[snieves]

I have looked all through the internet and this forum and for the life of me, I can’t find how to call the wordpress header to bbpress.

I don’t care for the styling of the forum or anything, since I will customize that, I simply want my wordpress header to sit above my bbpress forum?

They are database and user integrated, I am stuck on the visual part.

Can someone please direct me to where it explains it (and it works!)

Thanks in advanced.

[chrishajer]

Looks like you’re using the default template. Did you modify it at all?

Did you integrate with WordPress?

What plugins are you using?

Does the browser in use make a difference?

[chrishajer]

1. Did you integrate with WordPress?
2. What versions of bbPress and WordPress did you install?
3. Are you using BuddyPress or WPMU?
4. How about a URL?

[sajp]

Hello,

I have just installed bbPress at this URL http://www.childfriendlybrighton.co.uk/1/bbpress and the installation all seemed to complete without a problem.

However, I have created a couple of test topics, but I seem to be unable to reply to any posts. I can create a new post, but if I click on the link that says ‘Reply >>’ beneath a post, nothing happens. ‘#postform’ gets added to the URL in the address bar, but there is no area for me to enter a reply.

Can anyone help me? I haven’t integrated bbPress with my WordPress installation (I don’t think I want to for this site), and I have activated Askimet.

If anyone can give me some advice I’d be really grateful!

Many thanks,

Simon

[Gautam Gupta]

Zaerl, I had experienced the same issue before – http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/i-just-moved-wp-org-plugins-svn-and-trac/comment-page-1/#comment-5633

[lukepuuk]

Our 40000+ member community: http://www.onemorething.nl/community/

Here’s the dev version, soon to be released: http://dev.onemorething.nl/community/forum

All users are in WordPress, which is used for news: http://www.onemorething.nl

Neatly integrated.

[kevinjohngallagher]

bbPress has no way of setting up roles to forums like every other forum out there has.

So if you’re hoping to say set “contributors” to see everything and then set your s2M to move people from members to contributors on the WordPress side I’m afraid you can’t – bbPress doesn’t come with that basic forum functionality.

In that regard, and with all due respect (you’d be amazed how very few people are as polite as you are), doing anything out-with the “plug and play” variety with bbPress unless you really know your way around PHP/WP-theming and functions is not going to happen.

Now you may be able to take one of Zaerl’s plugins which allows the setting of show/hide/moderate certain forums and adapt it. Or you could contact Zaerl for some custom work (i’ve no idea if they do this btw – its just where I’d start).

If you’re going on your own, keep posting back, we’ll help when and where we can

[kevinjohngallagher]

In theory, you’d need either:

1) Deep Integration with WordPress, so you could query the WP DB on forum load

or

2) Write some custom code for the s2Member callback API (which it supports) to add a field to the bbPress database.

Shouldn’t be horribly difficult; but so far, no-ones asked about it here so I can’t point you towards any examples.

[wood2695]

Has anyone had success in integrating the s2Member plugin into a WordPress site with a bbPress forum?

There has got to be a way to map the custom 2sM roles (ie. s2Member Level 4) to the standard WP “Subscriber” role for purposes of the bbPress platform, but I certainly haven’t figured it out yet.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’m going to do something strange here AmplifiedShock, I’m going to ask you NOT to do that.

The “bbPress” that BuddyPress uses is not the same as this “bbPress”. It is heavily heavily modified. Basically the whole of BackPress is removed and replaced by custom functions, and then some of the middle tiering has been rewritten, and a little bit of the front end output and default theme.

A large chunk of the support requests we deal with each day/week is people coming here because BuddyPress calls their forums “bbPress”. We need to be able to tell people honestly and without looking like we’re being difficult, that if they use BuddyPress we can’t help them.

I’m sure it’s technically possible to do anything. I’m sure once it’s technically possible, it’s easier to write a guide for people to follow. You seem to be good enough to do that But with bbPress being turned into a WP plugin and Matt publicly telling people not to use this software; inviting more support queries that end in “we simply can’t help you” isn’t going to help us at all.

Now if you felt like writing more tutorials on converting from other forums to bbPress, I’m sure there would be a good market in that for you!

And, as always, thanks for your time

[amplifiedshock]

Thanks guys!

I’m currently working on integrating WordPress 3 (WMPU), bbPress, and BuddyPress so that they all use the same database. I’ll post the results and a guide when I get it to work!

[r-a-y]

Thanks for the writeup!

To those reading, the “limitations of converting” section is key. Read that section before starting with the guide.

[kevinjohngallagher]

If by “bbPress 2.0” you mean this theme, the answer is never.

If you mean the next release of bbPress (which is either 1.0.3 or 1.1 – they haven’t decided yet and thankfully we’ve people working on different versions) then it’s a wait and see situation. I’d suggest August seems one of the earlist likely dates.

New features? Matt is scapping bbPress and making it a wordPress plugin, so there are no new features going to be added. Plus last time we were asked what we wanted in bbPress the results of the poll got ignored and the needs of WordPress.org was chosen.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Mamikaze,

What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?

