Its very much similar to a WordPress plugin. Get started with those. Hope that helps 
obviously you would need to deep integrate it with WordPress to use a WordPress function on bbPress side.
Deep integration – http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/02/deep-integration-bbpress-wordpress/
Its better if you just copy the menu html over to bbPress theme. How much do you edit navigation anyway.
Advantage & Disadvantage of deep integration – http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/02/bbpress-deep-integration-advantages-disadvantages/
Ok so I’ve got my instance running on Deep Integration but I’ve got a few errors. For one, the headers call but no title displays. Also, I am unable to set how the sidebar is registered. Any thoughts or any help?
Just enable WordPress functions in bbPress and paste this in your header:
<?php wp_page_menu(); ?>
If you wanna have a homelink:
<?php wp_page_menu('show_home=Home'); ?>
The “deep integration” code still breaks my site, but the link to the style sheet in header.php wasn’t working because I had bb-styles.php in the wrong place.
Also I’m loading WordPress from wp-blog-header.php instead of wp-load.php.
The only thing that remains is to figure out how to make changes to the bbPress pages without making changes to the whole site since it’s calling two style sheets. I’ve spent no small amount of time with “inspect element” and “firebug” in Google Chrome trying to find the styles I want to change on the bbPress pages. You could tell me in short order I’m sure how to make the changes I want. But as I said, I wanted to get all of the kinks worked out before I go public with it.
When I get it all figured out I’m thinking I’ll publish the info specific to integrating Twentyten and Kakumei (for those of us unambitious, ignorant folks who don’t have the where with all to do something original). I assume that you won’t mind me referencing your tutorial? No need to reinvent the wheel!
Thanks again for your tutorial, your interest and your help!
I ask you another thing, there is a way for put a menu of wordpress (then with wp_list_page() ) pages on bbpress forum without insert:
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wp-load.php’); ??
if I do the deep integration putting this string on my bb-config a plugin go in conflict…
ay idea?
Is better then i’m open a new topic?
kikko088
This issue can be solved by the bbPress integration plugin for WordPress. Keep the plugin activated, it generates the required cookies on WordPress authentication hooks which otherwise are not created for accessing bbPress dashboard (or admin panel)
P.S. – I actually looked at the plugin’s code today!
Don’t know what the BackPress has to do here!
This issue can be solved by the bbPress integration plugin for WordPress. Keep the plugin activated, it generates the required cookies on WordPress authentication hooks which otherwise are not created for accessing bbPress dashboard (or admin panel)
P.S. – I actually looked at the plugin’s code today!
Don’t know what the BackPress has to do here!
This issue can be solved by the bbPress integration plugin for WordPress. Keep the plugin activated, it generates the required cookies on WordPress authentication hooks which otherwise are not created for accessing bbPress dashboard (or admin panel)
P.S. – I actually looked at the plugin’s code today!
Instead of loading WordPress from wp-load.php, load it from wp-blog-header.php.
I checked the header.php file of Twentyten and there is nothing in it that would stop you from making changes. Follow the tutorial and you will be fine.
This is the line before which you should add the link to bb-style.css
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />
Rest is in the tutorial.
Integrate your forums with your wordpress seamlessly.
In this case header/footer will work same for both.
http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/
How to make WordPress Posts, BBpress topics .. and intergrate the posts
Is there a way for me to pull my page navigation over from wordpress to put in my header instead of having to manually change the page navigation in bbpress anytime I add a page in wordpress?
Your’s is one of the tutorials I followed, Ashfame. It helped me a great deal and I’m grateful to you for it. However, the following code broke my site:
/* Deep integration */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST'))
{
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
include_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../wp-blog-header.php' );
header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
header("Status: 200 All rosy");
}
I started replacing the bb_get tags as you recommended in front-page.php. As I said, I could not get the get_sidebar to work.
Also, I moved ahead with your instructions regarding the style sheets, and then on to editing the twentyten them header.php to insert the link to the bbpress theme and couldn’t figure out where to put the link – it broke my wordpress.
What am I missing?
Hi Paul,
Just so you know, if you areusing the bbpress plugin that works with buddy press, then you’re not using bbpress.
It’s a fork from last years release hacked to work with buddypress. That’s not to say bad things about it though, how it was done was really great, it’s just confusing.
