I have integrated bbpress with wordpress without problems.
To have the same header in bbpress and word press I include
require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);
in the config.php in bbpress, then I edit the header.php (bbpress) with some wordpress functions.
It’s runs ok, but the bbpress admin interfase can’t load.
There are some comments about?
What do you mean? The second link from so10? I don’t know why it didn’t work for you. Search around the forums as there are people have have gotten the integration with a wordpress theme done.
As I stated above, I use the first link and built a theme from scratch. In my opinion, there is no real ‘easy’ way to build a theme by including a file from WP that I have found, but I will stand correctly if someone can explain to me now. Good luck!
Trent
i did what u wrote. look at this… : http://cs.elomza.pl/archas/ram/wordpress/forum
links on the left don’t work. no header.
Many people including myself have implemented the themes of bbPress and WordPress by actually making a theme in bbPress that looks like WordPress. There is information creating theme available here. As well, doing what you wanted has been tried and documented on these forums before, so I would suggest a quick search. I know so10 has a patch on his site at:
http://www.adityanaik.com/blog/bbpress-and-wordpress-integration/
Hope that helps!
Trent
doesn’t work 
whats wrong 
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Possibly you need to go up two or three directories, since config.php is called somewhere else? I have no idea really. Just try an absolute or base URL, such as http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php or /wordpress/wp-blog-header.php, hopefully that will work 
If it doesn’t you can probably be sure it’s something else.
hi.
everything works well but i just cant add header from wordpress. i add to my bbpress config:
require_once( ‘../wp-blog-header.php’ )
my directories look like this:
/wordpress – here is the wordpress
/wordpress/forum – here is the bbpress
whats wrong ?
and i want to remove ‘views part’ .
I wasn’t asking to remove the whole ajax staff.
I was asking to reduce it. Once we need only ajax http requests feature, why we should use the whole lib?
Can’t we just write a function for that?
It would be also great to had the possibility of including or not including any ajax libs in forums API, those already predefined and distributed with the bbPress or WordPress?!
Still unresolved…..
Hi,
I’m new to bbpress, and I’m trying to install it. I already use wordpress. There are lots of posts that talk about integration, but I’m not sure what ‘integration’ really means.
Is there a site where I can look and see an example of ‘integration’? What are the benefits? How do a BLOG and FORUM integrate? Thank you!
-daniel
Is there a problem on Windows servers, or just on localhost on Windows?
Of course my suggestion is only a temporary solution. But I am of the belief that the QA or dev server should be the same configuration as the production server, to eliminate the possibility of bugs being introduced when you go live. Installing this on localhost on a Windows desktop machine and ‘making it work’ when your production site is on a linux server seems to me like too much work.
With bbPress still being beta, I’m not too worried about it. WordPress 1.0-RC1 was released somewhere around Jan 1 2004. Their version before that, 0.72 beta1 was released in August 2003. There’s certainly time to get it right.
How about installing a linux distro in house since your server is linux also?
That’s a temporary solution, but once bbPress goes final and gets publicity the likes of WordPress, this Windows/localhost problem will need to be addressed.
I see that forum in WordPress.org have this toolbar function in reply text area, is it tinyMCE or whatelse Editor?
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5784/bbpresstoolsqg1.jpg
You could disable it just to see if that’s the problem. In addition to removing or modifying the .htaccess file, you need to set
$bb->mod_rewrite = false;
in your config. That will turn off the rewriting completely. Both need to be working for the pretty permalinks to work (i.e. the .htaccess is present, and the $bb->mod_rewrite = true. It doesn’t work on all servers though. Oddly, it works for my WordPress just fine, but not for bbPress which is in a subdirectory, so I have mine set to false for bbPress.)
I would disable it for now, just to see if that’s causing your problem.
Yeah, I setup Xampp Lite on my computer to be able to run WordPress and bbPress. Then I modify things, and play with it on the localhost before uploading things to my live sites/forums..
spencerp
I can access everything. I can log in and log out to WordPress, Coppermine, phpMyAdmin –basically everything.
bbpress still tells me it can’t find the username.
I changed all the settings. Now it is the same way I had it at first:
Then I changed domain to the one it told me to, and it loaded as a page with no graphics, full of error messeges. I remember, that I installed it sucessfuly long ago, by installing it, then changing config to the correct settings.
