Thanks! Can you point me to any websites that are good examples of the integration between bbpress and wordpress?
The bbPress plugin will fully integrate into any existing WordPress 3.1+ installation. Since it’s using WordPress to power the database interaction, it is immediately integrated and available in any way you need it to be, depending on your level of skill, etc…
Technically WordPress doesn’t really have conventional ‘profiles’ but they do use the exact same user account for everything. In the future bbPress profiles will be merged with BuddyPress profiles, providing a seamless experience.
You’re on your own with advertisements. 
Other things of note:
* The stand alone version of bbPress has been in a feature freeze for a majority of the past two years.
* The community surrounding bbPress isn’t as large as WordPress.
* The transition between versions (0.9, 1.0, and now the plugin) have caused some unrest for people passionate about the project.
So, that’s the cliff-notes of the story.
The bbPress plugin will fully integrate into any existing WordPress 3.1+ installation. Since it’s using WordPress to power the database interaction, it is immediately integrated and available in any way you need it to be, depending on your level of skill, etc…
Technically WordPress doesn’t really have conventional ‘profiles’ but they do use the exact same user account for everything. In the future bbPress profiles will be merged with BuddyPress profiles, providing a seamless experience.
You’re on your own with advertisements.
Other things of note:
* The stand alone version of bbPress has been in a feature freeze for a majority of the past two years.
* The community surrounding bbPress isn’t as large as WordPress.
* The transition between versions (0.9, 1.0, and now the plugin) have caused some unrest for people passionate about the project.
So, that’s the cliff-notes of the story.
Hello,
I haven’t yet installed bbpress. I currently have SMF and am considering switching because I want to fully integrate my forum with my WordPress blog and I don’t think SMF will ever do that.
I have a few questions before I make the leap, that is, I want to make sure I can do the things I want to before I change everything.
I want to make it so that all forum topics and their subsequent posts can be easily transferred to the front page, i.e. blog. Is this possible? What about vice versa? Can blog posts be discussed in the forum section?
I want all profiles to be automatically usable for both forum and blog. Is this possible?
Is there an Advertisement mod for bbpress?
A lot of articles that are about two years old say simplepress is better than bbpress. Has bbpress really taken off in the last two years? Does it have potential to grow and get more refined?
Thanks!
Decided to stick this topic to the front so it doesn’t get lost and hopefully gets more traction. Would *love* to see this get turned into a plugin on the WordPress side to help move the data around. That would also put it one step closer to inclusion into bbPress core.
Decided to stick this topic to the front so it doesn’t get lost and hopefully gets more traction. Would *love* to see this get turned into a plugin on the WordPress side to help move the data around. That would also put it one step closer to inclusion into bbPress core.
I have the same problem with the /bb-admin/ as described in the second post. Any solutions?
I have the same problem with the /bb-admin/ as described in the second post. Any solutions?
ok this is solved, but now when I click the Admin link on forum this not redirect me to /bb-admin/ but to forum home.
whats the solution,
I have read to paste this to bb-config.php, but didn’t worked.
$bb->new_keymaster = ‘admin’;
thanks
ok this is solved, but now when I click the Admin link on forum this not redirect me to /bb-admin/ but to forum home.
whats the solution,
I have read to paste this to bb-config.php, but didn’t worked.
$bb->new_keymaster = ‘admin’;
thanks
Hi,
Today, after read many tutorials I integrated WP with bbpress, now any new site subscriber became forum member, and etc anything is ok at this point.
BUT the problem is that need to log in forum, when user is logged in WP, even admin/key master need to do the same, nothing comes automatically, I have installed the bbpress integration plugin and added
define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ ); to wp-config.php in top after <?php
Please let me know what I have missed.
Thanks
I run a site that have two forums
One is private, only for our clients, and the other is public. Both run in a .com.ar domain and on Icy Phoenix, a CSM based on phpbb2. The thing is im moving the site to a .com domain and to a wordpress platform and cos of that i want to use the bbpress forums to integrate the whole site.
I read a couple of tutorial on the net. The initial idea was to go from icyphoenix to phpbb 2, then to bbpress.
In theory it sounded good but i ran into a couple of problems. For starters i wasnt able to convert succesfully from Icy Phoenix to phpbb2. The other problem i saw is that somewhere in the tables from the forums the domain remains .com.ar. So when i try to run it in the .com domain its keeps linking me to the old urls.
So the questions would be…
-Theres an easier way? like getting into the tables and doing it all manually?
