Hi.

First of all, thank you for the great forum.

I’ve used the other forums but I think bbPress is the best way to integrate with WP.

The integration worked fine. I can use my WP account to login and post on the forum.

But I can’t login on both WP and forum simultaneously.

If I logged into the WP, then visit the forum, WP automatically signs me out. Same thing happens vice versa.

Is there a way to be logged in on both WP and forum simultaneously?

Thank you for your help.

NOTE: I’ve just noticed that I can switch fine between WP admin page and the forum. But somehow I cannot post on WP for comments unless if I log in, but then forum automatically signs me out as soon as I log in with WP comment area.

[@code012 Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

I fixed it.

It wasn’t simple, and honestly, I really hope that the integration with WP was a basic feature, not an option. Otherwise, it’s the best forum for WP-enabled website so far, and I’m so glad that I installed it.

The following steps are what I did, and might have unnecessary steps, but whatever made it work, made it work. I’ll also assume that you have followed the integration steps that involves matching keys of config files. I would also assume that you have used the correct keymakers for the bbPress version.

bbPress 0.9: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/

bbPress 1.0: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

1. Install the “bbPress Integration” plugin for WP. Set up everything accordingly until you see the “Manual Cookie Settings”. It told me to add “define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );” on wp-config.php, but it didn’t work. I had to remove / for the path because I read it somewhere that if you add /, it’ll add an extra /, making it // for the cookie path with is invalid. So I added “define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ” );” instead, above the “AUTH_KEY” section in wp-config.php.

2. I’ve added the following lines above the ?> part in the end of the bb-config.php :

$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

$bb->cookiepath = ”;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ”;

This tip can be found in other tutorials, but notice that again, I took out / for the path.

3. In WP Settings -> Writing, I’ve enabled XML-RPC.

4. In bbPress Settings -> Writing, I’ve enable XML-RPC.

5. I’ve cleared the cookies of the browsers (IE and FF).

Everything should work as it is. At least it did for me.

Now I can simultaneously be logged in for WP and bbPress without any problems.

I really hope that one day, either from bbPress settings or a one simple plugin would resolve the problems that some of us had.

[@gravitydk Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

wow, complex.

[@deewilcox Member 15 years, 1 month ago]

Thank you so much for sharing these details! I’ve been searching all over the forums, and this is the only set of instructions I found that actually worked. Step 1 wasn’t enough for me, and I had already done Step 3. My site finally worked after completing Step 2, so I think that was the key to making it all work.

Again, thanks for sharing! You made my afternoon of coding so much easier.

[@paamayim Member 15 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks very much, it actually fixed a bug that didn’t let me access the bbPress dashboard (redirected to forum index), even if I appeared logged-in in both WP and BB, and could access WP dashboard also.

Now instead with a single login can access all WP, bbPress index, WP dashboard and bbPress dashboard.