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Google is your friend.

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Google is your friend.

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

I’ll try your suggestion. Thanks.

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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.

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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.

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

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Any suggestions?

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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…

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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.

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“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.

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

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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

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It works like a treat…

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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!

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Good idea – I’ll try that.

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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.