[Rartemass]

I’ve started creating a blog with WordPress and it is working fine.

I now what to add in a forum (on a different page) that uses the WordPress login IDs.

I have found stuff to integrate the two but I have a question about installation directories.

WordPress is installed in mydomain/blog

Do I install bbPress there?

I wanted the forum page to be mydomain/forum

If I install to a directory with that name, can I still integrate with WordPress?

Sorry if this has been asked before but I was unable to find specif details on the forum, FAQ, or installation instructions.

[gerikg]

Learn to use an add-on feature on FireFox browser called FireBug. That can help you with what css line you need to edit (to make the grey background), etc, etc.

[ch8rt]

OK, I’ve done the integration, and I think thats all working fine. The problem is that it seems to run off the WP user table, rather than the BBPress one which has all my members in?

I’ve tried to find a solution but everything seems to be about moving stuff the other way?

So how do I import my users from BBPress into WordPress? If that is actually what I need to do.

Thanks.

[severus]

Hi gerikg

The integration is working already without errors. I just gave up and copied back the backup and suddenly it showed perfect. I do not have an explanation for that, but it works.

Now I am into the details.

— the login/register function did not show, so I took it out of the header and put it on the content and it works. I have still to give a better format that does not get over the content.

— I want to add a Grey background over every second post. No idea how to do it. Any idea?

— I have probably to redo the integration since when I log in WP it log me out in BBpress and viceversa.

— I have to refine some details still (font colors, etc)

The sites are:

WP: http://www.severus.es

BBPress: http://www.severus.es/foro

I won´t add the forums links in the menu until it is 100% integrated.

Thanks a lot for the explanations here.

[gerikg]

@severus

The integration shouldn’t affect WordPress.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’m afraid thats not got anything to do with bbPress so there’s not a lot we can do to help. Given that the code is output, its probably jsut a styling issue, which really is something you can find out at any of the CSS websites on the interweb.

Additioanlly, you have paid for theme, so you should probably ask there instead of here, given that your bbPress works

Oh go on then, because I’m being nice…

Right, if you open up the source of your webpage in a browser, you’ll see some hardcoded (awful idea) CSS into your WordPress page (line 70).

Just copy that into your bbPress forums, and it too will look the same:

And really bro, if you pay for a theme and then it doesn’t look like the way you want it, go ask at the forum of where you bought the theme WE’re the folks giving up our time for free!!

[gerikg]

That will clear the look of it but because of this issue you might want to check if it’s still works.

[gerikg]

in BaseStationForum/style.css

add the following.

.mc_error_msg {

color:red;

}

.mc_success_msg {

color:green;

}

.mc_merge_var {

margin:0;

padding:0;

}

#mc_signup_form {

padding:5px;

width:99%;

}

.mc_custom_border_hdr {

}

#mc_signup_form {

float:left;

padding-top:0.5em;

}

#mc_signup_form .mc_var_label, #mc_signup_form .mc_input {

clear:both;

float:left;

margin-left:0.5em;

margin-top:0.1em;

}

#mc_signup_form legend {

margin:0;

padding:0.5em;

}

#mc-indicates-required {

clear:both;

float:left;

}

#mc_display_rewards {

clear:both;

}

#mc_interests_header {

clear:both;

font-weight:bold;

margin-left:0.5em;

padding-top:0.2em;

}

div.mc_interest {

clear:both;

margin-left:0.5em;

}

input.mc_interest {

clear:left;

float:left;

margin-left:0.5em;

margin-top:0.2em;

}

label.mc_interest_label {

clear:right;

float:left;

margin-left:0.3em;

margin-top:0.2em;

}

.mc_signup_submit {

clear:both;

padding:0.2em;

text-align:center;

width:100%;

}

[arcadedig]

My original WordPress CMS theme can be found here, http://www.cfdblaze.com, and it looks great. The lower right footer widget area has a mailchimp email contact plugin. It works fine on the StationPro theme.