Did you install and use the WP/bbP integration plugin?

Have you tried logging in from both sides?

Have you checked to see if you’re using the same user tables?

Have you checked roles in your database?

Basically, give us as much information as possible, and we’ll try and help

[kevinjohngallagher]

I thought it was an excellent guide. Truly awesome.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Zaerl’s link is a good one, but I want to adda word of caution.

bbPress is not a WordPress plugin, and its definately not “WPBB”. if you’re not a programmer then you will find integrating the two of them a bit of a pain.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Could you provide us with some more details please?

Like what version of bbPress you’re using?

Are you using BuddyPress?

Are you integrated with WordPress? and if so what version?

[zaerl]

Nice work man. Nice work.

[Gautam Gupta]

Nice!

[amplifiedshock]

Guide to WordPress integration is now up. Ah, that was a good day and a half of playing around in phpMyAdmin, bbPress, and WordPress!

[amplifiedshock]

Hello everyone,

I just wrote a guide to basically achieve what the title says. Two reasons:

(1) There isn’t a vb4-to-bbPress converter out there making the process more difficult then it should be

(2) The answers are out there if you’re willing to search for hours like I did I decided to piece together all my research into a single guide

Credit, of course, goes to the generous souls who created the vB-to-phpBB and the phpBB-to-bbPress converters, which are both required.

I’m still working on the integration with WordPress part which should be up soon. If you guys see any errors, please let me know.

Hope this helps!

Edit: Forgot the link! http://www.ericm.ca/2010/articles/vbulletin-4-to-bbpress-and-wordpress-integration

[gerikg]

I received this error

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-moderators/#post-4890

Obviously it’s not for 1.0

Can someone update it?

I changed line 182 to: $tmp_user = new wp_users($user_id);

but I got a new error

Warning: array_shift() [function.array-shift]: The argument should be an array in /homepages/wordpress/forum/my-plugins/forum-moderators/forum-moderators.php on line 184

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

If you guys have integrated setup, then if you login from WordPress side and then try to access bbPress dashboard you are redirected back to the frontpage. Just login from bbPress side and you will be able to pass through

[kevinjohngallagher]

Michael and Noel,

Dudes, we are all so greatly apprecaitive of the time and effort you’re throwing into this. And we do apprecaite that not everythings a simple bug to fix, and of course there will be some legacy stuff/hacks to deal with… But I hope you don’t take offence when we point out things like the homepage not working for days on end (why not roll back??) or:

These pages haven’t been styled yet – register, login, profile edit, views, favorites, post-edit, search

I mean, we all accept bugs, heck we’re happy to find them so we can contribute to fixing them. But to release a theme without even bothering to style 8 (minimum) out of the 27 theme files is really starting to make us all look a bit amateur. (Thats 30% btw)

These 2 links are broken (which are in forum’s footer):

https://bbpress.org/about/privacy/

https://bbpress.org/about/gpl/

I wonder, with all due respect, how cool this sort of thing would be over at WordPress.org?

Please let us know if we can help, we want to help!!

[retostauffer]

Hello Community

I have a small problem after intalling wordpress 2.9.2 and bbpress 1.0.2.

I’ve installed the bb-integration plugin on my wordpress and configured the necessary things. I had also check the keys and salt’s in bb-config and wp-config twice and checkt out the support forum here but couldnt find any solution.

The Problem: I can register on wp without any problem and login with this user into the bbpress forum. BUT if i make a login on WP the BB doesnt know something about that. I know that this has to bee a small cookie-problem but i cant find the “bug” . Does anyone has a hint please?

My Cookies
———-
domain wordpress_logged_in_THEKEY /imgipress/ VALUE1
domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/wp-content/plugins VALUE2
domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/wp-admin VALUE2
domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/bbpress/my-plugins VALUE2
domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/bbpress/bb-plugins VALUE2
domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/bbpress/bb-admin VALUE2
domain wordpress_test_cookie /imgipress/ VALUE2

domain – is always the same string
THEKEY – is always identically the same
VALUE1 – is a combination of my username%something%something
VALUE2 – is a combination of my username%something%something
but VALUE2 is always identically the same
[code]

What’s the problem? should the cookiepath always be the same? I dont think so .. but whats the Problem? 🙂

Thank you for any hint!

Greez, Reto, Switzerland

[code]

My Cookies

---

domain wordpress_logged_in_THEKEY /imgipress/ VALUE1

domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/wp-content/plugins VALUE2

domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/wp-admin VALUE2

domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/bbpress/my-plugins VALUE2

domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/bbpress/bb-plugins VALUE2

domain wordpress_THEKEY /imgipress/bbpress/bb-admin VALUE2

domain wordpress_test_cookie /imgipress/ VALUE2

domain – is always the same string

THEKEY – is always identically the same

VALUE1 – is a combination of my username%something%something

VALUE2 – is a combination of my username%something%something

but VALUE2 is always identically the same

[code]

What’s the problem? should the cookiepath always be the same? I dont think so .. but whats the Problem?

Thank you for any hint!

Greez, Reto, Switzerland