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1. tedhogan
   Member

   Hi,

   I just installed bbPress and have it sharing settings with my pre-existing Wordpress installation. Everything is great, but I can't figure out how to add a link form my Wordpress to the forums. Is there some easy way that I am overlooking? How about a sidebar widget for Wordpress that displays something?

   I've been looking around this site, but I am confused about the plugins because I am never sure if they are for bbPress only or Wordpress and there is nothing on the Wordpress extension site.

   Any help would be greatly appreciated.

   Thanks,
   Ted

   Posted 2 months ago #

2. A1ex
   Member

   Just add new page with slug, as in the folder your bbPress installation.

   For example, "forums".

   Posted 2 months ago #

3. tedhogan
   Member

   Ahhh... thanks!

   Didn't know I could do that.

   Cool!

   Ted

   Posted 2 months ago #

4. psychoo
   Member

   Hi,

   I used your help, thanks! Any idea how to make wordpress recognize it as current page item when I'm in the forums?

   Thx!

   Posted 1 month ago #

5. chrishajer
   Moderator

   Explain more please. What are you trying to do?

   Posted 1 month ago #

6. pokerlover12
   Member

   I still dont get how to link my bbpress forum from my wordpress blog?

   what is slug? i have installed both bbpress and wordpress, they now use the same database but not the same administration pages...

   thanks

   Posted 1 month ago #

7. chrishajer
   Moderator

   To link your bbPress forum to WordPress, follow this:
   http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/link-to-forum-from-wordpress#post-15981

   Create a new Page in WordPress. When you do that, the page is assigned a slug, which is basically the URL it will be accessed at. If you want http://www.example.com/forum/ , you create a new page called "Forum". That page will appear in your WordPress navigation. Then install bbPress into a directory on your server, one directory lower than WordPress, called forum, and when someone accesses that URL, they get your forum.

   They will never use the same administration pages.

   Posted 1 month ago #

8. pokerlover12
   Member

   i feel a bit retarded now but i dont get it...

   i have the latest version of wordpress but still i cant find anything called slug when i create a new page... i still dont know how to link the forum to my wordpress site...

   Posted 1 month ago #

9. pokerlover12
   Member

   it seems like wordpress deleted the post slug function in the latest version of wordpress?

   Posted 1 month ago #

10. psychoo
    Member

    Pokerlover:
    Slug means URL, but I'm not sure :).
    You have to change the settings/premalinks option to day and name. After that you can change the "Slug" in the Page management to whatever URL you want, for example www.site.com/bbpress/.

    After that your page links to bbpress, OK. But how you make it recognized as a "current page item" when you're in the forums?

    Posted 1 month ago #

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