[Christiaan]

Are permalinks meant to work with a WordPress integrated forum?

I configured my bbPress installation to use permalinks but clicking on one sends me to a 404 error page on my blog.

[Christiaan]

Hi, I’ve managed to integrate a fresh install of both WP and bbP successfully up to the point before integrating the WP header/theme.

Despite the overhead I’d like to use the method described at http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/ but when I use this method nothing happens; the forum remains looking the same.

I’m using a full URL address (i.e. http://) to call the blog header because a relative address doesn’t appear to work and I can’t seem to get the absolute address correct.

Any ideas?

[Göran]

I have made some progress. I took the head from WordPress and managed to get a separate head by copying to Dreamweaver and keeping only the head as can be seen on http://www.enkelwebbplats.se/dig9.html Then I took this head and pasted it into header.php in bbPress. It was partly successful as I got a forum with the content I wanted but the formating is not as I want. I had earlier a Kakumei format with only changed colors (form as in another forum I run http://www.32astolf.se/forum/).

I guess I need to change which style sheets that are used but I do not understand how to get the styles I want for the discussion in my forum from bbPress header.php.

Any help would be most welcome!

[bradstinyworld]

in wordpress to integrate digg in a posts automatically I use code like this digg_url = '<?php the_permalink() ?>'; This does not work (obviously) in in bbpress, so can anyone tell me what the equivalent of the permanlink is?

[marp]

My new install of both wordpress and bbpress seems to linked successfully, as when I login, i am automatically logged in on the other.

However, logging out of one, does not log me out of the other.

Additionally, when this occurs, it is possible for me to log back in under a different account and find that each now as a different account logged in.

bbpress 0.9.0.2

wordpress 2.5.1

[onekopaka]

0.9.0.2 seems to work fine with integrating with wordpress trunk.

[autoverzekering]

I don’t think there is any plugin available that is able. Maybe you should ask the owner of the WordPress Adsense sharing plugin for help?

[chrishajer]

Depends on what you mean by embed, and how much work you consider cumbersome. I don’t think it works too well to put bbPress into an iframe in your website. But other sorts of integration work just fine. There’s nothing special (that I know of) that makes WordPress integration any different than the presentation in any other website.

[mciarlo]

I’m trying to integrate WordPress 2.5.1 and bbPress 0.9.0.2.

I have matched SECRET_KEY in wp-config.php with BB_SECRET_KEY in bb-config.php and matched WordPress “secret” database option with bbPress “secret” database setting.

I have also setup compatible cookie domains and paths in config files and mapped user roles.

The only thing I haven’t done is share user tables because it isn’t required and my bbPress database is separate.

I am still having problems integrating. When a user registers on bbPress, they are not registered in WordPress.

The site is http://www.cheshirecrossingii.com. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Michael

[bobomerenda]

Did you solve it out? I’m bothering with the same issue.

[chrishajer]

WordPress.com says this about the keys:

“Please use your own API Key and don’t ever share your API it is like a password for you “

I don’t know about advantages or disadvantages for using the same key. I used to use the same key for all sites, but now I get a new key for each site (which is a big pain). I haven’t noticed a performance difference one way or the other.

[lazy79]

The Trunk is broken because there`s still a lot to do and to change / integrate (wordpress functions..); so it is just normal that the bbpress trunk is not installing.. (backpress..)

use the 0.9.02 Version.. and if using wordpress trunk, remember, wordpress changed its cookies so there is a problem in logging in with bbpress if its integrated. With WordPress Final there`s no problem with integration – bbpress will sure be updated soon (i hope) to use the new logged_in cookie from wordpress.

[psychoo]

Pokerlover:

Slug means URL, but I’m not sure .

You have to change the settings/premalinks option to day and name. After that you can change the “Slug” in the Page management to whatever URL you want, for example http://www.site.com/bbpress/.

After that your page links to bbpress, OK. But how you make it recognized as a “current page item” when you’re in the forums?

