Manually query the category database and output it? Not that it matters. 
atomAstro — could you elaborate on where POST and GET becomes a problem with this integration? I haven’t yet met with any (that I know), but it would be of great help if you could give a few examples so that I know what to keep an eye on!
Is this on a WordPress or a bbPress page, dyaddydad? Have you done a full bbPress integration, including the “functions” section? Do you use the $forumpage variable as suggested in my post with the code? Did you uninstall Dan’s plugin before uploading mine?
I’m just working on a new site and going to use WordPress and bbpress running alone side each other. I have started the coding on the WordPress and I’ll start the BB soon too. I just thought I’d give a small (unfinished) preview to get some feedback. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sulcalibur/tags/ipwd/show/ many thanks
Biggest deal breaker was that parts of the sidebar are generated WP category list. There’s no way to fake that.
I would’ve thought the duplicated code wouldn’t be more than some basic HTML; CSS can easily be linked to and you have a different API anyway. I can’t say I really know, I haven’t done it. Your function to create the links could easily check if it was called from bb or WP automatically and respond appropriately, but I understand needing the WP API.
bbolman: https://trac.bbpress.org/timeline
btw, the flashy menus etc were created with the aid of mootools. This is an awesome javascript framework, with a great community standing behind it.
Few things regarding the wordpress header. The main reason for this is that I want access to the wordpress functions. This is because the sidebar has bbPress user account functions, such as view / edit profile. I need to know what the user’s wordpress id is in order to create these links when bbPress isn’t running. Granted, I could just send them to the wordpress profile, however I don’t care for the wordpress user profile page. It takes them completely out of the site. In addition to this, I dont really want them on the dashboard, for any reason. I eventually plan to extend the profile pages to include user comment activity in addition to forum activity, etc. I couldn’t do that without both systems running. As for the rest of the general integration, faking this functionality by copying and pasting code and duplicating everything seems lazy and sloppy.
I’m just throwing this in, but is it just me, or did I miss something, but I feel like work on bbPress has stalled? We haven’t had a new version in a while.
That’s a nice site, and I love the fact that you made a ‘fancy’ menu without using Flash. Also I really like the effect of that Start Selling badge . The colour for stickies in your forum is a bit dodgy though, it might look nicer if you used the sidebar orange for that (and for the green headers maybe). 
I don’t understand the necessity to use WP headers, though. Surely the amount of work needed to standardise the header is far less when you just copy the code? That’s got poor maintainability I admit, but there shouldn’t be anything you need to edit often in templates and if you really needed it you could write and use some wrapper functions that would determine which stuff to load.
I agree that the user integration is satisfactory, however I would love to see a standardized method of doing the theme integration. The problem I had was that the wp/bbp precautions were layering, and lots of stuff was getting double escaped, etc. I could not complete a satisfactory integration without editing included core files, which did not make my sysadmins very happy.
I definitely agree with you on the “it would be better if they worked right out of the box” bit. I feel like, while the user-integration was worked on pretty thoroughly at the beginning of development (and don’t quote me on this cause I’m just guessing) the theme integration aspect could have used a lot more work. The whole idea is that the two softwares should be able to just be thrown together and work for joe shmoe, but really, you have to have a pretty good idea of what you’re doing to really get it going.
I also want to add some kudos to the bbPress project for including pagination out of the box, something WP sorely needs.
In reference to Vili’s post, this is how I did the integration for 2Checkout.com’s install of WP and bbP, however it still left something to be desired. There are occasions where POST or GET content is filtered more than it should be because both systems are running concurrently. Once this gets hashed out, I would have no problem using this for a professional project again, however the amount of work to get around this is currently prohibitive.
My “Pimp your Press” topic for 2Checkout.com:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/1172
Thank you very much. I have to say that the integration process (that is the full integration with the theme and all) was not straightforward or easy enough for the average user, I had to do some wacky stuff to get it working correctly on more than one occasion. This is currently the only problem I have with bbPress. Hopefully at some point, bbPress will plug right into a wordpress theme out of the box, or at least be much easier to do.
Very nice. Great integration.
I have recently completed the new 2Checkout.com, which is now using a fully integrated WordPress and bbPress install to run the homepage / community site. Everyone should have a look:
http://www.2Checkout.com
Sorry to be asking so many questions, but I’m having trouble finding answers to these basic questions and I figure it’s easiest to ask them one at a time. Also, I think I was seduced a little by how easy it was to get WordPress going. bbPress seems a lot harder. Anyway:
How do you add moderators? In the admin page, I can see who they are, but can’t add anybody.
Do I have to get the people that I am inviting as moderators to register themselves, and then I can go and change their privileges? Or can I somehow add them on my own (which is what I’d like).
Thanks!
Still giving me that error – Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /homepages/27/d120217802/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/cmdavatar.php on line 193
I just replaced Dan’s plugin with yours.
Thanks.
Yeah, I tried changing the width for secondary, but all that did was make the sidebar smaller. the line was still stretched across the whole page…
Works great vilimaunula! I really love Dans/Vili avatar thingy It’s a nice solution.
Sorry for the confusion.
It’s a WordPress plugin. And no, you don’t need to install any avatar-upload thing, or indeed any other extra plugin to get this to work.
The function works both on WordPress and bbPress, but since it is a WordPress plugin (and thus a WordPress function) you will need to make WordPress functions available to bbPress. This is covered in the Integration with WordPress page in the bbPress documentation (see the last section, “Functions”).
I hope this clears things up a little.
I have my wordpress install as the root of my website and then there is a folder beneath that for ‘forums’.
So, my directory structure looks like this:
/var/www/wp-config.php
/var/www/forums/config.php
In the bbpress config.php I have these (relevant) lines:
$bb->path = '/forums/';
$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.website.com';
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.website.com';
For yours, since you have WordPress at wp_01, you would have something like this:
/var/www/index.html <---- your website home, not WP home
/var/www/wp_01/wp-config.php
/var/www/wp_01/forums/config.php
your config.php:
$bb->path = '/wp_01/forums/';
$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.intar.org/wp_01';
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.intar.org/wp_01';
HTH
Chris
