BuddyPress.org

Andy et al, I may have found your Groups bug (or one of them) BP doesn’t like when you create or modify (esp modify) a group with the News field empty. I can more easily repro the error if I actually populate the News field 1st, then try and change the group title or something, and delete whatever was in the news feed. Add anything back in and it’s fine. Not sure if this is related to the bbPress probs as I have started from scratch and am proceeding. Let me know if you want me to submit this as a bug. Cheers

I was, like most with this problem, able to create groups but unable to get a functioning bbPress to play nice with BP. Was hopeful seeing Wardeh figure it out but my install is regressing. I am current on trunks for both WP and BP but am still unable to create groups anymore. SO..Given that I have no data, I wiped the domain clean and started fresh and updated. On a fresh install, I can do everything as before…except create groups, leading me to think it’s not WP or BP, per se, but something I have set incorrectly somewhere. Any advice?

i have checked something which is not so clear in bbpress (wordpress integration menu)

1 – it ask to fill in information about :

WordPress “auth” cookie salt

WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt

WordPress “logged in” cookie salt

and then to check if those information are similar

WordPress (wp-config.php) bbPress (bb-config.php)

AUTH_KEY BB_AUTH_KEY

SECURE_AUTH_KEY BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY

LOGGED_IN_KEY BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY

in wp-config we always have

blabla-key and blabla-salt available so what do we have to enter ?

the blabla-salt or the blabla-key.

2 – in the wordpress plugin for bbpress integration :

The complete URL of your plugins directory. Leave blank if it is in the default location “my-plugins” in the bbPress directory.

the default location is “bb-plugins” : so what we shall do ?

i will have a see on bbpress forumsfor this

I updated to 721 this morning, hoping to get the group forums running. They appear of course, but won’t post a new topic – the generic message “There was an error posting that topic.” appears, which doesn’t help me troubleshoot. Reading through the thread here, I’m not much clearer on the solution.

WPMU, BBPress, and BuddyPress all installed and running, with integrated logins (the whole salt thing).

I’m wondering if I should have something different entered in the “Group Forum Settings.” I started with the ‘admin’ username and password, which is set to “Key Master” rights in bbPress. I then tried it with a different username set to “Administrator” rights in bbPress, but still no forum joy.

Any pointers on this? I need a pinch more black art here…

This is exactly my situation and I still have my cookie integration intact:

“if i create a group in bdpress it appears in bbpress

if i try the same for a topic post it is not (neither in bd nor bb)

but if i create a topic in bbpress, it is shown in bdpress …..” — bebopcool

i had a try without cookie integration just user :

if i create a group in bdpress it appears in bbpress

if i try the same for a topic post it is not (neither in bd nor bb)

but if i create a topic in bbpress, it is shown in bdpress …..

it does interact but not totally from bdpress

@trent: without cookie-integration it works fine: buddypress + bbpress. great! and thanks to all witch do a great jobb. new trunks come out every hour – the updatespeed is great! thanks for the great work!

m

@wardeh I avoided entering all the wordpress integration information for nonce, salts, keys, etc right off the bat and just did the “login integration” which really involves just making sure it has the right prefix for your install which usually is “wp_” so bbPress can find the WPMU users.

I see Sambauers put up a new plugin today to help with bbPress and WordPress cookie integration and will give more information after I have a chance to play with it.

Trent

Is their a way to make the “administrator” user created in bbpress invisible? I know it will basically disappear after a couple of registrations, but it will still show up on member searches.

Almost Victory….but then let down. So, when I decided to go back and do a completely manual key & salt check, I discovered that some of the keys had random stuff in the field. So, I manually entered each one in the bbPress WP integration panel. Now, when I go to my test forum, I don’t get the red error. In fact it looks like it’s working fine but then returns me to the previous state that says I have no topics. Back to the drawing board.

Yep, got the connection problems solved but probably won’t have time to test much today. I see what you’re saying but we’re integrating WordPress and bbPress and need the cookies to sync. If we can get everything talking properly between WPMU and bbPress it will make any problems we encounter BuddyPress specific. I’m not sure if the plugin works with WPMU, I’m assuming it does but it doesn’t specify either way.

with new version updated

i have in bbprees the forum created with the name of the groups

but still not showing any post neither in buddypress neither in bbpress

when a user is logged in buddypress it is still not logged in bbpress but it seems to have some interaction

wardeh : to what i remember when updating to wpmu 2.7 it telss you to add 2 lines in wp-config

one of them is ‘auth_salt’.$

i got thelast version of bbpress and plugin but sitll integration pb will have to check for everything

@wardeh get the auth_salt from your wpmu config.php

I had everything almost working yesterday. Somehow I then broke it. Anyway, I just updated to alpha 4 bbpress and BP bleeding edge and bleeding edge wpmu. Now, new groups create new forums, but then there is no post. Also, no save message (like I got when it kinda worked).

Using hostgator.

Well. I spend a lot of hours this weekend and i found out: trunk r664 + bbpress alpha 3 + wpmu trunk 1574 works for me an the forum works for new groups (not for the old one). If i update to the latest buddypress trunk (r682), i can´t post in to a forum – and i get no error messages. Nothing happens also with bbpress alpa 4 and the latest buddypress trunk (r682).

gogoplata — Yes, I see what you mean. But isn’t this plugin for people who are just using WP and bbPress? We’re trying to integrate the forums with the BP groups.

In any case, I put the plugin back and I still don’t see any effect from it. I still have to login both places. And I definitely can’t add group forum posts.

I hope your connection issues get resolved soon.

wardeh – I think that is saying that what the plugin used to do is now handled by bbPress but this plugin now does something else, namely recognize the cookies from WordPress. On the main plugin page it says “This plugin is only useful if you are running bbPress version 1.0-alpha-4 or later.”

I haven’t personally tested the new bbPress version or this plugin as I’m having connection problems but will report whatever I find out.

I sure don’t want to hog this topic, but I have so many questions.

Here’s the latest:

When I try to update the “Group Forums” settings, I can’t (bbpress forums URL, administrator and password, etc.). I went right to the DB to make changes and that makes the fields on the settings page all blank. Why won’t this update?

Looks to me like we don’t need the plugin?

“This functionality is now handled automatically by bbPress since bbPress 1.0-alpha-4” on the plugin “Other Notes” page.

Wondering… the bbPress WP integration asks one to look up auth_salt in the options. However, I don’t have an auth_salt #. I have a nonce_salt. So that’s the value I’m using. Can anyone comment on this? The other cookie values match up, just not that one.

I’ve upgraded to the Alpha-4 of bbPress and the latest trunk of BP. Attempted to post a topic.

There is no error returned (such as “topic can’t be posted”), yet the topic doesn’t get posted.

This plugin may also be required with the new bbPress version:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

A new version of bbPress, 1.0-Alpha-4, was just released on bbPress.org which “Should fix issues that people had with integrated cookies with WordPress in 1.0-alpha-3 without reverting any new features in it.”

Not sure if this is related to any of our problems but it’d be advisable to upgrade and see if it helps.

Along with the cookie fixes mentioned above, this new release will also assign users a role in bbPress as soon as they visit the forums with WordPress cookies. Previously they needed to log in to be assigned a role.

for the record, I have bbPress properly installed (I assume) and all appears fine except Postng Topics. No time to debug so I will await a solution as it seems to be a common issue