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Hello all. I am starting a new wordpress site with bbpress installed in a subdirectory. I am not very tech savy and don’t know how to do code, but I am wondering how difficult it would be to have my bbpress forums inside my wordpress blog theme.

In other words, is it possible to have the same look and menu structure from my blog appear when in the forums?

From what I can find in the forums this is called deep integration. I have viewed the posts on that, but I am wondering if there is any further development that would help me, because I don’t have the ability to do the tasks as they are presented in those posts.

1. Created the database;

2. Uploaded the bbPress files to the destination directory;

3. Went to my forum URL and got the appropriate install screen;

4. Proceeded to Step 1, where I entered the pertinent info (Database name, Database user, Database password);

5. Upon entering the requisite info, I hit ‘Save database configuration file’ button;

6. The next screen tells me “Your settings have been saved to the file bb-config.php You can now continue to the next step.” I click ‘Go to Step 2’;

7. Blank white screen (http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/bb-admin/install.php).

Note: I have tried starting from scratch I have installed a new database, then re-uploading the bbPress files, creating the ‘bb-config.php’ file manually from the sample version, then uploading it via FTP. When I do it this way, I get the blank white screen immediately, without getting any introductory/installation pages.

I have installed many wordpress blogs on the same server on various domains with absolutely no problem.

Hi, is there a way to make a link for the latest post on the forum homepage, so a vistor can go directly to that instead of navigation through the pages.

I am using bbPress 1.0.2

Thanks in advance.

Is there a better way to stop spam registration? My bbPress forum is bombarded with spam registration.

I have askimet, bozo, bb-nospamuser, and php4bbpress but it still doesn’t help. Anything else I can do to stop the spamming?

– how to quickly see my own posts ?

– any chance to search for posts by username ?

I do see this issue elegantly solved at Gossamer-Threads-software.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/forum/

Any chance to have this search-feature at BBPress-software ?

why is BBPress-software not a threaded forum ?

I do see this issue elegantly solved at Gossamer-Threads-software.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/forum/

Any chance a threaded forum-layout is being integrated into BBPress ?

Anyone know what happened to the bbPress.org forums over the last day or so? I kept getting a white page… the blog and plugins sections seemed to work though.

Installation- Topics number says, as of now, -6,662 (notice the negative)

I don’t know if anyone else experienced a similar problem already. I searched the forum, but nobody seems to have encountered this problem.

On my bbPress forum (http://hostpress.org/), if I go to page 2 under “Latest Discussions” section, afterwards I cannot go back to page 1. The http link on page 1 itself is showing page 2…

Any solution? Help is much appreciated.

P.S.

By the way, was bbPress forums down for some 24 hours? I could not access it although I could access bbPress website itself. Maybe only me?

Hi,

I have an existing phpbb2 forum and was hoping to migrate the existing data into bbPress, followed by integration to WordPress MU. Here’s the steps i’ve done so far:

1. installed a fresh copy of bbPress 1.0.2

2. downloaded phpbb2bbpress converter from http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/

3. ammended the necessary stuff inside the file and ran the script

4. installed WordPress MU

I was comparing the bb_ and wp_ tables and would like to know:

1. can i simply insert into wp_usermeta, (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) from bb_usermeta table where the meta_key = bb_capabilities because it looks safer than just replacing wp_usermeta with bb_usermeta due to the existing entries in wp_usermeta which i’m unsure of their usage?

2. it also seems that i should insert all the necessary values from bb_users table to wp_users table because wp_users has more columns

are there anything else database-wise i need to do?

After the above i know i need to install a bbpress-integration.php into WordPress MU and do some settings on both bbPress and WordPress MU settings/configs. Are there any other steps i’m missing out?

I would really appreciate any help on this