In case anyone was still curious following my previous headache post, it is possible to integrate WP2.6 and bbPress 0.9.0.2. I say “possible” because while I’ve got it working as far as I can tell (without having modified core code in either WP or bbP), I haven’t really tested it and it’s a mess. More [...]
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Posted 16 August 2008
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Now, I’m really big on *not* complaining about new versions of things and I especially dislike the practice of complaining about how a new version of WordPress broke some plugin that is of dire importance to someone’s website, but WordPress 2.6 is starting to give me a headache. I’ve already posted thrice about issues with [...]
Somehow (my best guess is it happened with the database update in the WP2.5.1 upgrade), the database secret, stored as “secret” and visible on /wp-admin/options.php, changed making the logins for bbPress and WordPress clobber each other (both apps using the same cookie, but each app rewriting the cookie with its own contents, rather than recognizing [...]
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Posted 01 May 2008
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I’ve gotten into the habit of actually reading the various blogs to which there are links on my WordPress dashboard and I saw this today from boren.nu: To make cookies secure against attacks where someone has managed to get into your database through an SQL injection exploit or other means, WordPress 2.5 introduced a user-definable [...]
I not only wanted to integrate my own other things into my WordPress-based site, but I wanted forums, too, so of course I thought of bbPress. It seems to integrate well with WordPress, but then suddenly strange things started happening with login and logout. For instance, when I logged in with bbPress, I couldn’t get [...]
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Posted 20 April 2008
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Also tagged: authentication, cookie, cookie domain, cookies, domain, integration, login, user, user authentication, wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wordpress login, wp, wp2.5