 404 error page. Do I need something in a .htaccess file or something?

EDIT: I get it with trying to view forums too, I am using name based permalinks.

EDIT2: Ok it seems the answer is simple I just needed to RTD (Read The Documentation), Options +MultiViews

<rant>IDK why they just couldn’t distribute a .htaccess file with that line with bbpress. Save people the trouble because they mention it in the documentation here but at the verry least it should like to the documentation where you set permalink options. </rant>

[dailytestimony]

I have a slightly modified version of a GPL’ed wordpress theme I use on my wordpress MU site dailytestimony.net

I want to add support forums an bbpress appears to be my best option however I need to intergrate bbpress into the site visually.

I would like to keep the header as close as possible including links to pages, ect. In the middle I want content to the left, tags to the right, and a simple footer to match the theme.

I am not sure what something like this goes for, but I’m hoping to barter for the work. The site this is designed for has ad space for a button in te admin panel footer I could trade for the theme or we can discuss other deals.

If you would be up for it shoot me an email support (a) (t) dailytestimony.net

[Detective]

For 3, from the Genealogías theme:

function gs_topic_forum_link() {

global $topic;

if ($topic) {

echo '<a href="' . get_forum_link($topic->forum_id) . '">' . get_forum_name($topic->forum_id) . '</a>';



}

}

For the private forums, i do the following (considering only one private forum, having id 22):

add_filter('get_posts_where', 'ryuuko_staff_where_posts');



function ryuuko_staff_where_posts($where) {

if (!bb_is_user_logged_in() || !bb_current_user_can('moderate')) {

$where .= " AND p.forum_id <> '22' ";

}

return $where;

}



add_filter('get_topics_where', 'ryuuko_staff_where_topics');

function ryuuko_staff_where_topics($where) {

if (!bb_is_user_logged_in() || !bb_current_user_can('moderate')) {

$where .= " AND t.forum_id <> '22' ";

}

return $where;

}



add_filter('get_forums', 'ryuuko_staff_forums');

function ryuuko_staff_forums($forums) {

if (!bb_is_user_logged_in() || !bb_current_user_can('moderate')) {

$forum_key = -1;

foreach ($forums as $key => $forum)

if (intval($forum->forum_id) == 22) {

$forum_key = $key;

break;

}

unset($forums[$key]);

}

return $forums;

}



add_action('bb_forum.php_pre_db', 'ryuuko_forum_redirect');

function ryuuko_forum_redirect($forum_id) {

if (!bb_is_user_logged_in() || !bb_current_user_can('moderate')) {

if ($forum_id == 22)

bb_die("You can't see this!");

}

}

[sachrilege]

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to do 3 things.

1. I want posts inactive longer then a set time to not be propagated to the Latest Discussions on the forum Index.

2. I want hidden private forums to not show up on the Latest Discussion list unless they would normally be allowed to see it.

3. I want the forum name to show up in another column in the Latest Discussion list.

I’m using the Private Forums plug-in, and Latest Discussion is only visible on my site from bbpress/index.

For 1. I found a plug-in but it’s no longer supported and I couldn’t clean up the Syntax error myself.

For 2 I can find nothing.

For 3 using another forum post I’ve already edited my templates to include the extra column and I almost see how to do it myself, but I can’t see where to get the name of the forum from the topic.

As always, thank you for whatever help you can offer.

[Detective]

URL: http://alumnos.dcc.uchile.cl/~egraells/proyectos/plugins-para-bbpress/

Test Installation: http://www.ryuuko.cl/bbpress

Includes readme.txt with examples. It supports english and spanish (es_ES).

Hope you like it

Suggestions, bug reports, comments and feedback in general are welcomed

[chrishajer]

I would install bbPress latest which is 0.9.0.2 and WordPress latest which is 2.5.1. The big change with WordPress 2.5.* and bbpress 0.9.* was with the cookies. If you have only a few test posts, I would just install WordPress fresh (or upgrade your WordPress installation) then install bbPress fresh. Integration is totally different now, no more plugins.

Good luck.

[alexleonard]

Hi there,

I started development on a wordpress + bbpress site quite a while back. Development stalled and I’m only coming back to it now.

I had integrated wp + bbp fairly successfully but I have a feeling upgrading to WP2.5.1 might have broken a lot of that cross compatibility.

The bbpress installed version is 0.8.3.1, but essentially it’s an empty forum (a couple of test posts from myself).

Regarding upgrading to the latest version, I get a feeling I might almost be better off completely wiping the original forum version and starting again – I might run into less problems? I had a look through the trac but couldn’t really work out how much substantial change there has been between current and my older version.

Any suggestions?

Is uninstalling and reinstalling reasonably easy?

[creativeherb]

Well I didn’t break it, I think… I’m currently using the latest version Support-Forums plugin (3.0.4), and the latest BBpress (0.9.0.2)

On the front page, most topics displays fine, with the status bubble ahead of the topic title, but for certain topics I get this error… this error code replaces where the color bubble would have been.

Warning: sprintf() [function.sprintf]: Too few arguments in /home/blog/public_html/forums/my-plugins/pb–support-forum/support-forum.php on line 657

help would be much appreciated, thanks!