-There is some reliable script around i can use?
-How to solve the problem with the different urls?
@tooltrainer – I don’t understand the question. It sounds like an elaborate way of asking “How do I mark topics as sticky?” If what you’re asking is how to highlight a specific post in a different way other than sticky, the only way in core is by the specific ID of that topic or reply, without writing your own code to put something else in there.
@christopher-jon – Anonymous posts are still working for me? Edit lock time fixed here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3134/
This is all possible to do using the soon to be released plugin version of bbPress, which first requires an installation of WordPress to work within. Check the sticky topic in these forums for more info.
This is all possible to do using the soon to be released plugin version of bbPress, which first requires an installation of WordPress to work within. Check the sticky topic in these forums for more info.
I am hoping to create a very basic single forum forum. My goal is to set it up so
http://www.mydomain.com/discussions
is a paginated list of the different topics. I know because of WordPress’s fear that when using custom post types someone might create a post named “page” that would interfere with the paginated pages, so we have to add an additional slug, so I wouldn’t mind setting up
http://www.mydomain.com/discussions/topic/the-topic-title
But, a URL this simple isn’t possible out of the box. Is there a possible way of doing this without having to “hack the core.”
I was also curious if it is possible for tags to show up in searches, or to create a list or drop down menu or if nothing else one of those “clouds.” I don’t see what point they serve now other than just appearing next to topics once you have already found it.
I am moving my forum over from a Drupal 6 install to a WordPress 3 install.
Taking a look at this thread, it seems as if the bbpress plug-in is still being tested? Would you recommend this plug-in for a production site yet?
Sounds good.
I’ve found working with the plugin to be pretty easy. Beneath all of the code, it’s still wordpress at heart.
The next thing I want to try out is modifying the single topic loop to display certain topics with a different style, something similar to a featured post on a blog.
This is where the meta box was needed, adding a check box to notify the loop to use a different style for those topics.
The default theme has something similar already in place with the first topic posting having slightly larger text than the replies. An additional conditional check should do the trick.
Sounds good.
I’ve found working with the plugin to be pretty easy. Beneath all of the code, it’s still wordpress at heart.
The next thing I want to try out is modifying the single topic loop to display certain topics with a different style, something similar to a featured post on a blog.
This is where the meta box was needed, adding a check box to notify the loop to use a different style for those topics.
The default theme has something similar already in place with the first topic posting having slightly larger text than the replies. An additional conditional check should do the trick.
@JJJ – that’s okay. The shortcode was to be used so that I could create a list of new forum topics that displays the following:
[Topic Title] Posted in [name of forum] on [topic date] by [topic author]
unless the bbPress topics/replies list can be modified to display the above info. I’m currently using the Query Posts plugins to do this as it allows me to display the page the topic is on etc, and when i used [entry-author], it displays the wordpress user (author/name), not the bbpress user (user/name).
@whitehats – You should never, ever, modify any core files. The WordPress actions/filters system is in place to let you inject code and modify existing values as needed. Anywhere you feel the need to hack the core, there should be another way.
The only times when hacking core files makes sense are specifically when fixing a bug in the software or when creating new features to be inserted into core.
@whitehats – You should never, ever, modify any core files. The WordPress actions/filters system is in place to let you inject code and modify existing values as needed. Anywhere you feel the need to hack the core, there should be another way.
The only times when hacking core files makes sense are specifically when fixing a bug in the software or when creating new features to be inserted into core.
“Did you have to call any additional function to add meta boxes? Have you tried that yet?”
Nope. Using the default wordpress code should work. Just remember to set the correct page type (forum/topic) or you wont see it.
Here is part of my code so you can see where I changed the page type to the “topic” custom post type.
$meta_boxes[] = array(
‘id’ => ‘forum_options’,
‘title’ => ‘Forum Options’,
‘pages’ => array(‘topic’),
‘context’ => ‘side’,
‘priority’ => ‘core’,
“Did you have to call any additional function to add meta boxes? Have you tried that yet?”
Nope. Using the default wordpress code should work. Just remember to set the correct page type (forum/topic) or you wont see it.
Here is part of my code so you can see where I changed the page type to the “topic” custom post type.
$meta_boxes[] = array(
‘id’ => ‘forum_options’,
‘title’ => ‘Forum Options’,
‘pages’ => array(‘topic’),
‘context’ => ‘side’,
‘priority’ => ‘core’,
