It can be done by a plugin, using the actions bb_new_user and extra_profile_info.
But the problem would be, that an random password must be generated (no access to tweak insert-function) and then updated to the password the user has chosen. The the user would receive an email with his random password and not with his chosen password. This isn’t cool 
Does somebody know, if there is a plugin-way to overwrite/rewrite a whole function (like bb_new_user();)?
Ok, made the change. Added a part to the query where it only counts posts whose status is 0 (which means it’s not deleted or spam). It’s updated on the same link from above, new version number .73a
First off, which plugin are you using with WP for LDAP authentication?
My understanding of some of the plugins is that the user has to be created in WP first. Not sure if they automate this process or not. All that changes is the authentication process, the password from the LDAP server and maybe the cookie.
Standard WP and bbPress integration works with sharing the WP users. If the LDAP plugin doesn’t use the WP user password, not sure if this information would move over to bbPress.
Short of testing it, I would imagine it would depend on whether the password is updated in the WP users table of the database. Maybe ask the plugin author if he/she thinks this would be possible?
Another thing, there is a plugin that pulls the users out of WP into bbPress. That being said, if the username and password are stored in WP, then there shouldn’t be a problem integrating even with using LDAP.
Of course, if someone else knows something that could be added to this discussion, please do!
Trent
berg80, thanks for the info. The documentation has been updated: https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/
I agree that email notification is really needed.
In the meantime, I have added a Feedblitz signup box to my front page. The user enters their email address, so it is more user friendly, i.e. the concept of signing up with your email address is already familiar to most. Also, once they go through setup at the Feedblitz site, Feedblitz sends them emails when anything on my forum is updated.
Granted, that’s not the same thing as email notification, but at least it is close.
i will be releasing my template for bbpress pretty soon. check out http://www.talkaboutdesign.com/forum/
to stay updated.
I ran into that exact same problem; no matter what you changed the user role into, he/she would always stay a member. bbPress would also NOT give me the “profile updated” message after submit.
My guess: since I was also using a localised version of WP (I had already tried to just include WP, not use the wp_ tables for user info), a lot of strings were translated, including the roles. It even changed the URL to the profile edit page to /profile/2/bewerken/ (bewerken == edit).
And sure enough, after complete removing the WP inclusion code, things worked again…
Maybe there’s some strings being gettext’d, that shouldn’t be?
Hello,
The title says it all really. Is there an option to do this? I couldn’t find one. Sometimes it’s useful to limit who can post to what.
This is what I did, I don’t know if it’s right:
1. added a column ‘closedforpost’ to the bb_forums column
2. updated bb-includestemplate-functions.php:86: with the code
function post_form( $h2 = '' ) {
global $bb_current_user, $bb, $page, $topic, $forum;
if($forum->closedforpost==1) return;
3. updated bb-includestemplate-functions.php:756:
function new_topic( $text = false ) {
global $bb_current_user, $bb, $page, $topic, $forum;
if($forum->closedforpost==1) return;
While I was there, it seemed wrong to put in big writing [Closed] before every topic and forum that was flagged as closed when all I wanted to do was lock it, but there was no nice code to do this so I resorted to simply changing the closed_title() function to simply not show anything! I guess this is a suggestion rather than a plea for help.
Thanks.
Yeah, that was a little confusing. Thanks for clarifying.
FYI, I just recieved an email from the bbpress dev mailing list about this being updated. It is now less confusing on the config sample to.
no it cant be this because i used the same folder on both , 1 worked great but it was on root the other dident work because it wasnt on root …
is there any error in those 2 lines ?
$bb->domain = ‘http://www.thai-boxing.org’;
$bb->path = ‘/muay-thai-forum/’;
if i’m installing it on a folder called : muay-thai-forum ?
here is what i will make to make it easy on my self , i will take the exported .sql database of the bbpress that worked and install it and see what it will do … i’ll let u updated 
thank’s
I’ve updated the Registration integration documentation to link to a couple plugins you may find useful when integratinog WordPress and bbPress.
WordPress Plugin: http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/438
bbPress Plugin: http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/430
When we have a better place to put these plugins, I’ll let you know.