[pokerlover12]

it seems like wordpress deleted the post slug function in the latest version of wordpress?

[pokerlover12]

i feel a bit retarded now but i dont get it…

i have the latest version of wordpress but still i cant find anything called slug when i create a new page… i still dont know how to link the forum to my wordpress site…

[chrishajer]

To link your bbPress forum to WordPress, follow this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/link-to-forum-from-wordpress#post-15981

Create a new Page in WordPress. When you do that, the page is assigned a slug, which is basically the URL it will be accessed at. If you want http://www.example.com/forum/ , you create a new page called “Forum”. That page will appear in your WordPress navigation. Then install bbPress into a directory on your server, one directory lower than WordPress, called forum, and when someone accesses that URL, they get your forum.

They will never use the same administration pages.

[pokerlover12]

I still dont get how to link my bbpress forum from my wordpress blog?

what is slug? i have installed both bbpress and wordpress, they now use the same database but not the same administration pages…

thanks

[onekopaka]

I got to step one of the bbPress installer and I get this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_specialchars() in /Users/onekopaka/Sites/bbpress/bb-includes/wp-functions.php on line 35

Should I remove the call or do i need to find where it is defined?

I have a subversion installation of WordPress which works excellent. should i replace the wp-functions.php in bbPress with the WordPress one?

[chrishajer]

Explain more please. What are you trying to do?

[psychoo]

Hi,

I used your help, thanks! Any idea how to make wordpress recognize it as current page item when I’m in the forums?

Thx!

[redhousepainter]

Okay, the footer was no problem as mine is just some simple links. I’m having difficulty with the nav bar. In my WP theme (Mimbo) I found this code which I think corresponds to the nav bar…

<ul id=”nav” class=”clearfloat”>

[Billy Wilcosky]

I am having similar issues. I have followed the steps from kineda.com, and it’s not working for me personally. Well, everything is working. I have fully integrated my wordpress blog and bbpress forum. So, users can sign up and use one username and password for both, works great, BUT, first of all… sometimes I guess the cookie part isn’t working, because I can log in at my wordpress blog, then go to my forum and I won’t be logged in. But, when I first did the integration, it worked. I’d log in at one, then go to the other and already be logged in. So there is that issue, then I am also having an issue every now and then with logging out. If I log out from my bbpress it gives me some kind of header already sent error… But, again, that only happens periodically. So, my issues are odd and they don’t happen all the time …

I’m thinking that most of my issues have to do with the cookies. Has anyone discovered any hints or tips to make sure that my cookie code is correct? The cookie part of my code in my bb-config file looks like this:

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress_354420af36a7c3b4f6ad07a79c17612a’;

$bb->cookiedomain = ”;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ”;

does all that look correct?

[chrishajer]

This does not answer your question (sorry, I don’t have integration on that level) but there was a discussion of this recently:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-little-rant-about-bbpress-followed-by-some-questions#post-16722

While it’s easy to do it like this, by including the WordPress in your bbPress config, it’s not really recommended. It’s quick to do but a lot of overhead as explained by Sam Bauers (one of the developers.)

[Sherry Dedman]

I’ve already got the database and cookies working correctly and all of that. I was talking about getting the look of it, etc. Those instructions referr to adding code to your bb-config.php file to do the include of the header from your WordPress installation, etc.

If I linked to the wrong instructions, oops. I’ve read and read many posts on integrating the look and they say to add things to your bb-config file, etc. But I don’t know WHERE.

So I’d like to see a completed, working bb-config.php file for someone who was able to do that successfully so that you can include the php get header in bbpress. If that makes sense.

Thanks!

-Sherry

[chrishajer]

I don’t think those integration instructions apply any more. For example, there is no plugin necessary any longer.

Did you try just installing and see how it goes? Install WordPress first, then bbPress. Use WordPress 2.5.1 and bbPress 0.9.0.2 and integration will be no problem.

Once you get basic integration going, you can work on getting bbPress to look like WordPress if that is important to you.