[yakusha]

I installed bbpress alpha versions 5-6 mounth ago…

i updated my forums 2 mounth ago beta to rc1 or rc2

rc3 published a few days ago… ı installed directly. but my forums is slowed…

rc3 slower than rc1?

[johnhiler]

SPAM

It’d probably be useful to have a section on registration and post spam, along with the various techniques to fight it:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/request-to-the-experienced-what-anti-spam-tools

PERMALINKS

Some general stuff on htaccess and pretty permalinks (and how support for different approaches to permalinks vary across hosts):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalinks-not-working

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalink-type-change-gives-me-a-404-error

VERSION DIFFERENCES

It’d also be helpful to have a summary table showing major differences between the different versions, especially for people using plugins and unsure if an upgrade will break their plugins.

For example, version 1.0 uses BackPress plus it uses WordPress’ latest taxonomy stuff. Plus it has a new approach to meta data. So if an 0.9 compatible plugin depends on any of this stuff, it will probably break in 1.0 unless the plugin’s been specifically updated for the latest version.

TAGS

Tag permissions – who can add and remove tags:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/members-can-add-tags

How hot tags work and can be formatted:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hot-tags

Reordering of hot tags:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/alphabetical-ordering-of-hot-tags

Multi-byte characters (this may have been addressed in recent versions):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unable-to-add-mutibyte-character-tags

[John Blackbourn]

@Michael3185:

The user profile fields are simply items in a PHP array. You can remove an item from the array to remove the profile field, or add a new item to the array to add a new profile field.

<?php



/*

Plugin Name: My Profile Fields

Description: My profile fields for my lovely forums

Version 1.0

*/



function my_profile_fields( $fields ) {

/* This removes the Occupation profile field: */

unset( $fields['occ'] );

/* This adds a new optional field called Favourite Band: */

$fields['faveband'] = array(0,'Favourite Band');

/* This adds a new *required* field called State: */

$fields['state'] = array(1,'State');

/* You must return the array at the end of the function: */

return $fields;

}



add_filter( 'get_profile_info_keys',  'my_profile_fields' );



?>

Save the code above as a .php file and upload it to your my-plugins directory (you may need to create this directory in the root of your forums installation) and then activate it from the Plugins menu in the bbPress admin area.

Edit: Code updated as a complete example of a plugin.

[Arturo]

@Sam

i’ve downloaded the latest trunk at the mooment is rev # 2192, updated my installation.

bb-config side i’ve $bb->cookiedomain = ‘.www.site.com’; (i’ve tested without www but nothing change…)

in wp-config i’ve deleted

define(‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘whatever’);

define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/wp-admin’);

so i’m

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.www.site.com’); (or without www, but nothing change)

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

the results?

when i login in bb i’m logged out to wp and vice versa, i’m waiting for your plugin to test it.

thanks for your help!

[Sam Bauers]

The fix on the WordPress side is to remove these defines from wp-config.php:

define('COOKIEHASH', 'whatever');

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/wp-admin');

The plugin will be updated soon, but remove those if you are running WordPress standard (i.e. Non-WPMU)

[Florian]

I’m using bbPress RC2 integrated with WPMU 2.7.1 (cookie sharing & user table sharing). I recently updated from RC1 to RC2 and since then I sometimes (not always) get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_option() in /[full path to bbpress]/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-http.php on line 655

As soon as I reload the page, the error vanishes. What might be the reason?

If it helps: I due have the slight suspicion that the error is more likely to appear when there hasn’t been an access to bbpress for some time. But it’s hard to tell…

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Where are the settings of “User role map” stored? I think I may have selected it to make WP admins to be a bbP member and it may be a bug?

Wait, is it that User role maps are just updated once when they are asked to do so? Hmm.. Makes sense! So where can be the problem?

Sam, you there?

[pbarry4]

Thanks chrishajer, essentially I want to merge bbpress into my existing WP theme (same header & footer). Ideally the bbpress would be embedded into a wp page.

I’ve since found an article which achieves what I’m looking to do. http://www.adityanaik.com/integratepress-part-i/

I’ll also search this forum for updated threads on the topic.

Cheers.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

As per my post here on my blog : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/05/integrate-bbpress-forum-wordpress-setup/

To achieve integration between 0.9.05 & WordPress 2.7.1, I overwrite the bb_capabilities in wp_usermeta for my user by sql query as I don’t have phpmyadmin and I am using custom table prefixes.

I just followed the instructions again on a setup and got something into different.

My current password didn’t work. I manually updated it with a sql query from a known setup (I haven’t installed mail sending capabilities yet) and then I got access but now when I try to change the bb_capabilities of my admin user, it gets change, is reflected too but when I refresh the forum page, I still can’t see the link to dashboard. And now if I check the db again, the bbPress seems to have overwritten my entry to “a:1:{s:6:”member”;b:1;}” from “a:1:{s:9:.keymaster.;b:1;}”.

I am clueless at the point. I can try dropping tables and starting again would get my work done but I am curious that why it is happening.

[berberama]

Please can someone provide a “clean” guide using bbPress .9.x and WordPress 2.7.1?

Step #1

Step #2

.