Don worry though, they’re making a new wordpress plugin that’s not this software or the buddypress plugin, and they’re going to call that bbpress too. At thy time, we’ll all b confused 
Moved the bbpress directory to verify it wasn’t a possible collision between the old “forums” page and the “forums” sub directory. Does not appear to be the issue (in other words same symptoms).
Also verified no errors in my server error log (get undefined get_header() errors if i remove the require(blah/wp-load.php))
Having similar issues…
Symptoms:
1) Blank forum page if i navigate to http://www.drunkencoders.com/forums/
2) Forum loads if i http://www.drunkencoders.com/forums/index.php
3) Blank page if i follow any of the forum title links
I did however have a wordpress page called “forums” at one point (since deleted) which would have also resolved to this location…possible issue?
I am using bb-config to load wp-load.php on startup per the suggestions (seems to work as indicated by direct navigation to index.php).
I am using the wp functions to load header and footer info (this also works as i get my wp site blog wrapped properly around my otherwise plain bbpress install if i navigate directly to index.php)
Any suggestions or thoughts?
Since a lot of people still say version 0.9.0.6 is still good i installed it but was unable to set pretty permalinks and there was a never ending story of solutions on the forums like adding bbpress rules to wordpress htacess file or adding multiviews but none worked i even tried to copy the rewrite rules from bbpress to the htacess but no luck i end up on 404 page….
so i went back to version 1.0.2 and instaled svn version 2540 and altough its istalled the following error popped up above the bbpress last installation step (the one that gives us the admin password)
Database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘)’ at line 1]
SELECT term_id, term_taxonomy_id FROM bb_term_taxonomy WHERE term_id IN ()
Caller: BB_Install->BB_Install, BB_Install->process_form, BB_Install->process_form_finalise_installation, bb_insert_topic, bb_add_topic_tags, BB_Taxonomy->set_object_terms, WP_Taxonomy->insert_term, WP_Taxonomy->clean_term_cache
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /public_html/forums/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-taxonomy.php on line 1789
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /public_html/forums/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php:569) in /public_html/forums/bb-includes/functions.bb-core.php on line 1148
can anyone tell me what i’m doing wrong or maybe what i can do to use pretty permalink in 0.9.0.6.
Thanks
ah… no wonder i couldnt find it. is there a way to do this with the uploadable wordpress gravitars though? and to customize the default?
thanks for your help!
Hi,
For my website I need the forum to be the Frontpage (main site), but I need wordpress for things like Facebook Connect plugins. Could I install BBpress on the root directory and have WordPress on a sub directory like http://www.forum.com/blog. Whilst still creating a deep intergration between the two ?
I may have found a solution.
I deleted all the bbPress files from my server.
Deleted all the tables from my database in MySql that began with the bb_ prefix.
Then started the process all over again.
However, this time I left the SECURE_AUTH_SALT field blank since it doesn’t show in my wp-admin/options.php page (even though it’s in my wp-config file).
Either the full reinstall or simply leaving that field blank worked.
Also, once I uninstalled bbPress I added the bbPress Integration plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/) to my WordPress install (don’t know if that’s made a difference either) but it said to add a couple lines to my wp-config.php file as well.
define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com’ );
define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
I’ve hit the same snag. I tried logging out of my WordPress admin and now I can’t login to the BBpress install or WordPress install.
http://www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com
http://www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/forums
When I click the login button on both WordPress and BBPress it simply sits on the same page or reloads the page. It’s as if the Login buttons are broken.
I’ve tried changing the force_ssl_admin to true as mentioned here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/admin-link-doesnt-take-me-to-dashboard
function force_ssl_admin($force = ‘true’) {
I’ve updated all my auth keys in both WP config and BP config as mentioned here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-access-bb-admin
(https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/)
And I’ve added define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ ); to my WP and BP config files as well.
Still no luck.
Any help would be appreciated. If nothing else I may start searching for the uninstall thread.
Unless performance is crippling slow, those users’ arguments are very valid.
bbPress’s ability to be customized and slipped into foreign environments is extremely attractive. It’s incredibly easy to customize without breaking the core like most other forums.
But look at WordPress – it’s popularity defies ALL logic. Without heavy duty caching it would collapse most large sites. Apachebench would DESTROY it without page caching (using 17 categories with 7500 users and 10k posts with 10k comments). Of course it’s the sheer number of available customizations that override the care about lack of performance.
The work around seems to be log out of WordPress then log in to bbPress when you want to administer bbPress.
Yeah I figured that, so wait, there’s no current way to circumvent that?