[dem0o8]

WP and BbPress integration…

WP: http://www.pinoywebstartup.com/

BbPress: http://www.pinoywebstartup.com/forum/

i used external stylesheet, images, scripts for both wp & bbp…

use php include for the sidebar on the bbpress…

will put the latest discussion on the homepage soon…

and maybe post a tutorial about it… feel free to subscribe on the feed… there are some interesting insights about web startup even if you’re not from around

[italways]

sorry it is on my local test machine. furthermore, it happens when you try to delete the tag from one topic, you must be a admin user.

The only thing special is that my bbpress is integrated with my wpmu, I logged in using my wpmu admin account (mapped to bbpress admin group already), when I try to delete the tag from one topic, the error occurs, but it is ok when I manage the tags on bbpress backend, I can delete any tag there.

[timskii]

All the integration code assumes you start with a blog and want to add a forum. However, if you start with a forum, chances are the forum’s user database will be far larger than the blog. The technique below outlines how I did it. This is entirely at your own risk. I’ve not gone over the standard things, like shared secret keys: I’m assuming you’ve read the basic integration guides.

0. You’ll need to be familiar with .htaccess, SQL at raw database level, and template hacks. If your level of expertise is “pressing buttons”, stop reading here. This is very easy to mess up, so make plenty of backups. Ideally test the whole conversion first, and probably prepare scripts to run if a lot of database changes are needed.

1. Block public access to the blog and forum for all except your IP using .htaccess.

2. In the database, rename wp_users and wp_usermeta. These won’t be used, but you will need them later to cross-reference old posts to new authors. I’m assuming a standard install that uses wp_ and bb_ as prefixes.

3. Copy bb_users and bb_usermeta to wp_users and wp_usermeta respectively. Keep the original tables for now.

4. Add the missing column via SQL: ALTER TABLE wp_users ADD user_activation_key varchar(60) NOT NULL default '';

5. Delete the WordPress install, but keep the old database tables (and plugins and themes). Install WordPress in its former position. Use an entirely new user name as your new WordPress admin. (The purpose of deleting and then installing WordPress is to create a genuinely new admin user in the table. For me, this was faster than manually adding an admin user and making sure all the correct permissions were set. You mileage may vary.)

6. How much extra work you need to do to your old WordPress tables depends on the number of authors that were active on WordPress: Using SQL, you’ll need to change all the old author IDs in wp_posts and wp_comments to match that author’s ID from the forum. It is possible there are other user references deep in the system, so be careful. I had little complexity to deal with. If your were the first to register for both your forum and blog, the important IDs may match perfectly already.

7. Most WordPress templates use the user’s display_name. This is unfortunately, because BBPress tends to use user_login. The result is that most WordPress references to user names will appear blank. You’ll either need to populate the display_name column, or hack around with your WordPress templates so that they use user_login. Template call get_the_author_login() is perfect for authors, but for comment references I had to use get_usermeta($user_id,’user_login’) or comment_author_link() where $user_id was 0. Messy. Since the admin side of WordPress uses display_name anyway, it is probably a lot easier to populate that column.

8. Your WordPress install should be now more-or-less working. Let’s return to the forum!

9. It is very easy to accidentally destroy the forum Keymaster, locking yourself out of the forum before integration is complete. If this happens, edit the table bb_topicmeta by deleting the final few lines with meta_key starting “wp_”.

10. On the forum admin, under WordPress Integration: Set the User role map such that Admin links to Keymaster and everyone else is a subscriber, and save. Add “wp_” under User database table prefix and save. Hit the User role map button again. Finally complete the cookie setting and save. The order is important – simply filling in all the boxes and saving can wipe out the old Keymaster access before the new one has been set up.

11. In WordPress, check the user list. I found that some user types did not convert automatically – notably moderators. Hopefully 99% of users will have been automatically assigned as subscribers. If you use a lot of plugins, take care that nothing conflicts. For example two separate plugins trying to write user meta data using the same key name. You may also wish to test a dummy registration and profile change.

12. Remove the old bb_users and bb_usermeta, and the copies of your original wp_users and wp_usermeta.

13. Remove the .htaccess blocks, and celebrate your newly integrated setup.

I’m now having fun trying to marry a second forum to the first WordPress-Forum pair. Everything is easy, until one tries to alter the admin permissions…

[david-stoner]

Hello, I’m trying to get this fully realized. At the moment I’ve just been hacking away at the Kakumei front-page.php but with limited results.

So far it just pulls up the latest topics with no regard to what forum they are in. I’ve found template functions for the topic title, topic link, number of posts, last poster, and time, but other than defining the id manually I haven’t figured out how to get the last post of a topic to display automatically.

I think I could manage to pull this information out of the database with some basic SQL queries, but I’d rather use what’s available than write some shoddy code of my own.

Any help is appreciated.

[malfhok]

I figured somebody had to do it. I had a backup, so I thought I’d go for it. Nothing’s fallen on my head since I did it. Still testing, I’ll tell you the outcome once I’m done testing it.

Edit: The member who asked to be allowed to change her grammar errors just thanked me for fixing to edit link, so I suppose it’s working now.