.

.

…and so on.

I’ve been trying (very hard) to follow this guide, but there are so many contradictions and then links to external resources that say to do something else.

Needless to say, I’m ready right now to simply give up on bbPress and move on.

There needs to be so many edits, changes, fixes (and it still does not work). I truly hope the developers STOP… sit back and re-evaluate this project. In my opinion, it should integrate with WordPress easily as the option should be there during the install. I thought WordPress and bbPress were the same “organization” – As such, integration (I feel) should have been a natural fit! Currently it’s so difficult, that for some it’s become a deterrent to use bbPress. I think that is not good. (I personally know of two people who tried to integrate and after a frustrating period, opted for other solutions. One of them makes a point of telling others to stay away from bbPress, because he was more frustrated than I was – Which I think is not right! It bothers me because if he’s doing that, how many others are?)

Two things that have added to the confusion are:

1) Comments from other users, suggesting something else, or contradicting the information.

2) The guide needs to be updated to use current WordPress code and also to include more instruction. I’m very technically oriented, parts of this guide leave even me hanging in the breeze. Parts of the guide are too generalized.

I hope some of the developers hear me (and feel the frustration) , but more importantly, stand back and look (really look) at this issue.

Thanks for letting me have a say, I hope this helps bbPress in some way.

[Sam Bauers]

Totally possible, we do it on WordPress.com

Easiest approach is to setup a new virtual host for that subdomain before your WPMU virtualhost in Apache. You can then catch it before it goes to the WPMU install which usually catches all subdomains.

You can also do it from the same virtualhost for a thrill. That does require some .htaccess hackery. This is how WordPress.com is done.

NB: these rules are for bbPress 0.9 and are supposed to catch all our localised forum domains – it also may not work for everyone. The important part of the rules to note is the skip (S=30) rule at the start.

# Skip forum rules if not in *.forums.wordpress.com

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.+.)*forums.wordpress.com

RewriteRule .* - 



# Forum rules

# If you change the total number of rules, the skip rule above must be updated too

RewriteRule ^/?$ /bbpress/ [L]

RewriteRule ^bb-admin$ /bb-admin/ [R,L]

RewriteRule ^bb-admin/(.*)$ /bbpress/bb-admin/$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^bb-images/(.*)$ /bbpress/bb-images/$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^bb-includes/js/(.*)$ /bbpress/bb-includes/js/$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^([^/]+).php(.*)$ /bbpress/$1.php$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /bbpress/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/?$ /bbpress/ [R,L]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /bbpress/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/?$ /bbpress/ [R,L]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /bbpress/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /bbpress/tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /bbpress/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /bbpress/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/?$ /bbpress/profile.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /bbpress/view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /bbpress/rss.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /bbpress/rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /bbpress/rss.php?forum=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/rss.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

# If you add more forum rules then you must update the skip rule above them as well

[madeck]

I’ve updated. The bug is still there. I got it fixed by putting into comment

<?php endif; echo "<!--"; do_action('topicmeta'); echo "-->"; ?>

I did that because I think that was around where the error occured.

[Ramoonus]

Solved somehow

i`ve updated to WP 2.8 rc 1

and now it does work!

[michael3185]

Cheers tinskii – I’ll try that right away. Atsutane’s idea worked great, but to have it automatically updated is really neat.

I’ve read in a lot of places that the Meta HTML tags are ignored by Google and others, but it’s got to be useful if some search engines still use them. Many thanks. I’ll even hack around with the code and see if I can learn anything. Though I think there’s something wrong with bbPress. Whenever I modify anything, it stops working (hehe).

[timskii]

Below is the code I wrote for “SEO”-related tweaks. It tries to fill the description meta with something relevant, and adds keywords based on a combination of tags and site-wide words (added via the admin screen). It’s still rough round the edges. For example, it will produce duplicate descriptions on multi-page topics, and descriptions may not be terribly different from the title tag.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: SEO Tweaks

Description: Adds description and keywords meta to the header.

Author: Tim Howgego

Author URI: http://timhowgego.com/

Version: 0.1.rc

*/



add_action('bb_admin_menu_generator', 'seo_config_menu');

add_action('bb_admin-header.php', 'seo_config_process');



add_action('bb_head', 'seo_meta_description');

add_action('bb_head', 'seo_meta_keywords');



function seo_meta_description() {



switch ( bb_get_location() ) {



case 'topic-page':

$description = get_topic_title()." - ".bb_get_option( 'description' );

break;



case 'forum-page':

$description = get_forum_description();

break;



case 'tag-page':

if ( is_bb_tag() ) {

$description = __('Topics tagged')." ".bb_get_tag_name();

} else {

$description = __('List of tagged topics.');

}

break;



case 'profile-page':

$description = __('Profile for')." ".get_user_display_name()." - ".__('includes contact information and posting history.');

break;



case 'view-page':

$description = get_view_name()." - ".bb_get_option( 'description' );

break;



default:

$description = bb_get_option( 'description' );

break;

}



echo '<meta name="description" content="'.attribute_escape( $description ).'" />'."n";



}



function seo_meta_keywords() {



// Includes enhancements by _ck_



global $tags;