The new StationPro bbPress forum has the same footer widget area, but the mailchimp email widget in the lower right footer is jogged funny. http://www.cfdblaze.com/forums/ What can I do? I have looked at this on Safari, Firefox, and IE7 and it is the same on each.

Thank you in advance. I am certain our department will love this forum. Your support is wonderful, and appreciated.

Thank You!

[sajp]

I have placed the following line at the end of the bb-config.php file in my bbPress root folder:

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../../wp-load.php’);

I think that the path must be correct because the header and footer load correctly. I’ve replaced the contents of my bbPress header.php file in my modified theme so that it just calls the WordPress function ‘get_header()’, and then WordPress seems to take care of the rest.

If this is a really stupid way of me calling my header and footer, I guess I could just remove the reference to wp-load.php and try to set up my header differently in bbPress. I thought this way would be more efficient though!

[sajp]

OK yes, it’s something to do with that.

If I take out the deep integration line from my bb-config.php, switch back to Kakumei because my theme is now broken, the registration problem goes away.

Have I misunderstood how calling wp-load.php affects bbPress? I just wanted to be able to call my header and footer in from my WordPress template. I’m thinking maybe wp-load.php is loading a function that conflicts with bbPress’s registration functions maybe?

Thanks for you help, by the way!

[sajp]

It’s definitely doing it in both of the Kakumei themes, with Askimet (and everything else disabled). It was letting me register account previously, so it must be after I started making modifications.

I’m currently pulling in the header and footer from my WordPress theme using ‘deep integration’ (which I don’t really understand if I’m honest), but I haven’t integrated my bbPress with WordPress so the users are shared or anything like that.

To do that, I did add ‘require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../../wp-load.php’);’ at the end of my bb-config.php file. Could that be causing a conflict of some kind? I think that’s the only core file I touched.

I realise that this is starting to sound like I’ve broken it at some point along the line

[severus]

HI,

I am almost done, however here come the things I can´t fix.

1.- I am not able to sent a comment in the blog, I get this message:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-config.php:1) in /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 88

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-config.php:1) in /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 89

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-config.php:1) in /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 90

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-config.php:1) in /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868

However, the comment is accepted.

2.- I am not able to use the WP dashboard, any option I choose, like edit post, edit pluggins or so, ends in the following error.



Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-config.php:1) in /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868

3.- I do not have a login/register option in my BBPRESS.

4.- When adding an answer to a post in the BBpress site, I get this message

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-config.php:1) in /mnt/web8/20/59/51979159/htdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868

However, the comment is accepted.

My Blog is http://severus.es and the forums are at http://severus.es/forums.

I am using WP2.9.2 and BBPress 1.02

[chrishajer]

I get it now: half the access information, i.e. the username. The password being the other half. Rather than break things, I’d probably lock down bb-admin using some of the WordPress security tips.

[_ck_]

It’s a point of attack.

The idea of hiding the user id or user login for admin is an old security suggestion that is still around.

Because like wordpress there is no limit of password attempts, someone can do a dictionary attack against the user name or knowing the id they can try to find holes in the API.

So by hiding it, it’s just a little harder.

IMHO this would be not worth the effort and break too many things.

[btko]

It was giving me the “Admin” link along the top and when ever I pressed it, it would always forward me back to the forum home. But I just went to look again and now it works….

Strange (or maybe not).

I think maybe I hadn’t finished the wordpress integration completely? Seems to be working now.

Thanks

[chrishajer]

Looks like the bbPress forum footer.php is trying to load a WordPress file? For this integration, maybe you should find the file that’s being referred to (_contentfooter.php) and just hard code the path to it, rather than relying on the constant THEME_LIB, which doesn’t appear to be working.

One problem at a time.

Also, it’s just a warning, although it’s warning you something is not working. On a production site, you should not display warnings. During development, it’s good to see them, even if they’re just logged, so you can fix problems like this.

[chrishajer]

When you log in to your forum, as keymaster or administrator, the link for administration will be present. Until you are logged in with permissions, accessing bb-admin directly like that will just keep redirecting you to the forum home.

