http://bbshowcase.org/forums/?bbtheme=kakumei-black

http://kakumei-black.googlecode.com/

Having an integrated and non-integrated theme created no issues of which I am aware. Unless I am forgetting something the only change to the WordPress theme was the call to the bbPress style sheet in header.php. All other changes are made to the bbPress theme. So either remove, comment out, or leave the call - I don't think it hurts performance. I commented it out so that I can do some testing. I may be wrong about something here, but it's all working for me at the moment.

This is a good place and time to give my thanks to the developers of WordPress and bbPress! I'm really amazed at their "techhow" and grateful for their willingness to share it.

By the way, I found the tutorial at wpbbpthemes very helpful as well. (I actually started with it.) Thanks to the author!

There is no need of specific theme integrating tutorial, it can be done exactly by following my tutorial. If that didn't help, yours won't too. It requires some techhow to deal with that. It wasn't for end users anyway.

Also I'm loading WordPress from wp-blog-header.php instead of wp-load.php.

The only thing that remains is to figure out how to make changes to the bbPress pages without making changes to the whole site since it's calling two style sheets. I've spent no small amount of time with "inspect element" and "firebug" in Google Chrome trying to find the styles I want to change on the bbPress pages. You could tell me in short order I'm sure how to make the changes I want. But as I said, I wanted to get all of the kinks worked out before I go public with it.

When I get it all figured out I'm thinking I'll publish the info specific to integrating Twentyten and Kakumei (for those of us unambitious, ignorant folks who don't have the where with all to do something original). I assume that you won't mind me referencing your tutorial? No need to reinvent the wheel!

Thanks again for your tutorial, your interest and your help!

I checked the header.php file of Twentyten and there is nothing in it that would stop you from making changes. Follow the tutorial and you will be fine.
This is the line before which you should add the link to bb-style.css
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />

Rest is in the tutorial.

Also, I don't know how to link the style sheet to bbPress because I can't figure out how to get the link in the header. I don't understand header.php in Twentyten. Can you help me with that?

I'll post a link when I get it published, but I'm doing all of this on a local mirror of my public site.

Put this line in bb-config.php
require_once( '/your/full/path/wp-load.php');

In the files listed below, replace
<?php bb_get_header(); ?> with

<?php get_header(); ?><div id="container">
<div id="content" role="main">
<?php if ( !in_array( bb_get_location(), array( 'login-page', 'register-page' ) ) ) login_form(); ?>

and <?php bb_get_footer(); ?> with

</div>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

404.php
edit-post.php
favorites.php
forum.php
front-page.php
login.php
password-reset.php
profile-base.php
profile-edit.php
profile.php
register.php
register-success.php
search.php
stats.php
tag-single.php
tags.php
topic.php

I use Twentyten with one right sidebar. I decided I didn't want it in the bbPress section of the site. If you want it, replace the footer code above with this:

</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?><div id="primary" class="widget-area" role="complimentary">
</div><?php get_footer(); ?>

I want bbPress to fill the width of the "container". I can the following in-line style in each page (<div id="content" role="main" style="width: 95%; font-size: 1.2em;">`), but I'm sure I can use the style sheet to define a class or something and do it right - that is once I get Twentyten to read the bbPress style sheet.

I'd also like to rearrange the objects on the page, which I may also work on once I can use the style sheet.

May not like it when I'm done, but it's been a learning experience!

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';' in /myfullpath/public_html/bbpress/bb-config.php on line 15

Line 15: if ( !defined('ABSPATH') & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST'))

FWIW, I learned from another tutorial that I needed to put this code at the end of the bb-config.php file:

require_once( '/myfullpath/public_html/wp-load.php');

I found that the integration will not work without it.

I started replacing the bb_get tags as you recommended in front-page.php. As I said, I could not get the get_sidebar to work.

Also, I moved ahead with your instructions regarding the style sheets, and then on to editing the twentyten them header.php to insert the link to the bbpress theme and couldn't figure out where to put the link - it broke my wordpress.

What am I missing?

Twentyten shouldn't be difficult to follow up with.

I've followed several tutorials in order to get bbPress integrated into the WP Twentyten theme but with no luck. I can get the header and footer to display properly, but I can't figure out out to get the Twentyten sidebar to display properly. I'm sure it's something simple, or simply can't be done. I'm not exactly a newbie to all of this, but have clearly reached my limit.

Does anyone know of a tutorial, or can anyone give me some guidance on this? TIA

I love how you used the ability to only change certain files and let it fall back to the originals as the default. I don't think many people realize you can do that.