I saved the previous version of config, so it is not the worst.
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:AllProgramingphp&mysql SERVERwordpressbbpressconfig.php:67) in C:AllProgramingphp&mysql SERVERwordpressbbpressbb-admininstall.php on line 9
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:AllProgramingphp&mysql SERVERwordpressbbpressconfig.php:67) in C:AllProgramingphp&mysql SERVERwordpressbbpressbb-includesfunctions.php on line 1819
First Step
Make sure you have everything (database information, email address, etc.) entered correctly in config.php before running this script.
Your $bb->domain setting must only include the http:// and the domain name; it may not include any directories or path information.
Current settings
$bb->domain: http://localhost/wordp
MMember
Are you using the Role Manager (or a similar) plugin in WP? That causes registration through bbPress to set new users as an Admin in WP. I disabled my bbPress registration because of that and just run everyone through WP registration instead.
I would like to force users to register via the WP blog that my bbpress install is integrated with. Is there any fast and easy way to do this?
I know I could probably crawl through the code and hard code the link so it goes to the WP registration screen instead, but I was hoping someone might have a different suggestion. Also, forcing them to log in through wordpress would be kind of nice as well.
Call me crazy, but I’m still a little cautious about running registration and login through the BBpress side.
I have recently integrated a bbpress install with an existing wordpress blog/site. The WP blog had three users prior to the integration, and all three made it over to the bbpress install with no problems. However, today a new user registered on the WP side and her ID defaulted to 999999999.
I proceeded to register a “dummy” user, just to see what happened. The next registration ticked up to user ID #1000000000. While I doubt that this will lead to any serious problems, it seems silly to me to have user IDs starting around ONE BILLION, when even 1,000 would be plenty high enough for my lil’ ol’ site. Having McDonald’s-esque “XX billions served” sized numbers seems to fly in the face of the “Code is poetry” mantra.
Any ideas as to what’s going on here?
Hi,
sorry for the late reply, but the instruction given to me were not all the clear, I apparently was looking for a solution that wasn’t the one that would work for us.
To sum up the info I have, user authentification will not rely on BBpress authentification, but on our own user table (login and password) called by a simple htaccess file.
AuthUserFile /home/login/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Private"
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>
So our users will not need to register a new account to get access to BBpress (that is intended to be private only) and they’ll just use their existing account.
We might use cookies to allow easy naviguation between BBpress, WordPress and the login page (that will contain a load of other things)
I haven’t seen any tips on wordpress forum either. Maybe my eyes were not wide open at the time ?
Can it simply be done without rewriting the whole login process ?
wittmania,
Fortunately I haven’t noticed any of that yet, as I started from scratch with a clean WP and bbPress install before doing the import. Thanks!
As long as your wordpress default user role is subscriber, it should be working…hmm. If not, maybe post a comment on that plugin in the bbpress.org/plugins/ repository. I am pretty sure it should work that way.
Trent
One thing you may run into is conflicting user IDs between phpbb users and existing wordpress/bbpress users. If so, you can change the user IDs in phpbb before you import it by using this mod:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=388155&sid=3d5e8f776a7086b6fec64c3e80c7cbca
By changing the user IDs in phpbb to 99991, 99992, and so on, so they don’t conflict when they come over.
One problem I ran into was that I already had a few existing users on the wordpress side, which led to conflicting unique user IDs. I got the importer to work, but some of the posts were under the wrong user names b/c of conflicting unique user IDs between wordpress/bbpress and the old phpbb board I tried to import.
I haven’t been able to try it yet (phpbb.com is down), but they have a mod called Change User ID that seems to do exactly what its name suggests. If so, I intend to use it to change the three user IDs that are conflicting from 2, 3, and 6 to 99992, 99993, and 99996 respectively. That way, when I import the phpbb tables there will just be “blanks” in the sequential unique user IDs for the existing wordpress IDs to fit into.
Hope this is helpful…
The link to http://codex.wordpress.org/Ergate/wpmu_bbPress_integration
but its title “OLD INSTRUCTIONS”
After I try modify config.php
http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/
My blog user login fail to bbpress.
msg show “Cannot select DB.”
any good idea?