If you are already logged in but trying to access bb-admin, chances our the user account you are using is not the keymaster or administrator.

Did you integrate with WordPress?

[SgrWd]

I want to setup a bbPress forum on my website EstateYard.com immediately, but my concern is what happens when eventually bbPress is turned into a WordPress plugin as they are planning to do? Will my forum members all need to re-register, and will I lose all my topics? Or will there be some way to integrate the entire database with my WordPress database?

[arcadedig]

Hi. My new forum can be found here http://cfdblaze.com/forums/

1. stationpro is the WP theme, and the bbPress forum, wordpress installed on main url and shares db with bbPress. I really don’t know code or php, but it looks like I am missing a file, see the warnings below, or at the site:

Warning: include(THEME_LIB/_contentfooter.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/cfdblaze/public_html/forums/bb-templates/BaseStationForum/footer.php on line 8

Warning: include(THEME_LIB/_contentfooter.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/cfdblaze/public_html/forums/bb-templates/BaseStationForum/footer.php on line 8

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘THEME_LIB/_contentfooter.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/cfdblaze/public_html/forums/bb-templates/BaseStationForum/footer.php on line 8

2. The mailchimp email widget in the lower right footer is jogged funny. On the regular site it looks fine. What can I do? I have looked at this on Safari and Firefox and it is the same on each.

I really appreciate any help whatsoever. Thank You!

[drcoach]

First, thanks to all for the thought and information you’ve put out here. As someone who is trying to do exactly what wood2695 is attempting – it’s really helpful. I have just tried wood2695’s suggestion of adding the code given to

in /bb-admin/options-wordpress.php, I added

$wpRoles = array(

‘administrator’ => __(‘WordPress Administrator’),

‘editor’ => __(‘WordPress Editor’),

‘author’ => __(‘WordPress Author’),

‘contributor’ => __(‘WordPress Contributor’),

‘subscriber’ => __(‘WordPress Subscriber’),

‘s2member_level4’=> __(‘s2Member Level 4’),

‘s2member_level3’=> __(‘s2Member Level 3’),

‘s2member_level2’=> __(‘s2Member Level 2’),

‘s2member_level1’=> __(‘s2Member Level 1’)

);

and then in /bb-includes/functions.bb-users.php, I added

static $wordpress_userlevel_map = array(

‘administrator’ => 10,

‘editor’ => 7,

‘author’ => 2,

‘contributor’ => 1,

‘subscriber’ => 0,

‘s2member_level4’=> 0,

‘s2member_level3’=> 0,

‘s2member_level2’=> 0,

‘s2member_level1’=> 0

);

However, after I did that my forum turned to a white page for both logged in and logged out users. Any ideas?

[kevinjohngallagher]

You cannot control bbPress from inside WordPress, so that one’s easy.

you have to go to http://www.yoursite.com/bbpress-directory/bb-admin/

[zaerl]

bbPress isn’t a WordPress plugin but a standalone software.

The administration panel of bbPres is at /bb-admin

[JemzTouch]

Hi,

This sounds pretty dumb and I feel dumb asking it but where is the Dashboard for bbpress?

I’ve integrated the wp site with bb using this plug in http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

I cannot any way of controlling bbpress in my WP dashboard and I when I log into my bb-login.php it doesn’t show any bbpress dashboard.

Am I missing something right before my eyes?

Nice easy one for you hotshots – Help appreciated.

(I feel like one of those cases that use their CD tray as a mug holder)

[r-a-y]

The issue with loading WP header is that you don’t load a very important line for most plugins “bb_head()”

You could probably get around this issue by adding something like this in your bbPress theme’s functions.php:

function bb_head_in_wp_head() {

bb_head();

}

add_action( 'wp_head', bb_head_in_wp_head' );

Though this is true w/ deep integration:

(advantage you can load any WP functions in bbP. Disavantage it will slow down your forum because you’re loading WP & bbP at the same time constantly)