[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Google is your friend.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Google is your friend.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Yes…but the thing is, it works with one theme, but not another. Just seems very odd.

I’ll try your suggestion. Thanks.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

You should be able to integrate with it not being in a sub-directory – but I found it much easier to have it in a sub.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

You should be able to integrate with it not being in a sub-directory – but I found it much easier to have it in a sub.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

I look forward to this, and future, developments. BBPress I feel does not get the credit and attention it deserves.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Any suggestions?

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Just use php tags?

Can’t think for the life of me why you’d want to do this though. It’s super, major, massive overkill…

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

As a side note, if you wish to integrate with WordPress, my advice is you upload the files into a sub-directory called “forum” within the WordPress directory.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

“Visit the intended URL of the BBPress site” is pretty self explanatory.

All you have to do is navigate to the URL where you put the files. It’s not rocket science.

You put the files in, for example, your “/forum” directory.

Navigate to “http://www.mysite.com/forum”

I really can’t think of how that could ever be put simpler.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

That’s exactly the tutorial I followed. Worked perfectly.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Varjik.

There are plugins for both private messaging and a WYSIWYG editor.

BBPress does work well with WordPress, better than any other forum software. What people like you fail to understand is that whilst, relatively, integrating BBPress with WordPress is easy, it is not something a basic WordPress user who does not have any knowledge of PHP should really do, unless you are prepared for the challenge and prepared that you mgiht not be able to do it.

Regarding themes, you need to edit the BBPress theme you are using. You need to add the Get_Header and Get_Footer tags of your WordPress theme to your BBPress theme files. If you wish to use a sidebar you will need to reference the sidebar too.

You then need your Forum to fit in the Wrapper of your WordPress theme, you do this by referencing the wordpress themes CSS wrapper in the BBPress themes files, using div tags.

You also need to then make sure a copy of your BBPress CSS is in the same directory as your wordpress CSS, you then need to reference the BBPress CSS in your wordpress header.

If you know what you’re doing with web design then those steps should be fairly easy to follow. At the end of the day, a certain level of expertise is required to integrate BBPress with WordPress.

I have managed it, you can see the result at:

Discussions

As you can see, both the WP site and the BBPress forum use the same theme.

Personally, I think if you are already looking to phpNuke then WordPress is probably not for you. I personally think phpNuke is the poor mans WordPress, it’s gimmicky and performs poorly, but if that’s what you find easiest then it’s whatever you think is best

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

It works like a treat…

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

I’ve followed a guide to get the themes integrated.

Other than tweaking the BBPress theme, it’s basically all working now.

Bye-bye iFrame!

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Good idea – I’ll try that.

[@maxumimike Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

P.S

I know using an iFrame isn’t really the way to do it…but I’ve no idea how to directly integrate the forum into the existing theme.