Thank you!
First time I’m using BBpress but I’m REALLY fond of WordPress so I hope that this can be a good relationship with the too.
This type of feature is one that you see everyday users ask for all the time, but folks developing web forums tend to dislike because it can significantly complicate the administrator’s life with mailserver issues.
Sending out e-mail digests or alerts about new posts one-way is usually quite standard.
However, if someone really wants something open source that works two-way (instead of being locked into Google/YahooGroups or lacking a true web forum look like Mailman or Sympa), try GroupServer: http://groupserver.org (Note that it is Zope-based)
We use it here: http://forums.e-democracy.org
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org
http://e-democracy.org/blog – Happy WordPress users.
I thought this pretty much explained it?
Basically, I use WordPress headers and footers throughout both WordPress and bbPress, with my headers and footers containing all the layout design, and whatever is in between only being the actual content to be shown (in the case of a post the post loop, in the case of a page the page loop, in the case of a forum page the forum loop, etc.).
Okay, more info:
• In Firefox, when I log into bbPress, I am logged in, but the log in form does not auto refresh to “Welcome, username! View your profile…” Same problem when I log out, it does not refresh to “Register or login…”
• In Safari and IE 7, it does refresh when logging into bbPress, but not when logging out.
• In any browser, it does not refresh when logging into WordPress, but does when logging out.
• In all instances if I hit refresh/reload, it displays the correct message.
• Cookie integration between WordPress and bbPress is otherwise successful, once I’m logged into one, I’m logged into both, and vice-versa.
• Identical problems on multiple computers/ users.
I’m starting to wonder if my problem is different, as it is also occurring with a WordPress install on the same server. WordPress was fine until I did a clean install with WP/BB in the same database. I’m guessing it’s a cookie issue? An identical bbPress install on a different server works fine, reset FF, etc.
very sleek. I’m a big fan.
Vili what are you including where to get both systems to run? I did not see that in your post.
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
