Topic: Link to forum from WordPress

Link to forum from WordPress

@tedhogan

Member

16 years, 7 months ago

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

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@a1ex

Member

16 years, 7 months ago

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

For example, “forums”.

@tedhogan

Member

16 years, 7 months ago

Ahhh… thanks!

Didn’t know I could do that.

Cool!

Ted

@psychoo

Member

16 years, 6 months ago

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!

@chrishajer

Participant

16 years, 6 months ago

Explain more please. What are you trying to do?

@pokerlover12

Member

16 years, 6 months ago

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

@chrishajer

Participant

16 years, 6 months ago

To link your bbPress forum to WordPress, follow this:

https://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.

@pokerlover12

Member

16 years, 6 months ago

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…

@pokerlover12

Member

16 years, 6 months ago

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

@psychoo

Member

16 years, 6 months ago

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 http://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?