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are there any things I need to modify in the database to reinstall bbPress?

Is there any way I can hide forums in 0.9?

I am currently installing bbpress in /bbpress/ on my web server. WordPress is already running in the root directory, and I am trying to integrate the two user databases. While the installation process seemed pretty straightforward, I ran into a couple issues fairly quick. First off, my wordpress config file didn’t have a lot of the values that bbPress wanted from it. There was no line for a secret key, and there was no a $table_prefix line but no wp_table_prefix line like bbPress asks for. After getting frustrated and messing around a little bit I tried using the prefix of wp_ to see if maybe that was the wordpress prefix (as the installer said wp_ is default) but all it ended up doing was causing errors and now I can’t even log in to change the setting back since it can’t find the user file. I even tried re-uploading a fresh version of the plugin and the settings stayed the same. What can I do to fix this and integrate with wordpress? Thanks

I would like to revert back to an old version of bbPress where my forum was private and inaccessible instead of using the latest version where no solution exists to this problem so far. The privacy is of utmost importance without which i cannot run the forums.

could someone please tell me what modifications do I need to make in the database before moving the old files?

I for sure know that the integration part did not work with my wp 2.5 version. is there a solution to making an old version of bbPress handshake with wp 2.5?

I’m newer to bbPress but I promise I’ve read all the threads on fixing login problems for the key_master, but they aren’t working for me with the latest version.

First, everything worked great with a vanilla install. I then used this converter to import my phpbb forums. Unfortunately, this converter has a couple of issues, including messing up the ID of the admin user.

So, I simply upgraded a few of my users to keymasters and got rid of the original admin user. Unfortunately, even though I have multiple keymaster users, when I log in as one, I cannot access the control panel.

I’ve been looking through the databases and everything looks right to me. My example user is “rob” with an ID of “3”. In bb_usermeta user_id 3’s bb_capabilities are set a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}.

I tried this solution in the bb-config.php file, since there isn’t a config.php file anymore, but it didn’t seem to do anything. Oddly, I couldn’t get it to emit an error either and I don’t see the function new_keymaster referred to anywhere in the current code so I’m not sure that still works.

Thanks in advance for any help with this. Right now, I’m stumped.

-Rob

just upgraded to wp2.5 and now trying to upgrade bbpress, but stuck at step 2 cause I don’t have a wp cookie secret key and wp database secret.

how can i move forward?

also my bbpress was private – it could only be accessed, read and written by my wp authors only. will this be lost? how can i get the same feature back?

Since I upgraded to 0.9.0.1 and WordPress 2.5 my username in bbPress (which is integrated with WordPress) shows up in bbPress as “admin” instead of “Brad”. Is there any easy way to fix this?

My guess is that bbPress is using user_login instead of user_nicename or display_name in the wp_users table. As user_login and user_nicename for my user record are both set to “Brad” but user_login is “admin”.

at https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/ it says:

bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. In order to do that, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ bb-config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).

but if I do this, I can’t enter the admin area any more, cause, the relative path to the wp-blog-header.php isn’t right anymore. I can’t use the full url because of: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration.

I’ve been looking all over the forums for this –

I’m trying to separate the profile data that gets spewed out by the bb_profile_data function. I managed to get website + last online, but how do I separate the other values (such as location/occupation)? Does anyone know a simple bbdb query I can make to grab meta_value field values directly from the database? Can I call the query in a template file (like the Profile page?)

When I enter my admin section, while logged in as the Key Master, and try to change things like custom titles or even user types of users in my forum, the changes don’t stick when I hit “Update User”. Is there any solution to this?

Can we not just give bbPress the URL of our WordPress installation, and have it make a best guess as to the location of the wp-config.php file, and then let it read all that databasey stuff out of there?

Seems like it would take a LOT fewer steps to get bbPress integrated with WordPress this way.