[@robot6 Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

I am using bbpress 2.0, but when I try to login to the forums with user names that were created in the blog, it doesn’t work.

I have a folder named “forums” (mysite.com/forums/) in my directory that has wordpress installed in it. That’s where I have bbpress installed also. So “mysite.com/forums/” is the URL to my bbpress forums.

I have a blog on my site at “mysite.com”. WordPress is also installed in that directory (mysite.com/). So I have two wordpress installs. One in the “forums” folder and one in the root directory (mysite.com/).

One wordpress install is meant to manage and run the blog, the other wordpress install is meant to run and manage the forums.

I would need to do two things. I would need wordpress with bbpress to communicate with the database that the wordpress with blog uses so that the users are shared between the blog and the forums. I would also need the forums breadcrumb directory to be in this format: “Index/Forum Name/Topic Name”. For some reason, regardless of what I’ve tried so far, the breadcrumbs still show “Index/Forums/Forum Name/Topic Name”. The “Forums” link in the breadcrumbs doesn’t link to anything. Also, “Index” is a page that I created to be the main page for the forums. It lists the index of the categories and forums.

[@robot6 Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

I don’t appear to be able to share user profiles between my wordpress blog and my bbpress forums with my current setup either. I tried installing the bbpress integration tool. In the instructions it mentions that I need to point to the blog’s database in the bbpress admin panel, but I don’t have an option to get to the bbpress admin panel.

[@robot6 Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

Thank you for the reply John, but I did try that already. Although it removed one of the slugs from the URL’s, it still appears in the forum directory.

[@robot6 Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

I have been able to install it, no problem. I just wanted to keep my blog theme and to also build a new theme from the ground up for my forum. So two separate themes for the blog and the forum. That’s why I wanted to install bbpress as part of a second wordpress install in a different directory. This way I could set one active theme for the forums that would be independent of the blog’s theme.

Actually, I was able to accomplish this. My blog is installed in “mywebsite.com”. Then I also installed wordpress in “mywebsite.com/forums”. The problem with this method is that bbpress adds a “forums” base to the URL. So the forums index ends up being ” “mywebsite.com/forums/forums”. The solution was to create a new index page and make it the static home page in wordpress. The index page that I created was called “index”. So the home page/ index page of the forums ended up being “mywebsite.com/forums/index”, this is more presentable, and I was happy with that, but there was still a problem. When ever you would click on a forum in the index… the breadcrumbs at the top of the page would still show the “forums” base that bbpress adds to the directory. So if you visit a forum called “chat”, the breadcrumbs at the top of the forum would still read “index/forums/chat”. So I was able to solve the problem with the home page, but the “forums” base is still part of the actual directory, which ends up being a problem in this case.

Like you said though, I should just install the plugin as part of my blog, and that would eliminate these problems, except that then the forums would be constricted by the blog’s theme, and I really don’t want that.

[@robot6 Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks for the reply. I thought I read somewhere that bbpress can be integrated with another wordpress database as long as they are both under the same domain name. Oh well, I’ll just stick with a different bb program. This doesn’t seem worth the trouble.