$keywords = array();



if ( !empty( $tags ) ) {

foreach ( $tags as $t ) {

$keywords[] = $t->raw_tag;

}

}



$default_keywords = bb_get_option( 'seo_keywords' );



if ( count( $default_keywords ) >0 ) {

$keywords[] = $default_keywords;

}



if ( count( $keywords ) >0 ) {

echo '<meta name="keywords" content="'.attribute_escape( implode( ", ", $keywords ) ).'" />'."n";

}

}



function seo_config_menu() {

bb_admin_add_submenu(__('SEO'), 'manage_plugins', 'seo_config_page');

}



function seo_config_page() {



?>

<h2><?php _e('SEO Tweaks Configuration'); ?></h2>



<form class="options" method="post" action="">



<fieldset>

<p><strong><label for="seo_keywords"><?php _e('Default keywords') ?></label></strong> (<?php _e('these words will be attached to every page, so only use words that describe the forum's overall content'); ?>):</p>

<textarea name="seo_keywords" id="seo_keywords" cols="100" rows="4"><?php bb_form_option( 'seo_keywords' ); ?></textarea>

<p><?php _e('Separate keywords with a comma. No formatting.'); ?></p>

</fieldset>



<fieldset>

<?php bb_nonce_field( 'seo_config' ); ?>

<input type="hidden" name="action" id="action" value="update_seo_config" />

<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="<?php _e('Save Changes &raquo;') ?>" />

</fieldset>



</form>

<?php



}



function seo_config_process() {



if ($_POST['action'] == 'update_seo_config') {



bb_check_admin_referer( 'seo_config' );



if ($_POST['seo_keywords']) {

$value = htmlentities( trim( $_POST['seo_keywords'] ) , ENT_NOQUOTES );

if ($value) {

bb_update_option( 'seo_keywords', $value );

} else {

bb_delete_option( 'seo_keywords' );

}

} else {

bb_delete_option( 'seo_keywords' );

}



$goback = add_query_arg( 'seo_updated', 'true', wp_get_referer() );

bb_safe_redirect( $goback );

exit;

}



if ($_GET['seo_updated']) {

bb_admin_notice( __('Changes saved.') );

}



}



?>

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Nah, it’s Akismet acting up again, I suspect. It’s been flagging a LOT of false positives. They just updated it for WP, and I bet that’s related.

[Tynan Beatty]

Yesterday I updated a public site with a relatively inactive and fresh bbP forum from WP2.7.x and bbP1.0alpha-6 with the bbPress Integration 1.0-alpha-4.1 plugin…

to WP2.8-beta2-11509 and bbP1.0-rc-1 with the bbPress Integration 1.0-rc-2 plugin.

I haven’t done extensive testing, but the integration worked flawlessly before the upgrade (following Sam’s video tutorial sticky to the letter), and seems to work almost as well now.

The one scenario I’ve found where it doesn’t work is users logging in from bbP cannot logout from WP. All other bbP/WP login/logout combinations seem to behave as expected; however the only way I could get this to happen was to not add the wp-config.php changes suggested by the bbPress Integration plugin. When I did add those changes it broke at least WP login entirely.

I did a little bit of testing with different combinations of the definitions the bbPress Integration plugin suggests, and the details can be found in this post.

peace~

[michael3185]

I updated a thread (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-minimalist-theme-available) as I’d added some files, but can only see the last two posts when I’ve logged-in. Has something gone wrong, or have they been hidden as they’re multi-posts or something? As I said in one, it’d help if we could edit for 24 hours to save double posting. Also, a theme upload link similar to the plugin one would be useful.

[michael3185]

Just updated the theme. Also added a couple of plugins with modified formatting to give a consistent interface on ‘errors’ (eg., user not logged in and can’t access functions like PM).

http://getfiles.letsdoo.org/bbVanilla.zip

http://getfiles.letsdoo.org/bbPM_for_bbVanilla.zip

http://getfiles.letsdoo.org/private-forums_for_bbVanilla.zip

[starlucent]

Thanks, putting that in the bb-config.php file worked for me! And it seems my settings in the admin area were updated with the new url too.

[byles]

I’ve got the exact same problem, and it’s driving me mad.

I’ve tried to get this working on several fresh installs and it just ain’t happening!

Update: Oh! Fixed! I went to wp-admin/options.php and changed the salts to something else (button mashed), and updated those in bbpress too, and now it works. Don’t quite understand why nobody mentions this in any of the tutorials… Never mind

[Ramoonus]

i`ve updated the integration plugin

but it`s still not working

[webrulon]

matiaspunx I am receiving the same error as gavinj77, I tried to download your fix at http://www.mediafire.com/?nmmymgg0z0j but the file was no longer available. Could you kindly repost the updated file?

Thanks,

Russell

[braddock16]

Hi guys

My forum member’s usernames show their email addresses!?

I did the integration correctly and the forum/wordpress database get’s updated accordingly when new people register.

But what on earth can I do about the username issue?

I want it to display their real usernames.

Regards,

Brad

[Ben L.]

This seems like a job for the view functions.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/view/updated is a good example, although I have no idea how to make it happen.